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[metime00]

And every shop owner will have inevitably starved to death 20 years before your adventurer was born!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Create a new adventurer, walk into an armour shop and pick up/equip everything you can.
Then retire, restart and recruit this fellow. He (probably) won't even be a criminal.
Rinse and repeat as desired. =D

Ooh now that's fiendishly clever. Even without knocking off a bunch of loot, having a party of demigod-level NPCs is probably gonna be a vast improvement on the kind of guys you can recruit at forts.

Clever, but it doesn't work. It is impossible to retire while holding or wearing someone else's goods, at least in 31.18.

[Deadly Lamarr]

Create a new adventurer, walk into an armour shop and pick up/equip everything you can.
Then retire, restart and recruit this fellow. He (probably) won't even be a criminal.
Rinse and repeat as desired. =D

Ooh now that's fiendishly clever. Even without knocking off a bunch of loot, having a party of demigod-level NPCs is probably gonna be a vast improvement on the kind of guys you can recruit at forts.

Clever, but it doesn't work. It is impossible to retire while holding or wearing someone else's goods, at least in 31.18.

You can retire, but not on the site that you steal from. You can retire at another site in the civ, and when you re-enter the game you'll be a criminal in the eyes of the site gov't where you committed your theft, but not in the civ in general.

I did this by accident during my transmutation experiments (Never steal from people you do not intend to kill: that's my motto. It's just not moral otherwise.)  and just now confirmed it by stealing a boatload of weapons and armor and retiring elsewhere.

It's pretty funny how everyone at a site can hate you for stealing strawberries, by the by.

[runiq]

It's pretty funny how everyone at a site can hate you for stealing strawberries, by the by.

I have your words written down and shall quote them at an appropriate moment in the future.

[Deadly Lamarr]

It's pretty funny how everyone at a site can hate you for stealing strawberries, by the by.

I have your words written down and shall quote them at an appropriate moment in the future.

As you wish, my good sir.

Also, Firefly's awesome and you're awesome for linking to a Firefly clip.

[Elvisdogs]

If you have Genesis installed:

1. Giraffes are deadly
2. Ezarkarim Elves suck in ambushes
3. Fireball arrows/bolts WILL save your life in bogeymen situations

And in more general advice:

install genesis

[rarborman]

Tip: When fighting things direct your attack and look for the cyan "!" on heads while you do it, it is always at least a hit, and somtimes depending on what you get to use an instant kill, and go for the lower body if there arnt any, something cant fight you if it is vomiting.

[Urist McBusDriver]

It is possible to travel solo away from towns for long distances (ie, forced to sleep in the open) if your agility is high enough and you're reasonably armoured. When your fast-travel/sleep is interrupted by cackling, just keep running and (I'm finding with my current axeman) you'll be able to outrun most of the bogeymen. Most. If there's four or five near you, maybe one can outrun you while the rest get left behind - just turn around and smack him in whatever area's most likely to cause a hit, any hit, and try to get him to fall over.

Of course you could just bring a couple of meatshields instead.

[lowbart]

I only seem to run into bogeymen in forests. There are other nasty things in badlands, deserts, tundras, etc, but not in the same numbers as bogeymen. So if you're alone and there's a mixture of wet and dry biomes, stick to the deserts at night.

[em312s0n]

When traveling from one nation to another your coins from the previous nation  dont mean shit anymore so spend all your money buying gems and shit before you go...

[Rallan]

Right, things I've learned the hard way.

1) Never be outside alone after dark. Bogeymen will kick your ass unless you're ridiculously good.

2) Never sleep outside with less than a dozen companions in your party. If even a kobold with a copper spear gets to you before you wake up, you're dead.

3) If you see dwarves or goblins early in your career, run. They always seem to travel in large groups and are just about the only NPCs with armour.

4) Until you've got iron armour, wear as many layers of as much crap as possible. Nothing sucks like losing a foot because you didn't think those copper low boots were worth putting on.

5) Archers and crossbowmen are very temporary companions, because they're hosed once they run out of ammunition. Don't bother recruiting any until immediately before you're going after something badass like a minotaur or a titan.

6) Weapon skills are easy to raise. They're what kobolds and wild animals were invented for.

7) Turn off dodge before you wade into that bandit camp that's surrounded by murky ponds.

Don't take missions against anything except night creatures and bandits until your shield and <mainweapon> skills are ridiculously good.

9) Shops will become pretty much totally useless after three or four missions.

[Vastin]

A few skill training and basic combat tips I've learned:

- Shield and Dodge are difficult to raise w/o getting yourself killed, but they are very useful. I generally start with as many points in these as I can so that I don't have to worry about them for a while. As a side benefit, you'll sometimes start with a very nice shield (I got a steel one once).

- Start training Ambushing immediately. Just turn on stealth and walk along the roads in close up view to get where you are going until you've got a couple levels of it. Don't bother to put any starting points into it.

- Ambushing and bows work very well together. Once you've reached competent ambushing you can often fire at enemies with impunity from 5-6 squares away, which lets you train marksmanship (or throwing) fairly easily.

- Fighting and Wrestling are VERY easy to raise. If you can manage to disable one human or goblin type opponent, rather than finishing them off with a weapon, put them in a choke lock and gradually choke them to death. This takes dozens of rounds and will very rapidly train both these skills, so you can forgo putting any points into them initially - as long as you can find some way to win that first fight.

- Never fire from closer than 6 squares. After each shot with a missile weapon there is an enormous delay during which your enemies will get several actions - usually stabbing you to death.

- Human is probably the easiest starting race, as all those bandits you fight early on may drop some usable armor, and all the human towns sell it. Dwarfs and elves are considerably harder to find armor for.

- Approach enemy camps very cautiously. Use stealth when possible and size up the opposition. Companions make this hard, so I usually only bring them along when I need to tackle something especially deadly, like a troll, where the soldiers make a nice distraction while you move in for the kill.

[Brotato]

I also want to try adventure mode and am wondering what are the controls?

[Angel Of Death]

Don't sleep outside of places when on a quest to kill somebody. Chances are they'll find you while you're asleep and kill you.

[Oakeave]

When alone at night, and you want to go to sleep. Go near a tree and press (h) hold the branches above you and press (<) to to go up. Repeat until you've reached the top and then go to sleep. The boogeymen can't get me. Usually. If the tree is low, there's a high chance the bogeymen will attack you from 1 Z-level down, don't know how they do it, but it increases !FUN!