A couple of Bard issues

[Lord Estraven]

Right off the bat I can see a big problem with the Bard class: "Stop Singing" has a nonzero fail rate. That's pretty ridiculous.

Aside from that though, instruments' spell ranges being affected by their pvals strikes me as a very bad idea. Instruments are already uncommon items; to give them a pval requirement for certain spells is crazy, making useful instruments almost impossible to find.

Personally, I am of the school that instruments should have zero benefit aside from trhe musical spells they provide, with said spells not requiring pval.

Oh, also... I know this isn't going to generate a lot of responses, seeing as ToME2 is considered a dead end. But there are some seriously broken classes in ToME2, and let's face it, T3 isn't going to be beta quality for a while. So I think we ought to be doing more than just "maintenance" on T2 and actually fixing some of the major balance issues.

[AnonymousHero]

I'm not particularly interested in fixing bugs per se, but I'll be happy to merge any patches people have to my branch.

[Chattius]

I installed tome again on a netbook to play a bit while travelling. I played a few bards to level 50 3-4 years back.
http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=7140
Where there any changes to the bard class from 2.33/2.34 to 2.35?

Bards were allways different, they demanded a special unusual playstyle. But because of this unusual playstyle i played them more carefully it seems. Never got any other class to 50, always overestimating myself. But 3 bards because i know i had to be careful with them.

Were the old posts from years back deleted?

[Yottle]

All the old posts were deleted when the forum was hacked (except for ones that had a survey attached).