A horrific noob's commentated 'band adventures

[smbhax]

I don't know what I'm doing.

Angband - human warrior

https://youtu.be/h8_mZ52vATE

0:00 - start
2:00 - colors
11:16 - in the dark 'p'
19:48 - town
37:48 - depth 14 - orc/ogre ambush!
54:08 - text on top
55:28 - jellical cuts
1:36:11 - back in town
1:48:31 - depth 15 - druadan mages are mean
2:08:05 - depth 16 - up late with old trees
2:30:22 - Ufthak of Cirith Ungol
2:40:37 - wrap-up & what's next!

[smbhax]

Hengband - Cyclops Beastmaster

This is why you don't make a Sexy Beastmaster 'o'

https://youtu.be/-WW5qD_HSoE

0:00 - what "Hengband" means in Japanese!
4:05 - new ASCII features: large view, subwindow controls
17:35 - world map & wilderness
23:45 - PosChengband-style subwindow commands
27:55 - my compiling commands
30:39 - Sexy Beastmaster character creation
35:28 - town, Scrawny Horse named Wobbly, shopping
45:48 - Yeek cave depth 1
56:08 - Wobbly evolves into a Horse!
59:41 - depth 2 & summoning spiders
1:04:31 - a dead-end floor??
1:06:01 - shaft from floor 1 to 3
1:07:11 - my spiders turn on me! 'o'
1:12:21 - Louses kill Wobbly, I don't notice 'o'
1:13:29 - spiders turn on me again!
1:18:40 - Domination fails 'cause beasts hate the Sexy 'o'
1:24:59 - torches running out but no way up!!
1:32:17 - fainting forgetting to eat, didn't notice 'ooo'
1:33:08 - wrap-up & what's next!

[smbhax]

Angband - Kobolds with a grape jelly on top, Mushrooms of Terror, and a wyvern!

https://youtu.be/HZ7iTr41Rsg

0:00 - start
1:34 - town - no recharge scrolls 'p'
13:04 - depth 16
15:24 - kobold vault!
19:01 - so that's what grape jellies do 'o'
37:00 - Mushrooms of Terror
40:37 - druid summons...wyvern!
49:47 - wrap-up & what's next!

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by smbhax

1:12:21 - Louses kill Wobbly, I don't notice 'o'

Geez if I'm going to carry your sorry arse around the least you could do is de lice me.

[smbhax]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Geez if I'm going to carry your sorry arse around the least you could do is de lice me.

Yeep! Argh! Thanks for pointing it out, I'm gonna have to NOT let my horrific brain try to come up with names on the fly, apparently it will just plagiarize them without realizing it while thinking it's being cleverly original (horse moving erratically around town and so forth). Ohhhh. Sorry about that!!

And yeah it's not like there's any point anyway since I'm even worse at keeping anyone else alive than I am at keeping my own @ going, which is saying something. At least this horse whose name I swiped from you stuck around a little longer than the last one, who bolted before I even got into the dungeon really...although in retrospect they sure had the right idea. I don't THINK I'd accidentally named THEM after anyone here. ... I think.

Ah no that was "Carrot"... And it sure wouldn't have helped that I accidentally set them to "seek and destroy" after they had probably just momentarily staggered into the edge of the woods around the mouth of the newbie dungeon. .... Okay no, no member by THAT name on this forum, at least.

But egads! Sorry! Terrible, terrible.

[wobbly]

No problems, I wasn't offended, I was amused to see my name there. I also enjoyed watching you try to work out why you couldn't control your mount wielding a shield, with the message still sitting up top on the screen

[smbhax]

Originally Posted by wobbly

No problems, I wasn't offended, I was amused to see my name there. I also enjoyed watching you try to work out why you couldn't control your mount wielding a shield, with the message still sitting up top on the screen

Thanks, that's a relief! (But I'm gonna work on watching naming things...) And yeah, who needs to like, read important status messages staring you in the face when you can just flail around instead. ; )

And maybe some day I'll figure out why it doesn't think a whip is a suitable weapon for using from horseback (after STARTING you with a whip and a horse)...and whether or not I was actually attacking with it, or just fists or something. : P

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by smbhax

Thanks, that's a relief! (But I'm gonna work on watching naming things...) And yeah, who needs to like, read important status messages staring you in the face when you can just flail around instead. ; )

And maybe some day I'll figure out why it doesn't think a whip is a suitable weapon for using from horseback (after STARTING you with a whip and a horse)...and whether or not I was actually attacking with it, or just fists or something. : P

Sexy always starts with a whip. Broad spear is the normal beastmaster weapon, at least in bands based on heng. Its a large to-hit penalty for non-riding weapons

[smbhax]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Sexy always starts with a whip. Broad spear is the normal beastmaster weapon, at least in bands based on heng. Its a large to-hit penalty for non-riding weapons

YEAH! Thanks. : ) I was just testing that and found the sexy--whip connection. Hah. So Sexy really IS the wrong way to go for Beastmaster, that was just one more clear warning sign I was too noobish to catch. ; )

Although maybe it would've given me a bonus to Dominate a male cyclops. .P

[Pete Mack]

The real issue is aggravation, so there are certain poweful artifacts a beastmaster should avoid.