You might find it much closer to your preferred type of game design.At the risk of re-inflaming and old debate, I'm not sure it's possible to change these things and still have Vanilla Angband. My response to this frustration was to write Sil. I don't think you will see much rapid change on these things in Vanilla Angband. Even that is probably too opaque: players generally don't bother to check their hit chance. Or you could make the combat skill versus monster AC more meaningful, and show the percentage chance to the player when he targets a monster. New players have no way of knowing that the hit chance is almost irrelevant. Even having a straight 80 % chance to hit always might be preferable to the current system where the hit chance is almost always higher than 80 % anyway. If a rule cannot be implemented in such a way that it is easily explained to a player, just don't implement it.I agree. If a rule cannot be implemented in such a way that it is easily explained to a player, just don't implement it. Keep that axe swinging!ĭerakon, in your Pyrel notebook, right next to where you've written down 'don't force the player to choose between optimal gameplay and fun gameplay,' write 'don't force the player to make uninformed decisions.' I was ecstatic to see the demise of Charisma recently. Just because a poorly-thought-out rule has been around for decades doesn't mean it has to live forever. It would be really nice to see a rational discussion about fixing stuff like this in Angband. How much AC is it acceptable to lose for a +2 CON bonus? Impossible to say.

How can we weigh +hit against +dam? We essentially can't. The original poster's question is about just such an uninformed decision. Essentially, mechanics like this mean the game frequently asks the player to make uninformed decisions, which are about as entertaining as optimal vs. The to-hit stat, like a number of similar things in Angband, seems to be implemented in such a way that all you can say about it to the average player is, 'more is good.' Lots of people would say that this is all a player needs to know to have fun, but reasonable game designers know that to be false.

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