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NewAngband
How does it differ? NewAngband is based on PernAngband, and primarily boasts an extended new class system, along with several new classes.
New to 1.0.0; New class system. Added 11 amulets. Can no longer see life rating at birth. You can no longer go into the wilderness. The starting town is now a lot bigger. Added a new shop: the rare items shop. Added a couple of new classes: Magi Warriors, Ninja, Lich, Justice Warrior, Leader, Master Wizard, Berserker and Dark Lord. The final monster is no longer Morgoth, but the NewAngband creator himself, Variaz. Added some new dragons. Added new joke monsters. Added some normal monsters. Added some weapons and armors. Added a Wand Of Dungeon Generation. Added the three legendary items. Removed ALL town monsters except Farmer Maggot and some other uniques. Added the secret classes. Ego items are now generated randomly. Changing class affects your experience. You lose 25% of your experience.
New to 1.0.1; You must now go in a training center and pay 50000 gold in order to change class. Debugged secret classes, but there are still bugs. Variaz is now a bit stronger. Changed the Warg problem quest by another one called The Executioner. Added two new races: Skatts and Benemals Some classes were added while some are gone. Special items no longer have the (Special) after their names. You can no longer get The Mage Staff Of Balance at the start. Armor can now be destroyed. Zelars are now stronger. Leaders can now hypnotize ANY pets and carry them. Monster breeding. Weapon durability. Special items are now rarer. New rod system.
New to 1.0.1b; Some weapons are now indestructible. Justice Warriors are now much better. Special items will always be indestructible. No more level requirement for Justice Warriors and BeastMasters. Zelars can no longer use rods.
New to 1.1.0; Who knows?
New to 1.2.0; Some items are now eternal. Added the rare and extremly expensive scroll of object eternality. You can no longer sell stolen items. Added two new bows - the Elven Bow and the Skatt Bow. Added many new pieces of armor of all kinds. The Skatter's Exploding Arrow ability is now much better, but has a minimal cost of 10 mana to use. You can now make gold piles and carry them like normal items. Higher level monsters now gives you more experience. Monster magics now have a mana cost. The female secret class now have new abilities. Assassins have been completly changed. New thing - Magic Fields! New weapon type - Zelar Weapons. You can no longer steal from the alchemy shop. The 'Quadra' ability's mana cost have dropped from 50 to 5. Removed the intelligence requirement for assassins. Added the Exploding Throw ability for Fire Lords. The male secret class has been improved a bit. Now, when you change class, you no longer lose any experience, but you lose all ability points.
Current Maintainer Variaz
Amiga Maintainer Bablos
Current Version 1.2.0 (23.03.02)
Amiga Version 1.0.1b (13.04.01)
Based On PernAngband 4.1.5
Web Page http://www.geocities.com/pericles_2ca
Source Code http://www.geocities.com/pericles_2ca/src.zip (23.03.02)
Amiga Version From
1.0.1b ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/NewAngband/newangband-101b-ami.lha (13.04.01)
Sound Files ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Amiga/angband-sound-ami.lha (13.11.99)
Other platforms
DOS (1.2.0) http://www.geocities.com/pericles_2ca/NewAng-120.zip (23.03.02)

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Last updated on 28th April 2002