{"id":552,"date":"2016-09-22T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/?p=552"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:57:06","slug":"september-2016-zborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2016\/09\/22\/september-2016-zborg\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2016 Zborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update for the Zangband borg.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been running Vampire Mindcrafters and they seem very capable within the borg&#8217;s limited dynamics.\u00a0 There were some fixes to how the borg handles, radius-0 ball spells<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Borg was still (rarely) missing the target using the offset technique.\u00a0 The borg will now skip the offset attacks if it yields the same damage as a direct hit.<\/li>\n<li>The Mindcrafter Pulverise spell has a radius 0 effect at low level and should not be offset.\u00a0 It had been calculated as a beam\/bolt.<\/li>\n<li>While in Munchkin Mode, the borg might find himself off the stairs by 4 or 5 grids.\u00a0 If he encounters a monster so far from the stairs, he tends to stand his ground and fight instead of racing for the safety of the stairs.\u00a0 Usually he is encumbered and slow while in this situation.\u00a0 But if he is not encumbered, he might do better to race for the stairs, so I added an encumbrance check.\u00a0 (borg_think_dungeon_munchkin())<\/li>\n<li>Psychic Drain is a radius 0 ball effect.\u00a0 Borg kept thinking it was a bolt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update for the Zangband borg.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been running Vampire Mindcrafters and they seem very capable within the borg&#8217;s limited dynamics.\u00a0 There were some fixes to how the borg handles, radius-0 ball spells Borg was still (rarely) missing the target using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/2016\/09\/22\/september-2016-zborg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zborg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovapain.com\/borg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}