Edited sentence: Considering how frustrating doing all that grinding can be, the most stubborn players may imagine that on that one golden occasion when they do survive to retrieve the amulet, they can then use it to levitate up the levels until they are in safer territory and then farm the mid and upper levels for more magic items which they can use to further increase their rogue's power.Even nymphs and dragons, which are the only beasts to have a 100% item drop rate, will cease to cough up their usual items.Furthermore, item drops can not be turned back on by dropping the Amulet of Yendor on any given level and then heading back down the dungeon levels; once the amulet is found item drops are turned off permanently and dropping the amulet only forces the player to progress all the way back down to the most dangerous levels of the game in order to try and find another one (if this is even possible - it is yet to be confirmed that the amulet can drop twice) in order to begin a second ascent to the surface.However, once the Amulet of Yendor is in the player's inventory, all item drops in the game at any level are turned off.Much like a classic Gygax dungeon, the game designers main purpose was to make a game that kills the players way more often than rewarding them.Since it is absolutely impossible to find enough weapon and armor enchantment scrolls, rings, and wands to create a truly invincible rogue on the first run down the dungeon this strategy would seem to offer a way to "beat the game" without using hacks or cheats (the cheat does not seem to be available on the Java clone which is most accessible to today's players).The game difficulty seems to be tuned to about 1 in 1000 attempts that will succeed in reaching the Amulet of Yendor somewhere between levels 20 and 30.The only drops still functioning are gold piece drops.While it may seem that a simple hack and slash dungeon crawl would offer no puzzles or strategic conundrums there are some nasty surprises in store for the earnest player who hopes to beat the game after spending months mastering its underlying premise