Thought it would be fun to see how some people's random playthroughs are going.  I'm not talking about hitting the random button till you get a couple skills you like, just hit it once and go!  Just edit your post with your progress or death.
 
Here is mine
 
Staff-fighting
Dual Wielding
Vampirism
Viking Wizardry
Promethean Magic
Assassination
Archaeology
 
Things were a bit dicey at the beginning because I had not used vampirism before.  I manged to find a second staff pretty early and started dual wielding them right away.  My first level up I bumped up my staff level to do a bit more damage, but it nearly cost me.  I managed to hit character level 3 with just a few hit points left and grabbed the Drinker of the Dead skill from Vampirism and it's been a life saver.  I then finished up the vampirism tree with sparkly thinking it might help me escape if I get surrounded but it's proven to be extremely useless so far.
 
Almost done exploring floor 1.  I really need to find some decent armor now though.
 
Edit:  Haha, that was quick...  Was just about to move down to floor 2 when I got hit with a acid trap that took quite a bit of health off (I was already wounded from fighting a side quest boss), then proceeded to kill me because there were no corpses near by for me to feed off of and no healing potions to be drunk.   Score 10104.
 
Time for round two.

Round two 
 
Crossbows
Thrown Weaponry
The Unarmed Art
Necrononmonomics
Assassination
Smithing
Tinkering
 
My hopes aren't too high for this one.
 
Edit:  Well that went terribly.  Since I had tinkering I decided to buff up my crossbow first.  Things were going allright till I opened a door and got surrounded on three sides, with avout 6 more monsters in reserve.  I could only move a couple steps back because there was an unopened chest blocking my path.  They ate through me pretty quickly.  Score 1472

Round two   Crossbows Thrown Weaponry The Unarmed ArtNecrononmonomics Assassination Smithing Tinkering  My hopes aren't too high for this one

I don't know what your talking about Beach, I think the crafting is helping me a ton.  I have made great weapons and armor to help me get to the 3rd lvl so far.  The stuff I have made has been far better then the stuff I have found.  I can see that coming to a end as soon as I max at the skill, but I don't know how far I would have gotten without it.
 
The Build I have for my second go around is
 (right now I am lvl 8 )
Axemanship  (i have 2 points in this skill)
Shield-bearer ( 1 point)
Berserker Rage (0 points)
Master of Arms  (1 point)
Viking wizardry  (0 points)
Assassination   (0 points)
Smithing  (3 points)
 
Its a good mix of attack and defense

I got Mace, Berzerker, Golemancy, Ley Walker, Burglary, Fungal Arts, and Smithing. I've been doing surprisingly well. I spawned right next to an ingot room, and I got a ton of stuff. I put almost nothing in anything but Mace, Berzerker, and Smithing, and, I have a huge damage output, but since I have no real defense skills, I've been almost dead, a lot. My main problem with crafting is the inventory space it takes. If they had a deposit box system, or something, I'd like crafting so much more. Whether it would be the portal box type of deposit box (all deposit boxes contain the deposited items, no matter where you are), or location-dependent boxes (boxes only hold what was put in that box) I could deal with that. Some time on the second level, I found a lutefisk box, and used the lock-pick get spell to get a ton of lutefisk, and I got an amazing helm.

I play as a warrior  , I dont like mages  and their wands...(they're cowards) ...... 
 
Swords 
Axes  
Burglary 
Artful Dodger  
Dual Wielding 
 Assassination 
Master of Armors  
  
My favorite skill is Dual Wielding , it helped me a lot ....it's a great skill for warriors.