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authorj-p-e-g <j-p-e-g@c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573>2009-06-25 09:30:14 +0000
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Apply r10037 to trunk: arena documentation.
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ entertainment. It can be invoked on the command line like this:
crawl -arena "kobold v goblin"
Which will cause one kobold to fight one goblin, with crawl shutting down once
-one of them has won. To be considered valid, a monster's name has to fully
+one of them has won. To be considered valid, a monster's name has to fully
match its definition, e.g. "Blork the orc" rather than simply "Blork".
To make them fight for three rounds you can do:
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ will give team A a rat and a cockroach and team B a kobold and a goblin; a
victory is declared when all of one team is dead and at lest one member of the
other team is still alive.
-Some monsters have a band (that is, a group of monsters) that will be
+Some monsters have a band (that is, a group of monsters) that will be
generated with them during normal play. You can use the suffix "band" to
make a monster appear with its band (if one exists). For example:
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ For example:
will choose two random monsters from the 10th level of the Lair and pit them
against three random monsters from the 7th level of the Vaults.
+The branches need to use the official abbreviations also used e.g. in the
+overmap (Ctrl-O): D, Temple, Orc, Elf, Lair, Swamp, Shoal, Slime, Snake, Hive,
+Vault, Blade, Crypt, Tomb, Hell, Dis, Geh, Coc, Tar, Zot.
To let the game pick monsters completely at random, use "random" as a
monster name. If you use the tag random_uniques all monsters thus chosen
@@ -146,11 +149,11 @@ The parameters include:
Creatures spell (including test spawners) then arena cycles through
the list of valid monsters, rather than taking rarity into account.
-* random_uniques: If the team is made up of random monsters
- (e.g. "random v random") the chosen monsters will be uniques. Also,
+* random_uniques: If the team is made up of random monsters
+ (e.g. "random v random") the chosen monsters will be uniques. Also,
any monster using Shadow Creatures will summon uniques.
-* "ban_gylphs:ABC" prevents monsters with the listed ASCII glyphs from
+* "ban_glyphs:ABC" prevents monsters with the listed ASCII glyphs from
being placed in the arena. For instance, "ban_glyphs:&C" prevents
demon lords and giants/cyclopses/titans/etc from being placed.