Which variants are the closest to Angband?

[whartung]

Originally Posted by will_asher

This sounds too complicated to be worth doing. (Although in my old variant, I succeeded in adding a couple slots to the home inventory, so I can do that again at least.)

Actually, you could pull it off by making every X levels a Town level.

Just plonk them in to town, and remember what actual level they're on, and hope the Happy Drunk isn't a Unique Summoner.

it should be easy enough to make experimenting with it worthwhile, if nothing else.

[will_asher]

Originally Posted by whartung

Actually, you could pull it off by making every X levels a Town level.

Just plonk them in to town, and remember what actual level they're on, and hope the Happy Drunk isn't a Unique Summoner.

it should be easy enough to make experimenting with it worthwhile, if nothing else.

I might give it a try. It does sound like a fun alternate play mode.

[bughunter]

Originally Posted by whartung

Just plonk them in to town, and remember what actual level they're on, and hope the Happy Drunk isn't a Unique Summoner.

Actually that sounds like it might be fun...

As long as it isn't one that can bore thru walls... and who bores right thru the General Store.

[caruso]

Grotug, you might want to try out Seven Day Band by Jeff Lait. It allows you to create your own *band on the fly and without coding. Editing options will be unlocked one after another as you lose characters. You can even create hamsters with heat-seeking spit for ranged attacks, so I guess anything you can think of will be doable

[will_asher]

Originally Posted by caruso

Grotug, you might want to try out Seven Day Band by Jeff Lait. It allows you to create your own Angband variant on the fly and without coding. Editing options will be unlocked one after another as you lose characters. It even allows you to create hamsters with heat-seeking spit for ranged attacks, so I guess anything you can think of will be doable

That sounds hilarious. I'll have to try that out.

Anyway, I'll take further discussion about my planned variant to the variants subforum.
EDIT: see my RubberBand plans thread.

[sffp]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

Frodo also has pretty nice armor when he sets out: mithril chainmail, possibly magical.

We actually played the frodo start as a competition some years back, but that requires the debugger to avoid (or get out of) wizard mode.

And that ring...

[Angdrim]

I wasn't around for the competition, but he should totally have the One Ring but be unable to use it. It just takes up a slot in his inventory.

[MattB]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

Frodo also has pretty nice armor when he sets out: mithril chainmail, possibly magical.

We actually played the frodo start as a competition some years back, but that requires the debugger to avoid (or get out of) wizard mode.

That was a lot of fun.
http://angband.oook.cz/competition.php?showcompo=164
Some good reads on that comp ladder.
The lowest XP criterion was a nice change from turncount.