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Hey, I just started playing Dungeon crawl stone soup.
I Like it very much! (farest I made though was my char getting lvl 10 or something XD), but... I still dont understand some things.
I'll just list them:

1- How does +x affect armour? What's the difference between a +1 leather body or a +0 leather body?
2- How come some artefacts don't seem to have any enhancements when I indentify them?
3- How do I get into branches? (Like those goblin mines or something...)
4- Assasin: Leather or Robe? (a.k.a. AC +, EV- or EV ++, something like that XD)
5- Just drink potions and read scrols to indentify them or do it another way? and why?
6- Basic aberrations, Like rF+, what do they mean?

Sorry for me being a complete noob, but I just wan't to learn. I folowed the tutorial and read some things... But I still don't get some things

I hope someone would like to help me.

greetz,

Thank you very much for the response! this helps me alot

Another question: What is the best god to worship as an assassin?

Just to add some points:
5: If you want to read-ID scrolls and quaff-ID potions, it is usually better to start with those, which you have the most. The most common potions is healing, the most common scrolls are identify, detect/remove curse and teleportation.
Don't start quaff-IDing potions until you can stand the results - (strong) poison and decay (rot) can be cured by healing, degeneration by restore abilities. These are safe to quaff-ID around XL9 at latest. Mutations can be far worse.
6: You may also want to know that rF, rC and rN from different sources stack, and can be negative (the inscription would be rF- etc.)
If you are ever unsure about any abbreviation, you may check the item description from the (i)nventory screen by pressing the item's letter.

And, the most important thing: Welcome to DCSS!

Thank you

I just started roguelikes, but I have to say: I never had so much fun playing a game

Also great tips