The Angband Ladder

Quentu, Oangband L21 Necromancer High-Elf

By ranger jeff

Quendi, Oangband L23 Necromancer High-Elf

By Nick

Comment: Just sold all my jewellery and magic devices, plus a Westernesse and copy of Frightfil Realms, so I could buy Mysteries of Angmar from the BM. My first dungeon book for this comp!

Daedalus, Angband L49 Ranger High-Elf

By OOD Town drunk

Comment: Just found my end-game weapon. Sh-shaa! (like dale gribble)

Quen, Oangband L25 Necromancer High-Elf

By the Invisible Stalker

Comment: Lots of resistance holes, but as usual the main risk to this character will be from player carelessness.

Quen, Oangband L19 Necromancer High-Elf

By yrriban

Comment: Well that ended poorly. Really should've looked harder for a source of teleportation.

Quenny, Oangband L16 Necromancer High-Elf

By Volrik

Denis Davydoff, Steamband L42 Dashing Hussa Russian

By <hspeed@yandex.ru>

Quen, Oangband L26 Necromancer High-Elf

By Philip

Comment: Lack of Free action killed me. Also lack of detection.

Ormach, Sil L15084569 no-class Noldor Feanor

By debo

Comment: Tried to get away with playing no stealth. Was trying to blast a kemen to pieces with a blasting horn while surrounded. I fought the combination of kemenrauko + greater werewolves no less than 9 times before finally getting totally annoyed with it and playing poorly. Should have quaffed quickness, at least.

Nightshade, ToME L50 Mage Dark-Elf

By divinecloudburst

Comment: Void winner? Nice.

Quen, Oangband L16 Necromancer High-Elf

By Roch

Comment: Kinda painful going -- little gold, can't count on the town having recall or identify.

Nimble Hector, Chengband L30 Rogue Demigod

By dzhang

Comment: [DL Lair 60 / Angband 37] [CL 30] 3:48

Fingolfin, randart boots, and a couple stat potions. Also a Defender weapon which is about 35% worse for damage than Sting, but I have to use it for RPois and Levitation at the moment. AC is getting better at 143 now. A few more Angband quests and !oCON, and I should be ready for Cloning Pits.

Whisper, Sil L14081373 no-class Noldor Feanor

By manchu

Comment: Took a break for a while. Came back and ran this great stealth char. Made a boo boo with the Kemen. Forgot it was crit immune. Shoulda just ran. I was getting stupid crits with this sword!

Illoomorpheme, PosChengband L50 Monster Jelly

By clouded

Comment: Didn't want to scum for consumables, went and died to the serpent.

Finden, Sil L13094359 no-class Edain Haleth

By taptap

Comment: Unlucky Haleth archer - still my deepest Haleth so far. Quite a lot of stair use here. Took quite a while until I found bow and arrows. Next time I will dive faster and play more consciously pacifist. Trying out special melee weapons with an archer has no benefit but a lot of risk (vampiric weapon uh), sloppy play.

Anya, Oangband L36 Warrior Shadow Fairy

By Philip

Comment: Dying at -1hp is intensely irritating, especially with a total of about 50 healing potions. This character got screwed over in some ways, but had a lot of luck in others. Forasgil was an excellent find, allowing me to do damage and I had telepathy, but I lacked both speed and TeleOther, at least one of which would really have helped. I suffered a really nasty statswap STR INT which hampered my play a lot, suddenly I couldn't carry anything and couldn't do damage, but I quickly found the gloves of Power.

Gothil, Ironband L24 Adventurer High-Elf

By the Invisible Stalker

Quen, Oangband L16 Necromancer High-Elf

By ranger jeff

Comment: This is a tough variant! Many close calls, and resources scarce.

Should've left the level after I ran out of !CCW. Never even saw what killed me, but blind, I was helpless. I killed whatever it was, but heavily poisoned and blind, I gained little satisfaction from that feat, as I paused on my last turn (0 hit points and about to die) and decided what to do. Activate the Phial of Galadriel! Maybe she'll save me!

Would be hilarious to work in random bits like that into a variant, extremely situational unexpected results.

Ah me, I'm rambling though I'm dead...

8 Iron, Sil L15079740 no-class Noldor Feanor

By HallucinationMushroom

Comment: Maybe werewolf bane would be better... I actually thought you could take bane over and over again, so it was good to learn that you must choose only one. Having master hunter off of the table hurts, as does momentum. Those two really add to the lack of combat effectiveness I'm used to for getting out of hairy situations. I was able to kill quite a lot of cats, and a dozen or so of these greater werewolves, but I eventually got worn down.

I thought I had bit the dust when I got stuck in a room by a grotesque. I had a shovel, but no big damage dealer... I had to chug all my strength and rage and I managed to escape.

It was fun playing with flanking... I was much more capable surviving fights in big open rooms with lots of monsters around than in 1v2 scenarios in corridors. Very different stuff for me.

Andor, Angband L19 Paladin Human

By eMeM

Comment: Yes I reroll my chars to get poor stats combos. Maybe CON is still too high. I always have problems with speed in early game.