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Melee and/or ranged power - a HE/GE priest, for instance, starts out with a longbow and quite a few arrows (on top of elven chain mail).

I find it more surprising that people neglect to include Priests when listing powerful and easy-to-play classes.

Pentavia was laid low by Signal 291. :(

In retrospect, if I had to do this challenge again, I'd pick two Acid Balls, two Frost Bolts and a single Teleportation, read one copy of Ball/Bolt to...

Pentavia has completed Thundarr's non-portal quests (got giant bat as the first one) and reached level 13 in process. Unfortunately, she lost one of the spellbooks to a well-placed fireball trap....

Pentavia, Wand-born GE Priest
Spellbooks: Rain of Sorrow, Ethereal Bridge, Veil of the Gods, Nether Bolt, Knowledge of the Ancients

The plan is to bookcast all the way through the game (priestly...

At one time, you could get transformed into Andor Drakon himself if he killed you this way. :)

AFAIK, if you get stat drained to zero by a non-undead monster in the current version, the message is...

I got those from extremely ancient scores on my old laptop, so no idea whether they still exist.

*shrugs*

Oh, and there are a few extra special messages when you get killed by fire breath...

Transformed into a true servant of Chaos. (I believe it happens if you enter the gate while below level 50)
Extinguished by an exploding fluff ball.
Died of exhaustion on a bad day. (Start as a...