Hold still! Show some Discipline!

[Grotug]

A big part of the fun for me is discovering artifacts, so I hope I don't stumble upon any on this site I haven't yet found ingame. I actually don't browse the threads much on here for that reason.

Yes, it was 'Narya'

[brownbear]

Found 3.1 Angband still installed on an old laptop and played it nonstop.

Randarts.

Found a 6d5 Main Gauche art as a warrior at level 800 and was doing over 200 damage a round!

Then I found another main gauche with +3 attacks that I was dying to use after I found some rings of damage.

Then I found a halberd with base die 9d6 that I was planning on owning with when I got some more str and dex.

All before clvl 25 and dungeon level 2000!

Then a mindflayer did some sort of psionic blast on me and killed me instantly.

I hate angband.

[Grotug]

Brownbear, I stopped reading your post after +3 attacks since I've never encountered anything with more than 1 or 2. Here's an update on my current game:

What happened yesterday in game just goes to show close doesn't count: Was picking through tons of junk looking for one more useful item from a dl91 level with very good treasure feeling. I found a powerful axe with cold protection and +2 all stats. After killing all the monsters and combing through the last of the drops, and nearly calling it a day several times, I found a crown artifact that brought me the closest I've been to solving my character with no wis, con or dex sacrifice and only minor str sacrifice, but I dawdled too long. With the new setup, my only missing pieces were lightning and nether, but, of course, sans rLightning with the new setup would be a real problem, but I thought I was safe. The level was very quiet. There was only one, lone stone troll stuck in the gigantic treasure room. Never seen such a large special/permanent room before. Other than that, I really had killed/banished everyone, including slaying an entire room of A's. Suddenly, totally out of the blue, my health is 56. Really? What the... I loathfully press [more] and I live to see another turn. I check the messages and quaff a !*healing* and don again Dor-Lomin. The Great Storm Wyrm had struck me with lightning. It takes me a minute to find it down a ways and off to the side, off screen at the edge of a hallway opening.

In other news, just solved my character. I posted the character dump but got this message, instead of a link to it:

The Angband Ladder - reading your character...

reading chardump, please wait...
Name: Grotug
Race: High-Elf
Class: Paladin
Level: 50
Exp: 17135605

If invalid values were read, please notify me, I'll fix it.

Character with same name and same email and higher experience already stored!

[brownbear]

I'm using random artifacts so you don't have to worry about getting spoiled.

Hope you get that win soon! The last time I played and won was probably over 5 years ago, and I remember almost dying to Saruman many times.

[PowerWyrm]

In other news, just solved my character. I posted the character dump but got this message, instead of a link to it:

The Angband Ladder - reading your character...

reading chardump, please wait...
Name: Grotug
Race: High-Elf
Class: Paladin
Level: 50
Exp: 17135605

If invalid values were read, please notify me, I'll fix it.

Character with same name and same email and higher experience already stored!

Yeah, the ladder is based on current xp, not max. So when you want to post your character, be sure to drink RLL before.

[Avenger]

*** Is there a way to hold the character in place, like a key to toggle "suspend movement" or "keep still" until the fighting is over or until I need to flee? ***

Absolutely. Play MAngband

[Grotug]

I'm using random artifacts so you don't have to worry about getting spoiled.

Hope you get that win soon! The last time I played and won was probably over 5 years ago, and I remember almost dying to Saruman many times.

I have to admit that I have already died quite a few times and force quit to prevent the game from realizing and then loading the last save. Most of the deaths were underestimating the opponents or moving through messages too quickly. I think at this point since I've reached as deep into the dungeons as I did in my last game I will accept death when it comes. No reason I should expect to defeat Sauron, let alone Morgoth, on my first attempts against them.