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Thanks again for the input petercordia. Adjusted skills to put more stealth training. Managed to to get the first rune, which means it’s time for another part! Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-5-4 Checked the stores for anything of use, bought an unknown scroll for 33 gold at the Orcish Mines st...

Finished the Orcish Mines and the Dungeon without too much drama. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-5-3 Orc:1 was finished without incident. Orc:2 had an antique store that sold the unrandart +10 morningstar “Eos” {elec, Halo rElec}, which is a serious tease IMO for this spellcaster. It also was ...

Thanks for the assistance Sorcerous and petercordia. The character has made it to the Lair and finished D:12, although there were some tense moments along the way. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-5-2 Upon entering Lair:1, I step into a teleport trap that takes me to Gastranok, forcing me to fle...

The challenge this time is to attempt to cosplay as Natasha, Servant of Life and Death. I have a choice of playing either a Felid or Spriggan and a choice between Kikubaaqudgha, Sif Muna, or Vehumet as my god choice. However, the role must be a Wizard. My personal rules for this challenge is to rand...

Thanks for the tips everyone! They are majorly helpful in making some serious adjustments. Turned back on evocations training, and set skill limits to 22 for the skills that I am training now that currently didn’t have a limit. I thought that stealth wasn’t too important as a fighter, as my first wi...

Thanks for the input petercordia. The character has finished the vaults, and is in somewhat okay condition for the next levels. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-4-6 Vaults:1 had an Antique Armor Emporium, where I buy a pair of randart boots. Unfortunately they were of -5 and only granted {Str+3 ...

Okay, so I successfully got the second rune from the Snake Pit. This part was easier than the previous one, but I do get to the HP danger zone a couple of times. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-4-5 I nearly have my life ended by a shock serpent upon entering Snake Pit:1, but I manage to retreat...

Thanks for the tip Sorcerous. This character has gotten the rune from the Swamp, although there were a few tense spots along the way. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-4-4 Before I headed to the Swamp, I learned the Apportation and Summon Butterflies spells for later use, and put on scale mail of...

Managed to clear the Orcish mines and the main dungeon, meaning it’s time for another part. Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-4-3 Upon entering Orc:1, I immediately get surrounded by ogres and an orcish high priest, resulting in some very tense stairdancing moments. Orc:2 had a magic scroll shop,...

Thank you so much for the input guys. To answer petercordia’s question, I am aware of the inefficiency of my weapon skills. My approach when starting is to put just a couple of points on throwing/slings for darts and rocks, just so I can have an early ranged option. I generally stick with my startin...

The challenge this time is to attempt to cosplay as Maud the Forgotten, a Kobold Fighter who worships Okawaru. This week’s challenge was certainly easier than last week’s, but it still took three tries before I was able to get a character to clear D:11 and thus have a character for this week’s threa...

Thanks again for the input petercordia. Unfortunately, this character suffered a true “Death by Trickery” end. YASD (or honestly YAAD) 8-3: Divine and Technical Trickery I began by setting stealth training on and heading to the Orcish Mines. Upon entering Orc:1, I get surrounded by orcs and get conf...

Thanks for the input folks! The character has managed to clear the Lair of Beasts and D:12, which means it’s time for a new part! Cosplaying Veteran’s Journey: Part 8-3-2 Put on Nakhlagi, and put skills on dodging and fighting. First thing that happens when I start the game up, however, is Xom gifti...

Hoh boy, is this a hard challenge from the Crawl Cosplay Challenge. For this week, I have to attempt to cosplay as Cigotuvi’s monster, an Octopode Chaos Knight. Even before playing the character, I suspected that this thread will be a crash and burn disaster due to the difficulties of the Chaos Knig...

Hello Sorcerous. I thought the Cosplay challenge would be fun way to explore this game, and a good way to formalize my interest for the long term, having had my fill of the other roguelikes after several months of playing. I definitely thought that it would be a suitable way for me to enjoy the game...

Well, since there is still no response from the forums, I continued the character’s journey. Sadly, it was the victim of a very avoidable death from Nikola, who killed me with double chain lightning before I could escape. YASD 8-2: Nikola’s Double Chain Lightning kill So Swamp:1 had a book of Dreams...

Well, since I didn’t receive a response from the forums, I proceeded to begin the next step. I’m glad to report that this character has cleared the Mines and the rest of the main dungeon. Cosplaying Veteran's Journey: Part 8-2-3 With the advice of Discord, I switched to the artefact double sword and...

Thanks petercordia. This character has cleared the Lair and D:12. With that, I give you: Cosplaying Veteran's Journey: Part 8-2-2 So I started by learning all of the spells. Got scale mail and sticking with it for now, as the fail rates aren’t the worst, but do require more translocation training. N...

Hello everyone, it’s your former n00b who is returning to DC:SS after winning in Brogue and Angband, and sucking hard in Elona+ (screw the thirst mechanic in that game. Gave up after four tries in Loss mode, as Elona+ is really not a true roguelike.). The reason why I’m choosing DC:SS as my long ter...

DCSS is definitely one of the top two IMO and is tied with ADOM. Nethack is good, but the late game is monotonous IMO. ZAPM I tried for the Nethack tournament, and is a simple and winnable roguelike, but the late game suffers much of the same problems as Nethack. PRIME however is waay too hard with ...

So the Demigod Fighter actually escaped with the orb, which brings this series to an end, since I no longer feel like a n00b with my first win. Thank you everyone for your input, and I'll remember you all as I proceed to my next game in my tour of duty!

Thanks a lot for the input Airwolf! After a tense run, I escaped the dungeon to thunderous cheers of (imaginary) applause! Complete N00b's Journey: The YAVP and the Finale! So here is how my escape went. Getting out of Zot was uneventful, but a shadow demon on Depth:5 and his summons forced me to us...

No wand of clouds I’m afraid (at the start). I decided to drop my broad axe of protection. I’m glad to report that my character made it to the Orb of Zot, despite several near-death experiences that got my HP really low at Zot. Complete N00b’s Journey: Part 4-10 Getting to Vaults:5 was a Problem, si...

Thanks. Dropped the wand of flame, and I dropped the ring Virritall. Got the cloak of MR and enchanted it to +2, dropped the scarf of spirit shield. Read acquirement and chose the armor option, got a lousy +1 hat of intelligence. The character is STILL alive after exploring the Depths branch, despit...

Memorized the spells Blink, Animate Skeleton, Apportation, Passage of Golubria, Animate Dead, and Animate Skeleton. The Skills I will consider as soon as I can get my broad axe to min-delay, which shouldn’t be long since I just finished the Elven Halls and Crypt, although there were some tense momen...

Thanks a lot for your advice everyone. This guy had the motherload of close calls, since the worst Uniques that you can imagine decided to pay a visit in the Vaults. Half of the Vaults levels are not cleared due to the need to massively run because of their extreme danger. The character is still ali...

Thank you. Dropped the artefact battleaxe and war axe under your advice, and went back to training Dodging and Throwing in addition to the skills that I am training now. I also read the scroll of acquirement now and picked jewelry, as there were no other junk rings/amulets for sale. The result was a...

Thanks for the tips Sorcerous. Removed * focus on Axes. Dropped scroll of vulnerability and plate armor of resistance. Also dropped stack of enchant armor, as I’m saving those in order to get into a treasure trove, which requires a +5 ice dragon scales (and I’m NOT giving up my artifact armor to sat...

Thanks a lot. Throwing and Dodging will be trained, but with skill limits of 4. Dropped the quarterstaff and wand of polymorph. No curare needle drops were found. Decided to stick to the larger artifact shield for now, as I think the shield rating is a bit better in this instance. The character has ...

Thanks for the tip. Managed to clear the Lair despite a few scares on the first levels. Complete N00b’s Journey: Part 4-3 Lair:1 was a tough one. The hydras did a number on my character, and Urug, the Ballista was around and did some rather heavy damage with a +3 battleaxe of chopping and a bunch of...

Ok, so this guy actually made it and finished D:11 despite a few low hitpoint warning scares and more consumption of scrolls/consumables that I would have liked. With that, I give you: Complete N00b’s Journey: Part 4-2 D:7 had a Antique Weapon Boutique with a crude artefact battleaxe for sale, which...

Alright folks, so with the death of my second character and the subsequent quick death of my third character (a mummy assassin who fell to Natasha), I created a fourth character: Keamos, the Demigod Fighter. This character has luckily made it to the Ecumenical Temple (and yes, I know I cannot pick a...

So the second character got overwhelmed by crowds in the Desolation of Salt, so I am now generating another character, who can HOPEFULLY get farther than the first character at least. Complete N00b’s Journey: Character #3 The RNG has given me Sebomoru, the Mummy Assassin. As with the first two chara...

So this guy is now freaking dead, since I entered Desolation of Salt and apparently couldn't kill ironbrand convokers on time in order to prevent getting surrounded. I did EVERYTHING I could to get out of that mess, and it STILL didn't prove to be enough. It turns out that my Ice Beast summons weren...

I believe the Elven Halls should be saved until the first four levels of The Vaults are done. Fortunately, this character has managed to do just that! Complete N00b’s Journey: Part 2-7 For spells, I learned Summon Butterflies, and forgot Ice Form. Don’t have rN+ right now unfortunately, so that make...

Thanks for the input guys. I do have a ring of see invisible, which was pretty damn useful, and I’m working my hardest on getting Bolt of Cold and Freezing Cloud online! Anyway, after a couple of close calls, I got my second rune from the Spider’s Nest! Meaning I can now post the next part of this j...

Thanks a lot for your input guys! So, I’m glad to report that this character has gotten the first rune from the Swamp and is still alive, despite his general stupidity. With that, I bring you: Complete N00b’s Journey: Part 2-5 I *did* end up learning Ice Form as my form of Poison resistance, though ...

Thanks for the input everyone. I ended up dumping the crossbow and the artifact sword. I did employ Mephitic Cloud + Ignite Poison in the last run, and I personally found it underwhelming. I’m taking a pass on that for now. Trained Invocations and Spellcasting (up to 7), and Shields to get myself ac...

Nope, I haven't found a longbow yet for this guy. Should the short sword of the Sun also be dropped? Or is pierce and Int+3 worth more than the extra enchantment and speed that Arga has? Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the input Sorcerous. I enchanted my shortbow to +3 in order to survive, dropped other weapons and the artefact ring mail to make room for them. Anyway, I managed to clear the Lair and D:12, which means that we now have another post titled: Complete N00b's Journey: Part 2-3 Lair:1 wa...

Thanks for the reply Petercordia. I managed to complete D:11, and am now ready to go to the Lair of Beasts, thanks to your input. Many of the rings were useless cursed stuff, which I tried on when I found remove curse scrolls, so I’m glad that I waited to have one before trying them, lol. Complete N...

Introduction: This is the second character in progress in the series called the “Complete N00b’s Journey”, where I attempt to see how far I get each time despite my n00bish mistakes. The first ever character was Buen, a Deep Elf Conjurer in 0.22, which was a character randomly generated within Hints...

I totally overlooked the fact that there is a CIP subforum! Will post my progress there. I will post the characters that I play in this thread though for recordkeeping's sake. Thanks for the advice with weapons and god selection! EDIT: I will be posting progress on this character in the thread title...

Hello everybody. This is a n00b who was recommended to play this free game by the denizens of r/rogeulikes to play this game due to my preferences. Below is my resume: Outstanding Nethack experience: Managed to ascend every role at least once in 3.4.3, and still have an excellent playing record in t...

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