malfador-off topic

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fight, move, fight, die?

granted, but you are missing alot. a cockatrice will turn you to stone. if you are wearing gloves, you can kill one and wield its corpse, and turn other monsters to stone. if you are wearing a ring of slow-digestion, you will have an easier time fighting your way out of a purple worms stomach if it swallows you. if you make the right sacrafice, you can convert an alter of a hostile god to that of a friendly one.

there are an innumerable number of options and possibilities. you can gain intrinsic abilities by eating things with those abilities. if you polymorph your self into a rock-eating or metal-eating monster you can gain intrinsics by eating certain magic items or amulets.

you can achieve different spell effects by reading a scroll or book of magic while holucinating or confused. you can tame creatures and they will follow you as a pet. you can make pets more loyal by feeding them. loyal pets help you detect which items are cursed, and might bring you things they pickup from the dungeon.

if you drop something you are not planning on using, dont be supprised when a wandernig monster picks it up and uses it against you.

and thats not even scratching the surface. the game has been being revised for about 20 years now, and features keep going in. the developers themselves still run into several supprises when they play the game.

imagine if SE4 was open-source, and people had been modding it and adding features for TWENTY YEARS.

thats why its the Best. Game. Ever.