New (unofficial) Slash'EM release! Incorporates several bugfixes, developed over the course of a year since the last official release in 2006. github.com/mistydemeo/slashem/

@dog what's the diff between this and regular nethack?

@vahnj It's based on 3.4.3, so some of the stuff in this later made it into vanilla Nethack. There's a whole lot, but some of the bigger stuff is:

* New starting races, Doppelganger and Vampire
* Race and class-specific special abilities - some of these are really cool
* Adjusted starting inventory and abilities for many classes, including much stronger monks
* The Mall, a Minetown-like shopping area that occurs early on in the main dungeon

@dog cool! maybe i should give it a shot, i haven't got into a roguelike in forever

@vahnj

* The Black Market, a town containing merchants selling overpriced goods and a powerful guard
* A bunch of new artifacts, including my fave, an artifact bag of holding
* A bunch of new sokoban levels
* Many new monsters and items

@vahnj Oh, and a bunch of UI enhancements - some of these made everything so much more convenient for me that I found it hard to go back to 3.4.3, haha. I think Nethack 3.6 incorporated some of the quality-of-life UI improvements.

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