Moraff's Revenge

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Moraff's Revenge is one of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective RPGs.

The objective of the game is to create a character to explore a series of dungeons in order to destroy monsters, gain experience, find treasures, and reach the Fountain of Youth (which is on level 70). It was created by Steve Moraff in 1988.

1 Game Play
2 The Town
3 The Dungeon
4 Winning
5 See also

[edit] Game Play

The first thing to do is create a character, or you can play a pre-created character called The First Character. You can be a human, elf, dwarf, or hobbit. You can be a fighter or a wizard. The statistics are generated randomly and you can generate them as many times as you like until you find one you want. Then you give your character a name. The player's character is represented by an arrow. There are two movement modes. One is the left and right arrow keys will turn the character and the up arrow will move you forward. The other is the arrow keys will move you in each direction. Players explore the dungeon, kill monsters, gain experience points, find money and items, cast spells, and, if they are not careful, get killed. There are up and down ladders as well as trap doors. Movement may also be done by teleportation. Down ladders are represented by a solid green square and up ladders are represented by an empty green square. Only a small section of the town is mapped at first. The player must map the rest of the town and the entire dungeon.

[edit] The Town

The Town is the ground level. The town contains a bank, inns, temples, stores, and a wizard's guild. The bank is where the player exchanges treasure for money and deposits and withdraws money. The inns are places to sleep and staying at an inn will raise a character's level, if they have enough experience points. There are three inns. The Flea Bag Inn costs 10 jewel pieces to stay a night. However, staying here can result in getting robbed or catching a disease. The Yuppydom Inn costs 200 jewel pieces. The Kings Inn cost 6000 jewel pieces and a staff cleric will heal all the character's wounds. The Stores sell weapons and armor, or you can buy The Town for 1000000 jewel pieces. The Temple sells healing, disease and poison cures, and a level gain. The Wizard's Guild will tell the player what different spells do.

[edit] The Dungeon

The Dungeon is below the town. There are many underground levels, each becomes progressively more difficult. The deepest is level 70. The monsters appear in a 3-D view on the right. Each type of creature has a different graphical image but a level 1 orc has the same picture as a level 50 orc.

[edit] Winning

There is no way to win. Finding the Fountain of Youth is the best thing to do and drinking from it will make you level 0 and rearrange all the maps so you have to start over. However, you still retain all your stats and items. The Fountain of Youth is in a different location each time.