Forum: Vanilla
December 14, 2021, 18:54
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,459
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Forum: Vanilla
December 3, 2021, 20:39
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,814
Wait, "mob" is short for "mobile"? I always...
Wait, "mob" is short for "mobile"? I always thought it was shorthand used by game developers to mean "Monster OBject" - back in the day variable names were limited in length, and the prevailing...
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Forum: Development
May 9, 2021, 17:10
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Replies: 62
Views: 69,591
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Forum: Vanilla
May 4, 2021, 20:11
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,201
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Forum: Vanilla
May 4, 2021, 20:08
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,573
Well there's an idea. Staves that can be imbued...
Well there's an idea. Staves that can be imbued with spells. By sacrificing... something... a mage can imbue an "empty" staff with a spell, allowing it to be cast in the dark and without consuming...
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Forum: Vanilla
May 4, 2021, 02:15
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,573
In ADOM, spells are normally cast from memory,...
In ADOM, spells are normally cast from memory, but you can also cast them from a book, which takes longer but doesn't deplete your memory of them. (Why casting a spell too much makes you forget it is...
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Forum: Vanilla
May 4, 2021, 01:03
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,201
Buying and examining items in shops is awkward
I can select an item using the arrow keys, but then when I press g to buy one or x to examine one... the game asks me which one I want to buy/examine?! What's the point of allowing me to select items...
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Forum: Vanilla
September 19, 2016, 17:00
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Replies: 37
Views: 8,165
Wouldn't a simple solution be to reward winners...
Wouldn't a simple solution be to reward winners who do so quickly, so you'd be encouraged not only to play well, but also win quickly? Don't modify scores for players who don't win, though; playing...
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Forum: Oook!
September 19, 2016, 16:56
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,950
Download page is broken
So if I click on that "download" link up top, right there between "about" and "variants", I get a dead link (return of Ganon? ;)) - not very helpful for people who want to actually play the game! If...
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Forum: Vanilla
September 19, 2016, 16:54
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Replies: 31
Views: 8,561
I'm not a designer, but I haven't played...
I'm not a designer, but I haven't played "traditional" roguelikes in a while, so one thing that struck me about the menus (and the message bar up top) is that they're rather hard to read with that...
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Forum: Development
April 17, 2015, 20:03
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Replies: 41
Views: 16,026
C# 5.0 will support static imports, much like...
C# 5.0 will support static imports, much like Java, so instead of saying
import System;
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Console.WriteLine("hello world");
Console.WriteLine("isn't it annoying to have to type Console all...
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Forum: Vanilla
April 8, 2015, 18:19
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Replies: 526
Views: 102,270
Haven't read through this entire thread - I've...
Haven't read through this entire thread - I've been away for a while - but is there any reason why the custom edit files are stored in the Angband folder and not a user folder on Windows? Why not...
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Forum: Sil
July 18, 2014, 07:45
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Replies: 98
Views: 27,768
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Forum: Sil
May 19, 2014, 20:23
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Replies: 98
Views: 27,768
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Forum: Sil
April 29, 2014, 05:46
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Replies: 98
Views: 27,768
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Forum: Idle chatter
April 27, 2014, 03:41
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,899
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Forum: AAR
March 21, 2014, 13:34
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Replies: 171
Views: 83,978
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Forum: Idle chatter
March 14, 2014, 03:12
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Replies: 78
Views: 22,465
I'm 30, and I've been playing roguelikes ever...
I'm 30, and I've been playing roguelikes ever since I was, I dunno, 10 or so? I remember playing Nethack on my dad's PC and being absolutely entranced with it - maybe part of the reason was that it...
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Forum: Sil
March 8, 2014, 18:16
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,945
Game freezes at end of character creation
I'm trying to play Sil 1.2.1 on Windows 8 (64-bit), but when I get to the end of character creation, the game freezes. I seem to recall having this trouble with an earlier version of Sil or some...
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Forum: Variants
March 7, 2014, 23:05
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Replies: 17
Views: 8,545
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Forum: Variants
March 3, 2014, 16:37
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,566
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Forum: Sil
March 3, 2014, 01:29
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,953
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Forum: Variants
March 3, 2014, 01:19
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,566
Hmm, let's see...
ASCII-art hentai tentacle...
Hmm, let's see...
ASCII-art hentai tentacle monsters, a complete playable recreation of Super Mario Bros. 3, first-person perspective mode, pop-up ads, "the cake is a lie" jokes, photon torpedoes,...
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Forum: Variants
February 19, 2014, 06:24
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Replies: 38
Views: 11,813
I mean 2d6 as an upgrade from 2d5 beats 1d11 as...
I mean 2d6 as an upgrade from 2d5 beats 1d11 as an upgrade from 1d10, since the bonus side gets rolled twice. Hence my comment about extra damage dice, and not sides, because if you had extra damage...
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Forum: Vanilla
February 14, 2014, 19:49
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,378
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