History VideoGame / Angband

* MoneySpider: Generally averted. Only monsters that are likely to carry money (ie. humanoids) will drop it.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "killer fire beetle"

* VisualPun: ''Angband'' has "dragon flies": insects with breath attacks.

* VulnerableCivilians: You can kill everyone in the home village (except shopkeepers - they are just flavour names when you enter the shop and not actually present on the map).

* RandomNumberGod: Everything in the dungeon is randomly created and placed.

* MagicMushroom: There are many different species of mushroom in the game, all with different effects. Some of them are mixed blessings; for example, Mushrooms of Terror make your character terrified and unable to fight, but also give them a staggering burst of speed for running away. You can also encounter enemy Magic Mushroom patches that cast spells that can cast spells and release spores designed to blind, confuse and disorient you, as well as teleporting away making them incredibly annoying opponents.

* MagicMushroom: There are many different species of mushroom in the game, all with different effects. Some of them are mixed blessings; for example, Mushrooms of Terror make your character terrified and unable to fight, but also give them a staggering burst of speed for running away.

* MagicKnight: Both ThePaladin and the {{Ranger}} classes are decent in melee and have some Holy (paladin) and Nature (rsnger) spell ability. They are not as good at fighting as Warriors and lack the full casting abilities of Druids, Priests and Mages.

* DiscOneNuke: Finding a Potion of Experience early in the game - as they are not scaled instead giving a huge flat gain, finding one early can advance you twenty levels making the early game much more trivial. Somewhat downplayed as you will be less powerful than an "organic" character of that level as you won’t have founds level appropriate equipment and items and won’t have found the stat gain potions to match limiting your power until you do.

* BearsAreBadNews: Averted - by the time bears start showing up as enemies, you'll be so strong that they're little more than a nuisance.

* NominalImportance: If a piece of equipment has a proper name, it's something ''really'' special, and may have unique powers.

* BearsAreBadNews: Averted - by the time bears start showing up as enemies they're little more than a nuisance.

* BreathWeapon: many enemies have these.

* CursedItem: Some items are inscribed with magic runes, and each rune has a specific effect which may or may not be harmful - but you can't tell that until you've identified the rune. Sometimes it can be worth keeping a cursed item and enduring the curse, if it's a good or useful item.

* DungeonBypass: Practically a way of life in ''Angband''. As long as you know where the stairs are, there's nothing compelling you to remain on the current dungeon level. (Well, unless an enemy has paralysed you, or has the ability to teleport you to its location. But that's rare.) You can pretty much choose whichever depth you feel comfortable fighting at, and you can also use stairs as an immediate escape from danger if you can reach them.
** The Scroll of Deep Descent does this more explicitly; it teleports you five dungeon levels below the lowest depth you've reached so far. It can be a hazard for new characters, as you're likely to accidentally read one in the process of identifying scrolls you haven't seen, with the result that your inexperienced character ends up way out of his or her depth.

* SchmuckBait: Greater Vaults. If you see a completely walled off room filled with treasure, ''run away''.

* DisabilityImmunity: Warriors have this in some ways. They cannot use magic, and so have no mana, which makes them immune to mana-draining. They also aren't bothered so much by blindness; a blind warrior can still swing a weapon in front of them (which, since they're a warrior, will hit with a lot of damage), whereas a blinded mage cannot read their spell book and is therefore completely cut off from their primary source of defense.

** The Scroll of Deep Descent does this more explicitly; it teleports you five dungeon levels downward. It can be a hazard for new characters, as you're likely to accidentally read one in the process of identifying scrolls you haven't seen, with the result that your inexperienced character ends up way out of his or her depth.

* FantasticLightSource: Light is very important in ''Angband''. All corridors are pitch black, and most rooms are unlit. There are mundane sources of light available (torches and lanterns), but also several magical ones. The most common are enchanted torches, which might be magically brightened, or even everlasting. There are also a few magical artifacts which produce light, all from Tolkien's works: the Phial of Galadriel, the Star of Elendil, and the Arkenstone of Thráin.

* BearsAreBadNews: Averted - by the time bears start showing up as enemies they're little more than a nuisance. Big cats on the other hand are not - sabre tooth tigers in particular are very dangerous - fast with multiple hard hitting attacks.

* '''infinite dungeon''' - a side-effect of the non-persistent levels is that the dungeon is effectively infinite - there's nothing to stop you from visiting the same depth as many times as you like and taking as much as you can carry away from it. The game will always generate a brand-new dungeon level every time you go, with new loot to collect and new enemies to fight. This means that the resources available to the player are effectively limitless and you can, in principle, play forever. The dungeon itself still has a finite depth (100 floors).

* '''large dungeons''' - dungeons in ''Angband'' and other *bands are huge, sprawling affairs, many screens wide and tall.

* CompanionCube: Slime molds, a food item which many players name and keep as pets.

* UnidentifiedItems: ''Angband'' and its variants have items start out unidentified: potions, scrolls, wands, staves, jewelry, armor, and weapons.

* VendorTrash: In an attempt to streamline the game, since version 3.5.0, the ability to sell items has been turned off by default while gold drops being improved to avoid having the player constantly going back to town to sell stuff. It can be enabled in the options however.

* StatSticks: Defender weapons.