I am a relatively new player, having only begun experimenting with Angband (the Vanilla version, haven't seen any of the others yet). However, I have noticed a VERY disturbing trend, and I want to know if I am the only one who has this issue.
Basically, it boils down to this. Whenever I dare to create a character who is NOT a High Elf (and therefore, born with the See Invisible intrinsic), I inevitably run into an invisible monster on D1 or D2 which proceeds to violate me in every orifice while drilling a few extras just for the sheer horror of it all. I have piled up 49 character deaths in the past 72 hours, all of them characters that (real time) lasted less than ten minutes a piece. I simply wandered into the dungeon and died, at the hands of things I never even saw. It's gotten to the point where I have deleted my scorefile several times because I am ashamed to even have to look at it.
My question is, has anyone else had this problem, and more importantly, has anyone found a way to circumvent it? I'd love to try something besides High Elves, but so far, they appear to be the only race with ANY survivability; I currently have two surviving characters, a level 5 Mage who I just started, and a level 12 Warrior who I have been playing off and on since I downloaded the game (he was my first character). My only two High Elves, and the only ones who haven't fallen prey to early invisibles. Thoughts?