edgefigaro wrote:What happens when you are a felid? A spriggan? Or just the generic case a human? In your case of a troll, you have to have a very good sense of how powerful your character is relative toward the area (as you are very strong on d1 and get progressively weaker until dragon armor+ shield.)
I stand by my point of being knowledgeable about crawl before not resting to full becomes a viable strat.
If you can correctly assess whether you should engage, stall or retreat from a fight with monsters in any part of the game (which is an essential skill), you're just using that same knowledge to determine if you're willing to explore at a certain amount of health.
I agree that a certain amount of knowledge is required, but there's nothing particularly special about pressing 'o' without full health: you have to make similar decisions
all the time, be it through fights, chasing timed portals, being in the Abyss, etc.
edit: I really don't have any well constructed arguments to make other than expressing personal experience, so I think it's best to just try it, IMO. It's really straightforward with innate fast regeneration, at least (just avoid like, auto-exploring with 5HP or something extreme).