The ADOM II tutorial should be more like the one in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Specifically:

1) There should be a limited number of race/profession combinations to choose from. The crawl tutorial lets you select from a list of three: a dwarf warrior, an elven wizard or a centaur archer.

2) Some game hints should be given as a normal message the first time the player encounters something, since the player probably isn't going to notice a new hint appear in the hints sidebar. For instance, the first time that the player steps over an object on the ground, give a message "Type ',' to pick up the object".