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[Keiseth]

Honestly, once you figure out that "2d10" means "two ten-sided dice", you're over most of the difficulties. The rest is just the sheer volume of information you need to digest, even if it is easy to understand.

That shouldn't get you down, anyway, because losing is fun!

[yamo]

i have a hard time withmanipulating the inventory..equipping, storing things, retrieving things from inventory...a big pain in the neck.   i like the game but i can't play it fully and get frustrated.

[McDoomhammer]

"DC" is the term I always forget, but I can grasp what's going on.  The inventory as it stands is a bit cumbersome.  I there are hotkeys to equip default weapons, which help, and I think there's one that lets you quickly drop items like in nethack.  I only saw that one whwn my cat walked on the keyboard, though...

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by Keiseth:
<STRONG>It seems like playing a mage is very, very hard as it is, </STRONG>

Actually, as it stands, mages are the easiest class to play in the entire game, right in front of thieves and Priests. Mostly because a good thief can get experience for just finding the down stairs to a level, no killing at all, just find the stair and you get the exp for all the monsters/things you've snuck past. Also Priest are easy (just like in any Rougelike that has them) because of the free blessed equipment, the ability to bless your equipment for only 5 mana (!!), the great defensive spells. Also, try playing a Evil Chaotic Priest aligned to the Multitude, you get COMMAND for free, and you can cast it for only 2 mana. It also a 16 roll skill, so noone is ever going to roll against it, unless they've got a huge will modifier, but it doesnt work on things like undead or berserks.

But nevertheless playing a Multitude Priest is the most fun I've ever had in a game. I ran into another Multitude Cultist in the chamber of elements on the seventh level. Summons, dark magic, and everything was flying around the room, because by then I had Holy summoning 4 and a very high spell resistance, it eventually came down to my 87 mana being drained the whole way with me just trying to kill the bastard before he summoned another Minor demon on me.

Note: For you people having an issue with the inventory, there's an Option called "Inventory Cursor" which lets you move the cursor down to the container area and grab items without typing the numbers.

[ April 08, 2008: Message edited by: Torak ]

[Kaelem Gaen]

Dammit, next Orc Rogue I make *Will be my third* is gonna worship that goddess lady it shows when I go LE.

[McDoomhammer]

I'm the kind of person who can never bring myself to play the predictable combinations, but I've had more patience with this game than most- I have had a dwarf priest, a lizardfolk druid and a kobold rogue.  I've actually discovered an affection for kobolds I had not hitherto known I possessed, and now can't seem to stop myself from creating kobold monks.  I have mental images of them going all yoda on multiple large enemies with tumbling, flawless dodge, flurry of blows and the like; this game has actually given me a nagging urge to play D&D proper- quite an acheivement.

[Kaelem Gaen]

Currently, the game is making me want to play a standard Dungeon Crawl, instead of a massive over-arching plot line that takes place out in the wilderness.  And that Orc bit the dust and my Goddess wasn't to happy with me.

[lumin]

I was playing yesterday and came down a hallway to find a Kobold trying to kick down a door-way.  I was sneaking, so he couldn't see me, and I watched him for a few minutes until I back-stabbed him.  I will always wonder what he was trying to do.

The cool thing about this rogue-like is that every single game is totally different than the last - and I don't just mean the level is randomized.  It seems like there are just so many possibilities with the AI, and room-placement that it never gets repetitive.

[Kagus]

I've been reading up a bit on this, and I must say that I've got a bad case of the new-game buzz.  I haven't downloaded it yet, but I'm seriously thinking about it.

I'm also seriously thinking about making one o' them alienist types.  I've never read a single Lovecraft book (don't hit me), but everything I've seen that was based off his works has been most enjoyable.  Go a little bit batty, contact critters from unthinkable dimensions, grow a beard of tentacles...  Sounds good to me.

[McDoomhammer]

Beard of tentacles?  Isn't that more PotC?
They have done some interesting things with Lovecraft in the game.  One of the religions is the standard cultists-who-worship-a-scary-tentacle-being-from-another-universe, couched in blatantly Lovecraftian language... except Kysul is a GOOD god, who dislikes damaging the sanity of mortals.

It is quite good, I reccomend trying it.

[Cthulhu]

Psh!  It's only "good" to your standards.  To you, "good" is something that's nice to you, where something that doesn't care is "evil".

Cthulhu has spoken!

[Kagus]

Now, since your name is essentially unpronouncable by human tongues (and impossible to comprehend, for that matter), should I attempt to type out the common bastardization of "Cthulhu", or simply refer to you as "The-Sleeping-God-Formerly-Known-As-Muffles"?  

I have just developed a new name for the He Who Waits.  Tsgfkam.

Also, is there any penalty for taking an atheist mage before getting the stats required for specialising, instead of going with the tentacled one from the start?  It just seems kinda funky to me to be worshiping a "good" god...  But, as The Sleeping God Formerly Known As Muffles stated, "good" is something which is simply in the eye of the beholder.  And if what I read is true, Kysul created beholders.

[McDoomhammer]

Most mage characters don't get the choice to start off with religion.  I think all dwarves can worship their god if they want, no matter the class, but they're the exception.  If you want a Kysul-mage you need to create a mage, then go off and find an altar to Kysul (Not generally too hard, as there seems to be a parthenion that caters to most of the gods, him included, in the first few levels of any given game), impress him with sacrifice, and ask to convert.

[Kagus]

Yeah, well, I kinda need to be alive for all that.  Monster-spamming is all well and fine, but stupidity is one thing it can't protect you from.

Never ever ever ever ever ever ever cast "Spiritwrack" in the middle of a graveyard.  He'd even made it to Exp. level two before his untimely death...

[Jurassiced]

dam good call on this one its like playing D&D ima huge fan (currently gening a champian) great call this is an awsome game