OK, it is good they are shortening the Lair sub-branches in the devel version. I am not an expert, and I find Spider or Shoals hard enough that I end up stair dancing and burning expendables on them most of the time... in fact, I recently had an epic battle dragging my first stabber through shoals a...

I really like crawl. The main thing that bothers me about it is that the mid-game side branches -- Orc, Elf, Lair, Spider/Snake, Shoals/Swamp, Vault -- feel repetitive and grindy after awhile. Elf and Vault are not so bad. Lair and the sub-branches of Lair are bad. Orc would be better if you just sk...