Moria_at accelerates the game pace compared to umoria. If you win at moria_at, you are prepared to grind out a win in umoria.
Shop zero (0) is a pawn shop, players may sell all types of objects here.
Shop prices are auto-adjusted by a haggle rate. You cannot get "locked out" of stores as you did in umoria.
Shop prices are adjusted by racial and charisma factors. Same a umoria.
Shopkeepers have a personality linked to their name, this determines maximum value of items they carry (some games roll better shopkeepers, which enable buying gauntlets of slaying and such). Same as umoria.
Scroll of recall provides two-way travel to and from the deepest dungeon level achieved.
Read a scroll of recall in town to return to the dungeon.
Read a scroll of recall in the dungeon to return to town.
You may always take the stairs down from town.
Moria_at edits:
Returning to town restores player attributes to maximum.
Returning to town identifies all carried and worn objects.
Door spikes (renamed from "iron spikes" in umoria) are the only way to close/lock a door behind you.
A fueled light sources provides to-hit bonuses above and beyond the original character design of UMoria. You get benefits from maintaining light instead of being killed by neglect of it.
str bonus added per turn of digging tool (up to 5/4)
str bonus added per turn of non-digging tool (up to 5/16)
heavy weapon penalty removed (it's hard enough to carry tools when weak)
digging tools provide base 25; non-digging tools provide max dice roll
base/dice requirement: 80 granite, 16 magma, 10 quartz, 0 rubble
Moria_at: Digging tools are more likely to complete digging in less turns, compared to non-digging tools. A character with high strength can succeed through persistence.
Umoria: Immediate str bonus of 1 or digging tools (1/2) for non-digging tools. Makes character strength dominate tunneling chances.
Distance from the source now reduces the damage linearly. Breath damage is based on the health of the monster as in UMoria. Fighting a dragon face-to-face is a risky business that you explicitly chose to take on.
Fire/Frost/Lightning/Acid resistance items provide 1/2 damage.
Fire/Frost Absorption stacks an additional 1/2 damage reduction.
Acid attacks are reduced damage (1/2) when armor is affected. The armor slot is randomly chosen and must provide > 0 AC to the wearer.
Poison attacks are 1/2 damage over time, 1/2 immediate.
Lightning has no secondary stacking resistance. Lightning may destroy rings and wands in the player inventory.
Attacking a sleeping monster grants +hit/+crit for melee or projectile attacks. This bonus does not apply when blind or the monster is invisible. The critical strike bonus is lower if the monster is not lit (boon to infra-vision).
Projectile stack size is based on player strength. Items granting +tohit +todam affect projectile damage. This damage is multiplied by the critical strike multiplier only for ranged attacks. Heavy projectile launchers grant a larger critical strike multiplier.
Sling projectile "iron slag" replaces "iron shot" in umoria.
Fire absorption protects the player's inventory from destruction: projectiles & launchers, hafted weapons, pole-arms, boots, gloves, cloaks, soft armor (non-RF), staffs, and scrolls.
Frost absorption protects the player's inventory from destruction: potions & flasks.
The player is limited to (+2) the equivalent of "very fast" monsters.
+1 by equipment of speed (ring or boots)
+1 by potion, spell, or staff
Negative speed affects are limited to (-2) the equivalent of "very slow" monsters.
-1 by equipment of slowness
-1 by over eating, potion, dart trap, staff, monster spell
Positive and negative affects may be in affect at the same time. So a fast player (+1) affected by a slow dart trap (-1) moves at normal speed (0)...
Author's Note: These speed rules are changed from Umoria which allows speed stacking without limit.
You should be able to go toe-to-toe with a Balrog at Very Fast. The game becomes less fun when your speed is greater than the Balrog's.
The player may lose all experience previous gained by way of life drain. Level is an important source of magic resistance and chance to hit. You'll have a very hard time if you stay below your previous maximum experience.
Reactive measures restore your experience to the previous maximum. Potions of Restore Life Levels are available from the priest shop (5) in town.
Proactive measures may protect you from monster attacks which drain life (experience). A Scroll Of Protection from Drain Life protects you for a duration of random(1, 25) turns + 1 per character level. A weapon tagged with Slay Undead (SU) provides protection while wielded.
Author's Note: Umoria does not provide proactive measures for life drain.
Player attributes range from [3, 118].
As a reactive measure, you may return to town to regain all attributes.
As a proactive measure, rings of Sustain
Author's Note: Umoria requires potions of restore
Umoria did not grant attribute bonuses for Sustain
Character XP to level penalties are reduced by half. This greatly improves the viability of race/class combinations that yielded very high penalties (Elf Ranger for example).
Feather falling provides immunity to trap doors, allowing player control over the rate of dungeon descent.
Author's Note: Umoria provides no means of halting or slowing dungeon descent.
Might: +Con +Dex +Str & Immunity to paralysis
Lordliness: +Wis +Chr; Bonus to magic devices
Magi: +Int Resistance Lightning/Cold/Acid/Fire
Courage: +Con +Chr; Immunity to fear
Seeing: See Invis & Search Bonus; Immunity to blindness
Regeneration: Fast health recovery; +40 Max HP
Author's Note: Crows of Lordliness, Courage, Regeneration, and Seeing provide gameplay affects not available in UMoria. New affects are listed after the semi-clon.
Reckless: failure destroys the wand/staff
Rigorous: failure increases the difficulty of using the wand/staff
Requires landing a melee attack to activate.
Silences the creature (preventing the casting of spells)
Reforge an item into a rare variant of itself.
Empty bottles and broken objects were removed from the game. Drop chances are shuffled a bit, generally in the player's favor.
Cat-o'-Nine-Tails is now the lightest weapon in the game. As a child, I imagined a whip being useful in some way. Now it may be the weak character's best chance of a multi-hit weapon.
Throw for generic inventory objects is gone to simplify the UI and reduce ambiguity for new players.
Bash with shield does not have an interface, nor a critical gameplay role.
No set of armor provides immunity to all negative affects. It's expected that you grimace each time you encounter an Emperor Lich.
The Balrog occurs on level 50+ (2500ft) with a 50% chance. Text appears on levels populated with a Balrog: "You hear a low rumble echo through the caverns." Evil Iggy appears on level 50+ when the Balrog does not, presumably he already killed the Balrog.