does race and/or class influence drops?

[Tibarius]

I got the Impression i find some item types more often with one class than with others. So does race and/or class influence the probabilities of Drops?

[Derakon]

Noooooooooooooooooooo.

(My reply would have been just "No." if that hadn't been too short for the board's software to approve)

[kaypy]

It must be very carefully obfuscated in the source code, but I'm *sure* there is a mechanism that means that mages always find the priest books first and vice versa.

My current theory is that the early developers got Ken Thompson to include it in everyone's C compilers. This also explains why pyrel petered out: the current developers haven't managed to get a suitable handle on Guido yet.

[quarague]

General fact about humans: we are very very bad at making statistical inferences from observations.
Also, the variance in a game like angband is crazy high. If you only compare two or three characters all bets for any comparison are off.
You might have a little bit of a point from the fact that different chars play differently. A HT warrior that sees a room full of orcs will clean it out, a gnome mage might skip it and concentrate on a single high value target instead. So if the two chars reached the same char level they haven't killed the same kind of monsters and that may make a difference to the expected loot they have found.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I had the same inference problem with ?Acquirement and the location of their reading (e.g., on an "8" square in a vault would produce better results than elsewhere). It took Derakon and Nick awhile to disabuse me of that erroneous belief.