[NPP] What determines artifact creation

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Hey all


In Angband I never seemed to have any problems finding the odd artifact,
however a couple of months ago I switched to NPP 0.4.1 and now seem to
having troubles. I regularly take the lesser quests so perhaps this is the
problem ? Would I increase my chances of not taking the quests at all, as
it would seem the uniques doen't give up the goods like they used to in
Angband.

Currently, my Dunadan Ranger level 30, Max Depth level 30 has the following
known artifacts.

The Phial of Galadrial
The Cloak 'Colluin'
The Cloak 'Holcolleth'
The Iron Helm of Ereth


Thanks
Chris

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"rusticdog" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:4282e5bc@clear.net.nz...
> Hey all
>
>
> In Angband I never seemed to have any problems finding the odd artifact,
> however a couple of months ago I switched to NPP 0.4.1 and now seem to
> having troubles. I regularly take the lesser quests so perhaps this is the
> problem ? Would I increase my chances of not taking the quests at all, as
> it would seem the uniques doen't give up the goods like they used to in
> Angband.
>
> Currently, my Dunadan Ranger level 30, Max Depth level 30 has the following
> known artifacts.
>
> The Phial of Galadrial
> The Cloak 'Colluin'
> The Cloak 'Holcolleth'
> The Iron Helm of Ereth
>
There is nothing in NPP that makes artifacts less rare than Vanilla. Actually through quest rewards, themed cheses and additional artifacts created in the middle of the game, they are more common.

In my experience having four artifacts at 1500' is par for the course in vanilla, but can very depending on the mood of the RNG that day.

-Jeff