FrogComposband 7.1.salmiak.6: the PosChengband line of Hengband and Zangband, with dozens of races and classes, possessors, monster races and a fast coffee-break mode.

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

About the game

FrogComposband is one of the biggest Angband variants: the PosChengband branch of Hengband and Zangband, kept alive and polished by Antero Sulka. It has Zangband's wilderness with several towns and many dungeons, Hengband's enormous monster list, and a huge choice of characters.

• Dozens of races and classes, plus monster races: play a young dragon that grows up, a hound, a golem, or a possessor that takes over the bodies of the monsters it kills.
• Personalities (from Lucky to Munchkin) change your stats and luck.
• Game speeds at birth: Beginner and coffee-break games are short and fast, Normal is the full, long game.
• Comfort features: travel (`), monster and object lists (Y, O), and the Mogaminator (_) for auto-pickup and auto-destroy rules.

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. New character deletes it and starts over.
• 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

• For a first game pick Beginner at the start and take the quick start (Enter twice): it chooses a sturdy character for you.
• In town buy Cure Light Wounds potions, Phase Door scrolls, food and a light source; > walks you to the dungeon entrance.
• X explores a level for you and stops for monsters and new messages; H travels to the nearest interesting item and ` to any spot you pick.
• Y / O list the monsters and objects you know of on the level; look (l) at anything new and read its recall before fighting.
• Set up auto-pickup and auto-destroy rules with _ (the Mogaminator) so junk stays on the floor.
• Word of Recall is your way home and back to your deepest level; carry one at all times.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. At the start choose Beginner, then press Enter twice for the quick start. Later try a Human or Dwarf Warrior, or a High-Elf Mage, on Normal.
2. You start in a town. Buy food, a torch or lantern, Cure Light Wounds potions and Phase Door scrolls. Walk onto a shop entrance to go in.
3. Press >: you walk to the town's dungeon entrance and go down.
4. Press X to explore. Fight what you meet, pick up what you find, and head back to town to sell loot and restock.

Finding your way

• On the surface < opens the world map: walk on it to travel fast and press > to go back down to the normal map where you stand.
• M shows the whole level, L scrolls it section by section, ` travels to a spot you pick.
• Word of Recall takes you from the dungeon to town and back to your deepest level.
• Forgot a key? Enter lists every command; ? has the full help.

Staying alive

• Always carry Phase Door and Cure Light Wounds; later Teleportation and Word of Recall.
• Look (l) at unknown monsters and read their recall before fighting.
• Rest (R) to full before every fight you can choose, and fight in corridors.
• Leave a level that feels wrong (^F repeats the level feeling): new levels are generated every time.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (monsters in view) are on the right, Messages along the bottom. Recall, Equipment, Objects 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 tiles. 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. FrogComposband has no mouse support here.
• Tiles switches between Shockbolt tiles and text. Sound and Music are off by default; Music plays a town tune while you are on the surface (towns and wilderness).
• 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.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

Credits

• FrogComposband 7.1.salmiak.6 (2023): Antero Sulka (sulkasormi) and contributors; based on Composband (Gwilim Owen) and PosChengband (Chris Kousky), which grew from Chengband (Chris Kousky, Dave Zhang, Andrew Levy) with ideas from Posband (Alexander Ulyanov, Graham Philips); Hengband (Mr.Hoge and many others) and its Japanese Zangband (Sitoshin, sayu, FIRST, TeO, Mitsuhiro Itakura); Zangband (Topi Ylinen, Robert Rühlmann, the Zangband DevTeam); Angband 2.7–2.9 (Ben Harrison), Moria (Robert Alan Koeneke, 1985) and Umoria (James E. Wilson, 1989).
• Licence: the sources carry the Angband/Moria notice (free to copy and distribute for educational, research and not-for-profit purposes with the copyright notice); some newer files are dual-licensed GPL 2 or Angband licence.
• Tiles: Shockbolt Angband 64x64 tileset, © Raymond "Shockbolt" Gaustadnes 2012, used under its licence for Angband and its variants (no fee, not modified).
• Sounds: Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack. Town music: new_town.ogg.
• Web port, auto-explore, command and item menus, Character window: memmaker (github.com/memmaker/frogcomposband).

About this version

• Based on FrogComposband 7.1.salmiak.6.
• Original source: sulkasormi/frogcomposband (master), commit 3d28f6b1
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command and item menus, Character window, web build): memmaker/frogcomposband