Talk:Illiterate

Strategy and Challenges

What are the big challenges and strategies for an illiterate character, assuming no other conducts? Elbereth, obviously. Otherwise it seems to me like my main uses for scrolls in my own games are the cheap ones -- ID, enchanting, remove curse -- plus a scroll of earth in the Big Room and charging for the wand of wishing and maybe some wands of death and teleport. But you can do a lot with price-ID (especially since shopkeepers will help you with damage bonuses), and you can still engrave-ID to your heart's content, since polymorphing an 'x' doesn't break illiterate conduct. Would the Valk be the obvious choice -- besides her reduced need for Elbereth and spellbooks, she's guaranteed a highly enchanted piece of armor and lightly enchanted sword, and half damage from the Orb seems like it'd mitigate reduced AC. Is going as a neutral Valk and wishing for the PYEC cheap, or is it better to dip for Excalibur anyway? And what do you do with the Big Room, besides hoping it isn't there? -- Slandor 18:32, June 19, 2010 (UTC)