One of the things I love about this game is the way a lack of attention or a dumb decision can really mess up your character.
Creator's Day character no. 1: Troll Chaos Knight, illiterate.
This character was brutally effective, was finding lots of food, and even managed to get to "very close" with Andor Drakon. Upon reaching dwarftown, armed with my crude axe of mayhem that I found in a hill orc sergeant tension room, I made the worst possible decision:
"Hmm, this character isn't going to become literate for a very long time, if ever. I guess I'd better start taste-testing these potions."
Of course, one of them was a potion of exchange. My strength dropped to 1.
I would rise to the challenge! Dropping most of my stuff, below dwarftown I found a level full of herb bushes and began harvesting stomacafilla while my Str slowly trained up. It would take a while, since one of my corruptions gives -6 to Str, but I could do it!
Then spiders did me in--because with a Str of 1, I could not break out of their webs.
I had no idea webs were so deadly--at least for weak characters.
Thanks for the great game, Thomas, and happy birthday!