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[Tarran]

1 should not be done on graveyard levels (you will get various messages about it being scary, like your hair standing up), since on those levels wraiths leave no corpses.

Incorrect. They do leave corpses on those levels, just not as often.

On levels containing graveyards, undead creatures are less likely to leave corpses. This includes wraiths, whose corpses are highly desirable.

[Cthulhu]

My favorite NetHack trick is wishing for a Cursed Scroll of Genocide(summons a bunch of whatever you try to genocide).

Then you have two fun options:

1)  Genocide Wraiths, kill them(hopefully without being drained of a level) and then eat their corpses for free level ups.
2)  Take off all your clothes, genocide Nurses, and let them buff your health like crazy.

That seems like a waste of a wish to me.  If you're at the point where there aren't more pressing items on your wishlist (DSM, artifacts, other ascension kit items) leveling up is basically just trading a few more HP for stronger monsters.  Reverse genociding nurses on a no-teleport is pretty cool though, but I still don't think it's worth a wish.  A better bet is to wish for a blessed magic marker and write yourself a cursed scroll.  Papers golems show up often enough that you should have a good collection of cursed blanks to write, and as long as you remember to write a blessed scroll of charging along with it that magic marker is going to be way more useful than either of those genocides.

[Lightning4]

I love what this game can do sometimes.

I screwed up reading a spellbook once and got stunned for a very, very long time. Cue a wood nymph. It promptly stole everything I owned and repeatedly zapped me with a wand. My HP held out enough for the wand to wear out, so she proceeded to go through my potions and scrolls.
She found a scroll of earth. A boulder promptly crushed her into a pancake. I managed to survive the boulder that landed on me, only barely. Finally could move again after all that.
Unfortunately, while trying to recover my stuff, I broke her looking glass, earning myself bad luck.

Next thing I knew, bees. A massive, massive swarm of bees. I did not survive. The game does not mess around when you have bad luck.


Then in the very next game, I find that as a bones level. I should note this game has been awesome too.
Ice box next to aligned altar in Minetown. Promptly got myself Magicbane and two other artifact swords I will probably not use. I'm now roaming the depths with a dog, a seriously powerful pit fiend like 10 levels above me that used to be a dog, and a queen bee that also used to be a dog. Somehow the pit fiend happened when he ate a chameleon corpse, and I have honestly no clue how the latter dog turned into a bee. Coincidentally, I was fighting a queen bee of a hive when he came in like that.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I just started a new character after a two-month hiatus. I'm absolutely swimming in scrolls of identify.

EDIT: Forgot I didn't have gloves. Petrified by a cockatrice corpse. Had two magic lamps too, although one was cursed and the other was uncursed. Minetown gave me a lot of stuff - the two lamps, a towel, a magic whistle, and it allowed me to ID scrolls of enchant armor (offered 40, so I wielded a cursed scroll of identify and read the unknown) and identify.

EDIT2:



I am now worthy of the name Urist.

[eerr]

Ahaha, I just thought up the best ascension challenge.

Drag a statue of your former self up to the altar.

[eerr]

Where's the fun in that
Anyone got any tips for a zen game? I keep getting killed shortly after encountering Rodney.

You know that wands of probing let you view what's written on scrolls?

Just zap yourself.(or so I read)

The wiki doesn't say anything about that, so I doubt that's true.

The wiki isn't ominscient. There were even one or two changes during 3.4.0-3.4.1
Good luck finding them.
And I only got it because I've scoured all over for spoilers.
(no ascensions, hell, I haven't even cracked the vibrating square.

[eerr]

Lesson learned, don't chat up a minetown priest if your last adventurer pissed him off.

He can, and will, bust yo ass.

Also, my previous ghost by a different name, was asleep? Dunno how that works.

[0x517A5D]

Lesson learned, don't chat up a minetown priest if your last adventurer pissed him off.

He can, and will, bust yo ass.

Only if the last char had the same name.  Otherwise he'll just be in a bad mood.

[Angel Of Death]

Beside liches, what race should I genocide?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Footrices.
Always.

[kcwong]

I disagree... footrices are easy to deal with. Plus you lose such a potent weapon.

; - Eels if you don't have oilskin cloak.
R - Disenchanter is really annoying.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, but there's always that moment where you're blind and your gloves have been disintigrated.
One will always be there.

[kcwong]

Hey, if your gloves can be disintegrated (i.e. no magic resistance) you have much bigger problems than footrices...

n - Genocide nymphs if you have genocide scrolls to spare?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Excellent point.
But when doing a Zen game, you take what you can get   

[Angel Of Death]

Oh, btw, I'm playing Slash'em. I'm surprised nobody has said to genocide Master Mind Flayers yet.