[MPRDB] YASD: Poo

(this post is about MARTIN'S DUNGEON BASH)

I died from "leaning on the keys" to rest in an empty room. Normally,
this works OK, but in this case it was a particularly bad idea, since I
had just woken the inhabitants of one of the delightful new (v1.5)
treasure zoos, and I forgot to notice that my armour was ruined. It was
short work (<1 second) for this warlord to get me from about 50 hp to dead.

I would have rather died from running out of options; I felt like I
could have gone on longer. I wanted to get to the point mentioned in
the readme where monsters "can slay even the boldest of heroes with a
single blow" (at dlvl 58 it took them many, many blows). On the other
hand, there were no new monsters or items to discover, so isn't that a
victory of sorts? I would be curious to know if anyone made it past
level 58, although I wouldn't be surprised. It seems that there is no
more black magic any more in v1.5, which makes it a lot easier than 1.4
(or was I just lucky?). I'll also point out that missile weapons seem
to be completely useless, due to the monster AI and the targeting system.

Still, it's a fast and fun RL, and a refreshing change of pace from the
more complex games. It would be nice to play a fully realized version
of the game as outlined in the spoilers, with "pure evasion defense"
and meaningful cold/fire/necromancy resistance, etc. It could use some
more interface features like a level overview key and the equivalent of
Crawl's "5" key. However, I hope the game never introduces skills,
races, classes or player magic. I don't mind that it's unwinnable either.

This was the last dump:

Poo, level 16 adventurer (65456 XP)
35879 gold pieces collected.
28 of 259 hit points.
Body 54 (0 damage).
Agility 48 (0 damage).
Defence 9.
// it was 25 or something with meteoric plate armour

Inventory:
16 restoration potions
a runesword (26/100)
a frost ring
a vampire ring
a robe of swiftness (100/100)
a mage armour (100/100)
a fire ring
19 parcels of dried fruit
a meteoric plate armour (9/100)
4 protection scrolls
2 healing potions
a sacred chainmail (100/100)
13 teleport scrolls
a regeneration ring
a crossbow (100/100)
a runesword (100/100)
a runesword (100/100)

Poo, you were killed by a nasty warlord.
You died after 53660 ticks, with 65456 XP and 35879 gold, on dungeon
level 58.