A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom

Computer Systems Research Group
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720

ABSTRACT

is a visual CRT based fantasy game which runs under the UNIX timesharing system. This paper describes how to play rogue, and gives a few hints for those who might otherwise get lost in the Dungeons of Doom.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What is going on here?
• What do all those things on the screen mean?
  • The bottom line
  • The top line
  • The rest of the screen
• Commands
• Rooms
• Fighting
• Objects you can find
  • Weapons
  • Armor
  • Scrolls
  • Potions
  • Staves and Wands
  • Rings
  • Food
• Options
  • Setting the options
    • Using the "o" command
    • Using the ROGUEOPTS variable
  • Option list
• Scoring
• Acknowledgements