>remaining anonymous is a solution. Its hard to hide when you
>are among the best. Mediocre imms can easily hide, but not
>your lot. People see, people hear and can make you out.

Yes, and no.

I've played a lot of characters that you'd just have no idea about. Hell, I think I interacted with your last character that I knew about with 2-3 of them. Did you have any idea? Probably not.

Similarly Zulghinlour and Sebeok and everyone else have done similar things, and who knew?

It's when everything just seems to go right for a character that it really stands out. I've had at least half a dozen A-Ps with unholy blessing. How many of those could anyone name?

I'll let Sebeok answer what you're saying about Yanacek if he wants to. I missed all but the very start of that character, having gone on hiatus for personal reasons shortly thereafter.

Ironically, I ran across him and fought him with one of my failed hero-range A-Ps.

>I would love to see what you had to say about AP
>after playing one.

It's got a ton of potential, and it can do amazing things no other character can. I think there are still combinations within the class that aren't yet viable; I can't really see playing a polearm-based A-P even still, for example.

The great thing about the A-P class, for me, is playing it and looking at its skill set, there's never any opponent that I look at and think, "I can't beat that guy."

>Or about rangers or thieves. Give people an
>honest opinion and maybe throw in a bone here and there.

People generally disagree with my honest opinions. That said, in brief:

Rangers are, while lacking variety and much versatility, still damn tough. I've always said that snare is one of the three scariest abilities in the whole game to me, and that's still true. I no longer know what the other two would be.

Thieves are interesting; I don't generally live in fear of thieves, but with any character of mine that starts to get on a roll, I fear a decent thief more than anything else. There's no shortage of thieves enjoying more than a little PK success, either, but most of those are built off of a small subset of the possible kinds of thieves. That, too, might indicate some tweaking to be done.

>Try however, to
>share the in game experience with other players if you REALLY
>want to play. Take a guy or two into hell or into ST, toss em
>a bone. Teach them a thing or two and let them continue on
>their own. Why go alone everywhere?

In this case, we're talking about a character with paranoia as his defining characteristic. There were characters he would have trusted to some degree, but that was a short, short list.

With other characters I have shown people things, though they may not have realized it was I that was doing the showing.