When/how often do you go for the RotMC?

[Pumpernickel]

Most of my characters would like to get the ring eventually (after all, it's not as though i'm sacrificing much exp. or loot by not killing cats), but only about half manage to get to dwarftown with no dead cats to their names - mostly just ended up stuck, so they had to kill the beast to advance. Once they made it to dwarftown, further cat kills were usually accidents, not cases of 'kill or be killed'.

I've scanned my winner .flgs and found that out of 36 (archived) winners, 15 had succeeded at the cat lord quest, one fell from grace later. Of the 21 who didn't succeed, about half had only a single dead feline listed, so those were likely just accidents. So i figure once i'm past the early game, it's a matter of paying attention, and i have about 50-50 chance of success at that game.

[Dudley]

If you kill a cat, you should kill more behind.