The Roguelikes, Part Two

Brian Critser carries on his expansive look at roguelikes, continuing his list of Angband and Nethack-variants, which certainly makes for a rich list.

XAngband: XAngband is a ZAngband variant from Japan. It’s author says it’s easier than the other variants with main features such as ego stores that sells excellent arms, increased ego item powers, new classes, new items, rearranged 2 magic realms and added 1 new one which assists in melee attacks and lastly races.

There are 15 races most of which you would find in Angband with the addition of a few others like the mindflayer and nibelung. There is now an added class called sniper. As you may have guessed this class specializes in shooting like the archer. Unlike the archer class they do not fire as quickly, but can deal more damage.

The schools of magic are Life, Sorcery and Combat Realm. Under Life you have Book of Common Prayer, High Mass and Godly Insight. Under Sorcery there is Beginner’s Handbook, Master of Sorcerer’s Handbook and Tome of Destruction. Unfortunately I can’t tell you what’s in the Combat Realm because the link to it is gone.