How many times have you won the game?

[Timo Pietilä]

This is one of my problems. I get a decent dps, I get some decent resists and health... 3 beers later and it's a tombstone.

You would be cheap date. Three beers don't affect me almost at all...assuming we talk about standard beer mug and not like 12-packs.

[Scraper]

Watching Fizzix' Let's Play Angband Youtube videos helped me a lot as well.

Yeh, these videos have helped me so much as well. I have a much better chance of winning after watching them.

I have now made it my mission to win with all 6 classes.

This is a great target... one that I will also set to achieve. Thanks for the goal.

[Scraper]

You would be cheap date. Three beers don't affect me almost at all...assuming we talk about standard beer mug and not like 12-packs.

I'm also a complete novice compared to you Timo, so... getting to a point where I can think about endgame is a HUGE challenge for me.

[Timo Pietilä]

I'm also a complete novice compared to you Timo, so... getting to a point where I can think about endgame is a HUGE challenge for me.

Patience. Diving. Combine the two and you learn really fast. Then back up that diving a bit and you win.

[Vertigo1]

just once. been to the end game some times though, but usually get smashed through carelessness

[Scraper]

just once. been to the end game some times though, but usually get smashed through carelessness

What kind of carelessness? I usually lose to a unique that I think I can handle... summoning monsters that (even in my novice state know) I can't handle.

I die with too much teleport potential...

[ekolis]

Won? Hahahaha, won... I rarely make it past DL10 of any roguelike...

[Vertigo1]

What kind of carelessness? I usually lose to a unique that I think I can handle... summoning monsters that (even in my novice state know) I can't handle.

I die with too much teleport potential...

usually something like this:
*drink 3 beers getting a character to lvl 20 or so*
*fight cave orgres till like 50hp and kite to save potions*
* . . . all in range of a basilisk*
*it breathes, you die*

[Scraper]

usually something like this:
*drink 3 beers getting a character to lvl 20 or so*
*fight cave orgres till like 50hp and kite to save potions*
* . . . all in range of a basilisk*
*it breathes, you die*

This sounds eerily familiar... I feel somewhat liberated. Misery loves company I guess.

[Timo Pietilä]

This sounds eerily familiar... I feel somewhat liberated. Misery loves company I guess.

My last death I remember clearly involves dracolisk and GCV. I had cleared the whole vault upgrading my equipment while doing that and that *lisk was in second last slot in the vault. I figured that it would be piece of cake to kill it: I had nexus resist, double-resist to cold, Pain as my weapon and more HP and speed than I needed.

Dracolisk hits you -more-
you are paralyzed -more-
WTF???

Turns out that all my 5+ items with FA got replaced by otherwise superior items without.

[Monkey Face]

I've won once.

As a matter of fact, I just won for the first time! (after about 15 years of trying!) Don't want to post my character dump yet since I want to save the winning screen until my wife gets home from work :-)

I was a level 50 HE Mage. Beat Morgy in two open rooms (teleported away to the second room when he summoned uniques) with a combination of Mana Storm, Phase Door, and Mass Banishment spells and Healing, *Healing*, and Restore Mana potions. Then went back and killed the four remaining Uniques I hadn't killed, just to complete the job. Ended up with just over 15,000,000 experience....

[Patashu]

Won? Hahahaha, won... I rarely make it past DL10 of any roguelike...

Try playing Quickband, then you can win and STILL never have made it past DL10 of any roguelike

[MattB]

I've won once.

As a matter of fact, I just won for the first time! (after about 15 years of trying!) Don't want to post my character dump yet since I want to save the winning screen until my wife gets home from work :-)

I was a level 50 HE Mage. Beat Morgy in two open rooms (teleported away to the second room when he summoned uniques) with a combination of Mana Storm, Phase Door, and Mass Banishment spells and Healing, *Healing*, and Restore Mana potions. Then went back and killed the four remaining Uniques I hadn't killed, just to complete the job. Ended up with just over 15,000,000 experience....

Congrats! - That's one experienced mage!

[fizzix]

My last death I remember clearly involves dracolisk and GCV. I had cleared the whole vault upgrading my equipment while doing that and that *lisk was in second last slot in the vault. I figured that it would be piece of cake to kill it: I had nexus resist, double-resist to cold, Pain as my weapon and more HP and speed than I needed.

Dracolisk hits you -more-
you are paralyzed -more-
WTF???

Turns out that all my 5+ items with FA got replaced by otherwise superior items without.

Ah, the good ole forget to check screen when gear swapping. I think a lot of my deaths are like this.

"Huan breathes frost, you die." No cold resist, ring with cold immunity in inventory.

"It hits you, you are paralyzed, you die." Turns out not having see invisible, free action, *or* ESP was not a good idea at dlevel 80.

"It breathes poison" survived this unresisted poison breath from Ungoliant. Good thing poison maxes out at about 850 or so.

[AnonymousHero]

I've won once.

As a matter of fact, I just won for the first time! (after about 15 years of trying!) Don't want to post my character dump yet since I want to save the winning screen until my wife gets home from work :-)

I was a level 50 HE Mage. Beat Morgy in two open rooms (teleported away to the second room when he summoned uniques) with a combination of Mana Storm, Phase Door, and Mass Banishment spells and Healing, *Healing*, and Restore Mana potions. Then went back and killed the four remaining Uniques I hadn't killed, just to complete the job. Ended up with just over 15,000,000 experience....

Congratulations!