NPPAngband 0.5.1 (2011) by Jeff Greene and Diego González: an Angband 3.1 variant with new terrain (lava, water, trees, ice), monster traps, quests from the Adventurer's Guild, themed levels, and a wider range of classes.

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

About the game

NPPAngband ("No Pet Peeves Angband") started as a small set of changes to Angband 3.0 and grew into a variant of its own. Version 0.5.1 is built on Angband 3.1.2 and keeps the familiar game: descend through 100 levels of dungeon below the town, find better gear, and defeat Sauron and Morgoth at the bottom.

• Terrain that matters: lava, deep water, ice, mud, sand, forests and burning oil, with some monsters native to them.
• Quests from the Adventurer's Guild in town: kill a unique, clear a pit or nest, recover an item from a vault, survive a themed level.
• Monster traps (O) and stealing from monsters (P, rogues).
• Classes Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Ranger, Paladin, Druid and Brigand; a Book Shop (0); item squelching to hide junk.

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.
• Each browser keeps one character. New character deletes it and starts over. When your character dies, the next game starts after the tombstone.
• 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

• Pick Warrior for a first game: no spells to learn, the most hit points.
• Buy Flasks of oil in the General Store: they are a strong thrown weapon early (v) and fuel for a lantern.
• Carry Cure Light Wounds potions and a Word of Recall scroll; recall takes you between town and your deepest level.
• H explores until something interesting happens; press it again after each stop. > anywhere walks to the nearest known down staircase and takes it.
• Rest (R &) before opening doors and after fights.
• Look at a monster (l, then r) to read what you know about it.

New player's guide

Your first character

After the splash screen choose sex, race and class with the cursor keys and Enter (or the letters), accept the point-based stats with Enter and type a name. You start in town with some gold: visit the General Store (1) for food, torches and flasks of oil, the Alchemist (5) for Cure Light Wounds potions. Walk onto a shop's number to enter it.

The dungeon

Take the down staircase > in town. Each level is new every time you enter it. The deeper you go, the better the items and the stronger the monsters: dive only as fast as your character level allows (a common rule: dungeon level no deeper than your character level early on).

Items and identification

Unknown potions and scrolls are learned by use. Press i, move the cursor with 2/8 and press Enter (or the item's letter) for a menu of what you can do with it. Wearable items tell you more after you have worn them for a while.

Quests

The Adventurer's Guild (9 in town) offers quests. Ctrl+Q shows the current one. Rewards are gold, items or a boost from the guild.

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, Character and Objects can be turned on under Windows.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them; the game redraws them at their new size.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles.
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. There is no mouse support in this port.
• Tiles switches between the Shockbolt tiles and text. Sound and Music are off by default; Music plays a town tune on the surface.
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N), 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

• NPPAngband 0.4.1 and later: Jeff Greene and Diego González (co-maintainers). See the game's AUTHORS and THANKS.
• Angband 3.1.2v2, maintained by Andrew Sidwell; earlier Robert Rühlmann (2.8.6–3.0.6), Ben Harrison (2.7.0–2.8.5), Alex Cutler, Andy Astrand, Sean Marsh, Geoff Hill, Charles Teague, Charles Swiger (2.0–2.6.2); based on VMS Moria by Robert Alan Koeneke and Jimmey Wayne Todd Jr.
• Licence: GNU GPL version 2 or the Angband licence, as stated in COPYING.
• Tiles: Shockbolt 64x64 tile set © Raymond Gaustadnes (from Angband 4.2).
• Sounds: Dubtrain Angband Sound Pack v3.1.0 by Dubtrain (dubtrain.com/angband), Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
• Music: town tune from the Quickband web port.

About this version

• Based on NPPAngband 0.5.1.
• Original source: nppangband/NPPAngband, tag v0.5.1 (commit b1d1d85)
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command and item menus, tiles, web build): memmaker/nppangband