What impresses you most about @?

[EpicMan]

There's a good Variant-fodder class:

The battle juggler:
He can carry more items than other players, but can only use a subset of them on any given turn, as the others are 'in the air'. So one turn he uses his artifact sword, the next he has a spellbook to cast from, the next a wand of cold balls, etc.

[Narvius]

Originally Posted by sethos

This extra arms thing looks slippery:
with 40 extra ring slots, we can get another 40 arms!...

Does that come with encumbrance? or a vision penalty? would you still be able to walk, I wonder?

I guess they would die off one after another as @s heart can't pump enough blood through ALL of the arms. :P

[Therem Harth]

Apparently @ learned the art of juggling from a Skandar.

[/possibly obscure reference]

[Arjen]

He can carry millions worth of gold pieces without being encumbered.

[debo]

Originally Posted by EpicMan

There's a good Variant-fodder class:

The battle juggler:
He can carry more items than other players, but can only use a subset of them on any given turn, as the others are 'in the air'. So one turn he uses his artifact sword, the next he has a spellbook to cast from, the next a wand of cold balls, etc.

This is a BRILLIANT IDEA!

[caruso]

@ can work out sophisticated plans of action even when being surrounded by enemies.

[joelsanda]

Originally Posted by BlueFish

@ does many impressive things but to me, what's most astonishing is his ability to kill worm masses with a lance. I mean, wow!

What impresses you most about @?

His consistent ability to remember the arrows in his House after reading a scroll of Word of Recall ...

[caruso]

@ can disarm a pit trap one-handedly while riding a 2-headed hydra.

[wobbly]

Well seeing as someone dredged this old thread up,

Originally Posted by EpicMan

While the game only lets @ wear 2 rings, this is because @ has 8 rings (slots are squelched so they don't show up) of +1 arm. This is how he manages to wield all those things and still be able to pick up/drop/rummage through his inventory/etc.

In Ragnarok you could get mutated & grow extra fingers (for extra ring slots) & extra eyes (I think from memory 1 of the beasties could peck them out). 1/2 the game seemed to be about growing as many extra appendages as you can for more gear slots.

[luneya]

Nah, rings of extra arms aren't required. What @ has is a bag-of-holding-like external-frame backpack featuring attachment points for @'s melee weapon, shield, and bow. Grabbing the appropriate one of these from the external mounting is a free action, which Angband simulates by having them all "wielded" simultaneously. But digging into the pack for other equipment (i.e., to swap) is more difficult, and consumes a full turn.