Comments on: Conjuror or Barbarian?

Conjuror or Barbarian?

chuckdarwin — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:47:03 -0800

Monster's Den: Book of Dread might be the best free dungeon crawl RPG on the web. If it ain't, it's damned close.

Garin's site (just so this isn't a single link post).

By: LogicalDash

LogicalDash — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:56:16 -0800

[obligatory NetHack pimpage]

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:58:28 -0800

I don't play games unless they give me Xbox Live Achievement points. It just feels like a waste of time otherwise. /sarcasm

By: Phssthpok

Phssthpok — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:14:43 -0800

This looks like a really polished clone of FastCrawl. Anybody know if there's a connection?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:28:48 -0800

Requires too much thought, and "xyzzy" does not work.

By: sophist

sophist — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:08:58 -0800

Sweet.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:16:38 -0800

This looks like a really polished clone of FastCrawl. Anybody know if there's a connection? Someone on the FastCrawl forum seems to think so.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:59:35 -0800

jbickers, this new one (Book of Dread) is an update to that earlier version, as well, so it's been improved again. I haven't had much time to play it, but it's been pretty difficult to beat so far.

By: joelhunt

joelhunt — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:33:44 -0800

I played for about 10 minutes before leaving for work. It was fun, and pretty easy to figure out. The menus and commands seemed a little more intuitive than I'm used to. It's well-designed for the casual player, IMHO.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:45:06 -0800

Ooh, I played the holy hell out of this in its original incarnation on Kongregate and I didn't realize there'd been an update. I've just started and the interface already looks way better and I love that there's now a shop. The programmer really listened to the suggestions he was getting from users -- I'm impressed. Thanks!

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:48:35 -0800

I used to play the original as well; this looks like a huge improvement! Thanks for the find.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:04:20 -0800

this looks like a dangerous time sink

By: JT

JT — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:20:09 -0800

The game wouldn't work for me from kongregate.com; clicking on the 'continue' button did nothing, preventing me from continuing. Anyone else experience this? Worked fine from the second link though, and no annoying chat window. Lots of fun! Two thumbs up!

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:03:38 -0800

This is a dangerous timesink, indeed...

By: Izner Myletze

Izner Myletze — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:20:17 -0800

Monster's Den is an amusing little game, but calling it even close to the best dungeon crawl on the web is, uh, a bit much. If you're looking for more substance I'd recommend any of the following: Nethack (as pointed out by LogicalDash) ToME Dwarf Fortress Angband ADOM Linley's Dungeon Crawl Larn or the grandparent of them all, Rogue

By: voltairemodern

voltairemodern — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:39:25 -0800

Monster's Den is an amusing little game, but calling it even close to the best dungeon crawl on the web is, uh, a bit much. If you're looking for more substance I'd recommend any of the following... You recognize, I hope, that every single one of the links you just posted are to games requiring download + installation?

By: Grimp0teuthis

Grimp0teuthis — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:40:17 -0800

Ah, this is great. I really liked the original monster's den, thanks! Here's the original: Monster's Den Kongregate has a couple more decent RPGs: Sonny Tactics 100 (think Final Fantasy Tactics)

By: Izner Myletze

Izner Myletze — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:50:10 -0800

You recognize, I hope, that every single one of the links you just posted are to games requiring download + installation? Of course. All are freely available on the web. Or does "on the web" refer solely to Flash games playable in a browser?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:51:44 -0800

Haven't had a proper go at it, did they improve the rogue/thief any? Are the conjuror/barbarian any good?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:03:36 -0800

Of course. All are freely available on the web. Or does "on the web" refer solely to Flash games playable in a browser? I think it's pretty obvious the original poster meant playable on the web rather than available on the web. Incidentally, this java one isn't half bad, but as far as I can tell, no saving.

By: voltairemodern

voltairemodern — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:55:17 -0800

Haven't had a proper go at it, did they improve the rogue/thief any? The thief is pretty excellent in terms of damage, so far. The ability to bypass armor lets you one-shot a lot of monsters.

By: Izner Myletze

Izner Myletze — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:47:47 -0800

Nethack playable on the web Stone Soup (fun Linley's Dungeon Crawl variant) playable on the web Rogue playable on the web

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:51 -0800

I still enjoy Legend of the Green Dragon, though its not a crawl and is turn based and text based. Oh, yes, and yay Nethack!

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:03:43 -0800

Yeah, I kinda meant the sort of thing you could play ~~on your lunch break~~ at work :-)

By: regicide is good for you

regicide is good for you — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:54:03 -0800

this looks like a dangerous time sink You are on teh Internets. It is a loud and stupid place. Obvious directions are Metafilter. > Metafilter You are reading Metafilter. There is a dangerous timesink here. > Avoid timesink You cannot avoid the dangerous timesink.

By: garlic

garlic — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:04:01 -0800

Is there a way to heal between combats besides potions? I keep getting killed because I enter combat mostly dead from the last one.

By: Izner Myletze

Izner Myletze — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:33:17 -0800

Altars will heal you fully. Also going down to a new level.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:43:44 -0800

Also, having gone down a level, the stairs back up to the previous level can be used as a one time heal like altars. Or at least they can on easy mode. Yes, I'm a wuss.

By: Kwine

Kwine — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:54:30 -0800

The new update is awesome. Sometimes, all the items in the store disappear and you can't buy anything. Since you can only go to the store once a level or so depending on when you find the scroll, and since the life/death margin is razor thin at high difficulty levels, this renders the game unplayable. Comments on kongregate suggest that this is a common problem.

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:22:54 -0800

Timesink... major timesink.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:15:54 -0800

Man, I was just comin' here to find out if anyone had figured out what caused the store glitch.