Scorpias Lair - Thoughts on Roguery

We don't really cover rogue-likes here but they certainly intersect with our main coverage.  Scorpia has some thoughts on rogue-likes after playing some ZangbandTK:

“Roguery” here meaning Rogue-like games. I’ve been pondering my experience in ZTK, along with Dungeon Crawler’s comments in my previous ZTK post.

DC may have a point about treating it like an arcade game. I poked around in some of the info files, and saw that the two goals of the game - Oberon and the Serpent of Chaos - are on levels 99 and 100, respectively. That’s a long way down.

Very long. I cheated and looked at some of the monsters that are waiting on the lower levels, and it seems to me that getting past them would be a job and half, if not impossible. For one thing, your character is capped at 50, which isn’t all that high.