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It's typically the first dungeon that they see. It makes sense: the PC is closer to the game start and Terinyo but it requires talking to the tiny girl, the VD/DD are a bit further south and they...

From talking to newbies on IRC, I'd say the #1 thing that kills new players is starting the game in the SMC and staying there, unaware that it's not a normal dungeon.

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So do both potion DL and dungeon DL have an influence on the new potion that you get, then?

Wow, it's been so long since the last time I did that quest that I didn't even remember that he didn't always leave a corpse.

Yes, I think the logical thing is that he always leaves one, like the...

I just don't bother with precrowning. I find scumming very boring. But that depends on your particular playstyle.

Drakeling wizards are the easiest wizards to play in the early game. Take into...

Actually if I can get past the SMC with a wizard, I find the UD easier with wizards than with melee chars (well, the UD and... the whole game, in fact). It's just a matter of being careful, stopping...

My impression is that it fails less often and tends to recover more damage. Of course, it's compatible with what you say.

Amazing. 10 chars.

I think churches and religions are radically lawful, because they have a set of laws and rules that they want applied in every moment in people's lives. Religions supposedly regulate even things like...

Gambling should be chaotic by pure logic. Earning money by using luck in your favor rather than by hard work is not lawful. The randomness inherent to gambling is a manifestation of ChAoS. In the...

I kind of thought the same thing at the beginning, but then I got used to it and it feels natural.

I'm getting used to tiles... now I almost don't miss ASCII. Although the ability to switch between tiles and ASCII in midgame is a godsend.

Here's my last char shopping during his UD run:
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The most important strategy changes I've made with 1.2:
- I now give a rather high priority to getting skill points in Literacy - it used to be useless for most classes, now it's useful for all,...

It's been many years since I last played D&D, but I seem to remember that you could wear cloth, leather or even studded leather without arcane penalties. Up from there, you got penalties and your...

I've been playing several games and the tiles are awesome. In fact, the fact I played several games is quite a feat - in roguelikes with tiled and ASCII mode, I typically try the tiles out of...

It depends. If the optimization/compression is lossless, yes. If it isn't, often smaller is way worse.

That's why I have my music collection in FLAC or in high-bitrate MP3. Many people think that...

Music takes a lot of space. Of course, it can usually be compressed so that it takes much less, but then you lose quality. I have also programmed some games and I don't see anything outrageous about...

You're right about the requirements for the Hardy line. I did play some mist elves that could get Very Hardy and even one or two that could get Extremely Hardy, but it was probably because I was...

Take as many HP talents as you can. You know, the Hardy - Very Hardy - Extremely Hardy talent line, which is usually useless and no one chooses - it's great with Mist Elves. Even taking Tough is not...

The one you should play is p10!

p9 had a crash bug every time the game tried to generate an artifact room.

p10 was, I think, the only version where the rooms were actually reported in the forum.

It's not so difficult to solve that without spoilers. I also did it back in the day (I didn't finish the game unspoiled, but almost - I made the Mana Temple without spoilers).

Even without the Mad...

It seems to be shown twice for all statues in p13. And I'm sure it's not a flaw of the messages themselves being duplicated in the code or in the form, because items on the ground are shown between...

I haven't seen it either. It's somewhat strange, because in p9 there were several people reporting the bug that crashed the game when this room was generated... which seems to suggest that it wasn't...

Yeah, it's a nice idea but the reward should indeed be very good for most people to actually do the quest - for many of us, the cat quest is always top priority... probably this is rather irrational,...