variants with non-instantaneous teleportation?

[mushroom patch]

I don't believe so. I'll be looking forward to it - I think many of your ideas are interesting, I mainly disagree with your belief that they're inevitable

Only inevitable in the Aristotlean sense that 'good' is that toward which all things aim.

[Mikko Lehtinen]

Only inevitable in the Aristotlean sense that 'good' is that toward which all things aim.

I don't know if that holds true for Angband variants. People play for different reasons. I understand my own desires very well, and optimize my variant to satisfy them as well as possible. Looking at the computer games nowadays, satisfying my kind of gamers is a pretty niche market...

There are probably more than one "perfect" roguelikes in the Platonic world of ideas.

I don't really understand, deep down on the emotional level, what draws people to Angband. Therefore I probably couldn't design a better Angband.

[MattB]

Only inevitable in the Aristotlean sense that 'good' is that toward which all things aim.

Then I think what you're aiming for is, more technically, EudaemonisticBand.

Plato lists four 'cardinal virtues' that are necessary for attaining this 'goodness' (or eudaemonia) and I would definitely play a variant where the four stats are:

WISdom
COUrage
MODeration
and
JUStice!

[fph]

'Rocketband' is also available.

(grabs dictionary) contraband, husband, broadband, wristband, saraband.

[PowerWyrm]

Gangband? Although that could be misinterpreted

[bio_hazard]

Gangband? Although that could be misinterpreted

Didn't that win the roguelike of the year last year?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Didn't that win the roguelike of the year last year?

At the AVN awards...?

[MattB]

(grabs dictionary) contraband, husband, broadband, wristband, saraband.

BigBand, SweatBand, RubberBand...

[Carnivean]

RockBand. Bonuses points for guitar controller integration.