[All variants] Best early-game find?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Once, very long ago, in the days when I received Angband on a floppy (yes, sadly I'm that old) disk from a guy I met who was playing Angband on an airplane back in 1995, I was playing and at about dl10 cleared some rubble to find The One Ring! Didn't know how to play though, so I quickly died.

Left off playing for many years, then chanced upon all the wonderful things you all have been doing with this game. Started playing 3.4 and 3.5 dev, and twice found Aule in the early levels, but again, not knowing anything, I left it behind because it was too heavy. Sigh! If I'd only stored it at home. Then again, @ didn't live long enough to take advantage of it anyway.

[JohnCW9]

[QUOTE=HugoTheGreat2011;93128]What's the best early-game find you ever had in ANY variant ] Best that i found robe of perm ace on level 1 9in t-plus which is a mod of tome

[HugoVirtuoso]

This one takes the cake:
My PosChengband 3.4.0 Hugo$oul character found The Ring of Power (The One Ring) (+5) in the remains of Smeagol in the wilderness east of Outpost at clvl 16.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by HugoTheGreat2011

This one takes the cake:
My PosChengband 3.4.0 Hugo$oul character found The Ring of Power (The One Ring) (+5) in the remains of Smeagol in the wilderness east of Outpost at clvl 16.

Doesn't Smeagol have like a 1% chance to drop the One Ring in that variant? I mean, it's still really rare, but not as rare as if he had to get it "naturally".

[debo]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Doesn't Smeagol have like a 1% chance to drop the One Ring in that variant? I mean, it's still really rare, but not as rare as if he had to get it "naturally".

1/666 = 0.15% ish, not quite phantasy-star-online-rare but still p.rare

[HugoVirtuoso]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Doesn't Smeagol have like a 1% chance to drop the One Ring in that variant? I mean, it's still really rare, but not as rare as if he had to get it "naturally".

AFAIK - In PosChengband, Smeagol actually has 1 in 666 chance of dropping The One Ring.

[AnonymousHero]

Originally Posted by HugoTheGreat2011

AFAIK - In PosChengband, Smeagol actually has 1 in 666 chance of dropping The One Ring.

Indeed:

   case MON_SMEAGOL:
            if (one_in_(666))
            {
                a_idx = ART_POWER;
                chance = 100;
            }
            break;

in monster_death() in xtra2.c.

[DanielKennethRego]

I just scored a pair of Hard Leather Boots of Speed (+8 to speed) off a Princess quest on dungeon level 5 in the Barrow-Downs, in ToME 2.3.8. My character level was 8. I'm still grinning with excitement at my luck.