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There are also new item sets, and some reworked artifacts. There are some new uniques, artifacts and ego-items (and some just renamed). No more Rings of Power, Grishnakh, Anduril, Saruman, Witch-King, etc.

Anything from later than the First Age has been removed.

When you recall back to town, you get the choice of which of your recall points you wish to update. Read in your home town, you are given a list of up to four points to recall to. Read away from your home town, it still takes you back there. It is possible to ignore the other dungeons and head straight for Angband, but there's a heavy price to pay. The first specialist ability (and second as well for warriors) is still learned at the beginning, but the two others each become available on killing a dungeon guardian. At the bottom of each is a guardian, who can only appear there or in special circumstances (which you may be able to guess.) be summoned.

There are multiple dungeons (five, to be precise).

You can move your house to a different town, but only once you have walked there.

High elves are no longer the easy option, at least at first. In order to reduce extreme effects of this (instant death, or instant growth of 15 levels), some races have improved starting equipment, and several races start with some experience already (advancing them in character level up to a maximum of level 5). This means that the starting towns for some races are in the middle of quite dangerous wilderness. There are multiple towns, small and large, spread throughout the wilderness.It also has day and night, which affects light-hating monsters and the player's need for light. There are five basic types of wilderness open plains, dense forests, rocky mountains, harsh deserts and pathless swamps.

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On the other hand, it looks different (no rooms) there are sometimes choices as to how to advance (north or west, maybe, rather than just down) and tactics become quite different. On the similar side, it is randomly generated in rectangular pieces the 'level' still only goes up or down by one in going from one piece to the next there is a structured way of advancing through the wilderness. Different races also have significantly different starting conditions. Dwarves as a whole tend to have better Intelligence than Wisdom the reverse is true for (most) Elves and Hobbits. Half-Orcs, Half-Trolls, Half-elves and Shadow Fairies have gone there are new varieties of Elves, Dwarves and Men. Races have been significantly changed.While it is certainly not perfectly consistent (all the bad guys are still alive all the good guys are dead, or at least have lost their best equipment), an attempt has been made to remove as many anachronisms as possible. FAangband's principal focus as a variant is to immerse the player in the world of Tolkien's Silmarillion late in the First Age.