Easyband 2.3 by Andres Zanzani: a gentler, more generous Angband 2.9.3 variant with extra monsters, items and conveniences.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser
• Credits

About the game

Easyband is Angband made friendlier. Andres Zanzani built it on Gwidon S. Naskrent's GSN2Band on top of Angband 2.9.3, and it keeps the classic game: descend 100 levels of the Pits of Angband, grow from a town nobody into a hero, and kill Morgoth, Lord of Darkness.

• More generous: better starting gold for some characters, a faster autoroller, better items and chests, cheaper shops (5% tax), and levels re-rolled until they are worth exploring.
• Handy commands: J cures everything, K fully identifies an item, Ctrl+T shows the time; the Magic shop identifies (E) and recharges (R) for gold.
• New content: about 130 new monsters, the PowPlayer and Snip races, new ego weapons (Crystalie, Holy Fury), scrolls of Brand and Bless Weapon, elven bows, halfling slings, dwarven crossbows and new artifacts. Thieves can steal from monsters (+).

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character. File ▾ → New game deletes it and starts over. When your character dies, the page starts a new one.
• Export save downloads your savefile; Import save loads one. Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels, window titles and the Tiles/Sound/Music buttons are stored in the same browser storage and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• Wield a torch first: Easyband's starting kit keeps the torches in your pack, and without light you see little and auto-explore refuses to run.
• Buy Flasks of oil in the General Store: thrown (v) they are the best early ranged attack. Also buy Cure Light Wounds potions and a Scroll of Word of Recall.
• H explores until something interesting happens; press it again after each stop. > walks you to the nearest known down staircase.
• Look (l) at unknown monsters and read their recall before fighting. Run from anything that is fast, breathes or comes in groups.
• J (cure all) and K (full identify) are Easyband's gifts: use them.
• Don't dive too fast: character level about equal to dungeon level is a safe pace early on.

New player's guide

Making a character

Pick a sex, race and class; the autoroller finds good stats. Human or Dunadan Warriors are the easiest start; High-Elves see invisible; PowPlayer is Easyband's own over-powered race for a relaxed game. Mages and Priests are fragile early but strong later.

The town

The numbers on the map are shops: 1 General Store, 2 Armoury, 3 Weaponsmith, 4 Temple, 5 Alchemist, 6 Magic shop, 7 Black market, 8 Home (store items for free). Walk onto a number to enter. Buy light, food, flasks of oil and healing potions before going down.

The dungeon

Go down the > staircase. Each level is new every time you arrive. Explore with H, fight by walking into monsters, pick up what you find and identify it by use, by K or in a shop. Rest (R, then &) to regain hit points before moving on.

Staying alive

Keep an escape: Phase Door and Word of Recall scrolls, Cure potions. When hit points drop to half, leave the fight. Death is permanent: the save is gone and you start again.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (the monsters in view) are on the right, Messages along the bottom. Recall, Equipment and Character can be turned on under Windows.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map. Hover over a small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. Easyband has no mouse support.
• Map font (text mode, on the Map title bar): Easyband original are the game's own bitmap fonts, drawn pixel-exact at whole multiples of their size (A− / A+).
• Tiles switches between Shockbolt tiles and text (at the next command). Sound and Music are off by default; Music plays a town tune while you are in town.
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game: Easyband's time command Ctrl+T is in the Enter menu.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

Credits

• Easyband 2.3: Andres Zanzani (andres_zanzani@yahoo.it, http://www.majerle.org), on GSN2Band10 by Gwidon S. Naskrent.
• Angband 2.9.3: Robert Ruehlmann; Angband 2.7.0–2.8.5 Ben Harrison; Angband 2.0–2.6.2 Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand, Sean Marsh, Geoff Hill, Charles Teague, Charles Swiger. Based on Moria (© 1985 Robert Alan Koeneke) and Umoria (© 1989 James E. Wilson). Licence: the Angband/Moria notice in the source files (free, not-for-profit copying).
• Tiles: Shockbolt tileset © 2012 Raymond Gaustadnes (from Angband 4.2).
• Sound: Easyband's own samples; the gaps from the Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack v3.1.0.
• Web port, auto-explore, command menu and item menus: memmaker (RVIP).

About this version

• Based on Easyband 2.3 (Angband 2.9.3 / GSN2Band10).
• Original source: the Easyband 2.3 source archive (easyband23_src.rar), commit 2c3e95b in the repository.
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/easyband