u/Chaiyns

Just a curiosity question, I usually get to S-branches no problem, but also very often die to the first gnoll/goblin I see before I have any resources other than attacking or early spells even though it's a very slim chance of occurring (my luck is what I would call exceptionally bad in this game, like 1-2% spell failure will fail 3+ times in a row or missing melee attacks many times in a row with 95% hit rate happens all the time for me, my record is 17 consecutive misses above 90% hit)

So when that sort of thing is happening with regularity defying odds, how do you keep patience with dcss, and how do you maintain a streak? Is it just sticking to specific strong early game starts that can't die to early happenstance like that?