Favourite *band variant

[PaulBlay]

What's everybody's favourite Angband variant? (I may use the results in a project of mine )

Feel free to choose more than one.

There's a list of Angband variants on RogueBasin in case your memory needs jogging.

[Donald Jonker]

Other than Vanilla? (That'd be my #1.)

At the moment, Ironband is my favorite. Historically, it's been a tie b/w NPP and Heng.

[PaulBlay]

Other than Vanilla? (That'd be my #1.)

You can choose Vanilla. It just felt silly to ask "favourite Angband variant or non-variant".

[buzzkill]

FA's probably my favorite (edges out Steam, because of it's great graphic support), though I'm currently infatuated with Steam, mainly because of it's difficulty and unconventional enemies and items, despite it's lack of graphics. Z+ plus would probably be my #3 choice because of the quests and random uniques. Not a huge fan of Vanilla, though I've nothing bad to say about it, I just never really played it much.

[Magnate]

FA's probably my favorite (edges out Steam, because of it's great graphic support), though I'm currently infatuated with Steam, mainly because of it's difficulty and unconventional enemies and items, despite it's lack of graphics. Z+ plus would probably be my #3 choice because of the quests and random uniques. Not a huge fan of Vanilla, though I've nothing bad to say about it, I just never really played it much.

I'd like to be arcane and say Kamband or GSN2band, but actually I've not tried any of the ancient variants.

Sang, definitely. Other variants I've enjoyed are O and NPP. The one I've not yet played but think I might really quite like is FA.

[PaulBlay]

I'd like to be arcane and say Kamband or GSN2band

That is arcane. I had them both on the "bet nobody's playing them" list.

but actually I've not tried any of the ancient variants.

It can be tricky getting them playable - at least on Windows.

Sang, definitely. Other variants I've enjoyed are O and NPP. The one I've not yet played but think I might really quite like is FA.

Noted.

[konijn_]

What's everybody's favourite Angband variant? (I may use the results in a project of mine )

Feel free to choose more than one.

There's a list of Angband variants on RogueBasin in case your memory needs jogging.

For now it is Tiny, it is keeping me away from Hellband dev.

* No Hounds
* No multiplying fiends
* Less dungeon levels
* Valar Patrons ( I think ), very nice
* No TMJ for me
* Magic redone in a nice way
* Feels like toned down Z
* Town Services
* Sane Squelch
* No silly monsters or too many humans ( yeeks, warriors, thieves, palladins)
* Really scary Dragons and Ringwraiths, no dragon for each element
* Surprise ( only 10th character saw a dungeon tow after many hours of play), nothing special there but a nice surprise
* LOTS of *ID*
etc.

T.

[PaulBlay]

For now it is Tiny, it is keeping me away from Hellband dev.

I've got a soft spot for TinyAngband myself. I think the developer has been busy elsewhere for a while now, but I'm looking forward to developments when he's back.

[Donald Jonker]

I have to say I've become a big fan of Tiny as well, chiefly for these two reasons:

* Less dungeon levels
* Magic redone in a nice way

Which are also features of Ironband (although the second is handled in a very different way).

[WEagle]

I'm rather a newbie in Angband, however I play it for about 10 years.

As for me, I prefer Z+Angband and Vanilla

[PaulBlay]

Nobody has Entroband or ToME as their favourite?

Actually it makes me wonder what happened to ToME - it used to be very popular but now their forum is pretty dead.

[Rizwan]

Vanilla then NPP/Un

[pampl]

I'd probably like Entro or Tome (or Furyband) most if I gave them a chance in vanilla_town mode. I mostly play variants for more variety in classes, races, monsters, and items; I don't like the wilderness and quest and storyline stuff much. Right now my favorite is Z+, but if the object list feature in vanilla changes so it doesn't run super slowly for me than I'll probably go back to it for a while. I weirdly find Angband's development really exciting even though it mostly seems to be about changing how things works instead of adding more stuff.

[K.I.L.E.R]

Nobody has Entroband or ToME as their favourite?

Actually it makes me wonder what happened to ToME - it used to be very popular but now their forum is pretty dead.

The forum had spam problems. No idea if the project is dead or not. I hope it isn't because ToME is my favourite *band.

[Nolendil]

My current favorite is V and the speed at which it's currently being developed is very exciting.

I haven't had time to try variants recently but my favorites used to be:
- CthAngband for the theme and pretty much all of its specific features which were new to me when I tried it (it was one of the first variants I tried). I never tried sCthAngband although I might enjoy it too. Too bad both of them are quite dead.
- ToME for being such a huge mess and having a lot more references to Tolkien's work than V. I loved the world map on first sight as I wasn't expecting it to be so faithful to Middle-Earth.