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<h1 align="center"><a href="http://roguelike.sourceforge.net/arogue77">The Dungeons of 
	Doom</a></h1>
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<h2 align="center">AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories</h2>
<h3 align="center"><A href="http://roguelike.sourceforge.net/arogue58">http://roguelike.sourceforge.net/arogue58</A></h3>
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	    Advanced Rogue<br>
	    Copyright (C) 1984, 1985 Michael Morgan, Ken Dalka and AT&amp;T<br>
	    All rights reserved.
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	    Based on "Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom"<br>
	    Copyright (C) 1980, 1981 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman<br>
	    All rights reserved.
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<p align="center">See the file LICENSE.TXT for full copyright and licensing 
    information.</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><b>ABSTRACT</b></p>
<blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p align="justify">Rogue was first introduced by Michael Toy at the 
		University of California at Berkeley as a screen-oriented fantasy game. 
		The game had 26 types of monsters that the player could meet while 
		exploring a dungeon generated by the computer. Scrolls, potions, rings, 
		wands, staves, armor, and weapons helped the player to battle these 
		monsters and to gain gold, the basis for scoring.</p>
		<p align="justify">The version of Rogue described in this guide has been 
		expanded to include over 110 monsters with many new capabilities. Many 
		of the monsters are intelligent, and they, like the player, must avoid 
		traps and decide when it is better to fight or to run. The player 
		chooses a character class at the beginning of the game which defines the 
		player's abilities. Experience, rather than gold, decides the player's 
		score.</p>
	</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<h2 align="justify">&nbsp;</h2>
<h3 align="justify">1. INTRODUCTION</h3>
<p align="justify">
    Rogue is a screen-oriented fantasy game set in the ever-changing Dungeons of 
	Doom. The game comes complete with monsters, spells, weapons, armor, 
	potions, and other magical items. The dungeon's geography changes with every 
	game, and although many magical items have certain identifiable properties, 
	such as turning the player invisible, the physical manifestation of the 
	magic changes each game. A red potion, for example, will cause the same 
	reaction throughout a given game, but it may be a completely different 
	potion in a new game.</p>
<p align="justify">
    Entering the dungeon with only a little food, armor, and a weapon, the 
	player must develop a good strategy of when to fight, when to run, and how 
	to best use any magical items found in the dungeon. To make things 
	interesting, the player has a quest to return one of several unique 
	artifacts, rumored to lie deep in the dungeon's bowels. Returning with this 
	artifact brings great glory and the title of Complete Winner. But even after 
	finding the artifact, the player may wish to continue further to match wits 
	with an arch-devil, demon prince, or even a deity found far down in the 
	dungeon. Defeating such a creature will gain the player many experience 
	points, the basis for scoring in Rogue.</p>
<p align="justify">
    It is very difficult to return from the Dungeons of Doom. Few people ever 
	make it out alive. Should this unlikely event occur, the player would be 
	proclaimed a complete winner and handsomely rewarded for any booty removed 
	from the dungeon.</p>
<h3 align="justify">2. CHARACTER CLASSES AND ATTRIBUTES</h3>
<p align="justify">
    Before placing the player in the dungeon, the game requests the player to 
	select a character class: a fighter, a magic user, a cleric, or a thief.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"><strong>2.1 The Fighter</strong></span></p>
<p align="justify">
    A fighter is very strong and will have a high strength rating. This great 
	strength gives a fighter the best odds of winning a battle with a monster. 
	At high experience levels the fighter also gets to attack multiple times in 
	a single turn. This obviously further increases his chances at winning 
	battles. Intrinsic to the fighter class is a robustness which results in 1 
	to 10 extra hit points for every new experience level.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"><strong>2.2 The Magician</strong></span></p>
<p align="justify">
    A magician's major attribute is intelligence, which enables the magician to 
	cast spells. The number and variety of spells increases as the magician 
	gains experience and intelligence. Other types of characters can cast 
	spells, but only if they manage to gain extraordinarily high intelligence. 
	Magic users are not as hearty as fighters; they receive 1 to 8 extra hit 
	points for every new experience level.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">2.3 The Cleric</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">
    A cleric has a high wisdom rating and can thus pray. The number and variety 
	of prayers which the gods are willing to grant to a cleric increase as the 
	cleric gains experience and wisdom. Other character types can pray only if 
	they manage to gain extraordinary wisdom.</p>
<p align="justify">
    Because of their religious nature, clerics can also affect the &quot;undead&quot; 
	beings, like zombies and ghouls, which became monsters after they died. If 
	an &quot;undead&quot; creature is next to a cleric, the cleric may try to turn it and 
	cause it to flee. If the cleric is sufficiently powerful relative to the 
	monster, the cleric will destroy it. This ability increases as the character 
	gains experience levels.</p>
<p align="justify">
    Clerics can gain from 1 to 8 extra hit points on reaching a new experience 
	level.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">2.4 The Thief</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">
    A thief is exceptionally dextrous and has a good chance to set a trap or rob 
	a monster. Any type of character can try to set a trap or steal from a 
	monster standing next to the character, but the chances of success are low 
	compared to a thief's chances.
</p>
<p align="justify">
    By their nature, thieves can automatically detect all the gold on the 
	current level of the dungeon. They are also good at detecting hidden traps. 
	Because thieves slink along, they are not as likely as other characters to 
	wake sleeping monsters. If a thief manages to sneak up on a creature without 
	waking it, he will get a chance to backstab the monster. When this is done, 
	the damage done by the thief greatly increases based on his experience 
	level.</p>
<p align="justify">
    Thieves gain from 1 to 6 extra hit points from a new experience level.
</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">2.5 
CONSTITUTION</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">Every character has a constitution rating. A character with 
an exceptionally good constitution will gain more than the normal amount of hit 
points associated with the character's class when the character reaches a new 
experience level. Exceptional constitution also provides better protection 
versus poison-based attacks and diseases.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">2.6 Experience Levels</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">
    Characters gain experience for killing monsters, stealing from monsters, and 
	turning monsters. Each character class has a set of thresholds associated 
	with it. When a character reaches a threshold, the character attains the 
	next experience level. This new level brings extra hit points and a greater 
	chance of success in performing the abilities associated with the 
	character's class. Magicians receive new spells, and clerics receive new 
	prayers.</p>
<p align="justify">
    Thieves have the lowest threshold for gaining experience levels, followed by 
	clerics. Fighters are next, and magicians have the highest threshold.</p>
<h3 align="justify">
    3. THE SCREEN</h3>
<p align="justify">
    During the normal course of play, the screen consists of three separate 
	sections: the top line of the terminal, the bottom two lines of the 
	terminal, and the remaining middle lines. The top line reports actions which 
	occur during the game, the middle section depicts the dungeon, and the 
	bottom lines describe the player's current condition.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">3.1 The Top Line</span></strong>
<p align="justify">
    Whenever anything happens to the player, such as finding a scroll or hitting 
	or being hit by a monster, a short report of the occurrence appears on the 
	top line of the screen. When such reports occur quickly, one right after 
	another, the game displays the notice followed by the prompt '--More--.' 
	After reading this notice, the player can press a space to display the next 
	message. At such a point, the game ignores all commands until the player 
	presses a space.</p>
<p align="justify">
    <strong>
	<span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">3.2 The Dungeon Section</span></strong>
<p align="justify">
    The large middle section of the screen displays the player's surroundings using 
    the following symbols:
</p>
<p>
    <table border="0" cellpadding="3" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" id="table3" cellspacing="3">
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">|</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
	    </td>
	    <td>A wall of a room.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">-</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A wall of a room.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">*</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A pile of gold.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">%</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A way to the next level.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">+</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A doorway.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">.</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>The floor in a room.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">@</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>The player.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">_</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>The player, when invisible.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">#</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>The floor in a passageway.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">!</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A flask containing a potion.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">?</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A sealed scroll.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">:</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>Some food.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">)</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A weapon.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">&nbsp;</td>
	    <td nowrap>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td nowrap>Solid rock (denoted by a space).</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">]</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>Some armor.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">;</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A miscellaneous magic item.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">,</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>An artifact.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">=</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A ring.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">/</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A wand or a staff.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">^</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>The entrance to a trading post.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">&gt;</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A trapdoor leading to the next level</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">{</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>An arrow trap</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">$</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A sleeping gas trap</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">}</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>
	    <td>A beartrap</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	    <td align="middle">~</td>
	    <td>&nbsp;</td>