Wednesday, 7th March 2012, 10:17 by eharper256
Started with 0.8, it took me nearly a year for my first and only win, though this is only 300~ games due to me not having a huge amount of time to dedicate to just playing Crawl. I did get to Lair 4 with my very first character, before finding a 7 headed Hydra on low health with a slashing weapon and yaks closing behind me.
Generally, though, if I can get a character to survive as far as Temple, they're nearly guaranteed to pick up at least 1 rune before an untimely demise.
Alot of playing Crawl is learning to ditch bad habits from other games: ditching the 'I can take it!' mentality, and the urge to be a packrat and horde items.
I also play lots of different race/background combos and tend to deliberately avoid 'easy' choices, though. I have never, for instance, played a SpVM or MiBE and won't, since I like winning with less played (if viable) selections; and I always come up with backstory, however small and vapid, for each dungeon delver I use~ makes me more emotionally attached and hence less likely to do stupid things with them.