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  • ripperzipper
    Rookie
    • Nov 2012
    • 3

    Looking to find a certain variant with a wilderness.

    Does anyone know a good variant with wilderness in it? I have played z+angband extensively but I want... something else, what are my options?
  • ekolis
    Knight
    • Apr 2007
    • 921

    #2
    Hengband and its spinoffs Chengband and Entroband have wilderness similar to Zangband. There's also FAAngband, which has a more "structured" wilderness, though that may have changed recently...
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    • buzzkill
      Prophet
      • May 2008
      • 2939

      #3
      NPP has various terrains, but they appear in the dungeon rather than outside it.
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      • RogerN
        Swordsman
        • Jul 2008
        • 308

        #4
        Is there something in particular that you're looking for? Just interesting wilderness terrain? Towns/shops in the wilderness? Do you just like exploring?

        Also, are you looking for a static wilderness (i.e. doesn't change from game to game) or a random one?

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        • debo
          Veteran
          • Oct 2011
          • 2402

          #5
          Arrowbridge?
          Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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          • ripperzipper
            Rookie
            • Nov 2012
            • 3

            #6
            I am looking to explore a large wilderness and find towns and dungeons etc as well as having access to the dungeons from towns, essentially I want a pretty similar scenario as Z+angband but I want to try out the other variants on the market and see if I can find something more to my liking as I am a picky bugger ^^

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            • Malak Darkhunter
              Knight
              • May 2007
              • 730

              #7
              Originally posted by ripperzipper
              I am looking to explore a large wilderness and find towns and dungeons etc as well as having access to the dungeons from towns, essentially I want a pretty similar scenario as Z+angband but I want to try out the other variants on the market and see if I can find something more to my liking as I am a picky bugger ^^
              I think FAangband is a great choice, you might want to try Unangband as well. there are some older variants as well that have wilderness with different story settings, a great place to look is here.

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              • Nick
                Vanilla maintainer
                • Apr 2007
                • 9634

                #8
                As FAangband maintainer I should of course recommend that, but there may be others that would suit you better. In particular Hengband/Chengband/Entroband, Xangband and maybe Portralis seem like possibilities; if you want to go back to older variants, then maybe Kangband.
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                • debo
                  Veteran
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 2402

                  #9
                  I've tried almost all the variants recommended here, and I found FAangband to be the only one I really liked. (It's REALLY good )

                  My issue with Heng/Cheng is that it is really complicated, lots of details, and it seemed like too much of a divergence from V for me to get used to. FAangband is a nice midpoint of complexity between those and V, I think. I might be able to give Heng/Cheng a run once I've played FA for a while!

                  Although I think Z+ is sort of similar to those variants (quests? etc) so maybe that's not an issue.

                  Wilderness is probably the feature of FA that I enjoy the most. Very well done by Nick!
                  Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                  • PowerWyrm
                    Prophet
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 2986

                    #10
                    You can also try ToME.
                    PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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                    • ripperzipper
                      Rookie
                      • Nov 2012
                      • 3

                      #11
                      ToME as in tales of maj'eyal? I have played the hell out of that and I LOVE the uniqueness of it however I got burnt out I think the thing I am looking for most is a non instanced(?) wilderness, like how in cheng the wilderness seems to be sectioned into screens (might not be, I havent played much of it) whereas z+angband has a giant wilderness you can just run around in with dungeons guarded by masses of enemies strewn across it and a wider array of classes, and I know I am probably asking for too much here lol.

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                      • getter77
                        Adept
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 242

                        #12
                        Methinks he meant the classical ToME, Tales of Middle Earth

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