Angband n. /ang'band/
Like nethack, moria, and rogue, one of the large freely distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Pits of Angband (compare elder days, elvish). Has been described as "Moria on steroids"; but, unlike Moria, many aspects of the game are customizable. This leads many hackers and would-be hackers into fooling with these instead of doing productive work. There are many Angband variants, of which the most notorious is probably the rather whimsical Zangband. In this game, when a key that does not correspond to a command is pressed, the game will display "Type ? for help" 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error messages including "An error has occurred because an error of type 42 has occurred" and "Windows 95 uninstalled successfully" will be displayed. Zangband also allows the player to kill Santa Claus (who has some really good stuff, but also has a lot of friends), "Bull Gates", and Barney the Dinosaur (but be watchful; Barney has a nasty case of halitosis). There is an official angband home page at http://www.phial.com/angband and a zangband one at http://thangorodrim.angband.org. See also Random Number God.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
It did HOW MUCH damage?! Just one more round before I use that potion of *Healing*. Cyberdemon? What's that? Hey, I didn't know those things could breathe! I'll be fine unless he hits with ALL his attacks. I'd sure get a lot of XP if I could beat that guy... OK, I'll save just enough mana to cast Teleport. Great Hell Wyrm? No prob, I resist fire. The Angel of Death? Who needs nether resistance? Either he's going to kill me or I'm going to kill him. WHO summons Ancient Dragons? Hey, I'm stunned, what's that? I think I've finally gotten the hang of this. Wonder what that is? If I try this staff it's bound to get me out of here Why can't I find the cure serious wounds when I need one? I'll be safe down these stai....arrrgh! I wonder what a Sky Drake breathes? What happens if I drink this? It'll cost less than IDing it. What does breeds explosively' mean? It took me for /how/ /many/ HP?!!! (killed by the Tarrasque) Argh! Get of the keyboard you bloody cat... Oh No! (killed by a small fluffy cat... grrr...) Just one more turn... C'mon, recover damn you! Oh. (poisoned) I'll just start windoze on the 2nd processor - no need to save... (killed by a software bug ;) He's stunned, I don't need to heal quite yet... He can't possibly mana storm three times in a row. (After of course getting sauron down to 1 star.) What's it doing this high in the dungeon? What's toxic waste? Aaargh!
Angband is a roguelike based on Rogue, Moria and UMoria and similar in some ways to Nethack and ADOM. It is written in C, it's completely free an open source (maintainers are currently thinking about GPLing it). Angband's official website is at http://thangorodrim.angband.org
Characters
- Morgoth - Sauron - Glaurung - Gothmog - Farmer Maggot - Nazguls - Ungoliant - Shelob - Balrog - Mim - Muzgash
Variants
- Cthangband - Cyberband (My own variant, currently working on it and based on Shadowrun) - Zangband - Mangband - Ingband - EyAngband - GSNband - Gumband - Kamband - Oangband - PernAngband - Psiband - Sillyband
Classes
- Fighter - Rogue - Ranger - Paladin - Mage - Priest
Races
- Human - Elf - Dwarf - Hobbit - Gnome - Half-orc - Half-Troll - Dunedain - High-elf - Kobold
Items
- Potion of healing - the One Ring - the Iron Crown of Morgoth - Anduril - Mormegil - Ringil - Grond - Angrist - Calris - Sting - Orcrist - Gurthang - Nenya - Narya - Artifacts - rings - scrolls - potions - rods - wands - amulets - slime mold and slime mold juice - gold pieces - potion of intelligence - Dragon Scale Mail
Spells
- Magic missile - Identify - phase door - Orb of Destruction - Word of Recall - Raal's Tome of Destruction
History and background
- Melkor - Valars - The First Age - dungeon Angband - The Silmarillion
Others
- Dungeons and Dragons and AD&D - Angband Borg - borg - Angband vs Nethack - rec.games.roguelike.angband and rgra - Effects of too much Angband - Stair-scumming - Monster farming - Thangorodrim - hack-and-slash - RNG and Random Number God (Random Number Generator - The Greater Hell Magic-Mushroom Aether-Hound Were-Quylthulg - Robert Ruehlmann - Chick magnet - vaults - ADOM - Nethack - Slash' em - Utumno - Dungeon crawl - Cheat Death - Diablo (a bad roguelike) - YASD (Yet Another Stupid death)
- And Everything Tolkien in general
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Now, I know, some of you really hate ASCII art. Well, you can leave now, or read on. This is not ASCII art. This is the actual playing screen of the game. Every character on screen has a meaning, it's not just there to build up a pretty picture:
Angband is also a testimony to the right way to do open source. It is quite simply one of the finest, most stable, best documented, most configurable pieces of software in existence -- of any kind. I strongly urge you to try it today.
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