ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Meh, lost a promising shadowblade in The Old Forest to an orc berserker. Lvl 35 orc berserker. Was barely lvl 12 myself. Is that normal? How do you recognize OOD monsters in ToME, besides holding the mouse over every critter you meet?

Hi, I've been trying to give ToME another try after first coming across it when version 4 was fairly new... it's a nice diversion from Crawl, which I mostly play. But I have a problem: new zones. Basically every time I enter a zone I don't know what to expect in, I die. And as it takes me a lot of t...