bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) (12/05/89)
I play NH3 on both an AT&T 3B1 and an Atari ST. My 3B1 NH3 is version
3.0e, and the ST version is the binary which was posted to the net.
When I play the Atari version, it seems that the creation of new items
is not entirely random, e.g., if I start with potions X and Y, and
rings A and B, then the odds are that I will find more of each of
these in the first level or two. This, of course, is fine if I start
with a scroll of genocide or a wand of death, but not especially
beneficial if I find more rings of hunger or potions of hallucination.
I don't observe this behavior in my 3B1 NH3. Is the Atari ST version
using a less than perfectly random number generator, or is this just
my imagination? Has anybody else observed this phenomenon?
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