Armor

Remember that there is a guaranteed set of crystal plate mail in Vlad's Tower.

Wards

Ward off team 'a' with the Sign of the Scion Queen Mother.

Protect yourself from gaze attacks with the Hamsa Mark.

Keep at least two lizard corpses in your open inventory. Keep as many as possible in your bag of holding.

Keep a means of removing heavy iron balls on hand at all times.

Quests start easy and get harder. It is always safe to explore the first level of an alignment quest branch as soon as you find it.

The Neutral quest is harder than the other two.

Lawful and chaotic players will find their own quests to be somewhat easier.

The Chaos quest has a big jump in difficulty at the very end.