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[0x517A5D]

What I want to know is: do I need to be keeping notes of the recipes I find?  Or do I have a personal library that persists between characters?

How would it persist between characters? What in-game reason other than the character looking like an identical twin of the last guy to die in the dungeon is there for you to keep a knowledge base of things previous characters have found?

There is some "prior art" in this direction.  E.g. Angband preserves a library of what you (the player) have learned about the monsters.  Nethack, of course, has its bones levels.  Dwarf Fortress persists the entire world, though I acknowledge there's in-game logic for that.  So there's precedence for retaining state between games.

Now.  Could you answer the question, please?  Does the recipe library preserve your discoveries?

[Aklyon]

It does not.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, of course not. It's character-specific. (which could probably be derived from my frustrated-ish answer/question, but yeah, should've been more direct)

It's kind of what I like about these games, they make you depend on luck.

[Mindmaker]

Nearly cleared floor 5.

Spoiler: Artifact Katana (click to show/hide)

Took a lot of Krom enchants, one reroll and another two Krom enchants to get it to this state.

[3]

That's pretty impressive. I don't think it'd be overly spoilery for me to say that it won't get you through to the end of the game, though.

My most recent game (unarmed + vamp tank) was going extremely well - if very slowly - until the end of level 5 wherein a named Icy Golem, panic and Pact of Fleeting Life combined to make my doom. I guess it says something that all the deaths of my promising characters so far have been due to me overextending myself and staying in melee too long.

Edit: A bit late, but a characteristically snarky response for Sean: It's just not right that I should know to genocide mind flayers ahead of time. It's just not right that I should know what to wish for. In fact, pretty much every single tactic used that makes Roguelikes of nearly any description even possible is "not right" by your standards.

[Mindmaker]

That's pretty impressive. I don't think it'd be overly spoilery for me to say that it won't get you through to the end of the game, though.

I assume you mean "Good luck trying to melee Lord Dredmor...", but that's exactly what I'm planning to do.
Does he get distracted by summons like everything else?

[3]

Personally, I didn't get a chance to see (his lightning critkilled me before I could get close). As far as I've heard the problem with trying to fight him head-on is that his attacks do so much damage that you'll never be able to absorb a crit no matter how much damage absorbtion you have. Besides, the resistances + trap affinity on that katana are nice, but you'll probably find something with 30+ total damage by level 9.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Edit: A bit late, but a characteristically snarky response for Sean: It's just not right that I should know to genocide mind flayers ahead of time. It's just not right that I should know what to wish for. In fact, pretty much every single tactic used that makes Roguelikes of nearly any description even possible is "not right" by your standards.

Well, from an in-universe standpoint, yes. But the issue with wishing, or the mind flayers - you know of them ahead of time because of the metagame knowledge, but there's no other way for you to know this. There's no hidden library that tells you of the mind flayers, no scribbled note from a past adventurer that tells you of the effect of wishing for something or other. It's metagame, but it's not in discord with the game itself, so even if I don't like it, I can live with it. Here, however, metagame knowledge is overriding a gameplay element. Finding good recipes to make is equivalent to finding good items on sale in shops, or good loot in an UberChest. Being able to use any recipe without discovering it beforehand is therefore a bug, and I intend to treat it as such.

[eggrock]

The Knightly Leap from the Artful Dodger skill path is useful to the point of being broken because it allows you to teleport onto doors. (Perfect for those of you short on lockpicks.) Once you're in the door you can advance through or retreat if necessary.

Caveat: I just started playing and am at level 2. I don't know if things will start opening doors at lower levels of the dungeon.

[Aklyon]

How do you get Knightly Leap to work? i tried to use it before and right clicking did nothing.

[eggrock]

You move just like a chess knight, 2 spaces in one direction, one space in a direction perpendicular to the first direction.

I've only been able to get it working on doors.

[3]

Misclicking/making an invalid move wastes a turn, by the way, so don't get it wrong in a pinch or you'll probably die.

Teleporting onto doors is a fantastic idea. Elsewhere, Knightly Leap recovers so fast that it's certainly superior to the invisibility/escape portion of Burglary (so long as you're not backed into a corner - which you shouldn't be, it's not like this game is real-time) and combined with the aformentioned tactic makes Burglary utterly obsolete for anything other than getting some extra experience and items (not as much as Tinkerer gets you anyway).

[Beorne]

Don't put a lutefisk cube into a lutefisk cube ....

[Darvi]

x/0

[amjh]

Don't put a lutefisk cube into a lutefisk cube ....

Is that five or six now?