geb@cadre.UUCP (05/19/84)
I found out some info about rogue that may explain what I had called the "holiday effect". Apparently, you start the game with a set level of "charm". This makes your character such that it may be lucky in encounters. Once I even had the ability to see invisible without wearing any rings. This is set at initialization by a number generated using a combination of your login name and the date. Thus what is a good day for one person may not be for the next. Certain days are certainly much better for rogue playing than others in my experience.
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (05/22/84)
There is no "holiday effect". It's all impressions which people ascribe to the code in an effort to find a pattern in randomness. And the person who "had the ability to see invisible without wearing any rings" had no doubt drunk a potion of see invisible within the previous X hundred turns (it lasts a while). Dave Sherman Magnifibeast -- dave at Toronto (CSnet) {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave