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From: purtill@faline.bellcore.com (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: We Need More Monster Characters!
Message-ID: <1729@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: 23 Jan 88 23:49:27 GMT
References: <4590@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: purtill@faline.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Organization: Bellcore MRE
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In article <> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>I still think it's a bad idea to expand Hack's character set... what ought to
>be done, instead, is to get rid of one monster for every one added. There
>comes a time when things simply get ridiculous...

The trouble with this is that eventually *all* the monsters will be special
in some way.  (Because `boring' monsters will be the one(s) to go).  How about
this tho:  There would be in general more than one monster per letter.  At 
the start of the game, the program would pick one monster from each letter
to use in that game.  So for instance, in a game you would either find giant
rats or rockmoles, but not both.

Comments?

^.-.^ purtill@math.mit.edu
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