[Gllug] Nethack, was "Open source has its own problems"

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 9 Aug 2005, Ian Northeast wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>>On Thursday, 4 Aug 2005, Ian Northeast wrote:
>>>A piece of trivia regarding Nethack: I pick my race and class, but leave 
>>>gender to chance. The top 9 entries in my score file are female. So is 
>>>being female an advantage?
>I don't use poly self and only 3 out of the 9 are Valkyries. #1 is a 
>female Ranger.

Then the 6 that aren't Valks are random chance.

>Valkyries are IMO the easiest to play, certainly to get going properly. 

I agree, and they are also very amenable to novice play.

>Having only female Valkyries is a bit inconsistent IMO. OK, they were 
>all female, but you can have female Knights and Samurai..

Samurai are movie samurai not real ones, and they are often
female. Dunno about Knights.

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