Dungeons of Dredmor

In Dungeons of Dredmor, the player is sent into a dank, dark dungeon ruled over by Lord Dredmor and patroled by his countless minions, especially “Diggles;” what Fraggles turn into if you feed them after midnight.

Notes:

Dungeons of Dredmor is much more challenging when using random skills…

…however, my favorite skill-set yet has to be Staves, Viking Wizardry, Promethean Magic, Blood Mage, Ley Walker, Assassination, and Archaeology.

Gain useful experience in farming various dungeon fungi.

Sell items to the greasy merchant by shift clicking the item in your inventory. I made quite a few piles of junk before I figured this one out.

Archaeology: “It Belongs In A Museum” works by casting it on an item with a (funny) name. “This Translation is All Wrong!” also requires a named item. “Ancient Kronian Ritual” unfortunately can only recharge an Anvil of Krong once.

Fleshsmithing: This skill contains the spell “Knit Tissue,” a healing spell, along with a grab-bag of other tricks including a defensive buff and a Zomby pet. Very handy to have around.

Play with Permadeath turned on.

More about Dungeons of Dredmor:

Steam
Dungeons of Dredmor Wiki
Gaslamp Games

Site Updates – Bitcoin, Coding, and Diablo II

The random Bitcoin address at the bottom of the sidebar, intended as a way to ask for donations, has been replaced with the BitcoinPlus Widget. This allows visitors to mine me a few Bitcoins with their spare processor time via the magic of Java, while I get to do my part in asking for free money. To quote an old Ferengi proverb: “Why ask, when you can take?”
As stated on bitcoin.org and the Bitcoin wiki:

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency … [in which] new [Bit]coins are slowly “mined” into existence by following a mutually agreed-upon set of rules. A user “mining” bitcoins is running a program that searches tirelessly for a solution to a very difficult math problem whose difficulty is precisely known. The difficulty is automatically adjusted regularly so that the number of solutions found globally, by everyone, is constant: an average of 6 per hour.

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