angband strategy guide

[mushroom patch]

"No free action" is not as great a challenge as people suggest. Free action is more a convenience than a necessity, in contrast to certain elemental resistances. You simply don't have to let monsters that can paralyze you take a turn in your line of sight.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by mushroom patch

"No free action" is not as great a challenge as people suggest. Free action is more a convenience than a necessity, in contrast to certain elemental resistances. You simply don't have to let monsters that can paralyze you take a turn in your line of sight.

This includes basically every upper-level caster. I guess if you do this challenge then you focus on getting a 100% saving throw ASAP, because otherwise every lategame fight is courting instant death.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Derakon

This includes basically every upper-level caster. I guess if you do this challenge then you focus on getting a 100% saving throw ASAP, because otherwise every lategame fight is courting instant death.

Yeah, you can avoid those fights by dying in the mid-game

[AnonymousHero]

Originally Posted by mushroom patch

"No free action" is not as great a challenge as people suggest. Free action is more a convenience than a necessity, in contrast to certain elemental resistances. You simply don't have to let monsters that can paralyze you take a turn in your line of sight.

Well, obviously! Assuming you see them and always do the exact right thing. If you can see Lurkers you have probably changed the visuals in fundamental ways, but frankly I'd consider that cheating. (I'm working on removing visuals from my own branch of T2 for this reason. I'm still considering exactly what to do with permanent/illusory/granite walls, but I'll certainly make permanent wall distinuishable from granite walls.)

Look, it's like losing weight: It's simple, but it's not easy!

EDIT: ... exactly like winning using only your fists.

[myshkin]

Originally Posted by Tibarius

That's cool - many thanks. The Format is not too good yet, i choosed to write it in 'courier new' to have a font-set which has identical char sizes, because that's a requirement to Play the game in letter-style mode. But it does not look very pretty, compared for example with the Output from the online-dillinger markdown converted example. So once i finished writing down the Content i guess i have to run over the whole work again and think about how to Format it nicely. But one step after the other.

Edit: And of course Quality of Content is more important than the way it is presented, even tho i like it if it is nicely and modern presented.

It's best not to worry about things like line length and pagination until the content is final; otherwise editing will take even longer than it needs to. The most likely exception is if you have any tables or graphics in your content.

Anything that ships with the game would likely get reformatted to work with the in-game help parser.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by AnonymousHero

If you can see Lurkers you have probably changed the visuals in fundamental ways, but frankly I'd consider that cheating.

Lurkers are no threat, you are talking about their bigger cousins Trappers and even they are survivable with high enough AC. Floating Eyes for example become non-threat after gaining +8 AC.

Melee-paralyze is not that big threat as it used to be, when already paralyzed paralyze counter doesn't add to previous counter as it used to, but resets the counter, so if monsters miss often enough and you have high enough saving throw you break free from the paralyze sooner or later. Danger comes from being already dangerous situation and then getting paralyzed which would give that other monster couple of free turns. So it is more a late game problem if you don't get high saving.

That means that H-Troll warrior might have troubles with no-FA, but priests OTOH should not have any problems.

[Tibarius]

Just to mention it, today i won the game with a rogue. Now i played all 3 mage-classes. Diving into priests now

[werepacman]

Mages have very few HP from the start so additional HP and new spells from new level help them a lot.
One advice for quick mage start.

Find breeding monster - (w , l , r)
near the long corridor or room with with door.
Wake a monster, so it starts breeding.

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__@'___w_w_ww_ww#
########_w___w_#
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Now you can use circle:
1) kill monster with magic
2) close the door
3) rest
(repeat)

Upgrade with mass spell like Stinking cloud or Lightning bolt.

Light an area with a spell so you can see monsters and cast spells without consumable light source.

Buy at least 5 food rations, shovel, light source and book of Conjuring and Tricks in the first travel.
First spells to learn - Magic missile and Detect monster.

Few levels can help mage avoid random unpredictable death. Now your mage can survive first unique monster - Maggot dogs.

5-9 lvls is enough for mana and HP to start travel.
It is possible to gain 11 lvl and identify this way but this is boring and it is much faster with diving and killing more fat monsters.

Than I dive as deep as it is safe to collect money for next items:
stafs of teltportation and mapping, next 2 books from magic shop.

You can search on 750 depth for 2 rings of escaping.
Collect few offensive stats and wands to fight uniques.

Now it is possible to start discover levels for your liking.

One thing which should be mentioned again and again - the biggest difference angband from other games is that you don't need to try to kill everything! You need to run often. That is what items, scrolls and spells with teleport, phase door, create stairs, recall are for.

[Tibarius]

Dear Folks,

unfortunately (for the players guide) i am working again. So the amount of spare-time drastically dropped to a value around zero.

I played 5/6 classes through and won the game with those five classes.
Warrior class is missing, even tho i feel i have already a good grip on the class.

There is a lot finished already in the guide. If anyone wants to take a look because she/he cannot wait on me finishing it, give me a call.

Until then the production of my players guide is sadly "on hold" (even tho that is something i wished to do for around 25 years already).

To my dad: Once again with great unsatisfaction i have to recognize that my nature does not allow me to do what i would like to do.

[Pete Mack]

@Tibarius--
Can you post the guide as an attachment? You will probably have to do it a zip file unless it is *.txt