angband

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angband - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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://thangorodrim.angband.org/ and a zangband one at
     http://www.zangband.org/. See also Random Number God.