More Newbie Help? Oh yeah.

[Slick]

Using any of those will get you killed eventually. Inscribe your books and use m1h, m1b, m3b instead.

to each, his own. I've been playing Rougelikes since Rogue in the early '80s and it's just a hard habit to break. I always keep ~4 of the burnable books and never have a problem.


edit: not that Rogue had spellbooks or anything, but Moria's spellbooks are very similar to Angband's, and I played WAY too much Moria in the late '80s too.

[PowerDiver]

to each, his own. I've been playing Rougelikes since Rogue in the early '80s and it's just a hard habit to break. I always keep ~4 of the burnable books and never have a problem.

We play differently then. I do not carry copies of all burnable books to the end of the game. For example, my current priest has not carried the first spellbook since cLevel 31. In a game of inventory management, it is important to be able to dispense with unneeded slots. My most recent mage carried all 4 town books to the end, but even he dropped the cheap books to pick up loot before recalling. My last ranger had non-consecutive spellbooks also from cLevel 31 on. The rogue from my "tales" had non-consecutive spellbooks from cLevel 27 on. I suppose if you only play mages and warriors it might not be a terrible problem, but selecting spellbooks with letters is a really bad practice.

[Mondkalb]

If you are used to it, it is very hard to change. I don't use macros for spellbooks and don't have any problems with it. (Sometimes I use the wrong letters because I switch between playing paladins, rangers, and rogues.)

I still have problems with the new shop behavior because I am used to press the space bar multiple times (many years of doing so automatically can't be eradicated right away).