Can recommend Stone Soup, solid roguelike. Hella hard
You should try playing Gargoyle fighter. That little cunt can stack armor so high that I had AC over 50 on character level 18.
It also has a wonderfull set of intrinsics:
1.
Natural
AC: Gargoyles receive a large innate boost to AC relative to your XL. Gargoyles get +2 AC at XL 1, and this rises every few levels.
More AC, thats how you get to over 50 so quickly.
2. Increased
GDR: A Gargoyle's GDR is calculated as though the base AC of the body armour they are wearing is 5 greater
The AC you get is even more effective in stopping damage.
3.
Petrification resistance: Gargoyles cannot be
petrified.
May not seem very awesome but is hella usefull agains basilisks and those gorgonlike bulls that calcify you. You just dont give a fuck about them anymore.
4.
Rot resistance: Gargoyles are composed of stone rather than flesh, and thus cannot rot.
Again, not a big deal but another thing you can simply not care about.
5. Gargoyles are immune to
poison.
Great thing because in the current DCSS having poison resistance does not prevent you from being poisoned. On other chars you can get one star of poison resistance max and you will still get poisoned and annoyed by it. Very helpfull in Snake Pit and with early kobold with blowguns or snakes.
6.
Electricity resistance: Gargoyles are well insulated and take little damage from
electricity attacks
One less resistance to get on your gear. Again, may not sound like a matter of life and death, but when you gonna met those eals that shot lightning from deep water, or serpents that explode in sparks you gonna be glad you had it.
7. Partial
torment resistance: Gargoyles take 1/2 normal damage when affected by
torment. This resistance
does stack with other effects that reduce damage of torment.
Great for 15 rune games as it help with the torment being thrown around the lowest levels of Hells.
8.
Unbreathing: Gargoyles can survive without breathing.
Constrict this bitches! Also, no confusion from clouds without the amulet is cool too.
9.
Life Protection 1: Gargoyles have one innate level of resistance against negative energy (rN+).
One free star of life protection, helps with the annoying draining. I once had the unique Thief stole my wand of draining and proceed to zap my ass with it multiple times, fun times!
All of this for the meager price of having 20% less hitpoint and vulnerablity to Shatter and LRD.
Really, go Gargoyle Fighter of Okawaru and with just a bit of caution at the start you will easily get to at least late middle game.
