Aduke.1743
net.games.rogue
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw
Thu Feb  4 23:12:31 1982
Re: Ideas for enhancements to Rogue
Re: Ideas for enhancements to Rogue

A couple of random ideas for enhancements to Rogue:

    1)  It would be interesting if it were possible to wield
	more than one thing at a time.  I'm thinking in particular
	of the possibility of wielding a sword and a shield (with
	the obvious semantics of sword = damage to monsters and
	shield = more protection in addition to armor).  There
	would be some interactions:  e. g., wielding a two-handed
	sword would preclude wielding a shield, and perhaps it
	would be illegal to wield two swords (for example).  Also,
	some weapons (such as the Mace and the two-handed sword)
	traditionally had significant defensive capabilities as
	compared to ordinary swords and other weapons;  perhaps
	this could be factored into the scoring.

    2)  I've seen a game along this line which had (in addition
	to the above capability) the additional features of
	being able to wear different helms & gauntlets.  This
	seems somewhat less interesting than 1) above (and the
	line has to be drawn somewhere, given the size of the
	program on a PDP-11), but some thought along these lines
	might be interesting.

			Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University

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