The miscellaneist #227
The miscellaneist #227
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todo XXX: involve madLibs.c someday
We had 14 different polearms (including the lance, which uses a different skill but can "pound" at range like other polearms). Now, there's 4 that spawn normally: halberd, ranseur, lance, partisan Scythes can also be generated, but only in specific monster inventories.
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I'm totally on board for all of this, with one exception. I'm personally not sold on removing redundant polearms, given that their mere existence is an expense at D&D. What is gained by removing them? Players can see the stats of items, so there is less chance of confusion compared to vanilla NetHack. |
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As a polearm remover, I don't see all that much point in "removing" them by dropping their probabilities to 0 but leaving them in the game (they are wishable! not really correct to say they are "removed"!) since you're still on the hook for maintaining any code related to them.
@NullCGT, a good argument for reducing the amount of polearms is that they stop contributing to pointless clutter in players' and developers' heads. There's no particular point in having 20 nearly-identical things when you could have 4.
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| pline("%s utters a complex chant.", Monnam(mtmp)); | ||
| pline("%s utters a %s chant.", Monnam(mtmp), | ||
| (!rn2(3)?"complex":!rn2(2)?"soothing":"healing")); |
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Is there any particular reason to cram this line together with no spaces? It's hard to read.
| { PM_ICE_ELEMENTAL, ZT_SONIC, PM_WATER_ELEMENTAL }, | ||
| { PM_MAGMA_ELEMENTAL, ZT_COLD, PM_EARTH_ELEMENTAL }, | ||
| { PM_MAGMA_ELEMENTAL, ZT_ACID, PM_FIRE_ELEMENTAL }, |
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These two don't make a ton of sense to me. Presumably, no matter how much you shatter an ice elemental with sonic attacks, it won't actually heat up enough to melt. (More of a snow elemental type of thing?)
Fire elementals are classically made of fire without any solid substance. Hitting a molten-rock being with acid doesn't seem like it would separate the heat from the rock.
these bits from that big ol' PR are in the truest spirit of "assorted tweaks"! they defy categorization! they aren't very important! but they might be nice!
and i think that wraps it up