Originally Posted by
daft inquisitor
This is one of the settings in the new interface. You get to choose some options when first generating a character. One of them is the "Death" settings. You can either keep it to the classic perma-death, or you can set it to "Reloadable Game", which is supposed to make you be able to restore saves after death. But it doesn't seem to be working.
R65 is rather broken, I would not recommend playing it.
slightly older versions shad some story mode, iirc.
So far rolled 15 casters with RoDS and shamelessly killed them within 200 turns. For eternium glory!
(after 15 I stopped counting...)