Actually, once you've got passed the Castle, you don't need the chest as often as before....

Good luck!

At early stages of crawling I relied solely on the melee skills with occasional use of ranged weapons. At some point I was forced to switch to magic in c.80% of battles as my weapons and skills did not allow to progress via pure slash'em'all. I reckon this first happenned with goblin wizards, and co...

It does not seem so - you have the mana cost of the spell going down as you increase your magic skill. AFAIK

Good luck!

I've used the scimitar of the vampire, as it provides a nice revitalization effect. You may think of increasing Strength as well, unless you've done it already. AFAIK, the Melee ensures you can place a hit, but the Strength ensures that the hit is successful, i.e. delivers damage. Also, I've progres...

. Anscheinend triggert dies den Abwurf der Rune. Sorry to post this in English (my German is quite poor...) - it took me about 10-15 runs through dragon cave level 5 to pry out a Med rune from a Magic Eater, even after visiting the Dark Castle.... I am not sure the Castle's fountain triggers it, bu...

In addition, being a long-standing Nethack fan (played it for a long time), I enjoyed the Lootbox very much! They're different, and I can see the Lootbox could have used some of the ideas from the Nethack to enhance the experience, but even at its current state Lootbox is highly enjoyable. Looking f...

I wonder if the next Chapter would explore some other family storyline (an Evil Dad brother appears with the request to help him out in another realm / a Sorcerer from the Tower seeking assistance in retrieving some lost artifact endangering to shatter the Underworld / etc.).

Try to wander around inside the Castle Dark and try out some things offered to you there... You'll enjoy it