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[E. Albright]

One thing I like/loathe about ADOM over NH is that it scales better. Once you get up to level 10 or 15 in NH, you're basically invincible and will probably only die to your own stupidity*. ADOM is... shall we say... less kind, as monsters keep scaling.

Also, classes are much more distinct. At a certain level, there's scant difference in NH between the assorted classes. Yes, there's some, but it all tends to be narrow nuance.

My most recent character was a DE beastfighter (thank you, fate's decision!);

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I was level 16.75-ish, had two pairs of SLB, a RoDS, the +Str artifact gauntlets, GoC, some nice spellbooks, and other assorted goodies; I'd seen maybe 6-8 (!!) vaults already (down to... CoC 14?) and was convinced that maybe, just maybe, this'd be the one (I've been past the ToEF maybe 3-4 times, but this character had everything going her way, and I really thought she could make it).

I was just getting ready to go hit the Pyramid, so right above the Dwarven city I unloaded all my excess items. Including an iron ingot. When there was already one on the ground. Grrrrrrr... Time to go find the hack/patch that fixes that crash bug, as I'd forgotten it entirely when I re-installed...

*Well, okay. Mid-game. It gets nastier again later on.

[Sowelu]

I actually found ADOM way more tolerant of mistakes.  In the early-midgame in ADOM, you can pull back whenever you want and go hang out in the early ID for a bit; you control your own danger level to a large extent.  Uh, autoleveling jackals notwithstanding.  Nethack on the other hand, something is always just about to kill you, and so much of the game is bizarre and random that to me it always felt like a race against the clock.  Can I get resistances before some gnome with a wand of death blows me away?  Etc.  Not to mention you have to keep moving or starve.  ADOM is so much kinder.

[Tahin]

All right, so I read a scroll that made me forget everything. I had a bunch of wands and I couldn't remember which did what. So I zap one at the wall. Bad move. It's a wand of lightning bolt. It bounces back and hits me. No big deal, I survived. It then proceeded to go right through me, bounce off the wall behind me, and hit me again, killing me. That was a sad day.