This page contains links to the “morgue” files for my most successful Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup characters. (also included: those that met their untimely demise in hilarious ways). I don’t want to make blog posts for each time this occurs, so I’ll just update this page periodically.

I’ve been playing various Roguelikes (Angband, Moria, ADOM, Nethack, etc.) for over fifteen years – problem is, I’m just not very good at them. The only one I’ve ever finished successfully is DooMRL. All that said, Stone Soup is both an amazing entry point for newcomers (it has a tiles mode so you don’t have to put up with ASCII graphics, and one of the most user-friendly tutorial systems I’ve seen in videogames, period.) and a worthy play for genre veterans.

(YASD is a roguelike acronym for “Yet Another Stupid Death”)

18/07 – Shazam (Deep Elf Conjurer)
Lesson learned: Random curses aren’t the worst thing you can experience when reading unidentified scrolls. I thought only random potion drinking caused deaths. :(

02/05 – Sneery (Deep Dwarf Necromancer)
Lesson learned: Training yourself in translocation magic by starting with “teleport self” instead of “blink” is a one way ticket to the Abyss. You really don’t want to go to the Abyss unprepared.

02/05 – Pooprobot (Human Summoner)
Lesson learned: Relying that much on your summons when you have a backpack full of wands is pants-on-head retarded. Use ‘em or lose ‘em!

01/05 – Thugnificent (Hill Orc Priest of Beogh)
Lesson learned: Other orcs may revere you as the second coming of orc-christ, but giants? Not so much. 30 hp whacked off in a single blow. Never think that double digit HP is “fine”.

29/04 – Matthew (Draconian Berzerker)
Still holds the top spot in my high score table.
Lesson learned: Attacking hydras with a bladed weapon is a no-no. Like the mythical beast, sever one head and two take its place.