[All variants] Most Out-of-depth monster

[Flauterfiddle]

If you turn on the "Always generate unusual rooms" option in Zangband-derived variants (including PosChengband), then every room will be a vault, a moated room, a pit, or the like. Which means that at level 1 you could be encountering monsters with a native depth of 2050' without having to pass any out-of-depth checks whatsoever. Of course if those checks did pass then the monster could be from even deeper.

I can verify that. Just tried this option for fun in PosChengBand. Was quite enjoying popping down, beating up anything I could take on and then legging it back up, after levelling up insanely fast as well.

My hydra monster proved well able to handle quite a lot of monsters from depths at 10-15, for example.

All was going very well indeed.

Until I met an Ancient Black Dragon on Level 1.

[AnonymousHero]

I think my record was Mouth of Sauron (L65)... on DL20ish... which is pretty decent.

[MattB]

Just this second, V3.5, dlvl30 ... Great Wyrm of Many Colours! That's 49 levels OOD.

He's standing on top of 'a bronze ring'. If only I had a source of TO...

[poschengbandplayer]

unprounouncable name-the patient one and an elder fire giant in depths of 1150...(both poschengband)

[UglySquirrell]

Well my Sniper recently found a magical statue of A Black Reaver, so once i threw it against the wall on level 1 that's 70 levels out of depth.

Other than that, T.O.M.E. 2.3.5 definately, i still laugh when i remember killing Moldoux, the Defenceless Mold on level 1 in the barrow downs. Can't remember exactly what was summoned, a lot of Great wyrms though.

[Derakon]

Well my Sniper recently found a magical statue of A Black Reaver, so once i threw it against the wall on level 1 that's 70 levels out of depth.

Other than that, T.O.M.E. 2.3.5 definately, i still laugh when i remember killing Moldoux, the Defenceless Mold on level 1 in the barrow downs. Can't remember exactly what was summoned, a lot of Great wyrms though.

Moldoux summons a Great Wyrm of Power when killed. Maybe only if he's killed on level 1, I forget. Maybe hilarious the first time it happens to you, probably not after that. Also probably doesn't count for purposes of this thread since it's a scripted thing (ditto with getting fated to die on level 1).

[mewmew]

I just tried 'always unusual rooms' for the very first time, met etherial dragon on Camelot 5 doing Warg quest. I think I won't touch that option again for a while ><