Been reading stuff about the food reform, hive reform etc. and it's got me to thinking about the food clock in general terms. What is the purpose of the food clock? In my opinion, the food clock exists to serve two purposes which are in the "main design goals" and that is to limit grinding...

Didn't see these in the master list, but I didn't read through all the posts. Something useful for the early game: If you're running from an orc warrior or similar fighter type monster who will pick up items off the ground, you can drop a club while you're running. The orc will pick up the club and ...

One of those times when capricious use of blink scrolls goes unrewarded. Yeah, I could /probably/ kill those death yaks without needing to blink, but let's just do it to be safe. I'll find more later, certainly!

Of course my first post is a YASD post, but I just had to vent! Was having a pretty good time, my first time as a venom mage. Got a book with poison cloud relatively early and an acquirement scroll that earned me a staff of poison. I destroy lair and orc mines with great prejudice and little effort....