Rogue

Rogue is largely inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, and influenced many RPG games in the 1980s that were tile based. It was given widespread release with the inclusion in the 4.2 BSD operating system.

There is an excellent article about the history of rogue here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4013/the_history_of_rogue_have__you_.php

A popular fork of rouge is hack.