Egoless Dwarf Priest Winner

[TJS]

I think lack of infravision and see invisible would make that very very hard. At least until you find amulet of magi, or use valuable ring slot for ring of see invisible.

Possible but very very difficult, maybe in area of "bored to death" -difficult.

You could use staves and scrolls of see invisible and then potions of true seeing when you need to or swap a ring of see invisible in.

Someone has got to want to try it.

[Derakon]

The whole "it can be thrown for damaging effect" is on damn near everything, stupidly so. The vast majority of thrown items deal only 1d1 damage.

[AnonymousHero]

Well, it's the logical continuation of everything, isn't it? Wear absolutely no items, ironman, use only thrown items (NOT weapons, mind!), etc. etc. and win.

(Seriously, congratulations Bron and PowerDiver on your respective accomplishments. Seriously hardcore.)

[Bostock]

Beat Angband without even actually playing it! Beat Angband... with your mind!

(Does anybody else ever have those dreams where they're rogueliking and discover to their chagrin that they're dreaming when they find nice loot and are then unable to save the game?)

[buzzkill]

I wonder if you could win without killing anything except uniques. Would that provide you enough XP to level up. You would probably need some killer stealth.

[Derakon]

Almost certainly, especially if you don't include equipment limitations. Remember that the amount of experience you get for a kill increases drastically when your level is lower than it should; thus, unique-only kills should easily get you into the upper-30s/lower-40s at least, which is more than enough to take on Morgy.

The biggest problem would be having to deal with summoned (non-unique) monsters. That, and the incredible tedium of gearing up without being able to kill things.

[fph]

The whole "it can be thrown for damaging effect" is on damn near everything, stupidly so. The vast majority of thrown items deal only 1d1 damage.

Then why is this sentence displayed in chardumps only for *healing* and life potions? See e.g. http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=10881.

[PowerDiver]

The whole "it can be thrown for damaging effect" is on damn near everything, stupidly so. The vast majority of thrown items deal only 1d1 damage.

Any such message should state the damage or be removed.