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[Akura]

One good thing about edibly dangerous corpses is that you can sell them to Terinyo shopkeeper(or any merchant who specializes in food). Also a plus, if you need to preserve the corpse indefinitely, they do not rot in the shop.

Of course, eating and selling them aren't the only things you can do with a corpse, he he...

Spoiler: Whaaat? (click to show/hide)

Humanoid corpses can be raised if you're a necromancer or have the necromancy skill somehow, and chaos creature corpses can by given to the Terinyo druid for potions of cure corruption.

[Taniec]

ADOM is by far my favorite traditional roguelike. Most other games are go through dungeon, find special item, leave dungeon. The detailed background story and

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

multiple ways to beat the game

in ADOM gives it the edge versus others. I have yet to beat the game, but I can get to mid-late game content with regular frequency.

[Seriyu]

I did manage to rescue the puppy with a troll beastfighter, but he spawned next to the staircase sooooo kinda easier then usual.

Aside from that haven't even made it to the Caverns of Chaos yet, although I did find the small cave. Likin' the overworld too.

EDIT: Oh he had the candle starsign too, so I suppose that takes even more of the achievement away from it.

[supermalparit]

There is a ranking of people who beated the game. You can send your log (when you beat the game), they check it and, if all it's ok, your name/character appear in the rank.

http://adom.brinkster.net/hof/

I'm in the position 357 (of 375). I remember, when I posted my log (june 2003), there was only 8 (!!!) guys in the rank.

Anybody can beat Morco? The human monk!

[Akura]

Troll healers born under Candle. Try to kill them, I dare ya.

Spoiler: Also, troll farmers. (click to show/hide)

Troll anything really, they can tank with pretty much any class, and spellcaster classes aren't impossible for them. Their main downsides are slower level gain(bad especially for Elementalists), and short lifespan(run the fuck away from ghost anythings).

They also cannot reach the minimum turns-per-heal(the hidden stat that measures how many turns must past before regenerating a hitpoint), due to the fact they cannot use Troll Blood potions. It's not too much of a downside, since they can still use troll corpses(the minimum is one higher than potions), and I don't think turns-per-heal factors in the Healing skill or Healthy talent, or any other trait.

And I think every troll class starts with a two-handed club, which isn't half-bad unless you're something that shouldn't use it, like monk or beastfighter.

[Seriyu]

So should I just change the title of the thread to just "ADOM thread" and cut out the middle man? :p

[Kay12]

You could do that.

Anyone here played Omega? It probably served as inspiration to ADOM. It's even more open and detailed, and has several factions with their own victory conditions... too bad it's not very playable and random WTF deaths happen too often. Not to mention the inventory handling. Ughhh...

[Angel Of Death]

Troll healers born under Candle. Try to kill them, I dare ya.

Spoiler: Also, troll farmers. (click to show/hide)

Troll anything really, they can tank with pretty much any class, and spellcaster classes aren't impossible for them. Their main downsides are slower level gain(bad especially for Elementalists), and short lifespan(run the fuck away from ghost anythings).

They also cannot reach the minimum turns-per-heal(the hidden stat that measures how many turns must past before regenerating a hitpoint), due to the fact they cannot use Troll Blood potions. It's not too much of a downside, since they can still use troll corpses(the minimum is one higher than potions), and I don't think turns-per-heal factors in the Healing skill or Healthy talent, or any other trait.

And I think every troll class starts with a two-handed club, which isn't half-bad unless you're something that shouldn't use it, like monk or beastfighter.

Trolls are all good until a ghost taps them on the shoulder to say "Dude, you left your club back there", killing them.

[Toaster]

I can't stand playing trolls due to the slow levelling.  I even took them out of random selection.

One of these days I will win with an Orc Mindcrafter.  I try it every time I get the Tree sign.

(I like the slightly off-center combos- my single win is a hurtling beastfighter or barbarian (I forget which))

[Seriyu]

I gotta say ever since I started starting  () in the small cave my new charecter mortality rate has went waaaaay up. Any tips for that place? I understand I need the waterproof blanket later.

[Tarran]

It's going to be brutal no matter what, but there's an important thing to pay attention to:

Newly generated enemies (that aren't starting ones) are always double the level of you. KEEP AS LOW A LEVEL AS YOU CAN WHILE FUMBLING AROUND and avoid unnecessary killing. Find the blanket ASAP and LEAVE THAT LEVEL AS SOON AS YOU FIND THE BLANKET (the levels below are a different dungeon entirely, and are waaaaaaay safer than the Small Cave).

[Akura]

It should be noted though, that the enemies genned in the Small Cave are kinds that never have any particular outstanding abilities. Notably, none have See Invisible. Very useful if you plan to go through the rest of it later on.

Spoiler: Especially... (click to show/hide)

Since you have if you plan an Ultra ending.

[Seriyu]

Ah yeh, I'd looked up the double enemy level thing, I just wasn't sure if there was anything to be done, although the invisibility thing is good to know. Along with the floors below not being affected by the double level thing. I assume you don't typically find an invisibility granting equip before when you need the waterproof blanket? That temple in the lake I presume?

[Gamerlord]

Okay, how the hell do I get food in this game?

[Taniec]

The best source of food with satiation to weight ratio is at the arena in the CoC where you can trade for fried lizards with the ratlings. Fried bat is the the next best thing but anything else just isn't worth it. Cheap too. Rations from the starting town are only really good for getting across the wilderness to the CoC. Some corpse effects are lethal and can affect your stats in the long term, but a lot of them are useful for getting most of the resist in the game. If you have a character with Food Preservation it increases the chance of a killed monster to actually drop a corpse but it isn't THAT necessary, but still one of the better and useful skills to have compared to other skills like music (unless you are a bard that is).

Equipment that grants invisibility is very hard to find (and it speeds up hunger too), and you're best bet to be honest would be to get invisibility from pool drinking (which does not affect hunger), but that in itself is risky behavior and you would want to be be lucky and have fate smiles before you dry up the pools which are not that hard to find in the game. There is actually a dungeon in the game that has guaranteed pools.

For all the time I have put into this game I would throw a mental party in my head for when I finally do beat it.