Mage books are sold by Bookseller now.

This *is* a good point, although we've come a long way since the shops gave you a discount if you played a female character because I guess the original developers believed in the mythical "pussy pass"?

Feminism? In *my* Angband? It's more likely than you think!

I wonder if adding some professions as well might be add a bit of flavour. The key would be not to assign them by gender or use gendered terminology, e.g. 'dancer' is gender-neutral but 'dancing girl' is problematic. There's no reason the father can't be a weaver or a tailor (note that 'seamstress' is again problematic), and no reason a mother can't be a warrior or a priest. There are all sorts of other potentially interesting professions you might add as well, e.g.,

• Apothecary
• Healer
• Bowyer
• Fletcher
• Innkeeper
• Archaeologist
• Teacher
• Candlemaker
• Tanner
• Brewer
• Miller
• Baker
• Potter
• Chancellor
• Sergeant at arms

Alternatively, you could go Pythonesque and just say, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

You see 2 Gloopy Green Potions.
Your body starts to scramble...
You see a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise.

um, when did this get added? It's quite a surprise. :D

It was a replacement for Lose Memories. A number of possible effects, one of them potentially useful.

You drink a Gloopy Green Potion of Surprise. You hear Mike Patton starting to sing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdUfAE5Rz8

:D

Minor cosmetic bug using Create Arrows spell. It stays 'untried' in the spell list, even after you have already successfully cast it. You don't get extra scum EXP casting it over and over again, though :)

I'm playing with UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer enabled and when a monster cast a darkness spell, it emitted the following message:
project-player.c:874:28: runtime error: index 26 out of bounds for type 'element_info [25]'

Apparently, the function 'project_p' does not expect the projection type ('typ') to be outside of the element projections (ELEM_MAX: 25), which DARK_WEAK (26) is.

Confirmed, same is happening for me.

Thanks for those last two bugs, both easily fixed in development.

New builds up on the nightlies page and angband.live with the following changes:

• Lightning Strike can now only strike targets in line of sight (thanks kaypy)
• Meteor Swarm now has the subsequent meteors continue past where a dead targeted monster was rather than continually hammering the same grid (kaypy again); this is a result of more general code to make multi-effect spells target correctly
• Cones of effect now make sure to hit every grid in the target path (thanks wobbly)
• Create arrows spell now stops showing as untried when it's tried (thanks Sphara and gglibertine)
• Memory overrun error in darkness spell fixed (thanks Kusunose)
• Recharge activation for Thingol now reasonable (thanks Holy_Rage)
• Fast monsters summoned by traps are now held until the player gets a move (thanks Sphara)
• The correct maximum (z_info->f_max) is used for bounding terrain features in map_info() (thanks wobbly)

There are also a few things which have been reported a while ago and I'm not sure if they're still problems:

• Crashes or other weird behaviour from Single Combat
• Problems giving things with the {??} inscription to stores
• Monsters failing to attack a ranger's decoy

so if anyone can clear those up one way or the other, that would be good.