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After 21 wins, I've realized my wins are all very similiar and boring so I want to try winning some sort of wacky character/challenge.

I already know about MuMo (spectated a guy who won it, it looked extremely boring) and DUPZ and DUHZ(fairly easy with certain god and species combos)

Are there any fun challenges that people have come across, like a troll spellcaster or something like that?

I think that not entering lair and orc can be fun. One of the most boring thing to me with current crawl is that the difficulty normally drops around lair significantly.

Kobold Stabber of Trog. Just go beserker and pick shortsword.

Those are all possible:
1) almost pure caster TrFE of Vehumet with Firestorm in 3 rune game
2) hybrid MiWz of Vehumet with level 6 spells in 3 rune game
3) training just fighting until 27 on Troll of Ru and killing everything with Apocalypse while having all effective skills at 0, then train UC to 27, then Armour to 27, then Dodging to 27 (3 rune game will be over by then)
4) 15 rune DEBe of Trog
5) you can do nothing but cast spells (no melee, no ranged, no evocables, no potions, no scrolls, even no remove curse or enchant armour/weapon) as SpVM of Kiku (VM had Cure Poison then, probably now it's better to use another background like Ne)
6) FoFi of Makhleb without level 7+ spells who gets 12 runes during orb run
7) MuCK without abandoning Xom (well known combo)
8) DrCj of Vehumet with autotraining

All those characters were fun except SpVM during middle game when I got Demon Whip in Swamp and couldn't use it because of conduct, also it was unavoidable death during orb run.

Streak chaos knights, without abandoning xom. Start with the hardest species, like Op, Fe, Mu

Halfling Monk of Jivya

Slings only

Final destination.

I have done MiFe^vehu hybrid with level 9 spell in a 3 rune game.

Hold your breath! You can only breath when you're pressing tab.

I'll be using some of these ideas for the fortnightly challenge I'll be running on the dartboard subforum. The current challenge is a troll Spellcaster.

The next challenge will either will be an OpCK with no spells or Op^Uskayaw with no spells. Which one sounds better?

I like the idea of a Troll Necromancer, manage to get necromutation and use unarmed combat. It's a real pain to get there, for sure, but it's neat to get high regeneration with tons of health on an undead for doing extended.