Right, blog created, where to begin? I've set up this blog to keep a record of my trials and tribulations whilst playing Zangband. I won't go into detail about the game's origins or development here, a quick google search will tell you all you need to know. Besides, I think I can safely assume that anyone reading this blog will already have played the game to some degree. At the moment, myself and a friend are trying to win the game on the 'nightmare' setting. We've both being playing on and off for 9 years and have beaten the game several times. Thus a new challenge was needed and upon reading that 'nightmare' mode "wasn't even remotely fair" and "wasn't supposed to be winable" it seemed a worthy one to persue. Not even remotely fair was a serious understatement, half of my characters have been mercilessly slain by pathetic creatures before getting off level 1, some have been even killed in the town. Everything that gave you an advantage has been either taken away or lessened and everything that gave the monsters an advantage has been redoubled. As far as the game goes, I am dead, my latest (and best so far) character has just been eaten alive by a giant ant whilst blundering around in a confused daze. Not the fitting end I had hoped for with this one, although I'm getting used to these types of deaths now. The next posts will follow the ups (few) and downs (many) of my subsequent characters and I can only hope that in a few hundred posts, I may have a character that I can be proud of. If you have played the game before and have not heard of nightmare mode, do a search for the spoiler. They really haven't made it very fair...