Mutation build

[Fedman]

Suggestions will be much appreciated.

Any race, any class, any god, any strategy.
The only requirement is that the character should have as many mutations as possible and it should make the most of them.
It should be focused in a 3 rune game.

Think of it as a challenge.

[TehDruid]

Xom whatever. Spriggan is good to avoid early monsters he throws at you by running away if they're not of the smiting/hellfire variety. Trolls are also pretty awesome, because... Uh well, they're Trolls.

Here's a comment I've made about 2 months ago. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=41924#p41924

A single Yaktaur armed with silver bolts took half my health at some point in Vaults.
I can't remember why I died though.

[eeviac]

Demonspawn whatever of Jiyva - quaff every mut pot/eat every mut corpse you see. You'd have to get lucky with a pre-lair Jiyva altar though.

[crate]

Should play either troll, kobold, or stalker so you can eat/distill mutagenic corpses for sure.

[Stormfox]

Or Felid. Mutation Cat...iz muuuuuuuutaaaaaaaated.

[tormodpwns]

Right, and Felids don't care about items so Jiyva is great.

[pleasedpig]

Troll monk of jiyva, get elyvilon to start then pray a jivya altar is approachable in lair. The only problem you've got to work around are hydras

[TehDruid]

Troll monk of jiyva, get elyvilon to start then pray a jivya altar is approachable in lair. The only problem you've got to work around are hydras

Slimify! Or pick the first cutting weapon of flaming you can get and raise its level a bit.

[tormodpwns]

Greater healing = easy pacification.

[mattlistener]

Contrarian approach: Spriggan something of Nemelex to start with. Sacrifice the permafood and other consumables you don't need, spam decks of wonders for Helix/Experience. Sacrifice some corpses too if you need decks of summoning to keep you alive until you can switch to Jivya.

Level drains from Nemelex wrath could cancel out the experience cards you earned while worshiping him, but the rest is survivable with reasonable preparation + Spriggan speed. Some of it is even mutagenic! (miscasts, running through the abyss, Xom actions.)

Not saying it's easier/better, but it is a way of playing a "mutate me!" character until an altar to Jivya is found.