chengband and virtues

chem · August 11, 2012, 21:27

Does anyone actively pay attention to their alignment and virtues in chengband? I realize that I never worry about it or optimize them. I'm not even sure how much they can help.

Playing a Demigod Mauler, if anyone has race/class specific comments.

HugoTheGreat2011 · August 12, 2012, 02:34

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Originally Posted by chem

Does anyone actively pay attention to their alignment and virtues in chengband? I realize that I never worry about it or optimize them. I'm not even sure how much they can help.

Playing a Demigod Mauler, if anyone has race/class specific comments.

Nope, I never paid any attention to virtues. I think chris should change the virtue system to make greater impact on gameplay.

My two cents,
HugoTheGreat2011

chris · August 12, 2012, 03:20

Virtues matter for spellcasting and pets, but the effects are small.

For example, if you are evil trying to cast spells from a good realm, you get a penalty to your fail rates (2% or 5% depending on whether you are an Int caster or a Wis caster ... Hengband is 4% and 10%). Similarly for good players trying to cast evil spells, or non-neutral characters trying to cast Nature spells.

For pets, if you are good, you can't summon evil monsters and vice versa.

EDIT: Also, alignment effects whether certain monsters are friendly to the player. If you are evil, Saruman will be friendly. If you are good, Ents and Mycen will be friendly, etc.

AnonymousHero · August 12, 2012, 13:49

(This was Entro, but I guess the same applies to Cheng.)

I always ignored them or metagamed them. IIRC the "rules" for how these are calculated are weird and obscure, so I think it would be best to just remove them.

August 11, 2012, 21:27	#1
chem Adept Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 115	chengband and virtues Does anyone actively pay attention to their alignment and virtues in chengband? I realize that I never worry about it or optimize them. I'm not even sure how much they can help. Playing a Demigod Mauler, if anyone has race/class specific comments.

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August 12, 2012, 03:20	#3
chris Adept Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 227	Virtues matter for spellcasting and pets, but the effects are small. For example, if you are evil trying to cast spells from a good realm, you get a penalty to your fail rates (2% or 5% depending on whether you are an Int caster or a Wis caster ... Hengband is 4% and 10%). Similarly for good players trying to cast evil spells, or non-neutral characters trying to cast Nature spells. For pets, if you are good, you can't summon evil monsters and vice versa. EDIT: Also, alignment effects whether certain monsters are friendly to the player. If you are evil, Saruman will be friendly. If you are good, Ents and Mycen will be friendly, etc.

August 12, 2012, 13:49	#4
AnonymousHero Swordsman Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 340	(This was Entro, but I guess the same applies to Cheng.) I always ignored them or metagamed them. IIRC the "rules" for how these are calculated are weird and obscure, so I think it would be best to just remove them.

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