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MORIA(6)                    DragonFly Games Manual                    MORIA(6)

NAME
       moria - a dungeon game

SYNOPSIS
       moria [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -S ] [ -n ] [ -w ] [ savefile ]

DESCRIPTION
       Moria plays a dungeon game with you.  It lets you generate a character,
       lets you buy equipment, and lets you wander in a fathomless dungeon
       while finding treasure and being attacked by monsters and fellow
       adventurers.  Typing ?  gives you a list of commands.

       The ultimate object of moria is to kill the Balrog, which dwells on the
       50th level of the dungeon, 2,500 feet underground.  Most players never
       even reach the Balrog, and those that do seldom live to tell about it.

       For a more complete description of the game, read the document The
       Dungeons of Moria.

       By default, moria will save and restore games from a file called
       moria.save in your home directory.  If the environment variable
       MORIA_SAV is defined, then moria will use that file name instead of the
       default.  If MORIA_SAV is not a complete path name, then the savefile
       will be created or restored from the current directory.  You can also
       explicitly specify a savefile on the command line.

       If you use the -n option, moria will create a new game, ignoring any
       savefile which may already exist.  This works best when a savefile name
       is specified on the command line, as this will prevent moria from
       trying to overwrite the default savefile (if it exists) when you try to
       save your game.

       You move in various directions by pressing the numeric keypad keys,
       VMS-style.  If you specify -r, you move the same way you do in
       rogue(6).  You can also specify -o to force the VMS-style command set.
       These options will override defaults stored in the savefile.  If these
       options are given multiple times, only the last one will take effect.

       If you specify -s, moria prints all of the scores in the score file and
       exits.  On a multiuser system, if you specify -S, moria prints prints
       only those scores belonging to you and then exits.

       If you specify -w, moria will start up in wizard mode.  You can
       resurrect a dead character by using this option when starting the game.
       Resurrected characters are teleported to the town level and given zero
       hitpoints.  Wizard mode is intended for debugging the game, and for
       experimenting with new features.  Any other use is considered cheating.
       Games played with wizard mode are not scored.

AUTHORS
       The original version of Moria was written in VMS/Pascal by Robert Alan
       Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd, Gary McAdoo, and others at the University
       of Oklahoma.  This version was written by Jim Wilson at the University
       of California, Berkeley, and released with minor revisions by David
       Grabiner at Harvard University.

BUGS
       A suspended game that gets a hangup signal will die without creating a
       save file.

       Rerolling with a % at the class prompt not implemented.

       For a more comprehensive list, see the ERRORS file in the source
       distribution.

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