Hello Steev, I also suck at Dungeons of Dredmor. But by being a wuss and saving a lot and also trying out all the different classes I eventually got to the bottom.

Thanks guys I got further but stupid monster zoo killed me again

I couldn't get passed the tutorial. It told me to right click my axe on a monster without warning me beforehand that there'd was a warm up time after I used it on the adjacent rock.

Guess I'll try again.