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  • Derakon
    Prophet
    • Dec 2009
    • 9022
    #46
    Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
    Yes! The April Fool's joke is that Derakon may actually need to become a maintainer for his wonderful variant.
    As Nick put it recently, this is a joke that may have gone badly awry...

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      • debo
        Veteran
        • Oct 2011
        • 2402
        #47
        Originally posted by Derakon
        As Nick put it recently, this is a joke that may have gone badly awry...
        You know, some of the world's best software was initially released as an april fool's joke...
        Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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          • the Invisible Stalker
            Adept
            • Jul 2009
            • 164
            #48
            Originally posted by Derakon
            So would people actually be interested in me trying to make this into a marginally more "serious" variant?
            I'd say any attempt at seriousness would completely destroy the attraction of rocketband.

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              • Derakon
                Prophet
                • Dec 2009
                • 9022
                #49
                Originally posted by the Invisible Stalker
                I'd say any attempt at seriousness would completely destroy the attraction of rocketband.
                Well, I did say "marginally". It just seems a shame for the only viable race to be High-Elf and for arcane casters to have such a huge advantage over everyone else.

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                  • Nick
                    Vanilla maintainer
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 9637
                    #50
                    Originally posted by Derakon
                    Well, I did say "marginally". It just seems a shame for the only viable race to be High-Elf and for arcane casters to have such a huge advantage over everyone else.
                    Just remove all other races and classes, and rename "Mage" to "Rocketeer"
                    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                      • AnonymousHero
                        Veteran
                        • Jun 2007
                        • 1393
                        #51
                        Originally posted by Nick
                        Just remove all other races and classes, and rename "Mage" to "Rocketeer"
                        +1

                        I approve of the new-fangled moddability of Angband!

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                          • Nomad
                            Knight
                            • Sep 2010
                            • 958
                            #52
                            You could easily make races other than High-Elf viable by just giving all starting characters a ring of See Invisible.

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                              • Ingwe Ingweron
                                Veteran
                                • Jan 2009
                                • 2129
                                #53
                                and adding back in wands of stone to mud....
                                “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 Dead

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                                  • Patashu
                                    Knight
                                    • Jan 2008
                                    • 528
                                    #54
                                    Reminds me of Gnollcrawl ( https://github.com/Dracunos/gnollcrawl ), a Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup variant where every monster is a gnoll and you can't advance beyond xl1, the rationale being that fighting dl1 gnoll packs is the epitome of roguelike tactical experience.
                                    My Chiptune music, made in Famitracker: http://soundcloud.com/patashu

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                                      • Ingwe Ingweron
                                        Veteran
                                        • Jan 2009
                                        • 2129
                                        #55
                                        Ahh, memories of Derakon's wonderful Rocketband. Wondering if he will have an April Fool's contribution for this year....
                                        “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 Dead

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                                          • Derakon
                                            Prophet
                                            • Dec 2009
                                            • 9022
                                            #56
                                            Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
                                            Ahh, memories of Derakon's wonderful Rocketband. Wondering if he will have an April Fool's contribution for this year....
                                            Alas no, I got distracted by other things, including resuscitating my dead OSX partition.

                                            I had intended to make a release, but it would've just been a patch release to make characters other than high-elf mage viable. The basic concept would have been unchanged. After all, why change what's already perfect?

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                                              • HugoVirtuoso
                                                Veteran
                                                • Jan 2012
                                                • 1237
                                                #57
                                                Impressive thing about that initial Rocketband release = we had a compo
                                                My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
                                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA

                                                If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.

                                                As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuoso

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                                                  • Patashu
                                                    Knight
                                                    • Jan 2008
                                                    • 528
                                                    #58
                                                    Originally posted by HugoTheGreat2011
                                                    Impressive thing about that initial Rocketband release = we had a compo
                                                    More impressive is that someone won!
                                                    My Chiptune music, made in Famitracker: http://soundcloud.com/patashu

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