ToME WikiGot exposed to Moria around 1999, soon discovered Zangband (in which I played almost exclusively Beastman Chaos Warriors and scummed for mutations with Polymorph -- it was fun). Played that off and on for a while. Came back from a year in Sweden in Summer 2003 and found that ToME was the next big thing, and got into it myself. After some initial fooling around, I settled on playing Half-Elf LostSoul Mindcrafters, until I finally won with one on 11/8/2004 (my dad's 55th birthday). Here are my postmortem thoughts on that one, including a lot of ideas on Mindcrafters and LostSouls (and not so much about Half-Elves).
At the moment I'm playing a lot of Yeek Summoners (some LostSouls, some not). Got one to level 39. Next time I get that far I'll do a dump.
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Characters that aren't dead yet
Zen, DeathMold Possessor, level 41. Currently inhabiting a Marilith. Had a really cool ego sword (Elemental Dark Sword of Gondolin or something, I've forgotten now) that got busted up by stupid Uvatha the stupid Horseman.
- Harper, the Dunadan Archer, level 35. Currently pushing his luck in Mordor because I'm kind of bored playing an archer.
Tripper, the Hobbit Rogue who only uses traps, level 10. Trappers are fun! Very hard though, obviously. I've been getting some use out of the dwarf-summoning floor inscription, because life's too short to individually trap 20 snotlings all the time. Oh, and I do occasionally use a zero-damage melee attack just to wake a monster up, because it's less keystrokes than going berzerker and resting, then going un-berzerker etc.
Stupid Death Log
I run characters of the same name and type over and over, so I'll list stupid deaths by character.
Simon, the Yeek Summoner
- FF quest for death swords at 150'. Ran right down a corridor into one.
Tripper, the Hobbit Rogue who only uses traps
- A mean-looking mercenary stole my only trap, and I got him angry when I tried to steal it back.
- Got to about level 10. Finally beat the Giant Salamander princess quest on 50'. At 100', it was... Wormtongue. Great. He started right in on stealing my traps -- I managed to steal one back from him, then I ran into him when I was out of teleport scrolls. I got to a jumpgate in the nick of time... and caught an arrow in the face from a kobold archer. Dead. Argh.
Lost, the Half-Elf LostSoul Mindcrafter
The first time I got a LostSoul to the surface, I went and did the Wight grave quest. I put a void jumpgate in the wrong place, and the stairs back up weren't generated. I didn't have a Word of Recall scroll, so I starved to death. Was level 39.
- Got to level 50 and was in good shape to win. Got knocked out by a Grand Master Mystic -- I had never seen that happen before, and was shocked that I could be paralyzed by a stupid melee attack when I had all my resists covered. Anyway, I didn't wake up.
- Another one that got to level 50 died on the Thunderlords quest. Somebody summoned Flare, and not realizing this I did Mindwave and pissed him off. He killed me. I guess he wanted his ring back.