One of my favourite features from nethack was finding the body of previous adventurers, looking forward to seeing if any of the 4 scrolls of enchant armor from my previous dead hoarder survived... you hear many shuffling feet in the distance... Just got that new message, now to see if I can survive ...

I was being extra careful after reading this thread. Had potentially my best armor ever, carrying +3 Banded Mail and had 4 scrolls of enchant armor. Wearing some leather armor to preserve it for later, which the troll found quite amusing...

Say you have a +1,+3 mace. The first number is a bonus to hit. The second number is a bonus to damage. A mace does 2d4 damage. The d stands for dice, from role playing games where dice are used to determine outcomes. You are probably familiar with a d6 which is the normal dice, faces labelled 1 thro...

One of those days with rattlesnakes, aquators, and cursed items as well. Struggled on for level after level, ate my last food and descended to floor 14...
You sense great magic on this level!
But I won't be finding out what it was...

In addition you get +4,+4 against a single monster type. A weapon can only be vorpal against a single monster type and trying a second time overloads the fabric of space and time...

Three others comments on Neo. Neo is a killing machine with no need for ranged weapons for many monsters. Make sure you have room to retreat. Let the monster take the last step to close with you (by searching or resting), whack the monster, step away. Repeat. Since you (roughly) get a free move ever...

Hi dwright. As you probably know, the limited food is by original game design, to force you to explore quickly and plunge deeper into the dungeon. I starved to death in my second game wearing two cursed rings, and since then have been paranoid about food usage and have not starved to death in around...

Like Kennfusion, my characters often suffer strength and armor disasters. One sorry individual actually explored a whole level with strength 3 before a pitiful end. Tonight I was looking good. An early test use of a wand polymorphed a leprechaun into a vampire and gave me a nasty fright, but a furth...

Hurrah for doors on mini-map in 1.1! I find the map looks slightly odd, and think it is because the walls of the room are drawn in the same color as the room. This also makes corridors touching a room appear part of the room. Perhaps the room walls could be a different colour, perhaps a light colour...

The equipment of the group hinted at above is amusingly in theme. :) I ran my battery down tonight guessing since my one discovery was scheduled for removal in 1.1 (available now!), quickly found 5 in this group, FB, and just one more I found on my own... My most creative failed attempt: Wally the W...