crawl VS yajan

It's probably not as rigorous as what you're thinking of but the devs of DCSS have cited online win rates of certain combinations as the impetus for balance changes before.

https://crawl.develz.org

In a similar vein, see Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a free and open-source roguelike that's been continuously developed by volunteers for 20 years: http://crawl.develz.org/

They are entirely too humanoid. I mean, look at these splash screens: Kiku, Ignis, Chei. While those images shouldn't be taken as canonical, they at least demonstrate the general inhumanity of the Crawl pantheon.

Since you like turn-based games too, try some old-school roguelikes. Many are open-source freeware so you have nothing to lose but time. I've been playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for almost 10 years.

Since Brogue's already been mentioned, I'd add Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Tales of Maj Eyal as pretty beginner friendly games.

For people who don't follow trunk, Okawru's gifting has been changed (and arguably* nerfed):

My personal first timer recommendation? Maybe Nethack or Dungeon crawl?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Free traditional roguelike with fair mechanics and a lot of variety between species/skill/god choices (~25 gods and maybe with the exception of sif/veh and oka/trog, they are very distinct). The tiles are great. There's many developers and they are very welcoming of code or vault contributions. Reducing incentives to play tediously is one of the goals. Easily hundreds of hours of gameplay for free. Playable online (connecting to a server through your browser/terminal) or offline (terminal or tiles version). There have been win streaks of 50+ games with a variety of species/background combos so you know it's mostly fair(it IS possible for rng to give you an unwinnable game), but it's very difficult if your goal is to win every game.

Or, there are two mod lists built for use with Wabbajack to automate the downloading and installation of a ton of mods for original MW. Personally a huge fan of the modlist You Are Just An N’wah, which adds a bunch of new content, role playing options, new profession skills (mining, blacksmithing, tailoring, etc) and optional survival mode (hunger, thirst, temperature exposure). Pretty easy to install: download the program Wabbajack, download Morrowind, download the modlist details, point Wabbajack to a download and installation folder, and follow the prompts. Done, it’ll download all the correct mods and install them for you.

Currently getting back into Morrowind and I was really interested in the YAJAN modlist. Tried it out and despite having a beast of a machine, my fps is constantly dipping around 30-40s. Does anyone get a steady 60 fps with this mod? Was wondering if there was some settings or way of doing so.

Anyway, the base of this install is Morrowind SHARP with a lot of additions / inspiration from You Are Just an N'Wah (YAJAN). Then it's a lot of RP / Immersion / Gameplay stuff. Here's the load order (exported with abot's Mod List): Pastebin link.

But https://github.com/RingComics/yajan says under Requirements "YAJAN WILL NOT WORK WITH OPENMW". :(

YAJAN comes with a wiki that explains its mechanics.

YAJAN Wabbajack install

If you go the Wabbajack route, YAJANis crazy good, tons of gameplay and content mods

looks like it's the YAJAN they mention https://github.com/RingComics/yajan

If you know nothing about Morrowind mods but want to play anyway, your best bet is an automatic modlist. Try YAJAN.