Preparing for 4.2 release

[Nick]

Looking at the decoy code, all pathing with PROJECT_STOP flag stops when hitting a decoy, which means player spells and probably missiles will hit the decoy if there is one in a corridor between the player and a monster. Shouldn't that be limited to monster spells only?

Yes, it probably should.

[gglibertine]

Yes, I have a ticket for this.

The ticket should probably also mention that hobbits are *not* actually any better with slings than anybody else; that bit of 'flavour' in the help file may be canon or fanon, but it ain't accurate.

[Tibarius]

Online help ...

Good job Takkaria to do an online help.

I just think it does the game no good if the download page and the online help page are not the same one.

[Tibarius]

Angband Live?

My search did not show any results to Angband live (or did i just overlook them?).

Please what is Angband Live?

[Tibarius]

Necromancers

Even tho i dislike the reduction of book numbers a lot,
i must admit that on 2nd look the new books seem to make sense overall.

I just toyed around character generation and i thought that high-elves should never be necromancers or blackguards. Just my imagination?

[Tibarius]

discriminating females

The character background always refers to the father alone ...
to make babies you need a female as well.

You are the son of a human royal prince and an elven woman.

More like this ...

[Tibarius]

birth option usefull kit

I start usually with the birth option usefull kit off.

As mage you have a hard time then ... no starting books available in the shop ... doh!

[Gauss]

I start usually with the birth option usefull kit off.

As mage you have a hard time then ... no starting books available in the shop ... doh!

Lol, mage without useful kit. Isn't that masochism?

[Derakon]

Lol, mage without useful kit. Isn't that masochism?

Tibarius is, as I recall, very big on shopping. Presumably the intent is to start with max gold (the "useful kit" deducts from your starting gold) so they can buy exactly what they want to buy instead of what the game thinks they should have.

Considering how weak mages are in the early game, I could absolutely see someone deciding to e.g. get an attack wand instead of spellbooks.

[Nick]

I start usually with the birth option usefull kit off.

As mage you have a hard time then ... no starting books available in the shop ... doh!

Are you looking in the right shop? Shop 4 is now a bookseller rather than temple, and holds town books for all the classes.

The character background always refers to the father alone ...
to make babies you need a female as well.

You are the son of a human royal prince and an elven woman.

More like this ...

That's a good point.

My search did not show any results to Angband live (or did i just overlook them?).

Please what is Angband Live?

Click the link and find out

[PowerWyrm]

I start usually with the birth option usefull kit off.

As mage you have a hard time then ... no starting books available in the shop ... doh!

Mage books are sold by Bookseller now.

[gglibertine]

The character background always refers to the father alone ...
to make babies you need a female as well.

You are the son of a human royal prince and an elven woman.

More like this ...

This *is* a good point, although we've come a long way since the shops gave you a discount if you played a female character because I guess the original developers believed in the mythical "pussy pass"?

Feminism? In *my* Angband? It's more likely than you think!

I wonder if adding some professions as well might be add a bit of flavour. The key would be not to assign them by gender or use gendered terminology, e.g. 'dancer' is gender-neutral but 'dancing girl' is problematic. There's no reason the father can't be a weaver or a tailor (note that 'seamstress' is again problematic), and no reason a mother can't be a warrior or a priest. There are all sorts of other potentially interesting professions you might add as well, e.g.,

• Apothecary
• Healer
• Bowyer
• Fletcher
• Innkeeper
• Archaeologist
• Teacher
• Candlemaker
• Tanner
• Brewer
• Miller
• Baker
• Potter
• Chancellor
• Sergeant at arms

Alternatively, you could go Pythonesque and just say, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

[mrfy]

You see 2 Gloopy Green Potions.
Your body starts to scramble...
You see a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise.

um, when did this get added? It's quite a surprise.

[Nick]

You see 2 Gloopy Green Potions.
Your body starts to scramble...
You see a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise.

um, when did this get added? It's quite a surprise.

It was a replacement for Lose Memories. A number of possible effects, one of them potentially useful.

[PowerWyrm]

You see 2 Gloopy Green Potions.
Your body starts to scramble...
You see a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise.

um, when did this get added? It's quite a surprise.

You drink a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise. You hear Mike Patton starting to sing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdUfAE5Rz8