NetHack is probably the most played and famous roguelike currently played, featuring an extremely complex item system: "the dev team thinks of everything." Version 3.4.3 dates back to 2003 and runs on pretty much any OS.
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How can I survive Gehennom?
What are some good methods for surviving in Gehennom?
I am still quite noobish to the world of Nethack, but have been able to make it to this level once or twice while playing. Once I got in though, ...
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How do you safely pray to your god?
Can somebody please give me a good overview of the prayer system in NetHack? From what I understand, you can pray once and your god is more than happy to help you out, but if you pray again, you get ...
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Avoiding hunger in Nethack
A bit of a followup from How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?, what is the best manner of avoiding death by hunger?
Previously, I had eaten corpses and whatnot whenever I could find them, and ...
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How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?
I am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse?
I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested ...
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What's a good role and race for a Nethack beginner?
I've just started to play Nethack (games you can play in a shell are useful). What is the easiest role and race to start with?
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My character keeps jumping around in NetHack. Why?
I've spent quite a while on my NetHack game (for me), and I've managed to get up a few levels. However, my character has (annoyingly) started to randomly jump around to different parts of the level - ...
