I've started playing nethack....

[Vesayen]

Heaven help me! ><

Tried it about a dozen times in the past at prompting of friends but always thought it was stupid.

Now.... i'm enjoying it.

There are about a zillion guides out there, any specifics guides anyone can recommend that they liked?

[Gamecube64]

Gamecube64's totally awesome guide of awesomeness (and awesome stuff like that):

Don't eat kobolds (unless an orc, I think...)
Don't try to stuff yourself even more while satiated to avoid food spoilage.

[Vesayen]

How do I tell if an item is cursed or blessed, as a priest?

How do I learn NEW spells?

How do I tell what the hell a scroll does, even if I am a wizard?

[snoopy369]

Hmm.

Identify scrolls

I only played Moria/Angband, but they're similar, so i suspect that's the answer. Or the Identify prayer, which priests I believe get maybe level 9 or 10?

Before that, scrolls.

[Whoha]

same here. The number ONE thing you can do is BE PATIENT. rushing through will get you killed. either do that or save/reload.


if you want spoilers there are great sites out, but I'd recommend stumbling through the game at random

google nethack spoilers if you're interested.

[Sparrowhawk]

Almost afraid to ask (because 6 months ago I asked a similar question about ogame and have barely been seen since ) but here goes anyway....What is Nethack?

/me

[snoopy369]

Nethack was one of the very, very old "roguelike" ASCII graphics RPGs. You may have heard of Moria (a variant)?

Basically, you choose a race and sex, randomly generate a background and randomly or semirandomly generate character stats. Then you go down into the Dungeon and start killing things.

It's basically a dungeon crawler, the dungeon has many levels (angband, one variant I've played, has 100) and each level is randomly generated ...think a really huge Diablo

[Vesayen]

How do you reload.....?

As far as I can tell, you only save on exit, and can never load except when you start the program up.

I've been playing the visual version... I can't handle ascii ><

[snoopy369]

http://www.thangorodrim.net/ btw is Angband, my favorite roguelike ...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Vesayen
How do you reload.....?

As far as I can tell, you only save on exit, and can never load except when you start the program up.

Technically you can't. Rogeulikes have no persistent save - ie, if you die in the game, your character is dead, start over again.

That said, it's possible to duplicate the save that it makes when you exit the game (ie, copy/paste) and 'reload' from that. That's sort of considered cheating, by hardcore players, but most people do it, i'd guess.

[Vesayen]

Not a bad idea.... >< thanks

[snoopy369]

This is one picture of the game (with some semigraphical tiles).


This is one on my machine with the full ASCII tileset

[Sparrowhawk]

Ahhhh, memories, I played Moria and others like it as a teenager (trying to remember other names, Zorg?)

Looks worth checking out if only for the memories (and my dinosaur computer might even be able to handle it).

/me

[snoopy369]

My X86 could handle it, i'm sure yours can

[Nostromo]

You sense the presence of monsters!!!