Character guides

This article contains advice from other players, which may be subjective, outdated, inaccurate or ill-advised. Take advice as you see fit, and read at your own risk!

New players should start with the general Walkthrough. After that, please browse our strategy guides for more general advice, and review the early game, mid-game, and late game tips.

Authors: You are responsible for maintaining your guide. Failure to do so will result in your guide being removed from this list until it has been updated. If the guide you're looking for is no longer available here, check the archives to see if it has been archived. Unfortunately, most of these guides are severely outdated; anything from 0.18 or prior is 5 years old, and DCSS updates often shake things up.

Updated

Felid

• FeSu:
  • Onei's 3-rune Interdimensional Feline Kidnapping Walkthrough - FeSu^Gozag/Jiyva [Advanced] (0.29)
    • Onei’s 15-rune Travel Guide on Thrilling Ventures in the Demonic Funhouses - FeSu^Jiyva - extended game walk-through

Troll

• TrFi:
  • Repo Troll Guide, TrFi^Wu Jian [Beginner] (0.29)

Minotaur

• MiFi
  • H's Minotaur Fighter Guide [Beginner] (0.28)

Older Versions

Species

Deep Elf

• DEEn:
  • Berder's Deep Elf Enchanter of Sif Muna guide (0.15)

Gargoyle

• • Psiweapon's Melee/Evocations Gargoyle guide (0.13 & 0.14)
• GrEE:
  • Majang's Caster Walk-Through (0.20)
    • Majang's Disquisition on the Nether Reaches (0.20) - extended game walk-through

Hill Orc

• HOFi
  • Vigrid's Hill Orc Fighter Guide (0.13)

Minotaur

• MiBe:
  • Beef Jerky's Simple 3 Rune Minotaur Berserker Guide for Beginners (0.14)
• MiGl:
  • Buddy23Lee's Minotaur Staff-Madness guide (0.16)

Mummy

• MuFi:
  • Buddy23Lee's Mummy Fighter guide (0.14)

Naga

• General:
  • Tasonir's Melee Naga Guide (0.18)

Octopode

• OpFi
  • Berder's Octopode Fighter of Dithmenos Guide (0.16)

Ogre

• General:
  • Davion Fuxa's Ogre guide (0.11)
• OgHu:
  • Serfuzz's Ogre Hunter guide (unk. v#, pre-0.15)
• OgWn:
  • Demos' Ogre Wanderer guide (unk. v#, pre-0.9)
• OgWpL
  • rezek's Ogre Warper of The Shining One guide (0.17)

Spriggan

• SpEn:
  • Huggz's Spriggan Enchanter guide (0.13)
• SpVM:
  • Demos' Spriggan Venom Mage guide (unk. v#, pre-0.12)
• SpWz:
  • Spriggan Wizard Guide <video> (0.9.1)

Troll

• TrCj:
  • Elynae's Troll Conjurer guide (unk. v# pre-0.12)
• TrMo:
  • Buddy23Lee's Troll monk of Jiyva ("slime troll") guide (Updated to 0.14)

Background

Abyssal Knight:

• IonFrigate's Abyssal Knight guide (0.11)
• Pacra's Abyssal Knight guide (unk. v#)