Unspoilered Stories

[bcadren]

Back when I was an unspoilered player; I remember...

One of the first time I read a scroll of random uselessness it said "You hear the distant roar of an enraged eggplant!" I didn't know that this was because of the useless scroll and meaningless. I actually wondered what the eggplant creature would be like and looked for it in order to kill it. Was disappointed when I realized there wasn't an angry eggplant after me.

Anyone else have stupid conclusion because of lack of spoilers stories?

[Curio]

Mild one.
When I just started playing I met a lone yak in an early dungeon (somewhere in D6-8). Thinking to myself that it was some tame herbivore animal, it could be killed easily, I recklessly rushed into it. To my wonder it just devastated my character very quickly. That day I learned to fear The Yak.

[The Ferret]

I thought that "the orc priest starts glowing" meant that it was charging up for some powerful ability or something.

Then I worked out that orc priests are the ones smiting you, so I thought "the orc priest starts glowing" means it's going to smite you soon, so I'd try to kill it or break LOS before then.

Then I stumbled upon the Cantrip article on the wiki and was shocked at my naivete.

To be fair, it did teach good Crawl - don't let orc priests linger in your LOS!

[Pteriforever]

When I first started playing I thought ToME4 was good

[The Ferret]

When I first started playing I thought ToME4 was good

ToME4 has excellent mechanics and shoddy design.

I think a roguelike with ToME4's mechanics and Crawl's design philosophy would be excellent, personally.

[dpeg]

On my first character to see yellow staircases (that are not Temple), I got the following configuration:

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...>...<...>...

only it was vertical, with one > the entrance to Lair and the other > the entrance to Orc. I was very moved by the symmetry and seriously disappointed when later configurations turned out to be random.


I also stared at the screen for a long while after running into my first artefact "Plog".

[bcadren]

On my first character to see yellow staircases (that are not Temple), I got the following configuration:

  Code:

...>...<...>...

only it was vertical, with one > the entrance to Lair and the other > the entrance to Orc. I was very moved by the symmetry and seriously disappointed when later configurations turned out to be random.


I also stared at the screen for a long while after running into my first artefact "Plog".

I always through Plogs were after you came around and named for you; Mr. Ploog.

[tedric]

I'm pretty sure that I spent months (if not years) playing Crawl offline, spending most of my time playing melee characters, partly because any spellcasters I tried always seemed to be starving themselves to death -- before finally poking around the Tavern and learning that it was not only possible, but an expected practice central to the game's balance, to eat my enemies' corpses.

[jejorda2]

It took me months to figure out how animate skeleton and fulsome distillation worked. I tried to wield the corpses first.