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Classic Roguelikes / Re: Post your favorite YASDs! (from any roguelike)

« on: June 25, 2007, 01:36:43 PM »

lol this sucks:

[cut screenshot showing me standing next to a j]

Dennis        St:13  Le:17  Wi:15  Dx:18  To:10  Ch:13  Ap:21  Ma:22  Pe:20 N=
DV/PV: 17/3    H: -6(30)      P: 86(86)      Exp: 6/3054        I1    Sp: 53
Stunned Slowed Burdened Bleeding!
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                            Background Information
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Name: Dennis              Race: male Gray Elf       Class: Wizard
Eye color: blue           Hair color: silver        Complexion: light
Height: 6'7"              Weight: 149 pounds
Age: 331 (grown-up)
Star sign: Raven          Birthday: 28/Raven (day 28 of the year)

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              His achievements during his adventures:
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Dennis, the gray elven wizard, was killed by a writhing mass of primal
chaos.
He scored 3946 points and advanced to level 6.
He survived for 0 years, 7 days, 9 hours, 33 minutes and 44 seconds (2162
turns).
Dennis visited 4 places.
His strength score was modified by +1 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +1 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +1 during his career.
His perception score was modified by +1 during his career.
He ended his adventuring life on level 1 of some ancient caves.
61 monsters perished under his attacks.
He possessed the following intrinsic:
  He was acid resistant (gained through an item).
He had the following talents: Charged, Mighty Aura, Potent Aura, Strong
Aura.
He had a final speed score of 53 (final base speed: 111).
He was religious.
He did not ask for divine help.
He was neutrally aligned.
He was slightly tainted by Chaos.

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Classic Roguelikes / Re: ADOM - tips & strategies

« on: June 25, 2007, 01:10:08 PM »

I always play Grey Elf Wizard (normal finished once, cleared all temples except mana a few times), and here's my starting recipe:

A.  Talents:  Potent Aura, Strong Aura, Mighty Aura, Charged, then whatever else suits, usually Miser, Porter, depending on situation.
B.  Skills to raise, in this order:  Concentration, Herbalism, First Aid, then whatever.
1.  Obviously go to Terinyo, equip, learn spells, and buy as much food as you can carry (up to strained, not strained! for max strength training)
2.  Get the Druid's quest.  Make sure you don't talk to the town elder first -_-, and get the other two obvious quests.
3.  Fire your offensive spell a couple of times and regenerate your mana as you walk to the dungeon to the NW (yes, the evil one).  This has the effect of allowing you to raise Concentrate to 100 by level 3.  If you encounter the raiders at any point, take them on.  Wizards rock.  It's preferable to enter that dungeon at level 1, because then all the monsters initially generated are only level 2.
4.  Your goal here is to find the down stairs but then leave, although if you've explored a lot of it and get to level 4/5, leave so you don't get killed and so you can still kill the raiders.  Get the guaranteed blanket and the sometimes-eternium-2H-sword.
5.  Kill the raiders and get your cash.  Buy iron rations if possible.
6.  Decisions decisions.  If my character is kick-ass (possible but rare), I'll go to the ID and get the dog corpse. (getting the dog back alive is a huge waste of time, just don't bother).   If not, I'll go and do a bit of levelling in the Infinite Dungeon.
7.  By the time you've cleared the doggy dungeon, you'll be able to take on the Dark Druid, get your shiny prizes, then go back to that horrible, horrible dungeon from step 3 and 4.  Clear the dungeon and come out the other end.  Be sure to spend some time harvesting stomafillia.
8.  Check out the shop in the town, and sell your stuff, then leave.  There's a hidden staircase in the town if you didn't know that pops you out in the middle of the world map.
9.  If you're super-kickass, you might get away with jumping down the main dungeon (sw from here where the mountains sort of jut out), but I'll usually head back to the starting town to kill Hotzenplotz (pretty easy) and level a bit more.
10.  Take out the pyramid, then head into the main dungeon.  Enjoy...

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Other Announcements / Re: ASCII in Space

« on: June 19, 2007, 07:55:00 AM »

This looks friggen sweet, although Elite 2 would be a better game to use as inspiration...

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Classic Roguelikes / Re: Vote for your favourite Major roguelike ;)

« on: June 19, 2007, 07:26:28 AM »

ADoM for me.  Even after 9 years playing it and finishing it once, I'm still not good enough at it for it to get too repetitive.

I've sunk a lot of time into Crawl as well but I just find it too frustrating, personally.

I still get the 'WTF' face when I tell people my game gets deleted if my character dies.