My kobold assassin Rooz was just sneaking along, looting the dungeon and stabbing sleeping vermin when he opened a door and found a most dreadful sight: a pack of jackals accompanied by their foul ogre master. The jackals barked at Rooz, betraying his position and awakening the ogre, who brandished a giant club bigger than Rooz himself. The ogre looked
extremely dangerous.
Rooz hacked at the pack of jackals from the doorstep with his +4 +3 orc shortsword he lifted off some dumb (now dead) goblin from earlier, killing several of the jackals as they scrambled through the doorway, but the ogre got too close. Rooz retreated, baiting the ogre and his single remaining jackal into following as he readied his blowgun and his two curare-tipped needles, which he saved for just such a life-threatening occasion. He shot a needle, poisoning the ogre with asphyxiating toxins that slowed the monster's breathing and filled it with pain. The ogre fell back and Rooz managed to kill the last jackal before turning on the ogre itself. Rooz threw a spare dart or two, but the ogre kept coming; the poison was wearing off!
The ogre swung his giant treetrunk of a club, dealing a crushing blow to poor Rooz, but he clung to life! He ran further, desperately scrabbling away from the ogre. The ogre drove Rooz into a chokepoint, trapping Rooz between the ogre and a new-found goblin who looked eager to join the fray and stab our kobold hero in the back! Rooz had little hope left. He threw a dart! The dart nailed the ogre with the force of desperation and drove what battered, sickened life that remained out of its body! The monstrosity was slain!
Rooz turned around flung another single dart at the awestruck goblin behind him, splattering goblin brains all over the walls in celebration of his badassery. Looks like ogre flesh was on the menu.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Hellz yeah, I'm loving the kobold assassin I decided to try out. The ogre took my health from 24 to 4 in a single swing, I'm amazed I survived. Killing the ogre buffed me from level 3 to level 5; you know that's an impressive kill. Afterwords I oneshotted a goblin with a single thrown dart, just for extra badass points. This was all on Dlvl 2, and as a kobold no less.
I am luvvin' this roguelike.