Why do we do this?

I guess every Angband variant maintainer has their own reasons for making a variant. In my case, one of the chief things that attracted me to Angband in the first place was a deep and lifelong love of the entire Tolkien Middle-earth mythology. Given that, the main theme that I pursued - immersion in Middle-earth - was an easy choice. So I made my variant.

The thing I was unprepared for was the interaction with players. I already knew that Angband had a vibrant, interesting community; but the thing that has kept me maintaining is that other people have actually enjoyed the thing I do for my own enjoyment.

Two things stand out for me. One is the long developing collaboration I have had with Si Griffin - starting with the Windows CE port of FA, and including a release (v0.3.6) by Si rather than me.

The second one, which needs no further comment, is this.

The Curse of Posband

Posband is/was a wonderful variant, branched off NPPAngband by Alex Ulyanov. After much fruitful work, he declared it orphaned, and more or less left the *banding community. Then it was taken over by Graham Phillips and Avenger, who made a home page and now aren't around much. Rick Frankum (now vanished) did some work on artifact reward generation. And here is the latest - last seen on the forums about two months after starting this thread.

So this is the first step (no actual work done) in adapting Pos to AngbandBase.

It was nice knowing you all.