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I know you guys probably haven't been playing this must lately, but i wanted to start something up again that was done briefly a few months ago. That something is a weekly challenge with random characters.
I talked to azenmaster who posted the original one, and he said it was cool to start doing weekly things again. The first one kind of got dropped. I don't intend to let that happen with these, and hope to post new challenges weekly.
So, the idea of this is that on Mondays (as long as people stay interested), I'll roll two race/class combos. One will be random (any class/race. usually harder combos), and one will be "good random" (from a list of "good" combinations. usually easier). Once i get these characters from the game, i'll post them here. Often times, the characters are pretty interesting (such as the kenku earth elementalist we had last time).
Then, everyone can play these, and try to get the high scores for each character. You can play either offline, or at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ . I trust you guys not to cheat. These contests will be using version 0.6, and no cheating (save backups, etc.) will be allowed (honor system, obviously).
If you haven't played this game before, it's awesome. Go to http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ and check it out. Basically, it's a randomly generated dungeon game. You've got a wide variety of classes and races to choose from. It's very hard, and when you die, your character gets deleted. Dying is a normal and expected part of the game.
SO. HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S OPTIONS
From the game itself:
random (Hard mode) - Minotaur Fighter with the spear option.
good random (easy mode) - Human Gladiator with the mace option.
Looks like it's going to be melee mode this week. The hard mode character is actually fairly easy, so i expect some high scores with that. Hopefully next week we'll get some ranged fighters, as i really enjoy playing those.
So post some scores to this thread as you get playing, and we'll see what happens. I'll do a few posts throughout the week to see how people are doing. If you want to post a score in a thread of your own, use the tag DCSS so i can find it for next week, when i post the winners.
oh god i hope i didn't fuck up the shacktags on this
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