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I played Angband a lot back in the '90s and '00s (won once with a dwarf paladin). Wow, a lot has changed! So far there's a lot I like, some things that just seem weird (blackguards and necromancers - everyone else is trying to kill the Big Bad, these guys are ... "aggressively negotiating" for a promotion, I guess?), and plenty that's just different. I'm hoping I can ask questions here to avoid fatal discoveries in game. 
Are there still instadeath consumables, or is it safe to "try it and find out" with potions and scrolls? I've already lost out on !augmentation and ?acquirement since I donated them to the shops and didn't have the money to buy them back (the new-to-me system of not selling loot for money took some getting used to but I kind of like it now). On the other hand I'm pretty sure there used to be a Potion of Death, or maybe it was a mushroom, back in the day.
What changes from how things worked ~20 years ago could kill my character now? Sorry, open ended question and depends on people knowing how the game has changed, so maybe this isn't answerable. I saw something in another thread about the Nazgul having something called black breath now? That didn't used to be a thing, is obviously canonical, and sounds dangerous. Is there some resistance to prioritize before I start seeing those guys? I remember endgame involving careful juggling of resistances, since any unresisted damage type was a potential instadeath.
Is it my imagination, or are artifacts rarer now? I'm around 1400', character level 28 or 29, and I just have the Phial, Hithlomir, and Narthanc. Perhaps my memory is misleading me, but I thought characters at this level already had quite a few more artifacts than that in the old days. Most of my equipment seems pretty underwhelming, though I'm doing just fine (high elf mage, sadly I'll never cast from Raal's Tome of Destruction though I'm sure one of the reworked spellbooks has the same functionality) with spells for offense and with Hithlomir covering the basic resistances.
Thanks. I'll post more questions as they occur to me.
Are there still instadeath consumables, or is it safe to "try it and find out" with potions and scrolls? I've already lost out on !augmentation and ?acquirement since I donated them to the shops and didn't have the money to buy them back (the new-to-me system of not selling loot for money took some getting used to but I kind of like it now). On the other hand I'm pretty sure there used to be a Potion of Death, or maybe it was a mushroom, back in the day.
What changes from how things worked ~20 years ago could kill my character now? Sorry, open ended question and depends on people knowing how the game has changed, so maybe this isn't answerable. I saw something in another thread about the Nazgul having something called black breath now? That didn't used to be a thing, is obviously canonical, and sounds dangerous. Is there some resistance to prioritize before I start seeing those guys? I remember endgame involving careful juggling of resistances, since any unresisted damage type was a potential instadeath.
Is it my imagination, or are artifacts rarer now? I'm around 1400', character level 28 or 29, and I just have the Phial, Hithlomir, and Narthanc. Perhaps my memory is misleading me, but I thought characters at this level already had quite a few more artifacts than that in the old days. Most of my equipment seems pretty underwhelming, though I'm doing just fine (high elf mage, sadly I'll never cast from Raal's Tome of Destruction though I'm sure one of the reworked spellbooks has the same functionality) with spells for offense and with Hithlomir covering the basic resistances.
Thanks. I'll post more questions as they occur to me.
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