Unreasonable D: 1

[Sometimes]

Trunk seems to be oddly murderous lately. I'm alarmed by the appearance of some serious killers on D:1, in positions where escape is impossible for most newborn characters. Gnolls in the starting, one-way corridor? An ice beast on the third turn? No scrolls, no potions, no down stair.
This can't be intended, right? Every now and then I'm losing very early characters to inescapable dooms.

[MrMisterMonkey]

100% intended except for the ice beast thing which was fixed

[galehar]

Wrong forum. I'm moving this to advices.

[mrbobbyg]

I just saw that ice beast!

I ran, ran, ran.

=)

[vintermann]

An ice beast on the third turn? No scrolls, no potions, no down stair.
This can't be intended, right? Every now and then I'm losing very early characters to inescapable dooms.

I too noticed this when I last downloaded trunk. One D:1 had no less than 5 ice beasts!

[asdu]

I just saw that ice beast!

I ran, ran, ran.

=)

I too saw one and ran.
Then I saw another! And then yet another!
Then my game was over

[joellercoaster]

The Ice Beasts were a bug, which is fixed.

As for the rest... Crawl is a harsh mistress!

[galehar]

Wrong forum. I'm moving this to advices.

The post was not asking for advice about how to deal with difficult spawns on D:1. It was asking whether these spawns were intended, and probably meant as a complaint that they were unfair.

The OP asked if a certain behaviour was normal or a bug. The game design forum is not the place to ask such questions.