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Angband is... not the most lore friendly, though. The original, anyway. Not as bad as zang descendants, but that's not exactly saying much.

Some the variants actually try, but as mentioned I've forgotten which of the various letter prefixes they are, heh.

... well, it's not open world, but there's Sil. It's definitely a LotR inspired roguelike, and by and large one of the better ones mechanically as well as being more true to the source than just about any other one currently available.

There's also a handful of *band variants based on LotR, several more thematic than the old ToME stuff was and still having a world map and whatnot. Forget what most of 'em are called at the moment, though. Pretty sure you can find a few over on the angband ladder, though. Can always browse around roguebasin, too, of course.

As far as I know, though, the closest to an open world tolkien roguelike you're going to get, at the moment, are angband variants, the older ToMEs (T2, mostly, with T3 to a degree. T4, the latest one, has diverged from the LotR roots pretty heavily) included. Fantasy based ones are a significantly larger pool to choose from, but it depends a lot there on what exactly you're looking for; like ToME, like ADOM, like Elona, or whathaveyou. Browsing around roguebasin is going to find you plenty, and you can pick and choose from there.

Huh. Never really had that problem, myself. Might have come from generally taking in strays? Even the cats we did keep inside most/all of the time didn't tend to do that sort of stuff, or at least cleaned up after themselves.

Have had more of that from outside cats, actually. Bits of various animals decorate the porch to varying degrees from time to time, when it was quite rare for inside cats. Usually momma cats doing the teachy-thing but *shrugs*

E: Well, them and dogs in general. There was one point we ended up with a cat's litter spread across most of the living room floor. That dog was given away pretty quickly. Not its fault, really, but... yeah.

... what even counts as the head in those cases? Head of state? Some number of miles from the northernmost region? Highest mountain? What do you have to cut off to quicken geography?

This why you have cats. Then even if you need a trap and the mouse does survive you just have to point the cat at it and let nature take its course.

Or dogs, I guess. Most breeds are less likely to get along with eating the thing, though.

Though having cats around generally means you just don't have (or at least notice) mouse infestations. Also means you might have missing other pets if you have hamsters get lose or something, but those damned vermin get whatever's coming to them and good riddance.

Yeah, good luck to the rest of you, at the mo. Forecast for my area isn't even predicting rain, and wind only in the 20ish range. Probably change if the thing does boomerang, but...

Oddly enough the (political, anyway) ads I've been seeing while playing stick rangers on the kindle have almost entirely been positive clinton ads with the occasional attack on trump. Couldn't say what's on the TV, because it hasn't been turned on since tuesday and I usually try to ignore it anyway, but there you go. Noticed a definite slant towards her earlier work with kids, too.