I've played Adom for about 10 years, but of late I've been having such a bad problem losing characters to errors that I'm starting to lose the heart to go on.
In the many years before i counted my first victory I think I maybe lost one character to a fatal error, but since getting my victory about six months ago, I seem positively riddled with errors. I have a very promising troll merchant who is backed up, but due to errors I'm facing the necessity of clearing the griffyard, arena, ogre halls and pyramid for the third time, and it's just been too disheartening to continue.
I took a long break, and came back to ADOM over the last week, only to have my gnome archer, Hornberger, be permanently lost to an error, due to the fact that I haven't played in awhile and am no longer in the habit of making backups...
I've been told before that by playing on the server I can have the option of regular automatic backups, but I wonder if there's not a slightly more stable basic install I could be using... right now I have the winbeta4