i almost never play video games, but when i do it is a roguelike of some sort
right now i am playing Super Lots Added Stuff Hack – Extended Magic aka slashem
it is pretty fun, i am trying to be a monk doppelganger neutral lady
Doppelganger Wizard for the Win. Not literally for the win; I’ve only ever ascended in vanilla Nethack rather than SLASH’EM, but you know what I mean.
Oh hey, more people play NetHack! It’s on my list of ways to kill a…week…if I ever happen to have no obligations.
I’M PLAYING SLASH’EM AGAIN BECAUSE OF THIS POST THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
Decided that I’d start off by winning, since I haven’t played in a while, so I rolled up a doppelganger Wizard, and what should I start with but a ring of polymorph control. This is a very promising turn zero.
Sounds good. Doppelgangers are fun, from what I recall of Slash’em. I mostly stuck to vanilla Nethack, though, and I haven’t even played that in quite a while. I go to Crawl for my roguelike fix these days.
I’ve never technically ascended in Nethack (I have ascended once in Crawl, as a Spriggan Enchanter), but I do have a Wizard that is basically omnipotent and could pretty much win any time I wanted. I wanted to do it extinctionist, because small-child me loved reading Nethack guides (probably even more than she loved playing it) and that challenge sounded like one to try. I’m mostly there, but I got bored, drifted away, and…dear gods, I think that was two computers ago. That’s at least three and a half years. (I copied the savefile from the old computer, and copied it again when I moved to this one on the off chance I ever decide to pick it up again. I figure it’s not savescumming if you’re only messing with the savefile to cheat out-of-universe virtual death.)
I’m rusty enough that I’d probably have to play some other Nethack games before going back to that one, to reduce the chances of forgetting some detail or other and making a fatal mistake. I still love reading game guides, but I haven’t read any Nethack ones lately.
(Did you know you can play Rogue in a browser emulator? I keep meaning to try it out. It seems like an experience I should have.)
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