[ Announce ] Jamband
pete m
We've seen over the years:
Norse, Steampunk, Zelazny, more permutations of Tolkien than you can
shake a stick at, and only one modern-themed variant: animeband, which
apparently is likely to go into hiatus.
And so, I have decided to write a new angband mod, Jamband, in which
you can choose one of a variety of classes:
- Bard (Generic musician for hire)
- Metal rocker (Loosely based on Paladin.)
- Jazz - (Loosely based on Rogue)
- Orchestral, with a variety of specialties including:
- Conductor (Summoner, various mindcraft abilities)
- Violinist (can play for effects ranging from headache to
beguilement)
- Bagpiper (enemies run screaming)
monster classes include: RIAA, Pirate, Critic, Barry Manilow (as
minor boss)
Suggestions are welcome. Delivery date expected 1 year from today.
Nick
Nick.
Jeremy J Starcher
> - Bagpiper (enemies run screaming)
Um... as a bagpiper ...
Yes, they run. Normally *at* you, screaming things like
"KILL HIM" or "Knife his bag"
However, a +15 to charisma wouldn't be amiss.
*WEG*
Timo Pietilä
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:10:50 -0700, pete m wrote:
>
>> - Bagpiper (enemies run screaming)
>
> Um... as a bagpiper ...
>
> Yes, they run. Normally *at* you, screaming things like
> "KILL HIM" or "Knife his bag"
Have you heard how powerful noise bagpipe makes (or, more approriately,
can make)? You can't run *at* bagpiper, unless you are already
half-deaf. Bagpiper could have sound-aura. And aggravate everything.
:-)
Timo Pietilä
Andy Gullans
More class ideas....
Jam-Band Subclasses:
Psychadellic Guitarist -- Gets special bonuses from eating
mushrooms (especially the hallucinatory mushrooms)
Hip-Hop Subclasses:
Rapper -- Special class-specific weapon: Microphone
DJ -- Lays down phat tracks
Country Subclasses:
Banjo Player -- Just like the banjo, it's not quite like other
classes.... very twangy, strange neck structure
Jug Player -- Can use empty potion bottles?
Washboard Player -- Uh....
Also, maybe something like a pretentious coffee-house-type with an
acoustic guitar and a music-snobbish attitude?
And, playing off the mushroom thing, how about having booze and drugs
laying all over the place to provide, eh, "alterations" to the
characters (most effects temporary, some long-term, a few permanent)?
Like, you could trip out on some LSD and end up in a totally different
dungeon for a few hours.
Special rooms could include stages, sound studios, green rooms
(backstage), trashed motel rooms, tour busses, back alleys, cafes,
bars, etc, etc, etc.
Performances (battles) could be "bootlegged", and you could get the
"tapes" and replay them on your "tapedeck"?
Fights could consist of playing tunes against the tunes played by
monsters, and you could assemble a band (a party of NPCs) to follow
you around and play music (fight) as a group....with the ever present
threat of fatal drug-overdoses, rehab, pretentious "I am the heart of
the band"-ness, breakups, Yoko Ono, exploding drummers, etc....
Oh, man, frag-it-all, this might as well just become Guitar Hero meets
Angband! (Although, I think your name for it, "Jamband", is
absolutely hilarious.)
And we could have cemeos from the Grateful Dead, Phish, and numerous
other famous (and local) jam-bands....
Joseph William Dixon
...but wouldn't be anywhere near enough to make up for the -25 Chr that
would logically be standard on every set of 'pipes.
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> Special rooms could include stages, sound studios, green rooms
> (backstage), trashed motel rooms, tour busses, back alleys, cafes,
...whorehouses, crashed small aircraft, the Highlands...