Angband Philosophy III: Theme, Races and Monsters
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When I first released FA 0.1.0 in 2005 Sampsa Lahtonen sent me so many bug reports (signing himself The Bug Reporter or The Complainer) that I threatened to name a unique after him. Memories...One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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A suggestion with the biggest dragons. I understand why ancient dragons waste turns on junk spells but why do great drakes do the same? A great storm wyrm breathes 1 in 16? & wastes 3 in 16 on junk spells (could have those wrong). I'm not sure why you wouldn't want it going at the player in melee instead. You could fold a status effect into the breath. Electric-blind instead of cast blindness or similar.Comment
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Just a thought, the fact that Angband is not "strictly" Tolkienien may be a saving grace from copyright infringement.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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You know I read this post & your previous & I'm still trying to work out what you're actually saying. I mean maybe your saying the current situation is balanced because it came from Moria & Moria is awesome. Maybe your saying it isn't because it was balanced for Moria & the game isn't Moria anymore. Shrug. I can agree with using the FA list just as I can agree with using Vs current list or Os list all of which work in various ways despite their issues. I would hope kobolds make it in renamed or not because they are fun & it'd suck to lose a working race that's fun to play.
When talking about balance I just feel we should keep in mind which things are balanced over which other things, so we can know where we're starting over from.Comment
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In FAangband Nick lets some of the "better" races start in more dangerous environments, some given a few levels and equipment extras.
Maybe that could be a trade-off for better starting stats - throw them a few levels deeper in the dungeon?Comment
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How odd. The Moria I remember playing stopped at Half-Orc. I distinctly remember looking at the Half-Troll and wondering why I would bother with Half-Orcs any more because the trolls did everything the orcs did and more.Comment
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One thing to do with monsters: increase the rarity of the C family. Currently, it's not Angband, but Wolfband.PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!Comment
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You could maybe make the Troll Chieftan have Mystic-style stunning melee, and make Troll Priests able to summon natural monsters. Then the combination of the two (often appearing together thanks to the Chieftan's escorts) would roughly equal a Master Mystic.Comment
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