@Play: The Eight Rules of Roguelike Design

[galehar]

Interesting read.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/01/col ... uelike.php

[fnwc]

Good article. One of my first near ascents in NetHack I was escaping the dungeon on like, Level 2 and for some reason decided to eat an egg out of a chest I had left there.

Turned out to be a cockatrice egg.

Man, was I pissed.