Troll assassin.. suddenly dies?

[Spellweaver]

A pack of ghost kings will make you flee in terror even with stellar hp.

[Dudley]

Spider shell armor

QFT. Dark elven beastfighters get a starting wooping 5, sometimes 6 pv just from spider shell. Also, the skillset is awesome.

[Roarke]

Humans. Humans are the best at everything. I will beat this game with every class, using humans only. Except the one Gnomish Fighter that was randomly rolled on Creator's Day.

[Spellweaver]

Roarke, I think it's possible to win the game with any combination and it doesn't make it best.
But, for me, I can say the same for DElves. At least I'll try.

[grobblewobble]

I have to say, I learned to love drakelings more and more. I remember a game where I was a drakeling (don't remember class, it wasn't a caster) and had incredibly bad luck on my way to dwarftown. First I stumbled into a threat room full of ogre magi, then fled to the downstairs and the first room after arriving on the deeper level was a threat room of vortices. So the choice was retreating and fighting all the ogre magi or face the vortices. This with a low level character. But I survived: potion of invisibility + acid spit. Any other race and I'd died there.

Of course it's only an anecdote, but find weakness is not making this sort of dramatic differences, especially early game. Spider shell armor is nice, but has to compensate for low tougness.

As for packs of ghost kings, that's talking about endgame not early. And a drakeling has a good way out: invis + spit (again).

Being able to munch on spiders is seriously awesome, though.

[Roarke]

Roarke, I think it's possible to win the game with any combination and it doesn't make it best.
But, for me, I can say the same for DElves. At least I'll try.

Intellectually, I do realize that every race has its strengths, and I respect your differing opinion.
But yeah, for me, it's humans.