[Announce] FrogComposband 7.1.salmiak released

[Thraalbee]

I used Dionysos to raid Angband 98 until I found Combat-Echizen which I killed quite easily (!!!) with devices and disappearing in the rock when he was invulnerable. Then quickly I unpossessed the Munchkin to take over Echizen and ... I'm too pathetic (level) to do it! So I'm stuck with a storm troll or maybe the Hru until I level up a bit. But after that, there will be rockets... [BTW - it was NOT a guaranteed drop so you can imagine my excitement and then disappointment]

[Thraalbee]

Possessing a Munchkin!

I don't usually play Munchkin but possessing one is fair play. No?
Feels a bit like cheating, *everything* is boosted except maybe hp, even device usage: all my wands and staves are 1% fail. And invisible + passwall on top of that of course.

================================ Current Form =================================

Name    : Dionysus, the Munchkin of Chaos (G)
Level   : 55        Speed: +44 Extremely Erratic
AC      : 162       Type : Evil, Undead, Male
HP      : 1000      
                    
Resist  : Acid, Electricity, Fire, Cold, Poison, Light, Nexus, Sound, Shards, 
            Chaos, Disenchantment
Immune  : Nether, Confusion

Offense : Shoot (56)
Defense : Haste Self, Heal Self (275), Teleport, Teleport Away, Blink

Attacks : Type    Effects
          Slash   Vampiric (6d8)
          Slash   Vampiric (6d8)
          Touch   Steal Item

Info    : Passes through Walls, Invisible, Regeneration

He is one of the greatest trickster. Even greatest warrior cannot defeat him, 
and his storm of holy might arrows from the dark have defeated numerous 
victims.

================================ Recent Forms =================================

Most Recent Forms                 CL Day  Time  DL Location                    
Dionysus, the Munchkin of Chaos   41  28 23:08  50 The Underground City (Mor
Elder fire giant                  35  23  3:45     Morivant

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=23891

[Sideways]

when possessing Grand Inquisitor it has no SP. Heal Self costs 55 but heals 250 so effectively you get unlimited 250 hp healing as long has he is above 54 hp when casting. Nice! Intented?
(Edit: net 195 hp);

I doubt it's intentional, seems like an oddity I'll blame on Chris; though it's not that different from sorcery blood-mages recharging staves of healing from HP.

[Thraalbee]

Unlimited Heal Self on Grand Inquisitor

when possessing Grand Inquisitor it has no SP. Heal Self costs 55 but heals 250 so effectively you get unlimited 250 hp healing as long has he is above 54 hp when casting. Nice! Intented?
(Edit: net 195 hp);

[Thraalbee]

Thanks! I thought while posessing eg Saruman I would benefit but it seems not

[Sideways]

A plain unenchanted wizardstaff is still quite valuable although it, like all others I've found in this version, lacks both Es and Dm. I find this confusing, is there any benefit for a spellcaster to wield a wizardstaff these days?

Wizardstaves have Dm, it just isn't indicated for characters who don't get any benefits from it; seeing the Es/Dm flags on items that didn't actually help a character in any way was even more confusing than the current situation, especially for classes who could use Es/Dm but only if they got them from a special class item.

The object valuation algorithm can see the hidden Dm, and scores the wizardstaff accordingly.

[Thraalbee]

Wizardstaff?

A plain unenchanted wizardstaff is still quite valuable although it, like all others I've found in this version, lacks both Es and Dm. I find this confusing, is there any benefit for a spellcaster to wield a wizardstaff these days?

[Thraalbee]

New stuff!

I am I the only one amazed by all the new content in this release? Monsters, dungeons, gods, items ... I'm currently posessing The Wicked Witch of the South-East after raiding Oz and the top indian mythos uniques look very interesting for a possessor and ... so much great stuff in this release!
A big thanks to you Sideways!

[lea2501]

The differences between normal mode, coffee-break mode and instant-coffee mode are explained in various places in the help, most comprehensively at ?bk, so have a look there. There is some additional detail in the FAQ, starting at line 55.

thank you so much!

[Sideways]

The differences between normal mode, coffee-break mode and instant-coffee mode are explained in various places in the help, most comprehensively at ?bk, so have a look there. There is some additional detail in the FAQ, starting at line 55.

[lea2501]

Are any other differences between normal, coffe-break and instant coffe-break appart of no wilderness, and size of levels, etc? i mean more like gameplay/items/monster behaviour or placement differences? i've tried coffe-break and i knew it has also quest, fewer, but has some, but i've not found yet any gameplay/item/monster difference appart from some uniques being in the angband dungeon and not their normal quest dungeons for example. How instant coffe-break compares to that?

[budswell]

Found my first ever Wild weapon (never heard of or seen one before)
So the "Wild Weapon" is in there like a special attribute or something.
What does it actually mean?

Use it and see! A bit like chaos branded but more ... wild

Wow. Wild is a good name.

So that character died without using it. But the next char also found one really early (from never to two in a row). He's a leprechaun so shouldn't be meeleeing, but I hit an orc and got +99 speed. Hard to not want to keep trying that.
Only happenned the once though, mostly get the "eyeEye" effect (whatever that is) and telepathy, occasionally some beserk.

[Thraalbee]

Startup crash bug

Switching from my triple screen setup to the laptop made it impossible to start frogcomposband.exe (windows). The culprit is the PositionX that worked in the multi-display setting

...
Maximized=0
PositionX=6453
PositionY=0
[Term-1]
...

[Thraalbee]

This one might be of help. Never saw that before.

The Midnight Dragon Scale Mail (+4,+4) [40,+20] {AcDk;Ds|A A:Breathe Acid}

It has zero weight!

[CyclopsSlayer]

Just started a new Ninja, the Thieves' Hideout reward first gave me a smile and then made me want to cry. Too damned many egos give light...

-Dagger (Armageddon) (3D6) (+7,+9) {Lu|FS}

So, now the option is to give up stealth or sell it... /sigh

edit: and now the Robe Keeper of Darkness [2,+14] with its Aura of fire light that persists even after I took it off lol