YMMV / Dungeons of Dredmor

• Awesome Music: Most of it, but special mention goes to Diggle Hell.
• Better Off Sold: If you do not have the relevant craft (Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Wand Lore, or Tinkering) or skill set (e.g., booze, etc. when you don't have a mana-using ability, or food when you're a Vampire, or meat/eggs/cheese/Dire Sandwiches when you're a Killer Vegan), many items are effectively better off sold and can/should be sold without worry (or used in a Horadric Lutefisk Cube).
• Breather Level: Floor 8, also known as the Mine Shaft. Very few new monsters, none of which are particularly dangerous, it's generally a breeze for its depth and it has a few fun little mechanics unique to the floor. What makes the trope even more appropriate is the fact that it falls right between Floor 7 and Floor 9, both of which clock in as two of the hardest floors in the game.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Several (this being a roguelike, after all), but a special mention goes to the Octos, who occasionally decide to spam painful aethereal bolts at you while you're running away.
  • Eelys are these early game. They show up in bodies of water and almost always a reasonable distance away from you when you enter their room. They spit powerful acid bolts which can end your run depressingly quick. Usually, they don't show up until level 4, but if you're unlucky, these bastards can show up in one room on Level 1.
  • Even worse are enemies and traps that can Corrupt your equipment, reducing their bonus to the point of being detrimental to your stats. Special mention should be given to Diggle Archmages, who can Corrupt your equipments at range (others Corrupt at melee range and can be kited around), and come by the dozen in Diggle Hell. Make sure to have 100% Magic Reflection when you face them.
• Fan Nickname: Transmuting anything into lutefisk is known as 'Skolling', from the sound that the Horadic Lutefisk Cube makes.
• Game-Breaker:
  • According to ZetaPlays, Promethean Magic + Blood Magic = easy mode. (At least, until you get to the lava-themed level where your fire-based magic does pretty much nothing. Hope you have a backup source of damage!)
  • According to the Gaslamp Games forums, the Egyptian Magic skill is this, to the point where it's been nerfed by a patch almost immediately after it came out. It still is incredibly powerful though. Thus, some people reported cleaning level 15 zoos with ease, by way of fully-glyphed sandstorms.
  • Necronomeconomics is meant to have great effects balanced by debuffs and damage after casting... except the damage can be prevented by just a few points of necromancy resistance, and the last three levels of the skill GRANT necromancy resist and have disproportionately small costs for their effect. The fourth skill on a good tank build allows you to survive in melee combat indefinitely and costs next to nothing, and the last skill does huge damage over time to a huge area that'll take out most groups of monsters in one shot in exchange for a few dozen turns of marginally weaker magic.
  • Fungal Arts adds chances to spawn mushrooms from dead enemies. Because each chance is rolled separately, its common to get at least one or two mushrooms when the skill is maxed. There is a mushroom for almost every occasion: strength, damage resistance, mana, invisibility... and you can reroll for free stack of mushrooms you don't want. It also provides two powerful pets that cost nothing but cooldown, and summoning either also creates a large cloud of confusing spores to which both you and your pet are conveniently immune, thanks to the toxic resistance provided by the skill. All in all, it's a powerful skill that helps every build.
  • Pairing the Blood Mage and Warlock paths result in you regaining the MP you're using as a Deflector Shield whenever you kill anything. Unless an enemy can slip under this guard, you've effectively gained two health bars, one of which A) constantly regens, and 2) has to be stripped off to affect the other one.
• Goddamn Bats:
  • Pumpkinns and Witchies can be annoying depending on your setup. Pumpkinns have a high attack and can summon an Area-of-Effect gas over you that, even if it doesn't hurt, it will still drain any buffs that have a hit counter by at least 2. Witchies can blind you if they choose and you don't have high magic resistance, as well as bring back the dead. That being said, neither are too deadly on their own even if you don't have a counter for them.
  • Any Animal class monster qualifies as this if you choose the Killer Vegan skill. Having this skill makes all Animal monsters peaceful, but they still block your way, are attracted to you, and you cannot attack them or you will get a large debuff to your stats.
  • Most of the Diggle-type monsters can burrow into the ground, then pop back up later. The thing is, they can do this at any time, and can both pop up and burrow on the same turn, and several Diggles can do so at the same time. This can be extremely annoying, since the game will periodically come to a complete halt for the Diggles to carry out their actions.
• Good Bad Bugs: "Features", as they're called, include the generation of items under a shrine square, loss of experience overflow while gaining a level, and spawning multiple zoos on a floor (which are however considered the same zoo, so you'll have to make your way to the other parts to claim your reward).
• Obvious Beta: Upon release, Conquest of the Wizardlands had more bugs than the rest of the game put together.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Critical hits are just as susceptible to being blocked or countered as any other sort of attack; they have no priority at all. While this is nice when it works in your favor, it's aggravating to have a dozen attacks in a row met with "Critical hit - but the monster counters it!" It makes critical chance feel like a meaningless stat.
  • Dodge chance completely ignores effects that should be incapacitating - which is a nice way of saying enemies can dodge attacks while they're asleep.

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