MAngband

I think the fear of death in mangband is great, most games these days have pretty much no penalty for dying. Diablo - When you die you lose you money. Keep inventory. Dungeon Siege - You lose nothing, you just have to wait until you resurect. Inventory droped at your feet. Neverwinter Nights - You l...

What you are talking about is building houses with it, if it exsisted, which you would not be able to do. The stick would only make tempory walls and not perma-rock, if you go into the dungeon and try tunneling into a wall, you can eventually get through. If it is perma-rock, like houses and shops t...

aww but its so fun, you never know what is going to pop out and kick the crap out of you. Especially at deeper depths  :P

Those darn staffs of summoning break to easy  ;D

That sounds great. Would be nice as in a spell book too, maybe Mordenkainen's escapes  ;)

Would be nice if you could make a stone wall out of nothing, although it would probably unbalence things quite a bit. So many times I have been in a situation where making a wall would have saved me from a savage beating. Maybe could be a really high level spell or rare staff? What do you guys think...