Drakalor Chain Board of Tourism --formerly thinker's ADOM

You manage the long climb over the pass into the Drakalor Chain. As the valley below comes into sight, you notice a sign over an arch cut in the side of a mountain. Next to the ornate arch, a message has been carved into the stone.

Come on in!
Welcome to the Drakalor Chain. The Drakalor Chain Board of Tourism (sponsored by the Sinister Library of Niltrias) is happy to offer you the following information so you may better enjoy your stay in the Drakalor Chain. Whether you're here for historical information, knowledge of the flora and fauna, or just want a tour, we're here to help you.

Please note: I am no longer actively maintaining this site. Others have access to and are updating the FAQ section and (perhaps) the spoilers. Please do NOT e-mail thinker with questions, updates, or requests pertaining to the game, hint-through, spoilers, or FAQ. All such correspondence will be ignored. With my new family, I just don't have the time to devote to this site, but I am leaving it up since it still gets quite a few visitors and seems to still be helpful. Some sections that are duplicated elsewhere (like the file archives) may disappear in the future, but the FAQs, spoilers, and hint-through will remain up indefinitely.
Thanks for visiting!

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Helpful (but not spoily) information
The current official ADOM FAQ
The rec.games.roguelike.adom FAQ, for those seeking a deeper cultural understanding of ADOM's newsgroup.
Matt Chatterley's ADOM Strategy Guide (#6) also in text only (#9)

Information that gives away secrets
thinker's A Tourist's Guide to the Drakalor Chain (map)
DCBoT Spoilers

Vacuous Fluff
Visit the DCBoT Lounge.

Other places with info about ADOM
Other penthouse views of the Chain, and their owner's accumulated information (Links)
Tour other ADOM sites via the ADOMring.

thinker's hint-through
Feel free to wander through the chain. All the monsters have been disabled in anticipation of your tour. Do be careful of the spoiler traps; we carefully labelled them, but they could have a negative effect on your enjoyment of the realm. They are much like corruption traps--you might like the immediate benefits, but in the long run a price must be paid.

All areas are now included (except the new ending variants for g10, and the Minotaur Maze), and the shops are all installed and linked.

Please note (1) the tour is heavily dependent upon JavaScripting, and so is fairly unfriendly for folks with Scripting disabled (as in you can't get to the spoilers); links directly to many of the spoily bits can be found on the spoiler page; condensed spoilers in a text format are available from the spoilers page; (2) this tour of the Drakalor Chain has a humanly-slow creation engine that is going as fast as it can. It's not pretty yet (mapped images of play screens are planned), but I thought the content should go up first. This is being updated and appended frequently since 07 Jan 97, so no complaints about thoroughness, please. The tour contains spoilers only if the spoiler traps are activated, the rest contain mere hints (this is true near the start; the farther you go, the more likely you are to get indiscriminately spoiled. If you see something you consider a spoiler in what I consider the hints area, let me know so I can consider it).

© Copyright 1996-1999 by Richard Fowler. Feel free to use information within these help files, as long as fair credit is given in the form of a statement and links to original documents. Information contained in the hint-through is free for use, but please either provide it as-is with link to the original, or rewrite it completely using the information and your own style.

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