In what setting do you like to play angband?

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  • Elsairon
    Adept
    • Apr 2007
    • 117

    In what setting do you like to play angband?

    Recently I grabbed a copy of 3.3.2. Vanilla and started playing some band at night before going to sleep.

    I put on my headphones, crank up Hammerfall channel on Pandora and bash some monsters.

    Game on!
  • Therem Harth
    Knight
    • Jan 2008
    • 926

    #2
    Oh, in what setting. I thought that was "what Angband settings."

    I usually play at home, on my netbook, and usually at night. And yes, I do sometimes listen to music while playing. Used to typically be Jethro Tull or such... Not so much now, because I've mostly transitioned to free/indie music and there's not much of it in that genre. I might eventually grow to like Angband with a side of electronica, though.

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    • debo
      Veteran
      • Oct 2011
      • 2402

      #3
      I treat *band as a coffee-break kinda thing, which probably explains why I still haven't beaten Sil

      Most recent soundtrack has been Lykathea Aflame \m/
      Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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      • Malak Darkhunter
        Knight
        • May 2007
        • 730

        #4
        I like to listen to baldurs gate, icewinde dale, soundtracks from the games, the cmp or neberwinter nights community music pack that has.a bunch of soundtracks from the best rpg hits. Inon zur etc


        thats neverwinter nights lol. Stupid phone

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        • buzzkill
          Prophet
          • May 2008
          • 2939

          #5
          I do most of my playing while watching TV. That is, I do most of my playing while largely ignoring the TV. That is, I'm largely whatever crap my wife insists on watching.
          www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
          My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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          • Magnate
            Angband Devteam member
            • May 2007
            • 5110

            #6
            Originally posted by buzzkill
            I do most of my playing while watching TV. That is, I do most of my playing while largely ignoring the TV. That is, I'm largely whatever crap my wife insists on watching.
            +1.

            "Are you playing that letters game again? That's a stupid game. I don't know why you waste time on it."

            "Yes dear. This reality TV / house porn / food porn / soap is so high-brow."
            "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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            • HallucinationMushroom
              Knight
              • Apr 2007
              • 785

              #7
              It's probably better than listening to Thomas the Tank Engine, or Shaun the Sheep, or the Backyardigans, which is what I often play to nowadays. The wifey watches her junk on the Mac, but she likes Angband at least.
              You are on something strange

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              • Magnate
                Angband Devteam member
                • May 2007
                • 5110

                #8
                Originally posted by HallucinationMushroom
                It's probably better than listening to Thomas the Tank Engine, or Shaun the Sheep, or the Backyardigans, which is what I often play to nowadays.
                I have that soundtrack too, but can't actually play in that scenario. The best I can do is catch up on Oook or IRC. Hats off to people who can concentrate on Angband with rugrats around!
                "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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                • Narvius
                  Knight
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 589

                  #9
                  I often play at nights or on the train, common background noise includes my roommate, Dragonforce, The Offspring or my Youtube playlist (which contains everything from classical [Shostakovich/Rautavaara], through jazz, punk rock, metal, Touhou remixes, Beatles, one or two JPop songs, random various popular music, as well as some soundtracks, both from video games and movies).

                  I also used to listen to Two Steps From Hell to Angband, but the songs are on my external drive and I couldn't be arsed to copy them back over after my last format. TSFH is a company that makes soundtracks for trailers, movies and the like, and many of the songs are truly epic, often purely instrumental. It actually goes really well with fantasybands (I'm excluding Steam here).
                  If you can convincingly pretend you're crazy, you probably are.

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                  • DrMmmPie
                    Rookie
                    • May 2012
                    • 4

                    #10
                    I tend to play most, after work while waiting for my ladyfriend to finish, about half the time I'm finished before her, and since I don't drive and she does, I have to wait.
                    I roll natural D20, as if I needed a crit hit on someone.

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                    • Timo Pietilä
                      Prophet
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 4096

                      #11
                      Originally posted by DrMmmPie
                      I tend to play most, after work while waiting for my ladyfriend to finish, about half the time I'm finished before her, and since I don't drive and she does, I have to wait.
                      Maybe I have read too much Questionable Content -comic, because that sounded dirty to me. My first thought was "how the h*ll can you concentrate on playing while doing *that*?"

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                      • Malak Darkhunter
                        Knight
                        • May 2007
                        • 730

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Timo Pietilä
                        Maybe I have read too much Questionable Content -comic, because that sounded dirty to me. My first thought was "how the h*ll can you concentrate on playing while doing *that*?"
                        Lol, didnt come out right!

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                        • DrMmmPie
                          Rookie
                          • May 2012
                          • 4

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Timo Pietilä
                          Maybe I have read too much Questionable Content -comic, because that sounded dirty to me. My first thought was "how the h*ll can you concentrate on playing while doing *that*?"
                          Now that I read it again, it does sound a little dirty, but sure everything is better with a dirty mind :-D
                          I roll natural D20, as if I needed a crit hit on someone.

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                          • fruviad
                            Apprentice
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 73

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Magnate
                            Hats off to people who can concentrate on Angband with rugrats around!
                            Given the topic of discussion, "urchins" might be a better label than "rugrats".

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                            • Elbereth
                              Rookie
                              • Feb 2013
                              • 13

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Elsairon
                              Recently I grabbed a copy of 3.3.2. Vanilla and started playing some band at night before going to sleep.

                              I put on my headphones, crank up Hammerfall channel on Pandora and bash some monsters.

                              Game on!
                              +1 to that, though my Vanilla version is 3.1.2v2 (I'm stuck with an old Debian distro), I use last.fm and my metal tends to be darker and growlier
                              Resistance (futile as it is) begins at Ohm

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