Rogue-like

"Roughly a dozen different flavors of Rogue-likes have evolved over the years, but one of the most popular is Nethack."

"Also they added a skill system which I've seen in some rogue-likes, you get a skill point when you go up a level and buy skills and some skills have other pre-requisites. I agree the biggest separation from other rogue-likes that Diablo has is being real-time instead of turn-based and secondly the graphics though I see nothing wrong with having graphics over ASCII, the visual interface as far as how the dungeons represented hasn't been of much concern to me with rogue-likes so much as the randomness and storylines and quests."

"I don't know if they are stepping on anyone's copyright toes, but a local group of enterprising young programmers have implemented a very Rogue-like game in pascal running on our Dec-20s."

"> Does Angband (or any variants) keep track of the sex of monsters? ADOM does (Ancient Domains Of Mystery). It's not an Angband variant by any definition, but it's rogue-like (and it lacks graphics!!!!!) […] If someone makes (or is making) a more open-ended rogue-like game (in the style of Daggerfall, but with gameplay instead of buggy 3D graphix) it could be possible for male characters to marry and have children (or have children and then marry, or not marry at all), but female characters should not be able to become pregnant as this would prevent them from adventuring for the next 9-11 years."