Henzell's learndb

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1

The most dangerous of dangerous demons outside of the named guardians in Pandemonium. Anything with Fiend in the name can cast Torment. Executioners are lightning-fast melee opponents. If you are looking at your map and you see a mysterious green 1 and can't figure it out, that's a waypoint. :)

11 diesel

9/8

11 guide

Play a fighter and learn conjure flame and controlled blink. Don't go to D:33.

12 axe

Nexos the Ducker (L5 MfIE), slain by a centaur (the +4,+12 hand axe "Rummage") on D:5 on 2011-08-23, with 387 points after 4995 turns and 0:10:20.

12 club

redrum the Skirmisher (L3 DrCK), worshipper of Makhleb, slain by Ijyb (a +6,+12 club) on D:2 on 2010-08-19, with 120 points after 1033 turns and 0:04:06.
Xenene the Insei (L3 OpMo), slain by Ijyb (a +12,+6 club) on D:2, with 110 points after 1254 turns and 0:06:41.

12 flail

subochre the Eviscerator (L23 FeMo), worshipper of Elyvilon, slain by an elf zombie (the +12,+0 flail "Xuxtait") (animated by a deep elf death mage) on Elf:7 (minmay elf hall circle) on 2010-11-23, with 376147 points after 110880 turns and 11:03:55.

12 knife

Sildraith the Skirmisher (L9 DSCK), worshipper of Xom, slain by an orc priest (the cursed -3,+12 knife of Dishonesty) on D:10 (erik orc 4) on 2011-04-11, with 4325 points after 10273 turns and 0:51:04.

12 spear

inspector071 the Martial Artist (L9 OpMo), worshipper of Okawaru, slain by a gnoll sergeant (a +12,+4 spear) on D:7 (gnoll camp medium 01) on 2011-09-30

12 whip

bh the Thaumaturge (L10 DEWz), worshipper of Sif Muna, mangled by a minotaur (the +12,+6 whip of Success drain) in Lab, with 6608 points

1learn

this isn't a typo. It's people making light of things that might potentially be humorous to include in the learndb, but which would probably not be humorous at all. See also: the entire learndb.

2

A demon between a 3 and a 1. Summon Greater Demon summons these and 1s. Many of the demons in this category used to be 1s before 0.10.
List: shadow demon, green death, blizzard demon, balrug, cacodemon, hell beast, hellion, reaper, lorocyproca, tormentor

200 power

With all skills at 27, you need 3 enhancers and 33 INT, or 2 enhancers and 50 INT. Impossible with just 1. Four enhancers don't give an effect better than three.

27

Levels of the dungeon.
Levels in each Ziggurat.
Highest skill and experience levels.
see knife of accuracy
Strength you need to wear GDA without extra penalties.
7+8+2+9+1
number of points in xomscumming's high score, divided by 1000000
number of the heads of The Lernaean Hydra
Backgrounds as of 0.12.
see {lear's hauberk}

3

The strongest of the common demons: sun demon, soul eater, ice devil, smoke demon, neqoxec, ynoxinul, chaos spawn.

32767

Maximum amount of gold a monster can carry.

4

The weaker common demons: blue devil, iron devil, orange demon, red devil, rotting devil, sixfirhy, hellwing.

41

Crawl (NOT stone soup) 4.1 Alpha, Brent Ross' ill-fated rewrite of Crawl. DCSS was spawned by two people who got tired of waiting for this to come out of alpha. Nearly unwinnable. NEVER CONFUSE THIS WITH SS 0.4.1
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/ancient/meneril/morgue-meneril-20080714-105929.txt
<elliott> what's really overpowered in 4.1 <rwbarton> elliott: monsters
This raw flesh is not very appetising. Yum! Yum!

41qyscrawl

can you guess??????????
<monqy> im going to make cerebov a frog and represent him with F <monqy> gloorx can be a death yak <monqy> frogs cant wield weapons but cerebov is special
see monqyscrawl[4]
fourty wonky scrawl
permanent implemented features: HP/MP bars; brogue-style doors (open iff anything is on them); skills removed, replaced by stats.
permanent unimplemented unfeatures: traps; secret doors; maprot; identification; curses; hunger; rotting; disease; sparkling fountains; mimics; item corrosion; item destruction; monster invisibility; gold and shops
referred to as "fake" by power-mad rogue dcss developer evilmike
<MarvinPA> i was about to say something about 41qys-crawl obviously being perfect and flawless, yes :P

4chan

Anonymous 03/26/12(Mon)13:18 No.2506850 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is the only Roguelike worth a damn, fuck off and die.

5

A minor demon of minimal threat... unless it, say, picked up a pile of stones and you're low level.
Also a key. Waits for 100 turns, or until interrupted.

6

The true sixfirhy glyph.

72

Str, Int and Dex can reach a maximum of 72

78291

A very prolific player with an incredibly high number of wins and a pretty good win percentage to boot.
Holy shit you are the luckiest most awesome son of a spriggan I have ever seen
!lm @78291 char=hosk 1 rune=dark -tv:<0.5
Killed the Royal Jelly in four hits.
Once in #chaosforge he was accused of being a collective pseudonym.
The Chuck Norris of crawl.
(And NetHack, before that.)

8

This is either a statue or a golem. It's either totally harmless or one of the most deadly things in the game.
Is also a marker for extremely out of depth ([depth+2]*2 depth!) monsters in vaults; both traditional and valued by most devs. Good results: d:4 wolf spiders, d:5 centaur warriors, d:6 fire crabs, d:9 sphinxes, d:10 fire giants, d:11 liches. Watch !tv vesto drwz 8, !tv phyphor map=~klotski 1, !tv davejl teae map=~three, !tv inde drtm xl=6 4
!lg wpd 1 map=minivault_25_ag -tv

80x24

The proper size to play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in. http://pastebin.com/LE83dffY - download and compile with `gcc file.c -o 80x24` to use the industry standard size terminal regardless of actual window size. Or just type "stty rows 24 cols 80" (without the quotes). Also see hugeterm.

9

Gargoyles!
In vault definition, a [depth+5] random monster.

a bit more experienced

You killed something offscreen.

abandoned shop

Either you bought out all of the shop's contents, you passed the tiny chance a shop was generated to not have any loot, or it's a flavour feature like a pre-dry fountain.

abbreviations

Species and backgrounds are often abbreviated to two letters; for example Merfolk is Mf and Ice Elementalist is IE. Thus people will often refer to Merfolk Ice Elementalist as MfIE. Use the commands "!wtf Mf" and "!ftw Merfolk" to have Henzell tell you what the abbreviations are.
A few other common abbreviations: randart = random artefact, unrandart = fixedart = fixed artefact, LCS = Lehudib's Crystal Spear, LRD = Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, GDR = Guaranteed Damage Reduction. Most abbreviations are linked in the learndb, so commands like "??LRD" will usually tell you what an abbreviation means.
Species and classes abbreviation list: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4605

abjuration

Sends hostile summons back where they came from -- or reduces the amount of time before they disappear, at least. Note that going away and resting for a little while has the same effect. Comes in two flavours: single target (level 3) and full LOS (level 6).
Monsters never have abjuration in their spell list. Instead, they have a 50% (if applicable) chance of abjuring instead of performing certain summons.
<N78291> firestorm is the new mass abjuration

abomination

A hideous demonic and undead form with randomized ac, ev, speed - possibly faster than you. Random color x; uppercase abominations are much stronger. Usually found in the Abyss.

absolute depth

A number per branch defined in http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/source/branch-data.h . Roughly scales with the branch; Orc:1 is akin to D:9, Elf:1 to D:16. Most importantly: Vaults:1 gets D:20 level spawns, Vaults:2 D:21, and so on: it also defines nearly all monster placement choices, and a large number of vaults.

absolutego

<absolutego> who's cerebov
blinking|fog|mapping|recharg|silence|scroll.*tele|agility|might|cure mut|heal wounds|pot.*resistance|pot.*speed|pot.*magic|meat|bread|royal jell

abyss

A merry-go-round of doom, featuring many, many, many different kinds of monsters who will find your flesh, bones, mind, and life tasty. Be sure to pick everything up on the way and kill everything you can so the demons can get better fed.
Each square has a 1/7500 chance of being a portal out (six times the chance if you have the rune). There is also an infinite amount of loot and the possibility of an abyssal rune. Staying in the abyss longer increases the chance of an abyssal rune being generated, with the probability maxing out when you have been in the abyss for 8260 turns.
Converting to Lugonu will also let you get out, but be warned that divine retribution is typically of the same nastiness level as banishment.
To get in, definitely: Fail your MR check against Banishment. Go down on a portal. Draw Damnation by yourself. Successfully invoke Lugonu's final power.
To get in, maybe: Get hit by distortion. Unwield distortion. Badly fumble a Translocation or Summoning. Step on a Zot trap. Arouse the wrath of Vehumet or Lugonu. Attract the attention of Xom. Try to affix (with vorpalise weapon) a temporary distortion brand. Misread the Grand Grimoire.
You can run away from most stuff in the Abyss with haste. The only danger is getting mobbed by spammable minor demons and having Daevas or smoke demons to smite you. Ah yes, and the other big danger is boredom.
<pwnmonkey> The abyss is like boris in level form
<ktgrey> i wonder if everyone in the abyss, is there because they got banished to it <ktgrey> its like fantasy australia
see abyss_guide
<elliott> dying is less painful than the abyss

abyss guide

!lm zigrobin 2138 -tv:<0.25
<Orionstein> so how do i get out of the abyss <G-Flex> you find an exit
!lm simm hacj abyss.enter 3 -tv:<0.25

abyss scumming

Doing this is a sure sign that you are playing like an idiot. Stop it.

abyssal knight

Background that starts in the Abyss, worshipping Lugonu (with a guaranteed nearby exit and enough piety to use Lugonu's exit ability). Gets a chosen +2 weapon. The starting Abyss contains D:1 level items (but regular Abyss monsters).

abyssal rune

Can be found in Vaults starting at Abyss:3 and deeper.

ac

Armour Class; the last line of defence against damage. The vast majority of sources of damage are subject to reduction by a random number between 0 and your AC; this is applied after resistances.
Torment, smite, and hellfire, and a handful of other abilities/effects ignore AC. The only player-castable damage spells that ignore AC are freeze, refrigeration, sticky flame, static discharge, pain, vampiric draining, and agony. Note that all of these spells also ignore EV.

ac13

wtf, how are you supposed to figure these things out? other than by reading the source
WTF, the orb of zot is spawning &'s

accuracy

Your ability to hit and not miss things in combat. Affected by weapon modifiers, some spells, fighting skill, and some randarts.
see spell accuracy

acehack

NetHack with improved interface. Public servers: http://AceHack.us/ (US). Features autoexplore! If you're bored of ##crawl, try #acehack for more helpful information on acehack.

acid

Acidic attacks and defenses come from many Js, plus spiny worms, yellow draconians, and oklob plants. In addition to damaging you, they reduce the +s of weapons (to-dam only) and armour. Items are immune if the relevant plus is +5 or better, or if the item is an artefact. +4 or dwarven is good enough outside Slime. See also resist corrosion.
If an item is not immune: having resist corrosion saves the item 9 times out of 10. Failing that, dwarven items and crystal plate mail save 4 times out of 5. Failing that, the item's plus (from 0 to 4, positive or negative) will cause it to save 6%, 18%, 34%, 58%, or 98% of the time.
Acid damage increases for each unequipped armour slot (50% chance if wearing a cloak).

acid blob

Acidic monster with a highly accurate ranged attack that can degrade your armour. Attacking it in melee can degrade your weapons, just like a jelly. Has better than average speed.
Resist corrosion won't save equipment that's not immune, but it will save your life. Tends to be a hassle in any situation, especially if more than one. Worth 4k exp for a reason!
<Kalir> Acid blobs are like brown oozes with oklob plants for hats.

acidrobin

A 100% accurate emulation of exploring a dungeon during a hallucinogenic trip. The password is 'robin'. It's probably advisable not to play if you have epilepsy or are prone to motion sickness.
see notthepope
<elliptic> I thought tiles was already essentially acidrobin

acquirement

Will give you a random item moderately likely to be better than a random item off the ground! See also ??<type> acquirement, where <type> is book, staff, weapon, jewellery, armour, misc, gold, food, wand, ammo, e.g. weapon acquirement.
Do not use over lava or deep water! What kind of item would you like to acquire? (\ to view known items) Something appears before you! You hear a sizzling splash.

action counts

Add dump_order += action_counts to your rc to add a table showing weapons, spells, abilities, and items used along with frequency of usage to your morgue files.

adder

A fast, poisonous creature that might even appear on D:1. Only a spriggan can outrun one. Very dangerous for the first level or two, but a nice chunk of experience after that. Adder meat is clean.

adeon

Xom's younger twin.
my favourite is toccata and fugue
<Adeon> elves should be played for their ears

adjectives

List of item and randart prefixes: http://rush68.net/~dave/adjectives.htm
(rtef|glo|run|dye|emb|hin|smo|twi|d-s|spar|ncr|pitt|limy|poli|fine|crud|ed l|stea|iri|bloo|cry|jew|ich|humm|furr|atin|erin|twit|black|dul|y-b|silk|tatt|nd s|fabu|sapp|jade|rust|blue|lden|brut|soft|smel|ming|anc|ck g|ne g|bron|stee|weir|ebon|mang|ue m|mith|very|dirt|tiny|e-c|litt|phos|arp|ork|pur|one l|t ser|ruby|chunky|in d|ivor|ephe)

adom

Ancient Domains of Mystery. Contains emperor liches.
Add doppelganger kings, too.
And a dude named Khelavaster in a top hat.
Possibly including partridges in pear trees. This is unconfirmed.
More like Ancient Domains of Masochism. LOL ACID TRAPS LOL
More like RUNE TRAPS LOL
<nooodl_> Pacra: i've been playing for two months and am still at the character creation screen :U

adriyel

Zaps things like an angry middle eastern deity

adventure time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cvV_z3M_ko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtVa0oQRXE

aerie vault

(In)famous vault found at middling depths, containing a large green crystal spiral with lots of water, ball lightnings, vapours, and air elementals.
This is probably a get-off-the-level vault. -LP

aevp

Adjusted body armour evasion penalty. Affects spell success, melee accuracy. Its value is [base_penalty + max(0, 3*base_penalty - str)] * [45 - armour_skill]/45.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqvhLOPFHpiMdHFWbVpnU3F6M2VlQWV5Rk56UDNaNHc#gid=2

af cold

Attacks deal (1 to 3) * monster HD additional COLD damage (bypasses AC)
This is why Golden Dragon simulacra can kill you.
Stay the fuck away from hydra simulacra.

af elec

Electricity melee damage, electric golem (and sixfirhy (and sky beast (and Pandemonium lord))) special. Reduced by electricity resistance, and by a further third if airborne in 0.12-. Deals 1-1.5x attacker HD elec damage (15-22 for golems).

agate snail

Very slow, but healthy and strong. Still easy to kill if you're prepared for melee or good with conjurations. Will withdraw into its shell in order to heal, which grants it regeneration and +10 AC, but causes it to stop attacking and become stationary.
a suggested strategy: http://yafgc.net/?id=2260

agility

Provides temporary Dex, EV, and stealth bonuses.

agnes

A unique anaconda that somehow learned to use weapons and armour. As you can see, she coiled herself up into an i shape.
Try a felid, so she can kill and banish you in the same blow!
!tv blashyrkh tebe 1

agony

Agony does to one living creature what Torment does to all living creatures in sight: halves its hit points, but never directly kills it. Unlike torment, however, agony does a magic resistance check and won't work on those with any negative energy resistance. It has a bonus to effective power, so it can affect even enemies that resist most hexes.

agra

He's weilding the mighty Agra unrandart which is about as deadly as that quick blade I had if not deadlier. [...] Seriously look at how good this guy was he had a freaking demon whip and the mighty Agra (which is like the most broken fixedart axe ever speed brand which almost always hits for tons of damage).

ahrin

nemelex xobeh ; sif muna ; trog ; cheibriados ; fedhas ; jiyva

air elemental

An incredibly fast (speed 25) construct that can hide in empty space. Does not occur naturally outside of the Abyss, but can be summoned. Found in a couple of vaults and a wizlab as well.
High-level (15 skill) air elementalists can control these beasts to deadly effect, but always (doubly so at low skill) be prepared to deal with a hostile one. See air elemental fan.

air elemental fan

Evoke for an (Evocations/30) chance of summoning an air elemental. It will be friendly with an (Air Magic/15) chance (capped at 96%), but any present friendly elemental decreases your effective Air Magic skill by 5 for this purpose.

air elementalist

Starts with skill in conjurations and air magic, plus a book of Air. See bolt bouncing.

air miscast

1: 4-12 elec dmg / meph cloud / rain cloud 2: 3d8 elec explosion / poison cloud 3: ball lightning / twister / 12-40 dmg airstrike.

air traffic control

For those times when crawl isn't stressful enough.
Nobody knows anything about Air Traffic Control, even if they have read http://dobrazupa.org/atc.6.html
<Zeor> air traffic control kind of stretches the definition of what you can literally call a game
<faz> it's basically like playing snake, except there are multiple snakes, the snakes dont grow in size, and the snakes end after hitting their pellet. and there's a z axis

air walk

Air elemental form spell; was L9 Tm/Air, removed long ago. Made you drop your whole inventory.
it halved regen, eliminated hungering (but not nutrition costs), rF-- rC-- rElec++ rPois, earth dehancer, _no_ air enhancer ("was too good"), forced AC to 20, +20 EV, +8 DEX

airstrike

A single target attack spell; uses smite targeting, so it can hit any monster you can see. It checks AC and does 1/2 more damage on flying or levitating monsters. Spell level 4. Its damage is very random, and not very high on average compared to spells of similar level.
7 + 1d(1d4 - 1 + (1d(Power) - 1)/6) + (1d(Power) - 1)/7

ais523

it's amazing how inconsistent Crawl's interface actually is, it's much worse than NetHack's

aizul

A guardian serpent who fell asleep on the job, letting thieves loot his vault. Disgraced, he is now a warrior! Spells: venom bolt, sleep, poison arrow. Unlike most other intelligent monsters, he cannot open doors. Very dangerous nonetheless!

ak guide

http://pastebin.com/QnHCvEVv

akrasia

Weakness of the will.

akrasiac

Person who suffers from akrasia.
Including practically all the folks on this channel.

akrobin

Play an AK. Get to Abyss:27 without ever entering the Dungeon.

aladar

<Aladar> i'm waiting for the forest branch so i can kill all spriggans
<Aladar> fuck crawl <Aladar> worst game
plays offline, see uncool[2]
Hates high elves and octopodes.
<Aladar> i am the beardiest

alarm trap

Makes a loud noise and marks the player with {sentinel's mark}.

alchemist

See alchemist_card or hat_of_the_alchemist.

alchemist card

Transmutes gold into hp/mp. Always restores some health, and sometimes restores some magic depending on card power. At power level 0/1/2 uses up to 99/198/297 gold. Clusters around the average, 49.5/99/148.5.
Restores up to 1/3 the gold used in hp. But only 2/3 of the gold is fully consumed, the remaining gold is available to (maybe) restore some mana. Power + 1 in 5 times, restores up to 1/5 the left-over gold in MP. If MP wasn't restored or more HP/MP was restored than you needed to reach 100%, the leftover gold is refunded.

alcohol

< mikee_> for some reason when i'm drunk i hit the wrong keys instead of the keys i want

alefury

directional shouts
player tile overlays
rough monster AC/EV estimate in descriptions
toenail golems make mephclouds when hit by fire
guarantee branch entry vaults
searching by waiting sucks, something like new weapon use-id would be better
god wrath
more abyss exits if you have the rune
better draining

alexor

< Alexor> swamp is a fun branch
<Alexor> AGH WHY ARE THERE OGRES EVERYWHERE, AN OGRE ON D4, ANOTHER ON D5, AND GUESS WHO IS GREETING ME ON D6 (it is an ogre)
is a bad joke police deputy

alistairs intoxication

L4 Transmutation-Poison spell. Has a (40 + power/3)% (max 73%) chance of confusing each natural, non-poison resistant monster in line of sight with greater than animal intelligence. Has a (60 - power/3)% chance of affecting you, even with rPois, if you do not have a source of clarity. Also drains 1-3 points of intelligence 5% of the time.

alive

What you start out being. Not for long, most likely.
Unless you're undead.

alligator

Moderately nasty amphibious monster in Swamp, with decent damage, speed, and a swiftness fauxspell. Occasionally comes with baby alligators.

alligator snapping turtle

They have reaching attacks! With 50 damage! That's more damage than a stone giant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alligator_snapping_turtle.jpg

almost dead

Still entirely capable of obliterating you.

alphabetskillrobin

Like skillrobin, with the added restriction that skills must be trained in reverse alphabetical order, e.g. Fighting cannot be trained if Axes has already been trained. If no eligible skills remain you must quit unless no skills at all remain.

altar

Unlike other roguelikes, you won't be sacrificing much - altars are generally only used for religious conversion. You also can't use them to discover curse status, sorry. Silly Hacker.
Well, unless you use the altar to change gods to Ashenzari, in which case you can. Clever Hacker.
see overflow

alter

Alter means "to change". You probably wanted altar, or alter self.

alter self

A removed transmutations spell that gave you a random mutation.

am i diesel

<Elynae> Elynae: 46/31 is when you can start calling yourself diesel

amadeus

Rocks you. You wanted maybe asmodeus.

amazing games

!lm @78291 xl=12 milestone=~"orb of zot" -tv:>1
!lm rob char=ddbe rune=decaying xl=11 -tv:<2
!lm jenius char=dgie milestone=~orb 2 -tv
!lm heteroy char=kemo rune=silver -tv:<2
!lm tartakower rune=silver 24 -tv:<2.5

ambrosia

Restores MP over a few turns and provides nutrition at the cost of confusion (clarity does work). Found only in the Spider's Nest. Takes one turn to eat.

amethyst

<|amethyst> doh
Proof that you don't have to be a good player to be a dev
see neil

ammo acquirement

Gives you ammo suitable for your highest trained launcher type (if throwing, darts/javelins). Gives 5 times the size of a typical stack, almost guaranteed to have an ego.

ammunition

Damage: Needle 0, Throwing Net 0, Dart 1d2, Stone 1d4 (modified), Sling Bullet 1d6, Arrow 1d7, Bolt 1d9, Large Rock 1d20! Best in the game!.
Poisonous needles gain a bonus of 1d4 to their damage calculation so that additional effects can be applied. The more you know.

amnesia

This scroll/invocation allows the player to dememorise one spell of his choosing. See also spell levels. Sif ability is 5 MP, 8-~13 piety. You can also dememorise a spell by selecting it in a spellbook and choosing to 'F'orget it (destroying the spellbook in the process).

ampersandtv

Plays splats caused by monsters represented by an ampersand. And not Antaeus. Because Antaeus isn't represented by an ampersand.

amphibious

Monsters with this flag can move through (deep) water and most of them are faster than normal while doing so.

amulet of faith

Piety increases one third faster. Yes, this means you get more gifts. Good gods save you more frequently. Xom has more dynamic piety and acts more often. Removing the amulet reduces your piety (-1/3).
Wearing it during penance makes wrath happen more frequently (and so shortens the amount of time you spend in penance).

amulet of inaccuracy

-5 To hit in melee and range (for the person wearing it). This will affect anything (spells, breath, you name it) that has a chance to miss.

amulet of rage

Allows you to go berserk, and may extend the duration on kills. Chance of success depends on evocations.

amulet of resist mutation

When you would otherwise be mutated, this amulet has a nine in ten (one in two for glowsplosions) chance of stopping the mutation and giving the message "you feel odd for a moment". If you are undead, this also covers mutation-induced rotting.

amulet of stasis

Blocks teleport, blink, haste, slow, berserk, finesse, and paralysis. Gives you some (possibly yellow) glow and cancels the status if you put it on while hasted or slowed, or while waiting for teleport.
AKA amulet of suicide

amulet of the air

the amulet of the Air {Inacc +Fly rElec EV+5 RMsl}

amulet of the four winds

clarity, rN+, 100 MR (!)

amulets

The only potentially bad amulets are guardian spirit, faith, inaccuracy and stasis. The list is: clarity, conservation, gourmand, inaccuracy, rage, resist corrosion, resist mutation, warding, guardian spirit (0.6+), stasis (0.6+), faith (0.6+). 0.5 and earlier had resist slowing.
Rage, gourmand, guardian spirit, and faith (if you have a religion) identify upon wearing. Stasis and controlled flight will ID if you utilize their effects (e.g. haste/slow; levitate). Clarity, warding, rCorr, and rMut can be figured out by checking for their effects, but won't autoID. Conservation and inaccuracy are left over.

anaconda

Super-fast annihilator of spellcasters foolish enough to let it get close, and of anyone who doesn't kill it quickly. If you see an anaconda on Lair:8, read elephant shaped statue first. Otherwise, read on.
Makes great undead minion fodder. Has no poison attack and is good to eat! A prime target for all that curare you've been saving up.
<G-Flex> did I really just kill an orb of fire with an anaconda

anagram

ynoxinul <-> unix only

ancient champion

A very dangerous spellcasting skeleton, found in two vaults. Try not to lead them downstairs. Spell sets: iron shot, haste, pain OR bolt of draining, haste, throw frost OR venom bolt, haste, haunt OR IMB, slow, haste.

ancient gears

The labyrinth just rearranged itself.

ancient lich

A fossil lich, resistant to fire, poison, and very resistant to cold and electricity. Can summon greater demons, and can usually cast iron shot or crystal spear, comfortably doing 3d48 damage in one shot.
LuckyNed the Shatterer (L26 OgBe), worshipper of Trog, slain by a Fiend (summoned by an ancient lich (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by an ancient lich))) in Zig:12 on 2011-04-05, with 438717 points after 68761 turns and 6:09:39.

ancient zyme

A floating cancer. Found in the abyss, it passively causes sickness (after a few turns in los) and has strength and dexterity draining melee attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teSVNFzC148
Aggravating.

andy

Evaporate is NOT overpowered
My proposition is that the Human Player-race gets an ability, timed like a “Breath” weapon, allowing them to set exactly 1 trap on an adjacent square.
A. Vehumet gifts ammo, type determined by some means (player specified/whatever launcher was last used/etc.) B. Vehumet protects ammo from mulching.
Sticky Flame with range one and no Vehumet extension sucks [...] Solution? Use Poison/Mephitic Cloud and Ignite Poison, and you'll see what I mean.
I miss Bone Shards

angband

That other other game

angel

Permanent 150% speed. If you manage to kill one, you get its stuff. Holy scourge, eudemon blade anyone? Sometimes a Lemuel vault places it in lowlevel dungeons behind translucent walls just to scare the hell out of you.
Killing one can provoke retribution from TSO but this is mostly harmless.

angelfire

<simmarine> i used to think angelfire was one guy <simmarine> and he made so many webpages about random subjects <simmarine> dude was a fucking genius

angelscumming

angel´s cumming
The majestic art of running around as a mummy, being chased by up to 10 angels holding gold, while trying to find a exit out of the abyss to clone the angels and thus the gold. Doesn�t work anymore.

animal skin

AC+2, EV+0. Can be obtained by skinning sheep or yaks. The only difference between a skin and a robe is that the skin weighs almost twice as much, and it stinks. Unlike in old versions, non-randart skins can now have an ego property.

animate dead

Attempts to raise all corpses in LoS as zombies or skeletons.

animate skeleton

Animates a skeleton. If cast over a corpse, the skeleton will rip itself away, producing chunks; useful if you're wielding a mace of distortion or something.

ankus

An elephant goad. (one-handed Mace; Dam 9 Acc +2 Delay 14) Except not anymore because ankuses were removed! Gone.

annihilated

You had -22 hp or less when you died. Parts of you are all over the dungeon.

ant vault

ANT VAULT
THERE ARE FOUR ANT VAULTS, ONE OF WHICH IS NAMED ANTHELL

antaeus

This guy resides in Cocytus:7 and guards the icy rune. Unlike his demonic counterparts he does not summon and only has cold and lightning bolt spells at his disposal, but he hits like a ton of bricks and has a massive amount of HP. Bring cold resistance, lots of it.
In 0.5 he learned how to swim, so plan accordingly. Notice that he is vulnerable to fire and *not* poison resistant.
Don't vampiric drain him. !lg arafel char=hane place=coc:7 1 -tv
!lm mikee_ sprint uniq=antaeus 1 -tv

antennae

Detects monsters in a 2/4/6 square radius of the player; detected monsters are represented by a red {. Gives sInv and removes head slot at 3.

antialphaskillrobin

Like alphabetskillrobin but with regular alphabetical order instead of reverse alphabetical order.

antielfrobin

A roundrobin where you must refrain from entering any branches, especially Elf.

antimagic

A weapon brand added in 0.8. Dealing damage with it makes monsters sometimes lose a turn when they try to cast spells. Wielding it reduces max mp by around 2/3, getting hit by it depletes mp. Works on everything that has non-divine spells, including demons, orbs of fire, electric golems, etc.
good
Miscast chance for monsters increases based on damage dealt (with the weapon), decreasing every turn.

antique lich

Just a recoloured and renamed ancient_lich. You'll get a lot for one, if it's in mint condition!

antique shop

Shopkeepers know as much as you do, and price accordingly.
In particular, you can learn nothing about the item from its price. And that scroll labelled PLOG will be 50x more expensive after you ID it as acquirement.

antiskillrobin

Only train one skill at a time. No switching until you reach 27!

anym

Quite possibly related to Mr. Norrell, or the man himself. Wants DSHe to become a playable combination, because demonspawn are not evil, just misunderstood, really, and Elyvilon loves everyone equally.
His campaign for president is being financed by Mephistopheles, but this has nothing to do with his stance on demonspawn rights.
When Anym starts using quotes, be very afraid.
Is not Markus Mackey, you can stop asking.
Is very likely not wearing pants.
Convicted perfectionist

anywhere i guess

<monqy> a tiger can kill you but a person can also kill you
<monqy> a spatial vortex can banish you that's just what it does. people know better and banishing is a mean thing to do!!! the abyss is full of demons and it's a bad place
<monqy> of course the good gods are fine with killing but I guess it's not like getting sent to hell it's more like becoming a ghost which they also hate????
<monqy> i try not to think about it

aoe

Area of effect. Used to describe spells that affect enemies in more than one square. Normally, the implicit area is all of LOS.

apis

It's basically a Life Yak.

apocalypse crab

An extremely rare abyss-unique terror, which breathes out large clouds of seething chaos. Doesn't have particularly much hp to sustain fire with, though.

apocalypserobin

!lg apocalypserobin -tv:<0.1
<ontoclasm> a meat ration is 5000 nutrition, which is 1666 turns of sitting doing nothing. so if we assume the average guy would eat three of those a day while being semi-active, that puts a day at around 3600 turns... so that means the world ends 55555.5 days after you enter the dungeon <ontoclasm> which is about 152 years

appears from thin air

The monster in question teleported into your LOS.

apportation

Yoink! Pulls an object in LOS to your feet. Great for dealing with those pesky ice statue vaults and the Orb Chamber; also quite nice for ranged-combat characters and Tukima users. Does not work through glass walls.
Also good when you can't decide whether to loot or run, like the Abyss and SpWr speed divers. And for rescuing wands/potions from being picked up by intelligent monsters. And rescuing loot from jellies. And if you get into the habit of apporting damn near everything, can save you a lot of turns.
Max mass is 3-5 aum per point of spell power. If you fail to apport a pile, and cannot apport any part of it, nothing happens; otherwise the non-apported part remains where it is.
Your ability to apport the orb is dependent on spellpower. There's a flat chance (1-in-6) of it failing; otherwise it will move a maximum of (pow / 10) - 1 squares towards you.

apropos panlords

Pandemonium lords with cohesive flavour.
"A powerful demon, Stank has an armoured body with shiny metal wings. It stinks of brimstone."
Cigeutte has a crystalline body with large insectoid wings. It is surrounded by a sickening stench.
A powerful demon, Klear has a glassy body

apropos randarts

Randarts with cohesive flavour.
i - the ring of Xom's Flight of Fancy {MUT +Lev SInv} 403 gold
see crap
the +0 robe of Peek-a-Boo {+Blink} (BirdoPrey)
the mace "Blugeona" {crush, +Blink +Inv rC+ rN+}
G - the cursed +5,+6 halberd of Truncation (weapon) {slay orc, rF+ MR Int+3 SIn
The cursed -1,-1 double sword of Frustration {pain, +Rage Dex-3 Int-3 SInv Stlth--}
r - the +4,+2 demon blade of Evil (weapon) {god gift, pain, AC-1}
x - the +10,-1 dagger of the Mosquito (quivered) {god gift, vamp, Dex+3}
y - the cursed spear "Bighot" (weapon) {slay orc, MUT+ rPois Str+2}
the ring of Spontaneous Combustion {rF- Dex+3 Int+2 Acc+1}
< Stathol> A - the ring "Grats" {SustAb Str+4 Int+4}
the +4,+3 great mace "Kilit" {slay orc, rN+ MR SInv}
<ZChris13> _E - the +2 leather armour of Supple Strength {Str+1 Dex+3}
the +2 cap of the Thirteen Spirits Spirit
the +4 robe of Brilliance {god gift, Int+3}
l - the +0 leather armour of Boredom {god gift, SInv}
the ring "Fries" {Hunger- rElec rPois}
Y - the ring of Disaster {MUT+ *TELE +Inv Dam-5}
n - the hand axe of Righteous Anger {holy, +Rage, Dex+1}
The -1 scale mail of Useu {Stlth--} (u - a +0 orcish plate mail)
l - the demon whip of Pain and Death (weapon) {pain, -CAST rF+ Dex-5}
<valrus> L - a transparent robe <valrus> the +1 robe of the Moon (worn) {Int-2}
the cursed -1 chain mail "Shit" {rC+ Int-2 SInv}
<N78291> h - the cursed -4,-1 dagger of Dung {vamp, +Lev}
<elliptic> o - the +1 cloak "Dull" (worn) {+Lev}
neops the Thaumaturge (L10 MuWz), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, slain by a minotaur (the cursed -2,-5 hand axe of neops' Instant Death) in a Labyrinth (labyrinth_spiral) on 2012-02-20 12:00:15, with 4369 points after 23083 turns and 1:56:22.
the cursed +2 plate armour of Shyit {Acc+1}

aptitude

A number from -5 to 5 reflecting your character's ability with a specific skill; higher is better. An aptitude of n means the race takes 2^(-n/4) times as much exp to advance as a human. Press ?% in game to see the big table of races and aptitudes. An aptitude of -1 or better is good, -2 is manageable even as your main skill, -3 is quite bad.
0.6 to 0.7 conversion: -5 = 238, -4 = 200, -3 = 168, -2 = 141, -1 = 119, 0 = 100, 1 = 84, 2 = 71, 3 = 59, 4 = 50, 5 = 42
Try "!apt <race>" or "!apt <skill>" in ##crawl or in PM with this bot. An "!" next to an apt indicates that it's highest apt possible for that skill out of all races.
see skill penalties

arachne

A half-spider caster with a staff of poison and a spell that ensnares you with webs. And poison arrow and venom bolt. Unlike spiders, she is not poison-vulnerable---and the staff gives her resistance.

arafel

!tv arafel place=coc:7 1

arcane marksman

A Hunter with magic, or a Skald with a bow. Or a crossbow, or some javelins. Starts with an average ranged weapon and a Book of Debilitation.
Like a hunter but with hexes too. And fireballs. Starts with the Book of Debilitation.
<ebarrett> go trog, use the book to kill the first dangerous thing you find

archer

Monsters with this flag (only deep elf master archers and {merfolk javelineer}s) shoot point-blank, shoot more often, and add on average half their attack's base damage to their ranged to-hit and damage.

archer statue

A statue that shoots missiles at you, resists a lot of things, can't be disintegrated, and runs out of ammo.

archiiij

<archiiij> ogaz: ooga chaka ooga chaka I can't stop this feeling

archl

<archl> Poncheis: oh, orb of fire isn't very hard if you master any range skill at 27. <archl> not poison though.
<archl> Poncheis: I have no tele because I tend to drop items before entrying new floor
see ogtm guide

arena points

They're style points.

arena sprint

A sprint that is an arena.
The majority of the bosses are (mostly) all the same monsters with extra hp and no significant spoilers to worry about.

arga

+10,+6 mithril war axe of speed, +2 str, 30 MR, -5% overpowered. (The "mithril" is just flavor.)

armor

<MarvinPA_> what's an armor
see armour

armour

AC reduces incoming damage from most sources by vaguely 1d(AC). This can reduce it to 0. You might still get poisoned, banished etc. though.
see armour skill
Wearing heavy armor gives you extra penalties unless you have strength of at least 3x(base evp)

armour acquirement

Picks an armour type (includes shield) that you can currently wear. If it picks body armour, has a low (about 20%) to make random dragon armour, else makes a body armour type randomly weighted by your skills (25% chance of CPA instead of plate).
If it picks a brand you've seen, tries a few times to reroll it. If it made something plain it'll make a plain armour filling an empty slot.

armour popularity

Robe:36.5% GDA:30.8% Plate:6.37% Leather:6.13% Storm_DA:3.60% Dragon_Armour:3.12% Animal_Skin:2.40% Crystal_Plate:2.64% Ring:1.08% Swamp_DA:0.84% Troll_Armour:0.72% Mottled_DA:0.72% Ice_DA:0.72% None:0.72% Splint:0.60% Chain:0.60% Banded:0.48% Steam_DA:0.24% (22% of these are randart)
Percent of winners wearing given base armour type, including randarts and branded armours. Uses the same pool of morgues as spell_popularity.

armour skill

Armour skill defrays the penalties associated with heavy armours, and increases the effectiveness of your armour by 1/22nd of its base value per level of skill.
The EV penalty of a piece of armour is reduced by Armour skill. See aevp.

armours

Robe:2/-0 Steam:5/-0,rSteam Leather:3/-1 Troll:4/-1,regen Mottled:6/-1,rSticky Ring:5/-2 Swamp:7/-2,rPois Scale:6/-3 Fire:8/-3,rF++,rC- Ice:9/-3,rC++,rF- Pearl:10/-3,rN Chain:7/-4 Splint:8/-5 Storm:10/-5,rElec Plate:10/-6 Crystal:14/-8 Gold:12/-9,rF,rC,rPois
Key: <armour name>:<AC>/<EV penalty>,<Effects/Resistances>. To avoid extra penalties, you need strength greater than or equal to three times your body armour's evasion penalty.

arrow

You shoot these from a bow or use them for sticks to snakes! (Hint: Use them for Sticks to Snakes.)

arrow trap

1d15 damage.

artefact

Artefacts in Crawl come in two flavors. Randarts are a normal equippable item with zero or more random special properties, like a +3 scale mail with electricity resistance. Unrandarts are like randarts, but pre-identified and with a themed set of properties (sometimes completely unique ones), like the sword of Zonguldrok.
All artefacts are equippable items with special unidentified descriptions and (except for jewelry) can be identified by wearing. They are immutable except for curse status. See also ego.

artificer

A class that starts with three wands (enslave, flame, random effects (all with 15 charges)), a +0 short sword, light armour, some evocations/traps&doors/fighting/dodging skill, and knowledge of recharge scrolls.

ascii

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 1960s standard for assigning numbers to the characters of the Latin alphabet and common English punctuation. If you say ASCII outside the context of teletypewriter design or character encoding standards, you probably don't know what you're talking about.
You probably meant to look up character graphics.

ash skill boost

Ash boosts some of your skills for each level of bondage. The boosts come in three sizes (low, medium, high: see [2]) and also depend on your skill level and piety.
Low: staves+evocations (evoc staff), shield, dodging+stealth (evp < 2 armour), dodging+armour (evp 2 or 3 armour), all magic+evoc (jewellery). Medium: weapon, spellcasting (non-evoc staff), evoc (rod), armour (evp > 3 armour). Weapon bonus increased if 2h, armour and jewellery bonuses increased if fully bound.

ashenzari

God of divinations, curses and knowledge. Likes when you wear cursed gear and explore the world. Grants passive divinations, mapping, SInv, Clarity, and an active scrying ability at increasing levels of piety. Allows you to reskill. Provides ash skill boost.
God of bondage.
see remove curse[2]

ashenzari reasons

Automatic identification of many items, passive mapping and monster/item detection, reskilling, clarity, see invis, and you get skill boosts from wearing cursed items. What's not to like?
Answer: reskilling. The other stuff is good though.
You have berserkitis.

ashenzari wrath

-4 to all skills. Also boosts enemy AI: better pathfinding, they're more likely to target you when you're invisible, and they never forget about you. The wrath ends after you've gained two experience levels (or an equivalent amount of xp), not after a certain number of turns.

asmodeus

Casts hellfire, and summons hellions, brimstone fiends, balrugs and assorted fiery popcorn. Guards the obsidian rune, and drops the Sceptre of Asmodeus when killed.

asp

Adjusted shield evasion penalty. Affects melee accuracy and attack speed. Its value is base_penalty - shield_skill/(5 + size_factor).
Base penalty is 1 for bucklers, 3 for shields, 5 for large shields. Size factor is -2 for Og, Tr, Na, Ce; +2 for Ha, Ko; +4 for Sp; 0 for others.

assassin

A thief who accidentally left his short sword at home, but at least was smart enough to bring an enchanted dagger, a blowgun, and even a curare needle or two.

asshole

see Sigmund
see TGW

atomjack

has one of the fastest wins ever on CAO at 21k turns.

attack delay

Attack delay is 10 time units for a melee weapon with base speed 100%. Every 2 levels of weapon skill lower the delay by 1 unit.
A weapon's minimum delay is half of its base delay (rounded down) but no more than 7 (5 for sabres). For example, a club (base delay 13) has minimum delay 6, while an executioner's axe (base delay 20) has minimum delay 7.
see min_delay
Speed brand cuts delay by half (round up), and haste cuts delay by a third (round randomly up or down). These effects stack, after the base cap. As of 0.5, there's an absolute cap of 2 for attack delay.
You can get an estimate of your attack speed by pressing '@'. See player.cc >_display_attack_delay() for details. >=200 extremely slow | >=155 very slow | >=125 quite slow | >=105 below average | >=95 average | >=75 above average | >=55 quite fast | >=45 very fast | >=35 extremely fast | <34 blindingly fast
Since average speed is 10 time units, which is multiplied by 10 to get the 100% you see listed in a weapon description, the estimate can be translated like this: 20+ extremely slow | 19-16 very slow | 15-13 quite slow | 12-11 below average | 10 average | 9-8 above average | 7-6 quite fast | 5 very fast | 4 extremely fast | 3 blindingly fast
Ranged: delay = base_delay - 4*weapon_skill*(str_weight*str + dex_weight*dex)/250. Weights (str/dex) are 5/5 for slings, 7/3 for the rest. Min delay is 0.6 for bows and longbows, 0.7 for slings and crossbows.

augmentation

Demonspawn mutation: gives scaling spell power and slaying bonuses with HP total: bonuses are equal to max(0, ceiling(mutlevel*(2*hp - maxhp)/maxhp))*(0.4*spell power + 4 slaying).

aum

Arbitrary Unit of Mass. Is exactly as arbitrary as it sounds, and nobody knows exactly how much it is. In old versions you gained 10 aum of carrying capacity per point of strength, since 0.6 you get 30 aum.

australia

messages_at_top = true
<elliott> anyway zot is the most accurate depiction of australia in crawl imo
Actualy, Lair is australia. Lots of things, mostly poisonous, all want to kill you

aut

Arbitrary unit of time.

autodie

lua script by monqy; automatically dies

autoexplore deaths

Deaths occuring during autoexplore or autotravel (at full or near HP).
!tv minmay killer=~lernaean 1
!tv minmay killer=nikola 1
!lg wrshamilton spne killer=jorgrun 1 -tv
!lg SGrunt defe min=turns -tv
!tv sadmasher snake 1
!tv ionfrigate br=elf ckiller="deep elf annihilator" 2
!tv erisdiscordia ddak br=tar 1
!tv zhangfei 5
!tv ponce mube 6
!tv ptoannng 10

autofight stop

If you aren't crate, set this to 50 and use Tab.

automated text processing

A perfect opportunity to blame Erik.

autopickup

Autopickup is a function which allows you to automatically pick up items when you pass over them. Items which will be picked up automatically have green boxes around them in tiles.
By default, only food you can eat, unidentified and useful potions, jewellery, wands, curare-tipped needles, books and scrolls, used ammunition and gold will be picked up. This list can be changed (see [3] and [4]).
Which items are automatically picked up is defined in settings/autopickup_exceptions.txt, or by pressing 'o' to edit options on the server. The format for adding new rules is "autopickup_exceptions = <[item type/name fragment]" for items to be included and "ae = [item type/name fragment]" for items to be excluded from autopickup.
Autopickup rules can use item type ('weapon', 'armour', etc.) or name fragments (such as 'dagger', 'scroll' etc). One use for this is automatically picking up items that are glowing, runed etc.

autorobin

A robin for playing crawl by holding down the letter 'd'. Now with automatic Lair -> Orc -> Vaults branch order! Not updated since 0.8-a, see xw or parabolic instead.
FLEEEEING
Currently can clear L and O and die in V, on a good day
see cashybrid
11686 ||| EATING scroll labeled PHIASA GEAH
<Patashu> why can't autorobin play as well as elynae <Patashu> it's basically the same thing right

autumn katana

A +8,+8 vorpal katana clarity that didn't get the news about katana removal. Dam 14 Acc +3 Delay 12.

auxiliary attacks

Auxiliary attacks are /extra/ melee attacks using body parts. You can get auxiliary attacks by having hooves, horns, talons, fangs, a beak, or a large muscular tail. Unarmed Combat skill does not affect these. However, if you have Unarmed Combat skill and are not using a shield or two-handed weapon, you do get an offhand punch.
Base damage: Kick: 5 + (hooves mutation level * 5 / 3) + (1 + talons mutation level) + (tentacle spike mutation level) | Headbutt: 5 + (beak mutation level) + (horns mutation level * 3) | Tail-slap: 6 + (stinger mutation level * 2 - 1 [venom branded]) |
| Punch: 5 + UC skill / 3 + (6 with blade hands) + (claws mutation level)d3 with claws (does not stack with blade hands) | Bite: (fangs mutation level * 2) + (str - 10) / 5; + 2d4 with acidic bite mutation (and possible corrosion) | Pseudopods: 4 * (pseudopod mutation level) | Squeeze: 12
see unarmed_effects

availability heuristic

The more something stands out, the more likely you are to retain it and use it in later statistical arguments. For instance, you won't keep track of the number of times you cast magic dart, just recall the times you miscast 3 times in a row.

average

Describes an experience level 4-6 player ghost.

awaken forest

does (high) damage to enemies (you) next to trees for the (long) duration

awbwrobin

Robin account used by people at AWBW who play crawl! Team AWBW Rising in tourneys

awefig

Adjusted Weapon Fighter Score

awesomely powerful

Describes a experience level 26 player ghost.

awfulplayers

Membership in the awfulplayers list is strictly voluntary, but only open to those with over 1000 games and a win rate under 1%.
<Wensley> once a year, mantis requires that we feed it one awfulplayer

axe magic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHd4M0QKNE&lr=1&t=1m16s

axes

item_glyph = \{Axes\} : darkgrey )
[hands](Dam,Acc,Delay): Hand axe (7,3,13); War axe (11,0,15); Broad axe (13,-2,16); Battleaxe[2] (15,-4,17); Executioner's axe[2] (18,-6,20)
Once, the most popular weapon class. Hand axes are decent at start, but upgrade to a war axe when you can. And then switch to a broad axe or battleaxe when you find one. Executioner axes are the best two-hander in the game that can be wielded by normal-size races. Cross-trains with Maces & Flails and Polearms.
see cleave

ayep

In America, this is what you say while your thumbs are hooked in your suspenders and you're chewing a piece of straw at a tractor pull. Ayep.

azrael

A unique efreet. Uses fire spells (bolt of fire, fireball, sticky flame), but also uses both types of hellfire. Appears with hell hounds and fire elementals (several of each).
Is certainly not a pushover, as hellfire does huge amounts of irresistable damage.
<valrus> fire dude <valrus> whatitsface
<raskol> "this elemental is taking an awful lot of tabs" oh it's just azrael

azriel

Health: 6000 - Speed: 30 - AC: 170 - Attacks: 50(drain), 50(drain), 100, 100 - Spells: breathe nether for 550 damage. Aren't you glad you're not playing Angband.

azure jelly

Fast moving jelly that hits very hard with multiple cold damage attacks. Frail characters need cold resistance and must avoid melee contact. Azure jellies are vulnerable to fire, and are in fact only rC+.

b0rsuk

b0rsuk is a badger of such great power that he has mastered his own mortality. He is enormous, three-headed and capable of breathing fire. Born before the history of time, he has grown in might and magical mastery. Being immortal, there is nothing left to acquire but godhood. His claws are golden and enchanted.
Likes ogres. Raw, with a little mint sauce.
Has killed Boris 4 times in a game.
Loves Ball Lightning
Has actually found a dwarven naga barding and a blessed eudemon blade. (Sic!)
y - the -3,+15 bardiche of the Penguin (weapon) {god gift, speed, +Blink rElec AC+6}
Finally, let it be known that my current nickname is 'b0rsuk', all lowercase in accordance with unix tradition. And "Borsuk" is not my name - "Borsuk Euroazjatycki" means "Eurasian Badger" (meles meles).

b26

Dungeon Crawl 4.00b26, the last official Crawl release for several years preceding the start of work on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Available at http://dungeoncrawl.org/. To get this working on a modern Linux system, change SAVE_DIR_PATH in source/AppHdr.h to "/usr/local/share/games/crawl-b26/" (trailing slash critical, make sure dir exists); and remove the braces from religion.cc lines 56-67. Then make install.

baby alligator

Seen in packs with their adult counterparts, they are slightly faster than the average race, hit as hard as a crocodile, but have more health. Not a great threat unless multiple ones gang up on you in water.

background

Affects starting skills, equipment, gold, spells, religion, piety, known items and the starting values for HP, MP, Str, Int and Dex and nothing else and nothing afterwards.

bad

ideas
your ideas

bad excuse

but i wanted the loot
but i was running out of food
but jellies will eat it
but i would lose xp
but the wiki said
but i like chei
but my aptitude is -2
but i might need it later
<punpun> I didn't expect the minotaur to actually hit me 2/3 times
it got lucky
<eeviac> I thought I could kill it
but I was wearing faith
<HangedMan> ew, 3020 zig, that won't have anything of worth
<Ragdoll> but my winrate
but the learndb said
<Kacy> Well, tbh I would play ASCII but it gives me a migraine
<N78291> I didn't even realize I was dying until I died
<yogaFLAME> but my tab key doesn't make me walk away
see mong[6]
<elliott> right but... my max hp
<elliott> so i can develop without going insane
I clicked

bad ideas

See http://crawl.akrasiac.org/bad_ideas.txt or http://sites.google.com/site/cherrypickedbadideas/ for ortoslon's selection of ~100 favorites.
bad ideas[1295]

bad irc

see badirc
-how do i deal with hydrae as a troll? - wear gloves (...) wield a blunt weapon

bad randarts

the -12 splint mail of Joy {Str-3 Int+1}
You finish putting on the cursed -7 gold dragon armour "Usupatad" {EV-5 Dex-4}
the amulet "Phitwautz" {Faith MUT+}
the -15 plate mail of the Good {god gift, Stlth--}
the -7 wizard hat of a Thousand Suns {god gift, Dex-2 Acc-2}

bad vaults

minmay_temple_entry_oklob, general_overflow_altar, D:8 temples, minmay_statue_hallways, explore_dammit
that entry vault that makes grinding noises

badchar

type '!rng @badchar' to get a random bad character. "Bad" is defined as the greyed-out race/class combinations in character creation.
see rng[7]
<CptPickles> !rng @badchar <Wenzell> The RNG chooses: DDNe.

badcrd

David Floog
With all due respect ... I USE THE MOUSE; and if I exist ... then there must be others like me.

baddevs

<kilobyte> got to fix webtiles producing tinyterm ttyrecs... <kilobyte> hard to watch them this way

baddevwiki

How do you distinguish male from female Crawl players ? By name ! Assume names ending with “a” are female. Since it would only have effect on speech, no harm done ?
Fedhas wolves are made out of stick a leaves and travel in a pack of 5.They turn into trees, when they die.After 10 turns,if the other pack members are still alive it will turn back into a wolf at half health.
A many-headed dragon, appearing as a typical, albiet tougher (and deeper), creature. Likely a Zot-level beast. * Has multiple heads and the blade-based head regeneration of a hydra. * Has all attributes of the dragon color base. * Can breathe whenever it wants. * Does not have the hydra super-fast movement speed.
"Like with bears, they have tentacle and bite attacks; pulls a target next to the body, tries to bite."
Killing a player ghost now has a 20% chance of dropping player ghost remains (50% if killed with a reaping weapon).

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Make skill levels in magic skills (spellcasting, fire magic, hexes...) give a penalty to HP.
I have NO problems with having challenge Races. However, It is a BIG mistake to have Ogres fill in that gap. (It is by far the worst design choice made by the devs for this game IMHO)
Also - what if armour had a chance of getting its EV penalty lowered by the "ECW I" aspect of the scroll?
Revise Orc Priest smiting ability. Transform it to reduce a target to 1-15% of total health
Equipment in crawl is generally a bit of a nobrainer IMO.
Right now, ash is just a pet project god for people that want to do endless zig runs (boring and cumbersome).
"As in, all enemies fall in one of two categories: popcorn and extremely dangerous (liches, including Boris fall into the first category for example, steam dragons in the second - even with rElec and 50+ SH) with little to no middle ground."
Haste isn't worth it over stasis
Shadow Creatures can get you Orbs of Fire to fight against Orbs of Fire.
AC is all but irrelevant to Spriggans
Im still standing to my word.the gong is the answer to all my prayers!!
the guaranteed starting shield tends to be a stronger choice than beginning with Trog.
nerf uncontrolled blink by allowing it to land you in lava/deep water. compensate by making levitation level 1.
Really, if I get !faith early, then I have plenty of ?identify. If not, I burn !identify on amulets until I find !faith.
An idea that just popped in my head. Maybe this has been discussed before; A mutation which causes you to forget things.
An MDFi who does Elf with no rN can drop over 5-10 levels.
If you don't find at least rN+ on elf 5, I would either switch to TSO (rN+++ at full piety) and scum abyss for piety, or try slime pits for the third rune
The damndest thing about Swamp is how cool those wisps are, and how they can ruin a caster's day if he doesnt stop and think a little bit.
Having a shield stat of 60+ has serious implications on the game and makes almost everything trivial.
Let the player cultivate a garden. Gardening is an active and optional interaction and it would make the game more interesting for the players who chose to do it. Players who hated carving chunks could just farm all their food somewhere. Since fruit is faster to eat anyway, this would be a strategic decision as well.
You shouldn't put anything into weapon skills before XL10, and you should be sure to pick one by XL15. If you find something nice between those points, go for it. If you're XL15, you can't wait any longer and will need to settle for something FAST.
see evilyvon
I just lost all of my elite named and leveled up orc warriors and spell casters, as well as all of my lesser orc minions to an elf named Nikola on level two of the Elf Mines.
What if you couldn't use a wand in the normal way, but instead, being a furry animal, you could charge your fur with it's ambient static power. as a Felid (and MAYBE Kobolds, being hairy, could have this), you like roll around on a wand or something, draining all it's charges.
Train spellcasting even if you never want to learn a spell. A good 3-4 levels will do. I forgot about doing that and ended up getting stuck between a rock and a hard place (an Unseen Horror) with my TrMo of Chei. My backup plan was Slouch, but... yea, cant cast slouch with 3 mana!
Must learn spell is: Sticks to Snakes, with this, you can try to conquer Elven Hall. This is one of the best spell, for killing all elves, quick and easy.
For example, Octopode is Op because those are on the syllables. Spriggan is Sp because those are the first two letters, presumably because it has 3 syllables.
This might be a bit out there, but check it out. Change Felid to Familiar. Put in a mechanic that gives you the chance to convert any spellcaster based on your charms skill. Make the total amount of things you can have charmed based on level. You can probably take away the nine-lives thingy at this point.
Maybe the better solution is to add a "scroll of disarmament" to the game, which removes all traps (discovered or not) in LoS. Then they could actually add MORE deadly, unavoidable traps and trap-based vaults to the game
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I find that shields fulfill the same role as vampiric weapons do.
1. Sacrificing items causes glow and can mutate you. Therefore all sacrifices require risk.
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Making non-weapons not attack sounds workable. This would be a nerf to Mara though, wouldn't it? The old wielded bread ration trick would produce ghosts without melee attacks.
I think that GDR should be shown as an in-game attribute of armours; it is just as significant, if not moreso, than EV penalty and AC bonus.
I am looking at adding something along the lines of a Thirst factor, allowing for branches like the abyss to become more realistic, plus adding the way for additional branches like a desert scene plausible for those with the creative mindset. ... Spells that cause an alcohol induced behavior could as well be used to dehydrate a player
Idea: there is a chance of Haste berserking you that decreases with spellpower.
I promptly got assaulted by a herd of skeletal warriors backed up by Yaktaurs, so I moved toward them, taking a crap load of damage with each step. So I initiate teleport, then invoke rage.
When a wall is in some way removed, if there is lava or deep water next to it, the water or lava should have a chance to flood the area that is next to the wall that is dug
Cooking will require a camp fire, requiring a fire spell, wand, or scroll be cast on a wooden object. Reliable cooking would require carrying these materials with you.
In keeping with the original Dungeon Crawl by Atari, poisons makes you sick. Sickness is a part of the game. If you only got poisoned once while playing, you would be asking "Why is that there? Seems like it should happen more often."
Overall I would prefer HOBe due to the relatively great casting capability.
[*] Paralysis prevents the eating of chunks. [*] Being unable to eat prevents the eating of chunks.
"it's [OTR's] an extremely deadly level 4 nuke"
What if each turn you hold the orb, your hp decreases by 1 for every rune you collected?
Rather than skill aptitudes, why not make all values of skills significant and start species with -3 aptitude at -3 skill level instead, and let them build up to 0 and positive skill values? This would allow 0 to represent a significant value rather than an absence of skill.
A wand of crowd control could go summon mammal -> meph -> OTR -> fireball -> poison cloud -> ice storm (extremely rare)
[acquirement] ...looking over player comments, it seems the best option is to just take gold. There shouldnt be a best option, especially something as mundane as generic wealth. It should be a real choice between all of the possibilities (after character considerations are taken). Honestly, who _ever_ takes potion, for example?
Put it in Mantis as a feature request to increase the likelihood of it happening.
[on a proposed mechanism for player resurrection] - It even can start to spawn only after the graveyard reaches some definite amount of corpses (let's say 10) and stop spawning after you retrieve several Orbs of Zot (let's say 5).
I'm fighting Azrael. I get him down a large notch, then being adjacent to me, he hellfires me. My rf+++ doesn't let me get hurt much, but it completely kills him. [...] Per the bots, your rF+++ didn't help you [...] Well, yeah but my rN+ may have helped.
Necromutation makes it so, so much easier. rPois and rN+++ in one spell.
Mummies have enormous advantages that are not apparent looking at the attributes chart. From a defensive perspective, there is no better race.
I changed my mind now about the optimal class for Mummies. Scratch Necromancer. Again, it's Stalker. Actually Stalker may be a bit overpowered, and I really dread the next version of Crawl because I strongly suspect the developers are going to clip the wings of Stalkers.
Throw icicle (summoning/ice, level 4) - change this from conjuration to summoning
I think a third of the code would vanish instantly if _all_ calculations were done in floating point arithmetic instead of integers (is there a _real_ reason why you cannot have 17.5 HP or 3.14159 MP?).
vitrify can make dangerous walled levels such as Zot:5 or elf:3 significantly more predictable by turning the walls transparent.
Besides which, any wise Troggie treats 'aa' as if it doesn't exist anyhow and just uses him for his other attributes.
If you need to use exponets, squares, and other complex equations then your system is poorly designed at its base. Do you really want professional mathamaticians as your only target audience?
Weapon speed effects how often you hit. To hit percentage effects how often you hit. That is the definition of redundant, and my ability to spell has absolutely no impact on the discussion being made. Stop making ad hominem attacks.
a 3/5 Potion of Speed mixed with a 1/5 Potion of Strength and a 1/5 Potion of Gain level nets the player a Potion of "Lose 1 Point Of Accuracy For Every Level of Strength" (because it's hard to control the super fast movements).
Make weapons the exception. Hitting v itself won't do anything while wielding a weapon, just like the ctrl key does. It'll work only when it's combined with directional command. Pressing any combination of two keys simultaneously is always guaranteed to have no problem in standard keyboards.
The gladiator is built around a mechanic that doesn't exist in the game: light armored melee.
I think the traps in DC should be generally deadlier. So if you want to avoid instant death caused by traps, you`d have to train doors&traps skill.
Maybe it's a big part of why I don't win much, but I don't walk away from things once I've started fighting them more than once every ten games.
Chei will get you very large boosts to your main stats at high piety which will make large rocks into tactical nukes. [...] Reduced metabolism and an easier time in the abyss and on the orb run are nice perks too. The vastly increased stats also make death curses from mummies much less potent making it easier to get through tomb.
An idle thought on demigods: Why not change the hard restriction on worship to a soft restriction? Slower piety gain and longer wrath, for example. Just throw a warning at the player when trying to worship/abandon a god.
Related to this, do you think it's possible to win with 15 runes using a ranged-only melee character?
Dreaded going to the Abyss? Given the power you were wielding? Ah right, Naga without Chei or CBoE. Also, can't you fly over Zot traps? You had Tornado so that would have lifted you in the air.
For all other species moving on ground is primary and water is an obstacle. Make octopodes primary water creatures and implement a minivault random cave river system.
More recently, I switched to the git version, which currently has a hilariously difficult idea of what monsters to generate -- but also generates significantly better items (and is way prettier) - hence "Hard Mode".
This being the issue of the cloak and amulet slots, and how they are subject to the exact sort of nobrainer decisions that this game avoids in most other areas. If you find rMut, you use that, and only that, in your amulet slot.
That is only true if the choice of viable endgame gods for a warrior of Yred was more than just TSO.
The only species that is attempted to be designed to not have any favorable playstyle is the Human - which is of course equally horrible at all playstyles and could have recommendations set to nothing as a result
The sole reason I learnt dragon form is to spam sub.blood on myself: i.e. the +60% HP bonus. Of course I should only do this when I don't need to run away and am in no danger of being hit.
Not recommended if you’re following Sif or Veh, at least not without plenty of firepower (literally—using Fire Storm is not out of the question to safely kill the Unseen Horrors).
Advantages for Kobolds don't really matter because it doesn't make up for the Kobolds Main Disadvantages
Perfume bomb: Temporarily charms/enslaves its victims. Powerful against groups of Orcs and beasts, but less so against high MR enemies. Remote controlled robot bomb: Take control of a walking bomb for several turns, leaving yourself open to attack. Water balloon: Sends the enemy into a berserk rage.
What if we make special combat moves like spells? This way, pure fighters will find use in those mp laying around.
Generally speaking, about, Dragon armours and their place in the game design, why is the Gold Dragon Armour far better than the others (offering 3 useful resistances instead of one, and a huge GDR).
Cheibriados forces their followers to wear a tortoise shell on their back for training. The shell can be removed for the purpose of wearing armour, but it can't be taken off otherwise. It takes up the cloak slot.
Disadvantage: You lose your face...you are unable to eat, drink or read (but still perceive your surroundings...although with reduced LOS). Advantage: You gain the ability to adopt the face of a dead creature. You will slice the face and wear it as a mask, gaining different abilities depending on the general type of monster.
Falling asleep and dropping random items from time to time seems fun
I propose that Cheibriados prevents you from speeding your weapon up through training weapon skill, so that all weapons act at maximum delay.
I could see this as a level 4-5 charm Delay that, when cast, requires you to cast any other spell immediately afterward, penalizable at that time to miscasts, which on successful cast would be "held" till released, not unlike how Delayed Fireball works now. Then we'd ditch the Delayed Fireball spell.
I can't believe your bad luck -- completed orc AND elf, AND the vaults and dungeon . . . . and no rMut
wyrmbane makes a great throwing weapon imho.
I can't say I like the idea of a weaker weapon dealing less damage then a stronger weapon.
Low-level Trog worshippers and casters w/o melee yet should not wear-ID specifically because of Hunger. Without remove curse, which is admittedly plentiful, hunger will limit your options to melee-only.
I suggest to limit number of useful magic schools to 3 [...] No character can have more than 3 magic schools with skills greater than 3. So you still can have Necromancy 3, Air 3, Ice 3, Hexes 3 etc if you wish so.
The nice thing about being a Wizard is getting resistances up is a lot easier since I can use artifact weapons for added resistance without worrying how they affect my melee ability since I never melee anything.
Logunu, to me, is the "Early blink in heavy Armour" god.
Emos is the diety of self loathing. He likes it when you take damage, cast Pain (and related spells), drink detrimental potions, read scrolls of immolation, etc. He dislikes it when you use any heal potions, wands, or regeneration spells. Emos refuses to accept worship from beings that cannot feel pain.
Still it would be stupid to use GSC (even with Maces&Flails 22+ and Fighting 27) vs low HP targets. I think we do not have any disagreements in the latest part of the thread since everyone understands how melee fighting works...
The AK had a much easier time due to the big SH value that defended him, while the AM's Vampiric Giant Club could only restore so much health.
Lichform allows to almost ignore Int
Anit-Cheribdos Diety - Like the killing of slower creatures, promotes the use of quickblades, branded speed weapons, and boots of running. Dislikes the use of any slowing rods/spells on anything, amulets of stasis, use of ponderous equipment, and resting (lose 1 piety every 25 turns while resting).
I propose monsters that can cast spells drop their spellbooks. Said spell books would contain all the spells the monster can cast. (Possibly minus monster only spells, although I think that allowing the player to get his hands on them this way would be acceptable.) This would clear up the problem of spell book rarity.
it rather seems to be that the hardest core of players is already bored from streaking and puts the impossible races towards the end (hello Mummies, Humans and Demigods)
MONS: big kobold name:Jibjub name_replace MONS: kobold name:Nitkik name_replace MONS: big kobold name:Kiblib name_replace
HP is irrelevant for non-lich and non-undead character. After 4 torments you will have to use Death's Door/Born's Revivication no matter if you are an Ogre or Felid because 80HP difference is 5HP difference now (80/16).
- You're a wizard, that means you don't get involved in fistfights or primitive melees with pointy things. That is for peasants with no class. If you ignore this you deserve to die, which you likely will.
Almost never have I seen anything remotely threatening in damage coming from Darts or Stones outside of the Early Game, and I would rather take a Orc Warlord throwing Stones at my Squishy Caster with Repel Missiles at range while I cast Poison Arrow or Bolt of Fire with glee at him.
Crossbows are different from Bows and Slings in that you can load them and it will be ready to fire when you need it to be; Bows and Slings however don't stay loaded and always require a setup phase before firing. In terms of Crawl, the purpose of Reloading would be that you could fire your Loaded Crossbow instantly.
But haste make you hungry.
resist mutation almost a must for most characters if you want to win.
The Amulet of Rage is a really interesting Amulet for Trog Worshipers
Lightning Bolt is at 1% failure but I cannot spam it because of spell hunger. Hat provides +5 Int which saves 50 food points for every Lightning Bolt and I have Swiftness to compensate pondering.
Anyways, there were some critics, but I honestly think this is good. -3 ring mail {rF+ rC+ rN+ MR str+1} Sure it would need a better base type/enchantment to be the best, but I have a hard time saying 4 resists is not a notable randart ;)
i'm pretty sure you can't win as long as any enemy is in your LOS so if you end up being followed to the exit you have to deal with the panlord a way or another.
(Achievements) Overachever: Do a 15 rune game. I wanna be the guy!: Do a 15 rune game as a halfling fighter.
This modification [elemental attacks can heal certain monsters] would be another way to make uniques or random/unique Pan lords more exciting and force the player to be more careful. Imagine the horror when you mistakenly cast Fire Storm instead of Ice Storm: "Cerebov basks in the healing power of your fire magic."
Extispicy - Divination / Necromancy. Dissembowl a fresh corpse. Divine how many monsters of this type remain in the level. Balance feature: Trades potential food for very limited information.
Due to their speed, until it runs out of ammo, centaurs and yaktaurs should maintain a two space buffer between themselves and the target player.
OOD for floor 1 is gonna be what; like Orc-Knight/Trolls probably. Say you kept restarting till you found a good rod or two--maybe something with ice storm or a good swarm of medium summons. Level 6 evo-hunger is a non-issue and unlike spells your evocations are guaranteed success from a rod. Keep blink/mephitic as your escapes and you're golden!
My understanding was that Sif Muna protects from miscasts and Lichform protects from spell hunger so Mummy of Sif Muna can spam Ice/Fire Storm earlier than DEWz of Vehumet can.
What about changing the disposition of the loot in the labyrinth so that, instead of having it all in a pile by the exit with the Minotaur sitting on top, it's scattered at random around the labyrinth?
I ditched Trog late in the game in hopes of getting some casting going but I ended up getting the orb and getting out of there before really being much of a caster. Oh well, the stat bonuses from Che were great.
one wierd thing about Cure Mut potions that always bothers me - every other "good" potion has 100 percent positive results (heal, cure, +foo, etc) even Invis which doesn't add glow like a spell would.
On a related note with mummies, how do they get rid of mutations generally? If you get some really bad mutation, do you worship Jivya, or what?
also,what is the point of necromancers anyway,when you only start as one for the animate dead spell?if i wanted undead support for melee,i could start as a melee background and worship kiku or yredelemnul
Suddenly getting your cards scrambled because now your DsFE you rushed to make proficient at firestorming suddenly can't do it as much without toasting itself isn't something that takes a couple of floors to adapt to.
is it worth risking a ring of faith (don't really want it this game) or inaccuracy over just keeping the stasis ammy on for now?
Joking aside, the only time apportation is useful is if some vault designer decided to place an item on top of a teleporter trap. That is literally the only time I have ever used that spell.
Just bad luck? Dunno but it seriously hurts a lot of (maybe only my) builds as they are more or less dependent on Swamp Dragon Armour which is almost never encountered anywhere but Swamp. It´s actually become to the point that I’ve altogether stop playing 0.11+ if I’m playing a toon even remotely dependent on Swamp Armour.
This is a tree with 13 fruits (pomegranates?) on it. It is pretty heavy (~100 aum). Eating one will activate the tree. One of the fruits starts to rot. Eating this one will act like a manual for training a random Spell School. It will also cause nausea [...] it should give more xp to ogres, to compensate for their appalling aptitudes.
I am not sure Necromutation is overestimated by players. It makes you immune to Torments/Mutations (rot can be healed eventually). So you basically choose either good gods or necromutation. Also necromutation is very nice because it lets you wear 2 regeneration rings or cast level 9 spells without any hunger issues.
I see nothing wrong with Necromutation on a fighter (even on MiBe who abandoned Trog). It just requires extended for exp. I would farm Pan for Necromutation skills before trying Hell.
SE is not a Mi so it should not melee dangerous things so early even with vamp lajatang.
Increase Okawaru piety gain when wearing Amulet of Inaccuracy or negative slaying bonuses during applicable attacks. Decrease piety gain similarly when wearing positive slaying during an applicable attack.
Actually, I don't think many people use Magical Staves for actual Melee combat. Having to train up Evocations, Staves, the Appropriate Spell School, and Fighting is quite a bit of experience to tally up to make a Magical Stave a viability weapon.
I'm sure there's many people who'd rather play a caster for their first win. I myself haven't won a caster yet, even after 16 wins. All have been melee/archers so far, some of which had support magic (My DrMo had dragon form which I don't think qualifies as spellcasting
I would not consider it wasting id scroll on amulet of faith. The amulet is almost useless for Sif Muna
Zin is the holy equivalent of lich-form as far as I'm concerned.
Necromancy is a rather nice spell school, but most of the time the only races who choose the necromancer background are Deep Dwarves and Mummies.
I'm of the opinion that most of the gods made to have generalized appeal (Ash, Jyvia) need some kind of buff
I'm a bit suspicious of any weapon with a base delay higher than 120 that isn't exclusive to ogres and trolls.
Of course, that is why you choose Sif. [...] Oh I should note it wouldn't be that big of a problem if I ate intelligent beings, but I sort naturally follow a Zin level diet. This is more of a mental handicap then a deliberate one.
create level 9 spell of poison magic which instantly transfers all Poison Magic skill points into spellcasting. The spell cannot be cast if its failure rate is above 10%. Thus Venome Mage has 2 options: 1) abandon Poision Magic as done nowadays 2) train Poison Magic to have the spell castable and transfer skill points.

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I've gotten an AC of 2 on a felid before. That's better than a robe
I thought Iron Shot was a powerful, high-damage spell, likely to kill Sigmund. I was wrong
Seriously, Fire Storm spam works on everything but Cerebov and diamond obelisks
Sif Muna gives you an evocable ability to get mana from health
DDs: Good for bra sizes, not adventurers
If I wanted comfort, I'd get a USB console controller. Vikeys is okay, until I have to move diagonally. Then they're a pain.
really? is it even possible to survive pan/hell without tso/kiku
LOOK AT THAT INVISIBLE GLOWING THING LETS ATTACK. fr: remove invis or make it useful ?
anyone have any ideas on how I kill ghost moths as a dark elf caster
Also, the second Diablo 3 comes out, I can stop playing DCSS
Whatever. Mak and Veh rule but they wont win you the game. Where as TSO will
i pretty much consider necromutation or undeadform necessary for extended game.
True. Centaur warriors are next to impossible to pacify even at very high invocations
Slouch > anything Plus I had MR chainmail on
well, although im transmuter, I will go back to trog once I have 15 Level of air magic :)
im scared of the greater mummy smite. it does like 60 damage in one shot
does reflect missiles work on firestorm?
sweet found a book with meph. now thew entire rest of the game will be trivial
I can't help but think that even if I were to use the ability to escape a bad situation, I'd be left with a character worth quitting. Maybe that's why I've never even bothered to learn Borgnjor's. well, I probably wouldn't quit. I would probably make a beeline for d:1 and escape
there is /one/ reason in Crawl to change up branch order: what you happen to be resistant to
Why would you play a DD melee class
<Lightli> Sometimes, you just go in with too much good gear to require thinking
It's because [Berserker Rage] was rarely used. Spellcasters don't want to be berserk since it stops them spellcasting, and Melee dudes wear heavy armor which tends to prevent level 3 spellcasting.
nah i'll be switching to chei at some point so hellion island is nothing to me
<hypnocat> you know what would be cool? if you could find secret objects the way you can find secret doors and traps now
I figure, if i learn the game with chei, when i'm better, everything will just seem so much faster.
true scummos but you dont have to steal to be a thief.
<Pedjt> I have trouble understanding why you'd use necromut with anyone other than sif <Lightli> Pedjt: Crystal ball of energy abuse
beogh is better than kiku anyway
curse toes are like curse skulls but easy
FWIW, I think that the Jester is a well-working, entertaining, balanced class. So why delete it?
Ash is like the only god that is better than Chei at even one thing.
technically, in my opinion, using a weapon late game only cripples you

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0005611: Received +3 lightning scales {sslith, rElec} barding as NaSt.
0005858: Evocation has almost no impact on Cheibriados Abilities (MeGl)
0005922: When a worshiper of Jiyva Juatzu reaches 6 star piety and enters the final floor of the Slime Pits all the treasure gets eaten.
0005975: Poisoned for 8 pages!
0005991: Grey Draconians in Dragon Form Lack See Invis
0005578: Has miscasting flipped an always miscast switch?
0006302: auto fight incorrectly implies blindness
0006710: Mummies now have planescape torment style memories [and are called liches].

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An indication or a warning would help when selecting skills when using potions of experience. For example, when selecting skills needed for fire storm, when fire storm is the only spell that has a failure higher than 1%, a hint that armour and/or shields also need to be selected would be helpful.
This patch should work. Should. I'm not really sure.

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I've heard of people talking about a hidden Lair:8 vault giving lots of tasty loot and it was one of the main reasons scrolls of magic mapping got nerfed. It'd be really shitty if the hell vault was the loot. A wand of heal wounds isn't gonna do shit for me when I have 0 recharging scrolls.
All the people telling you to haste and teleport are actually giving you bad advice since haste makes it take more of your turns for a teleport to kick in, you can't outrun Mennas even while hasted (unless you've got some other speed source like boots of running, swiftness or the like).
I feel like Acquirement for a wand is a huge, huge waste of an acquirement scroll, since the acquirement scroll is the easiest way to find GDA/PDA and has skill weighting, and you are virtually guaranteed to find every wand through the course of a normal game by the time you make it to Zot.
You don't even need haste until the extended endgame and I've never made it to the lair without finding a wand of teleport.
Also Spellcasting being the highest skill is nigh-on impossible, as it takes more training to level up Spellcasting than any other skill.
You either play trolls unarmed (which is tough to ascend with, IMO) or you train maces & flails and used a giant spiked club (the best weapon in the game).
I'm not sure... if you watch the video, you'll see that he wasn't wearing an amulet of Rmut because he didn't have any Sinv other than his current amulet. TSO would give him that (among other things) for free.
Try to wield a loaf of bread of something. Failing that, try to give your ghost a weakness or a handicap. I've got a handy-dandy -CASTing ring I'll be wearing the next time he tries to clone me.
Having more themed Pan levels that bring back monsters from earlier in the game could be interesting too, like an orc level with a new unique or a level that's entirely a forest. Since Pan is a random infinite chaos plane, everything fits by definition so long as there's variety.
One point I might minorly disagree with, though, is that lichform is only useful for a 15-rune run. It's also moderately useful to run through Crypt to get enough XP to cast it, and then run through Tomb: lichform + firestorm makes that place ridiculously easy, and the extra XP and loot you'll get from Tomb will make Zot easier.
The hardest part was getting necronomicon (i did the first Zig just to get that book), i was seriously out of food at one point.
I always feel like I have to do Sif or Kiku first to get Lichform, and then switch to Vehumet. It really slows my characters down.
I wouldn't even think of trying the late game without summon butterflies.
http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/zglne/dcss_what_the_folks_over_at_crawl_think_of_us/
They nerfed ranged so that it wouldn't be useful anymore.
Here's the secret to crawl, no shit. Step one learn to use the wiki, if you see a unique or enemy you don't know look it up.
I'm playing as a deep dwarf abyssal knight and my magic has been slowly fading for the whole game. Why could this possibly be?
note: mummies should be wearing troll armour, it's hilariously overpowered for them
Haste yourself and once that ends then chug a potion of speed to wait out the contamination and then haste again.
Only problem is Lugonu is a fairly terrible god past mid game
see japan
Drinking a potion to run away is equally never a good idea; although potions are great for preparing for a fight, drinking one during a fight means you give the enemies 3(?) free turns to surround/hit you.
I wish they never got rid of adding orange and green rats when you "summon small mammals" :-/
Is it necessary to convert to TSO if I don't plan on going for runes, just escaping?
Unless you're an AC-based character about take on Vault:$. Can't count how many times I wore two rings of life protection and an amulet of warding for that place (or at least kept rN++ with an easy ability to swap to rN+++ at the first sight of a shadow dragon).
By GPLing(the majority of ) it they give you the freedom to do whatever you want with all parts of it, including characters and lore, as its not copyrighted.
Nothing made me more sad then when Hidden Doors got removed completely and there was no longer the dead body of another Spriggan in the Spriggan Baker vault.
I don't know if you were unlucky with your rings, but two rings of slaying seems a bit excessive. Maybe try some resist rings next time?
(re interruptible wait) Man can't they make some fucking new content instead of doing this shit constantly. I mean it's a neat idea, but christ.
An early Steam dragon hide is an amazing find for casters or even hybrids. The AC may not be worth it but the GDR is. To me some GDR is simply a must for the late game.
An armour with a 50% GDR means that instead of rolling (1 d AC) for your AC roll you roll (0.5*AC d AC).
The point of Spriggan of Kiku, as far as i understand, is to get the necronomicon so you never have to eat again.
IE is a bit of an exception but generally training weapons as a spellcaster is a no-no
I would recommend elona, it is quite unique as a roguelike, and a lot easier. It also has a tileset, and is more welcoming to newbies then crawl
I have been killed so many times by slimes -- yeah, i'm a poet.
In DCSS I end up dying because the chatbots in IRC tell me "not to go to the last level of lair" but they don't tell me how deep lair goes so I end up dying on the stairs.
but... i LIKE the secret doors :(
I was using "spellcaster" as a shorthand for "has other options than just meleeing monsters", which actually includes a lot more than just spellcasters: Be,
"Secret doors have been removed" Another Deep Dwarf nerf. Rip In Peace dwarf race.

badsa

My understanding is that you can't make randarts ponderous, right? As it is, I'd rather have the +5 to stats than max resists in most cases
Gloorx's pack of Executioners is pretty scary for anyone except a Chei worshiper.
It's a Giant Spiked Club of Speed! I'm not using it because I'm deadly afraid of ditching my shield.
If you're weren't a naga, I'd suggest wearing the [golden dragon] hide without enchanting it. The AC is disappointing, sure, but the EVP is much more manageable and you still get all those sweet resists.
Trolls are really garbage as the game goes on, and lose all their advantages when the game actually gets into being good
Another thing that's pretty cool is a Deep Dwarf Necromancer of Nemelex. You use the vamp draining for healing, and the +3 evocations aptitude to play around with some of the most powerful effects in the game. Decks of destruction don't torment you anymore either, so they've got at going for them.
Not having any Detect Curse is a real game-ender at low levels. I hope they end up reversing this decision.
I love crawl... But I still won't play it due to Mountain Dwarf removal. After letting time pass and getting over that particular issue, the game just doesn't appeal to me.
Melee and ranged-weapon users all take either Chei or TSO into extended.
Also, I'm extremely disappointed in the Fulsome Distillation removal. It was an incredible support skill, identifying harmful potions for free and giving a reliable source of Mutation Potions for people that wanted to play mutation roulette.
I did get the +8 Large Shield of Ignorance (rN+ AC+2 EV+2 INT-6 Curse). Is it worth it training Shields to 15 for this thing and offsetting the INT penalty with jewelery? I've got INT 33 right now.
Is it possible for me to alter the spider graphics into something else? I'm deathly afraid of spiders but I'd very much like to play this game. And no, I wont play ascii, not in 2012.
Not gonna lie though, Zymes are bullshit. might stick to 0.11 from now on because abyss seems like it has gone from "extremely difficult" to "almost impossible" unless you have lichmode and are hence immune to sickness.
Does anyone actually think draining is a good mechanic? So much about crawl is streamlined to be non-bullshit, but for some reason losing loads of xp near enough unstoppably is still a thing?
That mace sucks. All maces suck. Your axes will do massively more damage and maces just aren't good because they have no good two handers for medium races.
Just remember Draconians can only get GDR with statue form or dragon form, so trying to melee everything might get kinda tough.
So, I feel like rPois has become harder to find than it used to be. Am I crazy? I've lost my last two this-guy-might-go-all-the-way characters on desperation dives to Elf:3 in search of rPois anything.
What's with the Trunk Vehumet change? I basically need to crank Spellcasting to always have 3 spare levels (in case I get offered Mephitic Cloud). Shit sucks.
I can't even imagine playing a starting caster with neither Conjure Flame nor Mephitic Cloud.
Having fifteen-runed, I can honestly say I'd much rather take on Cerebov or whoever than Mara,
Yeah troll leather armour really is an extraordinary godsend for non-casting, non-heavy-armour or lightly hybridized characters.
What sucks is you can't really burn identify scrolls to avoid it since he likes to give you 700 weapons per run and the only feasible way to determine which are worth using is to just wield-ID everything.
Figured out how to beat the new sprint map. Its pretty easy once you figure it out. Guess. (You edit all the monsters slaying bonuses to 0. I am fairly certain that the map in unbeatable without doing so.)
Okawaru: Robs you of the ability to use Sticks to Snakes, a big loss in my opinion though many don't mind. You'll ditch him eventually, heroism and finesse will lose value. Little value in Zot, I'd value Okawaru higher when you plan on ditching for more than three runes.

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!lg SGrunt place=vaults:1 1 -tv:<1.5
!lg SGrunt 664 -tv:<0.1:x0.2
!lg hyperelliptic deam 1 -tv
!lg elynae 11193 -tv

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The infamous Sigmund can show up as early as the first floor, or as the first enemy for that matter. When most players are still using robes and daggers Sigmund can bring invisibility, confusion, fireballs and a massive stat boosted scythe to the party.
Pity the caster who encounters centaurs before learning Mephitic Cloud.
most forms of magic increase hunger to the point where a ring of sustenance is a prized possession.
"There are no enemies save for rare occurrances of hungry ghosts and [[spoiler:the Minotaur]]." Hark! There is an entrance to a minotaur's labyrinth on this level.
Casters have Vehumet, who doesn't even care about the corpses part, probably because his preferred methods don't leave any.
Eventually the game reaches a point where monsters are almost immune to any attacks that are not non-elemental.
Sometimes you get a dragon hide on the first floor, sometimes you get a dragon on the first floor.
Zealot - includes every class that starts with a religion: priests, berserkers, healers, and knights of some evil gods.

badusenet

No monsters in sight when starting. Your case is really tough, I admit. Most probably, you're toast. But as a gnome, were the elves asleep when you saw them? Perhaps retreat would have been an option? Out of depth monsters are universally regarded as a feature, not as a bug (this includes D:1). [snip two e vs XL 1 GnEE]

badwebtiles

Cheibrodos: Chei is actually the best god
Pinksniperdx: tso gotta be the best god for summoner

badwiki

An old wiki (with lots of out of date and incorrect info; enter at your own risk): http://chaosforge.org/crawl/ There is an interesting essay about the relevance of the Chaosforge wiki located here: http://eronarn.info/misc/wiki.html
"Freeze, the first spell [in Frost], is not the best. it's [sic] damage is decent, and it slows cold-blooded enemies, but it can only hit adjacent enemies, and unlike Flame Tongue, it's [sic] range does not increase with spell power."
"Azrael and his fire elementals all trail fire, you can use that to fence in other enemies nearby, if there are enemies."
Beware of the food cost!
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=The_Ziggurat&oldid=13247#Archer_strategy
recommendations include: ddne of chei, spen of tso, abandoning makhleb in the midgame (because his power dips).
Mountain Dwarf Fighter of Cheibriados (strategy guide): A wrecking ball
My power is increasing. I can feel Vehumet's pride and ice in my veins as I stride forward, destruction filling my mind. This lair will prove no more difficult than fighting an angry child.
Volcano - "To fully explore it, you'll need a reliable means of levitation to cross the lava, which is rare at this point in the game."
Draining weapons are devastating at any point in the game
Skalds need Evasion (to cast magic)
Besides fire resistance you won't be needing much, although making the effort to reach rC+++ to protect yourself in case you need to pop an Ice Storm at close range is an excellent idea.
You completely deleted the original Mummy Wizard guide article and replaced it with a link to your own shorter, incomplete guide. This is not acceptable in a community-driven wiki.
"Strength [...] increases the rate at which you learn the Armour skill and weapon skills."
Magic Dart is a definite upgrade over Freeze any way you look at it
<archl> the exit is in metal??? <archl> wiki is wrong
Wielding a distortion weapon can serve as a last resort to teleport you while confused.
While a weapon of orc slaying will work wonders against him [Saint Roka], he's technically evil, so weapons of holy wrath are just as effective.
On Sandblast: "Use stones sparingly; use the standard version of the spell against goblins and save your ammo for bigger prey, like hydras."
Zot:5 ... Requirements: ... 5 scrolls of magic mapping
<Sorbius> the wiki isn't that bad if you already know everything since you will recognise the things that are wrong
<bmfx> Liams123: there is a problem. when you want to edit wiki, you realise you don't have rights to. and when you manage to get them, you already don't care
A pro of statue form: -2 dexterity
The amount of MP you have is very important, try to find a ring of magical power if possible, but beware of the food cost!
Cheibriados Is also useful [on MuSu] for the stat boosts, and seen as you'll be summoning a lot, you don't need to be running off as much!
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You'll have to decide whether you want to kill monsters for experience or save them to eat later.

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The amount of vanilla races is already very low, unless you count elves.
Is there something wrong with Okawaru? I played a Felid Monk of Okawaru all the way up to level 16 and never once received a gift from him.
Trolls can't do anything well anyway.
I still think Stone Soup is a top 3 roguelike and best in class in some areas, but some fundamental missing features keeps it from #1 to me. If the devs can't see meaningful choices and tradeoffs with light sources I think they just give up too easy on making some features fit with their theory.
fulsome distillation had other uses than just providing ammo for evaporate. Gone are the days of easy decks of wonder from Nemelex, I guess it’s only decks of summoning and destruction now.

bag of holding

The Floor.

bailey

A forbidden dungeon of the mad chevalier. A timed portal vault. It's full of axes, polearms, gnolls, orcs, or elves, depending on the RNG. Loot is anywhere between "some crappy axes" and "multiple scrolls of acquirement."
One bailey: 4 scrolls of acquirement, 3 potions of experience, 2 potions of magic, a potion of resistance, a potion of gain dex, EW I and EW II, a potion of heal wounds, and a ring of control teleport.
G - the +21 crystal plate armour of the Great Game (worn) {rC++ Dex+1}
It is possible to encounter two baileys in the same game - one axes and one polearms.

balance

<Henzell> That's easy, balance doesn't even exist!

ball lightning

Like a giant spore, but zappier. They don't exist naturally, but Conjure Ball Lightning (L7 C/A in Sky) can make them, and are also in rare abyss, swamp, and aerie vaults. Cannot be conjured over water or lava. Remember that ones conjured will explode when they time out!
!lg ahrin place=tomb:3 1 -tv

ball python

A renamed small snake with constriction instead of poison.
<rwbarton> it's a cross between a snake and a ball lightning

ballistomycete

they make a buttload of spores
spores make a buttload of them
polystyrus the Transmogrifier (L12 SETm), worshipper of Sif Muna, killed by an exploding giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore)))) on D:11 on 2010-01-05, with 19181 points after 18777 turns and 2:15:14.
A buttload is an imperial unit of impedance.

balrog

An upstanding citizen of Moria. For the Crawl native, see balrug.

balrug

A giant flaming rug that can smite and toss around fireballs with abandon. Always generated with a branded demon whip.
The balrug hits you with a demon whip of freezing! You are engulfed in flames!

banana

This fruit gives 1000 nutrition, but takes only two turns to eat.

banded mail

AC: 7, Ev:-5 (Heavy armour). Doesn't exist.

banishment

Sends the target to the Abyss. Checks MR. Cast by draconian shifters, deep elf demonologists/sorcerers, Louise and SOME (ancient) liches, wizards, deep elf magi, ogre-magi, Erolcha, and pan lords. You get some XP if you damaged the monster beforehand. XP is handled like for kills by summons.
It's also a Lugonu power.
An equivalent effect may happen if you get hit by a weapon of distortion.
The purple smoke created by banishing can block LOS like a scroll of fog, though obviously not as reliably.

banners todo

vow of courage -> dauntless
Pious III shouldn't require all the gods, nobody got Lord of Darkness II, Nemelex banners should be displayed better on the banners page, and the Student was sort of boring/unpopular

banshee card

Acts like a scroll of fear, where the chance of success is based on the card power.

bard ideas

<Kalir> Randart kazoos? <monky> randart kazoos.
offensive spell: Pachelbel's Cannon

bardiche

This polearm is an enormous combination of pike and battle axe. Damage 18, accuracy -6, delay 20, damage type: chopping. Was called lochaber axe in earlier versions. Will always be called lochaber axe in cbus's heart.

barding

Armour for the non-human half of nagas or centaurs. Worn in the boot slot, but has 4 base AC and can be enchanted to +4; they also cannot get the "running" brand, but can get (fire|cold) resistance. Can get the levitation brand, and lasts until cancelled, like boots of levitation. Reduces EV by 2; this is not like body armour's evasion penalty.

bardling

a L1 bard. Sings about as well as William Shatner.
You wanted maybe barding?

bargain card

2dPOWER turns of 20% discounted shopping.

barnacled rune

Found at the bottom of the shoals. See shoals for more information.

bart

some tiles player
plays tiles
dating a cockatrice admin

bashrobin

You may only damage things by bashing things clumsily with non weapons. Auxiliary unarmed attacks and constriction are not allowed, so no Ke, Ce, Mi, Dr, DS, Na, Op.
Nerfed in 0.7 :(

basilisk

Gila monsters were replaced with these in 0.9. Same stats, but with a petrifying gaze attack.

bat

An extreme pest. Moves three times as fast as the average player, but deals only one damage. Has better HP than a rat, and very high EV. If you are two squares away from a bat, step backwards instead of moving next to it, so that it won't be able to hit you and move away in the same turn.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoddamnedBats
see bat vault[1]

bat challenge

Die to a bat as a deep dwarf.
No, berserk doesn't work. And inner flame is cheating. Forms don't work either!

bat form

An ability you get as a vampire at xl3. Grants minimum movement delay and gives a bonus to EV and Dex when unencumbered but cripples your Str. No spellcasting.
Eronarn the Necromancer (L27 DSNe), worshipper of Sif Muna, collapsed under their own weight caused by gaining the bat transformation on Lair:2 on 2008-08-27, with 538692 points after 150318 turns and 17:21:18.

bat vault

MICROBAT MEGABAT GIGABAT FIREBAT GHOSTBAT FRUITYBAT ICEBAT SKELETONBAT DWARFMOUNTAINBAT

batstabbing

!lg * ((killer=bat || killer=megabat || killer="giant bat")) dam=2

battleaxe

15 / -4 / 17. Largest common axe, and readily available on early orc warriors.

battlelust card

Power 0 acts as a potion of might, 1 causes you to berserk after a 10 aut delay, 2 gives you a slaying bonus that is always worse than might.

battlemage

BATTLEMAGE
SOOTHSLAYER
KILLUSIONIST
TRANSMUTILATOR
CHARMS DEALER
TRAUMATURGE
HEXECUTIONER
HORRORCLE
DEMOLITIONOLOGIST

battlesphere

Level 4 conjuration/charms, new in 0.12. Conjures an orb that follows the caster around and will fire at your target whenever you cast projectile-based conjurations. Does modest damage, but has good mp efficiency.
Conjured with a limited number of charges, but can be recharged with additional casts. Recasting also recalls the battlesphere if it is out of LOS. Projectiles will pass through battlespheres like they do through orbs of destruction, though it can be hit and destroyed in melee.
Doesn't work with things like freezing cloud (but does work with mephitic cloud).
<N78291> this is actually a BsCj with a halfling standing around

bazaar

A portal with several shops. Portals to bazaars appear on random levels and disappear after a set amount of time. Once you leave the bazaar you can't return. Some bazaars won't disappear until entered (and don't feature the "coins being counted" or bell tolling messages).
< Garhauk> bazaar on d:27 and only 11 portals to check! < Garhauk> ok nvm it was the 2nd one < Henzell> Garhauk the Eviscerator (L21 FeBe) entered Wucad Mu's Monastery on turn 90470. (D:27)
Can appear in the main dungeon from floor 10 to 26. They have one chance (per shop) in (thirty minus floor level number) of being generated instead of a shop, with a maximum of one per floor. See shop generation.

bcrawl

Crawl, with all of the best bugs all at the same time

bdr

A player that spends way too much time adding to the learndb (and so earning the ire of the other IRC participants through the generation of spam).
Is believed to own the trophy for "Most Embarrassing Death", gained through dying to an orange rat summoned by one of his own ghosts AFTER said ghost was slain. Anyone with a more embarrassing death than that may feel free to !tell him about it.

be careful what you ask for

<+Napkin> banning <IPADDRESS> from the forums, fyi < simmarine> ban him from ##crawl too < simmarine> thats... me lol

beak

A mutation that gives you a big sharp thing on your face that you can peck things with. Kengu start with a beak. A peck is an auxiliary unarmed attack that does 6 damage. Having a beak prevents you from wearing a hard helmet (caps and hats are okay though).

beam damage

calcdice_calculator<A, B, C, D> means (B + pow * C / D) damage divided among A identical dice. Die size is rounded up/down at random, weighted by remainder.

beam ice

Damage type used for throw icicle and ice storm. 40% resistible (by rC).

beam lava

Damage type used for bolt of magma and fire storm. 55% resistible (by rF).

bear

PARTICULARLY dangerous, particularly when you first see them, particularly when they get particularly low on particles of hp and go PARTICULARLY - BEARSERK!
Whats not to like about Robin Hood? Ill steal from the rich and give to a poor bear: me. Stay here, Friar Boo-Boo.

bear cave

One of the small Lair:8 vaults, which allows another small Lair:8 vault to spawn. Contains polar bears, grizzly bears, black bears, and honeycombs. The bears start off behind a wall of plants, so you can run away if you don't think you can handle them.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingISWorseWithBears

beard stats

Beard values for 0.10 are: beardless < 10, choko beard < 30, some beard < 60, quite a beard < 90, very beardy < 120, extreme beard < 150, extraordinary beard < 190, incredible beard < 240, uncanny beard < 300, almost entirely bearded >= 300

beastly appendage

Turns one of your body parts into the "monstrous" equivalent (horns, talons, etc). Is not powerful enough to meld armour. Level 1 pure Transmutations. Book of Changes.
Does not give you claws anymore, now it's only talons or horns

beasts

Did you mean book of beasts or box of beasts?

beatles

Lugonu in the Sky with Diamonds

beef jerky

The highest nutrition food for its weight at 2 AUM, 1,500 nutrition.
IT'S MINOTAURS! BEEF JERKY IS MINOTAURS!

beginner

Train killdudes till you can kill dudes, then train other skills till you can't kill dudes as well, then train killdudes again. Repeat as necessary.

belly

Bellies!

belr

A deity followed by deep trolls and young spriggans. No fun allowed.

bend space

Does 1d4 damage to you (this can kill you!) and causes you to blink randomly (ignores abyss blink-blocking and cTele and stasis, unlike all other blink sources). At high power, damages (by up to 1d5) and blinks nearby monsters.

bend time

Slows down everyone who's standing just next to you, unless the monster passes a (Monster HD)d3 > ((16+INVO*8)d2)/2 check.

beneficial mutation

A beneficial replacement for potions of gain stat in 0.13. Gives a random beneficial mutation. Please don't complain if it gives you beneficial wild magic. For a beneficial list of possible benefits, see beneficial mutations.

beneficial mutations

Possible "beneficial" mutations: strength (up to +14), intelligence (up to +14), dexterity (up to +14), rPois (one level), carnivore (three levels), rF (three levels), rC (three levels), rElec (one level), fast healing (three levels), slow metabolism (two levels), MR (three levels), speed (three levels), SInv (one level)...
...spit poison (three levels), breathe flames (three levels), blink (three levels), Str+1/Dex-1 (three levels), Str-1/Dex+1 (three levels), clarity (one level), rMut (three levels), evolution (two levels), robustness (three levels), horns (three levels), beak (one level), claws (three levels), fangs (three levels), hooves (three levels)...
...antennae (three levels), talons (three levels), tentacle spike (for octopodes, three levels), stinger (Na/Dr only, three levels), fur (three levels), high MP (three levels), wild magic (three levels), passive mapping (three levels).

beogh

Deity worshipped by the cave orcs native to parts of the dungeon. Only orcs may devote their service to Beogh. Provides piety-hungry smite and lets you gain orc followers. Accepts kills of living, undead, demonic, and holy beings. Beogh disapproves of cannibalism (all orcish flesh). Sacrifice orc corpses for piety.
Beogh encourages the use of orcish gear by giving additional bonuses for wearing it. With armour, you gain virtual armour skill points based on your piety (+.5 to +2.5) in addition to the virtual armour skill for wearing orcish gear (+2). Weapons are +1 damage bonus (as per magic bonuses) for orcish weapon, then +0 to +6 more based on piety.
The green rat evaporates and reforms as an orc! B - a wand of polymorph other {zapped: 1} The orc falls on its knees before you. It asks, "Are you our saviour?"
Also the god of Anonymous. Arbeogh says, "Never gonna let you down." Arbeogh roars a battle-cry! Your orcs go into a battle-frenzy!
!lg * beogh ktyp=water 2 -tv
You swap places. Oreg drops 526 arrows. Oreg picks up a poisoned arrow.
God of fast food.
<Zermako> HOPr lets you lead an army <Zermako> but the problem with HOPr is that if you die at any time, then all your followers die at the same time

beogh reasons

You like making your own orc army!
You want to do to Sigmund what orc priests do to you.

beogh wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance, you stop walking on water if applicable (glub glub glub glub), all tame orcs go hostile. RETRIBUTION: 25% smiting (and not the 7-17 kind), 12.5% 1d2 dancing orc slaying weaps, 25% followers abandon you if still worshipping, else fall through 37.5% summon hostile (warlord, high priest, knight, warrior, plain)

beos

Unemployed Operating System

berserk

Grants might, haste and 50% extra HP. Lasts 20-40 turns, as long as you're attacking monsters. This duration increases on kills if wearing an amulet of rage or worshipping Trog.
While berserk, you can only move, open/close doors, attack with your wielded weapon, if any, pray, eat, and butcher corpses. Notably, you cannot use items or abilities, including god abilities, even Trog's. Be prepared before berserking!
The chance of passing out after your rage is 1 in 10 + (rage_mutation_level * 25). If worshipping Trog and not penitent, there's an additional piety-in-150 chance of not passing out. After berserk ends, you are slowed for 100-200 turns and exhausted for a while.
There is also a mutation (called "berserk" by crawl, described as you "lose your temper in combat"; plus "makes you angry" on artifacts) that causes you to go berserk sometimes after attacks. The chance varies with the mutation level (1, 3, 9%), and the chance of passing out decreases.
see undead[2]
Berserking uses up a very large amount of nutrition, and you cannot berserk if you're Very Hungry or worse. The rage duration may be extended on kills if worshipping Trog (piety-based chance, larger extension), wearing the amulet of Bloodlust (50% chance) or wearing an amulet of rage (1/30 chance).
Err on the side of caution: for fights that you think you _may_ be able to handle without, but aren't sure, use your berserking ability. But: Don't berserk anything that blinks. Don't berserk if you think you can't mop up the main threats by the time it ends. Don't wander around slowed / exhausted.

berserk rage

Berserks you! Will not work if you are exhausted from a previous berserk.

berserker

A melee class that starts out worshipping Trog. Starts with a light weapon, animal skin, and enough piety to use Trog's berserk ability.

berserkrl guide

endurance + ironman -> "tank"

best dev

elliott

best title

see {!lg * won title=markscat}

bh

<bh> When it comes to stupid ideas, I'm your man.
He's very sorry that you drowned in the abyss.

bhaak

Still believes that Nethack is the most popular roguelike.
Also believes that the earth is flat.
Happens to maintain a Nethack fork, UnNethack. If you're curious how a Nethack with some thoughts spent on balance could look like, give it a try: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unnethack/
Is on the record as stating that he is not a shark.
Likes ke$ha

bident

Polearm: Dam 7.5 Acc +3.5 Delay 12

big fish

It's big, and it lives in water. Also the name of the fish sandwich sold by Burger King.
http://www.dopefish.com/

big kobold

A kobold with much more HP that's worth a decent chunk of exp.
But they can have branded weapons and a kobold pack almost always has some blowdarts. MOSTLY harmless.
kinda like a kobold. only bigger.

big room

This is an one-level branch. Indeed, this is an one-room branch. There is at least one ring of poison resistance here, but unfortunately it is not identified. The branch is also a good piety boost if you worship Zin of The Shining One because all monsters here are some kind of imps.

birdoprey

Breaker of hearts; crusher of dreams.
http://i.imgur.com/SwSJu.png

bitches

<Sequell> No games for bitches.

bite

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have sharp teeth or fangs. Damage is (fang mutation level * 2) + (unarmed skill / 5).

black bear

Like a normal bear, only black (well, blue, in this case!). They go berserk when they are afraid: common causes are scrolls of fear or low health.
More harmless than you would expect.

black draconian

A form of draconian that is able to shoot lightning. The player race's breath sneezes lightning bolts and explosions in random directions. 2 Air Magic aptitude, and -2 Earth Magic aptitude. Resists electricity at XL 7, and gains permanent flight at XL 14.
<FaMott> Its like a disc of storms, with less killing yourself.

black knights horse barding

A +10 centaur barding of ponderousness, with Hunger- and rN+. Wearing it, you still move faster than humans (delay 9).
is considered evil by the good gods; read the description if you don't know why

black magic

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black mamba

Very fast snake that does a lot of damage and can inflict multiple levels of poisoning with one bite. Extremely dangerous, but susceptible to resistible magic, such as wands of paralysis, confusion, slowing, and disintegration.
Used to be just "black snakes" in 0.5-.
An arrogant creature with a great jump shot who always has the ball in his hands come fourth quarter.

black sheep

NAME: african_american_sheep

blade card

Prompts you to wield a weapon. Power 0: temporary flaming, freezing, venom, draining or vorpal brand; Power 1: temporary distortion, pain, antimagic, chaos or elec brand; Power 2: Tukima's dance.

blade hands

A potent level 5 transmutation spell that grants a large increase to unarmed damage but impedes spellcasting while active. Base damage is 8 + str/3 + dex/3 + UC. Also adds +6 to offhand punch damage. Does not stack with claws.
You could be casting Blade Hands instead of reading this entry. Get to it.
When you have blade hands, everything starts to look like a pillow.

blade trap

1d76 damage.

blasthardcheese

why
see beard_stats

blazinghand

<Blazinghand> The worse thing I ever experienced while playing TSO was: "Are you sure you want to attack the helpless Yaktaur?" <Blazinghand> and i was like dude TSO there is no such thing as a "helpless" yaktaur
!lg blazinghand 315 -tv:<T10000
see deep dwarf reasons
http://i.imgur.com/Gm5iouk.png
see lightning_bolt[2]
http://i.imgur.com/kSOlUPu.png
<simmarine> Bomukhlue's Testament of the Greatest Mummy <simmarine> Spells Type Level <simmarine> a - Tornado Air 9

bleak

<bleak> I love eating brown chunks

bleeding

Reduces a monster's HP by a tiny fraction each turn, supposedly. Sucks.
Bleeding makes enemies leave blood trails, which can be useful for tracking down fleeing fast enemies or invisible ones, maybe

bleee

!lm hangedman 4142 -tv:<4:x2

bless

The final ability (******) of TSO, Kiku (if chosen), and Lugonu is to both place a permanent brand and read an enchant weapon III scroll on your weapon by praying at their altar. You can still enchant the weapon further. See the shining one[4], kikubaaqudgha[3], or lugonu for details.

blessed blade

Blessing a long blade with TSO improves the base type slightly, giving +1 Dam -1 Acc -1 Delay. The resulting weapon is called a Blessed Blade regardless of the original type.

blessed toe

Sort of like a curse_toe, but summons holy monsters instead of undead and mushrooms. Doesn't currently appear short of lucky holypolymorph, and the devs don't like them.

blind

You can blind monsters with Dazzling Spray (temporary), or as a Zin Recite effect (permanent); this means they can't see you (or other monsters) and act as though you are invisible.

blindrobin

You can't see any monsters.
On CDO, you can't see your HP or MP either.

blink

Magic that translocates you to somewhere visible, not deep water or lava, and not blocked by translucent wall. Statues are fine. Random blink tries for 3 to 6 steps away, then tries closer. You won't go farther than 6. Semi-controlled tries random blink from 2 to 7 steps in the direction you chose. Controlled lets you choose where to land.
Blinking is unreliable in the Abyss and blocked by prev-tele items; it is uncontrolled if confused or on a no-control-teleport level teleport control[2]. Controlled Blink gives semi-controlled blinks on no-TC levels. Blink scrolls respect no-TC normally. Most other sources of blink give uncontrolled blinks, or semi-controlled if you have TC
Lugonu blinks, miscast blinks (including distortion effects), blinks from plain Warp, and blinks from draconian shifters cannot be semi-controlled. Monster blinks, unlike those of players, can pass through walls. If you do manage to blink in the abyss (1 in 3 chance), it's a very nice instant random teleport.
Evokable randart blink costs 1mp and 50 food, and you need 9 skill to use it at excellent.
It doesn't land you in water or lava, but it may land you in clouds. (see embarrassing_deaths[5])
If you rely on random blinks to get you out of danger, this will happen to you: !lg jazzimus xl>15 7 -tv

blink frog

One of the toughest enemies in the Lair, though it earns this title mostly due to its ability to blink and its appearance in packs. Poison works well, as do conjurations, and you can even melee them if you can hit them consistently.
Distortion weapons don't do the normal effects against blink frogs. Instead they occasionally heal a few HP. Bend space also heals them instead of blinking and damaging them.

blink range

Blinks the caster a distance away from the player.

blinkrobin

blinkrobin: You cannot move.

blizzard demon

New 2 in 0.10, replacing the blue death: bolt of lightning, freezing cloud, airstrike, bolt of cold.

blog

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress for interesting articles on play-testing and general development Stuffs!

bloodbane

Unrandart +7,+8 vorpal demon blade that lets you berserk, makes you angry, and makes you less stealthy.

blork

A unique spellcaster orc. Tends to have a rather strong weapon, and dangerous if he hastes himself and you don't have much AC.
Not to be confused with Bj�rk the orc.

blowgun

Blowguns shoot needles. Whether or not a needle affects a monster depends on a HD and throwing skill check. See blowgun[2]. Skill and enchantment also affects the duration of effects, see blowgun[3].
You have a flat 2% chance of affecting monsters with HD14 or less. In all other cases, or if this 2% chance fails, you will only affect a monster if 2+ 1d(3 + Throwing Skill + Blowgun To-Hit) is greater than the monster's HD.
rumoured to be useful

blowgun of the assasin

+6 blowgun {+inv, Stlth++}

blowgun of the assassin

the +6 blowgun of the Assassin {+Inv Stlth+}.

blown up by

SGrunt the Blackguard (L16 SpEn), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, blown up by in D:13 on 2012-05-18, with 100483 points after 42163 turns and 3:02:32.
Fixed by Grunt. RIP blownupby

blue anna

<dpeg> the Endian guinea pig :)
brought us nisse AND the ring of charms. whatta generous feller
Also responsible for minotaurs with rods.

blue death

A greater demon that can cast shadow creatures. They're usually pretty tame, but every now and then they can pop out something nasty. Also uses bolt of lightning and cold for (when you normally meet it) inconsequential damage. Vulnerable to fire! Gone since 0.10!
Churchmouse the Blademaster (L27 HaWn), worshipper of Okawaru, blasted by a smoke demon (divine providence) (summoned by a deep elf sorcerer (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by a deep elf demonologist (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by a deep elf demonologist))))) in Zig:21 on 2011-08-02, with 649571 points after 98719 turns and 13:08:27.

blue devil

It flies and doesn't like fire. Only a problem if you walk into the wrong ice cave a little too early.

blurry vision

You fail to read scrolls with 20%, 40%, or 60% chance at levels 1, 2, 3 of this mutation. Scrolls that you fail to read aren't wasted. Also affects spell memorization. Having this mutation at all completely disables passive scanning for traps(!), and each level is equivalent to -2 to traps & doors when stepping into an undiscovered trap.

bmfx

likes Ash.
see {!lg * playable op s=cls / won @bmfx ?: N=0}

bmh

Has finally embraced civilisation.
Coded Cheibriados. Is rumoured to worship this god in real life.
Hates the other gods so much he is coding new wraths for them.

bobbens

An ancient Pokemon lich of considerable power and great evil. For evidence of the latter, search in his .crawlrc for delay_message_clear. Is also rumoured to be training two kittenliches.
Claims that he does not streak and swears he wears clothes. No, seriously.
Beards count as clothes.
Can spell prescience correctly. Wow.

body slot facet

Horns, Hooves, Talons, Claws, Antennae (Anything which restricts or makes an armour slot unavailable)

bog

Originally "B.O.G." for Brian's Orc God, was the (implied) deity associated with orc priest smiting in early 4.0 code. References to Bog were removed from the 4.0 code. Beogh is Bog's descendant, Stone Soup's god of the orcs.

bog body

Swamp denizen that likes to destroy your potions with bolt of cold over water. Charming.
http://t.co/tBpNGtUk

boggart

Very weak by themselves until they start summoning, at which point they can be extremely dangerous. Can instantly summon 8 yaktaurs or slime creatures. They have very low HP and MR, so zapping or casting disintegration, fireball, paralyze, enslave, confusion, and polymorph are all safe options.
They also turn themselves invisible to make things more fun. If a dozen monsters suddenly surround you, better get fleeing.
Probably the best creature to polymorph.
Can also summon more boggarts, which can summon in even more boggarts...
GODDAMMIT WHY ARE THERE SO MANY
!lg archl 139 -tv:<2
!fight 4 boggart v 4 boggart respawn delay:0

bolt

a certain type of projectile property that penetrates through enemies and reduces the remaining range by 1 (unless a lightning bolt); see bolt[2] for the missile type
see crossbow

bolt bouncing

You can find a friendly tutorial here: http://herself.unixstorm.org/bouncing/ or watch an amazing, narrated demonstration on FooTV with the following command: !lg Mayhem 686 -tv:<2 Note: weaker in 0.6.
For a dramatic demonstration: !lg Ahrin KoCK place=zot:1 -tv
see trizap
More bouncing hilarity: !lg nht NaAs 1 place=tomb -tv

bolt of cold

A level 6 conj/ice penetrating beam attack that can hit multiple opponents in a line for pure cold damage. Does six dice with a maximum of (18 + (power * 2) / 3). At power 50 it does 6d8 damage; at power 100 it does 6d14. With sufficent power, produces freezing clouds when passing water squares; always produces steam over lava.

bolt of draining

L6 conj/necro spell in Death, rarely used because conjurers and necromancers both have better options.

bolt of fire

A level 6 conj/fire penetrating beam attack that can hit multiple opponents in a line for pure fire damage. Does six dice with a maximum of (18 + (power * 2) / 3). At power 50 it does 6d8 damage; at power 100 it does 6d14. As with any fire-based beams, produces steam if it passes over water.

bolt of inaccuracy

Deals good damage at Evocations level 0 - 27. You can line up several nasty monsters and blast them down all at once (irresistable damage!). Especially good with a corona-type effect like Sunlight or TSO halo to make it more accurate.

bolt of magma

55% resistible (by rF) penetrating conjuration. Range 5.

bolt trap

1d40 damage.

bone dragon

Undead dragon with no breath weapon but good AC, resists, and melee damage. One of the best gifts Yred can grant.

bone dragon armour

Really? What do you think a Bone Dragon Hide looks like?

bone plates

Gives 2/3/4 AC and 2/4/6 SH at levels 1/2/3.

bone shards

Level 3 pure necromancy spell. Wield a skeleton and cast the spell to shoot bone fragments at your enemies. Note that skeletons count as two handed weapons. The heavier the monster, the more damage done. Damage isn't really worthwhile. Gone in 0.8.

bones card

Temporarily summons one skeleton. Will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance. At card power 0: random large skeleton. 1: skeletal warrior. 2: bone dragon.

boo resistance

resistance to boo

book

It's a spellbook, tome of destruction, or manual. (r) it to find out what. It doesn't take time, no reason not to do it immediately!
<mikee_> in his time, alexander pope accused intellectuals of buying books just to have them and show them off <mikee_> he suggested that they just buy little pieces of wood and have the covers painted onto them because it would be cheaper <mikee_> everyone hated alexander pope and he died bitter and alone

book acquirement

Book gifts are non-deterministic (but weighted by your casting skills). You can get randart spellbooks. Acquirement via scrolls has a chance of producing a manual. That chance is a virtual guarantee if you have no spellcasting skills. Manual type is weighted towards your skills.

book of air

Spells: Shock, Swiftness, Repel Missiles, Flight, Static Discharge, Lightning Bolt. Air Elementalist starting spellbook.
Spells in 0.8 and earlier: Shock, Swiftness, Repel Missiles, Levitation, Mephitic Cloud, Static Discharge.

book of alchemy

Fulsome Distillation, Lethal Infusion, Sublimation of Blood, Evaporate, Condensation Shield. In 0.12, Fulsome Distillation and Evaporate are replaced by Petrify and Alistair's Intoxication.
Was known as the Book of Chemistry prior to 0.9.

book of annihilations

One of the three especially difficult books; requires cast 6, conj 10 to read. Spells: orb of destruction, poison arrow, chain lightning, LCS, fire storm, ice storm.

book of beasts

Summon Butterflies, Sticks to Snakes, Call Canine Familiar, Ice Form, Summon Ice Beast, Summon Hydra. Added in 0.8.
Was known as the Book of Zoology in 0.8.

book of burglary

Apportation, Swiftness, Passwall, Passage of Golubria, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Darkness

book of callings

This book contains the following spells: Summon small mammals, Call imp, Call canine familiar, Summon scorpions, Summon Ice beast

book of cantrips

Spells: confusing touch, animate skeleton, summon small mammals, apportation.

book of changes

beastly appendage, sticks to snakes, evaporate, spider form, ice form, blade hands

book of clouds

Spells: Evaporate, Mephitic Cloud, Conjure Flame, Poisonous Cloud, Freezing Cloud, Tornado

book of conjurations

Magic Dart, Force Lance, Dazzling Spray, IMB, Iskenderun's Battlesphere, Fulminant Prism

book of control

Spells: Control Teleport, Enslavement, Mass Confusion, Control Undead, Metabolic Englaciation

book of death

It contains Corpse Rot, Sublimation of Blood, Dispel Undead, Agony, Excruciating Wounds, Bolt of Draining.

book of debilitation

Corona, Slow, Inner Flame, Enslavement, Cause Fear, Leda's Liquefaction

book of demonology

One of the three specially difficult books; requires cast 6, summon 10 to read, or Vehumet worship (he gifts it). Spells: Abjuration, Recall, Call Imp, Summon Demon, Demonic Horde, Summon Greater Demon. Failing to memorize from this book causes summoning miscast effects, including banishment and Fiends. Renamed to grand_grimoire in 0.8.

book of dreams

Ensorcelled Hibernation, Alistair's Intoxication, Flight, Phase Shift, Shadow Creatures

book of enchantments

Spells: Tukima's Dance, See Invisible, Cause Fear, Silence, Deflect Missiles, Haste.

book of envenomations

Spider form, poison weapon, summon scorpions, resist poison, olgrebs, poison cloud.

book of fire

Fire brand, bolt of fire, ignite poison, fireball, delayed fireball, ring of flames, dragon form.

book of flames

Flame Tongue, Throw Flame, Inner Flame, Sticky Flame, Conjure Flame, Fireball.

book of frost

Spells: Freeze, Throw Frost, Ozocubu's Armour, Throw Icicle, Summon Ice Beast, Condensation Shield

book of geomancy

Spells: Sandblast, Stoneskin, Passwall, Stone Arrow, Petrify, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction

book of hinderance

Spells: confusing touch, slow, confuse, petrify, leda's liquefaction.

book of ice

Spells: Freezing Aura, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Condensation Shield, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Bolt of Cold, Freezing Cloud, Simulacrum, Metabolic Englaciation

book of maledictions

Corona, Sure Blade, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Confuse, Enslavement, Invisibility

book of minor magic

Consolidated into a single book in 0.8: Magic Dart, Blink, Call Imp, Repel Missiles, Slow, Conjure Flame, Mephitic Cloud.

book of morphology

Sticks to snakes, petrify, polymorph other, cigotuvi's degeneration, ignite poison.

book of necromancy

Spells: pain, lethal infusion, animate skeleton, vampiric draining, regeneration, control undead, animate dead.

book of party tricks

Spells: Summon Butterflies, Apportation, Blink, Alistair's Intoxication, Tukima's Dance.

book of power

IMB, Venom Bolt, Bolt of Magma, Poisonous Cloud, Iron Shot, Orb of Destruction.

book of spatial translocations

Spells: Apportation, Portal Projectile, Blink, Shroud of Golubria, Teleport Other, Passage of Golubria

book of stalking

Spells: fulsome distillation, evaporate, passwall, dig, petrify.

book of summonings

Abjuration, Recall, Summon Ugly Thing, Shadow Creatures, Summon Demon, Summon Elemental.

book of the dragon

Flight, Cause Fear, Bolt of Fire, Dragon Form, Summon Dragon

book of the earth

Dig, Leda's Liquefaction, Bolt of Magma, Statue Form, Iron Shot, Shatter

book of the sky

Flight, Airstrike, Silence, Deflect Missiles, Conjure Ball Lightning, Tornado

book of the tempests

Spells: Static Discharge, Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Shatter, Tornado

book of the warp

Spells: Phase Shift, Warp Weapon, Dispersal, Passage of Golubria, Controlled Blink

book of transfigurations

Stoneskin, condensation shield, ice form, statue form, dragon form.
Spells: Sandblast, Polymorph Other, Statue Form, Alter Self, Dragon Form in 0.7 and earlier.

book of unlife

Contains Recall, Animate Dead, Twisted Resurrection, Control Undead, Simulacrum, Death Channel.

book of war chants

Freezing Aura, Fire Brand, Repel Missiles, Shroud of Golubria, Poison Weapon, Regeneration. Skalds start with this book.
Used to contain Berserker Rage and some other junk back when crusaders existed.

book of wizardry

Summon Elemental, Agony, Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Haste, Invisibility.

boopyputt

http://i.imgur.com/4DQlK.gif

boots

Armour rating: 1. They go on your feet, if you've got them. Sorry, one size does not fit all. They come in varieties of stealth (+50 stealth), running (faster movement) and levitation (activate for permanent levitation).

boots of levitation

Don't evoke for indefinite levitation. Don't evoke again to stop levitation.

boots of running

-2 to movement delay (default is 10 for most races). Makes your movement speed halfway between a worker ant and an adder. Stacks with Swiftness.

boots of the assassin

+2 boots of the Assassin {Dex+3 Stlth+80 +Inv}, and designed by the Assassins guild.

borgnjors revivification

Level 7 necromancy spell that completely restores HP (but not rotting) while permanently reducing maxhp between 2 and 10 percent depending on power. Note that the undead and those who take lichform cannot cast this spell, as they are beyond the realm of normal life and death. Those with 20 max HP or less are too frail to use this spell.
If you intend to use this as an emergency button at some point, be damn sure to leave as little margin for miscasting as possible.
Does *not* ask for confirmation, set it to an uppercase letter unless you want to be very unhappy.

boring

quit|leave

boring beetle

You hear a grinding noise.
A ravening greensnark-slayer, and the most likely cause of that grinding noise. Mostly unremarkable beyond drilling holes everywhere and being ridiculously hard to hurt. In worm territory in terms of how laughable dying to one is.
You hear a grinding noise.
You hear a grinding noise.

boris

A unique Lich that has an awesome habit of staying undead. Spells: bolt of cold, invisibility, animate dead, iron shot, iood.
<Jeff_> IRON BOLT DRAIN CRYSTAL SPEAR LOL HI IM BORIS
Boris says to your 12-headed hydra, "You haven't seen the last of me!"

bot ideas

Add suggestions to improve Henzell/Sequell/Gretell here.
!speak, generates a line of speech for the named creature. With no creature, should default to imp. Or perhaps the command should only generate imp speech.
Something like "!learn info" that tells creation date and last edit date for a learndb entry. If that's tracked anywhere. Maybe number of edits and channel views too.
!tv -repeat

bots

Bots that can be pm'd: Henzell, Gretell, Sizzell, Varmin, Cheibriados, and Sequell
see softignore

bottled efreet

Summons a permanent efreet. Its chance of being friendly is 50%, plus 5% per 3 levels of Evocations (so 95% at level 27). Always carries a flaming scimitar.

bottv

deaths by bots

boulder beetle

Vulnerable to poison! Has a fixed chance to start rolling per move, which pushes it from speed 6 to speed 14 and makes them fire towards you like a non-re-directing iood for 3d20 EV-ignoring damage.
Can be reflected with shields of reflection! See: !fight donald hd:99 hp:10000 v 20 boulder beetle
http://i.imgur.com/PFkzsU2.gif

bountyhuntersax

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/4386/dcbountyhuntersax.jpg -AHMAD

bountyhuntersux

http://imageshack.us/a/img194/1010/dctitholes.png
!lg bountyhuntersux src=cszo 14 -tv

bow

Dam 3 + 1d7 (the 1d7 is from the arrow, and yes this is base damage), Acc -2 (bows get an intrinsic accuracy penalty), Delay 11. Note that the formulas for ranged combat are totally different than for melee.
Bows with enhancement to damage can get a strength bonus. You need 14 strength to take full advantage of a +x+9 bow.

bow of chaos

ASSERT(_valid()) in 'ray.cc' at line 194 failed.

box level

Late D encompass vault, with a map in http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/source/dat/des/variable/encompass.des#l247 . Infamous for spamming eels and lava snakes, having an out of place bee section, and needing ctele to get the good loot; an artefact of its time.

box of beasts

Your own mobile petting zoo! Evoke to release a beast. If the evocation was unsuccessful, there is a 1 in 6 chance that the box will turn into a simple empty ebony casket. Succeeds (60 + evo)/100. Hostile: 1/(evo+5). Bat, hound, jackal, rat, ice beast, snake, yak, butterfly, water moccasin, crocodile, or hell hound (if not worshipping a good god).

boxx

!tv boxx id=743672

brace

<Brace_> intense feminine itch <Brace_> vagisil

bracers of archery

Glove-slot armour providing +5,+3 slaying missile, -1,-1 melee, applies to all missiles including those simply thrown.

brain feed

Attempts to drain your intelligence by 1d3 points, succeeds 1/3 times. Smite-targeted, evil according to TSO.

brain worm

Cute little critter with a smite-type intelligence draining attack. Makes a delicious, if poisonous snack.
If you are a GhBe, this can one-shot your intelligence.

brainless

Caused by hitting zero intelligence. Can't memorise or cast spells (or read manuals or tomes of Destruction!), 80% chance of failure when reading scrolls. Effects persist for a while after reaching positive int again. Also the usual stat zero effects (halved speed, increasing chances of fainting, death after 90 turns).

branch

See branch depths for the starting depth of a branch and branch ends for the length of a branch.
Q: Help, how do I find [whatever branch]? A: For each level it can be on (plus down from the one above, and up from the one below), make sure you've tried all 3-per-direction sets of stone stairs. Look all over for secret doors. Read/cast/evoke magic mapping, detect foo, or dig randomly on levels that look smallish. Ask the channel to watch.

branch codes

A:Shoals, B:Blade, C:Crypt, D:Dungeon, E:Elf, G:Gehenna, I:Dis, L:Lair, M:Slime, N:Spider, O:Orc, P:Snake, S:Swamp, T:Temple, U:Hell, V:Vaults, W:Tomb, X:Cocytus, Y:Tartarus, Z:Zot

branch depths

Temple = D:4-7, Orc = D:6-11, Elf = Orc:3-4, Lair = D:8-13, Swamp = Snake = Shoals = Spider = Lair:3-6, Slime = Lair:5-8, Vaults = D:15-20, Crypt = Vault:2-3, Tomb = Crypt:2-3, Blade = Vault:3-4, Hell = D:21-27 (portal on every floor), Pan: D:21-27 (always on D:24), Abyss: D:21-27 (always on D:25), Zot = D:27
Dungeon:0, Temple:4, Orc:8, Elf:15, Lair:10, Swamp:15, Shoals:15, Snake:15, Spider:15, Slime:17, Vaults:19, Blade:21, Crypt:19, Tomb:21, Hell:27, Dis:28, Geh:28, Coc:28, Tar:28, Zot:27, Abyss:24, Pan:24, Zig:27, Lab:15, Bazaar:18, Trove:18, Sewer:4, Ossuary:6, Bailey:11, Icecv:15, Volcano:14, Wizlab:24

branch ends

Latest trunk: Blade:1, Coc:7, Crypt:5, D:27, Dis:7, Elf:3, Geh:7, Hell:1, Lair:8, Orc:4, Shoals:5, Slime:6, Snake:5, Swamp:5, Tar:7, Temple:1, Tomb:3, Vaults:5, Zot:5

branches

Dungeon, Orcish Mines, Elven Halls, Lair of the Beasts, Swamp (50% chance), Shoals (if not Swamp), Snake Pits (50% chance), Spider's Nest (if not Snake), Slime, Vaults, Crypt, Tomb of the Ancients, Hell, Tartarus, Gehenna, Cocytus, Dis, Pandemonium, Abyss, Zot
see order

branchless

A win without entering any side branches that you enter via staircase. This means no Temple, Orc, Lair (or its subbranches), Vaults.
Branchless wins: elliptic,DESu(S) SpEn(L) TeEE(V) | mikee,MfPr(Z1) | hyperbolic,OgHe(E1) | erisdiscordia,SETm(K) | Cybermg,SpAK(L) | MarvinPA,SpEn(E) | 78291,SpNe(L) MfBe(T) | jeanjacques,DrAK(L) DEFi(1) NaWn(1) | pivotal,SpEn(L) | tartakower,HOBe(T) SpPr(Z)

braverobin

Just play normally and the lua will handle all the annoying fighting for you! You might want to pick a strong melee character, though...

breadtopode

<Chapayev> but a good randart bread ration can be useful in your bread ration slot, if you're a breadtopode <Chapayev> any one of your eight bread ration slots

breathe flames

Mutation (or Red Draconian innate abillity) that shoots a powerful fire-bolt, long breath cooldown compared to Spit Poison
max damage: 4 + (XL + mutlevel * 4) / 3 [+4 if dragonformed]

breathe steam

Pale Draconian breath attack. It obscures LoS. Steam clouds disappear very quickly, but the initial beam covers a fairly large area.

brent ross

A member of the Crawl 4.0 development team, and sole maintainer of Crawl circa b20.

brilliance

Temporarily increases intelligence, spell power, and provides a wizardry bonus.

brimstone fiend

One of the most dangerous of the greater demons, it can cast irresistible hellfire and torment for cruel brutal damage. A reminder that your high level character is far from invincible. Also a reason deep elf demonologists are so deadly.
see fiend

broad axe

Damage 13, Acc -2, Delay 16.

brogue

Brogue is now v1.7.2! https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Just look at how colourful it is! https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/home/screenshots
Featuring: Poisonous gas, explosive gas, gas that turns floor into bottomless pit, monkeys and goblin conjurers that you will never catch ever, autoexplore, mouse control, water currents, lava that you can blink into and die, potions that set you on fire... This game is awesome (and hard)
Now has its own wiki: http://brogue.wikia.com/wiki/Brogue_Wiki Featuring more than you ever need to know about Brogue
<minqmay> why is there pee everywhere

brokentv

!lg ponderinghat tecj -tv:<T77600:>T87500:x3 [fixed]
"!lg volteccerjack 830 -tv:<2" and <3 start at the same point

brooch of shielding

Unrandart amulet of warding with an addtional +4 AC and +4 EV.

brothers in arms

Trog's **** power. Spends (piety/20 - 1) piety points to /temporarily/ summon an always-friendly, berserk <foo> bear, <foo> ogre, <foo> troll, or hill|stone giant. Higher piety gives nastier friends. Since these are berserk they will move quite fast and deal damage rapidly.
Trog will shield your brothers in arms from abjuration, so they're very good for teaching summoners a lesson.
Hostile deep dwarf berserkers can cast this. So can hostile spriggan berserkers, who are found in the forest and in Sprint IV.

brown ooze

The big sibling of the jelly. By the time you see one, most likely not a threat. Can corrode your items, so kill it from afar if you're not wearing your slime kit.
...but not with your dagger of returning.
Use a spear of returning instead.

brown ugly thing

A new form of ugly thing that engulfs you in acid. If you don't have corrosion resistance, it hurts. A lot.

buckler

Any character who isn't using a 2-handed weapon or transmutations should get one of these. Unless you can't wear them, in which case get a regular shield.

buffalo66

some tiles guy

bug

To report bugs, go to: http://crawl.develz.org/mantis/main_page.php
The obligatory link: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html -- a guide to clearly and effectively reporting bugs to maximize the chance they'll be fixed.

bullseye

A +15 shield that provides -5 EV. In case you were having trouble getting hit.

burn books

Trog invocation that gives piety (1) and creates a cloud of flame. Piety gain is higher (2) if you haven't read (or identified) a book before burning it. The cloud lasts longer for rarer books. Won't burn manuals or tomes of destruction.
Useful for blocking off corridors (like Conjure Flame), but also for actively hurting monsters while you fight them in melee, as books can be burned even if monsters are standing on them.
Don't forget that you can throw a book then ignite it, not just drop it. Saves precious turns!

burn spellbooks

Trog ability. Burns all spellbooks in LOS. Gives you piety. Gives more piety if the books are unread.

burning bush

Bush that throws flame, in Zot defence. Sees invisible. Also in sprint IV. Also in a Zot stairs vault.

bushes

Can be shot and cast through, only obscure LOS when looking at two in a line. Can not be walked through, and are found around Fedhas's altars.

butcher

You can butcher. Unless you are in a form that can't wield weapons and isn't ice form, dragon form or blade hands.

butterfly

A deadly crawl monster only surpassed by the Toenail Golem. FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE IF YOU SEE ONE! Shoots hellfire from its proboscis and has an irresistible paralyze attack. Has been known to dual wield quick blades of distortion. Also reported being smiting!
<Killbot> did my butterflies... just.. kill an orcish knight?
Fun fact; Butterflies roam around while asleep!
Fun fact #2; all monsters roam around if confused and put to sleep!
Butterflies are especially sadistic, and WILL follow you up stairs.
Your butterfly hits the orc wizard. The orc wizard dies! Your butterfly looks stronger.
Autoexplore canceled. The butterfly is too close for your liking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzYSCSUDIs0

buttghostrobin

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-789-j

buttrobin

Buttrobin characters must be at least a little bit butt. Examples: raising str, wearing sustenance, okawaru. In compound robins (e.g. buttmutarobin), the other robin conducts do not count as butt.
A thorough definition of what qualifies as butt: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Special:Random

buttskillrobin

buttrobin + skillrobin

bwpn

This means that you have used your breath weapon, and it is too soon for you to use your breath weapon again. Please wait.
Alternatively, drink a potion of restore abilities. Then you can use your super powerful breath again! Yay!

cabal

The team with stabwound, cbus, doy, and 78291. Totally blew out the competition in 2008.

cacodemon

Shows up as a 2. They mutate, confuse, slow, and attack with inaccurate, irresistable digging bolts of energy. More dangerous then a green death, at least.
Chaingun tears through them like warm butter.

caleba

<Sabaki> caleba: i think its usually a bad idea to try to kill an orb of fire as a spen unless you can somehow get rf++ while wearing 2 slaying rings <ktgrey> sabaki: he has 23 earth magic <nonethousand> sabaki: he has 23 earth magic

call canine familiar

Summons various h. Takes out monsters in the early game that spammals can't handle. Always friendly. Types are jackal, hound, war dog, wolf, warg. Wargs replace wolves twice as often if you're a hill orc.

call imp

Level 2 Summoning spell found in the Books of {Callings} and Minor Magic. Temporarily summons a friendly little imp guy. Usually calls a crimson imp, but has a chance of calling a white imp, shadow imp, or iron imp.

call tide

Raises the water level, turning dry land near the water into shallow water and turning shallow water into deep water.

camouflage

+40 stealth per mutlevel. Octopodes start with level 1. No other effects.

campbell

http://archive.picturesforsadchildren.com/263.png

can i inscribe my fists

cang

cang
cang

cangaccount

elliott + elynae, you may join the club of cang if your name starts with el only

caniforms

canids, bears, pandas, skunks, weasels, racoons, walruses. Currently only the first two apply, but knowing our devs, there's no way we can avoid getting walruses or dire weasels one day.

cannibalism

Beogh, Elyvilon, The Shining One, Zin disapproves.

cantrip

A do-nothing spell, used to water down especially nasty early spellcasters. Note that deep elf soldiers, fighters, and knights, as well as many early uniques, use the orc wizard books.
The monster glows brightly for a moment. The monster looks stronger. The monster becomes somewhat translucent. The monster's eyes start to glow.
You feel troubled. You feel a wave of unholy energy pass over you. You resist. You resist (whatever that was supposed to do). The monster shimmers for a moment (replaces the last four if friendly).
Even weaker than melee.

cao

Main Crawl server, located in Tucson, AZ. USA, http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ or crawl.akrasiac.org ssh port 22 ssh-username:joshua ssh-password: joshua. Runs the latest stable release, trunk, Zot Defense, and robotfindskitten. Further information on the website and ??putty entries for Windows users. Also see http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto
Webtiles is at http://webtiles.akrasiac.org/ or http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/

cao key

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key or http://crawl.develz.org/cao_key
'chmod 600 cao_key' to fix the 'permissions' error

cap

A cap at +0 does not boost AC, but can be enchanted. Caps can also grant Intelligence, Guardian Spirit, or See Invis. Note that a +0 cap is better than nothing against acid attacks, though the cap is vulnerable to corrosion from that attack. Players with horns can wear caps.

capsrobin

CAPSROBIN: PLAY AN ENTIRE GAME WHILE HOLDING SHIFT. NO REMAPPING OF KEYS ALLOWED!!

captainplatypus

<CaptainPlatypus> how do I zap a wand? <monqy> V <Henzell> captainplatypus the Poker (L3 MfCr), killed themselves with bad targeting on D:2, with 95 points after 1517 turns and 0:16:09.

captains cutlass

An unrandart +6,+7 short blade of speed. Has a custom base weapon: Dam 9, Acc +3, Delay 12. Minimum delay is reached at the same point as a sabre.

carbonbasedlifeform

14 games for * (!won xl=27 turns<60000): 7x CarbonBasedLifeform,

card power

The card power value for non-Nemelexites is (evocations * 9) for plain decks, +150 for ornate decks, +300 for legendary decks. Nemelexites get a bonus of (piety * (evo + 25)) / 27; if the player has Nemelex penance, they instead lose the penance value (to a lower limit of 0).
Ornate decks have a (card power) in 700 chance of being card power level 1; on top of this, legendary decks have an additional (card power) in 500 chance of being promoted an extra card power level. Zapping effects (most effects from the deck of destruction) use (card power / 6) for spell power.

cards

See deck. Full list: Battlelust, Damnation, Dowsing, Experience, Famine, Flame, Focus, Frost, Metamorphosis, Pain, Shuffle, Solitude, Summoning, Swap, Torment, Velocity, Venom, Vitriol, Warpwright, Wild Magic, Wrath, Xom, the Banshee, the Bargain, the Blade (more)
the Curse, the Dance, the Elixir, the Feast, the Genie, the Hammer, the Helix, the Helm, the Herd, the Map, the Mercenary, the Minefield, the Orb, the Pentagram, the Portal, the Potion, the Shadow, the Spade, the Tomb, the Trowel, the Warp, the Wraith.

carnivore

Built-in gourmand (i.e. eat chunks when not hungry) without the sickness protection. Also makes you get less nutrition from non-meat food, and more from meat -- and since almost all you eat is chunks, that's good. Concurrent levels increase the effect. The third level prevents eating non-meat food completely. Mutually exclusive with herbivore.

cashybrid

Bot (running a slightly-modified version of elliptic's autorobin) + casmith789 hybrid, working together to grab the orb! Current record 1:05:11.

casmith789

If you ask a question, his answer is always "go kiku".
4 runer with kiku: dungeons to 10 (or more if necessary) -> lair (all) -> orc 3 -> dungeons to vaults -> vaults until crypt -> crypt -> orc 4 -> snake/swamp 1-4 -> elf 1-4 -> shoals/snake/swamp 5 -> tomb -> vault 7 -> dungeons to 27 -> elf 5 -> vault 8 -> zot. Without kiku don't go into tomb and play a 3 runer.
What is so great about kiku? 1) You get the necromancy book just as your starting spellbook runs out of good spells 2) You get your pain weapon just as you finish lair 3) You destroy the whole midgame easily 4) Great fun tomb; free levels of experience and a rune
Classes: AK DK Hu Sk Su Wn Gods: Beogh Fedhas Xom
First lava orc win. ON THE FIRST DAY OF TESTING. http://eronarn.info/misc/casmith789.txt
Will win a 15 runer DDFi DEVM HECj and NaAE with various levels of zig completion, this is a promise.

cast

If an artefact says -CAST, that means you can't cast any spells with it equipped.

caster

only a couple people actually mean "character that casts spells" when they say this
It is complicated. You have to compare your conjuration-index against your adjusted weapon fighter score (see awefig) to get a approximate caster value.
<mikee_> a caster is.. a fisherman
<mong> 'caster' as in the cheap plastic wheels they put on crappy office furniture <mikee_> caster = someone who makes molds of stuff
<minqmay> i've never met a girl who let me call it that
see hybrid[2]

cat

A bane of many characters. Dogs, being too stupid to reach the keyboard, are safer. The official pet of ##crawl.

cataclysm

the roguelike with houses and books and

cateater

paralyze torment torment smite smite smite
Falsifies his own learndb entry.

catlobetv

deaths to catlobes

catoblepas

Like a death yak in stats, but slower (speed 8) and hits harder. Breathes plumes of petrifying dust clouds at you that have a chance to petrify you based on your experience level. Like swamp drake breath, catoblepas breath will not affect you unless you're standing in the cloud at least one turn after it spawns.
Yes, petrifying clouds can petrify plants. Yes, this is intentional. Haven't you people ever heard of petrified forests?
Are themselves immune to petrification, although @?? won't tell you so. Learn from the examples of others: !lg andrewsmash killer=catoblepas 2
<Elynae> Wensley: i pretended that my partner was a catlobe when waltzing, it really helped
Tha stone giant stops movin' altagethar!

catonkeyboardrobin

All commands must be entered by cats traipsing across your keyboard.

catsmith789

Ask NyaaKitty.

cbo

See http://s-z.org/#animportantmessage for more information.
see cszo

cbus

Made a nemelex spoiler for trunk, its currently out of date but its available at: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/nemelex.txt Also made a title spoiler available at: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/titles-0.3.html theres also a 0.4 titles spoiler at http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/titles-0.4.html
Nemesis of uniques everywhere. Looks them up in the phone book before he kills them, living tissue over metal endoskeleton. Likes shades.
Is a big fan of the xmas-bows aka xbows.
Loves nothing more than having his config changed.
<cbus> napkin, instead of cheibradpit
Walks around with a lochaber axe stuck in his heart.
17:07:29 < Henzell> Mapping zignacio => birdoprey casmith789 elliptic marvinpa valrus cbus

cdo

Crawl server (also running development versions), located in Germany, crawl.develz.org, telnet port 345 or ssh port 22, ssh-username: crawl, ssh-key necessary: http://crawl.develz.org/cao_key (openssh) or http://crawl.develz.org/cao_key.ppk (putty)
Dump files and other stuff are available on http://crawl.develz.org.
If you experience lag try this: enable compression in ssh/putty - enable option use_fake_player_cursor = true - for more see http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto
wget http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key; chmod 400 cao_key; ssh -Ci cao_key crawl@crawl.develz.org or On a Mac: curl -O http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key; chmod 400 cao_key; ssh -Ci cao_key crawl@crawl.develz.org

ceiling

it's high enough to fit a tornado in the dungeon
it's strong enough to fit four oceans in the dungeon

cekugob

the amulet of Cekugob {Ward -Tele Hunger rElec rPois rN+ AC+1 EV+1}. Since it's an amulet of warding with an additional rN+, it gives rN++ total.

centaur

These enemies are infamous for carrying bows and showing up at the worst times from afar, as well as often carrying ego bows or arrows. Easier to fight in melee, though conjurers can one-shot them fairly reliably at range with bolt of fire/cold. They have low MR and HD, so most disabling tactics work well also.
Half-human, half-horse, all eating machine. Second only to spriggans in speed, and trolls in food consumption. Like Nagas, requires special armour for best performance; a good way to get it is playing any other type of character.
The race with the highest winrate in recent versions. Speedy, good unarmed, high HP... a powergamer's dream.
<OG17> playing a centaur is like playing something fun except you're a centaur
http://www.wtfcostumes.com/costumes/hunglikea_horse.jpg
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22boytaur%22
<elliptic> centaurs are nauseous and unkillable
whenever you see a centaur they always have abs. how does a centaur get abs? how do you do ab workouts when half your body is a fucking horse?

centaur reasons

You want permanent swiftness and then some, high HP, ranged weapon aptitudes and the best auxiliary attack.
You like butchering.
You don't like dying.
They're hung like a horse...
Griefing.

centaur warrior

Like a centaur, but much much tougher. Regularly hits for 30+ damage a shot, and is escorted by regular centaurs. If you see one of these in the open, instantaneous teleportation is a Good Idea.

centuryplayers

see {!lg * won s=name o=-name title:"centuryplayers" format:"${.}" ?:N>=100}
see {!lg * won s=name ?:N<100}

cerebov

Guards the fiery rune with the Sword of Cerebov and spells of iron shot, haste, fire storm, and summon greater demons. Can defeat nearly anything consistently in !fight. His level is crawling with balrugs.
In order to get loot (in the original map), you need cTele + Tele or powerful LRD/Shatter. Loot is located in small 3x3 towers of Cerebov's castle. Sometimes mobs can spawn inside.
< casmith789> cerebov is basically a buffed imp
see sword_of_cerebov
see cerebov_strategy

cerebov strategy

!lm jeanjacques mifi uniq=cerebov 1 -tv
!lm hangedman trwz uniq=cerebov 1 -tv
!lm minmay mufe uniq=cerebov 1 -tv

chain lightning

Level 8 conj/air in Annihilations that arcs from target to target (including leaving your sight, going around corners, etc) until it grounds out. You do not aim it. Due to its chainy nature, be prepared for it to hit you and your allies, possibly repeatedly. The arcs, including the initial casting, work most reliably on shorter distances.
Even without resistance and with many arcs, you'll likely never take more than 20 damage. Although useful for how it hits a lot of targets, possibly its most powerful use is when you have one single enemy standing adjacent to you. At decent power, it will often arc back and forth between you enough times to get an instant kill on ordinary enemies.

chain mail

7 AC, -4 EV.

challenge

Win with as many runes as possible collected while already carrying the orb.
see ogre challenge
see conjuration_challenge
Branchless ogre. (done by: elliptic)
Win MuCK without ever leaving Xom. (done by: elliptic, mikee_, ragdoll, rwbarton, minmay, partyhat, demonblade)
see draconian_challenge
Anti-pacifist zig! Kill every monster in a zig, while worshipping trog. (done by: MarvinPA)
Streak {Ha HE HO Hu} x {He Hu} of Xom. (Take Xom before visiting Orc/Lair or going deeper than D:9 on purpose, no leaving Xom, etc., etc.)
see mummy challenge
Do a pacifist zig. {done by: elliptic}
see trog_challenge
see necro_challenge
Die to murray.
Get all four hell runes without entering orc or any lair subbranch, or descending below D:13.
see ddpr_challenge
Do a zig wearing Maxwell's, the shield of the gong and the obsidian axe. (Completed by: mudo)
Do a zig in Misfortune.
Win a game with runecount > max xl.
Pacify Ereshkigal.
Kill all 4 of the unique Pan lords on the Orb run.
see bat_challenge
Drown as a merfolk. (completed by: procupine)
Win a game in which all temple gods (including those in overflow altars) are abandoned before XL 10.
Die to a shapeshifter or glowing shapeshifter (that is, one not imitating a monster).
Pure artificer challenge: 1) You cannot affect monsters with anything that doesn't train evo skill. 2) Also, you can only train evocations.
Get the message "You cut your orb of destruction into ribbons!!!" in an actual game.
Win a Fighter with the Fighter title.

champion

You just reached 6* piety with your god.

change

<tensorpudding> everything was better before they changed it

changelog

http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt - probably incomplete and/or out of date, see changelog[3] for an exhaustive list of changes.
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ has an overview of most of the important changes
Current trunk: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl CDO's trunk: http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/changes.txt

channeling

Converts food into mana. The staff succeeds (evo+11)/40, 50 hunger, 1d3 MP; Wucad Mu (evo+1)/25, 50 hunger, 1/5 div miscast, otherwise 2+d5+evo/3 MP; Sif power 60+INT+inv %, 100-300 hunger, d(2+inv/4) mp. For reference, merely resting will recover 14+maxMP per 600 nutrition, at standard metabolic rates.

chaos brand

Imitates other brands, or can heal, polymorph, berserk, haste, invisify, petrify, paralyse, torment, cause miscasts and probably do a lot more to enemies. Added in 0.5, only gifted by Xom, Xom's vault guards, found on Pan lords, or on the uniques Crazy Yiuf (always) or Psyche (sometimes).
Can very rarely raise hostile corpses, like the sword of Zonguldrok
Wisps of poison gas drift from the rat's front feet.
Gastronok fails to defend himself. You open Gastronok like a pillowcase!!! Gastronok suddenly stops moving! Gastronok is heavily wounded. Gastronok fails to defend himself. You open Gastronok like a pillowcase!!! You kill Gastronok! Gastronok instantly turns into a zombie! Your dagger of chaos parrots the noises around you.
The plant bobs in the air for a moment.
!lg * killer=~"pikel, the cyclops" 1 -tv:<0.3
Edmund seems to be having trouble coordinating all eight of its legs.
An oklob plant appears out of thin air!
You hit the bush, but do no damage. You are blasted with searing flames! Ouch! That really hurt! You die...
j _ giant slug shaped shifter (berserk)
<N78291> Your orcish trident of chaos' orcish trident of chaos wails.
You hit the goblin. You fall down a shaft! Your mindless thralls stay behind. 12 skeletal warriors and Rupert come into view. Your giant spiked club of chaos shouts loudly!

chaos butterfly

An abyssal monster surrounded by rain clouds at all times; occasionally summons a twister. Deals chaos damage in melee. Otherwise about as squishy as a moth of wrath.
<jeanjacques> chaos butterflies are quite something

chaos knight

A worshipper of Xom. Used to have choice of several gods in 0.7

chaos knight reasons

You have to start with Xom!
You want to be a KoCK.

chaos spawn

Weird demon that hits with the chaos brand. Leaves a cloud of seething chaos upon death (wonder what would happen if you stepped in it).
<N78291> Your chaos spawn punches the stone giant. _The stone giant screams as it is devoured by a tear in reality.
The chaos spawn gores you! You feel much better.

chaotic gods

Xom, Jiyva, Makhleb, Lugonu

chaotic spell

Polymorph Other, Summon Horrible Things, Malign Gateway, Twisted Resurrection, Banishment, Cigotuvi's Degeneration, Summon Ugly Thing, Porkalator, and all form-changing spells (including Beastly Appendage).
Zin hates these spells. Monsters who can cast them are considered "unclean". Monsters who innately cast them (without the actual_spells flag) are considered chaotic and are therefore hurt by silver.

chapayev

SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP
see zot defense
First death of the 2009 tournament!!!!
see dungeon sprint
< Chapayev> but i used a netbsd laptop for a while, of my own choice
< Chapayev> {joke} is the hell of learndb, just like {bad_ideas} is its pan
You hear a distant slurping noise.

character creation

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ex6216bgdr7ebrp/sabbat.html

character graphics

Using colored letters and punctuation to draw images. This approach was pioneered in the gaming industry by Rogue (only 8 years after Pong), and still the standard in the "rogue-like" genre, although attempts have been made to fix this. Most opinions hold that the fixes are worse than the problems.

charms

Probably want to train this. Contains all the good enchantments, after it was split into Charms and Hexes.
haste, ring of flames, death's door, levitation, ozo's armor, rmsl, regen, swiftness, flight, ctele, dmsl, sure blade, and all weapon brands

charred statue

Found in a vehumet overflow altar vault. Infrequently casts low-power throw flame (3d5).

cheating

DDEE
MuSu
HOHe
SpEn

cheese

1200 nutrition, regardless of herbivore, carnivore, or whatever! Careful if you have the lactose intolerant mutation.
k - the +2,+8 sabre of Cheese {speed, SInv}

cheesing

wholly legitimate strategy

cheibriados

The Slow God! Gives piety for killing things faster than you, and slows you down as you gain piety.
Chei slightly slows digestion (-1 hunger), halves effect of poison and sickness. Abilities: Bend Time -- slows down adjacent monsters. Temporal Distortion -- lets monsters move towards you. Slouch -- damage to fast stuff in LOS. Step from Time -- lets monsters go away.
Chei increases your movement delay by 2+piety/20 (capped at 10) and boosts all your stats by piety/10 - 1 (capped at 15).
<casmith789> at least beogh does nothing
<neongrey> if you didn't have to follow chei to do it <neongrey> following chei would not be so bad
You kill the elephant slug! Cheibriados appreciates the change of pace.
If you worship Chei and go berserk , Chei will prevent the increased speed effect. This should not be considered an endorsement of Cheibriados.
http://i.imgur.com/cGO39.png
flyingpants: i accidentally raised charms to like 19 before i remembered i can't cast haste as a chei follower
<crate> are you worshipping chei? <aa99> no <crate> well then you're good
The only god that makes your character worse as you gain piety

cheibriados reasons

Cheibriados is the cool god to worship. You can find most of the cool people there. With him, you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the Cheibriados motto, for example, that's how laid back he is. Worship him if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to worship him is if you want to hang out with friends.

cheibriados wrath

Your penance counter is set to 25 (moderate) and you suffer sleep effects, haste/swiftness/berserk Dispel, slowing and curses; maybe all of those.
If tension is high (i.e. many enemies nearby, or dangerous ones relative to your level), the wrath is more severe. If there are fewer enemies, it is less severe. This is only checked at the start of the wrath, so you may discover yourself in a bad situation when you awaken.
_You feel the world leave you behind. You fall asleep! An Angel comes into view. Ashenzari warns you: it is wielding a eudemon blade of holy wrath. The Angel hits you with an eudemon blade of holy wrath! You die...
<ebarrett> chei wrath is probably less harmful than following chei

chessplayers

Elyaddin, Sifielly Tartakower, Vasely Smyslov, Anately Karpov, Vesezin Topalov

chief of staff

Level 27 staves title. When you reach it, you start looking like this: http://www.alcot.biz/product/osana/character_ra.html

chilling moan

Something woke up, like a curse skull or an insubstantial wisp. If you didnt see it, brace for a shadow wraith or lorocyproca.

chilliwack

Extremely fun to spectate for his breezy playstyle. Fastest pillar-dancer in the universe. Dont believe his sweet, trusting eyes.

chinchilla

Likes: dungeon crawl, makeup, adventure time, nicolas cage. Dislikes: pornography, anime. Is secretly really good at dungeon crawl but just doesn't know it yet!!

choko

Chayote, a green vegetable of the gourd family. 600 nutrition.
Steamed wedges served with a knob of butter and plenty of cracked black pepper is the only way to eat choko.

chokowaru

Okawaru's younger cousin, who is alleged to grant choko acquirement gifts. Disapproves of consuming either chokos or any other fruits, approves of wielding them as a weapon and firing them as explosive missiles or massive storms of chokos (that can miss any given square).
Gives choko brand at max piety, which converts dropped corpses into chokos. Wrath creates swarms of speed 16 chokogolems and conversion of food into chokos as well as chokos into explosions or more chokogolems: see chokowaru wrath.

chokowaru wrath

Giant glowing orb of hellchokos that smites, torments, and paralyzes greensnark.

chris

Rotate text for vaults and stuff: http://rotate.herokuapp.com/ --- [outdated] tourney banner color samples http://6g6.eu/sih0-mockup1.png http://6g6.eu/sih0-mock-veh-c.png
!lg * won playable s=ch x=max(sc) o=-max(sc),N ?: max(sc)<1500000
☡ሴ
!lm chris br.enter=slime 1 -tv:>$ _Magically, you awkwardly throw a choko. -- !lm chris uniq=cerebov 1 -tv:<8:x4 You close the door. Your life is in your own hands again!
<elliott> tsohg: well sometimes the gen calc procs to produce a mob that your toon just can't tank <elliott> but if you're a wrecking ball <elliott> it's okay <elliott> you'll steamroll through it <elliott> and it will be trivialised
<djanatyn> ChrisOelmueller: what, did you make labs <ChrisOelmueller> djanatyn: kind of, yes <djanatyn> labs are the best <djanatyn> I love you <djanatyn> *hug* <ChrisOelmueller> good
You enter the passage of Golubria. You feel lost and a long, long way from home...

chris patches

Give felids intrinsic gourmand https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=6711
remove zotdef

chrisclouds

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chuck

A sprint-specific unique stone giant. Collects rocks, comes with a rock of returning.

chunk

Weighs 10 aum and gives 1000 nutrition. Comes in clean, contaminated, poisonous, rotting, hydrochloric acid or mutagenic varieties, depending on the corpse they came from.

cigotuvis degeneration

Level 5 Transmutation/Necromancy spell. Requires line of fire, checks magic resistance, only works on natural monsters. Turns enemy into a pulsating lump, which means not only that you don't get the original monster's exp, but that you'll get mutated if it hits you.
Naturally, you SHOULD cast this on every monster worth less than 52 XP, if you have the spell hungerless. Actually, just use Polymorph Other on them.
<crate> it is kind of like agony that doesnt give xp

cigotuvis fleshworks

You part the fleshy orifice. You are engulfed in noxious fumes!
This fleshy orifice is marked as excluded!
Not guaranteed to have cure mut, but will at least have an amulet of resist mutation (so useful for *after* it) as well as tmut books and a staff of death. Very rarely worth the mass of mutations, unless you can avoid the mutagenic fog.

cigotuvis monster

A renamed tentacled monstrosity with more health.

circlelos

hitler
see roundlos

clan firstname

jeff (captain), grivan, heteroy, maddasher, mikee, rob

clan names

See http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney[Foo]/teams.html , replacing [Foo] with 11, 10, 09, or no characters, as well as http://seleniac.org/crawl/tourney/12a/teams to see all past clans. Further entries are planned clan names or highlights of past ones.|
sonic yiuf
I've got 99 problems but a lich ain't one
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Ribbit
Geryon my Wayward Son

clarity

Allows you to resist confusion and misleading. Comes in mutation or amulet form, and is granted by Ashenzari. Also prevents unintentional berserking. Doesn't prevent confusion caused by Xom or god wraths.

class list

0.12 classes: AE AK AM Ar As Be Cj CK DK EE En FE Fi Gl He Hu IE Mo Ne Pr Sk Su Tm VM Wn Wr Wz

claws

+2 base unarmed damage per level and increases punch damage. Level 3 chops off hydra heads. The effects of claws are eliminated if you're wearing gloves, but at claws 3 you can't use the slot anyways. Counts as a butchering tool, even if you are wielding a weapon you can not or do not want to unwield.

clean chunks

As a rule of thumb, if you can ask for it in a restaurant without being arrested, it's safe. (also, assume that the restaurant owner hates centaurs)

cleansing flame

Piety cost 2-3; fires a radius-2 ball of holy energy which does significant damage to undead and demons but does not harm the player or friendly monsters. As of 0.5, it is centered on the player.
Power = 10 + 7 * Invocations / 6. Damage = 2d(power). Does 50% more damage to unholy monsters, 50% less to non-evil monsters. 0 damage to holies.
The toadstool writhes in agony!

clear messages

If you want to get rid of the _ beginning some lines add clear_messages = true

cleave

In 0.12+, axes awesomely cleave seven spaces around on attack, at the expense of nerfed damage (one less base damage for broad axes and two less for battleaxes and executioner's axes). The cleave attacks do 75% damage, and cleaving in a certain direction is blocked by solid features (but cleaving is done in both directions).
Good with a vampiric exec axe: !lg ophanim 1126 -tv:<T31300:>T31800

cling

You're stuck to the wall. Works kind of like levitation. Can't cross a channel like this: #~@#
You open the door. You fall off the door.

cloak

+1 AC. Comes in poison resistance, magic resistance, darkness (evoke to turn invis temporarily), and preservation. When you're splashed with acid, the hp damage increases for every equipment slot on which you're not wearing something. A cloak, however, reduces the chance of that happening per slot to 50%.

cloak of darkness

A cloak that seems cooler than it is. Evocable invisibility (which causes a lot of magic contamination), but you need a lot of evo to get it workable. 10+ if you want it at Good.

cloak of flash

Unrandart +3 cloak {+Fly, EV+4}

cloak of preservation

It gives conservation and resist corrosion. Does not stack with the amulets.

cloak of starlight

The +0 cloak of Starlight {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--}.

cloak of the thief

the +2 cloak of the Thief {+Fog Dam-3 SInv Stlth++}. The fog is as difficult as berserk rage to evoke successfully.

clock of the thief

Helps your stealth, because the ticking distracts monsters from your footsteps.

clonedeath

see {!lg * !@hugeterm cv>=0.10-a ikiller=mara ckiller~~illusion$ ntv=0 max=xl -tv}

cloud mage

A randomly named unique mage residing in the Cloud Mage wizlab. Wears the Robe of Clouds, has an ego dagger/quickblade, blinks, airstrikes, and clouds. No flame clouds though!

cloud of flame

Can hit for 32. Keep your distance. rF+++ makes the damage insignificant (resistance), but your scrolls remain vulnerable.

cloud of gloom

It's a tile of fog

clouds

Flame, freezing vapour, mephitic (mephitic cloud; AKA noxious fumes or stinking), poison, black/grey/purple/blue smoke, steam, foul pestilence (miasma), mist (swamp water), and occasionally bugginess. Of these, the smokes and mist are harmless, and they plus steam can block LOS as per scroll of fog. Also, there's the book of clouds.
see scroll of fog[2]

club

A heavy piece of wood that falls into the Maces & Flails category. Damage: 5. Accuracy: +3. Delay: 13. Can be thrown, usually at you.
Not a terrible weapon forged in the fires of hell -- just a terrible weapon.

club stabbing

sucks slightly less than unarmed stabbing.

clubstabbing

Almost as good as using mace in the same situation.

clumsy

Caused by hitting zero dexterity. Zero stealth, minimal evasion, can't stab, can't block with shields. Also the usual stat zero effects (halved speed, increasing chances of fainting, death after 90 turns). Effects persist for a while after reaching positive dex again.

clustering illusion

https://google.com/search?q=clustering+illusion

coagulated blood

What a potion of blood turns into after a while. Eventually rots and disappears. Provides less nutrition for vampires than the uncoagulated kind. Like the uncoagulated kind, can be wielded instead of a chunk when casting sublimation of blood.

cock worms

cocytus

The frozen Hell. Beware of Ice Fiends. Ruled by Antaeus. Home of the icy rune. You will need levitation for the last level.

coffee

Far and away the most popular drink in ##crawl and ##crawl-offtopic, eclipsing even alcoholic beverages. You smell coffee!

cold blooded

A flag which makes creatures get slowed by a few sources of cold damage. Includes snakes, lizards, (player) draconians, and similar. Not to be confused with hot-blooded, which is a condition where you don't have to read my mind to know what I have in mind.
Remember that some cold-blooded creatures, like spiders and insects, don't have this flag.
Only some effects cause slowing: freezing-branded melee, Freeze, Refrigeration, Metabolic Englaciation (extra).

collapse

Caused by hitting zero strength. 1/4 regen rate, 1/2 carry capacity on top of the regular stat zero effects (halved speed, increasing chances of fainting, death after 90 turns). Effects persist for a while after reaching positive strength again.

colours

black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, lightgrey, darkgrey, lightblue, lightgreen, lightcyan, lightred, lightmagenta, yellow, white
To see the base-colours for elemental colours, read down from http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/source/colour.cc;#l325
for y in {0..7}; do for b in 0 1; do for x in {0..7}; do printf '\e[%1d;4%1d;3%1dm%1d/%1d ' $b $y $x $x $y; done; done; printf '\e[0m\n'; done

combat

(3:26:11 PM) Cryp71c: Q: "how does combat work?" A: "Who knows, we avoid fight.cc"

combat system overhaul

What happenened to 4.1. Everyone agrees this is necessary, but nobody wants to send DCSS to the same fate.

combo

race/class combination

commit search

%git :/text
%git HEAD^{/target+ing}^^{/target+ing}^^{/target+ing}

commits

common demon

A '3' or '4'. Ranges from sun demon to rotting devil.

communists

chei guevara, ho chei minh, leo trogsky, mao zindong, josif stalin, rosa luxomburg, yredel castrog, okarl marx, yredimir lenin

compile crawl

[Linux] You'll need git, build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libncurses5-dev, libncursesw5-dev, then "git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git; cd DCSS; git submodule update --init; cd crawl-ref/sources/; make [options]"
[Linux] For faster compiling, leverage the awesomeness of ccache. Also, be sure to use the -j flag if you have multiple processors available.

concise

<TGWi> learndb is useful and concise
<TGWi> except when it isn't
<TGWi> which is always

condensation shield

Creates a shield that doesn't require a hand to wield (can be used with two-handed weapons, but not with a real shield), with duration based on power and strength based on ice magic. Melts when hit by fire. Stacks with the helm card and TSO's divine shield. SH granted is 8 + 3/5 * ice magic skill.

condescension shield

Dude, seriously, what the heck do you think you're doing even *learning* this spell?

confuse

L3 hex in book of Maledictions and book of Hinderance. Causes confusion.

confused

A confused monster cannot cast spells and moves randomly, attacking other monsters it bumps into, and may even attack itself. A confused player moves randomly when attempting to move, and may fail to climb stairs. Confusion prevents the use of spells, scrolls, and most invocations. Potions of curing cure it; amulets of clarity prevent it outright.
<monqy> you were too confused for the interface to be sensible
You can use Zin's Vitalisation and Elyvilon's Purification invocations while confused.

confusing touch

This spell enchants the caster's hands with magical energy. This energy is released when the caster touches a monster with their hands (bare or gloved), and may induce a state of confusion in the monster. Can be stacked for duration, "extremely bright" red in '@' indicates near-max. A random amount discharges upon hitting.
The save against this spell is based off of HD instead of MR, therefore confusing touch is surprisingly useful late game (if you're an unarmed fighting mage). Having confusing touch readied reduces your unarmed base damage by three, but adds d(your dex) to your to-hit.
Chance of confusing if hit = (30-HD)/30 if monster is natural, (22-HD)/22 otherwise. Does not affect non-living, plant, or magic-immune creatures.

conjuration

Magic school that blows things up.

conjuration challenge

Win a pure conjurer: magic dart, IMB, IOOD, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
Won by: jle (3 runes, SpWz, 0.9)

conjuration miscast

1: smoke / 6-12 dmg 2: 9-25 dmg / 3d12 explosion 3: 12-40 dmg / 3d20 explosion

conjure flame

A level 3 spell that creates a cloud of flame in the selected unoccupied space. Many weaker monsters will be unwilling to cross it, but some tougher or less intelligent ones will.

conjurer

Identify target. Blast target to tiny bits. Rinse and repeat. Starts with the book of Conjurations.

conjurer statue

Hurls orbs of destruction at you. They hurt (up to 88 raw damage)!

conservation

Provides a 90% save for items to resist attacks that would otherwise destroy them. Cold would destroy potions, fire would destroy scrolls, and spores would destroy food. Found on amulets of conservation and cloaks of preservation, which don't stack with each other. If you want acid protection, try resist corrosion or preservation instead.
Also comes in DS mutation form, with individual mutations for protecting scrolls (part of the fire facet) and potions (part of the ice facet). These mutations do stack with the cloak or amulet.

console

Non tiles. The cool way to play.
good
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto

console reasons

<caleba> i converted to console to throw my wife off the trail, now she knows it's a game :(

constriction

Nagas, octopodes (both player and monster), ball pythons, anacondas and tentacled monstrosities get this as an extra attack. Holds the target in place and deals increasing damage over time.
Players and monsters can only constrict things of the same size or smaller. Teleporting allows you to escape and break constriction. Blinking counts as two escape attempts for escaping (see next entry).
Chance to constrict depends on the attacker's size and strength/HD versus the defender's size and EV. The chance to escape depends on size and number of escape attempts, versus the constrictor's strength or HD.
Using darts of dispersal on the thing constricting you allows escape (for now). Also: polymorphing it; becoming larger than it; invoking sanctuary; moving it with tornado.
Octopodes can constrict up to eight creatures, depending on what they are wielding; others can constrict only one.

constructive criticism

get rid of the bad entry vaults
And don't make bad entries too.

contam

Powerful enchantments have cumulative side effects on the body, represented by a magic contamination stat. When it reaches 6, you start glowing, and you can get mutations. But it decays - unless you are hasted or invisible. The mutations are 1/5 random, otherwise bad with a 50% chance of overriding mutation resistance.
The following effects cause magical contamination: haste, invisibility, extending haste, controlled blinking and teleporting, mutagenic artifacts, Disjunction, miscasting spells, some miscast effects (Charms, Hexes, Translocations and Transmutations), stasis sometimes.
Also an artefact property which contaminates you when you unequip the item in question.

contaminated

Contaminated (brown text description) chunks have a 1/3 chance of making you nauseous, don't eat them with abandon (some players prefer only to eat them when desperate). This effect is completely negated by gourmand and lower for some races (1/45 kobold, troll; 1/15 hill orc, ogre) due to their levels of saprovore.
In .13, nausea is gone, so they have a reduced amount of nutrition instead.

control teleport

Spell which gives teleport control for a brief period. L4 charms/tloc, found in Control and Spatial Translocations.

control undead

This spell causes all nearby undead to be affected as if by enslavement. The effect IS temporary.
The poor man's abjuration in tomb.

controlled blink

Level 7 Translocation spell that works like a blink scroll and gives contam. However, unlike the blink scroll, it acts like a semicontrolled blink on levels with no teleport control.
Only gives you semi-controlled blink 50% of the time when you have the Orb of Zot.
<danharaj> cblink is like an undo button for being bad
< Elynae> that's the chicken spell
!lg araganzar hehu xl=27 1 -tv:<0.6:x5

controlled flight

Lets you interact with the floor and items on it while levitating. Draconians and xl5+ tengu have innate cFly. All flight is controlled in 0.12.

controlled teleport stabbing

You will need a ring of teleport control. Step 1: Take Nemelex Xobeh. Step 2: draw the Dowsing card from a Deck of Dungeons. Step 3: Draw the Warpwright/Minefield card/s. Kill everything in an open level instantly.

controls

Press space to want to move.

conversation

Oh hi, it's been a while! What's that? Oh, I think you're looking for conservation. Yeah, good seeing you too.

cool

refrigeration
see wensley
see sakuyaizayoi[2]
tab
squarelos
xom
newveh

coolplayers

Players who have won at least one combo that makes a word online in 80x24 console using vikeys or arrows+numrow or an external numpad.

coolrobin

a by-invite only roundrobin, if you don't know the password, you aren't invited. Heavy-armour spellcasting preferred. Started by xyblor when he got tired of his roundrobin characters dying.

corona

Outlines the target in light, making them easier to hit (by boosting your to-hit randomly between 2 and 9). Makes invisible things (temporarily) visible. Delicious with a wedge of lime. Don't leave it in direct sunlight.

corpse

Remains of a slain creature. Can be chopped for meat chunks to eat, blood can be drawn by vampires, can be offered to certain gods as sacrifice, and can also be animated with necromantic magic.

corpse color

white=safe green=poison yellow/brown=contaminated red=rotting purple=mutagenic

corpse rot

Level 2 necromancy in book of Death. Produces a single square of miasma over any nearby corpses (range is something like 6 away from you), turning the corpses into skeletons. If there are multiple corpses on a square, only one of the corpses will be affected. The miasma lasts approximately 12 turns. See corpse slap.
Try it on enslaved enemies!

corpse slap

The act of Portal Projectiling a corpse just before an enemy, then Corpse Rotting it. For bonus points, corpse slapping doesn't wake up sleeping enemies!

corpse violating

Fedhas hates the spells: Animate Dead, Animate Skeleton, Twisted Resurrection, Sublimation of Blood, Necromutation, and Simulacrum (and Fulsome Distillation while it existed). Fedhas doesn't mind Corpse Rot, since magically accelerated decay is still decay.

corruption

Makes a chunk of the current level more Abyss-like, by shifting walls and summoning a lot of neutral creatures for 600+ turns. Useful to kill everything and to break into certain vaults. May convert altars to Lugonu altars. Usable once per level, not usable in the Abyss. Cannot alter permarock.
Don't overlook this ability. Can reliably take out the majority of uniques, including Mennas and most hellpanlords.

cowardplayers

Players who have left a ziggurat at level 26. See !lm * zig.exit=~26 s=name for the list.

crace

Canonical race.

cracking sound

"You hear a cracking sound!" is when a thrown large rock mulches to stone outside of LOS

cranking of ancient gears

see {ancient gears}

crap

<Nexos> e - the cursed -1 leather armour "Crap" {Acc+2}
the cursed +1 leather armour "Crap" {Dex+3 Dam+4}

crash

If you crash and the state does not seem recoverable, go to Advanced Options in dgl and then Backup Save File and let the developers know you've done so when you file a report in mantis: crawl.develz.org/mantis

crate

<crate> fyi i'm not a crate irl
see craterc[1]
<crate> how do i ever win crawl <crate> i cant type
!lm crate uniq=erica 19 -tv
!lm crate vpen orb 1 -tv:<0.5
!lm crate uniq=wiglaf 17 -tv
<crate> its ok i'm cheating
!lg * killer="prince ribbit" min=turn

crate ideas

<crate> can we just get rid of that

crate reasons

You want to pacify ancient liches.

craterc

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rcfiles/crawl-git/crate.rc
todo: new portal vault message colours

crawl

a wretched hive of scum and ascii
<Noomx> its not nethack :(
<chunkles> the game is obviously a metaphor for samsara, the endless cycle of death and rebirth <ebarrett> sisyphus' orb rolls back to zot:5
445658 | D:23 | IM SUPRISED THERE ARE THIS MANY MONSTERS
<crate> nice, it can kill me in one turn
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4161i8U6k1qj4nfso1_400.jpg
Enter note: Fuck everyone that had a hand in making this game
<Codrus> So far I have 5 ogres on D:4
http://i.imgur.com/ixCsi.gif
http://i.imgur.com/eRc6sBC.gif
<the_glow> i think we can all agree that crawl would be better if it was bejeweled
<Nightbeer> This game is so fucking ridiculous
I think I just want to hit things now
<JoshTriplett> Wow. Quaffed one potion of mutation and got: _Your metabolism slows. Your feet thicken and deform. You feel robust. [13:16] <JoshTriplett> *awesome*<JoshTriplett> ...and then died.[13:18] == JoshTriplett [~josh@unaffiliated/joshtriplett] has left ##crawl
2H weapons tend to be more popular with the "in" crowd of good players on ##crawl.
<elliott> he's just a nice fun-loving guy, who likes hell <elliott> and killing people
Crawl is basically a NetHack ripoff with most of the micromanagement removed and a better interface.

crawl 41

Brent Ross worked on the successor to Crawl 4.0 and produced the 4.1 alpha, featuring major rewrites of spellcasting, combat, and other systems, massive internal cleanup of the code, etc.
Unfortunately, as a consequence of its alpha nature and the lack of sufficient testing, 4.1 is brutally difficult.

crawl alternative

A very old (pre-Stone-Soup) and apparently abandoned fork of Crawl: http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/crawl-alternative/ or git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl-ancient.git branch "alternative"
Has a branch of unseen horrors (which have disease brand), mimics, and golems. The transparent rune in it is guarded by greater unseen horrors (that have antimagic!) and silence golems.
* unseen horror, slime creature and skeletal dragon disease you || * ugly thing makes you forget the map; || * moth of wrath has a poison which makes you angry and confused || * the melee attack of tentacled monstrosity causes short paralysis (partially resistible by Traps & Doors skill)
* Orb guardian is now invisible

crawl confessions

I'll admit, after a couple games I went into the source code and made an overpowered griffon race for myself. Somewhat because it was hard, but mostly because griffons.
For some reason I see Spriggans more like little children/toddlers. Similar to FFO TaruTaru with elven beauty and elf ears. Kind of like a toddler Link from Zelda fame. I wish I could draw so I'd draw my own little SpEn (formally SpSt) posing Dihonored style.
Her Crawl iteration actually does use equipment since for some reason this is required for her survival, but her custom tile shows otherwise, as for her to be in character, she must be naked. My Demigoddess tile is specifically without underwear and has a specially long 'cape' for her very long godiva hair entirely for this purpose.
Nothing better than preaching to heretics and making them confused/bleed/blind. I wish there was a full version of the recitation so I could attempt a "recite" spell on the general public.
Why not implement a slit wrists ability or something like that so that a vampire can take satiation down to zero with one click?
We are damned, you and I, but not so much as Dowan and Duvessa. For you and I have condemned only ourselves, while they, in love, condemned each other.
I wish I could curse my hands.
That and my burning love for Jellies has nothing to do with my orientation. n_n It's hard to explain, but... the thought of their thick, gelatinous form melding to my shape to grip me firmly, combined with the burning heat from the acid... it just gets me so excited.

crawl development

http://catandgirl.com/archive/2009-01-20-cgsize.gif

crawl duel

Both players have 30 minutes to play a game, and then their characters fight in an arena.

crawl flowchart

http://chaosforge.org/crawl/images/d/d2/Crawl-flowchart.jpg - now defunct, as Mountain Dwarves are removed from the game.

crawl guide

< Ragdoll> just hit dudes; < Ragdoll> and eat sometimes i guess

crawl humour

<scummos> it's a #crawl kind of thing. it's just something random. you can either laugh about it, or ignore it.

crawl insults

hey man, you suck. go to hell with no food. and maybe find an abyssal rune when you get cast there by a hell effect. and then find a scroll of acquirement and use it on food. and then go invisible and spook asmodeus good.
You're so bad at crawl you read the wiki and got better
You don't memorize swiftness.
You get a higher score when you play on quitrobin.
Yo momma so slow that slouch heals her
yo momma so fat she shatters every step
felids
Talking to you is like talking to Zin.
You're so stupid your int crashed Crawl
your momma so ugly cigotuvi's degeneration has no effect
<mikee_> your ho looks like an ogre
GU

crawl light

A fork of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. http://crawl.aerdan.org/ | #CrawlLight | telnet://dashify.me:23
features: no food, no identification, no curses, squarelos, hard mode, monsters (including allies) follow you across levels like brogue, bee castle
<Chapayev> is crawl light like crystal light

crawl movie

elliptic is Keanu, crate is Cusack, the_glow is Ed 209

crawl players

<MarvinPA> <HangedMan> crawl attracts all kinds <Henzell> sexyelfdreams...
<the_glow> im genuinely surprised that there are multiple variants of hitler boner
<the_glow> lol PISS entered a sewer
<minqmay> the_glow1: XxWeEdMaN420xX deserves a crawl_players entry dont you think <the_glow1> he deserves more than that
<the_glow> !gamesby GayWeedDad

crawl wiki

An old and vain project to create a correct repository of all Crawl game mechanics and strategic analyses. If you need help, do not look here (yet?). If you are the sort with free time, do contribute, possibly after contacting fluffymormegil.

crawldev

The IRC channel for Crawl development and design. Many but not all devs frequent the channel. To join, "/join ##crawl-dev". Logs are at http://s-z.org/crawl-dev/ .

crawling music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7dYb27ssuQ

craymondson

<craymondson> i'll just equip this sword and activate berserk, then switch to my hydra killing flail

crazy yiuf

This unique has a quarterstaff of chaos with decent plusses, and lives in a cottage in early dungeon. He's not tainted by a shred of sanity -- unless confused! Always has a cloak.
Try listening to him when you worship Xom!
He spends his time repairing his cottage with a random hammer (or with dozens of random hammers, lying through his forest).
like an ogre, he can deal up to 35 or so damage in one shot. Or even more if he paralyzes you! Tread carefully.
Can be any color. Including hobgoblin color. Note: is not actually a hobgoblin.
http://i.imgur.com/b23LM.png

crd

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.games.roguelike.crawl.devel

creak

"As you open the door, it creaks loudly!" happens one_chance_in Dex + Stealth.

creaks

see {creak}

creaks loudly

see {creak}

crimson imp

An annoying bastard that hits you, blinks away, and regens fast enough that even when you do hit them they nearly heal it all back. Hit them hard and fast before they run away, or just take them with you to another level and ditch them once they blink away (imp parking).
Look out if one picks up a bow. Also, take note that blinking plus archery works both ways.
This is the common "imp". Was just called "imp" before 0.10. There are also shadow imps, iron imps and white imps.
dedhed81 the Thaumaturge (L10 DEFE), worshipper of Vehumet, slain by a crimson imp (the +6,+0 lajatang "Concordance" vamp) on D:7, with 4362 points after 12173 turns and 0:58:04.
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php?page=8

crocodile

Formerly giant lizards. They hit hard. Really hard. First crocodile death on CDO goes to Napkin!

cross training

Some weapon skills train twice as fast if you have another skill at higher level. Pairs that allow cross training are Short <-> Long Blades, Maces <-> Axes, Axes <-> Polearms, Polearms <-> Staves, Maces <-> Staves also Slings<->Throwing.

crossbow

A ranged weapon with a base damage of 5 and 15 attack delay. Fires crossbow bolts.

crown of dyrovepreva

+3 unrandart cap { Int+2 rElec sInv hunger }. "jewelled bronze crown". A large crown of dull bronze, set with a dazzling array of gemstones.

crusade card

If power level >= 1 a check for every monster in range will be made, and if HD*35 < random2(power) you will enslave the monster. This only works on living monsters which are not uniques, not magic immune and will not be enraged by your god. This card will also give the effect of abjuration (even if the power level has not been met).
It will also make fleeing friendly monsters fight to the death if successful.

crusader

A background removed in 0.9. Started with a weapon and a spellbook containing berserker rage.

cryp71c

according to BirdoPrey, is an obsessive DS player. (note, it doesn't mean he's actually GOOD at DS) :D
has sacrificed more spen's to the careless-death god than you will ever win.
<+Cryp71c> Not sure if this is a bug, I opened a door, then when I go to close it, I get "There's a thick-headed creature in the doorway" <+Cryp71c> oh, nvm..I was standing on one of the door squares.

crypt

Accessed from the Vaults somewhere on level 2 or 3. Five levels deep. THANKS BOBBENS FOR CRYPT VAULTS (but screw whoever made the mummy ending). Be prepared to deal with an endless supply of skeletal warriors and skeletal warriors.

cryptic

see {Cryp71c}

cryptocactus

<CryptoCactus> i am easily bewildered and confused

cryptofortress

Widely regarded as the best Crypt:5 vault map.
<Pacra> the best one

crystal ball of energy

Evoke for MP. Gives (9+Evocations)/2 MP (average!). 5.5% chance to drain all your MP, drain 1-3 INT or confuse you for 11-20 turns at max Evoc. Has another 4% chance at max Evoc to fail. The closer you are to 0 MP, the higher your chance to fail. Then another 4% chance to fail no matter what. Lower Evoc, lower success!

crystal glass

exists but doesn't really act as crystal

crystal golem

More like cake golem. Yum.
Nothing like cake golem.

crystal guardian

crystal golem with bolt of fire and bolt of cold.
A sign of the crown of dyrovepreva

crystal plate armour

14AC, -8EV, 120 aum. The most massive heavy armour. Resists corrosion.

csn

Webtiles trunk server at crawlus.somatika.net (US). Doesn't have its own bot yet, but Sequell knows about games played there. Seems to be very dead.

cso

Perhaps you meant cszo or csn or so2.

csplat

Crawl's analogue to SplatTV, telnet termcast.develz.org to watch.
Source: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_tv

cszo

New server in Pennsylvania, US: crawl.s-z.org -- ssh port 22, username crawl, key at http://dobrazupa.org/cszo_key (openssh) http://dobrazupa.org/cszo_key.ppk (putty), or use the CAO key or the password "crawlingtotheusa". In case of DNS problems, use crawl.dobrazupa.org. Also has webtiles at http://crawl.s-z.org/.
CSZO also serves webtiles at https://crawl.s-z.org/ . Morgues/ttyrecs/rcfiles are at http://dobrazupa.org/ . Announced by Sizzell, maintained by |amethyst (neil@s-z.org).
Webtiles and console share the same saves, and can watch each other; chatting doesn't work between the two, though.
~/.ssh/config snippet so you can just "ssh cszo": http://sprunge.us/BXIh
If CSZO has DNS problems, try crawl.dobrazupa.org , a different hostname (with a different DNS server) for the same machine (but HTTPS will report an error).

cszo key

http://dobrazupa.org/cszo_key (openssh) http://dobrazupa.org/cszo_key.ppk (putty)

ctrl

You can press * before the key instead.

cumulogranite

Rock-filled clouds, an actual RL aviation term and the bestest word ever. A mandatory Earth/Air lev9 spell.

curare

A type of poison that will slow you, poison you, and do large impact damage (called asphyxiation). To avoid it you can use stealth and eXamine to avoid being in any blowgun wielding creature's line of fire for too long. Poison resistance prevents the poisoning and asphyxiation, as well as the slowing (being undead will too).
According to ogaz, you should carry curare around with you so that you can forget to use it and then feel like an idiot when you die.

cure poison

L2 poison. Cures a few levels of poison, about from deep red to yellow (and yellow to none). That's about it.

curse

Cursed items cannot be removed, unless the curse is broken first by enchantment or scroll. Curses have no other effect.
see recurse
see mummy

curse card

Card from deck of punishment. By card power, 0: Curses one or two items. 1: Curse at least one item and a random number more, the average being 4. 2: Curses every item you've got, but may stop after each item if 1:1000 is rolled. Unlike the other levels, will decay your potions.

curse skull

A stationary undead skull that specialises in tormenting you and summoning undead that kill you. Not affected by silence.

curse toe

A rotting toe. Gross! Generally resembles a curse skull, but it moves and likes to summon mushrooms as well as undead. Zot-exclusive, outside of certain vaults. One bad mutha--. Susceptible to silence in pre-0.5 versions. Moves at half its action speed.
The curse toe gives a chilling moan.

cursed ring of teleportation

did you try cutting off your fingers?

cursor

If your cursor is invisible outside of LOS, set "use_fake_cursor = true" in your config.

custom shops

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=04537fedc5f86e8d4a1fac7d8def2a2d2c3373a4

cyan bird

<Cyan`Bird> i'd wear ponies, cause it has +rage

cyan ugly thing

An ugly thing that is resistant to electricity. No biggie, unless you're relying on Static Discharge.
They also possess an electrical attack, which may hurt without requisite resistance.

cyclops

They throw large rocks. Slow.
they love sheep. There are no cycsheep though.

cyrus

Known to play hill dwarves exclusively, with much success.

d

D is for Dungeon, which is where you start the game. Twenty-seven levels deep.

d20 unreasons

Boris, Frederick, Margery, Mennas, Xtahua.

daeva

Very rare monster summoned by TSO or Xom as pets or punishers. Spells: Smiting, smiting, smiting.
Can also be seen (rarely) in the Abyss, Pan, Zig holy levels and in one vault.

daftfad

<daftfad> D - an uncursed runed spear of dragon slaying <-- too bad this is a useless brand <daftfad> aight time to test this spear on a steam dragon <Henzell> daftfad the Slasher (L8 HuGl), worshipper of Okawaru, blasted by a steam dragon (ball of steam) on D:5, with 854 points after 6804 turns and 0:48:03. <daftfad> ...
Q: how do I kill X A: wand it

dagger

A long knife or a very short sword, which can be held or thrown. (small Short Blade; Dam 4 Acc +6 Delay 10) Notable for getting an initially larger Stabbing bonus than any other weapon.

dagger of chilly death

+5,+7 dagger of Chilly Death {freeze, rPois rF- rC++ MR}. Not seen as a sapphire dagger.

dagger of speed

<neongrey> dagger of reminding you why holding down directions will kill you

damage

See weapon damage, unarmed combat
It hurts.

damnation

The Damnation card throws multiple creatures into the Abyss, the number of creatures increasing with power. You are a creature. However, that's not to say you will be thrown into the abyss, just that you might be (and your chance doesn't increase with power). Unless you're the only visible creature, in which case you will be.
The fungus is devoured by a tear in reality. x2

dance card

Animates a temporary dancing weapon. Card power 0: weak dagger or club. 1: average long sword or hand axe, sometimes flame/freeze. 2: powerful dire flail or exec axe, always elec/speed. Unlike regular Tukima's dance, the weapon is created from out of nowhere and disappears in smoke. Will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance.

dancerobin

You must use automatic training, and never turn off or focus skills.

danceswithwargs

metaphorically dances with wargs
even worse than hyperelynae
current plans: mipr (zin), kesu (sif), ogee (fedhas) speedruns
see uncool[2]

dancing weapon

When randomly spawned, is one of battleaxe, broad axe, flail, glaive, great mace, halberd, hand axe, long sword, morningstar, scimitar, short sword, spiked flail, trident, war axe. Hall of Blades spawns will almost always have egos. %?? dancing weapon ; (weapon) to see the stats; nearly all have good speed, ac, ev, and omni-resistances.

danei

Promised to write Louise/Margery erotic fan-fiction
Danei is also a lich.
An incredibly powerful emperor on the way to godhood.
Danei the Covert (L6 SEAs), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, slain by a centaur (the +8,+10 sabre "Ozoty" freeze)

danharaj

<Blade-> danharaj is the new demonblade
<faze> you are amazing

darayavaush

< Darayavaush> huh, I have no trouble imagining a convulsing plant < Darayavaush> guess I watched too much hentai :(

darkness

L7 Hexes spell that reduces LoS by 25% normally (25% with nightstalker:3). See cloak of darkness for the cloak ego.

darkrobin

You can't see the floor or walls. Everything else is visible!

darmok

<Sequell> No milestones for darmok (place=tenagra).

dart

Base hit is 2, base damage is 3.
Darts benefit more from high throwing skill than stones.

dart trap

1d6 damage. Weary NetHack refugees: Never poisonous.

darthcloakedguy

A really epic guy!! Don't troll him, okay?
The replacement for red_bucket

dazed

A status which makes a monster randomly skip 20% of its turns.

dazzling spray

Level 3 conjuration/hexes, new in 0.12. Fires a spray of energy at up to 3 targets in the same general direction which deal some damage and can temporarly blind creatures which are neither nonliving nor undead if they fail an HD-based save.

dchimera

<DChimera> it is my duty <DChimera> to pres the butons
<DChimera> HEY <DChimera> whos good at i-spy <Henzell> DChimera the Fencer (L25 HECr) found an abyssal rune of Zot <DChimera> wait nevermind
likes exclamation points!

dcprob

404 not found. Formerly located at http://members.cox.net/stefanor/dcprob/

dcss

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. The currently developed version of Dungeon Crawl, branched from 4.0 beta 26.

dd guide

Worship Makhleb. Use the wand of heal wounds to heal. If it runs out of charges, recharge it.

ddbe

Hit things with your axe. Use the wand of heal wounds and Trog's Hand to heal.

ddck challenge

Win DDCK without abandoning Xom (or cheating and playing an old version).

ddhe guide

<N78291> you can basically pacify your way to three runes outside of some swamp vaults and a few zot monsters as long as you can keep greater healing piety and not starve

ddne

god: makhleb | stats: int | skills: weapon skill, necro, charms, spellcasting, fighting, invo (to 10-12) | spells: good charms, dispel, vamp draining, pain, agony, imb/other generic good spell, maybe some ice/earth if you find it | weapon: pain weapon, any other good weapon you find | mottled dragon armour/robe if you really want/dragon armour

ddoornado

Death's Door + tornado.

ddpr challenge

Win DDPr without abandoning Zin (or being excommunicated). (Completed by: jeanjacques, hyperbolic)

dead

What you end up being.

dead monster

DEAD MONSTER claws you but does no damage.
You escape DEAD MONSTER's grasp.
While you don't manage to break free from DEAD MONSTER, you feel that another attempt might be more successful.
The ufetubus disappears in a puff of smoke! You hit DEAD MONSTER!
The shaft crumbles and collapses. DEAD MONSTER vanishes!
DEAD MONSTER vanishes!

deadrobin

Kill yourself with every corpse in the game. Also, be the second to kill yourself with Bone Shards (finally, the spell has a use)
If the corpse rots mid-air you die instead by bad targeting. This is unconfirmed and a best guess. For the game responsible for this quandary, see !tv deadrobin char=dsne ktyp=~target
Dead as of 0.8 trunk, as Bone Shards was removed.

deal four

You draw four cards from an unmarked deck. It uses up the deck. If there weren't enough cards, you also get to deal a card from the deck of punishment. You get no piety gain from the cards.
see orb_card[3]

death

Your future!
<@dpeg> Dying is awesome. Everytime a player dies, the devteam celebrates.

death channel

Level 6 necromancy spell in the book of Unlife. Gives you the temporary status of "channeling the dead" (check it in @ or %), during which anything killed by you or in your LOS comes back as a temporary friendly spectral thing (and can still leave a corpse, too).

death cob

You may have already fielded a guess, but it's insane hostile food. It might be corny, but if you put an ear to the ground deep down in Crawl's maize, you may find that you are being stalked; being buttered up for the kill, smooth as silk.
A dreadful undead cob of maize. Look, this one was probably a mistake. We're sorry.
For laughs, watch !tv * killer="death cob" 1
Unfortunately don't turn into death popcorn when sticky flamed
The death cob gives a chilling moan!

death drake

A drake that breathes miasma. Leaves rotting corpses, appears rarely.

death knight

Replaced priest of Yredelemnul in 0.8, but with a choice of weapons, more melee skill, and less starting piety.

death ooze

An acidic ooze with a rotting attack. It's faster than normal, and eats things like other Js. They are considered undead, and can be killed with Dispel Undead. Good gods enjoy them dying, too.

death yak

One of the toughest enemies you can find in the Lair outside of a vault. Melee is not recommended unless you can fight one-on-one or are very tough yourself! (Or have reasonable stabbing skill and invisibility...even if they wake up, invis stab will take them down quickly)
They have poisonous corpses, if you're the kind of guy who goes after tough monsters for a good meal.
They're death yaks! They come in packs! They have very strong attacks! Watch your backs, don't relax! Beware of the Death Yaks!
<mikee_> remember death yaks? those death yaks are like death yaks but in the lair

deathonastick

Probably casmith789 in disguise
except that casmith789 isn't greensnark

deaths door

Renders the caster invulnerable, but reduces you to necro/2 + kiku piety/15 health (up to 13+13). Cannot be recast until 1d3 turns after expiry. You get an end warning. Healing effects other than Revivification (which will confuse+paralyse you if cast!) do not work (including potions of curing to cure status effects). Duration is ~16-25 turns.

deck

A deck of intensely magical cards, in general significantly more powerful than scrolls, spells, or potions. Each deck contains 4-13 cards *independently* (no point counting) chosen according to 99% the deck's flavour, 1% the Deck of Oddities. See {deck of <foo>}, {divine gift[2]}, card power, {<foo> card}.
You may perform the effect of the top card in a deck (which disappears, the deck vanishes when empty) by wielding the deck and then evoking it (with 'v'). Nemelexites also get deck abilities.
Nemelex gifted decks: destruction, dungeons, escape, summoning, wonders. Other decks: changes, defence, war. Virtual decks: battle, emergency, enchantments, oddities, punishment, transport. Virtual decks exist only to serve as subdecks for real decks.
You might have meant Deep Elf Chaos Knight, but probably not.

deck of battle

Does not exist as an item. Cards: Elixir, Battlelust, Metamorphosis, Helm, Blade, Shadow.

deck of changes

Randomly per-card deck of battle, deck of dungeons, deck of wonders.

deck of defence

Randomly per-card deck of emergency or deck of battle.

deck of destruction

Cards include: vitriol card, flame card, frost card, venom card, hammer card, spark card, pain card, torment card, orb card. Sacrifice weapons, ammunition, and magical staves and rods.
Its conjurations have full LOS range, even when the corresponding spell does not.

deck of dungeons

Cards include: Map, Dowsing, Spade, Trowel, Minefield, Vitrification, Water. Sacrifice jewellery, books, and miscellaneous items (crystal balls etc, not other decks obviously!). Note that this does NOT include enhancer staves and rods, which go towards destruction decks.
<N78291> I am trying to drown khufu and keep getting bazaars

deck of emergency

Not generated as an item. Cards include: tomb card, banshee card, Damnation card (rare), solitude card, warpwright card, flight card.

deck of enchantments

Not an item. Card: Elixir.

deck of escape

Non-oddity cards from here are 50% from the deck of transport, 50% from the deck of emergency. Sacrifice armour.
An image of your typical Deck of Escape drawer: http://img.ie/p39f1.png

deck of oddities

1% of cards are replaced by one of these: Genie, Bargain, Wrath, Xom, Feast, Famine, Curse.

deck of punishment

Cards include: Wraith, Wild Magic, Wrath, Xom, Famine, Curse, Tomb, Damnation, Portal, Minefield, Swine, Torment

deck of summoning

Cards include: Crusade, Herd, Pentagram, Dance, Foxfire, Bones, Repulsiveness. Sacrifice corpses.
Do you like free red wasp swarms on your side? How about multitudes of fiends, bone dragons, very ugly things, and dancing katanas? Sacrifice those corpses.

deck of transport

Not generated as an item. Cards include: portal card, warp card, swap card, velocity card.

deck of war

Randomly per-card deck of destruction, deck of enchantments, deck of battle, deck of summoning, deck of transport, deck of emergency.

deck of winning

See deck of summoning.

deck of wonders

Cards include: Potion, Focus, Shuffle, Experience, Wild Magic, Helix, Sage, Alchemist. To get Nemelex to gift wonders, sacrifice potions, scrolls, wands and permafood.
It's strongly suggested to triple draw this deck to avoid shuffle and wild magic. You can also triple draw a couple of times then stack five to try and maximise the number of cards you get to use.

decr

(6:03:38 PM) casmith789: hey, DECr is a legitimate streak char

deep dwarf

Great apts including armour, dodging, stealth, necromancy, earth magic, and �ber AC-like damage shaving. They don't heal, at all -- except by an act of god, potions, wands, vampiric weapons or necromancy. They start with one level of passive mapping (and gain another level at xl 9 and xl 18), and gain rN+ at xl 14.
Damage shaved = 1d(1+1d(1+XL/3)). Damage shaving affects just about everything, including poison and torment, and even hellfire!
see regeneration[5]
No healing means no natural recovery from stat drain, either. Fortunately potions of restore abilities are common, and royal jellies will also restore stats. The stat deterioration mutation is a bit scary, but it is quite slow and a ring of sustain abilities will stop it.

deep dwarf artificer

Beware! They use rods of striking!

deep dwarf berserker

Can use brothers in arms at low HP. Otherwise, not scary.

deep dwarf death knight

A pretty bad choice without rTedium, unless you want to learn about Yred wrath. Also, a rather rare monster bound to Abyss and vaults, which invites care/patience due to pain mirror.

deep dwarf necromancer

Tollymain the Skirmisher (L2 LOAK), worshipper of Lugonu, blasted by a deep dwarf necromancer (a deep dwarf necromancer) in the Abyss on 2011-05-08, with 64 points after 192 turns and 0:03:03.
The vapour coalesces into an ice likeness of a deep dwarf necromancer deep dwarf necromancer.

deep dwarf reasons

You feel that resting is boring, unnecessary, and should be removed from the game.

deep elf

Best int, awesome aptitudes "!apt DE" to see those awesome apts. Relative to puny humans, gains 1 less hp per lvl up to level 17, *and* 1 less hp per 3 levels, but 1 extra mp per level. Gains +1 int every 4 levels.

deep elf annihilator

Painful until they cast crystal spear or bankshot you with lightning, then they become deadly.

deep elf blademaster

A deep elf with 27 Short Blades, and (most likely) the ability to outrun you. Has been known to dualwield quickblades. Like all elves, doesn't like curare. Unlike most elves, it has the EV to make curare application difficult.
LordSloth>Buttefry with a blade and haste

deep elf conjurer

Spells: sticky flame, teleport self, {bolt of fire, bolt of cold, cantrip, lightning bolt} OR {iskys, invisibility, stone arrow, bolt of draining}

deep elf death mage

Spams a lot of bolt of draining and raises dead when there are corpses around.

deep elf demonologist

Summons a bunch of demons and then banishes you for the hell of it. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Also chews gum and spits out the side of its mouth.

deep elf fighter

Like a deep_elf_soldier but somewhat tougher.

deep elf mage

Low-level magic user in Elf; not much of a threat in general, but with randomised spells (same as Erolcha, wizard, ogre-mage) can occasionally pull nasty suprises, such as Lehudib's Crystal Spear or banishment. Low MR. See {erolcha spells}.
Prone to killing themselves with fireball.

deep elf master archer

An average threat in 0.4, but in 0.5 a single master archer won 8 times out of 10 vs. a quicksilver dragon. Nerfed into oblivion in 0.6.
!tv Ivo killer="deep elf master archer" cv=0.5
This guy looks like this: http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/dennert/archives/robin_hood_men_in_tights.jpg
!tv jeff place=elf:7 3

deep elf priest

Notable abilities: Can smite, animate dead, die

deep elf reasons

You want great spellcasting aptitudes, even if your hp will take a hit.

deep elf soldier

Weakest of the deep elves by a large margin, but can still slow, confuse, turn invisible, and wreck your scrolls. Like a more annoying orc wizard.

deep elf sorcerer

Spells: Bolt of draining, banishment, haste, summon demon, hellfire, and teleport

deep elf summoner

Blinks around while casting summon demon (234), groups of 5s, or summon rats (Plus orange!). Can quickly flood you with annoying things, and dangerous demons like smoke demons can come. Luckily, they find it sound tactics to engage in melee.

deep troll

Slightly tougher than normal trolls, but weaker than iron trolls. It appears alone earlier in the dungeon, but later on you get packs of them including deep troll shamans and deep troll earth mages.

deep troll earth mage

Found as part of late dungeon deep troll packs; they will Dig the environment out around you to let the rest of the pack get at you and LRD you to death. Don't try to run away from them.
<Goncyn> deep troll earth mages digging out the walls to get to me is like, the worst

deep troll shaman

Leaders of late dungeon deep troll packs; they haste and might the rest of the pack. Slightly squishier than a normal deep troll, but hits just as hard.

deep water

This most corrosive of solvents will dissolve almost anything that falls in, even artefacts and hapless adventurers. It may be possible to scramble free, however. Also known as blue lava.
Merfolk, octopodes and grey draconians can enter deep water and pick up items. Fedhas worshippers can use sunlight to make deep water shallow. Apportation and ice form cannot get items from deep water.
Why would you want to do that?

deeperelves

Players who have won every currently available to play deep elf. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unwon deep elves, !lg * playable crace=de s=char / won @yourname ?:N=0

default manual training

true

defe guide

< Chapayev> defe guide is pretty much just blow shit up, isn't it?

deflect missiles

A level 6 Charms/Air spell that helps you dodge enemy ranged attacks (by reducing their to-hit roll (for evasion purposes only) *to* a random amount between: 0% and 66% for penetrating beams, 0% and 50% for single-target missiles). In the books of Enchantments and Sky.
< [Hanged_Man]> The storm dragon breathes lightning at you! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning!

deformed body

This mutation reduces your AC by half of the body armour base AC. In 0.9- you could get multiple levels which had no effect other than requiring multiple removals.

degeneration

Drains a random attribute (str, int, dex) by 1d4. Will induce stat death if the chosen stat is low enough.

delay message clear

Best option ever, add it to your rcfile. If possible with the comment "# annoy greensnark". Makes it so that messages don't disappear between turns, instead scrolling (in a fashion that many find annoying). To turn it off in trunk, add clear_messages = yes to your rcfile.

delayed fireball

When cast, lets you release a fireball later on (as an 'a'bility) with no cost or delay. Great to have one prepared for emergencies. Only one fireball may be stored at a time. Is level 7, and to know the fireball spell at the same time only uses 7 spell levels total.

demigod

Demigods are like humans, except that their stats (including HP and MP) are better. To counterbalance this advantage, they are not allowed to worship a god. They also have worse than average aptitudes for everything.
<mikee_> dg is like playing a living mummy
78291 the Acrobat (L27 DgJr), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, escaped with the Orb and 3 runes on 2013-04-02 03:39:12, with 1500404 points after 115713 turns and 8:01:52.

demigod reasons

God of Death.

demolished

You had from -14 to -21 hit points when you died.

demon blade

A terrible weapon, forged in the fires of Hell. (single-handed Long Blade, Dmg 13, Acc -1, Delay 13)
This one is not really that terrible either.

demon trident

A roses-sunshine-and-happy-bunnies weapon, molded by fire and brimstone. One-handed polearm: Dam 12 Acc +1 Delay 13. Blessable to trishula.

demon weapons

Demon Blades, Demon Tridents, Demon Whips.

demon whip

A terrible weapon, woven in the depths of the inferno. (One-handed medium flail; Dam 11 Acc +1 Delay 11). 12/0/11 when blessed into a holy scourge by TSO.
It's not that terrible!

demonblade

<jeanjacques> you play as if you are chased by death
demonblade's rankings: spells - http://pastie.org/5946218 ; races - http://pastie.org/7347059 ; classes - http://pastie.org/7347126 ; branches - http://pastie.org/7359303 (link broken atm) ; gods - http://pastie.org/7359447
<Blade-> nobody ever adds my best quotes
<Blade-> and I am reluctant to add them myself
<Blade-> "best"

demonic crawler

No, it's not a result of playing crawl too much. Mainly notable for being one of the few things in Spider that sees invis.

demonic guardian

DS mutation, summons demons temporarily, based on tension. Dismisses demons when tension is low but will continue to summon demons until the tension is closer to equal.
Level 1 Demons: White Imp, Lemure, Ufetubus, Iron Imp, Midge ; Level 2 Demons: Sixfirhy, Sun Demon, Ice Devil, Soul Eater, Smoke Demon ; Level 3 Demons: Executioner, Balrug, Reaper, Cacodemon

demonic horde

Level 6 Summoning spell. Summons a lot of 5s, which will mostly be friendly.
--more--
Summon demonic butterflies
most colorful spell!

demonic plant

It's a plant with a fancy name, how exciting!
It'll banish you if you look at it the wrong way.

demonology

Abjuration, Recall, Call Imp, Summon Demon, Demonic Horde, Summon Greater Demon. Cannot be read unless you are a level 10 summoner and level 6 spellcaster, or a Vehumite. Cannot be acquired except by "I give up, here's a random book". Vehumet's third gift to summoners and sixth to conjurers. And yet, is still significantly worse than summonings.
see grand grimoire

demonspawn

A race that is pretty average, but gets 5 semi-random good mutations. Has a 1/10 chance of being monstrous. Demonspawn mutations are irrevocable and unalterable, and drawn from a special list.
see ds mutation rules

demonspawn reasons

You think the early game is too easy but need more help playing level 20 characers.
You enjoy adapting to semi-random mutations as you level and you think draconians are boring.
Your demonic ancestry asserts itself... Your feet have mutated into hooves. Your +2 pair of boots of levitation falls away! You float gracefully downwards. You fall into the water! You drown... You die...

demorobin

Show people how to start <combo>. Suicide when you reach Lair, but not on D:3. If you die frequently and leave enough flame elementalist ghosts Sorear may spontaneously offer to demo a character for you. For no particular reason of course. See roundrobin for more.
Ignore [1], is actually a robin intended exclusively for playing DEMo

dendrophilia

<TGWi> I fucking love fedhas
(3:00:22 PM) TGWi: minmay: why do you know the word for that (3:00:28 PM) minmay: uhhh (3:00:30 PM) minmay: fuck

depth

Equal to how many staircases you must ascend to get to leave the dungeon.

des

http://crawl-ref.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=crawl-ref/crawl-ref;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/docs/develop/levels/syntax.txt

desperate

<TGW> potions of poison give you nutrition right?
<casmith789> pillar dancing aizul using agnes as the pillar
<N78291> if I enter an abyss portal will monsters get to swing at me
<Ragdoll> do monsters follow you into ziggurats?
You throw a dart of flame. The dart of flame misses the hellion.
< rwbarton> if you can reduce your int by a lot you could cast some level 9 spells to get down to very full
The yaktaur captain throws a dart.
<minqmay> can i use imprison on a bush <minqmay> please dont ask why i need to
<minqmay> will a throwing net work against an executioner
<monqy> I can't believe I'm grinding orb run spawns for a disto reaper to banish me
<valrus> just used a potion of resistance to eat a kobold
<syraine> Kyrris, I used Famine as a Spriggan to stop myself starving.
<rwbarton> once i looted cerebov's castle for a ring of fire resistance
<ZRN> does throwing an arrow of dispersal disperse them if it damages them?
<crate> do you get sif penance if you drop books in lava <crate> important question
< elliott> does screaming sword damage get pain mirrored < elliott> extremely important question
<raskol> can monsters resist wand of invisibility
<Sabaki> if you are standing in a conjured flame, does sticky flame do more damage over time?
<jiero> can felid drink the blood fountain to gain nutation?
<djanatyn> do butterflies leave corpses that I can eat
<bh> how effective is scrambling?
<mikee_> does it make sense to dig in a lab with stone of ee and then run from the ee's

destroy weapons

Converts weapons and ammo at your feet into 0-1 piety with Elyvilon. Cannot be used to destroy trapping nets (yes, this is special-cased). Piety gain is more likely with more valuable items.

detect creatures

Determines the locations of nearby (radius is power-based) creatures, and places their generic genus glyph on your map. The positions may be shifted somewhat from reality, reduced by power. If the monster is a spellcaster of high intelligence (liches, deep elves, demons, draconians, nagas and so on) they will be awakened. Removed in 0.6.

detect secret doors

Tries to reveal (turn into actual doors) any secret doors that are hidden in the walls you can currently see. Chance of successfully revealing each door is based randomly on power.

dev wiki

The dev wiki (to discuss changes and additions): https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start

devastator

The shillelagh "Devastator". Appears as a loaded stick. It's a +4, +8 shillelagh that casts radius 1 shatter when you hit something with it, centered on the thing you hit. No, it won't hit you. Nor will it break walls or potions.
Spellpower scales with melee damage dealt.
shillelagh: a wooden walking stick, club, or cudgel, associated with Irish folklore. +3 accuracy, 8 dam, 13 delay.
she-lay-lee
http://youtu.be/-rXt8L1Vu8A?t=1m30s

devblog

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/blog

developer

see eronarn
see minmay

devteam

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:admin:devteam
(old devteam entries are at devteam_old)
<elliott> minqmay: who ruined it <minqmay> elliott: a dev
<SomeonePA> sweet, the most recent three commits start with "Remove" <SomeonePA> today has been a good day
<SwissStopwatch> did you seriously commit altar vaults just to kill people
<MarvinPA> sadly that bug is literally impossible to fix <MarvinPA> by which i mean i tried like once and then gave up
<+SamB> kilobyte I don't really follow how this is supposed to work :-( <+kilobyte> I don't remember the particular case, but it kept getting stale and causing misbuilds <+kilobyte> and yeah, it's a mess of unholy hacks :( <+SamB> I don't really follow how anything builds at all :-(
http://i.imgur.com/2pgyK9f.gif
<elliptic> catching players off-guard, what devving is all about
<+elliptic> the first thing new players should do when they encounter sigmund is get confused by him and die

devteam old

The Stone Soup Team: Name / SF / IRC: Adam Borowski / castamir / kilobyte, Charles Otto / caotto / pointless, David Lawrense Ramsey / dolorous / -, David Ploog / dploog / dpeg, Enne Walker / ennewalker / Enne
Eino Keskitalo / evktalo / Keskitalo, Haran Pilpel / haranp / haranp, Johanna Ploog / j-p-e-g / -, Jude Brown / bookofjude / due, Steven Noonan / mozillagodzilla / neunon, Nat Lanza / nlanza / -, Paul Du Bois / pauldubois / -, Peter Berger / peterb12 / -
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon / raxvulpine / raxvulpine, Robert Vollmert / rvollmert / by, Stefan O'Rear / sorear / sorear, Matthew Cline / zelgadis / Matthew_Cline (-dev only)
Chris Campbell / marvinpa / MarvinPA, Raphaël Langella / galehar / galehar, Robert Burnham / Cryptic / Cryp71c
Former Soup devs: Erik Piper / - / erisdiscordia. Former maintainers: Linley Henzell, Brent Ross. Never has been: cbus, Eronarn, LordSloth, TGW.
<casmith789> devteam just do whatever they like :(
see death[2]

dex

Increases to hit, damage by a bit (more for short blades, less for M&F), chance of stabbing distracted mons and stealth as well. Plays a significent role in EV if you have dodging skill. Before 0.6, the effect was capped. Boosts ability to shield-block, especially for bucklers, less for large shields.
If you are casting spells *at all* int is usually more important than either dex or str.

dgamelaunch

The software used to serve Crawl on both crawl.akrasiac.org and crawl.develz.org. For more information, see <http://www.advogato.org/proj/dgamelaunch/>.

dgbe

2. rob the Ducker (L2 DGBe), killed by the fiery rage of Trog on D:1 on 2008-10-05, with 96 points after 840 turns and 0:03:31.

dgfi

<mikee_> it's like mufi but you can drink

dgl

https://github.com/greensnark/dgamelaunch-crawl

dgl documentation

<|amethyst> purge_stale_locks fgets ipfile fail

dgwnrobin

Demigod Wanderers only!
see japan

diamond obelisk

basically a petrified moon troll
You can just step onto the edge of the tornado and wait for 3.0 aut (including the time taken for the step) and then step off onto the loot. Repeat to get out.

dictators

Pinochei, Mao Zindong, Zin Xom-Il, Josif Stalin, Nicola Cheiaucescu, Niccolo Makhiavely

did cao just go down

No. If it had, Henzell would be gone too.

did not appreciate that

This means that your god doesn't like what you just did, but fortunately they respect that you didn't know you were doing it. Don't do it again.

did you know

In 0.10, Cheibriados was more popular than Makhleb.

die

You lose if you die.
population: you

diesel

Invented by mikee_, the fuel to power the generation of tomorrow.
115/19/53
213 HP in Sil.

diesel teams

team oldmen, team oblivion, team mnoleg, team battlemage
team rebel tilescum, team thesaurus, team chaostalk, team boris, team dieselpanlords, team soh
team diety, team epic bugs, team nethack, team cheibriados

dieselbonusideas

Add your dieselrobin bonus mission ideas here. The bonus missions tiers roughly correspond to the equivalent tourney banner tier in difficulty. Some missions will be assigned before starting, and some will be open to any character.
Fully explore Elf:3 before Mission 4 (first Lair rune).
Win without ever having a god (cannot be assigned to Dg).
Win with no skills above level 15 (or 10 or something whatever) and never worshipping Ashenzari.
With one character, kill all of Antaeus, Asmodeus, Cerebov, Dispater, Ereshkigal, Gloorx Vloq, Lom Lobon, and Mnoleg.
Get the slimy rune for mission 4.
Win with less than 5 skill in both Fighting and Spellcasting, never worshipping Ashenzari.
Win without switching gods (1)
Win all N characters (Vizer) (Cumulative)
Fight and kill all 4 Hell Lords at once* in the Vestibule. *not sure how we can ensure this

dieselcombos

DgAE HaWr MfDK OpHu OgVM MuCK DsWn DrTm GhWr MiFi DrCj OpPr HaSk SpAK TeFi HuNe

dieselideas

Add your ideas/suggestions for dieselrobin here.
rather than a fixed play order it could just be 'one person can't do 2 missions in a row'.

diesell

it updates the oldwon keyword

dieselrobin

The next dieselrobin will be scheduled once the spring tourney dates are announced. Congratulations to DracoOmega, rchandra, and Misder, who won as TEAM DONT LABEL ME. Visit http://dieselrobin.org for more info.
http://dieselrobin.org/(rules|bonus|regular) Scoring spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvVvVnv6CWSkdHJucW1WM3VGYTJWX25WTmY0RGlOU1E
Signup (frozen): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvVvVnv6CWSkdFBrQlkweGNlOEpJYUJVS0pxdXoxeFE#gid=0
Check with !time. Start: 2013-01-04 19:00 UTC. End: 2013-01-20 19:00 UTC
Github repo: https://github.com/chrishoney/dieselrobin

dieselrobin results

July 2012 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArzjW3MStQCGdHBZYXdJcW9yb0FkVU00M0IzN2JxeGc#gid=1

dieselstrats

raise str
drink all the curing potions
scroll-id books
convert to jiyva
include += saverobin.rc
choose FeHe and then disappear
scroll ID every wand
hatch into coc_islands
place exclusions on books with iood in them
use nemelex to make a lab at end of turn, then save in the lab

dieselteamideas

Team Unpersons: NORBERT DUANE MICHAEL
Team Scrolls: MUUTATATOTOTS MOMMYXOMUHU THEGIAGGOSTUONO
Team Diety: LOGUNO JIVYA EVILYVON
team minqmaydreams: DUVESSA SIFMUNA SAMANTHA
Team Race/Class: MOWA METR OCWI
Team No-Brainer: ARGA NECROMUTATION GDA
Team Caster: BREADANDBUTTER POPGUN NUKE
Team Snake: GREYSNAKE BLACKSNAKE YELLOWSNAKE
Team Herbs: MOSSOFMAREILON STOMAFILLIA SPENSEWEED
Team Bat: KILOBAT GIGABAT TERABAT
team foul language: PROC TANK PUMP
team fukdasac: FUKDASAC DICKOMIXTIO KISOASSEKOCK
Team Gong: GONNNNG BOUMMMMG SHROANNG
Team Goodchar: OGTH LOAM MDSK
team shame: NEWTBANISH FISHMEPH LCSTHETOADSTOOL
team fleeeeeing: FLEEING FLEEEING FLEEEEING
Team Vault: ANTVAULT DOORVAULT RATVAULT
team ideas: BADIDEAS XOMIDEAS DIESELTEAMIDEAS
Team TROOG: TROOG TROOOG TROOOOOG
Team Worm: ROCKWORM LOCKWORM SOCKWORM
team tavern ranks: DUNGEONDIPPER CRYPTCRUISER ZOTZOOMER
Team Hybrid: FALLBACK PANICBUTTON GETOUTOFJAILCARD
Team Shopkeepers: SMUTT RIOT ZINEFAG
Team Game: EARLYGAME LATEGAME ENDGAME
Team Skills: DARTS DIVINATIONS TRAPSANDDOORS
TEAM PURITYOFESSENCE: PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS
team advice: RUN DONTDIE HITUNDERSCORE
Team Neocons: DUBYA CHENEY SATAN
Team Celebrity: RICHARDGERE, KATHERINEHEGL, SARAHJESSICAPARCERE
team minqmaydreams ii: ASPARAGUSDUCK SLOTMACHINEROBOT IWASBEES
team oblivion ii: IMB AXES MUMMIES
team minqmay's meds: AMITRIPTYLINE FLUOXETINE ACETAMINOPHEN
Team KoboldLord: CONJUROR AXIOMATICALLY SILO
team randart weapon: LEVITICUS BUNG X
team randart book: HANDBOOKOFBREAD SMELLSINCUNABULUM CATALOGUEOFTHEASS
team meat: CERB BRK PAND
Team Angst: FEAKONALEASH, CRAWLINGINMYSKIN, EMOS
Team DoomRL: SHOTTYMAN, GUNRUNNER, FIREANGEL

dieseltodos

Finish website, finish CREDITS.txt, pare down this query: !lg * name~~(?c)^[[:upper:]]+$ s=name ?:N<=20, add dieselrobin support to henzell's time command, come up with a better regular mission scoring formula

dig

Gets rid of a line of rock walls. Does not work on stone, metal, or green crystal walls.

digest

alefury 01.09 - 07.09
evilmike sept 8-14

dire elephant

A much stronger elephant, this pachyderm hits harder than a death yak, but not as hard as a hellephant.
They can't open doors. Use this to your advantage if you need some time to rest between fights

dire flail

A flail with spiked lumps on both ends. 13 damage, -3 accuracy, 13 delay, two-handed.

dis

One of the hell branches. You can find Dispater with his nice staff at the end. Also home of the Iron Rune. Look out for hellions, fiends, hell sentinels and ice fiends.
http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/doom/mp3/e3m8.mp3
!lg ubersqueeze 1 -tv:<T114120:>T114730:x1.5

dis astranagant

z - the +2 cloak "Voemy" (worn) {god gift, +Blink, +Tele, rElec, rPois, rN+, MR}

disarming

There is usually no benefit to disarming a trap. If you *really* care about the technical details of disarming, see [2].
No disarming magical traps or while berserk. Otherwise fail if d(traps&doors + 2) <= d(depth + 4). Otherwise succeed. To reach 20% success at depth, you need T&D =~ 1 + (depth / 2.5). Accomplished, of course, by pressing ctrl+direction towards a known trap. Failure triggers the trap.
See !tv MrPeeps ktyp=trap max=sc for an example of how NOT to disarm traps.

disc of storms

Evoke to shoot zaps, lightning bolts, and ball lightning in random directions. Missile deflection is recommended. And don't stand within 3 spaces of a wall. The chance of working, number of effects caused, and spell power all correlate to your evocations skill. Also makes rain.
Needs to pass 3 checks, each of which fails with probability (30 - Evocations) / 100. "Nothing happens", "The disc glows...", "Little bolts of electricity crackle..." are the messages for failing the three checks, in order.
!lg turnerjer place=slime:1 1 -tv
!lm absolutego hemo uniq=cerebov 1 -tv

disco

See pan_disco_hall and kobold_disco.

discorobin

Pass is "robin". Fun times to be had by all. Give it a shot! (Just don't remove the first part of the config!) If you are looking for whom to blame for this abomination, the answer is slinkies. See also AcidRobin.
Avoid playing if you might need to use your eyes any time soon.
DiscoRobin: It's better viewed than explained (unless you have epilepsy).
Bonus points for dying in the pan disco vault

disintegration

Wand only. Instant killer of silver and orange crystal statues. Does resistible damage vs other monsters, very effective against low-level enemies. Also effective against rock, translucent rock, and wax walls -- one square at a time. Destroys doors.
If you use it on something made of meat and the aforementioned meat-thing dies, chunks of said meat-thing will be scattered about the area. Maybe useful if you can't access a butchering tool for whatever reason?

disjunction

Level 8 translocation spell added in 0.12; for a few turns, blinks stuff that's near you to be less near you
bh has been asking around for people's experience with this spell so tell him or something
!lg SGrunt haas won 1 -tv:<T112500:>T112700

dispater

A legendary demon that guards the iron rune. Uses Conjurations, summons demons and hurls hellfire. Has the Staff of Dispater.

dispater strategy

!lm logicninja uniq=dispater 1 -tv:<2

dispel undead

Deals very high AC-bypassing damage (up to 87!) to undead. Extremely useful vs. liches, higher mummies, various other things, and player ghosts. Not useful vs. anything not undead. If you are an undead or lich-form player, take care around necromancer ghosts, pan lords, gloorx vloq, unborn DDs, and shadow fiends.
Found in the Book of Death.
<Trigramatic> I have dispel undead. <Trigramatic> Wight-out, as it were.

dispersal

Spell: All monsters that are adjacent to you will be instantly teleported away if they don't resist (via magic resistance). If a monster does resist, it will be blinked instead (even if it's immune!). Does not work on -TELE enemies such as statues.
The ammo brand blinks enemies it hits if it does damage. This ignores MR but not -TELE.
<mikee_> even if it hits, which it won't, it has to do damage, which it won't, to blink it somewhere good, which it won't

disposal

To destroy junk: Feed it to a jelly. Sac evil items to TSO, weapons to Ely, or anything to Nemelex. Throw it into deep water or lava, or onto a plant, fungus, statue, or teleporter. Drop it in a portal vault, Abyss, or Pan. Stash it in Temple, Lair, Hive, or Blades. Draw a Tomb card on it.

dissolution

A sentient, unique jelly who used to be human (a long time ago). Burrows like a boring beetle. If you hear a "sizzling sound", that's him digging through rock. Summons eyes, so treat with great care.
Dissolution says, "There is a problem's solution. Dissolution..."

distant

Usually means "out of LOS" in a Crawl context.
see portal distance

distant blaring wail

A monster stumbled into an alarm trap! Oh no! Anyone in range (including you) is probably now awake.

distant slurping noise

A jelly has eaten an item. How rude! This act heals the jelly a bit, and may cause an additional squelching noise, as a second jelly splits off from the original. "You hear a slurping sound" (exactly) is a poison miscast though, not a jelly.

distortion

A powerful and dangerous weapon brand. When it hits, inflicts a random option from "1-7 bonus damage", "3-26 bonus damage", "blink", "teleport", or banish. When you unwield, you suffer wild translocation effects - up to 43 raw damage, banishment, teleport+confusion, or lots of glow. The probability of banishment is 207/896, or about 23%.
Just unwield it for Geryon. (If you banish Geryon or the royal jelly, you can banish yourself, then hunt them down in the Abyss and kill them to get the silver horn or unlock the Slime:6 vaults.)

distressingly furry

Probably the best thing you can hope to find. Who cares about the stats? It'll keep you distressingly warm! (Not really, just a randart)

disturbance

An invisible monster is standing in shallow water, or occupying the same tile as a cloud of smoke or mist. Can also be a submerged fish, alligator, crocodile, or shark.

dive

divination miscast

1: confuse/nothing 2: (1d3 int loss / 3-12 mp loss) and confuse 3: (5-24 mp loss / 3-5 int loss) and confuse

divinations

Old spell school that no longer exists, but you can still get divination miscasts!

divine balms

Your orc probably got cured of poison or sickness.

divine shield

TSO ability much like Condensation Shield, but made of piety instead of ice. Unlike condensation shield, it stacks with the shield you are wearing. The piety cost is minor. Duration is based on skill in shields and invocation. Bonus SH is based on shield skill, not piety: 3 + (Shields skill)/5

divine smiting

4+d10+4dXL damage; when smitten by another god (and yours isn't Xom), piety/400 chance of no effect. -1 penance.

divine vigour

Divine Vigour restores some HP and MP and temporarily increases max HP and MP.

djanatyn

On a scale from zin to cheibriados, somewhere in the middle.
Enter note: hey I'm starving
djanatyn: since Sky has lichform should I get lichform maybe
<djanatyn> can I banish a toadstool
<sky___> he's going to be like me and crystal spear plants <djanatyn> I LCS'd a toadstool once
<rwbarton> you should be updating your prior distribution according to bayesian statistics

djanatyn learndb entries

sky weapons

djinn

Don't exist. Wiki page: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:species:djinn Git branch: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/djinn
Build them from git yourself; a Windows build: http://angband.pl/tmp/stone_soup-0.13-a0-552-g9b3f8e1-win32-installer.exe

dobrazupa

Good soup! Hosts ttyrecs, morgues, etc. for crawl.s-z.org .
Also, you can play games there now.

dodging

First, halve the part of your dex over 24, and then halve the part over 34. Then your base EV is 10 + size_factor + (7 + dodging * new_dex) / (20 - size_factor). Then subtract your aevp and asp, then halve the part over 30, and then halve the part over 50. Then apply randarts, rings, and merfolk/tengu bonuses. Go stepdowns!
Your dodging bonus is reduced by 30*(EVP - 1)/strength, where EVP is the base penalty of your body armour (does not depend on Armour skill).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Auabi_BjyRlPdHBSMW5xYmJzMy0zYXRIZ1NUc2pka2c#gid=2

dodongo

Link can't wait to bomb some. Dislikes smoke.

dog

dog
Enter note: Now, to begin. _Why would you want to do that?

dolorous

despite never being on IRC, has an uncanny tendancy to react to things people say in ##crawl-dev
<Cheibriados> dolorous * 0.12-a0-665-g9211612: Add spelling fixes. (in the future, 3 files, 5+ 5-) https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit/921161296685

donald

He is a fellow adventurer, just like you. He is between orc knights and warlords in terms of danger, amphibious, and more resistant to magic. Comes always with a shield, which has a chance of being reflection. Also comes with awesome speech. I hate that.
His speech changes to match the level he's on. I hate that.

doom

Doom! Doooooooom!
Where do you think we got Cacodemons from?
Cyberdemon vaults are in planning.

doome

the lorde doome. addicted to sprint

doomrl

The game you are playing right now.
No, its not structured to play nicely with dgamelaunch. Sorry.
<mikee_>monqy, i bet you're not giftdropping bellies
<mong> i remember when people used to play crawl instead of doomrl
<Ragdoll> these dots intrigue me

doomrl guide

<mikee_> ffffffffhffffffffhfffff <mikee_> cleared those imps out good

doomrl reasons

no eat command, no traps, no secret doors, no mimics
no need to wait around to heal! free channeling! (just press r)

door

A thing you can close to break LOS/stop unintelligent monsters from getting past. Doors: Not just for opening!

door dancing

Who needs a pillar when you can close the same door over and over? It works until some other jerk shows up (or until the opening monster gets a double move, opens the door, and moves onto the door tile).

door mimic

You open the door like a pillowcase!!!
!lg sky 5348 -tv:<3

door reasons

You open the door._A fire drake comes into view._You close the door.

door vault

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git&a=search&st=grep&s=door_vault
see hilarious_deaths[6]
Run away. Some doors are meant to stay closed.

dorgi

These existed (along with guardian robots in Zot) in pre-3.40 versions of (non-Stone-Soup) Crawl.
http://pastebin.com/GVjqaPkQ

doroklohes tomb

<N78291> if you wait long enough things happen
The walls of each chamber are diggable, in case you'd rather stab the monsters in their beds one at a time. The loot is nice, by the way.
It can have an ancient lich or an electric golem. And multiple greater mummies.
<danharaj> d'aww it makes a heart shape when you look outside the initial chamber

double sword

A magical weapon with two razor-sharp blades. (one-handed Long Blade; Dam 15, Acc -1, Delay 15). The highest base damage weapon in the game that you can wield with a shield, minimally better than demon blade. (No shield if you're a small race.)
Double swords are better if enchantment+slaying<AC+X (at 20 str: X=0 at 0 skill, 3.4 at 14 skill, 4.5 at 27 skill).

dowan

Early deep elf unique caster. Casts throw frost, throw flame, haste, corona and minor healing. Shows up with his sister, Duvessa. Will find "hidden reserves of power" when Duvessa dies, be hasted, and replace his conjurations with throw icicle, stone arrow, corona with blink.
Will not follow you up or downstairs unless you kill his twin or she can follow you as well
http://i40.tinypic.com/xpzb46.png

download

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads Get your crawl here

dowsing card

Gives 1 to 3 effects out of mapping, detect traps and items, telepathy (detects creatures for a duration). Randomly selects one of the three at power 0, another at power 1 (might be the same again), all three at power 2.

doy

Who stashes things? Seriously!
Keeps Henzell clean with the power of Scrubbing Bubbles(tm)
Lord High Cherry-picker!

dpeg

If you can't be bothered to type it into the wiki, we cannot be bothered to flesh it out or code it. Use the wiki!
I am not worried much about balance here.
Glass is amazing. Glassglassglassglassoklobsglass.
<@dpeg> no sex please
see {death[3]}
<mikee_> minmay complained recently about having to take a hatch into v:8 because there was a constrictor near the stairs <dpeg> mikee_: hm, that sounds good to me
The Mark Rosewater of crawl.

dpegtourney

Count combos not yet won *in the running tournament*. The n-th such win gives n bonus points. (If we want to be nice, give n/2 points for the second win.) As of now, about 230 combos have been won (2009).
You can get the same bonus of the first winner if you win that combo with more runes. Presentation: matrix of species vs classes; show score and number of runes, highlight good combos.

draconian

As a player draconian, you are given a random colour you didn't want upon reaching level 7, usually granting a breath attack and a resistance (sometimes later), and revealing your aptitudes. See "??<color> draconian" for details -- red, white, green, yellow, grey, black, purple, mottled, pale. Enemy draconians are bad news and found mostly in Zot.
Draconians cannot wear body armour or helmets, but have tough scales: +4 AC, +1 per 3 XL. For Draconians, Dragon Form is a Transmutation spell instead of a Transmutations/Fire spell.
Notable weaknesses of monster draconians: low magic resistance, don't see invisible, non-white are cold-blooded. Enemy draconians can be zealots, shifters, knights, annihilators, scorchers, callers, or monks, each with their own set of spells and abilities.

draconian challenge

Win a draconian without ever getting a color, i.e., stay under level 7 the whole game.

draconian knight

An extremely muscular humanoid dragon with wings. Comes in a range of different colours and knows an impressive array of spells: both deep elf conjurer sets, both necromancer sets, or both hell knight sets. Doesn't hit very hard, though.

draconian reasons

You want to cast dragon form.
<SwissStopwatch> And if you die you even get to leave behind a complete jerk ghost with drain breath

draconian shifter

Banishing draconian. Kill it faster.

draconian zealot

One of the higher priority nonbase draconians: amongside the tweaked orc high priest spell set (twisted instead of animate), also has hellfire burst.

dracoomega

Inventor of a wonderous assortment of new things, such as wretched stars and starcursed masses. Nice guy. Is uncool.
needs to ruin more things so we can hate him properly

dragon

Viciously powerful green D which breathes fire for 3d24 damage. Avoid if you lack rF. Dragon corpses can be dissected to possibly produce hides, which can be enchanted to produce fire dragon armour.
There are also steam dragons, storm dragons, swamp dragons, mottled dragons, ice dragons, bone dragons, shadow dragons, quicksilver dragons, pearl dragons, iron dragons, and golden dragons.

dragon armour

Dragon armour is made from enchanting a dragon hide. Each hide gives a different armour. These are better than common armours of respective EV penalties, although not by much. They also give resistance to that dragon's status, cloud or elemental type.
In 0.9-, without an adjective it meant fire dragon armour. In 0.8-, Dragon King was a "shiny dragon armour" as well.
quick reference: dragon type (AC bonus, EV penalty, egos) (see each armours entry for details)
bone, shadow, quicksilver, and iron dragons leave no hides.
see armours[1]

dragon form

You're a dragon now! RAAAAWR! Breathe fire! Be tough (+60% hp and 34% GDR) and strong! Level 7 Transmutations/Fire. Single-school transmutations for draconians.
Base unarmed damage = (20 + str*(2/3) + unarmed_skill), +10 str, flight, rPois+ rFire++ rCold-, ability to breathe fire, up to +12 AC (is a function of fire magic), huge size (will nuke your EV)
Usually not very useful because by the time you can cast it, you have great armour and don't really want to meld it and simultaneously nerf your dodging. Also good for getting killed by ice fiends.
For draconians, it's Tmut rather than Tmut/Fire and they keep their existing scales AC bonus and resistances. Their breath weapon is also augmented.

dragon hide

Plain "dragon hide" referred to fire dragon hide prior to 0.10. For the different hides and their corresponding armours, see dragon armour.

dragon king

Unrandart +9 gold dragon armour with 50 MR.

dragon slaying

Increases damage by 75% against all dragons (by name, not "D"), all drakes, lindwurm and all draconians, excluding komodo dragons. Also reduces accuracy from dragon and draconian breath by 25%. Only available on polearms.

dragon storm

Level 9 dragon/conjurations.

dragonskin cloak

Tiamat's new cloak after mean people took away her GDA. When worn, every hit has 50% chance to be affected as if you had 1 more dot in relevant resistances.
Resistances checked: rF, rC, rElec, rPois, rAcid, rSteam, rNapalm, rN.

drain life

A Yredelemnul 4* ability; drains 3-10 + a random number less than your Invocations skill HP from all non-drain-resistant hostiles in your LOS and gives it to you. Costs 6 MP, 200 nutrition, and 2 piety.
Also usable by monsters (soul eaters and deep dwarf death knights).

draining

A weapon brand good early on. Has a 2/3 chance of doing on average 25% extra damage to susceptible monsters, doing 1+1d3 extra damage and removing that much from max HP. It does drop XP, but the drop is not significant. If the 2/3 chance is hit, it has a further 20% chance to drop HD by 1.
Other notes: Reduces the strength of shapeshifter forms, has no effect on undead/demons, is highly disliked by good gods, does not really matter for experience loss.

dream

<minqmay> i think i had a dream about this once <minqmay> it was awful

drinking games

Drink once for every milestone announced on ##crawl. Every time you get a rune, finish your drink. On the orb run, drink once as you reach each floor on the ascent and once each time a pan lord comes into sight (if it's a named pan lord, finish your drink).

drop

...stop, and roll. If you have a bunch of one item but only want to drop a few, go into the drop screen, then type in the number of items you want to drop, then press the letter of the item you want to drop as usual -- e.g., "d 15 a" drops 15 of whatever is in slot 'a'.
and dropping (scrolls) is in fact a good way to deal with being on fire (usually due to a mottled dragon or smoke demon). You may want to do this one stack at a time, though, to ensure that you drop your most important scrolls first (multidrop would just go from top to bottom, burning after each stack).

drpraetor

When you howl your despair into the deaf and uncaring cosmos, it is he who hears you.
Is now an official perv.
learndb miscreant
< DrPraetor> Inverse victory dancing is where you avoid hitting a confused enemy in order to avoid wasting XP on stabbing.

drtm

Q: If I'm playing a DrTm, how should I-- A: DRAGON FORM

drtm ghost guide

Step 1: Acquire a rod of demonlogy. Step 2: Worship Cheibriados. Step 3: Dodge lots of Bolt of Draining innates. Step 4: Make a demonic horde. Step 5: Recharge your rod.

drugrobin

Password: robin, do NOT play on this character unless you are intoxicated. Mild central stimulants such as caffeine do not count.
"WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS"
William S. Sessions, Director, FBI

drugs

<minqmay> you know what would be awesome <minqmay> if you were like <minqmay> a cheese midas
<pere_> do you guys take the risk of using magic balls? <pere_> is it worth it= <pere_> ?

drunkrobin

Holy Toledo Batman, I can't find my *hic* utility belt..

dry fountain

Decoration. It might flow again if you leave the level for a while.

ds mutation rules

Assuming you aren't monstrous, you get five facets, each consisting of three mutations (which usually just stack together). You will get one scales-type facet, one body-slot facet, two tier 2 facets, and one tier 3 facet. You will never get both an ice facet and a fire facet.
The scales-type facets are icy blue, iridescent, molten, rough black, rugged brown, slimy green, thin metallic, or yellow scales, or alternatively thin skeletal structure, large bone plates, or a distortion field.
Body-slot facets: claws, horns, antennae, hooves, talons. Tier 2 facets: PbD, PbP, demonic guardian, nightstalker, spiny, foul stench, fire (scroll cons, rF+, ignite blood), ice (rC+, potion cons, icemail). Tier 3 facets: +30% HP, rN++/rTorment, augmentation, ice (rC+, potion cons, passive freeze), fire (scroll cons, rF+, hellfire).
If you are monstrous (1 in 10 chance), then you get 3 body-slot facets but you don't get scales. You still get 2 tier 2 facets and 1 tier 3 facet, for 6 facets total.

dtsund

<dtsund> elliott: Speaking as someone who is almost certainly a better player than you, I find that quaff-ID is usually an excellent idea

dual wield

Deep elf blademasters, ettins, and two-headed ogres can do this. You cannot.

duane

An evil mercenary with unusually large ears. He has magic dart, slow, haste and blink. That is all. Gone in 0.8.
Do not underestimate him. !lm sorear uniq=Duane place=Tomb:1 -tv
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10212005

dude

Something to kill.

due

Sigmund is his only true love.
due != dpeg
The ideal death from playing while stoned: bookofjude the Reanimator (L10 SENe), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, hit from afar by a cyclops (large rock) on D:11, with 6849 points after 15262 turns and 0:43:02.
Thinks lichform spriggan should be 'l' instead of 'L'. Tiny lich!
Suggested silencing Cerebov.
Has the memory of an hellephant!
Kicker of asses!
[09:25] == mode/##crawl-dev [+q Gretell!*@*] by due

due reasons

Glass, fleshy orifices and black Lua magic aren't enough?
A single scream of a player killed by an early unique: a thousand prayers of adoring followers.

dull robe

Once always the Robe of Folly, now just a randart like any other.

dumb robins

squarerobi, diamondrob, aoeurobin, robinround, hunterobin, deadrobin, noobrobin, koborobin, hammerrobin, muckrobin, awbwrobin, buttrobin, alphabetskillrobin, alphabuttskillrobin

dump

Press # in game, then type !dump (CAO) or @dump (CDO) or %dump (CSZO) in IRC.

dungeon map

dungeon master

Level 27 Traps and Doors title.
see syllogism
see heteroy
see reskilling

dungeon sprint

Sprint is a one-level, accelerated version of crawl. Originally coded by Chapayev. Now there are seven playable maps!

durably summoned

Permanent, unabjurable, no experience or items dropped.

duvessa

Early deep elf unique fighter (no spells), has the same kit as a deep elf fighter. Shows up with her brother, Dowan. Will go berserk if you kill Dowan in her sight, or the next time she sees you otherwise.
Will not follow you up or downstairs without Dowan, unless you've killed him.
Duvessa will only berserk once, so you can just read a scroll of teleportation when she berserks.
http://i40.tinypic.com/xpzb46.png
Duvessa hits you. Two slime creatures merge to form Duvessa. Duvessa screams in rage.

dwarf fortress

dwarfmountainbat

elynae #2782681

dwarven items

Dwarven items are more resistant to corrosion than non-dwarven items. Dwarven body armour has an increased spellcasting penalty (unless you are a dwarf), but also improves your effective Armour skill (it improves it more if you're a dwarf). Dwarves wielding dwarven weapons do an extra random2(3) extra damage (randomly 0, 1, or 2) on each hit.
A randomly generated dwarven weapon will be +1 to hit, on a coinflip, and +1 to damage, on another coinflip. Dwarven armour gets +1 AC on a coinflip.
Dwarven body armour effectively gives +2 levels of Armour skill to everyone, +2 more for dwarves.

dyed items

Skins and leather.

dywypi

"Do You Want Your Possessions Identified?", i.e., you have died. Use of this phrase indicates playing of too much NetHack.

early game

when you play through the night, it eventually becomes this

earth

Mostly harmless.

earth elemental

Slow but heavy-hitting monster created by Summon Elemental spell or the nondescript stone. Not all that tough, but immune to elemental magic and hexes.

earth elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some earth magic skill, a book of Geomancy, and some rocks to use with Sandblast.

earth magic

Buffed a lot in 0.8... stone arrow and LRD do actual damage now and most earth/tmut spells were changed to pure earth.
rocks

earth miscast

1: harmless 2: 10-22 AC-blockable dmg 3: 3d15 explosion

eatdudes

Eat all mut-chunks you find, drink all mut-potions you find. You are allowed to quaff cure-mut and to use decks. You can use rMut amulet but not while eatdudes'ing and you're not allowed to worship Jiyva or Zin.

ebarrett

<ebarrett> my wisdom is all over the learndb so it's not as if I need an entry

ecumenical temple

Accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 4 and 7. Is notable mainly for a complete lack of monster spawning as well as potentially containing an altar to almost every deity in the game.
You will always be able to get in. If you don't see a way in search for hidden doors. Also one dumb vault places one of the down staircases and the Temple entrance in a sealed room, so you have to come up from the next level down.
A temple built by early explorers of the dungeon, dedicated to religious unity (for their gods, at least). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical
see temple_gods
If your temple has a bunch of Lugonu altars, congratulations, you've gotten the corrupted version. That explains all the overflow altars.

edmund

Sigmund's jealous, younger, and less magically talented brother. He has more money and wit, though, and a shiny flail!
Edmund says, "People think my brother is the best. I think he's crazy."
He's also quite good with sums.

eea

!lm hyperbolic ddpr type=orb 1 -tv

effo

For his first win, he went into hells with no food, got abyssed, ignored a gate, found a rune while starving, drank 13 healing potions for nutrition, and then found a scroll for FOOD ACQUIREMENT. Then went invisible and spooked Asmodeus good.
< effo> the only threat of any kind was fiends and starvation
RIP Klelaut, who faithfully followed effo up six levels on the ascent before being murdered in cold blood.
In a later game, did Cerebov's with rF-
fuck an elephant
<mikee_> crystal ball of effo
<Ragdoll> effo the seen horror

efreet

A demon bearing a flaming scimitar and capable of impressive pyrotechnics, most notably fireballs that it uses uncritically on friend and foe alike. Also trails joysome clouds of flame to menace passing pedestrians. Sometimes found in bottles for convenience (see bottled efreet).

egglet

worst name in ##crawl
T_T
pegleglett
Actuall has won. Just offline. Promise it was legit.

eggplant

A rotten eggplant which you can throw at the Crawl developers. (It's a bug if you ever see this message in Crawl.)

eggs

If you carry an egg around with you, it may hatch into an allied creature. This is a moot point, as no creatures in the Crawl setting reproduce by egg.

ego

Weapons and armours with the "+x foo of barring" nature. Term from Angband. E.g. boots of running, war axe of electrocution. Also refers to the 'of running' part, eg "'of running' is an armour ego".

egregious splat

!lg * cv>0.9 ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) ntv=0 max=dam -tv

eidolon

It's like a wraith but more so. Also it's a mega super duper scary spook and gives you the howling fantods. (Has Cause Fear.)

eidolos

Original author of Henzell. His clock speed is approximately 1.3 GHz.

eino

Crawler with a rather long history, made many vaults and maintains trunk binaries. Also known as evktalo and Keskitalo. Web site at http://crawl.develz.org/trunk
Funny abreviations in Finnish: NaPa (belly button), NaSu (Piglet in Winnie the Pooh), HuPa (some jolly fun), KoHu (onomatopoetic reaction to a scandal), MiSu (a hot chick, except feline instead of poultry), KeHu (compliment)
<+Keskitalo> Enchanted rods recharge at a really fast pace..
Doubled GDR from body armour.

eithelonnen

If you say something, eith will say it at the same time. :(
is appearently exactly like sheldon from big bang theory
Has a bigass name.
<eith> necromut is my fav spell tbh

ekaterin

TIAMAT AVOIDER

ekim

Dr Gh Ha Ke Ko Na Og SE Sp Tr Vp (11) | AE AK Ar As Cj Cr DK EE Hu St Su Tm VM Wn (14) | Chei Fed Jiy Kik Nem Yre Zin (7)

elbereth

What a good idea!
Inscribe this on a floor tile and all monsters around you will explode into chunks and the orb will be apported to your feet.

eldritch tentacle

Be very afraid! Extends out from its eldritch rift, melees with chaos attacks that can do almost anything (including paralyze). Immune to enchantments/elements except holy. If you're human speed it is faster than you.
!lg n78291 id=855265 -tv
Crazy Yiuf on steroids.
If you see them placed by a vault, they're going to function as tentacle-statues, without the eventual effects of the spell as cast
see malign gateway

electric eel

A troublesome fellow that likes to zap anyone who comes along, much to the chagrin of anyone lacking electricity resistance. Wise men say poly wands are most useful for this creature, as well as ice - as anyone who has dealt with waterborne creatures should know. Other wise men say to just avoid them.
Bows of flame are highly effective at taking groups of these down as the steam provides very good cover.

electric eel challenge

Die to an undead electric eel. Inner flame is cheating.

electric golem

Nasty golem that can shoot bolts of lightning. They can normally be found in Zot. They are resistant to fire, ice, draining, electricity and magic. They are as fast as killer bees, and they blink all the time. Feature af_elec melee damage.
The early game has Prince Ribbit. You get his cousins, Blink Frogs, on top of Sonja and Nessos after that. Then, just when you think the fun is over, you meet an electric golem and, shocking as it may be, your day gets a lot brighter. /pun

electrocution

Weapon brand that causes your weapon to blast your target with an explosion of sparks on 1 out of every 3 hits, doing 9+d15 additional damage (which ignores AC). Does not work on targets with rElec. Does not work on levitating or flying targets in versions older than 0.13.

elemental staff

+3,+1 staff with protection (+5 AC), Hunger, Noises, rF++, rC++, MR. If you're interested in staves of (element), see enhancer or staff damage.

elemental statue

Annoying statues in sprint 3 that spam elemental summons. The air statue has the least HP and the earth statue has the most. They do not see invisible.

elements

Opposite elements (fire-ice, air-earth) antitrain, meaning that it takes twice as much xp to train one if the other is higher.

elephant

Plain elephants are green and (relatively) peace-loving pachyderms. This is not the case for their bigger, scarier cousins: dire elephants and hellephants.

elephant shaped statue

If you kill the anaconda guarding the treasure room, some of these will turn into dire elephants.

elephant slug

A slow, rather hard-hitting slug, often found in the Lair. As with all slugs, worms, and sheep, getting killed by one is hilarious to the audience in general and infuriating to the artiste. Probably the worst monster in the game to polymorph, except for Gastronok.

elf 38

<Sequell> 1. [2008-12-18] evktalo the Shatterer (L17 MiPa) killed Boris on turn 46521. (Elf:38)

elfrobin

A roundrobin where you go to Elf:3 as soon as you find it and clear it. It's been done. After a successful elfrobin, you must do every branch when you find it.
Successful elfrobin characters - HOPr x2, MDBe x2, VpMo, SEEE, DsPr, MfCr, LOBe, HOHu, DDBe, NaFE, NaVM, TrAK

eliteplayers

reddit thinks you are elite

elixir card

By card power, 0: 50/50 heal wounds effect / regeneration. 1: If your hp is lower than half, then full heal and full mana drain. Otherwise, do card power 0 instead. 2: Full heal, full mana fill.
Find it in: war, changes, and defense. Comes from the virtual decks enchantments and battle.

elliott

see elliott
see elliptic
<absolutego> disregard the elliott
boring
todo: VpTm*Jiyva (MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE ZIG!!!); OpNe*Makhleb; MuSu*Vehumet; an ogre or a troll or something with statue form (use shatter); take GhAK or GhMo high score
<elliott> im female and i didnt even notice
procs frequently
5 con, probably 4 dex, whatever else in str; apparently blocking/heavy armour/controlled retreat is good; sharpness around 650 ft; charge; sprinting; disguise; exchange places; lore-keeper; lore master... perhaps also flanking after sprinting, stun after lore-master (then swap to a heavy great sword apparently?), then controlled retreat after that
<clouded_> I would go 3 into perception and the rest into melee/evasion leaving 500 for whichever melee skill you want to start with <clouded_> and then get keen senses a level or two after <clouded_> then go for melee/evasion to around 10 or so, then branch out into more perception or will or
<Rebthor> I think catlobe tv is the best ever
<elliott> i had a dream i typoed bug as buck and then corrected it i think
has a psychological weakness involving the number 4.1
is a liar
sucks
[23:41] <elliott> kryft: you have a pretty bad jiyva winrate [23:41] <elliott> imo start not dying as feen of jiyva, can you manage it
<Grunt> Stop making sense!!! <elliott> sorry I try not to <elliott> sometimes it gets the better of me <elliott> I understand I'll get better at it as I get older
<elliott> if i ever meet MarvinPA i'm going to delete his learndb entry irl

elliott heal

using shatter to recover from low hp with makhleb

elliott patches

X< G< for hell portals (not in D/lair)-also for sewers &c.? & G> pan; memorisation from afar; SPARKLING FOUNTAINS; jiyva jelly neutrality annoyance (wrt stealth etc.); make panlords not cast eyeballs if you worship jiyva or something? (what about shapeshifters?(!shift?)); traps; cloud nerf; grates; potentially new teleportation algorithm; ctele :(
monsters open runed doors this entry dedicated to elliott
VANQUISH SKELE/ZOMBIE POWER STRUCTURES INTO THE OBLIVION OF NONEXISTENCE this entry sponsored by Elynae Elynae and Elynae
the stupid different helmet descriptions that I hate and should die; relatedly: gloves vs. gauntlets (bracers?) 4 chris
hand inscriptions
prompt for casting spells your god doesn't like
prompt for casting borg/ddoor/etc.? maybe just: spell inscriptions?????
language = rot13 ~ this entry dedicated to MarvinPA ~ maybe just lua hook for translations instead????
lehudbibcs crystlr sper FOR MIKEE-
MAKE STONE OF EARTH ELEMENTALS WORK WITH SANDBLAST (THANX TO HANGEDMAN FOR THE XTREMELY AWSUM IDEA)
do you really want to go berserk while finesse like an idiot [Y/N] (note: ruins tvs; maybe not a good idea?)
burn spellbooks lets you BURN DOWN BOOKSHOPS (flavour problem: what about books in other shops?)
SQUARELOS
replace easy_open with an option to make autoexplore/autotravel not open doors

ellipsis

isn't elliptic
...

elliptic

<ophanim> One day we'll discover elliptic is a millionaire recluse who made some technology we all use every day <ophanim> like shoe laces or something
<ophanim> elliptic lives in the sea, that's why <HangedMan> his eccentric millionaire palacemansion is underwater
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsDUl9FTpJmLdHNLU05rU1hvMmFlNnRHQTVQdG9rU0E
see {.echo $(randnth (split ' ' (foldr remove_combo $(=currentgames.unplayed $(=nwon.list 3) 7) (split ' ' (!lg elliptic won $(=nwon.list 3) s=char fmt:"${.}" join:" " stub:"XXXX")))))}

elliptic commits

default_manual_training, melee_attack.cc bug killing, action_counts, allow snapping turtles to reach diagonally, spell_slot, autofight improvements, kiku randbooks, lajatang buff, pnoise removal, trove prices, slaying nerf

ellipticrc

http://dobrazupa.org/rcfiles/crawl-git/elliptic.rc

ellitab

always matches the one of (elliott|elliptic) you didn't mean.
<elliott> elliptic: IMO go to hell
<ellisim> MarvinPA: did you delete all the tvs <elliott> MarvinPA: did you delete all the tvs
-!- elliptic is now known as elliot

elona

<Pacra> elona is an elaborate troll disguised as a roguelike
Inspired by ADOM. That's how you know it's quality.

elven boots

Increases stealth by 20.

elven cloak

Gives a +20 bonus to stealth.

elven gloves

Made of the finest elven fabric, woven for delicate elven fingers. Elven gloves are known for being very comfortable, and are appropriate for both cold and warm weather. They also weigh less than inferior human gloves.

elven halls

Accessed from the Orcish Mines on either the third or fourth level. Three levels deep. There is no rune, but a good amount of loot lies at the bottom.
Dangerous for low-level characters. You should have high magic resistance and a source of conservation (sticky flame will ruin your scrolls). Elf:3 blocks teleport control, so don't rely on blink scrolls to get you out of a hairy situation.
Lots of spells are really good here: poisonous cloud, refrigeration, mephitic cloud, alistair's intoxication, and so on.

elven items

Elven body armour impedes spellcasting less than other armour, especially if you are an elf. Elven cloaks and boots also boost stealth. Shields, gloves, robes and helmets merely weigh less.
Elven weapons give a small to-hit bonus to elves. A randomly generated elven weapon will get +0 to +2 to hit.

elven rune of zot

Zot Defence sure is weird, isn't it?

elycrawl

design goals: enforce standard rc, nuke all other crawl servers, remove liquids, no orbrun enforce scottish

elynae

fortuna is his bitch
<elliott> nobody should race with elynae <elliott> it's like racing a space ship vs. light
<ZChris13> Elynae: What the heck who are you and what did you do to the RNG
<Blade-> NO NO NO <Blade-> this cannot be <Blade-> you are breaking Crawl
see great near misses[4]
<mikee_> elynae with tiamat colors might give me a seizure
<everyonemines> wow he's playing really fast <everyonemines> in zot with low hp
<Elynae> i just make self-indulgent ??elynae entries
wxfedh

elynaeandxom

Elynae and Xom, united in common interest and insanity on their quest for the Orb of Zot! Including 1000000-turn-D:1-scumming, and of course randomness! And no self-preservation instinct whatsoever! Fun with/for the Fun God!
rTedium+++

elynaedreamselectric

elynae + parabolic bot code

elyvilon

The divinity of healing. Most reliable source of protection from being killed while praying, but will impose penance (i.e. not answer your requests for help) if you kill living creatures while praying. Provides healing invocations, but dislikes cannibalism, the use of necromancy, and allowing allies to die.
see pacification
see divine_vigour
<crate> no you fucking moccasin the stairs are right there dont walk away from them <crate> no why <crate> arghh

elyvilon reasons

You like healing. Elyvilon is a one-trick pony in that regard. If you are berserking frequently, Elyvilon's purification ability will remove the slowing (but not the fatigue). Also offers the most reliable source of protection from harm while praying.
see amazing_games[5]
Ugly things.

elyvilon wrath

No effect unless you are worshipping evil. Otherwise, confusion, poison miscasts (0-1), and mass inventory weapon disenchantment. While in penance, Elyvilon will also occasionally block your attacks. This reduces your penance.
<jeanjacques> not having ely is the wrath

emacs

Add this to your .emacs file to get C mode syntactic indentation to obey the rules used in the Crawl source: (setq c-default-style "linux" c-basic-offset 4)
There's nethack-mode, why don't we have crawl-mode :(

embarrassing deaths

!tv * killer="death cob" 1
!tv ogaz 1
!tv xyblor ktyp=poison xl=27 1
!tv eternal char=dsdk place=d:10 1
!lg * char=napr place=lab 1 -tv
!tv AuditDaFed HOPr xl=25 2
!tv slickrick killer="yaktaur captain" 1
!lg errol1 haas 18 -tv
!lg BrockL MDFi xl=18 3 -tv
!lg Eronarn splat xl=27 turn=150318 1 -tv
!tv minmay char=DEFE 3
!tv Elynae char=spar place=abyss 1
!tv snow hive:2 1
!lg ryak seee xl=27 1 -tv
!tv gabriellk drvm 1
!lg evilmike place=tomb:1 1
!lg * trmo 1 xl=25 place=slime:5 -tv
!lg ktgrey char=keae xl=24 ktyp=drowning -tv
!lg * ktyp="wild magic" kaux="arcing electricity" 1 -tv
!tv luckyned killer="elf zombie" 1
!tv soul dgee 69
!lg slitherrr race=te class=fe 2 -tv
!lg mpa place=zig:12 1 -tv
!tv * dswr place=pan 1
!lg afd place=coc:7 1 -tv
!lg broco1337 201 -tv
!lg mess kobe xl=22 1 -tv
!tv partyhat hemo pan 1
!lg djoor killer=dissolution 1 -tv
!tv kryft vaults 3
!tv adamaxis tomb 1
!tv pac killer="orb of fire" 2
!tv blackmore spas slime:6 1
!tv WalkerBoh fewz swamp:5 1
!tv EvilEd vaults 1

emo crawl

<Kacy> But you know <Kacy> Nothing at all works <Kacy> The more I try <Kacy> The more I get depressed <Kacy> The worse I play <Kacy> The more I die

emperor lich

Only in ADOM, not crawl

emperor scorpion

A new scorpion in 0.8. Has decent HP, does a somewhat serious amount of melee damage. Still only average speed and has low MR.

empty arch

May be left behind after timed portals close or the player goes through them. Can also be found as decoration in some floors or in the Abyss to raise, and subsequently crush, the hopes of those trying to escape. This is also what gates to the abyss, pandemonium, and the hells will turn into if you've taken the Orb of Zot.

ench split

Q: Why is X in hexes? A: Witches.
Q: Why is--A: WITCHES

enchancer staff

Enchances on hit with (Evocations+1)/15 success. In 0.10 it's (Enchanchments/2+Evocations+1)/30 instead.

enchant armour

This scroll will enchant body armour in steps of 1 until their base ac, bardings to +4, shields to +3, and hats, gloves, cloaks, and boots to +2. Also can uncurse armours and promote troll and dragon hides into their respective armours.

enchant armour ii

Increases your armour's damage by 1.

enchant weapon

See enchant weapon i, enchant weapon ii, enchant weapon iii. All three types will uncurse a wielded weapon.
Odds of success for enchant weapon i and ii: <+4: 100%; +4: 56%; +5: 44%; +6: 33%; +7: 22%; +8: 11%, artefact: 0%. The maximum enchantment on a mundane weapon is +9 +9
Generated items have different limits: base max is 8, +3 Oka hit/Trog dam, +4 no brand, 0/+1 orcish +2/+0 elven +1/+1 dwarven. Artefacts: +12 base, +3 Oka hit/Trog dam. the +9,+15 mace of the Countless Stars (weapon) {crush, rF+}

enchant weapon i

Adds to the wielded weapon's accuracy when read. Can go up to +9 (with less chance the more enchanted it is). Never destroys the weapon.
see enchant weapon[2]

enchant weapon ii

Adds to the wielded weapon's damage when read. Can go up to +9 (with less chance the more enchanted it is). Never destroys the weapon. Has no effect on blowguns.
see enchant weapon[2]

enchant weapon iii

Acts like 1d2 scrolls of EW I followed by 1d2 scrolls of EW II.

enchanter

A spellcaster that starts with a Book of Maledictions, a short sword (dagger for spriggans), some darts, and some skill in Hexes, Short Blades, and Stabbing. They generally fight by incapacitating their enemies by casting Ensorcelled Hibernation or Confuse and then stabbing them.

enchantment

Enchantment on armour adds that number to your AC. Enchantment on a shield adds that number to your SH. Don't enchant shields. Positive/negative enchantment on a weapon adds/subtracts random2(enchantment+1) to/from your accuracy (first number) or damage (second number).
Old spell school. In 0.8, was split into charms and {hexes} (see ench split). For old information see [2].
Powerful support school, governing lingering effects and spells that deal with the mind. Includes both most buff spells, and many spells to weaken foes. Powerful combo spells with most other schools. Among many excellent spells, provides Haste, DMsl, RMsl, swiftness and Regeneration.
see ench split

enchantment miscast

1: corona / random uselessness 2: curse / slowing / berserk 3: 3x curse / paralysis / confusion / 0-18 glow. Charms and Hexes miscasts still use the old Enchantment miscasts.

encompass

Makes a vault's layout be the whole level. Use after ORIENT: tag. Dimensions are 80x70.

encumbered

Encumbered: Bad. Don't be that ghost. Climbing stairs takes 1 extra turn, +1 to movement delay, +2 hunger, stealth is halved, slows unarmed combat.

encumbrance rating

A number representing how much armour harms your spellcasting, dodging, and melee accuracy. Units are "arbitrary units of encumbrance" (aue).

endless lava

The endless sea of lava is not a nice place.
This is a wall.

energy

randomization see energy_randomisation

energy randomisation

Every time a monster makes a movement (i.e. not an attack/spell), the amount of time taken to do its turn has a 1/3 chance of being 0.1 turns slower, a 1/3 chance of being 0.1 turns quicker and a 1/3 chance of being the normal amount. Over time, these 0.1s add up or cancel out to cause 'double moves' or 'lost moves'.
The purpose of this feature is to make pillar dancing more unpredictable. When a monster gains/loses a move is when it is most likely to lose/gain it again. The worst case for a 1.0 move delay monster and player is a double move every 10 turns.
You can still dance nearly as easily with anything other than a pillar.

engorged

You cannot eat any more food, but you can drink a potion of porridge if you are not already at 12000 nutrition. Nothing else special about this state.

enhancer

Enhancers are things which affect spell power, like a ring of ice, staff of conjuration, or a robe of the archmagi (you feel a surge of power). Negative enhancers include opposite-element staves or rings and lantern of shadows (you feel a numb sensation). See spell power for what this means.

enne

Enne is short for awesome.

ennui

elynae says pseudophilosophic neowildean shit while playing crawl.
Rules: For every defeated monster you need to say one pseudo-philosophical Neo-Wildean sentence before doing anything else. Profound philosophy and philanthropy are forbidden. Password: matilda_
If you aren't bored out of your mind, you're doing it wrong.
Achievements so far: constructed a meta-artistic morality and guidelines for good art; proven that boredom is actually something we should be grateful for

enormous slime creature

When four slime_creatures love each other very much...

enslavement

Temporarily turns an enemy into an ally. Comes in wand and spell form. Useful on orc warriors and the like with low magic resistance. In both forms, can be very useful to enslave something, go to an old level, tell it to 'wait here' and then deal with it later.
You can't enslave monsters that your god doesn't like.

ensnare

Attack flavour (jumping spiders) or missile spell (Arachne) which puts you in a web and places a web on the floor if possible.

ensorcelled hibernation

Can hibernate various monsters, making them very good targets for stabbing them to your hearts content. Also, it can be resisted several times. After you successfully hibernate a critter, it will resist further hibernation for a long time (might be around 20 turns). Only works who aren't cold-res -- try confuse instead.
Depends on MR. But plenty of late game monsters (say, zot draconians) can be easy to dispatch of, using hibernation. Check it out!
It doesn't work on plants.

entarex

No, there isn't really an Entarex.

enter the abyss

5* Lugonu ability. Pretty much exactly what it says. Really expensive to do (9 MP, hunger, piety). Just because you can depart the Abyss nearly at will does not mean you should use this skill on a whim. But if the alternative is death, this is a pretty great escape.
Also reduces current HP and MP, potentially all the way down to 1. Can kill you if you are poisoned!

entry vault

You arrive in these. They are interesting and unique and you'll get to know and enjoy every last one! Watch out for the river, it has kobolds and darts.

eos

+11,+11 unrandart morningstar, {elec, -TELE rElec SInv}

eotl

telnet hack.eotl.org 2000. Crawl major versions 0.4 to 0.8.

epic bugs

if (you.religion = GOD_XOM)
I think I may have just played one of these (like a gnoll castle, but with draconians). Is it supposed to have 200-300 draconians? Or is there an error with the monster generation? https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4101
see disc of storms[2]
!lm hjklyubn setm uniq=geryon 1 -tv
see uber octopode
Dash275 writes: There's a rather large security problem with the CSZO server. You don't actually need to enter a password to access an account.
!lm lightli 4268 -tv:<0.1:>3
!lg * max=dam x=dam
DracoOmega * 0.13-a0-338-gd5b758e: Fix all monster attack flavours inflicting 0 damage

eponysterical

<Erisdiscordia> MuBe is a motorcycle

ereshkigal

She is the ruler of the lowest level of Tartarus and guardian of the bone rune of Zot. Spells: bolt of draining, bolt of cold, summon greater demon, torment, paralyze, healing. Has mad crazy amounts of evasion.

erica

A comely spellweaver. She has Venom Bolt, Mystic Blast, Invisibility, Confuse, Slow, and Teleport Self for emergencies. She always wields a scimitar of flaming.

eringyas formal garden

Centaurs, vine-covered golems, fruit traps, troublesome fungi, and secret doors.

eringyas surprising bouquet

From a very old version of Crawl: "Eringya's Surprising Bouquet: This spell transmutes any wooden items in the caster's grasp into a bouquet of beautiful flowers."
nobody is sure what this means or how it's useful, but it's theorized to be of use on cursed weapons
New research into the dark annals of 4.1 sheds light on this spell's true function: SPELL_ERINGYAS_SURPRISING_BOUQUET, // turn sticks into herbivore food

erisdiscordia

Stone Soups developer-by-proxy, anything that Erik (erisdiscordia) has accomplished in Stone Soups design, he's done so by convincing someone else to do it. Except his vaults. Those are 110% his fault. People keep on obliquely comparing him to Sisyphos for some reason he cant comprehend.
Current characters: EatEverythingOfYou and HorrorMuchShow. Plays on CDO. No point in !whereising "erisdiscordia"; @whereis a character name instead.
<erisdiscordia> Xom > absolutely everything
Dungeon > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map
trolls casmith789
His jokes are worse than fountain mimics
tempddak
1xCeHe 1xDGWz 1xDSCK 1xHaCr 1xHuWn 1xKoBe 1xMiGl 1xSETm 1xSpEn 1xTrMo
Shuffle is fun!

erocrawl

L) EroCrawl (unstable): Lava Orcs, Octopodes, Square LOS
<MarvinPA> octopodes and lava orcs and squarelos are on cao <casmith789> ffffffffff
<Elynae> erocrawl is like the best thing that happened to crawl since I started
Tiles version spash screens: http://i.imgur.com/1yi21.png (minmay), http://i51.tinypic.com/23t3y4y.png (Wensley)
<absolutego> oh that wasn't the expected type of ero

erolcha

A unique ogre magess spawned with a random set of spells, which include friendly things like banishment to the Abyss, paralysis, and LCS. Do not underestimate her.
<Danei> erolcha is your "crawl can and will try to kill you" warning

eronarn

<Vandal> Eronarn you are probably the least mature of all the devs, just fyi
< G-Flex> he's not a dev, he just plays one on IRC
< Daekdroom> Eronarn is not a dev? O.o
< tensorpudding> isn't eronarn a dev, or is that just the lavaorcsfork
Likes to have gay sex with weird people from SA.
< OG17> who would be stupid enough to implement silly hats
a huge jerk
came up with the idea for vampire mosquitos; is literally hitler
<Eronarn> .9 will be squares, octopodes, and witches
< ZChris13> Eronarn has some good ideas. But what it really needs is like some flowcharts or something. < ZChris13> Like an actual roundtable discussion with powerpoints
made octopodes, the dumbest idea
1. Eronarn the Necromancer (L27 DSNe), worshipper of Sif Muna, collapsed under their own weight caused by gaining the bat transformation on Lair:2 on 2008-08-27, with 538692 points after 150318 turns and 17:21:18.
< notthepope> there was something in learndb that got taken sort of serious by one guy
< elliptic> eronarn is on tavern? I didn't think he was the type somehow

escape hatch

One-way stairs that always take you to the same position on the next level. Yes, monsters can follow you through them as usual.

esplat

!lg * ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) cv>=0.9 ntv=0 ktyp!=quitting|leaving|winning killer!="tentacled monstrosity"|"greater naga"|naga_warrior max=xl -tv

essoje

<Henzell> I don't have a page labeled essoje in my learndb. <Essoje> ...
Considers clouded as his personal hero for his DG-related wins.

esurient

hungry

eternal

Adds, then deletes, his own learndb entry.

ettin

Buffed in 0.8 to do more melee damage in a round potentially than any monster short of Antaeus, the Lernaean hydra, and the like. Fortunately it has poor accuracy and still isn't particularly hard to kill.

euclidean

Compile-time flag that makes diagonal movement cost more. The good twin of squarelos. May suffer from code rot.

eudemon

The word means "good demon". Evil one is "cacodemon" -- but no, others than cacos are usually evil as well.

eudemon blade

Long blade, Dam 14, Acc -2, Delay 12. Can be created by having The Shining One bless a demon blade.
This is another one of Crawl's bad puns: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

eustachio

A summoner. His name is Eustachio. You killed his favorite bat. Prepare to die! Found from D:4 to D:10.
Beware his glorious mustache! Not to be confused with pistachio.
see multiplayer[2]

ev

Shorthand for evasion (the stat). It is improved by Dodging skill, equipment with evasion bonuses, the repulsion field mutation, and the Phase Shift spell; it is worsened by equipment with evasion penalties.
http://imgur.com/0RSGG.png R code: http://pastebin.com/f6eec73ed

evade

Brand on missile weapons giving +5 EV.

evaporate

Old spell in ancient versions of crawl, evaporated into thin air in 0.12.

evasion brand

Gives +5 EV. Only appears on launchers.

eveningstar

The rarest mace, but not a demon whip. One-handed. Dam 15, Acc -1, Delay 15.

everywhere

Where casmith789 is not.
<DracoOmega> There's a lot of everywhere

evil

See evil items or evil gods.

evil gods

Beogh, Lugonu, Kikubaaqudgha, Yredelemnul, Makhleb.
Nottrog, Notvehumet, Notxom, Notjiyva

evil items

demon weapons, asmodeus/dispater/cerebov's weapons, weapons of pain, draining and vampirism, wand of draining, scrolls of torment, potion of (coagulated) blood, necromantic books, staff of death, book or rod of demonology, bottled efreet, lantern of shadows, black knight barding, scythe of curses, sword of zonguldrok, sceptre of torment.

evil laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzLoCy1AGg&t=0m14s

evilduepeg

One of the four possible uniques that can be found guarding the abyssal stair.

evilmike

!lm evilmike noun=cerebov 2 -tv
You go down through the gate. Welcome to the Realm of Zot! 3 dragons, 5 moths of wrath, an electric golem, 14 draconians, 4 tentacled monstrosities and 3 death cobs come into view.
-- Just die already!

evilmike ambush

!lg olXor 1 natm place=zot:1 -tv:<0.2:>$

evilyon

The evil sister of Elyvilon.

evilyoshi

<evilyoshi>??evilyoshi <Henzell>I don't have a page labeled evilyoshi in my learndb.

evilyvon

I dont find okawaru helpful at all since Im really stingy with my hunger cost so I usually die before I activate heroism. also its very hard to find the 3 books that contain dragonform so I would think sif muna definately fit the build alot more unless you find the book early then should just go okawaru or evilyvon.

evocations

This skill affects wands, abilities related to decks, and abilities gained from items. Evocation skill adds to wand power, though spell power caps are still respected.

evolution

See evolution[2] for the Fedhas ability or evolution mutation for the mutation.
For some piety, you get a permanent wandering mushroom with a powerful confusing attack. It will follow you normally outside of combat (they are so friendly), but the moment you encounter a monster it stays still while it is in LOS. However, they eventually kill themselves since they lose HD per attack.
Plants turn into oklobs. The rate of fire of oklobs is increased by invocations. Oklobs that you encounter normally don't care about you and thus won't help you, they are jerks. Oklobs are permanent, do a lot of damage, and draw aggro, but Fedhas gets a bit unhappy if one you create dies.

evolution mutation

Gives you new mutations, either random or random good on a coinflip, as you gain experience (and eventually removes itself).

evp

Body armour evasion penalty. Usually (but not always) modified by your armour skill to become aevp.

excellent

95-99% spell success.

exclamation marks

. = 1-6 damage; ! = 7-17 damage; !! = 18-35 damage; !!! = 36+ damage.

exclusion

Use x or X to target a square, then e to cycle through exclusion sizes (normal/single square/none). Exploration and travel will avoid excluded areas and you'll be prompted if you try to walk into one normally.

excruciating wounds

Bestows a temporary, unaffixable pain brand on a weapon. Level 5 nec/charms, in the book of Death. Pain branding is as loud as slamming a door when berserked.
<tensorpudding> excruciating wounds is a pain

exe axe

see {executioner's axe}

exec axe

see {executioner's axe}

executioner

Completely unlike ogres for the end game - cannot be outrun without controlled magical translocations, hits for up to 150 damage per turn of yours, sees invisible, and resists elemental magic. Fortunately it's not too hard to kill and can't fly. And with 9 hits to spread damage over, high-AC chars are in little danger.
It is particularly important to note that it is *naturally* twice as fast as "normal" speed. Furthermore, they generally haste themselves right away. They cannot fly, so will be thwarted by levitation and deep water or lava.

executioners axe

You want axes? You want them big? You want to swing your axe into the guts of demons? Do the demons have HUGE GUTS you want to RIP AND TEAR? Then this axe is for you. (Two-Handed, Damage 18, Acc -6, Delay 20; Mindelay Skill 26)
<Mu_> big strong man need big strong axe, mighty axe

exhausted

Status obtained after berserking or using Death's Door. You can't use either one until it wears off.

expect

follow the instructions at http://www.amateurtopologist.com/2010/09/03/logging-in-to-crawl-akrasiac-org-quickly/ to autologin to cao without typing your username/password

expendable

If you lose your character in the first few floors, no big deal. What did you lose? Ten minutes?
q - a +0,+3 ring of slaying (left hand) {unknown} / u - a +0,+4 ring of slaying (right hand) {unknown}

experience

Crawl has two parallel experience systems. One, your character level. When your level goes up you get more spellcasting slots, health, magic, enchantment resistance, etc. Experience is automatically contributed to this upon each kill. You can see your progress to the next level in the status bar.
The second system is dedicated to your skills and does not level up your character's basic traits.

experience card

Acts similarly to a potion of experience, except the experience gained is not always enough to give you a level (based on card power; guaranteed at 2). Also gives you some exp to spend on skills, 20000 XP at card power 2.

experience pool

No longer exists. We will not miss it. But if you want to know what it was like, read [2-3].
OK. Say you kill a creature worth 200XP. 200 XP goes towards increasing your level, and 200 XP goes into your XP pool. XP is used up from the pool when you practice skills. Skills that are highlighted in the skill list ('m') are being fully practiced. Other skills are being practiced 25% of the normal amount.
Different skills are practiced different ways. Stealth, for example, is practiced just by moving -- something like Evocations is only practiced when you successfully evoke something.

experienced

Describes an experience level 7-10 player ghost.

exploding

Explosion effect similar to LRD or Fireball on impact. Allegedly does 2d5 damage regardless of missile.
<Zicher> You throw a runed elven dart. The runed elven dart hits the orc priest. You kill the orc priest! The runed elven dart explodes! The explosion of elven dart fragments engulfs the orc. You kill the orc! The explosion of elven dart fragments engulfs the worm. You kill the worm!
Makes lots of noise (duh).

explorers

Erik the Yred

extension

Extends most temporary effects. Adds 0-1 points of contamination and additionally 1 point for the following effects: haste, might, invisibility. Removed in 0.8.
What you'll never get on your student loans.

extra lives

Felids get one every three levels. You can't have more than two at a time. If you didn't gain a life due to this, you can get it later by gaining a non-multiple of 3 level with fewer than two lives remaining.
You cannot have more than 9 lives total in a game (meaning 8 extra lives).

eye of devastation

A giant eye that shoots irresistible 3d20 bolts of energy. But it's inaccurate and slow. They also disintegrate walls like digging, causing a 'grinding sound'. Fun to use to open slime 6 vaults.

eye of draining

Drains your mana with its gaze, which then heals it. Immune to magic.

eyeballs

2 * mutation level + 1 accuaracy in melee; level 3 grants SInv. When hit in melee, mutation level in 20 chance of attempting a mutation level * 30 power enchantment against the monster's MR. If successful, the monster is confused for 2 + d9 turns.

fabulously ornate robe

Used to always be the Robe of Misfortune. In 0.9+ is just a randart descriptor like any other.

facebook

<mikee_> ugggh <mikee_> this is like the webtiles version of oregon trail

facet

A "family" of Demonspawn mutations that are related and are gained together over time. Added in version 0.7. Check ds mutation rules to see how they work.

faerie dragon

They don't exist!

faerie dragon armour

A randart with fixed appearance, worn by the Enchantress. Good AC for a light armour, sticky flame immunity, and guaranteed not to have some bad properties like Contam, *TELE, etc. Base type is mottled dragon armour.

fag

As Crawl uses en_AU, a cigarette. So sorry but your slur won't work.

failbot

<Fail_Bot> ??add FailBot is made of epic fails

fair

No, this game isn't fair. But it was your fault, anyway. Especially because you were casting spells with a 30-50% chance of failure.
<nrook> that's what's so great about Crawl: every time, you don't even have rage at the chance of the heavens to sustain you; you know, with a cold certainty something like that of a priest who has lost his faith in God, that your death was caused by none other than yourself, and that a better man could have avoided it.
(12:31:49 AM) eith: in general crawl is mostly unavoidable deaths, thats one of the design goals

faketourney

Faketourney banners include: http://i42.tinypic.com/4ttyx1.png

falchion

One handed long blade, Dam: 8, Acc +2, Delay 13

famine card

Sets you to halfway between starving and dead. Found in deck of oddities and deck of punishment.

famott

<FaMott> I never realized how stupidly I play <FaMott> GUYS <FaMott> IM RETARDED. <rwbarton> *I'M <FaMott> SHUT UP.

famous last messages

You are too berserk!
You are too confused!
You can't drink.
Magic scrolls do not work when you're silenced!
Careful! You are starting to lose your buoyancy.
You are too injured to fight recklessly!
You may not evoke while suppressed!
You convulse!
You blink.
Your surroundings suddenly seem different.
You die...
You have escaped!
You quit...

famous last words

according to the wiki
<meowfelid> Ah well. Unwielding Distortion on a Demon Whip shouldn't be too bad, right?
<tensorpudding> well, rF+ is enough for zot:5 right?
@??Nikola
<TempMfCr> Phew. Survived Vaults1-7. <TempMfCr> Vaults8 should be not much harder
<rwbarton> maybe I should do tomb for the xp
<ZChris13> What is this ancient lich thing
punpun: four orbs of fire says I should probably run, but I am kind of close to the orb
<Ragdoll> surely i can kill antaeus 1v1
<LordSloth> Oooh, rupert has a glowin exec axe
<keszocze> hm, very large slime creatures are not that impressive
< Brickman> But if I blow all my MP on it I'll get him eventually
<N78291> hm, can you passwall through slime walls
<minced> Hmmm, guardian spirit seems REALLY good for SpEn.
<flamoot> KeAE seems a lot easier in 8.0 <Henzell> flamoot the Gusty (L3 KeAE), blasted by Crazy Yiuf (wand of frost) on D:2, with 160 points after 1856 turns and 0:06:11.
<snow_> im going to try to kill this cerebov person
<Elynae> summon ice beast is so damn good <Elynae> i'll kill cerebov with it to prove that <Gretell> Elynae the Summoner (L11 HuSu), worshipper of Ashenzari, killed by miscasting Summon Ice Beast on Lair:1, with 7605 points after 18288 turns and 1:21:04.
someone on tavern suggested
[16:19] <dpeg_> bhaak: I hope someone takes up the nerfing hammer, it is the single most important tool.
<Sorbius> fancy, orc with a distortion brand on D3... good thing I follow lugoni <Henzell> Sorbius the Skirmisher (L3 DsAK), worshipper of Lugonu, slain by an orc (a +1,+2 orcish spiked flail of distortion) on D:3
76431 | Abyss | cerebov im going to murder you
i thought i was the other @
i thought a boring beetle was a wall. oops.
shit i'm tied to it
<monqy> i'm going to golubria onto hellion island
123794 | Zot:5 | This is working better than I expected...
<Scherzo> If there's a wall N of you and you try to blink N, will, oh, wait, I've an amulet of Stasis on

fan mail

<dpeg> We get billions of letters starting with "I want a child from you guys!", I cannot take it anymore.

fanfiction

"Celestial Star-Crossed Lovers Eternal", by Wensley: http://i54.tinypic.com/24qp8vd.png
see macbeth
see zeor[1]

fannar

Ice-casting unique elf. Summons Ice Beasts and casts Refrig, Bolt of Cold, and Ozo's Armour.
The reason why monsters can now wear jewellery. Send your regards to Grunt!
< Ragdoll> the soldier ant next to me was more dangerous than fannar
<bza> he's an elf popsicle

faq

Q: I have a question. A: ??topic
Q: Why do orbs of fire have rDrown? A: <N78291> if you happen to enslave a merfolk aquamancer on zot:5, I think the orb of fire's rDrown will reduce the wave spell damage
Q: <Red_Bucket> Can getting hit by an orb of destruction cause you to get str drained A: <N78291> Red_Bucket: under the highly specific situation in which you worship Jiyva with ****** piety, take more than a 1/4 of your max hp in the hit, spawn jellies and hit the very unlikely chance of draining some str, yes
<JoshTriplett> "You feel a slight, muted jump rush through you." <JoshTriplett> Huhwhat? <N78291> apparently you put a ring of teleportation on in sprint
<eb> also what happens if you use enslave soul on nergalle and then drowns her while ddoor is on
<N78291> does leda's prevent tornado

farj

Online, has entered Elf but not Lair.

farming

"Farming" is added to the titles of games lasting longer than 200,000 turns by the IRC bots.

fart jokes

!vault lom_lobon_spiral_st

fast metabolism

Mutation that makes you hunger faster by 1 per level of mutation (default rate is 3 for most races).

fastslow

You are both hasted and slowed, which makes you move at normal speed. You still get glow from being hasted.

fat

!learn edit serpentscourge s/An/Ann

faz

Not pivotal.

faze

Pivotal the King of Cash, legendary Demigod Miser
The first cheater whom used crashscumming to get the tomb rune with chei ogfe, after orb run
Now I imagine faze as a Hemingway-esque character, with a cigar hanging out of the corner of his mouth as he angrily pounds out a scathing missive on an old mechanical typewriter.
see {!lg * playable title~~barricade$ s=crace / won @pivotal ?: N=0}
<faze> 81 SH isn't enough
<faze> i'm a zombie?
You awkwardly throw an elf skeleton of Fannar.
A wise man once said, 'In my mind a toon actually using a Large Shield should be a bastion of defense.'

fazisi

<fazisi> shit, i quoted myself wrong
"fucking elitists"

fcrawl

http://sprunge.us/FUjD (kind of broken in some ways, oh well)
D -> Orc:2 -> Lair -> D:9 -> Orc:3 -> Snake:1-2 -> Vaults:1-4 -> D:10 -> Snake:3 -> Vaults:5 -> Zot
devteam: nooodl, elliott, nooodl, nooodl, monqy
(the f stands for "femto-")
<rwbarton> fcrawl is basically a cross between crawl and rfk

fe

You might be looking for Fire Elementalist, or perhaps Felid.

feak guide

37140 | Lair:6 | mikee: my feak guide. 1) exclude everything 2) go to lair

fear

Status that stops you from moving towards a monster. The opposite of mesmerise. For the spell or scroll see scroll of fear.

feast card

Makes you as engorged as you can possibly be.

feature mimic

Because being chased by a shop is hilarious.
<rwbarton> wouldn't you rather have real features

fedhas

Abilities: prayer turns corpses in LOS into skeletons, turns zombies into skeletons (or destroys them), destroys ghoul genus monsters for piety gain, causes toadstools to grow; evolution - turn plants or fungi into stronger species. Upgrading fungi costs piety, upgrading plants costs fruit.
sunlight - illuminates a small aoe inflicting backlit status and evaporating water; growth - creates plants in a circle around you, costs 1 fruit per plant, if a complete circle can't be placed plants are placed on open squares closest to monsters; reproduction - spawn giant spores from corpses in LOS
rain - creates a circle of water around you, the floor becomes shallow water, shallow water becomes deep water, randomly spawns plants and fungus
Fedhas worshipers can walk through plants. Fedhas worshipers may shoot through friendly or neutral plants. Plants and fungi are neutral towards Fedhas worshipers
WOOD FOR THE WOOD GOD!
You can polymorph other giant spores without penance....
oklob-hugger

fedhas madash reasons

<mikee_> it's like plant zin
Wandering mushrooms are by far the most powerful *..... god ability in the game.
Reasons: You want to have several final ditch effort for survival options, including: Making water around you, making a plant wall around you, making plants to Oklob plants and having them murder your enemies.
Fedhas' abilities also tend to be a mixed bag of odd abilites that come in use in a variety of ways. For example, sunlight can be used to make a land bridge or drain water and thus take care of those pesky submerging fish.
Maurice stole your cool stuff and then drowned.
The kraken flops around on dry land!

fedhas wrath

Summons oklobs and wandering mushrooms in a circle around you. If there are corpses nearby, can turn them into spores. Also, fire/ice/air/earth miscasts. 30 penance.
The oklobs can fire at you -through- the wandering mushrooms. Enjoy!
!lg * killer=~oklob ikiller=~fedhas 1 -tv

fedhate murderdash

Fedhas' evil alter-ego, only worshipable via an altar found at the Abyssal Stair. Responsible for all the withered and demonic plants you see in the dungeon. Powers: decompose living enemies, causing mushrooms to burst from their still-beating hearts; summon death cob

fehe

!tv zhangfei 5
see fehe guide

fehe guide

don't play fehe

fehe survivors

pseudonut, crate, vizer, elynae

felid

A cat race that can't use armour, weapons, wands or rods, and can't throw anything. They gain extra lives as they level up. They have claws (lvl 1, +2 dam), fangs, and fur. They cover ground quickly, see invisible, are carnivorous and have slow metabolism.
NyaaKitty is no longer allowed to play any race but this. Soon to be imposed (with a Dis-imported paw) on all Team Cat members. The punishment is to play a non-Felid.
< elliptic> FR: walk on keyboard ability
http://buttersafe.com/2011/05/19/even-more-robot-cat/
bee: wait bee: are felids just cats
!lm demonblade fewn br.enter=lair 2 -tv:>3:x2

felid of oka reasons

your own corpse gives a buttload of piety
<rwbarton> the other good thing is that when felids die they are at lower xl so they gain more oka piety from everything

felid reasons

Extra life! You're a member of team cat. You have trouble deciding on a weapon type. You like it when most items are irrelevant to you.
You like automating half the game then winning in 1:05.
You're insane.
Greatplayers.
<Kyrris> I just quaffed experience solely to get an extra life, because I am about to die to poison. <Kyrris> From a needle trap.

felid unreasons

!lg zhangfei x=dam,hp,mhp

fellow slime

Your jolly fellow slime friends!

femo of chei

shut up
While you're doing that, go outside.

fencers gloves

Unrandart +2 gloves {EV+3 Dex+3 Acc+8}

fepr

<Elynae> Welcome, hyperelynae the Felid Priest. <Elynae> Will you prevail where others failed? Will you get the Orb of Zot? <Elynae> no please

fesu

<SwissStopwatch> Your greatest enemy is probably the impulse to end it all when you realize you're a Felid -and- a Summoner

fetichist

Google it - go on, I dare you :P

fewr

<jeanjacques> what a trainwreck

ffun

"fun and only fun"

fiend

One of three fairly nasty tier 1 demons, all of which can cast torment along with assorted other things. See brimstone fiend, ice fiend, shadow fiend.

fiend lich

Affectionate term for a lich that summons multiple 1's which can lead to a fatal summon storm.

fight

the best(/spammiest) invention since ever. telnet termcast.develz.org (FightClub channel) to watch. "!fight cancel" to end a fight that's stalled, or repeat the same command line with "cancel" at the end, e.g. !fight butterfly v butterfly cancel.
Examples: "!fight 20-headed hydra v 10 kobold ; scimitar ego:flaming", "!fight 99 orc v the royal jelly", "!fight electrical eel v 10 rat". Note the syntax for some monsters -- make sure you aren't pluralizing, and spell monster names correctly.
PM varmin your !fight requests to reduce channel spam.
http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/arena.txt

fighter

Growing up, this fellow spent all his time on the training field, not in the magic library. Generally starts with: light weapon, scale mail, shield, bonus hp and str.
Optional conduct: you must play while working out in Real Life. GreyKnight's findings: concentration becomes hard, switching hands is hard (do not drop dumbbell on laptop; it won't help)
Also a monster flag that increases the accuracy of attacks. Monsters with this flag add their HD to melee to-hit (25*hd/10 versus 15*hd/10 for most monsters). They also get 20% extra damage and to-hit to ranged attacks.

fighter reasons

Play a fighter give you a shield, play a fighter is simple!

fighting

The Fighting skill gives you a bonus to accuracy and damage in melee, and improves your hit points by ((1+racial_factor/10) * Fighting * XL) / 8 (see hp).

fighting bonus

Fighting skill bonus to damage is (40 + 1d(fighting + 1))/40 for unarmed combat, or 2.5% per point, and (30 + 1d(fighting +1))/30 for armed, or 3.33% per point.

fine

a randart prefix

finisher

The +3,+5 scythe "Finisher" {speed, Str+3}.

finrod

Expert in getting mangled by things with horribly powerful weapons.

fire bat

Need a light?
I'm looking to buy propane accessories.

fire brand

This spell sets a weapon held by the caster ablaze. It will not affect weapons otherwise subject to special enchantments. Using this on a slicing weapon lets it chop off hydra heads instead of making more grow. If you are fighting something cold-blooded, you want freezing aura instead.

fire crab

A red t that breathes flame clouds everywhere. Likes to burn all your scrolls.
<archl> the other kind of fire crab is just donald trump

fire dragon armour

A magical armour, made from the scales of a fire-breathing dragon. It provides great protection from the effects of fire, but renders its wearer more susceptible to the effects of cold. (AC 8, EV -3, rF++, -cold, 35 aum). All races but felids, draconians, and octopodes can wear this.

fire dragon hide

AC 3, EV -3, rF++, rC-. Enchant armour will turn it into a fire dragon armour. Was simply called "dragon hide" before 0.10.

fire drake

Has fiery breath, deals a lot of damage, speed 12, and retreats when wounded.

fire elemental

Fast elemental that trails fire. Doesn't hit very hard, but can destroy your scrolls. Often indicates the presence of Azrael.

fire elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some conjurations and fire magic skill and a Book of Flames.

fire elementalist reasons

Sticky flame.

fire giant

Will try to roast you from a distance, which can be very nasty if you don't have fire resistance. Always carries a red-hot great sword.
Confusing it into lava doesn't work. Go figure.
see the royal jelly[8]

fire magic

Spell school for blowing things up, *with fire*. Overall, this is the best sort of blowing things up, but fire magic is notably short on non-conjurations, although there are a few they generally either support your fire conjurations (ring of flames) or don't benefit from high fire magic (evaporate).

fire miscast

1: smoke cloud / burn scrolls (2-14 dmg if *vulnerable*); 2: 5-33 fire damage / 3d14 fireball; 3: 9-41 fire dmg / 3d20 fireball / stickyflame

fire storm

L9 fire/conj spell. Deals 55% resistible fire damage in a large radius and leaves behind fire clouds and fire vortices. Like ice storm, it makes a godawful racket when cast. Unlike ice storm, it is smite-targeted.
Player fire storm has a limited range, but monsters can target fire storm on anything they can see. Standing at the edge of LOS will not make you safe from Cerebov.
For a demonstration of how to use fire storm optimally, view this: !lm nfogravity br.end=dis 3 -tv:<-4.5:>6.2
see hilarious_deaths[87]

fire summon

Fiends, hellions, and stuff that doesn't matter.

fire vortex

A byproduct of casting Fire Storm.

fireball

Level 5 Fire/Conjuration spell. Cannot be evaded. Makes noise. Hits a 3x3 area.

firecrab

FIRECRAB's ghost laughs crazily.

firefox

Summons flying webpages, will only be hostile if you don't bother with NoScript and Adblock Plus.

first world problems

<AtT_> oh fuck <AtT_> i just opened a package of the wrong type of crackers <AtT_> that i don't want to eat
http://catandgirl.com/archive/2012-01-12-cgfirst.gif

fish

FISH!

fixedart

A fixedart is an artefact that has special, unique effects defined in the code. Compare unrandart, which is just an predefined, regular artefact.
&|

fizzle

You just cast a spell with no valid target.

flail

Damage: 10, Acc: 0, Delay: 14.

flame card

{damaging card}: 50% fireball, else {throw flame, sticky flame, bolt of fire} by power.

flame tongue

Spell which throws a low-power, low-accuracy puff of flame two to five spaces. Note that the max range is spell power-dependent - don't expect your fledgeling DEFE to fry anything significantly beyond melee. 1d14 at max power.

flaming

Increases damage by (on average) 25% against non-fire-resistant monsters, 50% on rF-, still 12.5% on rF+, 0 on rF+++. Slicing/chopping flaming weapons will cauterize hydra necks, preventing the heads from regrowing.

flaming corpse

Applies sticky flame on melee hit. Fun!

flayed ghost

The most dangerous non-pghost "p", but by the time you meet it not much of a threat. A staple of Gehenna.

flight

Level 3 Charms/Air. Grants flight for its duration.
<elliott> kryft: think of flight like... <elliott> kryft: a treadmill <elliott> and the treadmill is hovering <elliott> and it goes forwards when you walk on it <elliott> also the treadmill lets you pick up things from the floor

flight card

Card power 0: if you currently can, makes you transform into either spider form or bat form. 1&2: gives you flight and swiftness. 2: if on a shaft-appropriate level, generates a shaft beneath you (which you can then voluntarily dive down with >). May also make you invisible, 1 chance in (4 - card power).

fling icicle

What the hell were they thinking with that name?
see throw_icicle

floating monster

Very annoying bug that chases hayenne each time he plays CDO stable. It appears when monster is generated in empty space between walls.

floor

That obstacle which most directly prevents you from reaching the lowest level of the Dungeon.

floor god

The god of the floor and what lies upon it.
Like Xom except nicer. Except when Nessos gets a draining weapon.
This god likes it when you wield- or wear-id picked up weapons. This god dislikes it when you pay no attention to unided artefacts.

floor mimic

kinda like a trapdoor spider that appears in pan and makes you press x a lot

floosh

Floosh!

fluffymormegil

Regards "mormegil" as his canonical netname and uses the fluffy modifier for hysterical raisins.

fly

Indicates you're flying. If it's blue (or dark blue for low duration), means you're a tengu and thus are receiving a 1 point speed boost. If it's pink (or purple), means you're not. See also flight.

flying skull

Fast, swarming, and utterly harmless undead. Often not worth killing. Annoying when it wakes up the Tomb by shrieking, though.
...so possibly worth killing.

focus

IT DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR TOTAL XP
Have you considered just turning off all your skills except the one you want the most?
You can make this easier by adding "skill_focus = false" to your config file.
<SaintGutFree> Focus is the default skill I use when I want some just training in the background

focus card

This card reduces your lowest stat by 1 and increases your highest stat by 1. Only looks at base stats.

foo

A metamagical syntactificator.
someone to pity

foo trap

a trap for trapping foos

food

Goes in mouth/beak. Without carnivore or herbivore: Royal jelly weighs 5.5, is 5000 nutrition. Meat weighs 8, is 5000 nutrition. Bread weighs 8, is 4400 nutrition. Honeycomb weighs 4, is 2000 nutrition. A chunk weighs 10, is 1000 nutrition. Takes 4 turns to eat rations, 3 for chunks, 1 for ambrosia, and 2 turns for all other food.
Sultana is 70. Grape is 100. Strawberry is 200. Lychee/choko/rambutan is 600. Apricot/pear/apple is 700. Banana/lemon/orange is 1000. Cheese/sausage is 1200. Beef jerky/pizza/snozzcumber is 1500. Porridge is 6040.
http://corexii.com/crawl/permafood/
Do not eat a ration right before teleporting, or this will happen to you. !lg jeremie opee zot:5 1 -tv:<0.5

food acquirement

If you worship Fedhas, you get fruit! Ghouls get some chunks, vampires get potions of blood, everyone else gets rations or honeycombs or royal jellies.
Do not underestimate it. See effo[1] for a feasible example.

food clock

a clock made out of food

food reform

<ebarrett> it's basically dual wielding except with bread

food spells

Animate Skeleton, Inner Flame, Ice Form, Blade Hands, Petrify + {Lee's Rapid Deconstruction}, Orb of Destruction, Dragon Form, Necromutation

food vaults

A series of vaults from which there is a guaranteed vault on D:7-14 which places some food.

football

!fight 11 raven v 11 titan

footprints

The new show_travel_trail option is now the default, showing your footsteps as you go. Set show_travel_trail = false in your rcfile to turn it off.

footv

telnet termcast.develz.org (and then select the letter for FooTV), or http://termcast.develz.org. Do not use SSH. Shows games requested using !tv. Request games by adding -tv to !lg, !lm or !hs, cancel games by adding -tv:cancel to the same command-line, clear playlist with !lg * -tv:nuke
Use -tv:<N to start playback approx Nx before the default start (-tv:<3 to start 3x before normal start), and for milestones, -tv:>N to end playback Nx after normal end, -tv:>$ to end playback at end of ttyrec. You can combine both seek options as -tv:<2:>3
For good fooTV, ??embarrassing deaths, ??hilarious deaths, ??amazing games, ??great near misses
If playback looks weird to you in PuTTY, then try setting the translation to UTF-8 under Window->Translation->Received data assumed to be in which character set
<Kyrris> It's how good players laugh at bad ones. <Kyrris> It masquerades as a learning tool for going in the other direction.

for science

<Red_Bucket> 99 exploding firebats can kill antaeus

forbidden combos

DgAK DgBe DgCK DgDK DgHe DgPr DsHe DsPr FeAM FeAr FeAs FeGl FeHu GhHe GhPr GhTm MuHe MuPr MuTm VpHe VpPr

force lance

Level 2 pure conjuration, new in 0.12. Deals modest damage and can knock back its target if it injures them, but is extremely short range.

forescry

Level 5 divinations spell, temporary +8 EV. Found in the Book of Divinations and Xom's random spell list. Duration can be extended via recasting to a maximum of 30 turns. Replaced by Phase Shift.

foreskin

You are looking for either forescry or an entirely different kind of channel.

forest

Currently D:19-26 whole level vault mock up of the forest branch. Lots of trees and spriggans. Ruled by the Enchantress. Watch out for druids, berserkers, defenders, and her (the first can use awaken forest, the last two have silly EV and get distortion weapons a lot).
Set the trees on fire to win.

forest fire

When you set fire to trees, it becomes a forest fire! Isn't that nice?

forgiveness

<Henzell> I don't have a page labeled forgiveness in my learndb.
see fair[3]

forgotten

"You seem to have forgotten something": No, you didn't; just a harmless message.

forum

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/
<nyaakitty> It's worse than the wiki because it's actually active.
<crate> mikee_: what, you dont learn fire storm on your spens?
<eeviac_> sometimes I wonder if these people even like crawl

forumrobin

Current plan: dive to elf:5 for a quarterstaff, preferably using one of 0.8's new quite powerful Mummies.

foul stench

Tier 2 Demonspawn facet. Level 1: Saprovore 1. Level 2: rRot, sicken monsters and sometimes emit miasma when damaged in melee. Level 3: emit miasma more often.

fountain

Clear blue fountains are decoration. Sparkling fountains sometimes act like random potions. Fountains of blood act like a potion of blood.
Risk-takers, please note that sparkling fountains can make you rot, and with great regularity. (And mutate, and a bunch of inconsequential things).
Aquatic life can survive in these. Cute, isn't it... that electric eel splashing around in the water. Drink the water, yes.

fountain mimic

One of the main dangers faced on the orb run.

fountain of blood

It's like a fountain of water, but with blood instead.

fountain quaffing

don't
see fountain[2]
see fountain[3]

fov

Field of view. In simplest terms, what's blocking your sight.

fox

A collection of round-robin style accounts. Totally unofficial!
DiamondFox, RubyFox, EmeraldFox, GoldFox, SilverFox, BronzeFox

foxfire card

Summons flying things. High power gives more powerful things, increases the number of things and and reduces the chances of things being hostile.
Summon types are: butterfly, insubstantial wisp, bumblebee, vampire mosquito, vapour, yellow wasp, red wasp. Each monster has an individual chance of being hostile. You'll get a warning message if you manage to summon hostile vapours on yourself with no SInv.

fr

Crawl-speak for Feature Request, a reference to the development page for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup where players can add input as to what they want to see in the game. http://crawl.develz.org/wiki/ but please check the archives first, as there are a few ideas that have been posted and rejected many many times.
Feature requests and feedback go on the dev wiki, which is set up for discussions. Mantis, the replacement for SourceForge, is for bug reports and patches.
Commonly contains ideas of such well-thought-out nature as two-headed ogre PC races, cooking, and Natasha to go with Boris.
Feature requests on ##crawl are usually pithy one-liners that are not meant to be taken seriously.
https://gist.github.com/3914194

frances

The plural form of France, bearing a deep facial scar. Buffed in 0.12 to have a meaner spell set: throw icicle, summon demon, haste, and iron shot. Now hasted, earlier, slightly weaker Frederick.

frederick

A svelte fighter-mage, wearing a gold-rimmed monocle. SPELLS INCLUDE: mystic blast, bolt of cold, invis, iron shot. Formerly known as Adolf.

freeze

A level 1 spell found in a book of Frost that never misses its target, but only has a range of one. It ignores the target's AC, bypassing damage reduction. It also can slow cold-blooded enemies, making it useful all the way through Lair. There's some sort of semi-stun that paralyses for a fraction of a turn depending on power. 1d13 at max power.
Non-cold-resistant creatures are stunned for random2(2 + power/5) ticks (tenths of a turn); power caps at 25 for a maximum of 0.6 turns. The duration is doubled for cold-vulnerable creatures.
see badwiki[2]

freezing

Increases damage by (on average) 25% against non-cold-resistant monsters, or 50% on vulnerable monsters. Also slows {cold-blooded} monsters. Still increases damage by 12.5% against monsters with rC+, the same as vorpal does.

freezing aura

Bestows a temporary (freeze) brand on a weapon. Works on the same weapons that fire brand does, and slows cold-blooded enemies like the freeze spell. If you are fighting a hydra with a chopping or slashing weapon, you want fire brand instead. Books: Ice, War Chants

freezing cloud

Fills 8-10 squares (by flood fill from the target point -- this can be manipulated, as it won't fill a square that already has a cloud) with clouds doing cold damage. (Conjurations/Ice/Air 6).
it kills things dead, but lasts for a long time after everything dies, so prepare to have a picnic waiting for it to clear
Sorbius: I imagine the dungeon is just hot as hell and the monsters are like, hell yeah AC! and then realise way to late what's really going on

freezing corona

monky is an alcoholic

freezing wraith

Hits you. Freezes you. Doesn't drain you. Slow.

freudian slip

<flyingpants> bloax just worthless chei
<spriseris> oh i should be pumping sex? <spriseris> er dex?

frost card

{damaging card}: {throw frost, throw icicle, bolt of cold} by power.

frost covered statue

A statue that throws frost at you. Guards certain out-of-Temple Vehumet altars.

frost giant

A giant that seems to emit a blue aura of winter frost. Channels frost into bolts and throws them at you, and is armed with a battleaxe with a similar blue glow.

fruity bat

what the fuck

fsim

A fight simulator in wizmode, accessible with &f and &F.

fsvo

for some value of

ftl

Faster Than Light, a spaceship simulation real-time roguelike-like.

fuck eels

seriously

fuck it

fuck it

fuk da sac

_i - 2 scrolls labeled FUK DA SAC
Welcome to Fag Cum's Jewellery Boutique! What would you like to do?
216675 | Pan | Noticed Not Gay the pandemonium lord 216680 | Pan | Defeated Not Gay the pandemonium lord
_l - a scroll labeled DIK LIQEOD
B _ Suck the boulder beetle
x - a scroll labeled VEREIL FUCK
p - +3 buckler "Stripesass" {rF++ rN+}
Your ring "Adick" {Regen MR AC+5} glows black for a moment.
D - the -5,-1 mace "Shit" {flame, MUT+ +Rage rF+ rN+ AC+4}
s - a scroll labeled PEENYS OSAHIBREGEE
Found 9 gold pieces and a scroll labeled DICKOMIXTIO.
Found a scroll labeled MNOSOI SHIT.
There is an entrance to Twat's Magic Scroll Shop here.
There is an entrance to Famoutits' Antique Armor Boutique here.
F - a scroll labeled TIT STROIPE
<N78291> r - the ring of Cunt {Str+1 Acc+2}
w - a scroll labeled GUYL EFAILASS
<Lawman> z - the ring "Wang" (right hand) {+Blink +Inv rF+ MR}
<Pacra> L - the +2 wizard hat "Damn" (worn) {rN+ SInv}
160574 | Pan | Noticed Gaypod the pandemonium lord
the amulet of Fuck {+Rage rF- rN+ Str+2 SInv}
364801 | Pan | Noticed Shitef the pandemonium lord
120666 | Zot:4 | Noticed Xenuol Titz the pandemonium lord
< minqmay> There is an entrance to Smutt's Book Boutique here.
_V - the ring "Dabutt" {+Rage +Lev rElec rN+ SInv}
As you read the scroll labeled UXA GUD FUUKK, it crumbles to dust. This is a scroll of acquirement!
"As you read the scroll labeled MUH PA CLIT, it crumbles to dust. Nothing appears to happen"
<Luterac> f - a scroll labeled DARREA FRAG - is this some form of explosive diarrhea grenade?
c - the ring of Fac Keu {Wiz Dex+3 Int+3}
422768 | Zig:23 | Noticed Ucum the pandemonium lord
the cursed -4 leather armor of Shituwn (worn) {+Lev Dex-5}
L - the cursed ring of Clitz {Dex+2 Acc+3 Dam+5 SInv}
<magistern> Y - the ring "Cock" {MUT rN+ Str+1}
64400 | D:1 | Noticed Twat
the ring of Ofuck {+Inv Dex-3 Stlth--}
Zin Efag's Book Shop
v - 2 scrolls labeled OFUQ IT OBUNG
_p - a scroll labeled VAGGOU FURIO
Found a scroll labeled CUNTIN NEL SETS.
K - a scroll labeled KISOASS ECKOCK
K - the +1 cloak of Khum (worn) {rF+ rC+ Dex+2}
<Ashannar> _m - the cursed ring "Poopn" {SustAb Dex+1 Dam+5}
& _ Broasses
deathshade the Sorcerer (L27 KoNe), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, blasted by Faps the pandemonium lord (great blast of cold) in Pandemonium, with 633953 points after 148801 turns and 21:45:24.
< Sysice> "Welcome to Quum Loud's Food Emporium!"
<Gretell> bh the Sinner (L17 HODK), worshipper of Yredelemnul, blasted by an Ice Fiend (bolt of cold) (summoned by Epicwang) in D (Sprint), with 116814 points after 5042 turns and 1:05:28.
i - a scroll labeled MATWUR FUCKEAH
<johnny0> b - the ring "Throcunt" {-Tele +Rage rF+ rN+}
Dyck's magic leaks into the air.
h - the ring "Phukh" {Contam rPois rN+ MR} 382 gold
<Noom_afk> the ring "Dousch" (left hand) {MR Dex+4 Int+5}
122288 | D:22 | Noticed Shitabby the pandemonium lord
_Peni gestures. Your stone body feels more resilient. You block Peni's attack.
n - the +1 chain mail of Twatt {+Inv}
<minqmay> _Found Schitt's Magical Wand Emporium.
_w - a scroll labeled URIPIP SHITZ
y - the ring of Phag {Str+1 Dex+5 Int+3 SInv}
G - the ring "Phag" {Hunger- +Rage +Inv rElec rF+ Str-1 Acc+3 Stlth--}
_i - a scroll labeled JUFFUCK LUASHY
_d - a scroll named FUCKAT QIELOM
see hustler[1]
You finish putting on the +2 pair of boots "Khock" {+Inv}.
N - the +4,+2 bow "Zafagot" {velocity, +Inv}
see mercenary_card[4]
[D:5] Kocsuuk's Magic Scroll Shop

fullsome distilation

It's spelled fulsome_distillation.

fulminant prism

Level 5 conjuration/hexes, new in 0.12. Conjures an explosive prism at a smite-targeted location which will detonate with a radius-2 explosion after 2 turns, dealing considerable irresistible damage.
The prisms are very fragile and if destroyed prematurely will result in either a smaller, weaker explosion, or no explosion at all (if they are killed immediately after being created).

fulsome distillation

Old spell in ancient versions of crawl, distilled into oblivion in 0.12.

fun

You finish putting on the -5 leather armour of Fun MR.
see death
see {death[3]}
Losing

fun with your own corpse

1. qwqw the Grave Robber (L4 FeNe), slain by a felid zombie (animated by the player character) on D:1 on 2010-10-17, with 99 points after 3994 turns and 0:08:48.
You finish ripping the felid corpse of turnerjer into pieces. You enjoyed that. u - a chunk of felid flesh
see corpse slap

fungal colony

ballistomycete

fungee

<fungee> octopodes in trunk?!!? <MarvinPA> octopodes <MarvinPA> in trunk <Henzell> Fungee the Summoner (L14 OPSu), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, quit the game on Lair:6, with 47902 points after 42277 turns and 3:16:12. <MarvinPA> haha i did just say they're not playable online yet <MarvinPA> that might have been a little premature :P
Huge secondary Touhou fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRPhNH-YWo

fungus

A non-interactive plant in the dungeon. Nothing special about it, except that it can block an oklob plant's LOF.

fungus form

A bad form. You become a wandering mushroom! Permanent confusing touch, can't move with enemies in LOS, rPois, rN+++. Can't cast spells, eat, drink, wield or evoke wands.

funny messages

You have gained Spellcasting skill! You're starting to get the hang of this magic thing. The kobold looks frightened! _The kobold blubbers, "Mommeee!"
I'm sorry, level 27 is as high as you can go. With the way you've been playing, I'm surprised you got this far.
You dice the ogre like an onion!!!
You spit the hog like the proverbial pig!!!
Something frightening happens. Nothing appears to happen.
The exploding dart explodes!
You freeze the imp. The imp is frozen!
An unseen horror comes into view.
anything donald says
< Nomi> Your burning bush burns!
f _ wandering mushroom (wandering)
Some lava, spattered with blood.
Your ice beast shivers with cold.
<minqmay> _Death has come for you... <minqmay> _The reaper shouts, "I have come for you, minmay!"
The komodo dragon bites the fungus! The fungus looks sick.
You miscast Ozocubu's Armour. Frost covers your body.
The vault guard hits you but does no damage. You writhe in agony.
An electric eel bursts forth from the water. - electric eel (sleeping)
The orc priest calls down the wrath of Beogh upon the orc warrior. The orc warrior is healed somewhat.
You hear words spoken in a strange and terrible language... You hear the tinkle of a tiny bell.
You open the door. 2 Hell Sentinels come into view. You close the door. You feel sick.

fur

+1/+2/+3 AC, 0/0/+1 rC. Beware of furry conventions, though. Fortunately, tail is not included.

furious headbutt

see {chapayev}

future of crawl

<MarvinPA> mmmm titanic acid blobs should be a thing

gamblers fallacy

Given a long string of independent events, having lots of positive events in a row does not increase the chance that the next event(s) will be negative, and vice versa.
To be clear, the fallacy is NOT believing gamblers_fallacy[1].

game design

< _Jeff> dpeg: This is why you have to run everything past the powergamers and let them break it first :P
<+evilmike> Wensley: ideally, you should make levels that kill players, not levels that make players want to kill themselves
http://seriousgames.msu.edu/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/images/heart.png
<kryft> I'm inspired by recent developments in Finnish tobacco law

gamefreak264

<gamefreak264> I can get really icky if no one is watching
IS AFRAID.
Is popular!
Is rivals with both monky and casmith789. At the same time!

gameknut

look, I'm making my own entry!

garaithi

As the brain inside gets smarter, the jelly body gets better at flying around and killing shi'nit

gas trap

Cloud traps given specific names (though are still vault-defined); remember the results can be huge but is usually short-lived, and the traps can be disarmed. Varieties, leaning further down the list by depth: mephitic, poisonous, calcifying, flame, freezing, chaos, and miasma.

gastronaut

Wizard slug from space.

gastronok

A greedy elephant slug who ate a wizard for lunch and now casts spells! Casts airstrike, spammals, swiftness, slow, and 'slugform'-flavoured cantrip. You feel sluggish! He's even smart enough to open doors!
HD 20 means he has a 95% chance of just ignoring your mephitic clouds. Will happily stand in flame clouds until nearly dead, though.
see hat_of_pondering
http://i.imgur.com/Vxi0h.png
Gastronok has been unjustly deprived of his 150 damage. Please multiply any damage you take from his melee attacks by 3.75.
< SeashellSalesman> holy shit < SeashellSalesman> i just got killed in one hit by a spell casting slug D:
see guru_wisdom[3]
<mikee_> you can 'kill' gastronok by walking out of his los

gateway to hell

<elliott> it's a learning experience! about hell

gauntlets

Pairs of gloves have a 50% chance of being described as pairs of gauntlets.
Jules: how am I able to put on a pair of gauntlets while wielding a cursed weapon?

gauntlets of war

A nice unrandart +3 AC, +5 Acc, +5 Dam gloves.

gazebo

You can't shoot at gazebos.
You must face the gazebo alone.

gd1

Type this to win after you pick up the orb.

gdr

If you're making equipment decisions based on this, please reconsider.
Guaranteed damage reduction versus melee attacks, conferred by body armor. Formula is 14 * sqrt(base AC-2)% (34 for dragon form, like fire dragon armour; 39 for statue form, like plate armour). This percentage applies to the maximum potential damage for an attack, not the actual damage rolled. However, GDR will prevent at most AC/2 damage.
Note that 'maximum potential damage' is assumed to be monster attack damage + weapon's base damage. Enchantment and berserk/might are not included in this calculation, for example.

geck

Garden of Eden Creation Kit. If you see one of these in your game, you are probably not playing Crawl.
Also Grey Elf Chaos Knight.

gecko

A lizard which is just that little bit stronger to make itself a thorn in the side of weak mages. Otherwise rather trivial.

gehenna

The branch of hellfire. Home of Asmodeus and the obsidian rune. Lots of lava to cross, and enough sticky flame and hellfire that you probably shouldn't bother with scrolls. Highest concentration of Fiends in any branch; High HP is recommended here.
Gehenna 7 is a fortress with a moat of lava. Entrance through moat on other side of where you enter the level. Lots of molten gargoyles, lava denizens, and Fiends. Asmodeus hangs out in the fortress, guarding the Obsidian Rune of Zot.
If you can fly and destroy stone, there is translucent stone past the lava lake on either side of the moat providing a possible alternative entry in at least one layout of Geh:7

gelatinous body

It's like scales but not actually scales. Gives +AC.
Strawberry flavour.

gender

Roka, Xtahua, Nikola, and Mara are all guys.
see lugonu[2]
<SpaceT> lugonu can't be female, abyss is so untidy

genie card

50% of the time, acts like a scroll of acquirement. The other 50% of the time acts like either a potion of decay or degeneration.

genus

Monsters are arranged into genera (plural of genus). Monsters in the same genus are represented by the same letter. The main game significance of this is that different monsters in the same genus won't be distinguished by Detect Monsters.

geodew

Almost won his first game ever.

german

http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

germanyeurope

Where CDO is.

geryon

The guardian of hell, holding the key to enter the four hells. Note that Geryon's musical skills are hindered by silence.
Even with reaching attacks and summoned tramplers, still acknowledged by most as a wimp.

gflex

<G-Flex> Wensley: someone who complains as much as me can't be that resistant to change!
Argues with himself.
<G-Flex> I'm a transhuman so I dont have gender
<G-Flex> Starting an FE can be a little annoying because all you can do is hurt things with fire.
<G-Flex> google "density of water" on google

gh guide

Don't wield a weapon.

ghost

Ghosts get damage, hitpoints, resistances, speed, and spells very closely based on the former adventurer. They can be very dangerous in every regard; e.g. fighter ghosts can do 40+ damage in a hit and have more hitpoints than hydras, well-equipped ghosts can resist nearly anything, and well-learned ghosts can fire storm or chain lightning you.
All player ghosts, much like other undead, resist poison, asphyxiation, torment, and negative energy. Unlike player undead (player ghouls, vampires, and mummies), they do not (automatically) resist cold.
Ghosts don't follow you down/upstairs. They are doomed to forever haunt the level. Ghosts don't appear on D:1, D:2, or the Temple.
ghost titles: 1-3 weakling, 4-6 average, 7-10 experienced, 11-15 powerful, 16-21 mighty, 22-25 great, 26 awesomely powerful, 27 legendary
Like all monsters, you don't have to kill them in order to descend.
!log banei DrNe D:9 1

ghost damage

Take the weapon *base* damage, call it D. Add 4 * weapon skill * D / 100, call it D'. Add D' * fighting / 30, call it D''. Final Damage: figure is D'' + str/4, with a maximum of 50. Note that enchantment is IGNORED.
For unarmed combat, D' is Unarmed skill + 4 + (XL only with claws). For nonweapon, D' = 4.

ghost faced bat

A spectral bat with a different name. Friends with ol' dirty bat, raekwon the bat, and the method bat.

ghost moth

Fast, invisible, poison-resistant moth which gazes at you to drain mana and attacks you to drain stats and inflict poison. Found in Zot and in spider zig levels. They can also appear in the Spider's Nest, especially the last level.
Does not see invisible, so you can turn invisible to avoid the MP drain, but it can still drain you while you are invisible if it remembers your location.
"My mission is to annoy" - Lemuel
You feel you are being watched by something.
<sky__> i find it amazing that ghosts moths can't see invisibl <crate> how do they mate

ghostfaced bat

Like a spectral bat, but with a ghost face.

ghostrobin

Griefer account originally created by cbus to persecute the dungeon with powerful ghosts.

ghosttv

XL>10 deaths to player ghosts.

ghoul

Player ghouls have claws (see unarmed combat), rN+++, rC+, rPois, and torment immunity. They also rot over time. Eating chunks can cure rot and/or restore HP; these effects occur independently, and are more likely when eating rotten or contaminated chunks. Monster ghouls do quite a lot of damage, have a ton of HP, and rot you.
You can wear gloves as a ghoul now, at the cost of your unarmed bonus.
Spells player ghouls can't use: revivification, death's door, stoneskin, any form-changing spell (including blade hands and necromutation), and spells that would have no useful effect such as cure poison.
You smell decay. Yum-yum.

ghoul reasons

Strong unarmed melee, high HP, and undead resists. Also good at eating!
Weapons are for cowards. Real men use their hands.
You can eat shadow dragons!
You can eat ghouls!

giant

http://catandgirl.com/archive/2012-08-21-cgdebate.gif
Also a strange "experimental" 4.1.2 species

giant amoeba

A midgame monster which leaves a poisonous corpse. Not very hard for when you meet it and no special abilities. Notable for being (if you're poison resistant) one of the few things to eat in the Slime Pits.
sorear prefers Polymorph Other. slime creature -> ice dragon is common and produces lots of clean chunks. Also, this way you don't have to fight pan lords.

giant blowfly

A big, fast nuisance. Unlike mosquitos, doesn't cause sickness with its attacks. Swat it. Died out when giant mosquitoes became vampire mosquitoes in 0.7.

giant centipede

A pathetic insect that has the potential to poison you and ruin your day with just low enough odds to be YASD.

giant club

A giant lump of wood. (two-handed mace; Dmg 20 Acc -6 Delay 17)

giant cockroach

It's large, it's disgusting, it moves fast, it doesn't hurt much. A good stomp should kill it. And it shields you from trog wrath.

giant eyeball

While these never have and never will kill any adventurers by themselves, their presence increases the danger of the other monsters enormously due to paralysing anyone they stare at. Great players who have been felled by giant eyeballs include Stabwound, Iaido, and Julius Caesar.
Its gaze doesn't need line of effect, just like smiting. Confusion doesn't stop it from gazing at you! Even magic resistance will not save you! If you're really at risk because one of these has showed up, and you can't escape, you could try something with generous targeting, like airstrike or bolts.
!lg Siveran char=KoAr killer="acid blob" 1 -tv
The giant eyeball evaporates and reforms as a gnoll! _The gnoll picks up a wand of paralysis.

giant firefly

like a killer bee but pathetic and with no poison

giant flail

A gigantic flail.

giant fly

Just giant fireflies, really.

giant frog

generic melee guy that moves faster than you

giant gecko

Faster than average and can twoshot a level one mage without troubles. An underappreciated threat, especially when low or out of mana.
Surprisingly strong in 4.1 - I'm not joking.
Since it has clinging, it gains suction while adjacent to walls

giant goldfish

This fish is what your Goldie looks like after overfeeding. It hurts, and hurts even more if you are in shallow water.

giant leech

A swamp monster with a vampiric attack. Can rot you slightly upon a vampiric hit.

giant lizard

Don't underestimate overly much if potentially fragile. They hit harder then giant iguanas with twice the HP. Mostly in the lair. Now amphibious and known as crocodiles.

giant mite

A creature that's almost dangerous but not quite. Can poison you, though, and hey, 10+ exp!
Mite be dangerous if you're careless.
This creature won't kill you in one turn, but a hill Giant Mite.

giant mosquito

Can make you sick with its attack, only a threat if you're trying to wait out poison.

giant newt

The weakest monster in the game. If you're sufficiently challenged by its presence to consult the bot, you're doing it wrong.
Beware! It swims!

giant orange brain

Summons (shadow creatures), eats your brain, blinks, uses confusion, and teleports itself if wounded. Also uses Cause Fear occasionally.
http://i.imgur.com/Mc0mT.jpg

giant spiked club

It looks *really* painful. Damage rating: 22 Accuracy rating: -7 Base attack delay: 18, (pierce) damage, never generated with a brand unless it's an artefact or god gift. Can only be wielded by trolls, giants, and ogres. The best twohander in the game.
You crush Tiamat like a grape!!!

giant spore

Explodes when killed or next to you to do 3d15 damage, confuse you, and destroy your food. Fortunately it has no AC and only 1 HP, but average EV - throw a rock at it if you lack conjurations or wands. The bane of Zin-worshippers and spriggans (except you can outrun them)! Use a polymorph wand on it if you like oklob plants.
Giant spore explosions may cause ballistomycetes to grow.
sorear the Marksminotaur (L13 MiGl), worshipper of Yredelemnul, killed by an exploding giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore)))) on D:11 on 2009-11-23, with 37349 points after 19708 turns and 2:06:31.

gift timeout

Measured in piety. Nemelex 5-14, Zin feeding 30-40, Okawaru 30-49 (weap) 60-94 (armour) 4-12 (msl), Sif 40-59, Vehumet 50-59. These are probably slightly off.

giga bat

As big as 1024 megabats

gila monster

It's a crocodile with a poisonous corpse. Now replaced with basilisk.

giomancer

Proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he is oooold: Did the Pawlowian trigger of "push turtle" --> "Mario!"

git

Readonly: git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git Read/Write: git@gitorious.org:crawl/crawl.git Web interface: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git or http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:help:git

gitorious

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gitorious admins

dpeg, jpeg, due, galehar, Keskitalo, kilobyte

gitstats

http://s-z.org/crawl-stats/ — updated infrequently
Sunday is not a day of rest, but August is: http://s-z.org/crawl-stats/activity.html

gladiator

Starts with: weapon, leather, helmet, nets.

gladiator reasons

Like fighters, but better.

glaive

Two Handed Polearm. Damage: 15, Accuracy: -3, Speed: 17
see halberd[2]

glaive of prune

+4,+12 purple vorpal glaive. Unfortunately will *not* turn you into a prune, even if you are a scummy.
Zin still hates the weapon, though.

glaive of the guard

+5,+8 glaive of the guard {elec +5AC SInv +Rage}

glamour

An ability grey elves received in old versions of crawl at xl 5. It tried to confuse, paralyze, charm, or scare nearby humanoids. It sucked.

glasses

chalk the Slicer (L10 KoBe), worshipper of Trog, forgot to breathe caused by an orange crystal statue on D:8, with 3097 points after 11144 turns and 0:34:15. <chalk> Without my glasses on I mistook it for an orc
<minmay> man I need to get some glasses, I'm playing tiles and I just mistook a blue potion for a naga barding
<bmh> shit. That was a crocodile and not a newt.

gloom

A cloud type that limits LOS to 2 squares.

gloorx vloq

Guardian of the Dark Rune. Arguably the most dangerous pan lord, since he is speed 20 and has a nasty spellset including torment, miasma, and dispel undead. His level also contains lots of executioners, which doesn't help matters.

gloves

Armour for your hands. +1 AC. You can't wear gloves if you have large claws or are too tiny due to being a spriggan. If your gloves are cursed you can't put on or take off rings. Ghouls can wear gloves, but their bonus claw damage is taken away while wearing them. Fun for fighting hydras!

gloves of strength

Gloves of strength add +3 to your strength. Good for you. There's not much else to know about them.

glow

A status light indicating your character is backlit; often caused by contamination.

glowing shapeshifter

Like a shapeshifter, only even worse - it changes much more often.

glowrobin

Glow as much as possible all the time. pw: robin

glui

unemployed unperson

glyph

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:interface:glyphs#glyph_list

glyph mode

Press F10 if you want to know what's going on in a webtiles game.

gmoc

greatermummyonecleaver

gmork

< Gmork> sandblast won't get me through 3 rune and zot?

gmos challenge

Successfully proc a gmos. Completed by: mikee, jeanjacques, elliptic.

gmos guide

<Nomi> go tso <Nomi> and get haste and statue form <Nomi> and stoneskin

gnoll

Present in packs, and predominantly packs punishing polearms of pugnacity. Possess prudence! Possibly provides pnets.
A common cause of death for low-level adventurers, owing to said polearms.

gnoll sergeant

Stronger version of a gnoll. Comes with a "good" spear, armour and shield or buckler.
<Qwertycoatl> Heh. "pulsating lump sergeant"

gnoll shaman

A gnoll that can haste others and heal. Also has petrify in 0.9.

gnome

Woohoo, earth aptitude of 60, but spellcasting of 156. Least played and won race as of 0.4.5. They were cut and replaced by Deep Dwarves.

go ely

Because only mean people go Kiku.

go kiku

go casmith789

go sif

go minmay

go to hell

You might wanna do Pan first though

goad

An ankus, but without an elephant.

goblin

One of the three main causes of early-game demonspawn death, though many PCs will practically laugh them to death. Generated occasionally with slings, which make for nasty surprises.
Occasionally goblins have slings. These goblins can be fatal. Don't laugh until you have survived. !lg faze killer~~g ckaux~~ex 1 -tv:<0.2:x0.5

god gift

An item gifted by a god. Not all gods gift items!

god of doors

Slated to appear in 0.Ω.

godlyplayers

Win with every god (including no god)

gods

'?' '/' 'G' for a complete list (in game). Type "??<full god name> reasons" (in IRC) to get a list of reasons which might motivate you to worship that particular god.
Ashenzari, Beogh, Cheibriados, Elyvilon, Fedhas, Jiyva, Kikubaaqudgha, Lugonu, Makhleb, Nemelex Xobeh, Okawaru, Sif Muna, Trog, Vehumet, Xom, Yredelemnul, Zin, the Shining One.

gold

Was meant as a tool to fight inflation, but failed. Money-gold connection removed in 1976.

gold acquirement

Gives 10*(20+1d20+1d8*1d8*1d8) gold. (Min=220, Max=5520, Mean=1218, Median=880, Std=911)
(3:08:51 AM) m0ng: scroll of retirement
<TGWi> I bought a scroll of acquirement for 364 gold <TGWi> and acquired 350 gold

gold dragon armour

12 ac -9 ev rF+ rC+ rPois.
The chance of any particular randomly generated armour on D:1 being GDA is about 0.00873%.
<nht> stands for goddamn awful now

gold dragon hide

4 AC, EV -5 rF+, rC+, rPois. Can theoretically drop when you chop up a golden dragon, but you will inevitably accidentally sacrifice the corpse instead. Try enchanting it.
see gold dragon armour

golden chain mail

Once upon a time it was always Lear's chain mail. Now just a standard randart.

golden dragon

A dragon that breathes bolts of fire and cold, and big clouds of poison. Less HP than a shadow dragon! Also see gold dragon armour.

golden eye

Come in packs! Confuse(checks MR)! Tiny! Fast! Also, they blink (getit).

golem

A magically animated servant. Often outlives its master, and can end up in the bottom of the sea, waiting for the proper time to finish its mission. During that time, ship anchors falling through the water are good entertainment and provide excitement.

goliath beetle

A very slow, yet reasonably dangerous creature. Do not stand and fight if you are not prepared for melee. You may want to instead take advantage of its slow speed by stepping back when it moves and striking when it cannot, or take advantage of its low MR with a confusion or paralysis wand.

golms

<golms> I love escalators. But people should realize it's not so you can be lazy, it's so you can get there faster. You can still walk on them people. You don't need to stand still.

goochar

**Pr[Jiyva]

good

not your ideas

good air magic spells

All of them.

good charms

charms

good combo

OpEn

good excuses

randomized energy
circular los

good gods

Elyvilon, the Shining One, Zin. Switching between them caps your piety at 45.
They're false gods, as proven by the fact that those who went to the afterlife (ghosts) dump these three but not any other god.

good joke entries

there aren't any

good names

the +3 helmet "Brick" {Dex+3}
134438 | D:8 | Noticed Fear the pandemonium lord
Ponce the Spear-Bearer (L16 DGCr) entered The Chambers of Gutaxe the Cloud Mage on turn 50708. (Vault:6)
<TGWi> - a scroll labeled MUUTATATOTOTS
166524 | Zig:25 | Noticed Ogremaet the pandemonium lord
<nht> q - 2 scrolls labeled MOMMYXOMUHU
<MarvinPA> & _ Chunky Nibue (sleeping) <MarvinPA> something about tentacles and it hungering for my soul
You see here: Kill the pandemonium lord
<minqmay> t - a scroll labeled UMUTO QUACK
Hero shouts, "Quit, thou corroded moldwarp corpse eater!
Found Riot's General Store. b - a cursed +0,-3 giant spiked club 1 gold c - a book of Control 1235 gold d - 6 +0 darts of dispersal 34 gold
Sif Muna's Arcane Secrets of Secret Knowledge god gift
<instar> _You see here a scroll labeled THE GIAGGOSTUONO.
the ring of Bling {SustAb rF++ MR Dam-4}
Chef moans, "I shall feast on thy spirit!"
t - Smell's Incunabulum of Excruciating Fire
<kast> V - a scroll labeled ZEERUMPY RYCK
y - the +2, +11 spear of Thecops {freeze, rN+}

good skill distribution

For 3-runer: Fighting: 14.3, Weapon skill: min. delay Dodging: 13.7 Armour: 9.4 Traps: 5.1 Spellcasting:16.6 One/Two major spell schools: 18.7
Do under no conditions stray from the specified amount of skill level.

good vaults

david_trickyentry_006, david_trickyentry_010, erik_asciiartentry_001, erik_asciiartentry_003, erik_asciiartentry_014, farm_and_country

goodchar

do not question goodchar
<Henzell> The RNG chooses: OgTh.
<Henzell> The RNG chooses: TeCr.
<Wenzell> The RNG chooses: MuPr.

goodcode

beem.is_beam = false
maybe_bloodify_square

goodcrawl

Autoexplore.
Autotravel.
Non-instant teleport.

goodcrd

In a very short time I will be stepping across the line of Conflict of Interest, and I need to know how to withdraw from this community with confidence.
Request #2: With all due respect I had asked to be REMOVED from this discussion board due to conflict of interest. Could someone please do so or tell me how to do so???

goodforum

I should have known better, that strategy came from the wiki
Has anyone else noticed ice beasts doing less damage than normal in the latest trunk? Seriously, they can hardly hurt high-AC enemies anymore. Summon Ice Beast is now near-useless as an anti-hydra and anti-bee weapon now, and it's easily outperformed by CCF.
Personally I prefer Ascii,for two reasons. 1)It is l33t!I mean,come on,how many games are there which can be played in a dos box and are actually fun?!

goodirc

<ophanim> and the best unarmed god in the game tends to be kind of anti-ds :| <SwissStopwatch> makhleb is anti-ds!?!?!?!?
<blackcustard> see when you play on the server you get to worship a second god called ##crawl, which is actually composed of several monkeys that know about crawl and will sometimes help you, but sometimes laugh. it's a little like xom but with fresh lines
<ontoclasm> i'm drawing an elf princess statue

goodmantis

0006649: jorgrun replaced by a chaos butterfly
WARNING! WRONG PATCH! DON'T DOWNLOAD JUST YET.
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=6767

goodplayers

10 or more wins.

goodreddit

yeah i hear that, such as,for example, i havent actually ascended with hte orb, but ive had like 3-4 characters where i died in vaults but you know, i count them as wins because the character was (imho) capable of doing zot.
So I've beaten Crawl three times now with three builds. I'm hoping to finally do a full 13-rune run.
i too personally know in irl some real amazing dudes, at crawl, they are like 4-5x times better than elliptic at least. and they all say that minotaur enchanters are super easy, and that if you play a minotaur enchanter and lose, well, your a big noob. none of them play online though for reasons which i wont elaborate on right now
i foind exploit for crawl ,i made a hill orc fighter and moved around the map hitting monsters with an axe until they died. i gained several expeirence levels in this fashion
Don't wear Gourmand in lichform, wear Clarity
macro half the keys on your keyboard to aa and the other half to firestorm and hammer the keyboard wildly with your fists
hey check it out im going play MiBe and wear a +0 leateher armor instead of this enchantable plate armor, its my Playstyle you see. whoa hold up what do you mean im a retard?? you cant say that im wrong in an absolute sense.
Have you tried the walking away spell?

goodsa

Get rid of haste, make the endgame 33% less dangerous

goon

A member of the Something Awful forums. See sa.

gourmand

Amulet of the gourmand lets you eat chunks at any satiation level. However, it takes average 400 turns after wearing to fully kick in. As it charges, the nutrition from chunks when not hungry scales from 1/21 to 100% and the contamination resistance scales from 0% to 100%. Saprovores use gourmand to pretend chunks are rotten similarly.
If you see 'tastes great' when eating a chunk, your amulet of the gourmand is fully charged. If you see 'is not very appetising', you only just put it on.
'I - 7 chunks of griffon flesh' 'This raw flesh tastes like chicken!'

gowby

the king of troll leather armour

grand grimoire

Demonic Horde, Mass Abjuration, Haunt, Summon Greater Demon, Malign Gateway, Summon Horrible Things. Requires 10 summoning and 6 spellcasting.

granite statue

Indicates the existence of a vault, so beware. By themselves they are harmless.

grape

Smallest snack besides sultanas. Eat in 2 turns to avoid starving in the middle of combat. 100 nutrition. Drop the stack for easy eating. Linley Henzell knows how to crush these.

grate ideas

YOU DROP YOUR RING DOWN THE GRATE

gravestone

It is as big as a statue.

great

An experience level 22-25 player ghost.

great far misses

!lm xenene 3952 -tv:<0.1:>0.11:x0.8

great ideas

STOP PLAYING CRAWL

great mace

Largest weapon in the maces & flails category that most races can wield. 18 damage, -4 accuracy, 17 delay (two handed)

great near misses

These idiots should have died.
!lm SGrunt defe rune=serpentine 1 -tv:<0.5:>1.5
!lm ocedius rune=magical 2 -tv:<1:>2.5
!lm casmith789 place=zig:13 char=HEWz -tv
!lm elynae ddfi br.end=tomb 1 -tv:<0:>$
!lm ragdoll mube type=orb 1 -tv:<4:>-6
!lm ragdoll place=zig:8 7 -tv:<2:>2
!lm jeanjacques zig:27 2 -tv:<2
!lm minmay br.end=elf 75 -tv:<-6:>11
!lm hangedman seee rune=golden -tv:<4:>6
!lm sky 13269 -tv:<0:>5.0
!lm Gilihad br.exit=zot 3 -tv:<0

great orb of eyes

Spell casting monster that leaves mutagenic corpses. Will paralyze, confuse, disintegrate, slow, bite, and possibly even teleport you. Is also immune to enchantments.
Don't be this MDGl: !tv ionfrigate splat mdgl 2
<GreatOrbOfEyes> some day I will be a greater orb of eyes.

great sword

A sword with a very long, heavy blade and a long handle. (two-handed Long Blade; Dam 16 Acc -3 Delay 16)
the sword world continues to overlook in my opinion the efficiency and power and i even say majesty of this great sword

greater healing

At 27 invocations, heals 17 + 2d19 HP.

greater mummy

Like a mummy priest, but a lot worse. Has ridiculously large HP.
To give you a general idea of their HP, it can take around six casts (at max power) of Dispel Undead to kill them.

greater naga

These are the guys that are guarding the serpentine rune. They're not to be taken lightly, they can seriously poison you despite your poison resistance, blast you with orbs of energy and in melee they deal very significant damage. And they can haste themselves.
They also resist any resistable spell (magic immune), so don't bother trying to disintegrate them. All elemental attacks work OK, though.

greater servant

Summons a temporary executioner, green death, blizzard demon, balrug, or cacodemon. Hostility chance is reduced (but never to 0) by invocations skill. Hostile if 1d(20 + Invocations * 3) <= 4 (e.g. 1/5 at 0 skill, 1/11 at 8 skill, 1/17 at 16 skill).

greater vault

A type of vault characterized by being filled with extremely out-of-depth random monsters instead of themed ones. Most of them look like they came from Angband; most (except for the secret doors vault) are very big. Many contain loot. Vault:8 is a full level greater vault.

greaterdemons

Players who have won every currently available to play demonspawn. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unwon demonspawn, !lg * won crace=ds class!=Th class!=Re class!=Cr class!=Pa class!=Pr class!=He class!=St s=class / @yourname ?:N=0

greaterdevs

Devs who have ruined every race and class.

greaterestplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play combo as well as at least one combo that hasn't yet existed in a stable release.

greatermummies

Players who have won every currently available to play mummy. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unwon mummies, !lg * won playable crace=mummy s=char / @yourname ?:N=0

greatermummyoneshotters

Means you did at least 183 damage in one hit of melee.
!lg elliptic ogsk 2 -tv:<T78000:>T78100
!lg Nomi opmo 1 -tv:<T141620:>T141634
!lm loguno 88 -tv:<T134600:>T134656

greaternagas

Players who have won one of every currently available to play naga. Lifetime membership once you get in!

greaterplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play race and class. Lifetime membership once you get in!
!greaterplayers yourname (plus !greatplayers yourname)

greatesterplayers

Players who have done all the combos in a streak.

greatestestplayers

Players who have won every combination of race, class, and god in one streak, 27 times. In a row.

greatestmummies

You have won more mummies than anyone else. There cannot be more than one greatestmummy.

greatestplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play combo. Lifetime membership once you get in!

greatplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play race. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unfinished races, check "!greatplayers yourname".

greatrace

greatrole

AK: Pacra Ar: jeanjacques He: elliptic

green crystal wall

Reflects cold and flame the way lightning bounces off ordinary walls. Immune to digging and disint, but extremely easy to LRD. Appears very rarely naturally outside of abyss, and then constitute large parts of the level; most obtrusive uses of it signify a vault.

green death

Shows up as a 2. A bloated form covered in oozing sores and exhaling clouds of lethal poison. They can cast poison arrow, venom bolt, and poisonous cloud.
< mikee_> it looked like a green death < monqy> meganewt

green draconian

Breathes mephitic clouds at XL 7 and mutates poison stinger at XL 14. +2 Poison Magic apt.

green rat

A significantly tougher inedible rat that appears in bands (poisonous corpse). Does not have a poison attack.

greensnark

Doesn't wear pants.
One of the few people who can spell those unpronounceable demons without a crib sheet.
Thinks ogaz thinks slaying should be nerfed.
Slapper of trouts.
loves giant squid appreciation. and nethack. especially Elbereth, he's a big fan of Elbereth.

greensnark maneuver

A nigh-suicidal berserker-charge into the middle of a dangerous area of the game. Frequently ends badly: see !deathsin Tomb.

greg

Greg screams, "Go and return not whilst thou art whole!"

gretell

The counterpart to Henzell, for crawl.develz.org. Only accepts @whereis, @?, and @?? from IRC. The evil twin of Henzell. Accepts inquiries on PM.
Code available at http://git.develz.org/?p=gretell.git or git://git.develz.org/gretell.git

grey draconian

A form of draconian which doesn't breathe (they can swim and are unaffected by mephitic clouds). Grey Draconians get stability in water (no fumbling), 5 more AC, +2 Earth, and -2 Air.

grey elf

A race of elves very like deep elves with very good air magic. Removed far back in the mists of time.

grey rat

Q: IS GREY RAT SCARY
A: A much more formidable foe than the plain rats, grey rats FREQUENTLY (VERY DANGEROUS !!) kill in the midgame.

grey snake

Pre-0.6 name for anacondas.

greyknight

Splatter of minotaur berserkers and centaur paladins. Is becoming quite good at it (the splatting, that is).

griff bloodax

Everyone's favorite undead chaos dwarven berserker.

griffon

Hippogriff's big brother. Lots of attacks and fair HP.

grimm

!lm grimm place=zig:22 2 -tv

grinder

A unique shadow imp who likes to paralyze you and spam pain. Can appear between D:3 and D:6. Has a friendly rivalry going on with Sigmund to see who can get more kills.
!fight sigmund v grinder (spoilers: grinder wins)
<jeanjacques> grinder is like a potion of exp that randomly kills you

grinding noise

Usually made by a Boring Beetle, which destroys walls of the level. If it's happening rapidly and inexplicably, it's in a vault designed solely to annoy you. Can also come from Cacodemons, and from an eye of devastation's energy bolt. Can also come from the disintegration wand of course.
add the line "runrest_ignore_message = grinding noise" to your rc file if this is interrupting your resting or your running.

grinner

[turn=23342] Grinner the Covert (L12 OpGl) escaped from the Abyss! [turn=23342] Grinner the Covert (L12 OpGl) is cast into the Abyss! (ogre mage) (Orc:4)

grizzly bear

If you have to look at tips to fight a grizzly bear, I'm amazed you've made it this far.
You could try hitting it.

grue

SquashMonster's crazy idea for a new race. Great at melee due to having claws/talons/horns to start, but those also reduce potential armor. Has a shroud of darkness, which reduces vision range to half, but also reduces the range at which monsters can see it. But don't expect to use that to be stealthy, as they have nasty innate shoutitis.
Aptitudes: 80 fighting, 180 short blades, 150 long blades, 160 axes, 160 maces and flails, 150 polearms, 130 staves, 100 unarmed, 150 stabbing, 60 slings, 60 bows, 60 crossbows, 60 darts, 60 throwing, 80 armor, 90 dodging, 90 stealth, 130 shields, 60 traps and doors,
100 spellcasting, 80 conjurations, 110 enchantments, 160 summonings, 120 transmutations, 180 divinations, 80 fire magic, 80 ice magic, 80 air magic, 80 earth magic, 80 poison magic. Invocations and evocations are normal. Experience rate is 130. Strength or Intelligence (randomly) every 4th level.
Patch is available on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2807004&group_id=143991&atid=757515

grum

Unique gnoll. Comes with war dogs. Same damage as an orc warrior. Aw!

grunt

<Grunt> I'm really looking forward to the point in 0.12 where someone first comes across a tornado ghost.
his puns are...*glasses*...bad
<Grunt> I want it to be actively malicious :)
Is not Gretell, despite what many zealous tabbers seem to think.
see horatiocrawl
The pun machine

grunthack

nethack variant made by Grunt

gsplat

!lg * ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) cv>0.9 ntv=0 ckiller="player ghost" max=xl -tv

guacamole

Not to be confused with {mole people}, this is a delicious dish made from avocados that goes great with tortilla chips. Unfortunately, avocados were removed from Crawl in 0.9.

guardian mummy

A mummy, like normal ones but bigger, beefier, and with necromancy miscasts for death curses. No spells! If you see one of these in Crypt, Khufu or the Tomb entry is probably onlevel.

guardian serpent

A big snake, usually found in Snake:5 or guarding a vault of treasure (or mimics). Venom bolt, lesser healing, slow, teleport other. Leaves mutalicious corpses. Dangerous if they teleport you in Snake:5 because you might wind up on the wrong end of the greater naga vault. Unlike real nagas, they have no hands. Also, they're twice as fast.
They were called guardian nagas in old versions.

guardian spirit

While wearing this amulet, damage you take is divided proportionally between MP and HP. Reduces magic to 0 on wearing. Note that a Deep Dwarf wearing this does not regain MP naturally. Other races that mutate slow healing 3 still do, however.

guide

see HaBe; DDNe; SpEn; MDFi
** ** of *** guide: play, watch, listen, learn until you don't need non-human guides to help you beat random games
see guide guide[1]

guide guide

To write a guide for a specific combo, follow these simple steps: 1) Win a game with that combo. 2) Write anything you want.
see should i write a guide

guide guide guide

To write a guide guide, either write a guide for a combo you have won and also write a guide for a combo you haven't won, or don't; then decide whether to write a guide or a guide guide and how you will write it or them or neither or won't write either (neither) it's it and them or not.

guide guide guide guide

Don't even think about it.

guide guide guide guide guide

Five is right out.

guide to pandemonium lords

Gloorx Vloq is the aggressive goth Pan lord. If you wear a Bauhaus t-shirt to school, Gloorx will run up to you and shove you against a locker and accuse you through his black lipstick of making Bauhaus mainstream by wearing a t-shirt advertising them.
Cerebov is the goth of authority. He says little but speaks with confidence when he does speak, and all goths listen to Cerebov. If you want to be a goth at Pandemonium High School, ultimately you have to get the approval of Cerebov, or be endlessly hassled by Gloorx.
Lom Lobon is the bookish goth. He owns every Poppy Z. Brite book and, when consoling a goth friend, compares their troubles to the plight of the narrator in Rimbaud's "Season in Hell." He doesn't use the word "sheeple" the way Gloorx does but he still loudly claims at every opportunity that religion is the opiate of the masses.
Mnoleg is the genuinely loner goth. Mnoleg doesn't hang out with the other goths or, for that matter, anyone at all. He only takes off his cat-hair-covered trench coat for his job working the deep fryer at McDonald's, where he's saved up his paychecks for 2 years to buy a sampling keyboard.

gungan

Patron deity of mysteriously including offensive, rascist stereotypes as failed comic relief. Periodically sends ridiculous caracatures to kill you, which is annoying, but gives you XP.

guppyfry

The worst, evidently.
http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/source/dat/des/builder/shops.des#l94

guru wisdom

< Rend> crawl is hard
<monky> imo hell is a bad place
<monky> gastronok is like a titan but with less speed and lightning and more spammals
<kats> anyone know what this means? "You hear a thunk." <TGW> kats: it sounds like your character heard something that makes a "thunk" noise
(10:20:46 PM) N78291: having no hp is kind of annoying
monqy: 2751 is a lot of runes
<tensorpudding> sheep lose against tornadoes
<casmith789> bread rations are a lot easier to avoid than executioners
<casmith789> imo don't icestorm yourself
<monqy> ideally you wouldn't be slowed at 19 hp
<chalk> Note to self: Roxanne is not a goliath beetle.
<minmay> generally speaking, sif muna is better than xom
<OG17> one isn't bigger than twenty
<minmay> you can't spell ogre without ogre
< G-Flex> N78291: yeah but things without armor take more damage, don't they?
< [Hanged_Man]> what is this vault guard doing in d:11? < MarvinPA> guarding a vault
<ZRN> what's the best way to take advantage of DS hellfire? <Xiberia> use it on enemies
<djanatyn> wtf is a two headed ogre <G-Flex> an ogre <G-Flex> with two heads
<Ragdoll> plants dont evade much, so it seems
<ens> drinking from the fountain in hell is a bad idea
evilmike * raa65f5f49256 /crawl-ref/source/dat/des/branches/lair.des: Stonehenge is not made of wax.
<Chapayev> 1995 is the year when david bowie peaked
<evilmike> plato doesn't have much to say on video games, sadly.
<faze> technically your head is not a sword
<the_glow> i like to use healing wands when im about to die to increase my hit points

gvdm

<gvdm> i must mutate too often <gvdm> for a moment i wondered why i wasn't teleporting around

h

hell hound > war dog > warg > wolf > hound > jackal

habe

stats: dex | skills: Fgt, Ddg, Evo; 5-10 T&D; 7 Shd; SBl until you get a long blade, then LBl | spells: burn all books without reading them | weapon: the best and heaviest you have | armour: light/pda/fda/ida + buckler

haha sigmund

An experimental collaborative Crawl webcomic currently at http://greyfire.no-ip.org/~sigmund -- please contribute your own strips!
Now actually has controls for moving between strips (and more than one strip!) High-tech!

hair stats

extremely bad hair <10, awful hair <30, poor hair <60, choko hair <90, normal hair <120, quite good hair<160, very nice hair<220, extreme hair<300, extraordinary hair <400, incredible hair <520, uncanny hair >=520

halberd

Two Handed Polearm. Damage: 13, Accuracy: -3, Speed: 15
When you're low level, you do not want to screw with monsters wielding these.

halbred

A polearm with a loaf of bread at the end of it.

halfbold

like kolings

halfling

Aptitudes like a kobold (sort of). Halflings have slow metabolism 1, hungering one third slower. Has the HP of a sludge elf since 0.6. Allegedly overpowered!

halfling reasons

You like EV.
You like AC.
You like SH.

hall of blades

Entrance is somewhere on Vaults:3-4. Filled with animated weapons which can make your life rough. All of the ones initially spawned have random brands which can include draining or distortion, so be prepared for the Abyss.
see dancing weapon
There's also a single rare weapon (quick blade/double sword/exec axe/eveningstar/bardiche/lajatang) branded (vorpal/flaming/freezing/elec/vamp/drain/venom). In 0.12+, there are two, vorpal brand isn't eligible, and pain/anti-magic/holy wrath/distortion are now valid spawning brands.
<Gretell> Charos2 (L26 HONe) escaped from the Abyss! <Gretell> Charos2 (L26 HONe) is cast into the Abyss! (trident of distortion) (Blade)
!lm Meow DEPa type=abyss.enter 1 -tv:<0.3:>0.1
(1/1) rchandra said (17s ago): meet me in the Hall of Blades. nobody goes there, so we can have some privacy.
<rwbarton> the real experience you gain is "don't do blade"

hall of fame

Fastest Win: jeanjacques, 9468 turns. Fastest All-Rune Win: Sapher, 21895 turns. Fastest Win (real time): Elynae, 1h 8min. Fastest All-Rune Win (real time): Elynae, 3h 3m. Longest Streak: mikee, 22 games. Most wins: N78291 and elliptic, tied at a lot. Least Friends: xyblor, ?.
Fastest bot-assisted win: parabolic, 32 min.

hall of shame

!lg * killer="death cob" s=name
!lg * killer="toenail golem" s=name

halo

TSO lights up you and your surroundings like the Olympic Stadium, in a piety-based radius, centered on you. Within the halo's radius, every creature (excluding you) is easier to hit, invisible creatures are revealed, and your stealth is ruined.
Your own halo does not make you easier to hit.

hammer

Hammer, Damage Rating: 7, Accuracy Rating: +3, Base Attack Delay: 13
This mace isn't a warhammer. This is a carpenter's hammer, and isn't much good for doing more than smashing someone's thumb in.

hammer card

Damaging card; by card power 0: stone arrow; 1: iron shot; 2: crystal spear

hammerrobin

hand axe

A small axe designed for either hand combat or throwing. (one-handed axe; Dmg 7 Acc +3 Delay 13)

hand crossbow

!tv * ckaux=hand crossbow

hangedman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0nrfYa0Ss
"Creator of my own destruction / designer of my own defeat / the maker of my own unmaking / a greater threat to me I'll never meet."
<absolutego> 1learn hangedman more zigs than wins
see great_near_misses[9]
see tragedy[2]
the vaultmaking process: take some obtuse theme barely recognizable, put it into weird shape, talk about it forever while slowly whittling it down from the idea, try to get feedback from people who can't really give much, submit in batches barely making it into each version
ac7c803 | Michael Gagno | 2012-03-22 00:13:50 -0700 || Aerie drop vault. (HangedMan) || Yes, let's combine Lemuel's two most ridiculous ideas into one. What could possibly go wrong?
<HangedMan> vault guard perm_ench:shapeshifter fits really well, but the vault guard equipment is better then everything in the vault
clearly
<rwbarton> HangedMan: well i meant a vault that you would actually want to enter <HangedMan> oh hah
http://i.imgur.com/QKTKT.gif
<absolutego> you just say that because you're a sadist <absolutego> wait, actually a saint
<MarvinPA> i am confused by this vault
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjXhStQL2U2fdDBNSXhrZDNiZjV3bzU0eGd3N2lPV2c#gid=0

hangedman patches

RUNED DOOR REVIEW; crypt:$ tomb entrances for floor cuts; remove bad mini_float uses; visible floor/source for all cloud machines; lab threat minivaults; shrink roulette; traps review; tiles-colours consistency review; grates trimming; DEPTH: Elf cleanup; sprint_mu tiles; remove crystal glass; salvage volcanos; salvage bad serial vaults
MUST DO BEFORE RELEASE: runed doors review, volcano monster set / layout revamp, visual sources/warnings for cloud generators, hell/pan/abyss/V entrances for D encompass vaults

happy

Xom, when you die.

hard book

"This book is beyond your current level of understanding." Annihilations, Grand Grimoire, Necronomicon. All require Spellcasting 6, <School> 10 to read (or worshipping the god who gifts them).

harold

A human bounty hunter. Spells: bolt of fire, blink. Uses throwing nets. Pretty unimpressive otherwise.
@The_monster@ asks, "Do you mind if I name my boat the '@player_name@'? Your head will be paying for it, after all." @player_only@

harpies

<heteroy> The dev who came up with harpies can go eat a bag of shit

harpy

Very quick monster with no spells; hits hard and comes in packs. They can steal and destroy your food with melee hits. Does the bat AI thing, but slightly slower.
Speed 25, hits for ~17, twice. Comes in packs of up to 8. Basically 3.5 killer bees duct-taped together, and they will wreck your shit.
Eats food from the floor, the floor at your feet as well as your inventory. If your food is precious to you, throw it far away.

haste

Reduces action delay by 33%.

haste other

Hastes someone else. Have fun with that ogre mage hasting all his ogre chums then paralysing you!

haste reasons

gotta go fast
You didn't go Cheibriados.

hastur

Who-must-not-be-named. Worshippers accrue insanity (piety) by praying (confuses you) over corpses but only with tension high, or by reading scrolls and books (which gives random effects of various kinds.) In exchange, periodically hurls baleful enchantments at enemies, or sends summons.
Not yet implemented.
worshiped by eronarn irl

hat

< TGWi> hatters gonna hat
(9:46:40 PM) OG17: hatters gonna hat get it

hat of pondering

+3 wizard hat with ponderousness, 30 MR, +5 int and +10 MP. Sometimes Gastronok is wearing it!
<crate> if you have to ask if you should use ponderinghat the answer is no

hat of the alchemist

+2 unrandart cap with rF+ rC+ rElec and 30 MR.
<mikee_> don't wear it <mikee_> it's dirty

hat of the bear spirit

+2 cap with {Spirit +Rage rN+ MR}.

hatchrobin

You may only use hatches and branch stairs.
When there are no hatches, you may use staircases. Use new ones if you can.

haunt

(L7 summ/necr): Summons 2-6 wraiths and undead "ghost" type monsters around the target. Smite-targetted, but only castable on a monster. Considered to be super good. Causes sickness when cast unless you worship Kikubaaqudgha and pass a piety-in-200 check.
Secret tech: casting haunt at your allies / at butterflies / at toadstools
< crate> anyway if you have haunt sickness doesnt matter anyway < crate> because you have haunt

hayenne

Likes !mut potions and chunks!
< daftfad> Hi N

hcrawl

the whole point of stone soup is to work together and resolve our differences in opinion you jerks
planned unfeatures: unfeatures

hd

Hit Dice; essentially a monster's experience level. Affects a monster's: magic resistance, spell power, experience value, forms it can polymorph into, and susceptibility to some spells such as mephitic cloud and confusing touch.
Monster melee to hit is 18+HD*(1.5 or 2.5). The former for non-fighters, the latter for fighters. Beam to hit is 12*HD.
see hill dwarf

heal wounds

Restores a moderate amount of HP. Will not cure rotting (but will reverse it), sickness, poisoning, or confusion. Compare with potion of curing.
Heals 10+(3d28/3) hp.

healer

This class starts with some healing potions and a decent standing with Elyvilon. Demonspawn and undead races are prohibited from playing as this class, as they cannot worship a good god.

healer guide

<crate> pacify all the dudes until lair and then do whatever

healer reasons

102309 | Zig:26 | flyingpants: i started as a healer for the optimum stat distribution

healing

Heals a low amount of HP, but is still better than no healing at all. Effects that are significantly better than nothing include curing sickness, poison, rotting, and confusion.
see pacification

health

see {hp}

heavy armour

Refers to body armour with a base evasion penalty of at least 2 or at least 4, depending on context. Such armour typically provides high AC and gdr, but reduces your EV and carries spellcasting and melee penalties based on aevp.

hehfiel

Bot for the finnish server rl.heh.fi. Except not anymore because RHF was removed!

helix card

Card power 0 adds random mutation, removes random mutation, or both. Card power 1 adds either a random or good mutation on a coinflip. Card power 2 removes either a bad or a random mutation on a coinflip, and then either deletes a bad mutation and adds a random one, or deletes a random mutation and adds a good one.
Expected values: Card power 0, [no net change]. Card power 1, [(0.5) good mutations]. Card power 2, [(-0.75) bad mutations, (0.5) good mutations]. In other words, they will tend to remove bad mutations and give you good ones, but no guarantees -- you could still get teleportitis and lose regeneration from a power 2 helix card.

hell

A branch with four subbranches; see vestibule and hells.

hell beast

Stats are random. Speed: 10-17. AC: 2-6. EV: 7-11. HD: 4-7. Tramples.
An abominable crossbreed of beast and man that makes horrible barking noises. Bark bark bark bark bark.

hell effects

Every ~40 turns in Hell proper, something scary happens. 1-5 random monsters are created. 15/27 chance of a random miscast effect (like Zot traps); else 4/27 chance of an appropriate greater demon.
http://i.imgur.com/CNJ9U.gif

hell hog

Like twice a hell hound that breathes sticky flame.

hell hound

woof woof, bark! Oh, and fire breath also, swoosh! If you see them in the midgame, it's probably a sign of Azrael.

hell knight

Often signifies the presence of Margery. Tends to be outrageously well equipped (often has a demon weapon). When it's not hitting you with a ridiculous weapon, is either casting a) pain and haste, or b) bolt of fire and (in emergencies) blink.

hell layouts

http://crawl-ref.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=crawl-ref/crawl-ref;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/source/dat/des/branches/hells.des;hb=HEAD

hell lord

There are four: Ereshkigal, Antaeus, Asmodeus, and Dispater, inhabiting the lowest levels of Tartarus, Cocytus, Gehenna and Dis respectively

hell sentinel

A rank 1 demon. Lots of AC, omniresistant, speed 10, spiny, casts hellfire and iron shot (but not torment).
< mikee_> i can't wait for tiles to get them
"Hell's Sentinels are really bad news."
They are the #2 killer of orb runners in versions that have had them (#1 being Orb Guardians). Beware!

hellbinder

Custom wizard in the demon wizlab. Calls demons, throws around flames and hellfire, blinks. Has a randomly generated name.
Has a nicely decorated lab and stock of ?torment

hellephant

A pachyderm born in the fires of Hell; it blinks, breathes fire, and hits really, really hard.
Xtahua with blink, mostly.
< N78291> 78291's illusion evaporates and reforms as a hellephant!

hellfire

3x3 explosion used by certain high level demons and priests. Much like smiting, but does about thrice as much damage and destroys your scrolls. Not affected by rF. No longer affected by AC.
Comes in two flavors. Hellions, deep elf high priests, and draconian zealots use hellfire bursts, which can explode anywhere in LOS and do 3d15 damage. Deep elf sorcerers, brimstone fiends, and draconian scorchers use vanilla hellfire, which is 3d20 but requires a clear path.
Also an unrandart +6, +9 crossbow (flame, rF++, rC-, MR)
Player (demonspawn) hellfire does up to 3d42 damage, depending on level, and costs 15% of your max health to use. Ignores rF and AC just like monster hellfire. Monsters with rHellfire are completely immune.

hellfire burst

<monqy> hellfire burst is smitey hellfire <raskol> those are two words you don't want to hear describe the same ability

hellfire resistance

Are you a monster? No? Then you don't have this.

hellfrost

Doesn't exist.

hellion

A very dangerous greater demon. Hellfire, hellfire, and more hellfire, and moves enough faster than you that it often double hellfires.

hellion island

A very dangerous pan vault, but it always contains a demonic rune. And hellions.
1970s television show featuring Ricardo Montalban.

hellmouth

A family of three vaults, typically found between D:11 and D:20. Each has a moat of lava, lots of non-flying demons, a good item, and a gate to Hell. Some have hellions.

hells

Four analogous branches, gehenna, cocytus, dis, and tartarus. 7 levels each. Each branch contains appropriate major demons (see fiend); resting is risky due to hell effects (think zot trap); going up any stair takes you to the Vestibule; a demon prince, loot, and a Rune at the end.

hellwing

A type 4 demon; it teleports self, teleports other, animates dead, and doesn't even pose a melee threat except to pre-weakened characters. Used to be a 3 before 0.6.
But note that teleport other can be dangerous in a few places, such as Elf:3.

helm card

Power 0 gives either phase shift or stoneskin, 1 adds the possibility of a magical shield (works like condensation shield, but its blocking ability is based on evocations) in addition to removing the mutual exclusivity constraint, 2 adds the possibility of the effect of a potion of resistance.

helmet

+1 AC. Descriptions like golden, horned, visored, and winged are all purely cosmetic.

help

!help (I need somebody) !help (not just anybody)
see {manual[4]}
see faq
Don't type help into crawl.

helsinki

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kielosto/crawl_spoilers/ss/

henzell

Linley Henzell is the original creator of Crawl. "Henzell" is also the ##crawl bot. If you want the source for *this bot*, go here: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell
Queries to Henzell using "??" are queries to the learndb.
I am full of lies.
Nobody ever uses me for anything besides jokes.

henzell commands

type !cmdinfo

henzell help

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herbivore

You get less nutrition from meat food and chunks, but more from veggie food -- including cheese. At the third level you can't eat meat at all -- if you've played a Spriggan, you're already familiar with how this works. Mutually exclusive with carnivore and generally regarded as less useful, since it makes eating chunks more difficult.

herd card

Temporarily summons between 2 and 8 animals (sometimes varied, sometimes all the same), the number and chance of hostility based on power. Animals are: bumblebee, war dog, sheep, yak, hog, soldier ant, wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear, black bear, giant snail, boring beetle, gila monster, komodo dragon, spiny frog, hound.

heroic deaths

N78291 the Necromancer (L17 DEDK), worshipper of Sif Muna, slain by a shiny mottled dragon hide on D:17 on 2009-12-26, with 179242 points after 48690 turns and 3:12:57.
autorobin the Gouger (L13 FeBe), worshipper of Trog, slain by autorobin the felid zombie (animated by an orc high priest) on Orc:4 (st orc pillars) on 2011-03-31, with 46034 points after 29477 turns and 0:14:57.
subochre the Stinger (L1 FeVM), slain by a helpless rat on D:1 on 2010-12-03, with 22 points after 481 turns and 0:01:07.
Lexicon the Thaumaturge (L9 SpWz), worshipper of Vehumet, fell down a flight of stairs on Orc:1 on 2011-04-30, with 2666 points after 13475 turns and 1:16:23.

herself

Not a female.
Broken dump handling for tournament games on CDO solution: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.7/herself/herself.txt Obviously you should replace herself with your nick.

heteroy

The cause of greensnarks complaints about the scoreboard.
see stone of earth elementals
<heteroy> h - the Grimoire of Supportive Black Arts 666 gold
Only person to manage to die to an orb of fire on D:1

hexcrawl

A variant of Crawl on a hexagonal grid, dreamed up by a deranged mind known only as 'zugz'.

hi

hideous screaming

An orcish idol was destroyed.

hides

steam:2/-0,rSteam mottled:3/-1,rNapalm swamp:3/-2,rPois fire:3/-3,rF++,rC- ice:4/-3,rC++,rF- pearl:3/-3,rN+ storm:4/-3,rElec gold:4/-5,rF+,rC+,rPois
Chance of a monster to leave a corpse is 1/2. Chance of a corpse to leave a hide is 2/3.

high elf

Tolkien elves. That is, they are better than you are. For apts, "!apt HE". Relative to humans, gets 2 less hp per 3lvls, gains 1 more mp per 2lvls. Gets an int or dex increase every third level.
<Elynae> my password is a fair lady from tolkien's legendarium <Wensley> username: elynae password: legolas

high elf reasons

You want to have all of the good characteristics in the game; good casting apts; good fighting apts; the best hybrid class.

high scores

Up-to-the-minute, cutting-edge Crawl high scores are kept here: http://www.elushae.org/~cislyn/misc/crawl/hof.html
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/overview.html

highscoretv

Plays games scoring at least 20 million points.

hilarious bot deaths

!tv phybot ckaux=~"arrow trap" 1
!lg phybot killer=~eldritch 1 -tv
!tv autorobin place=snake:5 1
!tv autorobin turn=29722 1

hilarious deaths

For funny deaths that don't belong in embarrassing_deaths. Xom thinks this is hilarious! <greensnark> Also, anyone adding bigterm games to hilarious_deaths should be shot
!tv * place=D:7 killer=lich 1
!tv mafalda 290
!lg by char=ddbe kaux="set off by themselves" -tv
!tv jeff place=elf:7 char=HOBe
!tv daftfad char=trbe 1
!lg Shaijin SENe D:7 1 -tv:<0.3
!tv jovan place=hell 1
!lg mong char=mfgl place=zot:5 1 -tv
!tv mong 325
!lg pointless killer=~minotaur place=lair:2 -tv
!lg sorear dggl xl=27 1 -tv
!lg daindwarf char=mdfi place=zot:5 1 -tv
!lg tcircuits DGWz Swamp:5 1 -tv
!lg Lemuel DGHu killer="orc wizard" 4 -tv
!lg joosa place=hive -tv
!lg Stabwound killer=~scroll 1 -tv
!lg syban 11322 -tv
!tv ronf 863
!lg boxx max=sc -tv
!lg izverg id=408619 -tv
!lg dtsund char=dewz xl=27 turn=167301 -tv
!lg sly hoas turn=45221 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg nht killer=angel 2 -tv
!tv qui killer=~aizul 1
!lg birdoprey fepa 6 -tv:<0.5
!lg ret mdfi place=d:2 2 -tv
!tv predelnik place=elf:7 2
!lg zeddicus killer=merfolk place=Shoals:5 1 -tv
!lg sealer place=pan 1 -tv
!tv tartakower killer=angel char=mube
!tv monqy mube ckiller="killer bee" 1
!lg arafel char=hane place=coc:7 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg puddinbane char=vpcr killer="prince ribbit" -tv:<0.5
!lg Surr vpen xl=26 1 -tv
!tv ponce killer=hellion 3
!tv Butch killer="orc priest" min=turns
!tv crawlie kemo 6
!tv ragdoll char=hopr 57
!lg ophanim killer="zot trap" 1 -tv
!tv lawman0 dsbe xl=27 1
!tv ishanyx map=~lemuel 1
!lg Elynae sprint ktyp=stupidity -tv
!tv jordan7hm shoals:5 1
!tv qui 365
!lg lemuel ktyp=starvation place=dis:7 1 -tv
!lg adamzap hofi xl=21 1 -tv
!lg n78291 drae place=d:15 1 -tv
!tv johnasti tmsg=~annihilations 1
!tv eronarn xl=27 god="sif muna" place=lair:2 1
!tv kaibigan mu ikiller=boggart 1
!lg moocowpong1 598 -tv
!lg lawman0 HOAr d:4 1 -tv
!tv Mong place=bailey 2
!lg Ragdoll killer=~ball 1 -tv
!lg kantan place=zot:5 1 -tv
!lg turnerjer place=slime:1 1 -tv
!lg kumiokru place=d:19 1 -tv
!lg elynae d:1 killer="pit fiend" -tv
!tv soul muar xl=23 1
!tv rkd muck 11
!tv casmith789 killer="shadow dragon" 3
!lg minmay muee 1 -tv:<T18200
!tv kumiokru place=bailey 1
!lg naltkor mdfi place=d:9 1 -tv:<2
!lg sky place=pan 3 -tv
!tv ruthinator deae 4
!tv tenaya ktyp=starvation 5
!tv crawlie koen 12
!lg antiskillrobin trmo 1 -tv:<0.3
!lg leafsnail drtm 20 -tv
!lg magistern mist killer=~freezing 1 -tv
!lg * killer=~garbold 2 -tv
!lg elynae trwn xl=26 place=d:6 -tv:<2.5
!tv topbillin place=hell 2
!tv * na place=geh:5 1
!tv * mifi god=jiyva place=dis:7 1
!tv anubisbafoobis splat 1
!tv Brittlesworth splat 10
!tv demonblade ddak 1
!lg sosloow haar place=bailey xl=27 -tv
!tv dustman mifi 2
!lg zebulonius mifi xl>18 1 -tv
!lg laxity defe xl=19 1 -tv
!lg dartonias dewz xl=18 1 -tv
!lg theprince dsmo 3 -tv
!lg araganzar defe place=tomb 1 -tv:<0.1
!lg nomi splat decj 1 -tv
!lm mikee_ type=death 6 -tv
!tv sgrunt 107
!lg TRANSMUTILATOR 1 -tv
!tv synoecium ktyp=stupidity 1
!lg slaying 1 -tv:<5
!lg robotron1971 nawr xl=27 1 -tv:<0.7
!lg nokkonen vpen xl=19 1 -tv
!tv sgrunt 147
!tv nht 2970
!tv archibald mufi ktyp=stupidity 1
!tv nooodl 461
!tv carbonbasedlifeform drvm hell xl=27
!lg vidiiot xl=23 4 -tv
!lg jspanek dewz xl=21 2 -tv
!lg ereinion drwz place=snake:4 1 -tv
!lg walkerboh 86 -tv:<1.6
!lg rjrrt mibe xl=15 1 -tv
!lg rjrrt mibe xl=15 1 -tv
!lg afd place=coc:7 1 -tv
!lg stathol killer=xtahua 1 -tv
!lg splash 200 -tv
!lg ret zot:5 1 -tv:<0.11
!lg johnnyzero dear xl=3 place=d:3 2 -tv
!tv joy1999 place=zig:3 1
!lg zigrobin ddee 1 -tv
!lg fizz 371 -tv:<0.5
!tv izverg hofi place=d:22 1
!lg scummos 1879 -tv
!lg mrclean 156 -tv
!tv N78291 killer="iron dragon skeleton" 1
!tv brocolee place=slime 1
!lg temoid zig:6 1 -tv:x2
!lg partyhat ophu 1 -tv
!tv sapz dsbe 4
!tv ProvTheAverage ckiller=grinder 4
!lg Thorbinator place=elf 1 -tv:<2
!lg * place=zig killer=catoblepas 1 -tv:<1.8
!tv yuichan 6
!lg BAZAAROFNANIWA 1 -tv
!lg blazinghand 315 -tv:<T10000
!lg ponderinghat killer=mennas 1 -tv
!lg magistern heae chei vmsg=~"blew themself" 1 -tv
!lg MAKHLEB -tv
!lg guido coc:7 1 -tv
!lg runemage chei 1 -tv
!lg WalkerBoh 862 -tv
!tv drag0n trmo zot 1
!lg zkyp mufi abyss 1 -tv
!tv zkyp vault:5 mi xom 1
!lg bolas 1511 -tv
!tv pivotal lab 7
!tv autopi cemo abyss 1
!lg demonblade ddak 2 -tv
!tv doctordoom pan 1
!lg * killer=~royal_jelly place!=slime -tv

hilarious escapes

!lm scummos 223 place=d:4 -tv:<-9:>25

hilarious hugeterm deaths

!tv iratsu place=lab 1

hilarious quits

!lg djroomba ktyp=quitting xl=27 1 -tv:<2
!lg tempmfcr quit 3 -tv
!tv nht zot:5 ktyp=quitting 1
!tv julia quit place=dis:7 1
!lg slickrick ktyp=quitting xl=27 1 -tv
exhausted_quits: !lg greepish ktyp=quitting xl=27 1 -tv
!lg nht ktyp=quitting xl=26 1 -tv
!tv elynae mdfe quit place=pan 1

hill dwarf

An extinct race of dwarves, much lamented by Cyrus.
See the removal commit (http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=67ff47f25420cc6e8cccd2a4f02f1810eb4fe141) for a for-the-time comparsion of hill dwarf and mountain dwarf

hill giant

Big orange C with big orange clubs that hit for big orange damage and can be big orange trouble in big orange melee. Sometimes carries a big orange throwing net.
Twice the HP of an ogre, 13 more damage, but worth five times the EXP. Worth killing if you can manage. Just be wary of lucky 50 damage hits.

hill orc

Like a mountain dwarf but better and exists, try "!apt HO". Also, can worship beogh. And they're saprovorous, which is nice.
The Keanu Reeves of orcs
Orcs are good at all professions.
make really good earth and fire elementalists
Also are good at heavy armour casting, which is for cool kids

hill orc reasons

Very good apts for being heavy armor melee fighters. Only race that can worship Beogh. Saprovore Pride!!
You want to complete some arcane challenge involving worshipping every god.
You want to base your character around the invocations skill and you hate deep dwarves and demonspawn.
You like automating half the game then winning in 0:32.

hillbilly sting

The former practice of throwing poisoned needles at things.

hints mode

##crawl

hippogriff

Delightfully pluralized by the game as "hippogrives" prior to 0.6; no longer, alas. :(

hippyrobin

No kills. No shoes.

history of crawl

hit

You've got mail!
Frustrating, innit?

hive

Very fun branch that was removed in 0.9. Contained a lot of bees and honeycombs and royal jellies. Watch "!lm bat 1 place=hive:2 -tv:<1:>$" to see what it was like.

hjklyubn

The one true movement system, allowing much comfier keyboard use. Frequently referred to as "vi-keys", whether or not this is correct, as well as "Rogue" keys. If unfamiliar, start up a game and press ?? to see a diagram of how they correspond to directions. These keys facilitate crawl play even without a numeric keypad, or via a faulty terminal.

hobgoblin

Murderous, club-wielding, ruffianly, blackguardly, raffish, and in all other respects untrustworthy killer. Most lethal enemy in the game (other than the legendary quitmonster).

hodor

<hodor_> All i have is this one wand of flame <hodor_> it took of like a little bit of health <hodor_> so i got angry and cut up the hydra

hog

Yeeehaw! This tasty pork roast got lost in the dungeon lookin for them dang Duke Boys. No special attacks to speak of, but it's a pretty rare beast, so be careful that it's not a shapeshifter. Often a sign that kirke may be in the vicinity.
You spit the hog like a pig!!

hohe

<ktgrey> well if you die as hohe <simmarine> you die for real

hojo

"SOLDIER's duty is not to think - it is to protect men who think for them, like me." - Hojo

holiness

Every Crawl monster has a holiness stat, from (holy, plant, natural, undead, nonliving, demonic). This stat reflects the monster's general nature, and many effects only occur to some types; polymorph only affects natural creatures and demons, and torment holy/natural, DU undead, etc.

holy armour of zin

Unrand "glowing golden" +6 plate mail. +3 str, ++life, +50 MR.

holy crap

the quarterstaff "Crapp" {holy, rF+ rC+}

holy swine

The holy swine salutes you.
its a pig thats holy
Sacred sow.
Blessed boar.
Pious pig.
Pietistic pork.
Saintly shoat.
Hallowed hog.

holy wrath

Increases damage by 75% on average against undead and demons. These folks also cannot wield it. Does not hate evil creatures which are not undead or demons. This means that holy wrath is ineffective against hell knights, and some worshippers of evil gods can wield it.

homorobin

All hill orc monks, all the time. Well, unless some guy fancies a MfBe.

honeycomb

2000 nutrition, light (4 aum), quick to eat (2 turns). Can be eaten by everyone, pure carnivores and herbivores included.

hoody

<hoody> i liked the look of the fleshy hole
<hoody> but I always get humped

hooves

Horse feet. Having them allows you to kick in melee, at the cost of footwear. Slot loss happens at hooves 3.
see unarmed_effects

hope

There's none here.
<Kyrris> Hope is toxic, in the dungeon of Zot.

hopr guide

3 games for minqmay (hopr): 2x Zin,
!lg bakaflockaflame hopr swamp 1 -tv:<0.5

horatiocrawl

<Grunt> Your ogre had.. *glasses* ...an axe to grind.

horn

see {horn of geryon}

horn of geryon

Evoke it if you want to enter hells. Worthless afterward. You can still evoke it to summon a (hostile) beast, though!
Make absolutely sure you don't kill Geryon while he's hovering over deep water or lava. Geryon no longer flies in 0.10 trunk. He can walk into deep water though!
No longer worth any points (neither are any other items, just runes, gold, and time). Even when it was worth points, it wasn't worth very many.

horns

Could you headbutt before? No. But now you can. Lv 1 allows hats only, Lv 3 blocks all headgear. Also makes your headbutts hurt more. Bigger horns, bigger pain.

hound

A somewhat nasty critter that's surprisingly fast, even if the damage isn't massive. An upgraded jackal that comes alone. Generally an easy 50 exp unless you are a non-casting light user in which case you curse at them.
Gets released.

how

bladders
<temp_n> how would you go about getting a spriggan nude and still long enough to draw a picture?

how good is it

12 good

how many runes

Some particularly cocky adventurers brag about having retrieved ten or even fifteen runes through their strength and cunning, but most scholars on the subject of Zot agree that such a thing is probably impossible in the first place, and secondly would be a meaningless achievement in any regard.

how much armour skill

45
see aevp

how to destroy a tree

conjure flame, lightning bolt, bolt of fire, orb of destruction, bolt of magma, disintegration, monsters with b.energy (eyes of devastation and cacodemons), the lernaean hydra

how to lose

Die. Or quit. Or leave the dungeon without the orb.

how to play nemelex xobeh

Have you ever used a vacuum cleaner?
Q: With Nemelex, (some stuff about decks or sacrifices or if the sacrifices go away when you get a new deck or what the symbol means or what happens if you sacrifice a potion of confusion or how can you make sure you get decks of wonder)?? A: NOBODY KNOWS.
Seriously though, sacrifice every corpse you get and then use the summoning decks you get against tough things.

hownottousethelearndb

!learn add bad ideas 40+ AC will cause instant death?
<Silenzio> ??topic

hp

Your max hp is (XL * (Fighting / 8 + 5.5) + Class HP) * (1 + Aptitude/10). See !apt hp for the aptitudes.

hp lovecraft

I downloaded and installed the DOS version by accident the other day and discovered that my batch disappears when the crawl executable is called. At first, I imagined the developers had made a change to defeat my batch file. In reality, the developers have far more important matters to attend, and I bet they could not care less.
The problem was actually caused by a long-standing and quite unintended technical issue specific to the DOS version, which I believe runs in a kind of a DOS window of its own, because I have seen window-devouring programs before that eliminated the batch that called them.

hu

Human or hunter.

hubris

No games for * (killer=hubris).
<HangedMan> it's an ikiller

huckleberryfinn

1) make the missisippi river from D:1 to D:27 with fedhas
fedhas zig
the most pointless account ever

huge dmg

Nobody knows anything about Huge Dmg.

hugedmg

include += hugedmg.rc
Huge Dmg: 1 dmg
Arrhythmia: are you seeing this? | VengefulNutsack: no | Arrhythmia: well it stopped | Arrhythmia: but if he gets hit | Arrhythmia: it's like | Arrhythmia: "Huge dmg:"

hugerobin

HUGETERM ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE SECOND RULE OF HUGEROBIN IS NO TINYTERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE FIFTH RULE OF HUGEROBIN IS NO LOWERCASE LETTERS!!!!!!!!!!! ALL YOUR NOTES MUST BE UPPERCASE
KILOBYTE WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!! BEST DEV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
¡

hugeterm

Any terminal size greater than 80x24 makes your games harder to watch for people using the standard size, which also means that all future viewings of your recorded games will be harder to watch.
Don't be that guy.
<mikee_> crushed to death by gigantic terminal
In order to watch hugeterm ttyrecs, maximize your own TDO terminal. It'll usually fix itself the first time the screen is totally redrawn

huhe guide

A person is capable of performing (extremely) basic surgery on him/herself. Self-preservation instinct makes it unpleasant but certainly not impossible to do such rudimentary operations as this.

human

The average race. Their strength, dexterity and intelligence bases are all 6. Their natural magic resistance is three times their character level, which is the default. They start out with no racial "mutations". To learn their natural aptitudes, type !apt Hu in this channel. HP gain is normal, gains +1 random stat per four levels.

human reasons

<evilmike> human reasons: you haven't won one yet
Awesome slots, apts, and can choose any style of play.

humanoid

All egmnoqutACEKLMORTV12345&8@, draconians, p other than centaur ghosts, naga ghosts, felid ghosts, octopode ghosts, and W other than spectral things

hungary ghost

A ghost hailing from Budapest.

hunger

Obviously, you can't go on without food for too long. In most cases, eating fixes this. Dead: 100. Starving: 101-1000. Near starving: 1001-1533. Very hungry: 1534-2066. Hungry: 2067-2600. Satiated (blank): 2601-7000. Full: 7001-9000. Very full: 9001-11000. Engorged: 11001-12000.
See also: hunger rate and spell hunger

hunger rate

Base hunger rate is 3, always at least 1. Fast metabolism increases hunger by 1 per level of the mutation, slow metabolism 1 or 2 decreases by 1, slow metabolism 3 decreases by 2. Trolls have hunger rate increased by 3 in addition for a base hunger of 9. For comparison, a chunk gives 1000 nutrition.
Other effects: haste +5, invisibility +5, regen spell +4, regen ring +3, hunger ring +4, sustenance ring -40%, troll leather armour +1.5, Cheibriados -1, Hunger+ on an artefact +1. Regeneration effects and items only increase hunger rate while you are injured.

hunger strike

!lg pivotal dsie ktyp=starvation 1 -tv:<T0

hungry

You can eat raw meat, and probably should. You're not in immediate danger, but no reason not to - and meat spoils, so hurry up! See hunger.

hungry ghost

A ghost whose primary attack is to decrease your satiation level, by a quarter of your current satiation - it will rapidly reduce you to very hungry or near starving if its attacks connect. If you don't have ranged attacks and can't hit hard and fast, beware. Also eats corpses on the ground.

hungry kobold

It is a kobold in a vault.

hunter

hunter[1]: A class whose starting gear and skills focus upon a missile weapon of your choice! You also get a short sword.

hustler

P - the Catalogue of the Ass

hybrid

You bash things AND cast spells! Wow!
<odjn> elliptic: hold on, how am i supposed to cast AND level up melee skills
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Hybrid/morgue-Hybrid-20101230-055333.txt
see battlemage
(9:00:48 PM) casmith789: which is why hybrids are so good (9:01:04 PM) Eronarn: casmith789 is environmentally conscious :) (9:01:20 PM) casmith789: I try to do my bit

hydra

Regenerating monster that attacks once for every head. Slicing or chopping attacks will cut off a head, causing two to grow in its place and healing the hydra for 7+d8 HP. Head count doesn't affect experience gained. Flaming edged weapons remove heads for good. A headless hydra dies instantly.
Weapons that chop off hydra heads are: all long blades, all axes, all two-handed polearms, short sword, sabre, lajatang.
<flamot> no <flamot> it got bigger
Being amphibious, they're faster than you in water even if you're levitating. Hydras are spriggan speed in water.
Undead hydra(e?) will not regenerate their heads when cut, so slice away. You cannot chop off the heads of spectral hydras, however. Note that hydra simulacra have horrifying damage output if you're lacking rC.
The maximum number of heads is 20. Chopping a 20-headed hydra's head off will reduce it to 19 heads, but it'll grow back to 20 again after you chop another off.
Polymorphing one of these will result in a griffon, giant snail, very ugly thing, giant amoeba or something if you're lucky. If you're unlucky it'll transform into a dragon and you'll probably end up running unless you have the appropriate resistance. If the RNG has it out for you it'll transform into a quicksilver dragon.
<simmarine> The headless hydra skeleton sways and immediately collapses!

hydrae

hydras

hydrairc

HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Chicks dig it
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Go on, try it!
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- In tests, 0x09 out of 0x0A l33t h4x0rz prefer it :)
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- IRC with a difference
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- It'll be on slashdot one day...
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- *I* use it, so it must be good!
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Like it? Visit #hydrairc on EFNet
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Nine out of ten l33t h4x0rz prefer it
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- \o/
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Now with extra fish!
see {!tv minmay killer=~lernaean}
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Organize your IRC
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Po-ta-to, boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- s0 d4Mn l33t |t'z 5c4rY!
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- The alternative IRC client
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- The professional IRC Client :D
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Wibbly Wobbly IRC
HydraIRC -> http://www.hydrairc.com <- Would you like to know more?
-!- jeanjacques [~jeanjacqu@port-92-200-44-135.dynamic.qsc.de] has quit [Quit: the 27-headed lernean hydrairc]
<mikee_> eith, it's the worst irc client i have used i think

hydrataur

One of four possible unique guardians at lvl 3 of the abyssal stair. Each of his nine necks ends in a javelin throwing humanoid torso, and he also buffs, heals and sprays hellfire. Carries the madness rune.
Removed in 0.12.

hydrochloric acid

a.k.a. CE_HCL. The deeper meaning behind the name has been lost to history, but the effect is like a potion of decay. And no nutrition. Saprovorism does not help, but Ghouls can eat it.

hyper

Prepended to the names of accounts which are only allowed to play combos chosen at random, and which must play the first random combo given each time. The practice of naming accounts hyper to indicate this only began in early 2011, so older accounts with names beginning with hyper are not part of this; see !nick hyperimposters.

hyperactive ballistomycete

What you get when you upgrade a ballistomycete with Fedhas evolution. It explodes.

hyperbole

<someonebyte> hrm, the makefile of 0.4 has 469874698376 hard-coded paths
<someonebyte> sit in the Abyss for a longer bit, and it'll crash like Windows ME

hyperbolic

My 0.12 SpEn guide: SKILLS: Approximate goals are as follows: 1) 8 Stabbing. 2) Invisibility at 6% fail and 10 Dodging/Stealth. 3) 12 Stabbing, 15 Dodging/Stealth, 6 Fighting, and enough Short Blades for min delay. 4) 27 Stealth, 10 Fighting, and whatever spell skills you want.
STATS: Raise Str to 8, then raise Int. SPELLS: From the starting book: EH, Confuse, Invisibility. When you find them: other generally good spells like Haste, Repel Missiles, Regeneration, Dispel Undead, Apportation, Blink, Control Teleport, Phase Shift, Controlled Blink, etc.
GODS: Ash, Jiyva, Kiku, Lugonu, Makhleb, and Nemelex are all great choices. WEAPONS: Any short blade will work for stabbing, but switch to a dagger when possible. For regular melee, early on look for elec and venom weapons. Later look for a quick blade and/or pain brand a weapon with Kiku. Distortion is nice also. Oh, and get a buckler.

hyperelliptic

Lair -> D:13 -> Orc -> D:19 -> Vaults/Crypt (but not Vaults:5) -> D:27 -> get three runes -> Zot

hyperelynae

<mikee_> is your strategy just get the character killed off until you roll ddne or spen or something =P
<absolutego> do your hyper strats include leaving slow ghosts then scumming a centaur

hypothetically

<minqmay> Wensley: if you were a spriggan and some guy was drawing a nude picture of you would you be thrilled about it <minqmay> I would!

i ching

http://www.ichingonline.net/read3.php?x_stp=1340892450&x_hex=977889&x_vrg=How%20do%20I%20retrieve%20the%20Orb%20of%20Zot%3F

i stephen

##crawl's very own blind guy! some day he'll probably be better at crawl than you, too.

iaido

The art of drawing a sword out of its scabbard, as fast and clean as possible, with evident naturalness and fluidity, being the main objective to cut the enemy long before he is able to draw his own sword or use any other type of weapon. The sword is then presumably used as a farm implement.
Is confessedly stubborn as several mules.
Okay, so I lied about the mules.

iankeith

< Ian-Keith> daftfad the Necromancer (L14 MuDK) killed Santa Claus on turn 1225. (NPole)

iba

Ice beast armour, a MuIE's best friend.
Not as good as KZA.

ibm

http://www.yohng.com/software/terminalvector.html fixes IBM breakage on servers
http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html

ice beast

They claw you, and they freeze you when they do. Can be dangerous to low-level characters, and can also destroy your potions.

ice cave

A kind of portal vault, a la ossuaries and labyrinths. Expect lots of ice-related loot (rings of ice, manuals of ice magic, etc.) and fun things like ice statues, frost giants, and polar bear packs. Possible depths for easy ice caves are D:11-14, Lair:1-8, Orc:1-4 and Elf:1-2. Hard ice caves are in D:14-19, Elf:1-3 and Vault:1-7.

ice devil

Like a sun demon, except for cold instead of fire. And it's slower. And it does less damage.

ice dragon

like a fire dragon, except with fire and ice switched!

ice dragon armour

A magical armour, made from the scales of a cold-breathing dragon. It provides great protection from the effects of cold, but renders its wearer more susceptible to the effects of fire and heat. (heavy armour; AC 9, EV -3, ++cold, -fire, 35 aum)

ice dragon hide

Use an enchant armour scroll on it to turn it into the 9AC rC++ rF- ice dragon armour.

ice elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some Ice Magic skill and a Book of Frost.

ice elementalist reasons

You want to do what reavers claim to do, except without being terrible.

ice fiend

A member of the lovable and suave family of Fiends, Ice Fiends share with their winsome relatives the ability to cast torment. They can also sling bolts of cold.
Ice fiend melee attack does up to 106 bonus cold damage which ignores AC. But you don't care because you're an evasion character, right?

ice form

+20% HP, rF-, rC+++, rPois. Melds all armour, but gives 5-12 AC (and has synergy with {ozocubu's armour}). 12+UC base damage with freezing brand. Players in ice form can float through water, but get no aquatic bonuses and can't reach submerged items. Found in Books of Changes, Transfigurations, and Beasts, L4 ice/tmut.
Makes you large, which will reduce EV and raise carrying capacity.
Is NOT able to use wands (Unable to grasp), don't find this out when you need to use a wand of hasting/heal wounds/teleport in a pinch

ice magic

Elemental spell school. Mainly, kills things by freezing them, but has more support spells than fire. The main limitation of ice magic is that it seldom harms undead, which are common early on.
Obviously, high ice magic is nice for doing more ice damage with ice spells. Also boosts the AC from ozocubus armour, and lets you cast the highest level ice spells. Late game monsters are often immune to elemental damage, though, so you may want to turn it off in the mid game.

ice miscast

Severity 1: nothing / freeze potions (damage if and only if vuln); 2: 5-16 ice dmg / 3d11 cold ball; 3: 9-31 ice dmg / large freezing cloud

ice statue

A frigid statue that isn't vulnerable to disintegrate, but fire. It has a nasty spell set but is easily neutralised with rC. (But mind your potions!)

ice storm

The most powerful ice conjuration, dealing 40%-resistible cold damage in a large radius and leaving behind freezing clouds. Like its incendiary counterpart, it makes a godawful racket when cast.
!lg @78291 killer=Ghib -tv (Hint, Ghib is a random panlord)
Not completely equivalent to fire storm because of no smite targeting and no vortices, but does tend to do more damage than fire storm in extended endgame since demons tend to have a lot of rF.
Be careful not to catch yourself in the blast! If you are (4,0) or (3,2) squares away from the center, then you are safe.

icy envelope

One of the possible 3rd level mutations for the Demonspawn ice facet. You get +10 AC, but it goes away when you are hit by fire or cast fire magic, and then gradually regenerates. Also makes you immune to freezing vapour, even when dissipated.

identifying weapons

Wielding a weapon will reveal whether it's cursed or not, what brand it has and (for artifact weapons) its other properties. In 0.10- you had a skill/100 chance per hit to identify pluses. In 0.11+ each weapon uses a certain level of the corresponding weapon skill and will only identify the pluses after reaching that. No more plant-whacking!

idopoll

A web poll on "the most popular roguelike", staged by Ido Yehieli during September 2009. Unsurprisingly, Crawl crushed the opposition. See the final results at http://ido-yehieli.blogspot.com/2009/10/most-played-roguelike-poll-results.html

ignacio

Unique executioner found in Pandemonium in 0.9. Comes with executioner's axe of pain, casts agony (basically torment that checks MR).
If you don't kill him, he might show up again in a later Pan level.

ignite blood

Causes all blood spilled in your LOS to burst into flames (and have a flame cloud placed on top of it), makes more blood get spilled in the first place, and also provides immunity to flame clouds. Alternative to Hellfire as the third level of the Demonspawn fire facet, making it tier 2 rather than tier 3.

ignite poison

Damages all (excluding you) in LOS that leave poisonous corpses or are poisoned (+cures it). Turns poison/str.poison/degen potions and poisoned ammo/corpses (excluding your inventory) to flame clouds. Ignites poison/noxious clouds. Makes a temporary poison weapon brand into temporary fire brand.
Very effective with poisonous cloud. You can fill up the entire screen with flames to do major damage to most enemies. Poor man's firestorm.
Has no effect on Staff of Poison or Staff of Olgreb.
before 0.8, would ignite you and poisonous potions in your inventory too

ignorance

<Henzell> I don't have a page labeled ignorance in my learndb.
see large_shield_of_ignorance

iguana

Just because it's an early game 'l' does not mean you shouldn't take it seriously. Hits harder than a worm but is as fast as average.

ijyb

Unique goblin. Level is his! All his! He chop your head off! Especially if he spawns with a wand - of all the uniques with less than 5 HD, and of all the D:2 uniques, he's the only one that can spawn with a high-tier wand (fire, cold, draining, lightning, paralysis).
see 12_club

ike

< nooodl> does he play crawl by mail

ikeadelic

< ikeadelic> holy cow, I did not know about the tab key
Plays REALLY slow.

ilsuiw

A cunning merfolk water-witch. Summons water elementals. Guaranteed to appear somewhere between Shoals:3-5, but only rarely above Shoals:5.
possible pronunciations: "ILL-soo-yew", "ill-SOOY-ew"

imba

Imbalanced.

immolation

Scroll which creates a 3d10 fireball centered on you and extending two spaces. Not generated shallower than D:5. Does not destroy scrolls.
So you thought you were going to dive an XL 1 character, did you?
Has uses in the Orcish mines, in some sewers, and against early packs of killer bees.
Not a good Vaults:8 entrance strategy. !lg jspanek dewz xl=21 2 -tv

imp parking

Get an imp next to you while standing on up-stairs, go up the stairs, wait for the imp to blink away, go back down the stairs, leaving the imp on the level above you. Good for early-game necromancers and others who have trouble with early imps.
Works with phantoms too!

implemented bad ideas

When you hit an ogre with a long blade, instead of opening it like a pillowcase, you dice the ogre like an onion!!!
A cat race that gets nine lives!
A graphical tile interface, so players don't need to read to play Crawl!
Multiplayer crawl. Adventuring parties! [if multirobin counts] {it doesn't} !what are these weird braces for anyway! |it does count if you're a hopr though|
LCS of returning [the unrandart]
You open the door like a pillowcase!!!
Some uniques are friends with each other and will berserk if you've killed their buddy (or lover).
portal/shop/kitchen sink mimics
Octopodes.
Silly hats.
Scroll of Silence.
gigabats

important choices

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2s7z9pCRm1rsromyo1_1280.jpg

imprison

Zin ability. Puts a tomb of silver walls around a targeted creature. Duration is increased with invocations skill.

in touch with death

Necromancy enhancer, like the staff of death. If you are a vampire or mummy below XL 13 and see this on %, you don't actually have it.

inaccuracy

You might be looking for amulet of inaccuracy or bolt of inaccuracy, refine your search!

inception

the project name for a 0.12 abyss revamp. features multiple less-morphing abyss layouts layered over each other with less liquids, and abyssal stairs; increasing your abyss depth is required to get the rune and increases rune chance and number of monsters.
wretched star, tentacled starspawn, ancient zyme, lurking horror, starcursed mass, thrashing horror, apocalypse crab, spatial maelstrom

incursion

Interesting roguelike that has D&D-style character feats. http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/
Brief introduction guide by pacra: http://pastebin.com/ndKRytHv
<faze> that seems like the simplest way to manage an inventory

inept mimic

Replaces normal mimics from floors 1-6 and occasionally from floors 7-12. Weaker attack, doesn't poison, doesn't resist as much.

init

If you're playing locally on Windows, your rcfile is called init.txt
>+>+++>>+>++>+>+++>>+>++>>>+>+>+>++>+>>>>+++>+>>++>+>+++>>++>++>>+>>+
It's a computer program written in the Brainfuck esoteric programming language. See http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

inner flame

Turns monsters into explosions. Level 3 Fire/Hex. If it's not resisted, the target explodes upon death dealing fire damage and leaving flame clouds behind. Tiny monsters deal 3d15, giant and huge monsters deal 3d25 and have a radius 2 explosion, others deal 3d20. The explosion is as noisy as a mephitic cloud or fireball.
The sheep bleats in terror. The sheep explodes!

innuendo

<PsiRedEye22> thats a hell of a shaft
<tensorpudding> how big is too big?
<sky_> i suck at dds <sky_> but use your stones on hard guys
< Pigvomit> st_ lemme see that club of yours
see itsmu[4]
<Ragdoll> i jellied him up <Ragdoll> the results were anything but satisfying
<Tehcarp> there's no real way to get deep extraordinarily fast
k - Grex's Reference Book on Aerial Self-Knowledge
Terence asks, "Do you want it fast or slow?"
A giant spiked club falls through the shaft.
<k2grey> last night i met saint roka <k2grey> i made him die for my sins
<minqmay> i could write a book about my adventures with duvessa
Something touches your fire vortex!
<mikee_> i hear doing it diagonally takes 1.4 times as long
<brace_> you just have to unload on some dude
Agnes barely misses herself.
<Nomi> he stopped being helpful at some point <Nomi> then this got hard
<Gilihad> I've done a few draconians <elliptic> draconians are pretty easy
<ebarrett> well I can still beat it sort of comfortably, I guess
You pound Duvessa like an anvil!!!
<Blade-> agnes just spat four acid blobs out of me
The lance grows as it skewers the body.
Your white ugly thing twitches violently.
Your troll bites the shark!
<_ontoclasm_> HangedMan: I got your jelly surprise a couple days ago
The harpy lunges at you hungrily! Your sausage is devoured!
You beat it like a drum!!!

inscription

!w to prompt before 'w'ielding/unwielding. Same format for 'a'ttacking, 'd'ropping, 'e'ating, 'q'uaffing, 'r'eading, 'f'iring, 'W'earing/'T'aking off armor, 'P'utting on/'R'emoving jewellery, e'v'oking, 'Q'uivering, 'D'estroying, '*'all.
!p / =p prompts before sacrificing stack / item. =g enables autopickup. =k ignores item on ground. =s creates stack. =f removes item from quiver cycling; \+f includes it.
Shortcut inscriptions look like @w1, with a letter for the command type as in inscription[1] and a number 1-9.
try ?6 ingame.

inspector071

wishes octopodes were in 0.9 so he didn't have to worry with the silly food system and silly traps and other silliness in trunk
is in fact hungry enough to eat another honeycomb
thinks dragon armour should be dragon armour, imps should be imps, fiends should be fiends, and crawl should be crawl without silliness

insubstantial wisp

<greensnark> Insubstantial wisps are like a screaming monkey on your windshield, It's unlikely to kill you directly But all you can see is the monkey

insulation

Also known as rElec. Reduces electrical damage to 1/3, 1/6, 0 by level (but players can only get level 1). Available from potions of resistance, staff of air, storm dragon armour, statue form, mutations and artefacts.

int

Affects your spell casting success, your spell power, your spell hunger and how well you can use one or two fixedarts or so. When it reaches 0, you cannot cast spells or read scrolls, and will eventually die -- by far the most common reason to read stat drain.
If you are casting spells *at all* int is almost always more important than either dex or str.

interesting

what do you even mean, turn interesting? time interesting? resource interesting? safety interesting? you probably shouldn't bring this up

internet

see {{badinternet}}
"It seems more like you are being a character archetype hipster and/or letting the the “doctrine” tail wag the “fun game” dog." http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/whisper-farewell-when-you-leave-gimli#comment-782

invisibility

If you are invisible, monsters won't shoot ranged attacks at you unless they can see you, or can guess where you are. Monsters with sense invisible still have to guess your location, but will only fire if they guess right; others get a random fuzz to their aiming point, which might be inaccurate in the first place.
Monsters can guess your position when you are invisible if they knew your position before and you are still within two spaces, if you are in water, or if they are adjacent to you and make a roll based on their intelligence (usually 1 chance in 3; slightly higher if they are smarter.)
Beams shot at you by monsters who can't see you (even if they can sense you) have their accuracy cut in half. Monsters trying to melee you without see invisible and who have correctly guessed your location have their accuracy reduced by 35%.
If you are invisible, and don't have see invisible, you receive -5 to hit (same as amulet of inaccuracy). If you are attacking a monster you cannot see, you receive -6 to hit. (These stack, of course.)
Fleeing monsters always know which way is away from you whether they can sense you or not.

invocations

Used by TSO, Beogh, Cheibriados, Elyvilon, Fedhas, Lugonu, Makhleb, Okawaru, Sif Muna, Yredelemnul, Zin. Not used by Nemelex Xobeh, Trog, Vehumet, Xom, Ashenzari, Kikubaaqudgha. Trog and Ashenzari base invoked powers on your piety, Kikubaaqudgha on your Necromancy, Nemelex on your evocations (which they train).

ion

<ion> Is Snorg Irish?

ionfrigate

see all of badreddit
is a pretty cool dude who deserves his own entry
Can play DDBe for about a half hour before suiciding out of disgust.

ipbt

A great ttyrec player.

irc

the c stands for class
the i and r stand for infrared

iridescent scales

Level 1: +4 ac; Level 2: +6 ac; Level 3: +8 ac.

iron devil

Lots of resistances, but slow and doesn't hit as hard as you would expect. Almost completely ignorable 4. Not even worth killing in the Hells, but be careful if it shows up on D:7 or something (and isn't across lava).

iron dragon

Multi-resistant metallic monster that likes to perforate your abdomen.

iron golem

Omni-immune but slow melee monster.
You can't spell boring golem without iron golem.

iron grate

It slams shut! Blocks travel, fire, but not line of sight. Can blink and smite-target through it. Can be removed with dig, disintegration, or an orb of destruction.

iron imp

A twisted little minor demon. Lots of resists, and slow. Named manes before 0.7.

iron shot

A level 6 conj-earth single target attack spell, formerly known as Bolt of Iron. Has poor accuracy and range, but does a decent amount of irresistable damage; unlike its big brother LCS, Iron Shot is found in a common book (book of Power). It's also found in the book of the Earth. 9d18 at full power.

iron troll

Like a super rock troll with bonus resistances and AC. Not resistant to poison, but don't be fooled; it will still take a couple poison arrows to bring down. Moves slowly.

ironband

Like Angband but you can't go upstairs and it's simplified (no shops, town, classes). http://angband.oook.cz/ironband/
<elliott> i feel <elliott> much more slow <elliott> no <elliott> no <elliott> i am worshipping ironband chei
You are surrounded by a black gas! You are blind! It nips you. It nips you! You missed it. It bites you! You die.
You feel the Rounded Pebbles (n) in your pack are average...

ironbrand convoker

Casts 'might other' (and on any type of creature) and also recites word of recall, which teleports in a random group of I_NORMAL creatures from elsewhere on the level after a 3 turn delay. Confusing, silencing, fearing, killing or otherwise incapacitating the convoker will prevent the spell from being completed (but simply moving away will not!)
They are more likely to use word of recall when there are fewer HD of monsters are near them

ironheart preserver

Durable melee fighters (though not especially dangerous on their own). Casts injury bond, which makes it take half of the damage inflicted upon nearby allies in place of that ally, and generally accompanies bands of other creatures.

ironman

In the Ironman challenge you must take downstairs as soon as possible until you reach D:27, and then leave the dungeon alive.
Here is one set of rules: http://ln-s.net/1m:y
The account IronRobin is for ironman games (password IronRobin)
Jeff holds the current record: D21 on the *ascent*. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/IronRobin/morgue-IronRobin-20080404-084316.txt (OUT OF DATE)
The ironman challenge was apparently completed by nexos: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/IronRobin/morgue-IronRobin-20090308-224908.txt
Completed by mikee in 0.8: !log tartakower char=febe place=d:$ 1

ironwasp

jarpiains preferred handle for games where he controls characters on both cao and cdo with one set of keystrokes for both.

irony

<TGWi> we shouldn't have an irony entry
Ijyb screams, "Level is mine! All mine!" Ijyb falls through a shaft! The shaft crumbles and collapses.
!lm SGrunt teae uniq=nikola 2 -tv:<0.2:>0.2
<kilobyte> why did you rewrite the whole of pre-commit and checkwhite? <mumra> because the pre-commit hook failed to tell me that i was screwing up the pre-commit hook :( and apparently, checkwhite doesn't check itself...

irssi

http://randart.scienceontheweb.net/crawl/index.html#irssi

is badwiki down

no :(

is cszo down

No? But is having network maintenance 13-14 February so there may be occasional lag or major packet loss

is it just me

yes

is this a bug

Probably. You should report it on http://crawl.develz.org/mantis.
<MarvinPA> pfft, it's not a bug unless we admit it by fixing it

is webtiles down

No, but CDO might discontinue webtiles at some point.

is wenzell drunk

yes

iskenderun

The first swimming cat in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van). Claimed to be the inventor of Mystic Blast and Orb of Destruction.

it

It fall off the wall.
A nearby it withers and dies.
< Henzell> snow the Brawler (L17 TrBe) is cast into the Abyss! (it) (D:20)
Napkin the Spry (L19 SpFi), worshipper of Makhleb, slain by an Executioner (summoned by the player character (woven by it)) on Vault:6 on 2011-01-20, with 210498 points after 86779 turns and 13:51:43.
murphyslaw the Protected (L12 MDFi), succumbed to its poison gas in Abyss, with 14674 points after 18550 turns and 1:26:51.
It vanishes!
The portal to somewhere protects it from harm.
Monster it failed to pathfind!
Ashenzari warns you: It is.
Hit by a dart thrown by it (4 damage) ...summoned by Xom
30938 | Snake:4 | Paralysed by it for 6 turns
<Gretell> ZChris13 the Earth Mage (L9 SEEE), worshipper of Sif Muna, succumbed to its dark miasma in D (Sprint), with 3282 points after 1053 turns and 0:04:59.
An aura of fear fills the air! You are terrified of it!
The queen bee calls on it to defend her!
It constricts it!
1. heteroy the Skirmisher (L5 OpCK), worshipper of Xom, killed by an exploding it (buggy) set off by their pet on D:5 on 2011-09-12, with 467 points after 4092 turns and 0:09:29.
It loses its grip on you. You lose your grip on it.
It is struck by it (buggy) spines.
Its shudder.
It appears!
It crumbles away.
Donald reflects your orb of destruction with its glowing shield!
It evokes its ring.
It materialises.
Killed from afar by a vampire (9 damage) ... with an it
As it dies, the sound returns.
It assembles itself!

it creaks loudly

see {creak}

it wiggles slightly

Something just wielded a weapon of returning.

item destruction

Potions can be shattered when you are hit by freezing attacks, and scrolls can be burned when you are hit by firey attacks. The chance of destruction is per item, so carrying useless items won't shield your valuables.

item enchantment

Adds 1 to an item's plus. Comes in four flavours: EW I for +hit, EW II for +dam, EW III for both (d2 times each), and EA for armour. EW will only succeed if the existing enchantment is <4 or <1d9. See also scroll of vorpalise weapon.

itsmu

You tickle the shadow dragon! You relax the shadow dragon!! You caress the shadow dragon like a lover!!!
"[Mu is] the Grand Moff of Zot Defense." - greensnark
<+Mu_> making fleshy orifices squelch loudly when you shut them during berserk, however, is appropriate behaviour and shouldn't be looked down upon
(3:29:00 PM) Mu_: what's wrong with my coc (3:29:07 PM) elliptic: it is too large :P
Malign gateway was his idea
<Mu_> i wish i were gloorx vloq irl
<HangedMan> 12345 abkdePh monster definition, or 8 for statues, or using three seperate KMONS and a shuffle instead of a : in a single KMONS

ivan

Features detachable body parts - you can beat monsters to death with your severed arm!
There's now an experimental curses port by jarpiain at http://orthanc.fixme.fi/ivan/. ssh ivan@orthanc.fixme.fi to play (password "ivan").
<monqy> help my left arm died for no reason
<monqy> if your groin dies, you die

jackal

Leading cause of early magedeath, as it is too fast to flee from and tends to swarm. Think of this as an excuse to learn travel exclusions, if you see it sleeping. The average fighter will have few problems surviving to a choke point, after which they are trivial.

jade caves

This branch consists of green crystal walls. You see, or can't see, many unseen horrors here. You will also find many true mimics and some mimic-level excellent items. Statues guard the transparent rune of Zot at the bottom.
see crawl alternative[2]

jade ring

While this *may* be the blink-frog-colored, +8 EV jade ring of Shaolin, it is far more likely to be the regular-frog-colored, generic-jade-non-artifact-jewellery ring of whatever.

japan

when I first started playing I met some Japanese players who were remarkably better than anyone I've seen play, to this day, and they said that Demigod Wanderers were so easy to ascend with that they classified runs as DgWn runs and Non-DgWn runs

jarpiain

!lm wasp spwr rune=fiery 2 -tv:>$

javelin

After a kinetic force is applied, a brief period occurs during which the javelin travels aerodynamically towards its target coordinates, after which the pointy end goes into the other person. Base damage is 10. Weight is 8 aum.

jeanjacques

<jeanjacques> i always train slings as much as I can with an amulet of faith
A +13/+14 purple glaive. It missiles the wielder.
a - +7,+9 demon blade (chaos) - Xom swap ruined my VpFi.

jeff

<Jeff> If I ever start talking about playing an ogre, I want someone to intervene.
Jeff's suggested play order: Dungeon->Pan->Call me after you get here.

jelly

This monster has laid many an adventurer to an early rest with its ability to corrode weapons and armor. The beginner uses darts, the experienced use resistant weapons, the wise use stones, and the cornered use wands. They are slightly slower than normal characters, use this to your advantage.
If you hear a distant slurping noise, an item you could have gotten has just been digested; if a squelching noise, a new jelly has been born into the world, all the worse for you.
If you hear a bunch of slurping and squelching and then it stops, there's probably a hidden Jiyva altar vault on the level.
Jellies can also eat doors and nets you try to hold them with. Also, they heal when they eat things. They can't eat artefacts or stones. Jellies also don't eat ammunition that always mulches, such as exploding darts or missiles of dispersal.

jelly drop

An enclosed vault with awake jellies and a teleport trap they'll wander onto randomly. You hear a distant slurping noise.

jelly growth

You have a jelly attached to you. Gives radius 6 item detection, but has a chance of being knocked off by hard melee attacks.

jelly missile

You have a jelly attached to you. It has a 50% chance of eating (jelly-edible) projectiles after they hit you, healing you for random2(hurted / 2).

jelly vault

A vault full of jellies. Found in D:18-. Contains depth-dependent Js (ooze, jelly, brown ooze, death ooze, azure jelly, acid blob) and maybe a Jiyva altar.
Brown ooze, Acid blobs, Death ooze, Azure Jelly, Jelly, and Ooze are known to spawn here.

jenius

Likes to do Tomb naked.

jeremie

<rwbarton> so you are saying that 100% of your extended game splats so far are OpEE <jeremie> yes
Scariest ghost I've met: !lm jeremie MuIE type=ghost -tv:<2 1

jessica

Early unique human wizard who is very easy to kill, but between haste, slow, pain, blink, and possibly a wand you might not get a chance. Either a pushover or worse than Sigmund, depending on the will of the RNG.

jester

You didn't think these were going to stick around, did you?

jewelery

Crawl spells it with two "l"s, if you want to do a ctrl-f search

jewellery

You'll want to check rings or amulets, depending on the type you want to know about

jewellery acquirement

Grabs a jewellery base type, this has a 1 in 3 chance of being a amulet and a 2 in 3 chance of being a ring. If you've already identified that base type it will try again. It will continue this until it hits a type you have not yet identified or until it has tried 10 times.
Rings of hunger and amulets of inaccuracy have a 92.09% chance of being randarts. Other jewellery has a 28.85% chance of being a randart. This is independent from the base type calculation, otherwise.

jiyva

Jiyva's altar appears in the center of Slime:6 and in jelly vaults. Jiyva will give you mutations (including Jiyva-unique slime mutations), jelly and slime allies, and the ability to pare down your bad mutations. Piety is gained by letting jellies eat all that useless loot lying around the dungeon.
*: request jelly invocation; **: gain nutrition on slurps; ***: prayer effect that paralyses slimes in LOS for 5 piety per slime, mutation gifts; ****: slimify, mp on slurps; *****: cure bad mutation invocation, hp on slurps; ******: possible friendly temporary slime if hit for > 25% maxhp, slime:6 walls removed
Other powers: Piety / 200 chance of conservation or resist corrosion per item check, slime walls do not damage unless in penance, J and G turn neutral on sight, stats are rearranged based on your armour, burden carried, and skills.
Insane in zigsprint. Full healing/magic/nutrition and 20 mutation changes every 1-2 turns, while jellies eat through the stacks of 1000 ammunition. Except not anymore because it was ruined.

jiyva reasons

You want a non-Nemelex solution to all that dungeon clutter.
A lot of good mutations, although they will come and go as Jiyva pleases. Worshiping Jiyva will also allow you to "clear" the Slime Pits without having to fight anything and get the loot. Good if you don't want to fight the Royal Jelly.

jiyva wrath

ABANDONMENT: 30 penance, all slimes abandon you RETRIBUTION: 1/7 1-3 bad mutations, 3/7 slimify a hostile monster in view if possible, 2/7 glow with 50% chance of uncancelable bat, spider or statue form, 1/7 create 1 + xl / 10 + random2(3) J or G
If you abandon Jiyva and kill the royal jelly, all of Jiyva's altars will vanish once your penance is over.

jiyvarobin

Find a Jiyva altar, pray at it. Stay with Jiyva for the rest of the game. Scumming for the Slime entrance with a Jiyva altar encouraged. Password: robin

jmr

Does everyone need their own damn learndb entry?! GOD
Kids these days!
Walked uphill to school through the snow. Both ways.
Appears to be from Yorkshire.

johan

Terrible.

johnny0

< johnny0> i'm like that guy from south park that got frozen for 3 years or something
owner of a distinctive rcfile

joke

<casmith789> why was six scared of seven? <mikee_> because seven ate 291
How many Ogre-Mages does it take to change a light bulb?
None, there are no more ogre mages as of 0.5.
Three--one to cast Haste, one to cast Apportation on the old light bulb, and one to nghrun urhguhn rguhgrugn please stop forcing my face and head into the toilet bowl
thanks i'll be here all week, try the chunk of young calf flesh
[Mu_] Q: What is a centaur's favourite version? A: Stable.
Q: Why do the developers prefer Fedhas? A: He helps them control their branches.
A yak and a giant frog come into view. A yak, a giant cockroach and a hill giant come into view. 3 yaks and an orc warrior come into view. An orc and a big fish come into view. An orc and a big fish come into view.
Q: WHAT DO YOU CALL A SLOW-MOVING PERSON WHO OPPOSES GOVERNMENT
<evilmike> new learndb rule: from now on entries have to make the learndb better rather than worse
<Blade-> um...I just saw a mimic on top of another mimic <mikee_> were they door mimics? <mikee_> they could have been engaging in doorplay
< Cerebov> THIS ONE TIME LOM LOBON CASTED ALISTAIR'S INTOXICATION AT APARTY AND GLOORX GOT SO CONFUSED HE DROPPED HIS RUNE IN SHALLOW WATER
< Cerebov> IT'S THE DARK RUNE SO NOBODY COULD SEE IT SO WE HAD TO LOOK FOR IT BY THE LIGHT OF LOM'S CELL PHONE
see spriggan baker joke
<mikee_> did you hear that the pope has bird flu <mikee_> he caught it from a cardinal
<crate> you should put a metr on your mowa so you know when it is running out of gas
A: AN ANARCHEIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<raskol> what's with troll of ashenzari anyway <raskol> surely it's Trash
How do you know you aren't digging at a downward angle? Crawl is top-down.
<mikee_> Q: why are scrolls in the volcano? <mikee_> A: because they are read
<Sabaki> what on earth do i keep running into in the swamp, its invisible, and it casts lighning bolt? <mikee_> a vapour
<faze> what if mnoleg said this?
<mikee_> an underaged mummy walks into a bar <mikee_> the bartender says, you can't drink
why did the ogre convert to jiyva?

jokeserver

lair, hive, swamp/snake/shoals/orc, vault 1-7, blade, crypt, elf1-4, vestibule, dis, geh/tar/coc, pan, abyss.
You die...Xom finds this hilarious!

jorgrun

A deep dwarf earth mage, with Shatter, LRD, petrify, and dig. New for 0.12.
If he petrifies you and you stay in LOS, you are dead, as his spells do extra damage to petrified targets!
<joosa> I'll start a new game when Jorgrun is removed
<mikee_> jorgrun is just a high ev hobgoblin to me

jory

Unique vampire who comes in two big vaults and has crystal spear. And mesmerise. And crystal spear. And his main big vault has silent spectres so he never gets to use any of them, while his other vault is stupid and not worth it.
got his first kill 27 months after being added

joseph

Looks like a mercenary. He is generated with a quarterstaff, a sling, and sling bullets of pure pain.

josephine

A *really* ugly necromancer. Spells: Bolt of Draining, Bolt of Cold, Animate Dead

joshrl

Likes to stalk Taco_Princess all over Freenode

jozef

In 0.10-, he was a bounty hunter until Joseph collected his bounty. Spells: teleport other, heal, venom bolt and slow.

jpeg

Image format or crawl developer? You be the judge.

jrpg

not crawl

jumping spider

One of Spiders' Nest's many spiders, with blink close, blink away, and ensnaring melee that places what it hits into a web. Also, sense invisible.

jutes

<Jutes> "you have picked up a scroll labeled FUCK DA SAC"
JutesThere is an entrance to Phucs' Book Emporium here.
Jutes: There is an entrance to Faoghout's Jewellery Shoppe here.

kacy

<Kacy> Wow <Kacy> Have I actually gotten my own ?? thing now <Kacy> great
Thinks he can tab Z:5

kaduria

A game being developed by a gentleman named Krice (aka Paul Pekkarinen) on r.g.r.d. According to Krice, it is written in C++, the only language a sane man would use, is way better than NetHack and all the other roguelikes in existence, and will be personally advertised by the Riders of the Apocalypse.
However, all other roguelikes have one critical advantage over Kaduria: They are available.
Krice/Pinkbeast OTP!! http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/msg/cc9d2972d920bde1

kalir

"I cast Decapitate!" "That's not a spell, you just cut his head off with an axe!"

kancho

Is Keshu on CAO.

kats

Plural of kat.
Bowdlerkats
< ksta> One does not simply autoexplore for 90 minutes into Mordor.
Disapproves of defining oneself.
Plays offline, plays poorly, also plays kazoo

kawakimi

ZONGULDROK CALLS YOU BACK
Zonguldrok does not kill. It unlives.

kayohs

OH GOD BLADE HANDS FAP FAP

kcrawl

no labs, queen bees do not cause killer bees to berserk, nerfed shadow creatures, nerfed fireball, no enemy sticky flame; removal of fire crabs, monsters do not zap poly other wand; tengu renamed to kenku; no submerged creatures
antaeus valid target for enslave soul

keraal

Xabrados the Thaumaturge (level 15, -1/111 HPs). Began as a Demonspawn Assassin on May 21, 2010. Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh. Killed by nerve-wracking pain ... invoked by an Executioner ... created by the power of Zot ... on Level 14 of the Dungeon on May 23, 2010.

kevm

streakbreaker combo

khalil

WARNING! WRONG PATCH! DON'T DOWNLOAD JUST YET.
some deep elf mummy lich

khufu

A terrifying, mummified Emperor. Summons demons, undead, smites, torments, and when low on HP, blinks away and casts tomb of doroklohe. When healed, removes the tomb and comes after you.
Use silence, it works wonders.
That's a nasty cough you have there.
<O91> Who's this "Khufu" person and where did half my HP go?

kick

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have hooves, talons, or unarmed skill. Naga cannot kick. Damage is 5. Add +3 for talons or +5 for hooves.
You can't sit, kick, or engrave. You'll have to piss off your god some other way, sorry.

kickbutt

Each # represents one kickbutt of power.

kicks

they just keep getting harder to find

kikiorie

May one day become great. Doubling is their first goal!

kiku randbook

First book: One of (Pain, Animate Skeleton); two of (Corpse Rot, Sublimation of Blood, Lethal Infusion); one of (Regeneration, Vampiric Draining); Control Undead. (But you will never get a spell you can't cast due to your species.)
Second book: One of (Animate Dead, Twisted Resurrection); one of (Agony, Excruciating Wounds); one of (Bolt of Draining, Simulacrum, Death Channel); Dispel Undead; and then one more of these possible spells that you didn't get already.

kiku ratio

Your kiku:other gods win ratio. The higher this is, the more casmith789 likes you. Only counts people with >5 wins to stop outliers.

kiku reasons

Gifts the first book earlier than any other god, which is good if you want to take up casting. Pain-brands your weapon, which is awesome but especially so for fast weapons. Gives corpses on demand, which is good for sublimation and eating and many other things. Makes Tomb easy by giving rTorment and curse protection.
You can torment Mennas (and anyone else you want to torment, but especially Mennas).
see casmith789[3]
< Blade-> ooh < Blade-> champion < Blade-> I can have pain now < Blade-> ... < Blade-> maybe I should train necro

kikubaaqudgha

God of necromantic awesomeness. Grants necromancy kiku randbooks at 1 and 3 stars, and at 6 stars, will either pain-brand a weapon or grant you the Necronomicon (only one) at an altar.
see receive corpses
From 2*, protects from necromancy miscasts and mummy death curses. This helps in Tomb and the branches of Hell. From 4*, grants torment resistance that blocks 60% of torment damage, on average at 200 piety. At 5*, can invoke torment by sacrificing a corpse for 8-12 piety.
not really for necromancers
Also known as the god of copy/paste.
see kiku randbook

kikubaaqudgha acquirement

acquires kikubaaqudgha

kikubaaqudgha wrath

Abandonment: 30 penance. Penance: random2(your xl) > 4 summons corpses with 50% of corpse rot and 50% chance of necro miscast with 20% of another or 10% of torment or 3 necro miscasts if you are undead. no matter what happened, animate dead is cast. 1/20 chance of a necro miscast if you cast a necromancy spell under penance.
<N78291> oh no, he summoned a killer bee larva zombie and a quokka zombie

kill

Something to do to dudes.

killdudes

the lost art of "killing" the "dudes" in a vault to get at the loot (e.g. the orb or a rune)
<mikee_> you kill all the dudes and leave a mighty hero
<snow_> i have to kill everything tho
<GameKnut> killdudes is the zot strategy where you kill dudes
<N78291> it has dudes to kill so you should enter
<ontoclasm> kids: don't try killdudesing at home! <ontoclasm> if you need a rune or the Orb of Zot, ask an adult
"it is well known that destroying a being is the only effective way to prevent it from performing an undesirable action."

killedby

your future

killer bee

If you have poison resistance and decent AC, a nuisance. If only poison resistance, a real bugger once they start swarming you. If neither, be careful as soon as you spot one, or else you might die.
<myuzinn> in roguelikes, they actively hunt for adventurer flesh and can sting infinitely
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=3931 BEES
http://i.imgur.com/DsXYT.jpg
!lg m1nced 3022 -tv:<T10800:>T10850
http://youtu.be/-1GadTfGFvU

killer klown

Zot monster with a lot of HP and klown melee.
Can do 148 damage in a hit if you have rC-. Otherwise, not all that dangerous. See: !lg doy DDBe place=zot:5 1 -tv, !lg Tenaya DDBe place=zot:5 1 -tv, !lg coyo7e HuWz place=zot:4 1 -tv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space

killstealing

!lg shiori kevm 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg nexos killer=michael 1 -tv
!lg * ckiller="bumblebee skeleton" 1 -tv
!lg Mong killer=sheep 1 -tv
!tv hyperelynae mdfi killer="giant newt" 1
!lg * killer=bat max=xl -tv:<3
!lg * killer=jellyfish ktyp!=poison -2 -tv
!lg SGrunt mfie 5 -tv:<4.0
!lg SGrunt natm 8 -tv:<0.5

kilobyte

<KiloByte> death to useless lines!
Plays tile Crawl running on his phone using X forwarding.

kirke

A unique who can make you pink and rooting for truffles. Comes with a pack of hogs and can summon (very) ugly things.
< Chapayev`> captain kirke like to make you an entry in her captain's hog
see porkalator
<Fusha> help I am a hog

kite

fire, run, fire, run, fire, run until they die
!lm trucutru uniq=Cerebov 3 -tv

kiting

The act of hitting a slower monster during free turns with spells or melee and never taking damage.

kitty

A cute PuTTY fork. http://kitty.9bis.com/

kjoery

Chuck Norris's crawl nickname. Tests the way unknown items work on ice fiends.Made an impressive debut on CAO, winning an all-runer DGTm by killing almost everything in dragon form, thus getting the demigod high score, then getting the gnome high score on the next game.
Also doesn't wear pants. You may be starting to notice a theme.
< Kjoery5> Elyvilon is actually a pretty cool god

klandenstein

< Klandenstein> +11, +10 battleaxe of Ambiguity {speed, rPois, +4 AC}

klelaut

He just wanted a hug.
A powerful demon, Klelaut has a bruised and bleeding body covered in tiny crawling spiders.

klown

Special damage type used by Killer Klowns. Per attack randomly: nasty poison (spiny frog), rot (necrophage), drain (wraith), fire (lava fish), cold (ice beast), blink (phantom). Has antimagic (lorocyproca) in 0.10.

knife of accuracy

+27,-1 thin dagger. Yes, it's a dagger not a knife - stab away. Note that weapon to-hit enchantments don't affect stabbing.
Possibly useful if you have +0,+30 slaying.
Note that everything is useful if you have +0,+30 slaying.

knoll

Very dangerous early monster that wields halberds, throws nets, and is covered in grass.

koan

<syraine> Why are spiny worms yellow

kobald

murphy_slaw> kobalds are less hairy than their kobold brethren

kobold

One of the three main causes of early-game mage death, thanks to spawning fairly often with either darts, stones, or a blowgun+poisoned needles. Melee characters should not need to worry too much unless the kobold is using curare-tipped needles.
While the true nature of the Kobold remains a mystery, some ancient texts have described it as "a sort of brown moth".

kobold demonologist

A kobold (haha) that - wait for this, summons demons! HAHAHA! (His only non-cantrip spells are to summon common demons [3, 4] and to call imps. If he gets lucky, he could get a sixfirhy or sun demon.)

kobold disco

A disco for kobolds. Has an altar to Lugonu or Xom in the back room.

kobold reasons

Just Do It!
Bark like an Egyptian.

koboldlord

Has 56% of all posts on Tavern that contain "conjuror".
"i hate slaying, kobolds, lords, there are only 13 runes in the game, centaur is a bad race and the holocaust never happened" "tavern players #1-4: yes koboldlord you are the best!!"

koborobin

Kobold! Can it get any better?

komodo dragon

Can be a nasty first-time surprise for a melee character, as their bite will result in you being instantly diseased, which in combination with bites that hurt make your health drop fast. Blowguns are recommended, though not strictly necessary.

komodo dragon armour

Now you're just being silly.

kozaczu

Banished The Royal Jelly, as a felid, with Jiyva, out of LOS, with a Zot trap.

kraken

A powerful sea monster found in the Shoals. It keeps its main body out of reach and uses powerful tentacles (represented as seperate monsters with special AI) to attack you. The tentacles will advance when you are inside the main body's LoS, and retreat when you are outside it. Killing its tentacles hurts the kraken.
<+evilmike> the kraken acts like a multi-tile monster
If you have a wall to hide behind it's not too bad. If you get caught out in the open water you are in serious trouble. A scroll of fog or another source of clouds can break the kraken's LoS. Both the kraken and the tentacles are cold-blooded, so they can be slowed by a freezing weapon.
So amazingly awesome it isn't *funny*.

kryft

< bmfx> kryft: btw, why are you quivering your ring mail?
<kryft> Two shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three <kryft> Er, two
see game design[4]

ktgrey

<ktgrey> incest is best <ktgrey> put your sister to the test
<ktgrey> saving the world through adolescent sex
<ktgrey> i wonder if there is satyr porn

kumelbut

<Henzell> (1/1) nht said (16s ago): /msg Henzell ??foo <Kumelbut> ??foo

kyrris

23:14 < Kyrris> OHMYGODDRUNK || 23:18 < Kyrris> something's wrong with my shift key. 23:19 < Kyrris> Why can't I aim shock?
Aims shock with shift key as of 0.6.
Accidentally turned the +3,+11 quarterstaff of Jeunonim {crush, rC+ Dex+4} into a snake on D:7.
19:50 < Kyrris> "Kyrris: Cheers, Kyrris,"
Suggested play order: Lair 1-6 > get bored and clear Orc 1-4 > D to Vaults > Vaults until Roka shows up > Shoals 1-5 > Snake 1-3 > get Abyssed in the least likely way possible > Pan > Abyss for the rune > Hive > accidental suicide, preferably in Crypt
Cleared Tomb with ORefrig and Icicle.
Doesn't like humor
Kyrris (L1 MiFE) became a worshipper of Cheibriados.
Kyrris the Grave Robber (L2 SpNe), starved to death on D:2, with 119 points after 18315 turns and 0:28:57
Has killed Louise thrice and Frances, Francis, and Rupert twice in the same game. Later abyssed by a deck of escape. Escaped... into Pan. Escaped Pan. Killed by a rat.
<Kyrris> This has been a GREAT discussion to read while stoned.
Note to self: Rewatch Arachne.

kza

!lm hjklyubn deas type=orb 1 -tv
rest in peace kiku zambe armoue

laboratory rat

Have taken the Orange Rat's crown as the toughest rat in game. Still not very tough. Spawn with a random set of special abilities.
They're laboratory mice / Their genes have been spliced.

labyrinth

Look for a cyan \ (or arch depending on your character set) on a level where you hear an "ancient clock" or "distant snort". (1-in-15 chance per level, once per game). Hurry, it times out after a while (you get urgent-sounding messages). Note that magic mapping is likely to show where the lab entrance is; however, it may appear to be a shop.
"You enter a dark and foreboding labyrinth." You are now in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The labyrinth shifts and deforms out of sight. From rock, head for stone, and then metal to find the exit vault (a minotaur, loot, and escape hatch). The labyrinth is mapped, but rots at a swift rate.
No monster generation (you might find a few hungry ghosts, though); the major dangers are starvation (expect to use a ration or two) and the minotaur (hits for 35+20, so have awesome AC|offense or a powerful ranged attack). If you have a decent amount of food, and don't have teleportitis it's usually safe to explore.
There can be multiple metal-walled areas in a labyrinth, so if you find one that's not the exit, keep looking elsewhere.
http://oglaf.com/skein/ (SFW)
To observe the reason why labyrinths are still in the game, see tragedy
In 0.11+, you can meet Donald there; he's more dangerous than the minotaur. He hates that.

lagus

Actually a person, no matter what Henzell tries to tell you. He loves deep elves. In leather armour. With elven whips. And high boots. We're not sure if these elves are male or female. Doesn't ever joke. Nevermind. Will have a 350-character learndb entry soon.
Is only killing the wussy ones.

lair

Accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 8 and 13. Eight levels deep. The lair is full of "natural" critters such as rats, snakes, and yaks. One of Swamp/Shoals and one of Snake/Spider appears there, as well as Slime, and there is a relatively hard vault on Lair:8. The petting zoo of Crawl, if petting zoos had hydras.
<sorear> you don't need resists in lair, people. it's just 8 levels of xp and items.
DO THIS BEFORE ORC WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. SERIOUSLY.

lajanado

Pioneered by coolrobin.......

lajatang

Big brother to the quarterstaff. 16 damage, -3 accuracy, 14 delay, two-handed. Slashing.

lajataur

see {!lg minmay killer=~lernaean -tv}

lamia

The naga queen! Lives in mid-to-late Snake; comes with a band of followers up to and including greater nagas, a naga barding, and a halberd/glaive/bardiche. Casts IOOD, parrow, mesmerise, haste, and Teleport Self.
Oh Lamia is really a nice game for the game lovers. I played this game many a times, but still unsatisfied by it's fire and ice beauty.
<Ryak> remind me to never do snake again

lamp

Evoke to summon fire elementals. Use lava (or, much more availably: conjured flame) as a source. Will be friendly if you pass a (fire magic skill - 3*number already summoned) in 10 check and also a 96% check.

language

Feel free to swear, yell, and generally curse out the game in this channel. However, there are limits. The game isn't 'gay'. Sigmund isn't a 'faggot'. Your character didn't get 'raped'. Language like that is not okay, not even if you are referring to a character rather than a person. The same goes for racial slurs.

lantern of shadows

While wielded, periodically summons friendly shadows (which counts as necromancy to the good gods), reduces LOS by 25%, makes everything appear dark, and acts as negative two spell enhancers ("extremely numb sensation" if unenhanced). Possibly useful for abyss escape, and attacking from out of LOS. Sets stealth to 0.

large abomination

Pretty basic melee monster. Hits relatively hard, but doesn't have much HP or resists except the demonic ones. It has terrible defenses.

large race

If you're large, that means several things, from dodging penalties to stealth penalties to tons of other stuff.
Shields. Large races can't use bucklers, but have a much easier time negating the various weapon/casting penalties. That is, they would if they had the aptitudes for it. A large race can completely eliminate shield penalty at 10 skill (instead of 16 human), a large shield at 16 skill.

large rock

The deadliest projectile available in Crawl. Ogre and troll hunters start with them, and some giants throw them. Low mulch rate, but also very rare. You may have been looking for rock wall.
Base damage is 20. Weight is 60 aum.

large shield

Like a shield, but bigger. SH 13, EV -5. Diminishing returns from SH and huge skill investment to remove penalties means that unless one's race has crap defenses alongside reduced penalty removal levels for shields (i.e. trolls), one really shouldn't bother to aim for these.

large shield of ignorance

It's a +8 dull large shield with: AC+2, EV+2, Int-6, rN+, may recurse itself (one chance in 3). Note that those who will find this most useful are the ones most likely to suffer a stat death. Otherwise, nice stuff.

large slime creature

When two slime_creatures love each other very much...

lastplaneout

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/lastplaneout/morgue-lastplaneout-20110901-215140.txt

late game

<ebarrett> late game is when you should be sleeping but you're playing crawl instead

launcher damage

Average damage = (B/2 + L/8 + A/16 + min((str - 10)*(2B+A)*C, (L+1)/4))*(1+skill/D)*(brand multiplier) + slaying/4 + A/2 + (L/2 if using xbow). Here A is the ammo enchantment, L is the launcher enchantment, and B, C, and D are constants depending on what type of launcher you are using (see [2]).
B = 4 for sling+stone, 6 for sling+bullet, 6.5 for bow+arrow, 9.5 for longbow+arrow or xbow+bolt. C = 1/72 for slings, 1/32 for bows, and 0 for xbows. D = 28 for slings, 34 for bows, and 44 for xbows.
<CreepingCrawled> that's quite complicated

launcher delay

Base delay is reduced by (weapon skill) * (weighted combination of str and dex) / 62.5. Strength weights are sling: 1, bow: 2, longbow: 3, xbow: 8.

launchers

Slings and Bows have a nasty damage bonus cap. It is the lowest value adjusted from your str bonus and the launcher's damage bonus.
For instance, a Str 20 character using a +0 sling gets +0 damage bonus. a Str 8 character using a +12,+12 bow gets +0 damage bonus.

lava

Fall in it and you'll become a well-done marshmallow. You will also get many guffaws from the audience (if you don't scramble free, that is).
Why would you want to do that?

lava fish

A fish that lives in lava.

lava orc

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:species:propose:lava_orc#flavor
Similar to orc warriors, but they tend to have flaming weapons. Watch out for their throw flame attack!
"Apparently they already exist, so maybe they should appear."
LAVA ORC http://i51.tinypic.com/348k9hv.png
<Eronarn> but i want them to be better than MD
< rwbarton> LO is basically HO with better geometry apt
< Eronarn> elliptic: hey you know what mantis issue hasn't been touched for a long time? lava orcs < elliptic> Eronarn: that issue is too hot for me to touch right now, sorry
<Eronarn> mitt romney is directly responsible for lava orcs not being complete
LO: Fight: 2, Short: 0, Long: 1, Axes: 2, Maces: 1, Pole: 1, Staves: -1, Slings: -2, Bows: -2, Xbows: -2, Throw: -1, Armour: 1, Dodge: -2, Stealth: -1, Stab: 2, Shield: 1, Traps: 0, UC: 1, Spc: -3, Conj: 0, Hex: 0, Cha: -1, Sum: 0, Nec: 0, Tloc: -2, Tmut: 3, Fire: 2, Ice: -4, Air: -3, Earth: 1, Pois: -1, Inv: 3, Evo: 1, Exp: -1, HP: 1, MP: 0

lava orc names

Ignatius
Grant
Cliff
Flint
Rock
Jasper
Jem

lava snake

A snake that lives in lava and breathes gobs of lava at you. Bolts of cold will usually miss them, so go for a wand of para or something.

lava worm

Like normal worms, but in lava. About as threatening, too.

lawful gods

Zin. And bless his heart.

lawman

TABSPAM
<lawman> how babby are formed :(
MOAR TABSPAM
!tv lawman0 dsbe xl=27 1
oh I killed a ghost lol
< Lawman> I have a boner < Lawman> a crawl boner
<Lawman> punch snakes in the face everyday
pasta eating apt +5
drunk[2/2]: crawl something lawman likes to do

layouts

There's a lot of different patterns for crawl levels, from standard rooms and corridors to a level being a giant cross. Comments and potential depths are in dat/des/builder/layout[_foo].des, and &P[layout] to put names to layouts.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjXhStQL2U2fdEdXSkxMSGFPZVI5Z296MFNUSUM0V1E#gid=3 contains a list of D's layouts by depth and weight, and a full map-to-name chart.

lazydudes

When you are too lazy to kill all the dudes.

lcrawl

planned features: trog rewards tabspam, doom monsters and doomguy + cyberdemon uniques, being awesome

lcs

AKA: Lehudib's Crystal Spear or just crystal spear. Level 8 Conjurations/Earth spell, found only in Book of Annihilations and randart Sif gifts. 10d22 at max power, theoretically, and unresistable. The strongest single target conjuration, but its range is one square less than that of Iron Shot.
Also an unrandart +6 spear of returning that gives +3 int.

learndb

A html page of learndb entries is at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/learndb.html . You can also access the learndb at http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots .
The main commands for the learndb are add, query, edit, swap, and delete. See [3] for add and insert, [4] and [5] for edit, [6] for query, [7] for swap and move. You can read entries in private queries to Henzell. You cannot change it in private, however.
"!learn add article_name article text" adds an article to the learndb. !learn insert article_name[index] text adds an entry with a specific index.
"!learn edit name[index] s/REGEX/REPLACE/opts" allows you to edit entries in the learndb. Regex refers to the portion of text you are editing, and replace refers to the text you are replacing the edited material with. Continued in learndb[5].
Special characters such as /, (, [ must be escaped in the regex, as in the form "s/text\)/text]", otherwise the utility will add a character. If you need to use edit to insert the / character, you'll have to use an alternate pattern delimiter, e.g. !learn edit math[1] s_divided by_/_ And ^ is the start of an entry, $ is the end.
"!learn query term" is equivalent to ??term. Both forms support [$] for the last entry, or [-3] for the third from the end.
!learn swap entry1 entry2 swaps two entries' order numbers. !learn mv foo bar moves an entry.
<OG17> the entire learndb should be like ring of charms[2]
<Mu_> the learndb is so full of shit
Crawl meets Wikipedia meets Twitter.
<Wensley> I want to put that in the learndb <Wensley> but I think it's too good to be in the learndb
<raskol> did someone replace "for" with "butts"

lears hauberk

+27 chain mail that prevents you from wearing any other armour except cloaks and shields.

leather armour

+3 AC, -1 EV, 15 AUM

leda

see {leda's liquefaction}

ledas liquefaction

Level 4 earth/hexes spell, found in the book of the Earth. Generates a halo of "liquefied" ground around the caster. Moving on liquefied ground has a -3 player movement malus (slightly more than one item of ponderousness). Applies slow effect to monsters. Doesn't affect flying, clinging, insubstantials; cannot be cast by these.
You will see a lot of "Your unstable footing causes you to fumble your attack."
<elliptic> it's really a very similar spell to haste, except that it messes up your melee and doesn't speed up your movement

leech

+13,+4 vampiric demon blade. Grants rN+ and -1 to AC, EV, Str, Int, and Dex.

legendary

Either the highest card rarity (see legendary deck for more), or the description of an experience level 27 player ghost.

legendary deck

A deck that can get cards of any power level. See card power for more details.
19:32:06 < Kyrris> What sort of world has legends about decks of cards? 19:32:18 < TGWi> have you ever watched yu-gi-oh
XL27 Deep Elf Chaos Knight

legonu

Caretaker of lost lego blocks. No, you'll never find them again.

leissi

the one who's always a bit odd

lemon

When crawl gives you lemons...

lemuel

Lemuel Vaults, Inc, supplying your evil vault needs for over 200 years. When it's time for you to stop playing and go to bed, Lemuel Vaults, Inc. is there to end your game "The Lemuel Way"(TM).
Inventor of the greedy-explore concept.
"My mission is to annoy."
Agrees that Iron Trolls don't belong in the Troll Bridge vault.

lemure

Not the weakest of the 5s. Faster than the average player and cannot fly.
It moans.

leotrogsky

scum a lot of zigs, then dig out d:1-d:27, then write the names of 27 communists on these levels using scythes and hammers

lernaean hydra

A nasty unique in the official release since 0.6.0, but hidden in the source long before that. Rumours say it's a yellow D with 27 heads. Appears in one of the Swamp endings. Thanks, due. First person to kill Lernaean hydra, moq! Congratulations!
Simulacra do four thousand damage with rC-.
If you don't have very high AC/HP, don't use autoexplore around its Swamp:5 vault. !tv minmay killer=~lernaean 1
<Sizzell> araganzar (L18 DrMo) killed the pulsating lump shaped Lernaean hydra. (Swamp:5)

lernean hydra

Lernaean, since it's a hydra from Lerna

lesser demon

A '5'. Ta-da!

lesser servant

Summons a temporary orange demon, ynoxinul, neqoxec, hellwing, or smoke demon. Hostility chance is reduced (but never to 0) by invocations skill. Do be warned a neqoxec will cast polymorph, so they can make a dangerous situation a lot worse..
The check for hostility looks like this: 1d(20+(your_invocations*3)) > 4. If this is false, the demon will be hostile. The same check applies to greater servant.

lethal infusion

Places the "of draining" brand on a weapon temporarily. (Necromancy/Charms 2)

level annotation

press ! to leave a note you can view later with ctrl-o. Also, if you leave a ! in the annotation, it will prompt you when entering that floor.
If you press ! while standing on a staircase, you will be prompted to annotate the level on the other end.

levitation

All levitation is flight in 0.12.

lfg

A list of users interested in the 0.12 tourney, but who do not yet have a team. !nick lfg to see the list, !nick lfg <name> to add yourself.

library of many secrets

A vault found at D11 and below. Houses many powerful spellcasters (vampire mages, naga mages, orc sorcerers, etc) and magical loot.

licence

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/licence.txt

lich

A powerful late game undead magic user that lacks hp, but makes up for it with high spell power greater demon, paralyze, crystal spears, banishment and ioods (to name a few). While a lich may be dangerous, an ancient lich is much more so.

liches behind glass

It's a trap!

lies

Eustachio says, "Summoning is fun!"
<ktgrey> a rod of striking isnt made out of shit
< monqy> item destruction is fun and it makes crawl a better game
<smeej[droid]> tiles rule
<Pacra> it's fun! which is what crawl is supposed to be
<MarvinPA> killdudesing: not the answer
(1:52:52 AM) jeremie: stepdowns make sense
(9:35:38 PM) minqmay: it's more like i've stopped wearing condoms (9:35:45 PM) minqmay: actually, no, there has to be a better analogy than that
<rast> crate: im having fun!
Duvessa is too close now for your liking.
<Lost_Number> Tiles is just too good
<eeviac_> tomb is one of the most interesting parts of crawl
<mikee_> i think 552 is more than i have played
<Lightli> Chei > Zin
<Nomi> i hate slaying
< atomicthumbs> the RNG is broken
Aizul says, "I wasn't actually sleeping!"
<@galehar> players are always happy to have some item destruction :)
<elliott> crawl is not solely for masochists :P
<the_glow> im never p[laying again i told you
<Blade-> mu are secretly really good

life

Your past!
The original roguelike.
rwbarton> welcome to crawl where living is not the opposite of nonliving

life protection

Resistance to draining attacks, shown on artifact inscriptions as rN+. Three levels makes you completely immune. As in, it turns shadow dragons into mostly harmless kittens. Also gives partial resistance to torment (5% per level, so at life+++, torment will make you lose 35% hp, instead of 50%).

life saving

The good and priestly gods will occasionally negate any single occurance of HP loss that would otherwise be fatal. In extremely old (<= 0.2) versions, Xom would also. Odds are pretty good, but without healing they don't matter much.

lightli

is very bad at this game
is very bad at talking to anybody
Thinks Fio from Metal Slug is cute.
is boring
<Lightli> My god, I keep on embarassing myself
[23:53:44] <Lightli> I just cleared Orc before Lair [23:56:06] <Sizzell> Lightli (L12 DDBe) is cast into the Abyss! (orc) (Orc:4) [23:56:08] <Lightli> FU
likes heavy armour, melee, blasters, and to some degree summoning. Favorite gods are Trog and Vehumet, with a soft spot for Lugonu..
dislikes dodging as a sole line of defense, unarmed combat, and hexes. And felids. Least favorite gods are Chei, Nemelex (for being too tedious even for ME), and Okawaru.
17:34:29 <evilmike> we should remove lightli
is in love with Saber
likes his hill orc berserkers
<Pacra> lightli: explain this saber thing to me <faze> so lightli loves an anime
<minqmay> it's admirable that lightli keeps talking about saber even though everybody knows not to acknowledge him in any way

lightning bolt

Level 5 conjurations/air spell, found in Book of the Sky. Extremely loud, but follows the same bolt bouncing rules as Shock.
You hear a shout! You hear an angry hiss. You hear a shout! You hear a shout!_You hear a shout! x2

lightning rod

Fires a thunderbolt like a regular beam, then when evoked again fires lightning in the space between the first and second beams.
Quite variable in cost and damage: does more damage and costs less when the resultant spread is smaller. It does good damage if you don't make much of a large spread.

lightning round

If it is a lightning round, you only need to survive!

lightning scales

A +3 naga barding of running (or speedy slithering) with rElec.
<HangedMan> lightning scales!!!! <MarvinPA> lightnignds asclalelas1!!!!

lightning spire

!lg xnavy mimo 5 -tv:<0.5
electric eel statues

lilli

<Henzell> Lilli the Gusty (L4 KeAE) killed Grinder on turn 3108. (D:3) <Henzell> Lilli the Gusty (L6 KeAE), killed themselves with a bounced bolt of lightning on D:3, with 404 points after 3108 turns and 0:07:39.

lindwurm

Nasty little wurm that breathes fire for 3d18 damage. Avoid if you can (and don't have fire resistance).
Unlike dragons and fire drakes these do not resist fire

linley henzell

Linley Henzell is the original creator of Crawl and numerous shoot 'em ups.
Only won his version of the game 3 times, once on a grossly imbalanced non-public debug build.
http://audreyapple.blogspot.fr/2007/02/legend-gamer.html

list of mutations

Spoiler of possible mutations here - http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=List_of_mutations

listgame

!lg command displays info about past games. The manual is available here: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell/raw/master/docs/listgame.txt
For commonly used listgame commands see listgame commands.
* lists all players. usually !lg uses the first argument as a player name or the nick requesting it as the name, if there is no player name as the first. Can sort with max=<field> or min=<field> (eg: max=sc). Can summarise with s=<field> (ex: s=name)
listgame will expand some common searches: !lg place=XX => !lg place=~XX:* (apart from branches with depth 1), killer=uniq => killer!= killer!~~^an_?|^the_ killer!~ghost (kills by uniques), race=Ke => race=Kenku, cls=Gl => cls=Gladiator, killer=hobgoblin => killer=a hobgoblin. These fudges apply to all commands that use listgame selectors.
Fields: src (cao/cdo), v (game version), sc, name, race, cls, char, xl, sk (skill), sklev, title, ktyp, killer, kaux, place, br, lvl (br depth), ltyp (D, Abyss, ...), hp, mhp, mmhp, dam, str, int, dex, god, piety, pen (penance), start, end, dur (game time), turn, urune, nrune, tmsg, vmsg, alpha, splat. See listgame examples.
case-sensitive regex by greensnark: !lg * name~~(?c)^[[:upper:]]+$ s=name

listgame commands

Sort games by version, in order: !lg * s=cv x=max(cv) o=-max(cv)

listgame examples

Your last completed game: "!lg". foo's last complete game: "!lg foo". Most recent game by anyone: "!lg *". Your second-last game: "!lg -2". First game on server: "!lg * 1". Game with highest score: "!lg * max=sc". Fastest turncount win: "!lg * ktyp=winning min=turn". Your last Xom game: "!lg god=Xom". Last game with strength > 40: "!lg * str>40".
Last death on Lair:5: "!lg * place=Lair:5". Last death in 2007 on Tomb:3: "!lg * place=Tomb:3 end<2008". Fastest kenku win: "!lg * race=Ke min=turn". Summarise places of death for 78291: "!lg !78291 s=place". Summarise causes of death for all: "!lg * s=ckiller" (or use !deathsby). Summarise gods of players who died in Zot: "!lg * place=Zot s=god".
If you use no sort (max or min), the last game will be shown (default is "max=end"). You can use indices with any sort (third fastest win: "!lg * ktyp=winning min=turn -3"). The default index is -1. With the default index, the number to the left is the number of matching games (!lg * => "209949. foo the bar ..." => 209949 games).
!lg normally shows games from both cao and cdo, but you can restrict the search to one server as "!lg * src=cdo". Note that Henzell only sees cdo games at 5-minute intervals, so if Gretell has just reported a death, Henzell may not know about it until 5 minutes have elapsed.
Whose ghosts did I kill? "!lm s=ghost" Whose ghosts killed me? "!lg ckiller=player_ghost s=killer" Who killed my ghosts? "!lm * ghost=yourname s=name" Who did my ghosts kill? "!gkills" or "!lg * killer=~yourname'*ghost s=name"
a measure of successfulness per race/class might be found in a query like the following (replace xl>10 with your general sense of what lvl you start to not win so often): !lg xl>1 s=char / xl>10 o=N,% ?: N>0

literally

(7:12:27 PM) Wensley: guys we have literally filled three fifths of my irc log with bacon
<rwbarton> that has been around for literally forever
<omnirizon> workplace blocks IRC ports, so I have to use webchat connections. these have captchas. <omnirizon> my captcha was, literally: better asspic
I thought it was literally a fractional cost, not variable, or something
<elliott> G-Flex: minqmay: i will literally pay you two to have this argument on tavern instead
He nuked me pretty hard, by the time I decided I wasn't going to kill him, I was literally toast.
Cocytus was first and it was quite literally a piece of cake
<Blade-> the non-end vault elves are literally popcorn
<HangedMan> phoenixes are literally 0.5 harpies duct taped together
<clouded_> meatsprint is literally shit

literarily

<mikee_> oliver twist was literarily an orphan

local global

A level 8 Tloc spell in crawl alternative, swaps a LOS-sized circle around you with that around a chosen location: features, monsters, clouds, anything but you.

lof

Line Of Fire. Means something is within Line Of Sight, with no monsters in the way. If you could throw a spear and hit it, it's within LOF.

log

trunk commit log: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl-ref.git;a=log

logicninja

!lg logicninja slime 1 -tv !lg logicninja slime 2 -tv
Want more? !lg logicninja opfe xl=27 1 -tv

loguno

received penance by fireballing a merfolk outside LOS

lolcheatin

Used the infinite experience bug to ascend a mummy of sif in 1:56:33.

lom lobon

Guards the magical pandemonium rune. Has some dangerous spells: ice storm, conjure ball lightning, major healing, blink_range. But is not particularly robust, and is rather easy to steal from.

long blades

acc,dam,delay[hands]: falchion 2,8,13; long sword 1,10,14; scimitar -2,12,14; demon blade -1,13,13; double sword -1,15,15; great sword -3,16,16[2]; triple sword -4,19,19[2]

long sword

One-handed long blade (Dam: 10, Acc: +1, Delay: 14)

longbow

A long, strong bow made of yew. Dam 6, Acc 0, Delay 12. You can get one from centaur warriors (1/3 chance), non-specialist elves (5%), deep elf master archers (100%), or Nessos (100%, flame).
Small species (e.g. halflings) can't wield these.

longest randart

F - the ring of Serendipity (on tentacle) {Hunger +Blink +Rage +Lev rElec rF+ rC+ Str+2 Dex-2 Stlth++}

loopy

stands for General Purpose Looping Variable

lorc todo

Lava orc monsters
Fix the stat display in tiles
Give temperature inertia in addition to the maximum change currently there.
Make sure all messaging and display tiers match up
Rebase branch after commits are reviewed

lord of darkness

Win without entering Lair.

lordsloth

10,000th person to die to Sigmund!
Thinks elves taste like chicken!
Climbs ogres.
<nrook> LordSloth: in fairness, you are easily the best player who loses all the time I've ever seen
Devwiki Petrification stabbing jellies, disint jellies
Saprovores with rotten chunks and contaminated non-rotten chunks prefer to eat the rotten chunks first, even with prefer safe chunks = true
tell bmfx about ogre priests after playing

lorimer

That SporkHack guy, incarnate
The Prince of Pants

lorimer card

Summons the player's ghost 'lorimer', who will follow you around the dungeon and mock you.

lorocyproca

Congratulations on typing that. It's invisible and has antimagic melee. Good at making players self-ice storm.

los

Line of Sight, five to eight steps, depending on direction. Levels 2 and 3 of nightstalker demonspawn mutation reduce this.

losing

Fun

louise

She banishes regularly, stings, blinks, stone arrows, lightning bolts and heals herself. She comes equipped with heavy armour and usually a shield.

love

You miss Sonja. You feel sick. You die...
!lg Elynae sprint ktyp=stupidity 2 -tv
You grab Duvessa. You squeeze Duvessa.

lowhptv

Uniques and ghosts killed/pacified/banished, abysses/ziggurats/branches exited and entered, runes and orbs grabbed, all when the person viewed has less then 20 hp and is xl 16 or higher.
No, only occasionally is there a death right after.

lrd

Lee's Rapid Deconstruction: Turns walls into explosions. Useful for removing inconvenient stone or green crystal walls, though one needs fairly high power to pierce stone, and even higher to pierce metal (see lrd[4]). Causes lots of undodgeable damage to anything foolish enough to be near the wall (but AC is applied thrice).
LRD also works on enemies with varying effectiveness. Regular enemies are untargetable, but statues, most golems, and anything petrified or made of metal, rock, or ice will be damaged and spray fragments of varying range/damage. Skeletal enemies are particularly damaged and have a good, power-based chance to instantly die (including bone dragons!)
Works on doors (open or closed), making it one of the more effective ways to open one from afar. Furthermore, it works (without destroying) on stone arches, and can majorly piss Beogh off when used on an orcish idol. It does nothing when the floor is targeted.
You need the following amount of spell power to have a shot at destroying a wall: rock: 40, stone: 60, metal: 80. Green crystal has a 50% chance to be shattered regardless of spell power.

lst

When a character dump (#, !dump) or a !log is generated, it has an accompanying lst file that contains all known info about items and shops you've seen. Change the txt in the address to lst to view it. When you die, the lst file is fully identified, revealing e.g. the slimy gold dragon armor you couldn't afford, or the potions you left in temple.

lua

Best scripting language named after the moon!

luck

Does not exist in Crawl. I repeat, does not exist.

lugonu

Lugonu grants the ability to leave the abyss, bend space, banish monsters to the abyss and invoke corruption. You can banish yourself instantly at a permanent maxhp cost, and permanently distortion-brand a weapon once at an altar of Lugonu, which can be easily made by using corruption in the Temple.
Lugonu was originally named Lucy, so it is traditional to consider this god female. The gods intentionally have no gender mentioned in-game though, and it would be considered a bug if they were to.

lugonu reasons

The ability to save yourself by immediately exiting the abyss and the ability to save yourself by immediately entering the abyss. Permanent distortion brand. Corruption can kill Antaeus. On-demand banishment for troublesome monsters.
Easy orc:4 shops, free labyrinths, you can give erolcha/psyche/louise/sonja a taste of their own medicine.

lugonu wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance. RETRIBUTION: 50% tloc miscast (and keep going), else 16% teleport, 8% blink. Even if a preceding effect occurred, continue to: create some abominations, thrashing horrors and ancient zymes, maybe a single tentacled starspawn, wretched star or starcursed mass.
(9:42pm) timecircuits: I have a feeling I'm going to be in the abyss a lot this game (9:42pm) Henzell: tcircuits the Alchemist (L13 MfTm) is cast into the Abyss! (Lugonu's touch) (Orc:2)

lurking horror

An abyssal giant spore that torments (full LOS) when it explodes. Follows you with wandering mushroom AI while at a distance, but becomes increasingly likely to chase you (with speed 12) instead of standing still, the closer it gets.
You can avoid the torment with freezing clouds or explosions hitting the horror just out of LOS, if you can lock down their movement.

luterac

learndb vandalizer

lychee

The lychee (Litchi chinensis, and commonly called litchi, laichi, lichu) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to China, and now cultivated in many parts of the world.

lying

<elliott> did you have to wield the orb to win <mikee_> it has powers in 4.1 <mikee_> does 1d100 damage in melee <Elynae> mikee_: haha, seriously? anything else? <mikee_> i made it up
<elliott> i like ??faq <minqmay> so do i <mikee_> i strongly dislike it <HangedMan> why? <mikee_> i was lying again <mikee_> can we add it to my entry of lies <elliott> yes
<mikee_> he won't shoot with the imp in the way <crate> looks like he will zap through the imp
<elliott> mikee_: there's no bad mutations in light <mikee_> lol <Patashu> really? <elliott> no <Patashu> ok <Patashu> good <elliott> im lying <elliott> can we put it in my entry of lies <mikee_> yes <mikee_> would you like it to go in my entry of lies <elliott> yes <mikee_> we can share it
<elliott> i'm lying again <mikee_> nice try! <mikee_> not getting another entry
<mikee_> secret tech: if you ascend on D:1 with the orb, you win the game <Grunt> mikee_: WHAT!? REALLY!? <mikee_> no <mikee_> i lied
<mikee_> if you hit with a weapon with bad enough enchantment it actually heals monsters <mikee_> so a good trick is to give a goblin that -8 dagger okawaru gifted you and let it heal you up <elliott> mikee_: really? <mikee_> another famous mikee_ lie <elliott> mikee_: joke's on you, I was lying when I pretended to believe you
<Lightli> Wait, what happens if you use bolt of inaccuracy with an amulet of inaccuracy on? <mikee_> it does twice as much damage <Lightli> ...wat <Lightli> It DOUBLE damages? <mikee_> sorry i lied

mac

Install iTerm 2, do not use Terminal.app. If you like X, any sane X terminal emulator will work (xterm, urxvt).

macbeth

!log whog kohe quit 1

mace

A long handle with a heavy lump on the end. (one-handed mace; Dmg 8 Acc +3 Delay 14)

mace of brilliance

the +5,+5 mace of Brilliance {holy, rN+ AC+5 Int+5 SInv Stlth-}. Free halo on equip!

mace of variability

A great mace with the chaos brand. While wielded, each of its pluses independently has a 40% chance per turn to shift either +1 or -1. If this would make the plus go under -4 or over +16, it's ignored (causing it to often linger near the extremes). Also, uncurses itself every turn!
<Fin> I just found what appears to be a gay shovel. <Fin> Oh. A shimmering mace. Tiles is funny

maces and flails

whip 2,6,11; club 3,5,13; hammer 3,7,13; mace 3,8,14; flail 0,10,14; morningstar -2,13,15; demon whip 1,11,11; holy scourge 0,12,11; eveningstar -1,15,15; dire flail -3,13,13[2]; g. mace -4,18,17[2]; g. club -6,20,17[2.5]; g. s. club -7,22,18[2.5]
Things which thump or lash. They don't cut hydra heads off.

maces and flails reasons

you want to use the third-best weapon school
You are an ogre.
You are an ogre.

macro

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/docs/macros_guide.txt;hb=HEAD
<Ragdoll> anyway i used macros on the F keys <Ragdoll> instead of summoning more dragons it made me walk into hellion island

mad acolyte of lugonu

A renamed wizard with a guaranteed distortion weapon. Shows up in an Abyss rune vault.

madreisz

Loves playing felids. Insane.
Is contagious, do not talk to him about felids or you will catch the crazy. See {madreiz[1]}.
this is how your crawl is supposed to look http://i.imgur.com/pe9ragA.png

magic dart

Level 1 conjuration spell that always hits if successfully cast. Does 1d8 damage at max power.

magic mapping

Reveals the dungeon map layout around you (but not items or enemies). Doesn't reveal areas on the other side of secret doors, but does reveal the doors.

magic number

It's always 3^n. No exceptions.
Except when it's n^3.
Sometimes n is 72^(1/3) or (log 72)/(log 3).

magic resistance

Magic resistance is your or a monster's ability to ignore hostile enchantments or some other magic. Player MR comes from XL, Trog's Hand, and items. The most important hostile monster enchantments are confuse, slow, deep elf sorcerer|ogre mage|Erolcha|Louise banishment, lich|orc sorcerer|great orb of eyes|sphinx paralysis.
Chances of anything resisting a spell are calculated like this: (magic resistance + 100 - the spells power) is compared to ( random2(100) + random2(101) ) and if the random numbers are less the spell is negated.
Monster MR is a fixed property of the monster, ask Gretell (@? deep elf mage). Player MR is XL * racial-multiplier + randart MR (35-99) + 30 for armor _of_ MR + 40 per ring _of_ MR + 3*(max {Charms skill, Hexes skill} + 3) for staff of ench + 30 * level of MR mutation + 50 if lichform.
Racial factor is 7 for spriggans, 6 for purple dracs, felids and deep dwarves, 5 for nagas and mummies, 4 for elves, demigods, vampires and ogres, and 3 for everyone else.
@ values are: not < 10, slightly < 30, somewhat < 60, quite < 90, very < 120, extremely < 150, extraordinarily < 190, incredibly < 240, uncannily < 300, almost entirely >= 300
<ionfrigate> blue deaths have tele other? <ionfrigate> things you learn when you do pan with shit magic resistance
<minqmay> what "hostile enchantments" really means is "effects that can be resisted by "resistance to hostile enchantments""

magical trap

A purple ^ which does nasty non-damage things. Cannot be disarmed. You cannot bypass them by levitating/flying over them; they will still go off. Sorry. Comes in zot trap, teleportation trap, and alarm trap varieties.

magistern

ne, tm
doesn't understand ranged combat

mailmap

http://s-z.org/crawl-dev/.mailmap

major destruction

Power is based on invocations. Randomly fires one of: bolt of fire|lightning|draining|iron, fireball, ranged sticky flame, or an orb of electrocution that will explode with radius 2 and make you wish you hadn't fired at something so close to you.
Costs 0-1 piety, with power equal to [ (Invo * 3) + 2d(1 + Invo) ], or more simply put, between 3x and 5x your Invocation skill, tending toward 4x.
be very careful how you use it !tv cykosys killer="hill giant" 1

make altar

Makes a random altar.

make grenades

An ability in Zot Defense, awarded when you reach level 6. Creates friendly giant spores to explode on your enemies. Costs 2 zot points.

make ponderous

Gave a piece of body armour (including robes) the ponderousness brand. It slows you down -- that's bad, but it greatly increases the rate of gaining Cheibriados' piety. Chei started slowing you directly with piety starting in 0.9.
Turns your equipment into artefact gear in the same way that it is immune to corrosion and you can't further enchant it. So use those enchant armour scrolls before making ponderous! Also keep in mind that you can't use make ponderous on artefacts!

makhleb

Makhleb wants kills and sacrifices, and provides hp-for-kills, two conjuration invocations, and two summoning invocations. Note that Minor Destruction has no piety cost, so you can use it freely (though it is hungering); servants are not 100% friendly; and greater demons are effective against essentially everything.
See minor destruction, lesser servant, major destruction, or greater servant for details on the invocations.
In 0.10 mp-for-kills is gone. The hp gain is HD - 1 + 1d(HD) and the chance of being healed is (piety-30)/piety.
BLOOD AND SOULS

makhleb reasons

Reasons to worship Makhleb: healing-for-kills is fantastic in general but especially for races that have healing problems, e.g. vampires, ghouls, and deep dwarves.
Blood and souls for Makhleb!

makhleb wrath

25 penance. RETRIBUTION: (4/5) * ((XL-7)/XL) chance of a greater servant (hostile, no abjuration timeout); otherwise 1 + XL/7 lesser servants.

malarious mermaid

Renamed mermaid with less health.

malign gateway

Summons a portal through which an eldritch tentacle emerges. Depending on spell power, it will be friendly for a number of turns, before turning hostile, or the portal closes and it is severed, whichever happens first (either way, it will turn hostile). Level 7 Summ/Tloc found in the Grand Grimoire. 1/3 chance of draining a point of int.
Entering the malign gateway portal hurts you a bit and blinks you.
!lg minmay char=muwn turn=236662 1 -tv

malmutate

Enemy spell that gives you a usually bad mutation.

mana shield

Tier 2 DS mutation. Level 1 acts as guardian_spirit. Level 2 doubles mana regeneration rate. Level 3 directs a ratio of (maxmp - mp) / (maxmp) of your health regeneration to MP regeneration (i.e. greater proportion at lower MP).

mangled

You had less than -5 hp when you died.

mangrove

A tree you can't see through. Found in Swamp.

manjusri

totally playing oggls of oka from now on though

manticore

Throws spikes at you for a not insignificant amount of damage. Note that it has finite ammo, at most 16 volleys. Also moves pretty slowly, which combined with it stopping to flick at you means that you can probably outrun it easily. Won't stop firing spikes at melee range, for what it's worth.
<minmay> it occurs to me that manticores are basically just low-level iron dragons

manual

Manuals let you train a skill more efficiently. Read a manual to activate it. While you carry it you gain twice as many skill points as normal until the manual is used up. Dropping the manual or reading it again deactivates it. The amount of skill points you gain is fixed; you cannot waste a manual's benefits.
To view the DCSS manual online: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.reST

manual training

default_manual_training = true

map card

Magic mapping! If the map was blank, the mapping didn't do anything for whatever reason.

maprot

A term for the behaviour of Labyrinths and the Abyss where you forget bits of the map as they go out of LOS. Used to be a mutation, divination miscast effect, and trap effect.

mara

Lord of Illusions! Mara creates two identical (stats, spells, weapon, armour) clones of himself, summons a hostile illusion (based on you), casts bolt of fire, blinks, and casts Mislead.
_Mara seems to draw the phantom out of itself!
Your illusion can follow you up stairs, unlike ghosts, so keep that in mind as well whenever fighting Mara.

margery

A lithe spellcaster escorted by hell knights. Spells: bolt of fire, fireball.

mark deck

Marks four cards, then shuffles them back into the deck. Next time a marked card is on top, you will know what it is. May cause one or more cards to disappear from the deck.
In 0.4.5, if you Draw Three from a marked deck, you may get a bug which can cause unexpected results... so don't do it.

mark four

no-one uses this

marsupial

A member of a family distinguished from rodents by its snobbishness.

martin thomson

a bastard who promised lp's also i'm not sure who he is.

marvinpa

Isn't marvin from NetHack. Also not from Pennsylvania.
Dungeon (27/27) Temple (0/1) D:5 Orc (0/4) D:11 Lair (0/8) D:9 Hive (0/2) D:11 Vault (0/8) D:18 Zot (5/5) D:27
On his way to an all-ruin win of Crawl. (The thing he is ruining is fun).
On his way to an all-ruin win of ##crawl. (The thing he is ruining is the learndb).

marvinpa rc

http://crawl.develz.org/configs/trunk/MarvinPA.rc

marvinpaws

Ask NyaaKitty.

mask of the dragon

+0 cap with SInv MR(40) Acc+3 Dam+3.

mass abjuration

Attempts to abjure everything hostile in LOS (like pre-0.10 Abjuration). Level 6, found in the Grand Grimoire.

mass confusion

Tries to confuse all monsters in LOS. Unlike Alistairs, it works on the undead, poison resistant, and pretty much everyone else - but checks MR.

master blaster

Arenasprint's final boss. Have fun.

master elementalist

A wizard type creature that commonly spawns with some form of elemental-resistant robe. Spells: iron shot, summon air elemental, sticky flame, summon water elemental, haste, blink.

math

<Blade-> there are not 300 hours in a week <kats> there are 240, you're splitting hairs <Blade-> there are 160
see launcher damage

mattydub

(7:20:40 PM) MattyDub: I'm so glad that's my first entry in the learndb :/
< MattyDub> I see, I;m just blind

maud

No spells. The two most notable things about Maud are that she looks inexplicably like a rodent and that she (like hell knights, frederick, and margery) has a chance of coming with a kick-ass weapon. Associated with forgetfulness in NetHack, reference from Alfred Tennyson's poem, Maud.
see entarex

maurice

A unique thief! He's that green @ that just stole something out of your inventory, and then teleported away. Has a cloak.
Don't mess around with him too much. He'll eventually steal a wand, turn invisible, then zap you a lot, or quaff all your precious potions.
Some people call him maurice.
See mauricescumming

mauricescumming

maurice's cumming
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/xomscumming/morgue-xomscumming-20110905-165025.txt
3 Maurice comes into view.
Maurice blinks!
some people call it mauricescumming
<Ragdoll> pretty much every maurice is worth 395055 points
worst part: acquiring all that gold.
<mikee_> it's like being john malkovich but with maurice

maurog

A diligent CrawlWiki contributor.
Punched Sigmund to death at XL:1

maxrunes

78291 the Farming Infernalist (L27 NaFE), worshipper of Zin, escaped with the Orb and 267 runes on 2010-05-18, with 6222453 points after 841428 turns and 79:07:56.

maxwells patent armour

+15 plate armour with -TELE, -CAST, MR, and preservation. No longer called Edison's. Before 0.8, it was +10 and had no MR or preservation.

mcrawl

planned unfeatures: randomized energy, ranged AI, monster fleeing, water, aquatic creatures, lava, lava creatures, sickness, piles of throwing weapons for orcs, traps, secret doors, t&d skill, nightstalker, mephitic cloud, evaporate,ID mini-game, butterflies, mimics, ignacio, vorpal weapon brand, butchering
planned unfeatures: teleport other, labyrinths, noisy attribute, CONTAM attribute, slay dragon, slay orc, steam, sultanas, memorization failure, vault monsters, stat drain, vampire summon, rot, monster polymorph wand use/badforms
planned features: squarelos, dooroklohe, game ends upon picking up the orb, ALLY BANK, xom overhaul, venom cocktail, quasi-militaristic band leader speech, slime knights, interruptible rests, autojuggle, zombie hands, vacuum
Planned mcrawl feature, autojuggle: attempting to melee with a weapon inscribed with !a automatically swaps weapons and performs a melee attack.

mcrawl changelog

https://gitorious.org/~rwbarton/crawl/mcrawl/blobs/mcrawl/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt

mdae

<minmay> I am casting static discharge at terrible specifically to kill stuff with the explosions

mdcrawl

Planned features: mountain dwarves. Planned unfeatures: all other races, especially Tengu.

meatsprint

include += meatsprint.rc

meatstabbing

!lm elynae kown uniq=frederick 1 -tv

mechanical trap

A cyan ^ which causes damage when you step on it. Don't walk around injured, especially with low Traps & Doors. Can be disarmed, but if you fail you can take as much damage disarming as you would just walking through. Disarming them may provide ammo or +0,+0 weapons and can protect your pets.
List of mechanical traps - dart, arrow, bolt, needle, axe, spear, blade

megabat

It is as big as a bat.
http://twitter.com/flappitybat

meld

Caused by changing forms. Melded equipment temporarily goes away and you lose the bonuses from it, but it will still be equipped once the transformation ends.

melee

not a very good spell

melee character

<Zeon_> how do i get past stone walls if im a melee character
<volteccer> the whole point of a melee character is to run towards enemies

melee damage

Too complicated to realistically explain. Try it and see for yourself how well it works.
see weapon_damage

melee needs gdr

memphitic cloud

Confuses monsters and causes them to fall into the Mississippi River

menkaure

A unique, early mummy, also found in Ossuary. Knows pain, torment, and haste. Orc-wizard magenta! Gives normal mummy death curses.
Don't leave him for the endgame: !lm ionfrigate hofi uniq=menkaure 1 -tv

mennas

A unique angel who casts silence. Has a holy long blade (sometimes a eudemon blade), hits really hard, is fast, has huge EV and a large shield. Have fun!
The size of his field of silence is not particularly large, but he's fast enough to keep you in it if you aren't hasted.
Results vs the unique &s and Cs in !fight: 0-50 cerebov, 1-49 antaeus, 1-49 asmodeus, 5-45 mnoleg, 6-44 dispater, 8-42 the iron giant, 12-38 ereshkigal, 32-18 lom lobon, 45-5 gloorx vloq, 50-0 geryon, 50-0 polyphemus.
<m0ng> so the secret to killing him is to reduce his health
Here: Mennas, wielding a glowing eudemon blade and wearing a dull large shield

mennas strategy

!lm xomscumming uniq=mennas 1 -tv:<3
!lm snow de place=vault:6 uniq=mennas 1 -tv:<2
!lm swinepaste uniq=mennas char=deee place=spider:5 1 -tv

meow

Legendary startscummer. Has been known to quit 24 int deep elf wizards without making a move.
One of only two people who is BANNED FROM C-SPLAT.

meowfelid

Is most assuredly not related to nyaakitty in any capacity.

meph reasons

no
You want to "trivialize" your opponents.
You like it when confusion "procs".
You need a good "bread and butter" spell.
You want to send early orc wizards "to oblivion".
It's a "no brainer".
You're "running" a "caster".
You're "rolling" a "caster".
You need more to-hit for your "nuke".
You want to be a "gatling gun" later on.
You want a form of "crowd control".
You want to turn extremely dangerous monsters into "popcorn".
You are having trouble dealing with "mobs".
You can't "tank" for very long.
You lack a good "panic button".
You need a good spell for "nasties".
You are going to "pump" Air Magic anyway.
It's "king".
HELPs you "into" the game.
It's "imba".
You want to "gank" monsters.
It's a spell you want to "get online".
It turns a fight into a "crapshoot".
It's a real "game-ender" for your enemies.
It might help you make a "meatshield".
It pretty much "dominates" the early game.
You want to give monsters a "death sentence".

meph unreasons

An explanation for the hatred in the meph cloud and meph reasons entries: The people who hate it hold it as a boring, unreliable, annoying crutch, with very few uses that don't fall under this.

mephitic cloud

Fills the target square and some of the adjacent squares with clouds of noxious fumes. Any creature breathing these fumes may become confused unless resistant to poison and/or confusion. Conjurations/Poison/Air 3. Loud.
You will only be confused on a given turn if a random number from 1 to 27 is greater than or equal to your experience level. The formula for determining whether a monster will resist the effect of a mephitic cloud is HD/21, with a flat 98% chance to resist at or above HD 21.
Will not expand diagonally if the vertical and horizontal are blocked by walls.
As loud as Fireball, which means loud enough to wake up off-screen monsters.
"augh so mephitic"
IT REACTS WITH THE AMBIENT RADIATION FROM THE ORB OF ZOT TO CREATE A UNEARTHLY CACOPHONY RESULTING IN NAUSEA AND HALLUCINATIONS.

mercenary card

Summons a mercenary who demands money (roughly the same amount of gold as its XP value). If you pay, you get a permanent friendly ally. If you don't or can't, you get a permanent enemy (and no XP or items from it). Found in decks of changes, war and defence.
Possible mercenaries are: big kobold, merfolk, tengu, deep dwarf scion, orc knight, centaur warrior, spriggan rider, ogre mage, minotaur, random coloured (classless) draconian, deep elf blademaster. Higher card power level makes more of them available, and starts you higher up the list.
!lg mindlar drfe ikiller=~"player char" 1 -tv:<4
Fuck the tengu comes into view. It is wielding a dwarven hand axe. Pay Fuck's fee of 140 gold?

merfolk

Player merfolk in water get spriggan speed, +50 stealth, a 25% EV bonus (guaranteed +2, capped at +9), a tailslap attack, and (cursed) boots are melded.
Plain merfolk enemies are mostly unnotable, although they sometimes generate with nets. On the other hand merfolk with classes, such as merfolk impalers, are extremely dangerous. Thankfully they're almost unheard of outside of Shoals.

merfolk aquamancer

sorear named these. Water mage in 0.6 shoals.

merfolk reasons

Excellent melee/caster hybrids: amazing polearms and dodging, good at enchantments and ice. Alternatively, good transmuters. Swimming makes Swamp and Coc:7 less painful!

mermaid

Inhabits the shoals and sewers. Sings a song that can mesmerise you.
see mesmerise

merry

Bow mastery title.

mesmerise

Being mesmerised means you can't move away from the mermaid/siren and cannot go berserk. You can still cast spells. Mesmerisation can be broken by breaking LOS with the mermaid/siren; killing or confusing it; reading a scroll of noise, silence, or vulnerability; or zapping a wand of lightning. Clarity prevents it.
When mesmerised, you cannot blink away from the mermaid/siren - you can only make uncontrolled teleports away it (if you have cTele, try selecting an area with walls or deep water).
Some ways to break LOS: moving behind a corner, closing a door, wielding a lantern of shadows, creating a cloud of fog or steam with a scroll of fog (unreliable), evaporation or shooting fire or flame over water.
If you are mesmerised by the obsidian axe, you cannot cure it with noise, but you can go berserk.

message

Press 'm' to send a message to a player you're watching. To reply to a player watching you, press ':'.

metabolic englaciation

Level 6 Ice/Hex. Attempts to slow all non-rC+ monsters in sight. The duration of the slowing is based on power and reduced by monster HD (and unaffected by MR). Cold-blooded monsters are slowed for twice as long.

metal wall

A wall of metal, presumably conductive, and immune to most magical effects. It absorbs lightning (including Shock), and is extremely hard to destroy with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction.

metamorphosis card

Transforms you based on card power. Power 0 gives spider form, ice form, or bat form. Power 1 gives statue form or blade hands. Power 2 gives lichform or dragon form. Note that lichform from this source will not anger the good gods, but you must still watch out for the unarmed brands of spider (poison) and lich (draining).

metarobin

Metarobin can't be played unless another robin account is being played. Metarobin must follow the rules of all active robin accounts.

metroids

Like jellyfish, but they fly through the air and have life draining attacks which also magically contaminate you. Really, more like vampire mosquitos only with tons of hit points. Endemic in the abyssal stair, otherwise found only in a few Lugonu themed vaults.
Vulnerable to cold, and have a special vulnerability to explosions (missiles with the brand, being next to an LRD, and so forth.)

mf guide

Pick up a polearm, hit things with it.

mfsk

Not as good as MfIE.

miasma

Poisons, slows and gives a 50% chance of rotting per turn. The poison is resistible by rPois but the slow and rot are only resistible (for players) by being undead, being a demonspawn with the miasma mutation, nonliving (statue form) or using Zin's vitalisation.

michael

<Sequell> 34 games for * (ckiller=~michael): 12x 0.4, 10x 0.2, 9x 0.5, 0.3, 0.5-a, 0.4-a

microbat

Bigger than a nanobat
Not to be confused with an acrobat.

mifi challenge

Streak every MiFi. See "!streak elynae mifi" for the current champion.

might

+1d10 melee damage and 5 Strength.

might other

Mights someone else. Deep troll shamans use it to might trolls; convokers use it to might everything. Have fun dealing with a hasted/mighted troll pack!

mighty

Describes a experience level 17-21 player ghost.

migl guide

<BlastHardcheese> good advice: berserk

mikee

Used to be a good player, nerfed in 0.6. Now is a greatplayer!
pretty diesel
everyone has to do the same as him, sorry guys
(1:48:00 AM) mikee_: You finish putting on the +3 shield "Struimostri" {rElec rF+ rC+} (1:48:02 AM) mikee_: sigh
he will play your account in exchange for playing any of vaults:1-7 on his own
<mikee_> i like to think of myself as a fist of iron inside a velvet glove
is a meanie
Is officially awesome. (mikee the Conjurer (L16 MuVM) killed Xtahua on turn 104484. (Snake:4) without rF or haste)
<casmith789> I hate mikee
<mikee_> i want to turn the whole world black and green.
lair -> orc -> hive (not anymore) -> lair branches: 1-4 -> elf -> get bored and stop playing
<mikee_> it is hard to have nicknames in irc
<mikee_> spiders have lots of time
slayer of quokkas
mikee_: i am the winston churchill of crawl
Is right.
<mikee_> one hour is about the time it takes me to get past char selection
<monqy> mikee_'s account is kind of like coolrobin, but with a different password
<mikee_> i am a vietnamese fuckshop
wins
<Codrus> I killed Louise and they dropped _A - a large shield mikee. What the heck is Mikee?
Here forever.
is a hideously deformed monstrosity, adept at licking elbows with the tongue on the end of its other elbow
[mikee_] i've never been sick and on fire
[02:42] <mikee_> cheese conducted with eggs [02:42] <syraine> Absurd [02:42] <Pacra> delicious
<mikee_> i dont even have "rules"!
<Henzell> mikee is awesome.

mikee reasons

You enjoy being amazing at everything (and very slow) ((better take chei))
< mikee_> if you play as mikee you find 25% more slaying and do 30% more damage to greater mummies
<mikee_> i am too buff

mikee avoid

killing what you want to avoid real fast

mikee guide

It's 1996 and you drop your magic cards deck while trying to ollie off the railing next to the football field, scuffing your vans and dropping your discman and scratching your copy of "Portrait of an American Family."
Your friend Tyler comes up to you and helps you dust the dirt off your NOFX hoodie. "Hey we're doing a MI tonight." An MI ("Mission Impossible") is when you and Tyler shoplift wine from the grocery store by putting bottles of it in the deep side pockets of your trench coats. "You want to come?"
"Yeah I got a bag," you whine, fishing a film canister out of your hoodie pocket and showing Tyler the crumbs of pot stowed inside it. "Alright!!" Tyler exclaims, already digging around in the junk at the bottom of his Jansport for an apple or an empty soda can to make a makeshift pipe with.

mikee ninja

mikee teleport + mikee avoid

mikee reasons

Finds enough slaying to one-shot greater mummies.

mikee speedrun

do lots of risky things you would never normally do

mikee teleport

running to where you want to teleport real fast
Level 0 Translocations spell. Gradually teleports you to any spot on the map over a path not obstructed by walls. The time it takes to cast is (100 / player move delay * distance) turns.

mikeerc

cset=ascii

mikeereasons

who needs reasons, when you have mikee_.

mikelist

I'll just list all the ones I can think of: curse system, food system, brokenness of summons/ally play, the abyss, making midgame branches easy by doing them late, too much resting

milestone

Milestone fields: v, cv, name, race, cls, char, xl, sk, sklev, title, place, br, lvl, ltyp, hp, mhp, mmhp, str, int, dex, god, dur, turn, nrune, urune, time, type, noun, milestone, game_id. game_id points at the game owning the milestone, to see the corresponding game use !lg * id=<1245>. game_id may be null.
type = type of milestone (see !lm * s=type for all types), noun = the thing that the milestone refers to. noun may be Sigmund if type=uniq, for instance.
As an alternative to saying !lm type=X noun=Y, you can use !lm X=Y, for instance !lm uniq=Sigmund. As an alternative to !lm type=X s=noun, you can say !lm s=X, for instance !lm s=ghost.
Examples: !lm * (most recent milestone of any player), !lm s=ghost (summarise ghosts killed by you), !lm * s=uniq (summarise uniques killed by anybody), !lm s=abyss.enter (summarise causes of banishment).

mimic

They imitate items and features, and chase you when you come within a square of them. Their bites are poisonous. Now they can have constriction too! Enjoy! Gretell knows it as FEATURE MIMIC.
You feel somewhat more hungry. The centaur goes up the stairs. _The centaur goes up the stairs. The staircase is a mimic!

min delay

Min delay for a melee weapon is min(7, floor(base delay / 2)), or 5 for a sabre. To achieve min delay, you need your weapon skill to be at least max(base delay, 2*base delay - 14), plus 1 if odd, or 14 skill for a sabre.
see attack delay[5]

minced

!lm m1nced type=zig.exit -tv

mind elayer

<ontoclasm> mind elayer <puke> theyre sorta like mind flayers but instead of causing psychosis they just hit you with stuff until their skills are up to par

mindless

A tag on slimes, some undead, and some bugs that causes them to step into various clouds when they cannot step around them, without regard for their HP. They also cannot be pacified with Elyvilon, and they cannot use stairs.

minecraft

Because legos are not nerdy enough
like dwarf fortress but playable but without dwarves or fortresses but with fortresses

minefield card

Makes lots of traps near you. Radius is based on card power. Makes deep water/lava instead in the Abyss.

minmay

http://i.imgur.com/lMKXl0D.png http://i.imgur.com/mSoffbF.png
basically buddha
<minmay> MuIE seems better than SpEn
<TGWi> why the fuck is there an eye of devastation in lair
<inspector071> who is this minmay person and why are his sadistic creations in this game!?
(6:44:12 PM) minqmay: !learn del minmay[18] (6:44:13 PM) Henzell: Deleted minmay[18/18]: Deletes his own entries
<minmay> I had cock worms a few weeks ago
see oklob temple
<Vizer> fuck minmay
!lm minmay uniq=boris 98 -tv
[Mu_] i do not actually possess a ring of farts, minmay.
<minqmay> i like to lick elves
lacks fantasy when it comes to design
<minqmay> i also have a potato that i left in my desk for 2 weeks by accident a while ago <minqmay> and then decided to leave it there because the stuff growing on it is pretty

minmay guide

you make a pot of noodles and you eat half of them then you put the other half in the refrigerator so you can eat them later
real noodles, not like some beef-flavored top ramen shit

minmay reasons

you want to have sexy elf dreams

minmay river

a river of minmays

minor destruction

Power is based on invocations. Randomly fires one of: puff of flame, pain, stone arrow, shock (zap), acid. There is no piety cost. Costs 1hp.
Very useful for softening up enemies or finishing them off when they're fleeing.

minor healing

A monster-only spell, usually used as a 'last resort' or 'escape' spell. Unrelated to Ely's ability, though possibly using the same code.

minotaur

Horns, all that sort of thing. Nasty things that gore you, and are chosen to be guardians for Labyrinths. If you see one not in a labyrinth, it's probably a shapeshifter.
Also a bashy player race.
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/comics/00000030.jpg

minotaur reasons

You want to hit things.
you can kill things without hitting them

minqmay

see minmay
minqmay: well my face looks like someone covered an oyster with corn starch so it's not really an issue for me

misc acquirement

Decent chance of good decks. You probably dont need the ?acq if you consider this.

miscast

Failure to cast spells causes various generally nasty things to occur, becoming nastier with spell level and spell failure. Miscasts come in severity 0,1,2,3; 0 is always harmless. See {<school> miscast}.

misinformation

Monsters never spawn in Vestibule. (Spawning actually never stops there, though it is slow.)
Base damage is king. (Early game it is basically the same as weapon enchantment, and it only becomes twice as good as weapon enchantment with maxed skills.)

mislead

While affected by this status, monsters will appear to be other monsters in glyph, name and tile. It is temporary and purely cosmetic. It is blocked by clarity.
<Patashu> sphinx golden dragon ice devil deep elf conjurer <Patashu> THEY WERE JUST BUTTERFLIES
#1590: "The mottled dragon twitches its whiskers."
The pulsating lump chants a haunting song. You are mesmerised by the pulsating lump!
'I mean, we don't have illusion magic in RL, but I guess quite a few druggies had a situation like "WTF? A yellow elephant wants to arrest me???".'
fire vortex (berserk)

misnomer

Magic resistance: though this sounds as if it means to resist any damage caused by magic (such as bolts of fire or magic darts), all it means is your ability to resist hostile magical nonsense such as paralysis, confusion, teleportation, banishment, etc. Conjurations, as in spells that hit you in the face, are resisted physically and elementally.

mission

Find the entrances to Lair and Orc. If you die, you may try again up to twenty times, though at the cost of the point for this mission. New locations: D:1-13, Temple.
Find the three branch entrances in Lair. New locations: Lair.
Enter the shops in the Orc:4 shop vault and find the entrance to Vault. New locations: Orc, Elf, D:14-20.
Get a Lair rune. New locations: one Lair subbranch.
Find the entrance to Tomb and enter the end of Crypt. New locations: Vault:1-4, Blade, Crypt. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Get a second Lair rune. New locations: a second Lair subbranch. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Find at least one entrance to each of: Pan, Hell, and Zot. New locations: D:21-27, Vestibule. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Get the silver or golden rune. New locations: either Vault:5 or Tomb, along with Zot (since you have 3 runes now).
Get a third Lair rune. New locations: the third Lair subbranch. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)
Get the silver or golden rune. New locations: either Vault:5 or Tomb. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)
Get three Pan runes. New locations: Pan. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)
Get the remaining two Pan runes and return to D. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)
Get two Hell runes. New locations: all four hell branches. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)
Get the remaining two Hell runes. (Missions 9-14 can be done in any order.)

mithril

It's just another axe.

mkaibigan

<M-Kaibigan> Cast sticky flame on yourself.
you could make this spell blow the balls wherever.
Now you can Golubria the balls wherever!
I FUCKING LOVE AIR ELEMENTALISTS
!lm vicht rstart=20100709110637S uniq=~royal -tv
Nikola says, "Vicht, I like you."
!lm Vicht rstart=20100728220719S uniq=~"royal jelly" -tv:<3
(Arguably) Most crazily creative player.
!lm vicht turn=265790 -tv:<5
Perma-dragon, raised from birth: !lm Vicht vptm place=shoals rstart=20100731235236S type=br.enter -tv
< M-Kaibigan> I like sphinxes

mnoleg

Guardian of the Glowing Rune. Comes with hordes of neqoxecs. If you died to him in hive, you got a prize!
Sort of telefragged by syllogism once! See !lm syllogism place=pan type=br.enter 3 -tv

mnoleg to stand on

blazinghand (captain), dienosore, n1000, rchandra, salivanth, zauren - http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.12/clans/blazinghand.html

mnolegrobin

Multi-purpose robin! Play as mnoleg and die to everything, or dive to and kill mnoleg as early as possible! Dying to mnoleg accepted and encouraged! Name: Mnoleg; Pass: robin
Mnoleg the Imperceptible (L14 SpEn), worshipper of Ashenzari, slain by Mnoleg in Pandemonium (mnoleg), with 89421 points after 16802 turns and 1:14:26.
Mnoleg the Jinx (L13 SpEn), worshipper of Zin, mangled by Mnoleg in Pandemonium, with 52535 points after 17560 turns and 1:31:07.
Mnoleg the Bringer of Life (L13 DDHe), worshipper of Elyvilon, slain by Mnoleg in Pandemonium (evilmike mnoleg eyes) on 2012-11-24 12:39:18, with 46866 points after 17010 turns and 1:44:55.

mnolegsprint

http://pastie.org/pastes/4252521/text
if you are testing this proof-of-concept alpha, please test for hangedman's sake the following strategies for mnoleg: TSO, sanctuary, distortion, rain, water card, antimagic

mob

Mobile OBject: A term used to refer to Creatures and NPCs, stems from the MUD days of yore.

modified stealth

/2 when encumbered, /5 when overloaded, /3 when confused; +20 elven cloak, +20 elven boots, +50 boots of stealth, +80 shadow card effect, +-artefact modifiers (randarts have 10 to 79 or -10 to -98), -6*EVP^2 for armour with an EVP, +10 when in air, +50 if you swim, /2 if you can't, -10 hooves, -50 silence.

mollify

Said god is not angry with you anymore.

molten gargoyle

Flying monster whose bite engulfs you in flames (and can destroy your scrolls).

momentarily disoriented

You just used a scroll of magic mapping on a level you already explored. Great work!

mong

<mong> I've always wanted my own learndb entry, but it seems vainglorious to make one for myself.
!lg * id=405169
m0ng
<minmay> do deep dwarf ghosts get damage shaving? <m0ng> only if they nick themselves with the razor, minmay
<mong> I am preparing for a marathon crawling session this evening, to include bagel bites and box wine.
<mong> in my defense, i am drunk
<m0ng> i don't remember anything that happened last night. i came back to my character this morning and i'd switched from trog to jiyva, and had a qblade of distortion
m0ng

mongol

The first one to die in a lair zig level. Rest in Peace.

monk

A badass melee fighter who couldn't afford weapons or armour. Starts with a robe, unarmed combat skill, stealth and dodging. Also gets ** piety upon first following a god in 0.10+. For a martial artist type with powers, try a Transmuter.

monk reasons

When you're satisfied with punching your enemies in the face until they die

monkey

Shakespeare, given time.
elephants are everywhere

monqy

hi
killed good players, is a horrible person
this space for rent
<monqy> abuse every bug/major design flaw, don't scum [in a way i don't like], don't cast meph
<monqy> Your giant spiked club {WASHINGTON} is devoured by a tear in reality.
sucks
see salamander[2]
squarelos, orb run hells, buff mnoleg
Note to self: outrun wolf spiders
key contributions to society: revealed existence of executioner bands; added this entry
roguelikes suck
<monqy> volcanoes <monqy> take a peek
<monqy> i forgot mennas could silence ok
<monqy> i have no goals in life so im just going to drink from this toilet
don't let him enter dieselrobin. everyone (especially monqy) will regret it
alt ideas: chebylos, qyes
"A wise man"
loves the art of door dancing, will teach you it
want to get back into crawl? try ogtm of chei
killed goodplayers. locked the general god mechanics page then unlocked it. rather likes white butterfly
the artist formally know as squarelos

monqy clouds

cset = cloud:xa4

monqy guide

what

monqy patches

banishment hell effect

monqyclouds

cset = cloud : xa4
cset = cloud : x263a

monqyscrawl

work in progress
work in progress
monqy scrawl
http://gitorious.org/~monqy/crawl/41qys-crawl
<Nomi> thanks a lot <Nomi> it was awesome
see 41qyscrawl

monster damage

1d(monster damage rating) + [random2(weapon base damage) + random2(weapon damage ench) - 1d3]. Multiply by 3/2 for might and 5/2 for stab.
Damage reduction is max(random2(AC), gdr_percent*[monster damage + weapon base damage]). For example, a player with 50% gdr always gets at least 15 damage reduction against an anaconda and 22 against a stone giant.
weapon brands work the same as for the player. Elemental attacks are different, however. See af_cold, af_elec.

monster generation

Every 5 full turns there is a 5 in rate chance of something spawning. Rate starts at 240 in each dungeon level and 50 in pan. From 3K until 15K turns on a level, it lineally increases to 6 times its value. All generation stops after 15K turns.
In the abyss, generation happens every 5 turns. In hell, the rate starts at 240 and goes up (less spawning) after 500 turns. If you're running home with the orb, the rate is set to always be 8.

monster hunter

One of the best simulators of hitting things until they die, without getting hit yourself.

monster ranged combat

The arrow hits you! The bolt hits you!

monster regeneration

If it's regenerating or withdrawn, 50 HP per 10 AUT. Otherwise, the percentage chance of 1 HP being gained a turn is HD (25 * ((15 - HD) / 4), divided by 2 for Enslaved Souls, 4 for Undead, 5 for Constructs. This is floored at 0.1. Monsters heal off-level by 1/50 of this value.

monster speed

A number from 3 (boulder beetle) to 30 (unseen horror, giant bat) representing the movement and attack rate of a monster. speed = 100/delay.
If your delay is X, and the monster has speed Y, then in 10 moves of yours the monster will make floor(X * Y / 10) moves.

monsters

Type @?monstername in this channel (or in a PM to Gretell), or @?? instead for stats of the monster in trunk. While Gretell is down or behind on updates, ask Cheibriados with %? or %?? . Cheibriados, but not Gretell, also supports querying earlier versions back to 0.9, with %0.10?monstername .
Dirty cheaters.
<minqmay> in general 50% of crawl monsters are designed to be annoying
The most up-to-date code for @?? and @? can be found at http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=monster-trunk.git , or clone from http://s-z.org/neil/git/monster-trunk.git , branch 'bleeding-edge-crawl'.
see 41[3]

monstrous

Pseudo-predefined mutation set guaranteeing 3 body slot facets and 3 other regular ds mutations ; 1 / 10 chance; gives "You feel monstrous as your demonic heritage exerts itself." message when you gain your first body slot facet.
see ds mutation rules[4]

moon

A low gravity portal vault! Expect to have 1/5 the hp and twice the EV. Contains moon trolls, lunar crabs, eidolons, and a vault with a large amount of cheese.

moon troll

Invisible troll with the tornado effect (like a twister). Very nasty! Currently found only in the moon portal vault in trunk.
!tv predelnik place=elf:7 char=spen for a hilarious moon troll death!
moon troll (T) | Speed: 7 | HD: 16 | Health: 68-116 | AC/EV: 20/4 | Damage: 35, 25, 25 | Flags: regen, !sil | Res: magic(106), fire, cold | Chunks: clean/none/unknown | XP: 1314 | Sp: airstrike (0-42), invisibility, tornado.

morality

<LordSloth> Don't be afraid to abuse heroism <LordSloth> it's much more important than a gift

morg

Many years ago it was the property of a powerful mage called Boris. He got lost in the Dungeon while seeking the Orb. {-1,+4 dagger; Pain Brand; Magic Resistance; +5 Intelligence}

morgue

Use the !log command to get the morgue for your last splat on any server. (It will be autodetected.)

moriasc

Oh wow, I haven't looked at those little guys in a long time. How powerfully can they shoot that stuff?
Behold, greatest spectacle in all the land, it's Morri the teleporting headless freak! part 1: [!lg Morri char=NaSt place=Zot:5 -tv] part 2: [!lm Morri char=DEFE place=Wizlab -tv:<-2:>7]

mormegil

a nonexistent trueart that adds rSleep
Sindarin for Blacksword

morningstar

A mace-group weapon. Not to be confused with an eveningstar, which is better. Damage: 13, Accuracy: -2, Delay: 15.

mossforestblossombat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bats
must... 5... streak...

most won

SpEn, MDFi, MfCr, DDNe, MiBe, HOPr, DEFE, DSBe, HEWz, TrBe, SETm, KoBe, GhFE, HaTm, MuNe, NaWz, DrMo, HuPa, CeFi, OgFE, KeFE, FeBe, DGCj, VpNe (for each race). Note that HaTm, GhFE and OgFE were nemelex choices in 2009 or 2010. See also {combo ratios}.

moth of suppression

Think silent spectre, but with an aura of suppression rather than silence.
<elliott> oh <elliott> there's a ghost moth <elliott> shit <elliott> my sinv ring is suppressed

moth of wrath

Monster which has a surgically implanted larynx to scare off adventurers. Terminate with extreme prejudice post-haste; they send other monsters (and you!) berserk. Seen only in Spider endings, Zot, Ziggurats and in a trog altar vault, so if you see it anywhere else it's a shapeshifter.

mottled draconian

A form of draconians that can spit sticky flame (range 1, can splash onto adjacent monsters). Player character gets +1 aptitude in Fire Magic. Also has sticky flame resistance at xl 7, but this doesn't stop the impact of sticky flame from doing scroll damage.

mottled dragon

A dragon that breathes sticky flame, but is otherwise unremarkable. Kill it fast if you value your scrolls. Its hide, when enchanted into armour (6AC, -1EV), provides immunity to all sources of sticky flame.

mottled dragon armour

A magical armour made from the scales of a mottled dragon. Although unlike the armour made from the scales of some larger dragons it does not provide its wearer with much in the way of special magical protection, it is as light and relatively uncumbersome as leather armour. (light armour; AC 6, EV -1, napalm immunity)

mountain bat

http://i.imgur.com/b23R8.jpg

move delay

10 by default. Boots of running lower this by 2. The quickness mutations lower this; level 1 by 2, level 2 by 3, and level 3 by 4. Centaurs start with the second level, Spriggans with the third, Felids start with the first. The minimum is 6. delay = 100/speed. See also what delay.
8 delay (such as with swiftness or boots of running) moves at 12.5 (between an ant and a snake). 7 delay (such as a player centaur) moves around 14.3 (between a jackal and an actual centaur). 6 delay (such as a spriggan) moves at 16 and 2/3 (just less than a war dog).

mp

Cast spells with this. Max of 50mp without bonuses; any bonuses over 50 are halved (staff of power, ring of magical power).

mpr

<MPR|> efreet in a bottle <MPR|> do I open it? <Elynae> probably not [...] <MPR|> hmm I shouldn't've opened it

mprcrawl

Perpetual lab with wizlabs that are also normal labs. The anti-kcrawl.

mrplanck

As of 2012-02-12, the first of two players to have died on d:1 while carrying the Orb of Zot.

mtputty

A wrapper for PuTTY/KiTTY that allows you create connections in tabs rather than separate windows. http://www.ttyplus.com/multi-tabbed-putty/

muck

Win this (without abandoning Xom) and you can win any argument before it starts.
<Blade-> this death involved confusion
<nonethousand> it is about as fun as drunk sudoku

muck guide

1. Find a sabre of speed (preferably the captain's cutlass). 2. Find a book with sticky flame and bolt of fire. 3. Avoid dying to Xom confusion. 4. Win!
This guide has a 100% success rate.

muckrobin

Pass: robin. You must not leave D:1 until you have been banished at least once. No restrictions after that!
!tv muckrobin 2

mudo

see {!lm * gid=mudo:cdo:20120316143317S s=zig.exit}

muen guide

<N78291> go upstairs -> hit 5 until they fall asleep -> stab
<heteroy> did you know that MuEn is not a very good combo?

mufi

nemelex would be a good mufi god

mulching

The chance of breakage is: 1/6 for curare and darts; 1/8 for sling bullets, stones, arrows, and bolts; 1/12 for non-curare needles; 1/20 for javelins; and 1/50 for large rocks. Throwing nets only take damage when struggled against. Other thrown things such as hand axes aren't technically missiles, and won't break.
Flame- or frost-branded missiles (not if branded by the launcher!) have twice the chance of breakage.
German for "destruction of missiles on use".

multi kill

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4091

multiplayer

"guys i have another question...its been bugging at me for a while now but i've fought 2 named characters by now that look like other players and they had names. One was named jlyq or something and one was named Jessica. I managed to kill them both and loot them but they didnt drop anything except their weapon and armor."
"those pkers are dam annoying, i died again as a vampire assassin because i couldnt kill this guy who kept spamming low level summons since i was stuck with a -2,-2 cursed dagger."

multirobin

Like other *robin accounts, you share it with other players. Unlike other *robin accounts, they're logged in at the same time you are. In fact, all keypresses are shared! See multirobin[2] for setup/login details. See multirobin[3] for something awesome.
wget http://eronarn.info/misc/multirobin_key ; ssh -i multirobin_key multirobin@eronarn.info (you may need to change the key's permissions). There's a shared account at multirobin/2ghouls1zot, but you could use your own, too.
Holy shit, you can play multirobin in your browser! http://eronarn.info/multirobin/ ha ha ha just kidding you can't
If you get display errors, try hitting ctrl+r to force redraw the screen. If you get latency issues, not much that can be done about that. Sorry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

multizap

Hitting a single foe several times with the rebound of a lightning spell, like Shock or Lightning Bolt
In modern versions you can only hit a given monster twice with a single lightning bolt.
see trizap
see quadzap
quintizap: !lg ionfrigate killer="deep elf annihilator" 2 -tv

mummy

When destroyed, all mummies cast a death curse. For normal mummies (i.e. 'a mummy'), this could curse items. For other mummies (e.g. 'guardian mummy'), it will be a random necromancy miscast effect. Regular mummies are vulnerable to fire damage.
Try a wand of enslavement or summons to handle the regular sort. It'll let you avoid the death curse.
Mummy PCs do not need to eat food to survive. They also resist necromantic and cold attacks, are immune to poison, but vulnerable to fire. Also, they get permanent necro magic enhancers at xl13 and 26. Lastly, they cannot drink potions, change form or go berserk. According to syrion, PC mummies use bladders for firing blowguns.
Spells player mummies can't use: regeneration, revivification, symbol of torment, death's door, stoneskin, alistair's intoxication, any form-changing spell (including blade hands and necromutation), and spells that would have no useful effect such as cure poison.
Take your gear off, drop it all, including your weapon, and challenge a mummy to a good old fashioned round of fisticuffs. Not only does this avoid the death curse, it is also extremely gentlemanly.
Zetwiuwo moans, "Get thee gone, thou cockered inflammable dustbag!"
<Ragdoll> man, look at these apts <Ragdoll> with a + before them

mummy challenge

Win a mummy who stays at rF- all game. Alternatively, streak every mummy. Bonus points for combining the two challenges! (rF- challenge completed by: nago)

mummy priest

Like a curse skull on legs. And it smites. And it curses you with necro miscasts when it dies. And it melees.

mummy reasons

You want to die quickly. Or, slowly and in a way that you can't prevent.
You hate hungering, like me.
Trying to set the record for "most damage taken by {monster with fire attack}."
You find labyrinths too hard.
You draw a card... It is Famine. You feel rather smug.
You love golden eyes and want to hang around them a lot.
Harpies.
Grinder is much less dangerous.
This trove needs 20 potions of curing to function. Give it the items?

mummy warrior

A guardian mummy that wears armour and can haste itself.

mummyrobin

In this robin challenge you have to wait for monster generation to stop (takes 20k turns) on every level before you can move on to the next. Backtracking to earlier levels is only allowed if you have stopped monster generation in the entire branch. If you are shafted, use your conscience as a guide for what to do. Password: robin
One game took so long that it actually tripped over the save compatibility break and couldn't be played further due to crashes. Heed this warning: play incredibly long and annoying things quickly.

mumra

<Grunt> mumra: go to sleep; isn't it like 7AM where you are? :b <mumra> go to sleep? i got MSVC all fixed up so i could start coding :P

mumra patches

make pan/abyss/hell portals not overwrite doors

mune

sume ma sa, is the ruut uf all evil tuda

murderers

!lm * noun=~helpless s=name

murdertv

Glorious deaths in maps made by infamous vault makers: evilmike, mu, due, dpeg, minmay, hangedman, lemuel, and st_. Doesn't count those under xl 14, deaths in entry vaults, or deaths in non-Coc Hells and Pan (due to overlap with ampersandtv). Good way to observe sadism.

murphy slaw

figured out how to kill 30 ice beasts on d:1
thesaurus trickster
synonym sleuth
thesaurus technician
< murphy_slaw> you see here a +3 condom of penetration

murphys law

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4783

murphyslaw

<effo> like cole slaw's brother

murray

a mighty demonic skull rolling along the dungeon floor. Summons undead and torments. Only found in 1 in 4 Vestibules.
See the curse of Monkey Island for more info.
How appropriate. You fight like a CAO.

murrayrobin

<Sequell> No games for * (ckiller=murray).

mushroom circle

spawns a ring of fungus around the target square for 10ZP

musical chairs

<ontoclasm> play music, when the music stops, everyone fights until someone dies <ontoclasm> music starts again

musk

<Sequell> * (char=musk) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xMuSk

musk reasons

You're getting tired of your 23-game streak.

must

But you can't!

musu

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Stabwound/morgue-Stabwound-20080309-224221.txt
see musu guide
see poncheis
<Poncheis> think on yourself as a famous commander <Poncheis> think on yourself as a diesel eustachio

musu guide

Worship Sif. Train only three skills: spellcasting, summoning, and invocations. Spam summons. Anything will die if you toss enough XXX at it.

musu reasons

You hate your spectators, and probably yourself.

mutagenic corpse

Attempts to give a single random mutation. Gives no nutrition.

mutagenic fog

Shimmering purple, deliciously mutagenic! Will polymorph monsters and give you bad mutations! Remember to wear your resmut amulet.

mutagenic fog abyss

Blame evilmike.

mutarobin

Quaff all mutation potions, eat all mutagenic corpses, throw all cure mutation potions and amulets of resist mutation into lava. Worshipping Xom or Jiyva is encouraged. Password is robin.

mutation

A semi-permanent change in your body. Can be good or bad. Mutations may be removed by a potion of cure mutation or the intervention of certain gods. Check list of mutations for spoiler.
When being mutated (not by a god), you have a (current mutations)/15 chance of: (2/3 of the time): cancel the mutation, (1/3 of the time): remove a random mutation.
(8:26:52 PM) eternaljwh: Can you get your pre-existing conditions mutated or are mutagens like bad health insurance?

mutation resistance

For adding a mutation: 1 or 2 = 66%, 3 = 100%; Deleting a mutation: 2 = 50%, 3 = 100%. Amulet = 90%. Zin: (piety/2)%

mutation roulette

a dumb name for a dumb practice

mute

If you want to make summoning more tolerable you can edit your config (init.txt) to include these lines (without quotes): "message_colour ^= mute:misses your" "message_colour ^= mute:[yY]our.*but (do no|doesn't do any) damage" "message_colour ^= mute:Your.*disappears in a puff of smoke" "message_colour ^= mute:Your.*miss(es)? (the|it)"

mutt

The replacement for http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots.

muwz

muwz guide (written by elynae): http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=The_Better_MuWz_Guide

myothehedgefox

A flooder somewhere from Russia. Loves stalking Webtiles games and asking weird questions.
Is occasionally useful, might provide a bonus to Attention. When evoked, might give a hint. Don't use him with any demon weapon
Plays as Hedgefox in Webtiles.
<MyO> How does one make a "hard redirect"

mystic blast

Range 7, does a maximum of 2d22 damage but explodes with a 3/(2 + 2*distance) chance. The explosion is directed away from the caster, so don't worry about hurting yourself with it.
"The following name [Iskenderun's Mystic Blast] was found in the hack.exe file of an early version of PCHACK - credit goes to its creator (whoever that may be):"

naga

The player race has sInv, rPois, a poisonous spit attack, +5 stealth apt and natural stealth boosts, plus xl/3 natural AC. In return, they have a penalty to movement speed, recieve halved base AC for body armours, and cannot wear boots (though bardings have 4 base AC). Nagas gain constriction at xl13.
The monsters vary in threat. If you have poison resistance then nagas and naga warriors pose no special threat, but naga mages and greater nagas can still potentially do terrifying amounts of damage.

naga mage

They cast venom bolt, mystic blast, haste, poison arrow, and teleport (both you and themselves). Take them out before warriors and regular nagas.

naga reasons

Poison resistance, spitting venom, automatic AC gain through leveling up, decent weapon skills, nifty message for kneeling at altars
You get lots of tail.
You don't like having the ability to run from things.
http://www.elfwood.com/~dreamstone/Naga-on-Tree.2696286.html

naga warrior

A tough naga who spent a lot of free time at the gym. Usually comes armored and armed.

nailbunny

Love of my life

naked monks

not as bad an idea as you'd think

named wizards

nao

nethack.alt.org, go and visit #nethack

napping turtle

Don't wake them up.

natural trap

A brown ^ indicating a trap that has managed to manifest via completely natural means! Types: shaft.

nausea

New status effect in 0.10, replaces sickness from contaminated chunks (but not sickness from other sources). While it is active, you can't eat unless you are starving or near starving (and you only get half nutrition then). Gone in .13.
<minqmay> iirc, sartre suggested it was a feeling that something is and isn't there at the same time <minqmay> but it turns out this was a symptom of existential angst, the need to define a meaning for one's own life

ncrawl

features: poison storm, choko storm, firestorm storm, mephitic storm, iood storm, dispel storm, oklob storm, bug storm, inaccuracy storm, chaos storm, mutagenic storm, drain storm, blink storm, apport storm, hydra storm, thunder storm, porkalator storm, wall storm, xom storm, door storm, enslavement storm, deconstruction storm
http://gitorious.org/~nooodl/crawl/ncrawl
You see here 644 chokos.
vvvvvv 125 fire vortices
The orbs collide in a blinding explosion! x14
The storm dragon bites your program bug! Your program bug dies!
Mangled by a 3084792-headed hydra (16 damage)

ncrawl features

rnz

nda

Non-disclosed dragon armour: We can't tell you if it exists or not. We're not allowed.

necklace of bloodlust

Cursed amulet of rage. +2 str, -2 int, +5 dam, 30 MR, -20 stealth, makes you angry (equivalent to berserkitis 3), and recurses 1 in 3 times when worn. Extends your berserk duration slightly on 50% of kills.

necro challenge

Win a pure necromancer with no allies: pain, corpse rot, sublimation of blood, vampiric draining, dispel undead, agony, borgnjor's revivification, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
Completed by Rapigel in 0.10.2.

necromancer

1. Class starting with a Book of Necromancy. 2. Brightwhite human @ that casts bolt conjurations and undead raising spells. Notable as one of very few edibles in Crypt.
<crate> if mikee_ makes it to turn 1 on ne, he wins

necromancer reasons

You want to do what skalds claim to do, except without being terrible.
Zombie Bears

necromancy

Branch of Crawl magic concerned with undeath, unlife, and unholy modification of life.
Also a book with the following spells: Pain, Animate Skeleton, Vampiric Draining, Dispel Undead, Animate Dead
Governs spells that make undead things, or suck life force out of your enemies. Casting them pisses "good" gods off. Has a number of excellent combo spells. Many necromantic spells require corpses, which are not available in all parts of the dungeon.
Really high necromancy lets you cast necromutation, and also raises the power of a few great spells like dispel undead. It also increases damage dealt by the pain brand.

necromancy miscast

By severity: 1: Slowing, (living) 5-19 dmg, rotting. 2: 1-3 shadows, (living) draining, 15-37 damage. 3: Reaper, soul eater, 1-7 statloss, draining, (living) severe rot, or torment.

necromutation

Level 8. Induces lichform: +3 str, draining-brand unarmed, +6 AC, +50 MR, rC+, necromancy enhancer, and undead for all game purposes (NO POTIONS, rN+++, rPois, mutation immunity, torment immunity, no transformations, no berserk, dispel undead vulnerability, no regen spell or ddoor or borg or self-sublim).
Contrary to popular belief, not required (or necessarily even advisable) for a "caster" even if you are planning to all-rune.
Also known as "mummyform"

necronomicon

One of the three specially difficult books; requires spellcasting 6, necro 10 to read, or Kikubaaqudgha worship (he gifts it). Spells: Borgnjor's Revivification, Haunt, Death's Door, Necromutation.

necrophage

This undead can cause sickness and rotting and may eat corpses it walks across. Will also pick up stuff and throw it. And you can't animate its remains.

necrophilia

Psyche says, "Once you're dead we can play together!"
Followers [of Makhleb] are expected to cleanse others by inflicting suffering and death on them in Makhleb's name, and can gain further favour by ravaging the freshly dead.

necrotelicomnicon

And the people said: "That looks like my uncle Osbert."

necrusader

Boost charms and necro, get a weapon of pain, and before you know it you'll be xl27 and on Zot:5
The best thing.

ned

!tv buffalo66 dis:7 1

needle of frenzy

Causes berserk and neutrality.
<mikee_> needles of frenzy are like <mikee_> meth

needle of paralysis

You can paralyse anything live or demonic with this given enough throwing skill and blowgun enchantment, even Cerebov.
see blowgun[2]

needle of sickness

Like poisoned needles except they are useless.

needle trap

No damage, but seriously poisonous.

needles

Needles come in a variety of flavours, each with an individual status effect. They do not cause direct damage (except for curare).
Needle brands are: poison, curare, paralysis, sleep, confusion, slow, sickness and frenzy. Currently only poison and curare do not use the checks described at blowgun[2].

needlestab

Step 1) Worship Trog. Step 2) Get 27 Throwing. Step 3) Needles of Paralysis/Sleeping/Confusion, in order of preference. Step 4) Fire at Cerebov. Step 5) Kill anything . Step 6) Get it nerfed.
Step 6 has been accomplished! (needles no longer work on non-living and undead)

negaspells

Antifire Storm and Uncorona

negative energy

Name for the bolts fired by wands of draining, the Bolt of Draining spell, and certain extremely pesky monsters. Can arise from wands of random effects. Also used to mean draining generally, as in tartarus[1].

neil

!lg neil 3512 -tv
<minmay> the +3 robe "Neil" {Str+4 Int-3}

neilrobin

Play for as long as you want, then kite as many enemies at once and die surrounded by them. Password 'robin'. See neil for an example game

nellie

nemelex

The gambling god. In return for sacrificing anything and everything, you get decks of cards, as well as abilities that let you manipulate the decks in your favor. Nemelex abilities use evocations instead of invocations, and can be used while silenced.
Abilities: Draw One lets you draw a card without wielding the deck. Peek at Two shows you two cards and identifies the deck. Triple Draw draws three cards and gives you the choice of which to take. Deal Four draws four cards at once and uses up the deck. Stack Five chooses 5 cards for you to reorder, discarding the rest.
Information for most cards can be found in Henzell, under ??<card name> card. Card descriptions can be looked up in-game with ?/C.
Corpses,chunks,blood count for half as much weight as other items. Also, their value is proportional to mass. Whenever you receive a deck, your sacrifice weights that went towards that deck type decrease by 20%.
Deck weighting is based on the gold value of sacrifices, or the mass for chunks/corpses.
"A symbol of foo" usually means that your leading deck sacrifice category just changed. It can also show up with 2% chance after any sacrifice.
< rwbarton> Soyweiser: press ^! and then look at the screen very carefully

nemelex choice

The Nemelex' Choice banner is a tournament banner awarded to players who win certain randomly selected combos during the tournament. See [2] for a list of the combos that have been selected in the past.
Choices made from 2009 through to 2012: OgFE HaNe TrIE MfTh KeCK | GhFE HaTm SEAs MDEn NaPr | HaVM TrAs VpAE OgCj KoSk HOAr DEHu CeWz SpDK DDEn SEGl HuAK HENe KePr | MiSt HuPr FeSk DDAM VpCj DrWr DgAs HaEE MfNe CeHe HOAE KoWn SEDK | OpHu TeDK MiNe GhAE DDSu KoCj VpAK HuAM FeCK MuWn HEAs CeWz

nemelex xobeh reasons

Reasons to worship Nemelex: Nemelex is very useful for all characters; a collection of decks of summoning, good Evo skill, and Nemelex's abilities are enough to win the game with.
(Decks of summoning are probably the most life-saving deck for a Nemelexite, but summoned creatures aren't always stealthy, so stealth-based characters may find Nemelex less useful.)
An old dream, successfully realized by syllogism in 0.3.3, is to play a Troll, let its strength grow to a huge number (as Trolls' strength does), and then draw a Shuffle card to get huge Int, so you can (later, after training Necromancy) cast Necromutation. (This isn't easy.)
Your body glows slightly and disappears.
You like summoning multiple hostile wasps
You draw a card... It is Wild Magic. Something terrible reaches out for your soul!" "You draw a card... It is Damnation. The soul eater is devoured by a tear in reality. The Blue Death screams as it is devoured by a tear in reality."
<Red_Bucket> Minefield is kinda good for deploying a tele trap to make a stash
<Nomi> Ye deal a card... Ye haf dealt Damnation. <Nomi> Cerebov be devoured by a tear in reality.

nemelex xobeh wrath

Two stages. You are forced to draw from the deck of punishment; and any cards which you have stacked are randomly shuffled. Drawing from decks at any point could also mean you have to draw from the deck of punishment. Marked cards are 3 times more likely to be swapped for punishment cards.

neqoxec

Probably the fourth most dangerous of the common demons, neqoxecs summon imps, mutate you, drain Int, and generally make your life miserable. These mutations are overwhelmingly bad and cannot be resisted with Magic Resistance (teleportitis anyone?), and that INT smashing does not require LOF.
rMut helps, but even with resist mutation try to kill them as soon as possible.
The name "neqoxec" was created using a highly advanced, finely tuned cryptonomenclaturic Demon Name Generator involving the use of physical force applied to a keyboard.
< lampshayde> FUCK NEQOXECS x2
< jeanjacques> The neqoxec gestures at you. You feel robust.

nerf

Increase in squishyness

nergalle

Summons spectral orcs (like haunt but with orcs), then casts haste other on them and bolts of draining through them. Also has Death's Door.

nessos

A unique centaur, generated with a longbow of flame, poisoned arrows, a centaur barding, haste and blink. Also blinks away from you. Fires poisoned arrows of flame (no, you can't). His magic resistance is considerably low, so he's susceptible to slowness, paralyzing, etc.
Nessos, the merfolk. Nessos shouts, "I'm half man! Half horse! And all stone-cold KILLER!"
< Pacra> Nessos evaporates an' reforms as a death drake! Nessos casts a spell. < Pacra> _Nessos seems ta speed up.

net trap

Does no damage, but holds you immobile for a few turns. You can still cast spells, but no melee or movement.
Be warned! While it sounds harmless, getting stuck in one of these while atttempting to run away from an enemy (take your pick from: Sigmund, an Ogre, a gnoll pack, or perhaps a jelly) will most likely kill you very quickly.
see hilarious_deaths[41]

nethack

That other game.
Used as a semi-epithet by some ##crawl members, as in "that sounds nethackish", since said Crawl players got tired of Nethack before trying and liking Crawl.
Design principle 1: If in doubt, do it unlike Nethack and D&D.
<MPR\splat> why are the books moving to me
< eeviac_> playing nethack after crawl is like taking a mule to work instead of driving
< Danei> It's more of a spoiler simulation than a roguelike
<elliott> a mysterious force prevents you from taking the game seriously
<eb> it's a household accident simulator, except it takes place in a dungeon
see crawl[16]
the bash.org of roguelike code bases

nethack4

Self-claimed successor to NetHack. Shares channel with AceHack, #acehack

nethack guide

Engrave Elbereth.

nethack mode

If you're using putty and having trouble getting the numpad to work with modifier keys, go to Options > Terminal > Keyboard and set 'Initial State of Numeric Keypad' to NetHack. See also ?? putty

nethack reasons

29-win streaks

nethackism

That is a potion bottle, not a Klein bottle!

netsplit

Half of the Freenode network lost connection to the other half. To each person in each half, each person in the other half will quit with reason "*.net *.split". This usually fixes itself soon enough.
see {!lg * tmsg="blown up themselves" s=xl} - < pigvomit> this whole place blown up themself

nettiles

NetTiles is outdated. Use webtiles instead.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmyzge3o2wd
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=q2rff13bc9a1005080027n8ce47dfdw1b532430464ccbfe@mail.gmail.com&forum_name=crawl-ref-discuss
see webtiles

new abyss

Abyss from 0.9-0.11 where the layout was an infinite plane that shifts terrain around the player over time. Still was indefinite and tedious, so inception occured to improve conditions further.

new hound

<Blade-> yeah the old hound was fine but the new one is rough

new skill system

<ZChris13> I just gained 3 levels in fighting with a single casting of Bolt of cold

new xp system

Most awesome addition to crawl since hellephants.

newbie

You are one!

newforum

see {badforum[$]}

newnewvaults

http://pasteboard.co/2DSP5n5Y.jpg

newreddit

see {badreddit[$]}

nexos

seems to have completed the ironman challenge.

next branch

What branch do you do next? See {tetha}.

nht

leaves terrifying speedrun ghosts everywhere. watch out or it might apport you!

nice fiend

Sp: b. rainbows (3d27), torment symbol, puppy pile.

nick

!nick <ircname> <crawlname> to add; remember to include !nick <ircname> <ircname> as this isn't included by default! !nick <ircname> -rm to remove all nick mappings. !nick <ircname> -rm <name> to remove <name> from the <ircname> nick mapping.
Works with Sequell and Henzell only, not (yet) Gretell or Sizzell.
114704 | D:23 | Noticed Nick the pandemonium lord

nietzsche

<elliott> the_glow: gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you <eb> abyss romance

nightstalker

+40/80/120 stealth -1/-2/-3 LOS. Remember, LOS is reciprocal, so when your LOS is reduced, so is the LOS of everything else in the dungeon.

nikola

If you don't have rElec, go away. If you do have rElec, go away. In either case, just use curare. Kill him for his cloak and gloves and sabre of elec!
Nikola yells, "Danger! Danger! High voltage!"
Spamming butterflies is an easy way to (mostly) nullify his chain lightning, if you can use them.
see famous_last_words[4]

nimbler

Increases EV

nimbus

Did you know crate is

ninja

The act of grabbing a rune or orb without killing its guardian or guardians. Most common in Zot, Hell and Pandemonium.
<danharaj> I remember your last one it looked like you were walking into your house and picking up your car keys.

ninja reasons

You find clearing Zot:5 stressful and want to get the orb in under a minute and leave.
You don't feel like learning shadow creatures.

nisse

A heavily armoured K that casted invis and carried porridge, was in as part of the original Dwarven Hall patch but died out due to lack of dev like
see {pajama_gnome}

nitrohack

Nethack variant with an improved interface and other good stuff. http://nitrohack.org/

nivim

DrArMuCK.

no

it doesn't
you don't

nobrainer

see badforum[5]
see badforum[20]
see meph_reasons[6]
see brainless

noisy

This weapon makes noises.
It's an ego weapon... with personality!

nome

https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commits/nomes

nomi

Nomi the Sorcerer (L12 FeBe)
<Henzell> Nomi the Grappler (L15 TrBe), worshipper of Trog, demolished by an anaconda skeleton (animated by a shadow imp (summoned by a neqoxec (summoned by a deep elf summoner))) on D:1 (zotvault4), with 79863 points after 8176 turns and 2:55:37.
Thinks bolt of inaccuracy is the best spell in the game
<[Hanged_Man]> 0.9 statue form gsc of holy wrath > dragon form > troll uc > op uc > enhancer staff > uc > quickblade of pain > everything else
!fight 3 stone giant;large rock ego:steel, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:returning, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:chaos, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:exploding, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:penetration v 2 chuck, 2 chuck;large rock ego:penetration, 3 the iron giant;large rock ego:steel spells:cantrip
K - tha +16 plate armour "Cauwn" {+Inv Dam+4}
<Nomi> i almost never cast charms
<Nomi> Q - the +0,+3 mace of Nomi's Painful Death {drain, rF+ rN+}
not nooodl

non weapon

Attacking with a non-weapon does no damage unless you have slaying, might, or berserk. To-hit is determined by fighting skill. Damaging something with a non-weapon trains fighting. The attack delay seems to be very low (3).

nonethousand

Ask me about my secret late night XP tech. Ask me about the Ijyb/Sigmund ratio.
<nonethousand> the law of gravity actually originally applied to electromagnetism
ask me about chaos brand draconian secret tech
<nonethousand> I'm a one-man gank squad
<nonethousand> how come I can open a wooden door but I can't open a tree?

nonethousand teleport

using hell beasts and elephants to get somewhere real fast

nonexistent spell

the best spell

noobrobin

A roundrobin for anyone who's pretty sure they'll screw up and die in the next 10 turns. noobrobin gets as far as he does, and no one cares when he dies, so have at it. MiBe is recommended, but not required. Login: noobrobin Password: robin

nooodl

Dungeon -> Catacombs -> Laboratory -> Drowned City -> Underpass -> Cave -> Communications Hub -> Vault -> Lair -> Chapel
The "Almost Good"
splatted as a MiBe with maxwell's once
died to a shop in a bazaar once
in TOMB, of all places, i can't stress this enough
(the first thing not the second)
< nooodl> holy shit makhleb takes offers? i'm an idiot
never has more than 14 runes
< nooodl> heal wounds is pretty bad
not noooodl
not nooodle
(well technically it's "the second thing not the third" now)
my defe guide: blow shit up
not Nomi
see elliott[3]
hey

norbert

Removed in 0.8, Norbert was a skilled warrior with no spells and not much skill.

norris

A tan, fit and thoroughly evil ex-surfer. Feeds on your intelligence, smites, paralyzes, confuses, turns invisible, heals himself, and smokes Cuban cigars.
< petato> I see Norris lost his board. poor guy :( <+sorear> anachro police got it < petato> timecops go home

not a dev

dpeg

not desperate enough

<valrus_> how am I supposed to train charms with brands when I have three different elec weapons
[21:20] <Ragdoll> darn wand of healing #5
<mikee_> damn, i'm having trouble training melee skills <mikee_> because i kill everything in 1-2 hits
<minqmay> identifying weapon enchantment is such a pain when you one-shot all the plants
<scummos> hmm, Lair:8 is difficult if you firestorm everything <scummos> because it's loud
<magistern> ugh another acquirement
< tensorpudding> i can't get electric golems and orbs of fire to notice me
< simmarine> i wish i didnt have to choose between stone arrow and shatter for killing
<elliott> not another wand of teleportation
< valrus> who needs 20% hp
<elliptic> this char is the weakest 57/23/32 char ever <elliptic> I should just go win
see lightli
<elliott> Blade-: nice tele wand <Blade-> I have a billion already
<doome>do i stop training shields and use this vampiric triple sword i acquired <doome> is it worth it it probably is

not gay

!lm ebarrett defe place=pan 6 -tv:<2:>-1

not innuendo

<minqmay> "stone giant" is a good euphemism for penis

noteye

Graphical frontend to various roguelikes. http://www.roguetemple.com/z/noteye.php . Challenge: win crawl in first person perspective.

nothing appears to happen

You didn't see anything. I was never here. You will not speak of this to anyone.

notthepope

Likes to streak wins on AcidRobin.
Likes to vandalise the learndb.
<notthepope> when i grow up i'm going to be a fireman <notthepope> on the space shuttle

ntraff

<NTRAFF_> That's crazy Ragdoll and I respect that.

ntv

Number of plays on footv since ntv was last reset.

nuderobin

Wear nothing but your socks. Dance. Fight. Die.
(ingame.)
Dying is optional.

numbers

The enemy.
Your friends.
The thing that taught you how to strap a sock to your tush.
<Chapayev> elliott: look if you're going to talk about numbers not divisible by 3 then take it to ##crawl-offtopic

numlock

An abomination. Can be worked around with lots of keydefs (like http://angband.pl/crawl/keycodes.txt) but that's only a bandaid solution. Not an issue in SS 0.5 anymore.

numpad reasons

There are no letter keys on your keyboard.

nwon

see {!nwon}
The Sequell command "!nwon n k" lists combos that have been won at most n times, with those in progress at XL >= k annotated as such. Defaults are n=2, k=12. The command "!randnwon n k" picks a random not-in-progress combo from this list.

nyaakitty

Likes cats. A lot. Preferably the Dis versions.
Holder of the Book of Nekomancy. Create Hairball (L1), Summon Dead Rodent (L2), Cat Missile (L4), Meow Kapow (L6), Catastrophe (L9). Me-OW!
Shamelessly will play your games for you to desired points like a cat walking over your keyboard. Discreet with passwords and has a splat rate of 0% with other people's accounts right now!
zotwaltzes and doesn't afraid of anything
Pre-nyaakitty greatplayers win percentage: 5.58%. Post-nyaakitty greatplayers win percentage: 4.75%. Effective April 24th, Sunday, 2011.
knows what is what
<meowfelid>N-Nemelex-chan, don't leave me like it's some cheap eroge, stay with me forever like it's an expensive eroge that I want to have dirty sex with pleasseesee

o

This is the second-best button in Crawl. See tab for the best one.
Saint Roka is the best o in Crawl.

oblivion

The fifth branch of hell, where all of your abilities are as overpowered as they have been in any version of Crawl.

oblivionrobin

only uses features that are in oblivion (a place where nerfed things go)

obsidian axe

A +12, +15 broad axe of chopping that mesmerises you whenever a monster is in sight. +3 Str, SInv, +Lev, always recurses, sometimes summons a usually-friendly demon (3 or 4) when you kill stuff. Also cures confusion when you're mesmerised.
Visions of slaying the oklob plant flood into your mind. You cannot move away from the oklob plant!

octagon level

Has orthogonal and diagonal sides, a ring of pillars or stone arches around the center, and probably a bunch of stairs grouped together. It's designed to make you die.

october

Month named after octopodes. Try to win 8 of them during it.

octoplayers

Players who have done a streak of 8 or more octopodes.
see october

octopode

Player species, added in 0.10. Can equip 8 rings, amulet, a shield, and a hat (no helmets), but no other armour. Wields items normally, and also has constricting tentacle attacks.
Ho, the octopode!
Octopodes can wear a hat, like so: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh0375wSwU1qdby1ho1_500.jpg
This is how they get around on land: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljpws7SGf21qbnemgo1_500.gif
How octopodes use shields: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=1DoWdHOtlrk&gl=US
Octopus on land: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr35mlO6gd1qiamsto1_500.jpg
http://nsfw-comix.com/nsfw353.htm
Yes, they eat fruit. http://www.etsy.com/listing/73961114/tentacles-and-fruit-pear
see uber_octopode
<faze> i bet a hasted, finessed unarmed octopode with +64 slaying does a lot of damage

octopode reasons

You want to have hugging as your main attack.
You like being killed by bats.
<mikee_> like mummy but better
You *love* tentacles.
<eeviac_> if you were an octopode you would be happy about never getting curse armor! <eeviac_> think of how fortunate you are

octopus king

see trident of the octopus king or ring of the octopus king

oddtwang

Recently discovered his first ever rune was a complete fluke :(

offhand punch

Does 5 + (unarmed skill / 3) damage. Gets +5 bonus for blade hands. Gets a +1d3 bonus for claws (if you're not using bladehands).

offline

doesn't count

offline reasons

offline tiles

/part ##crawl

og17

HERE LIES ARDUOS THE GUSTY OF LOROSIA, THE SECOND LEVEL DRACONIAN. DEATH BY QUOKKA.
lacks fantasy
Is terrible, doesn't charm shit.
can't spell extroidinare

ogaz

<Henzell>Unemployed Ogre
Master of dumping ghouls into lava while hunting for the Abyssal rune.
If you don't ask a question, his answer is always "go kiku".
Also known as 'Captain Obvious'
Said to be personally responsible for the death of rupert.
Thinks greensnark thinks ogaz thinks slaying should be nerfed.
ogaz: also what is disarmer a title for

ogbe

Wait for Trog to gift you a giant spiked club of speed; win

ogen

club stabbing!!!

ogen guide

don't do it

ogre

Ogres have low accuracy and health, but can deal a lot of damage when they hit. It is a good idea to pick them off from a distance, using poisoned projectiles. Are notable for their slow attacks with giant (spiked) clubs. If you step away after it swings, you might create a gap.
Also a player race. Excellent HP, and great aptitudes in fighting (+3), maces (+3), and spellcasting (+2), pretty bad aptitudes at everything else. Unfitting armour like Spriggans and Trolls, fast metabolism 1, saprovore 1, tough skin 1 (AC+1).
<еlliptic> well ogres are strong <syraine> Ogres are strong <mikee_> ogres are strong <madreisz> are ogres strong
<ogaz> in shocking news ogres are bad at things
<MarvinPA> that is not a very good apt
< crate> actually my real defenses are a +5 gsc of freezing with 5 slaying and halo
<G-Flex> I have a +2 hammer of protection and a giant spiked club <G-Flex> I'm still tempted to use the hammer because otherwise I have half the AC

ogre challenge

Streak every ogre. clouded is the current leader with a streak of seven (OgCj, OgPr, OgMo, OgVM, OgAE, OgGl, OgHu).
Streak one ogre.

ogre mage

Like Erolcha, but with more HD, haste other, random generation, a band, and a delicious magenta flavour. All the same warnings apply.
Playable race in Crawl versions before 0.5
<minqmay> ogre magi are terrifying <minqmay> they're like wizards except they actually appear

ogre reasons

You want to play a troll, but don't like regeneration or good unarmed damage.
<N78291> ogen has deceptively high hp that might make you think it can melee an unarmed gnoll

ogrerobin

Another roundrobin, the goal is to play an...you guessed it - an Ogre. Ogaz the OgAs is the key to victory.

ogtm

BEWARE: lair isn't place for you, do Orc Mine and Elven Hall first.

ogtm guide

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4908

ohloh

Code/contribution metrics gleaned from the git history: https://www.ohloh.net/p/stonesoup

okawaru

Heroism (*) temporarily gives +5 to all non-magic skills except Invocations and Evocations, although Fighting skill from it gives no extra HP. Finesse (*****) halves attack delay but does not stack with haste or berserk and is blocked by stasis. Also gifts weapons and armour, and ammo if you have a ranged skill >= 8.
<G-Flex> I picture oka as this old guy going through his attic and just discarding old junk as gifts
< valrus> I AM OKAWARU, GOD OF COMBAT AND FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE OSCILLATING FAN IS MY FINAL OFFER
You finish putting on the -5 robe of Misfortune {god gift, -Cast Contam+ *Tele EV-4 Str-2 Dex-2 Int-2 Stlth-- Curse}.

okawaru reasons

Reasons to worship Okawaru: heroism and finesse are somewhat useful.
You enjoy being gifted +0 animal skins.

okawaru wrath

ABANDONMENT: 25 penance. RETRIBUTION: 1+XL/5 punishers, chosen from (orc warrior, orc knight, naga warrior, centaur warrior, stone giant, fire giant, frost giant, cyclops, hill giant, titan). Abjurable summons in 0.7, permanent summons in 0.8 (no xp or items).

oklob plan

Run.

oklob plant

An immobile plant that spits acid. Can be affected by hexes.
An oklob plant comes inta view. Tha oklob plant spits acid at ye. Tha splash o' acid hits ye! Tha acid corrodes yer +0 pair o' gauntlets! Tha acid corrodes yer cursed +0 pair o' boots! Tha acid corrodes yer cursed +0 orcish shield o' reflection!
see obsidian_axe[2]

oklob sapling

A weaker version of an oklob plant with lower HD, health and MR.

oklob sapling temple

blame marvinpa

oklob temple

Blame minmay.
see oklob_sapling_temple[1]

okra

Tastes good!

old dk

<wreck> so what's playing a DK like..I have no idea <N78291> walk along, miscast your 1 pain spell, die to a hobgoblin

old score

[your gold + ((your experience * 7) / 10) + value of inventory, only if you won + (number of different runes^2 * 1000, only if you won)] or 99,999,999, whatever is less (THIS ONLY APPLIES <= 0.3.4)

oldswamp

The swamp worm uses the watery terrain to its advantage. The swamp worm bites you! * * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *

oldwon

see {!nwon}
All playable combos have been won in v>=0.11! Oldwon will likely resume after the 0.12 tourney.

oldwon check

see {.c}

olgreb

see staff_of_olgreb
You also may be looking for olgrebs_toxic_radiance

olgrebs toxic radiance

Poisons everything in sight (including you). Does not work on things that are resistant to poison or are invisible (including you), or enemies that are submerged. Inflicts stronger poison half of the time (not including you). Level 4 Poison spell, not very good. Stacks now! Still not very good!
<crate> no its bad because it's like sting except without the impact daamge

omnirizon

<omnirizon> worshipping chei is for self loving!

one

won (won) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xMDFi

one and a half handed

crawl-speak for "one-handed but we liked to confuse people"

one handed

One handed weapons behave how you'd expect a weapon to behave. No penalty for using these with a shield. If you use a one handed weapon without a shield you get an off hand punch.

one true language

language=dwarven

one true tournament

dieselrobin

onia

not a square

onion

Linley Henzell knows how to dice these.

oniyuri

Sounds Japanese.

online

this seems to mean 'working', or 'usable'

onlydeepdwarves

<Henzell> onlydeepdwarves the Gusty (L5 CeAE), succumbed to an adder's poison in D:4, with 275 points after 3643 turns and 0:08:49.

ontoclasm

<ontoclasm> one day i'm going to say something stupid enough to get my own learndb entry <ontoclasm> but it is not this day
<ontoclasm27> !learn edit ontoclasm[2] s|.*|<ontoclasm2> learn add ontoclasm <ontoclasmell> ontoclasm[2/2]: _ontoclasm_: The ontoclasms merge to form a Titanic Ontoclasm!
<Sequell> 238. Laeklar the Firebug (L1 DEFE), collapsed under their own weight caused by ontoclasm the ring of strength on D:1 on 2012-10-31, with 27 points after 270 turns and 0:02:03.
< Sequell> 12. Poncheis the Demonologist (L19 MuWz), worshipper of Sif Muna, slain by ontoclasm fish in Hell (vestibule of hell mu) on 2012-03-17 21:56:35, with 288913 points after 32158 turns and 6:36:23.

ood

Crawl sometimes generates unusally hard monsters to keep you on your toes. The maximum possible is a 9 level difference, or 5 on D:1; add 12 as a special farmer penalty which only triggers after ~1k turns and is quite rare even then. Other times when something seems overly powerful, it's just a vault -- e.g. death yak guarding the lair.
see orb of destruction

ood interesting

This option is set to 8 by default. This makes Crawl automatically note monsters which are eight or more levels out-of-depth which you meet in the Dungeon branch. To check if the game noted of the monster you're fighting as ood_interesting, press the '?' key then the ':' key to see your game's notes.

oots

The Order of the Stick, an outstanding D&D webcomic: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html

ooze

Slow, but it can do FIVE damage with a single blow. Beware the HP cost.

op

Overpowered, or the abbreviation for octopodes.
<Alexor> I don't think that octopodes will ever really be successful in crawl. I don't think that ASCII and tile graphics can ever really capture the true essence of having a giant octopus, covered in bling, latched onto your head and beating you to death with its tentacles, like some sort of maelevolent dreadlock wig.

open guide

!lm bazaarofnaniwa br.enter=slime 1 -tv:>$:x10

ophan

Casts bolt of fire and creates holy flame clouds around you (but not under you).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophan

ophanim

!lm ophanim dsbe uniq=duvessa place=orc 1 -tv
!lg ophanim 1000 -tv
Tinen: Ophanim you are the amazing ogre player correct?
If I could inject 'Star Trek' into my veins, I would
"Ogre King"
more like ogrenim

ophe

http://paranatural.net/comics/2012-04-22-chapter-2-page-28.png

optimal

<danharaj> let mikee do it for you, optimally.

optimal crawl playing age

optimism

<Wensley> elynae: eventually they will run out of arrows
<nht> ideally one would just go xom, drop on 3 pan runes and get rotated to an exit <nht> then fall down shafts to zot:5 and get rotated to the < stairs on the way up
<Ragdoll> im planning all mummy classes streaking with xom
<rwbarton> maybe the other ogre will banish this one

orange crystal statue

Most monsters in this game attempt to kill you by slowly draining your hitpoints. The orange crystal statue attacks your intelligence score instead. Getting to 0 intelligence won't kill you instantly, but if you can't restore it you'll die soon after. Also confuses and drains mana, but can be instakilled with a wand of disintegration.
OCS attacks are actually just divination miscasts--in fact they are implemented in the source code by calling the code for a divinations miscast.

orange damage

<Chapayev> orange damage makes things in all orange

orange demon

4 that drains random stats in melee. Vaguely notable for being one of the few demons with no rPois. It's orange.

orange rat

It drains, it bites, it's fast, and it will kill you quick from up close. Unless find a rat vault, though, they usually only show up when you're plenty buff enough to take them. Roars on awakening and moves faster than normal.
http://www.dapper.com.au/whatrat.htm#argente

orb card

Power 0: IMB, power 1: IOOD, power 2: multiple IOODs in a burst around you. Found in decks of destruction.
!lm crate hoar bazaar 1 -tv
!lg Yermak ktyp=disintegration 4 -tv

orb destroy

Don't do it.

orb glow

Causes -cTele, hurts stealth and slows down dissipation of magical contamination. Does not block invis, change to-hit/EV or cause contamination on its own. You can drop the orb and walk a few steps if you need cTele to run away.

orb guardian

Beasts that guard the Orb, only found in the Zot:5 vault. Hits like a stone giant, moves faster than you, and no longer flees when wounded. Not generally a threat, unless it gets berserked by one of the moths of wrath that invariably spawns in the vault.

orb of destruction

Iskenderun's Orb of Destruction - level 7 pure conjuration homing missile spell. Moves at speed 30 with inertia - if something casts this at you, sidestep, but watch out behind you! It does less damage at short range; at melee range it only does about half damage.
Unfortunately, any monster with a shield may be able to block the orb (and take zero damage). Monsters such as these (Daevas in particular) should be blasted a different way. Another thing to watch out for is an orb hitting another orb. In short, they'll explode with a small radius (so don't cast them very close to each other).
Does 9d(pow / 4) damage, but power gets an extra stepdown and will never exceed 87. Power is further reduced by 50/30/10 percent if the orb has only traveled 1/2/3 spaces.
If the mobs are using darts/arrows of dispersal, OOD is risky, as you might blink into the path of your own orb.
<Pacra> I like iood because boom kablooie big explosions!

orb of electrocution

Epic electrical storm. Was Annihilations-exclusive in pre-SS versions of Crawl; now Makhleb and Nemelex exclusive. Very deadly to anyone within 3 squares; 150+ damage has occured.

orb of fire

Lots of health, immune to elemental (except for cold, which it only resists) and necromantic attacks, lots of damage and a mutating attack. Never underestimate their power, lest you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The orb of fire glows yellow. Strange energies course through your body. A pair of horns grows on your head! _The +2 helmet of Saih {+Rage rF++} falls away!

orb of zot

Goal of the game; get it and return to the surface. Found on level 5 of the Realm of Zot. Picking it up seals portal entrances dungeon-wide, bestows the -cTele status in a radius of 2, and causes all monster generation to become extremely rapid and to consist solely of abyss- and pan-type nasties, including pandemonium lords. Weighs 60 aum.
The Orb of Zot comes from the BASIC text adventure Wizard's Castle. (Source: the manual for Linley's Dungeon Crawl 2.72.)
<st_> well apparently the orb of zot is created by the wizard zot and actually lies in the realm of bydl
see the wizards castle

orb run tomb

elliott's favorite spectator sport.

orb spider

Moderately uncommon spider mostly in the Spider's Nest that tries to maintain its range and shoot orbs of destruction to try and make you side-step into webs, continues the fine tradition of new monsters being puns as an orb-weaving orb weaver spider.
<inspector071> melee vs orb spiders is hell if you cant corner them <inspector071> and of course you cant because they wont let you <inspector071> rCorner

orbsplat

Plays orb run splats.

orc

By itself, a pushover; but usually accompanied by lots of friends. Has 1d6 + 4 hp.
see orcish mines[1]

orc high priest

Like orc priests, but with more HP and summon demon. Try to kill them as fast as you can, if you can't, then run.

orc knight

Their warcries will wake and strengthen nearby orcs.

orc of electricity

An orc who ensures there is always enough light in dungeon.

orc priest

Generally the nastiest of the orc family in the early game, and a delightful green colour. Can smite with Beogh's power, and also melees. Regularly comes in a pack of normal orcs, generally with a orc wizard, and maybe even a orc warrior.
Luckily, orc priests do not always try to cast a spell, and smite is watered down with cantrips, so even if they do, it might not be a smite. Also, if they are in melee range, they are rather more likely to swing then cast (which STILL might not be smite). Most dangerous when far away and closing/behind orcs.
You are probably more likely to die from smite trying to run away without any nearby LOS breaks then trying to run up and just kill it, unless you only have a crappy dagger, or there's more then one/also a wizard.

orc slaying

Increases damage by 75% against orcs. It can only be found on artifacts. If a Beoghite, orcs will have a lowered chance of converting to friendly if you are wielding a weapon with this brand.

orc sorcerer

Probably the greatest purely magical threat in the Orcish Mines, they are fire resistant, can drain your life, paralyze you, and summon a lot of demons (which will also fight you, drain your stats and mutate you.) You'll probably want to kill them fast, or failing this possibility get out of their sight as fast as you can.
see hilarious_deaths[36]

orc warlord

crossbow
Note that they will pick up random thrown weapons like hand axes and clubs and throw them at you for 35+ damage.

orc warrior

Very much more of a melee threat than a regular orc, especially when first encountered. Tends to spawn with a good weapon and good armor and a good ability to use both, potentially beyond one's own when first met.

orc wizard

Annoying by their lonesome as they will happily destroy your scrolls and pots in the early game, though very susceptible to poison and melee damage. Group it with a bunch of orc meatshields and an orc priest and you may well have a recipe for trouble.
Spells: { 2x magic dart, 2x blink, slow, haste } OR { magic dart, throw flame, invisibility, 2x confuse } OR { magic dart, throw frost, throw flame, invisibility, haste, cantrip }.
If slow has the potential to kill you, step carefully around these guys until you're very resistant to magic.

orcish fort

Mid game vault you can find from dungeon 7 and higher. It's a fort with 4 towers surrounded by water. Contains lots of orcs, wargs, orcish warriors and sometimes Orc Knights and Orc Warlords. There may be some loot inside, but nothing spectacular. Due to orc knights and warlords it might be dangerous for low level characters.

orcish idol

Silly statue that indicates presence of orcs usually. Use disintegrate on it for fun!

orcish items

If you are an orc, orcish armour impedes spellcasting less than other armours and improves your effective Armour skill. Orcs do slightly more damage with orcish weapons. The Armour and damage bonuses are larger if you are also a follower of Beogh, growing with piety.
A randomly generated orcish weapon will be -1 to hit, on a coinflip, and +1 to damage, on another coinflip.

orcish mines

Found in the main dungeon, between D:6 and D:11. Four levels deep.
The only loot you will find (besides the occasional shop or three) is a substantial amount of gold and a huge amount of orcish equipment. You will need to be able to handle multiple orc warrior packs simultaneously; watch out for knights, warlords, sorcerers, high priests, Saint Roka, and elves.
The stairs in the bottom level are guaranteed to be connected, so the risk of being stuck in a pocket is low.
Don't not go to Lair not second. Seriously.
Still can't find the Orcish Mines? Look for a funnel-shaped vault with orcish idols and a metal wall.
!lg hyperelliptic dghu 1 -tv:<T23000:>T23100

orcish rune

You can see these on robes and short swords that orcs are using.
Donald says, "I asked for directions to the rune, but they belched at me."
Donald says, "These orcs are so stupid, they must've eaten the rune."

ornate deck

A Deck with power level 1 or 0 cards. See card power for more details.

orthorobin

No diagonal movement! Password robin.
Except when autoexploring. Because CTS is for other roguelikes.

ortoslon

plays Windows Tiles trunk. maintains a selection of bad_ideas at https://sites.google.com/site/cherrypickedbadideas/
ortoslon's suggested play order: Rogue > DoomRL > Crawl > Spelunky

ossuary

An early game portal to a miniature tomb, stuffed with mummies and zombies and traps and things. The portal is timed and will eventually close on its own.
If you get the vault with guardian mummy, just run around in circles and get out of Mummys LOS. Then you can get into the vault for all the loot.

otab

you press 'o', then hold down tab.

ouch

Ouch! That really hurt! This message means something just blasted you for half (or more) of your hit points.

overconfidence

Avoid, or meet your future.
!tv stossel hefe place=D:6 1
!tv SGrunt defe place=zot:5 1

overloaded

worse than encumbered. cannot move up stairs. +3 movement delay and hunger. 1/3 stealth.

oxymoron

monqy: that was such a good ogen too
<Poncheis> damn <Poncheis> that ddsu was just too good

ozocubu

Probably some ice mage who came up with some badass spells.
A magical serial murderer infamous for stuffing the corpses into his fridge.

ozocubus armour

Extra 4 + ice/3 (5 + ice*7/12 if in ice form) AC lasting for 18 + 2d(power) turns. Incompatible with Stoneskin and armour with EVP >= 2, but DOES work on the undead and bodily transformed.
Partially melts if you cast, are hit by, or think about anything warmer than room temperature.

ozocubus refrigeration

A fun and powerful L6 Ice spell that hits everything in LOS (including invisible/submerged things. and YOU, so have cold res) with AC-bypassing cold damage. 50% chance to slow cold-blooded monsters. This can shatter your potions if damage is >0, so drop them or at least wear conservation. Works nicely in many places, e.g. Slime, Snake, Elf, Zig.
Taking damage from this spell does not wake sleeping monsters.
You kill the orc! x3 You kill the orc priest! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! x11
Does not pass through trees.

ozymandias

The guy who died to a death cob.
The guy who control-teleported into a closed box without anything to get out. Got stomped by crystal golems.

pacification

Followers of Elyvilon can pacify monsters with healing abilities and wands of healing. Success rate depends on invocations skill and the strength of the healing ability in comparison to the monster's maxhp, modified mostly by holiness. Piety is not involved. Pacifying a monster gives half the normal xp and has a chance of raising piety.
Strength of the god-given healing abilities depends on invocations skill. Strength of the wand of healing depends on evocations skill (for pacification calculations only). At high evocations, the wand is stronger than high-invo greater healing.
Monster's maxhp is multiplied by 1 (animals), 1.5 (your species), 2 (holy), 3 (other), 4 (undead), 5 (demonic) for the check. The check is whether 1d((invo+1)*healed) > modified_maxhp. Healed is strength of healing (average 5+invo/3 for lesser, 19+2*invo/3 for greater, 22+5*evo/6 for wand).
(not lesser) the god power has about 25% chance of pacifying a hydra with 5 invo. With 10 invo, 69%. See http://www.niestu.com/caracal/pacify.html for a table of approximate probabilities.

pacifist run

Be a MuCK of Xom. Polymorph every monster into a snake. Make Xom polymorph every snake into an arrow.

pacify immunes

Pacification immunity is confirmed to be due to I_PLANT intelligence. List of confirmed immunes on [2].
List of confirmed immunes so far: All J*, all G*, Swamp and Spiny Worms,(* denotes an exception explained in [3])
Notable creatures not immune to pacification: Dissolution, Giant Orange Brain, Great Orb of Eyes, all tier 1-5 demons
Pacification always fails if the monster is of I_PLANT intelligence or less, of type MH_NONLIVING or MH_PLANT, asleep, or stationary.

pacifydudes

The strategy where you pacify everything. Except when you are hungry.

packrat

If you're getting encumbered or running out of slots, drop your excess stuff! Use d#. Start a dedicated stash, or just drop it wherever on levels you've cleared. Identify your stuff! Use show_inventory_weights. Don't carry valuable enchants/cure mutation. Ctrl-f is great for finding things you dropped, so you don't need to carry it with you.
You don't need to carry every weapon you find. One of each wand you're *going to use* is fine. When was the last time you needed to eat 10 rations at once? If you actually need more than like 2-5 of any given scroll or potion all at once, you're doing something very wrong. Go back and get that spellbook in 5 levels when you'll actually use it.
I will give you 5 dollars if you actually ever wear that amulet of clarity. If you're never going to drink the potions of invisibility, why carry them? I bet you really need all those detect curses too, as well as the 5 you'll find on the next level. You're not going to swap armors for resistances, don't even pretend you are.
Note: the above is the opinion of slinkies/Mayhem, and his opinions do not reflect those of the channel as a whole.

packs

Various creatures come in groups of 4 or more: gnolls, orcs (several orcs plus a priest, wizard, and sometimes an orc warrior), ugly things, slime creatures, yaks, death yaks, sheep, jackals, war dogs, wolves, bees, boggarts, deep trolls, insubstantial wisps, yaktaurs (lower levels, with a captain), centaurs (lower levels, with a centaur warrior).
Also, kobolds (with a single big kobold, large amounts of either is a kobold room), ogres (lower levels, plain and two-headed, wiht a mage), blink frogs, green and grey rats, skeletal warriors, giant mosquitoes.

pacra

Likes: ogwn, Lugonu, mnoleg, footv. Hates: dragonform, weapon delay %.
Mnoleg the Jinx (L13 SpEn), worshipper of Zin, mangled by Mnoleg in Pandemonium, with 52535 points after 17560 turns and 1:31:07.
doesn't borg at 4hp because he doesn't need to
!lm pac uniq="the royal jelly" 24 -tv
<Pacra> one of my favorite current things to do is make my enemies surrender, then tie them up with rope and drag them around the dungeon <Pacra> then levitate and drag them into lava <Pacra> because im a psychopath

pain

L1 necro spell, exclusive to the Book of Necromancy. Inflicts 1hp non-fatal damage on the caster. Does 1d(4 + pow/5) damage, with a limit of 25 power, and bypasses AC - but checks MR and only affects monsters without life protection, or players without torment resistance.
see pain brand
Linley Henzell knows how to cause great amounts of this.

pain brand

Brand which inflicts 1d(necromancy skill) extra damage on necro+1 out of 8 successful hits. Does not affect those with rneg (demons, undead, unliving, shadow dragons, death drakes, holies). (For the record, a monster's necromancy skill is HD/2, HD if undead or demonic, 0 if mindless/animal).
Available as a temp brand (Excruciating Wounds - L5 charms/necro; Unlife), only affixable via a one-time gift from Kiku.

pain card

A so-called {damaging card}; by card power, 0: pain 1: bolt of draining 2: torment symbol

painbow

all the different flavours of PAIN.

paladin

A holy warrior, starting with a long blade and a place with TSO. Unfortunately he doesn't have any combat tricks usable in the early game. Removed in 0.8.
No stabbing or other sneakiness, so Stealth doesn't help much except to escape or avoid, and if you keep TSO then the halo will make even that much useless. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0214.html
Also a boring, plain enemy in holypan.

pale draconian

A form of draconians that is able to breathe steam. Player character gets +1 aptitude in Air and Fire magic, +1 aptitude in evocations, and steam resistance.

palyth

hugeterm alert

pan

An infinite dungeon branch, Pandemonium consists of an infinite number of equally nasty dungeon-type levels. Pan levels are populated with demons instead of dungeon monsters. Pan entries have a 25% chance of generating on each of D:21-27, and one is guaranteed on D:24.
Almost all Pan levels contain a vault, containing a demon lord (&), maybe some loot, and maybe a rune. There are four unique demon lords each with a unique rune (Mnoleg, Lom Lobon, Cerebov and Gloorx Vloq); other demon lords are randomly generated and may guard a demonic rune.
There are a few random Pan lord vaults (draining_boxes, hellion_island, hall_of_smite) with a guaranteed demonic rune. Other random Pan vaults have a chance of containing either a rune (1/9) or an exit (2/9).
<evilmike> minqmay: pan is like when you go on a long road trip, you always forget something

pan disco hall

One-occurrence-only vault in pan containing color-changing walls and floor and three distortion weapons (demon blade, demon trident, lajatang). No pan lord or rune on this level!

pan lord

There are four fixed ones, see pan[3]. Others are random: HD 12-30, hp 103-250, speed 10-19, random resistances, random melee brand (possibly distortion), random spells (including hellfire).
Possible spells include fire storm (at HD 30 with 1.5x damage of Cerebov's!), ice storm, summon eyes, torment, greater demon, haste, and most others.
see fuk_da_sac[3]

pandamonium

A frightening dungeon branch filled with bamboo forests and adorably vicious members of the family Ursidae.

pants

You're not wearing any, and neither is your character. Try to only get hit above the waist.

parabolic

Lua bot that autoplays HOBe, returning control to a human pilot when it is scared of something. Written by elliptic and elliott. Piloted to a 32-minute win by elliptic. URL: http://dobrazupa.org/rcfiles/crawl-git/parabolic.rc

paralyse

A monster spell, wand effect, and needle brand that deprives the victim of action for a few turns. Performed by wizard, giant eyeball, great orb of eyes, sphinx, lich, ancient lich, ogre-mage, vampire knight, deep elf mage, orc sorcerer, Rupert, Ereshkigal, Norris, Erolcha, and anyone who picks up the wand.

paralysis

Death (maybe).
see wand of paralysis
Needles of Paralysis with 27 Throwing allow you to kill just about anything in a few stabs - including Cerebov! Don't listen to curare [2].
<daftfad> I died to a paralyzing zot trap once (invoked by a monster) - made me want to burn crawl to disc so I could throw it into an IRL volcano
gg

paratroopers

!lm crate vpen br.end=zot 1 -tv

pariah

<Pariah> pizza counts as a mace, right? :p

parking

Specifically with imps: have one follow you up the stairs, wait until it blinks away, and then go back down the stairs.
"I've never sat in a parked car with an imp before..."

passage of golubria

A spell that lets you set up controlled teleport traps on the floor. Acts like the portal gun in Portal, but without the fancy physics. Something walks in one end and appears out the other, player and monsters included. Level 4 Tloc, in books of Warp and Burglary.
There is no limit on how many passages may be open at one time (but if more than two are open, a random exit will be chosen for you). After 40-50 turns, the passage will disappear (with an expiry message) so be careful if you were relying on it for escape.
Note: the entrance closes behind you, but the exit remains open. Placement is not precise. You can't cast it on -cTele levels.
Not affected by -Tele or stasis.

passive freeze

One of the possible 3rd level mutations for the Demonspawn ice facet. You freeze things that attack you, with the same effects as the spell (slowing cold-blooded creatures). Works even if the attack is blocked/misses.

passwall

Allows passing through diggable wall/statues with a free turn (useful for guaranteed stabbing) on the other side. Delay before passing is 2+distance turns and is not stopped if attacked. Range is 1-13 based on earth/spell power; guaranteed minimum is 1+earth/8 tiles (max of 4, at skill 24).
You begin to meditate on the wall. You continue meditating on the rock. (x3) You finish merging with the rock. You fall into the water! You drown... Your meditation is interrupted.
In 0.8 or later passwall fails if you would end up in lava or deep water (unless you can survive in these enviroments).

patacrawl

planned features: pack/kiting monster AI, eliminate D:1/start at xl3, shiren style traps, double brands/double egos, more quad damage, better misc evokables, nightmare difficulty, maybe crawl light's neostairs

patashu

breaker of footv (2 times and counting!)
******* 7 orbs of fire (!lm patashu abyss.enter 8 -tv:<0.5:>0.2)
Doesn't know how to deal with silent spectres ( !lg patashu !won xl=27 1 -tv )

patrolling

A behaviour for monsters in vaults to make them go back to their point of origin when not chasing you down and killing you.

paw claws

Claws level 1, +2 damage

paws

Fluffy Death.

paxed

Hacks NetHack, hosts a site that includes "bilious" in its name, is the Emperor of Peru, and operates solely on electricity. Pick any two.
Also demonstrates some of the behavioural anomalies of electric golems.
Is awesome. <3

pbaoe

Point Blank Area of Effect, describes spells that affect entities in more than one square but focus around the user (like scroll of immolation).

pcrawl

fix default ^x behavior, look at traveling on magic mapped floors, inscribe dig wands zapped by unseen monsters with tried, toggle to view excluded squares in-game, lua function to detect sprint map, fix unique names in terse item inscriptions, fix experience potion bug on mac
learn lua by doing this for hangedman: non-constant, depth-adjustable stuff for the aut in the lua timer in the pastie see {gauntlet[2]}, figure out how to make walls appear instead of disappear on a timer
damage dealt/received table for morgues

pcre

"perl" "compatible" "regular" expressions

pear dragon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya

pearl dragon

A holy monster! It breathes holy flames (3d36) that cause extra damage for evil beings. Its claws are holy-wrath branded.
Up to 162 per breath plus 48 per turn in clouds. Cerebov's firestorm is up to 136 (76 with rF+++) + resistable clouds. "Caution advised" is an understatement.

pearl dragon armour

Magical armour made from the scales of a pearl dragon. (AC 10, EV -3, rN+, 40aum). All races but felids, draconians, and octopodes can wear this. In 0.9 it resisted curses.

pearl dragon hide

Enchant it to get pearl dragon armour.

pedantry

<phyphor> surely whipping flame clouds is the antithesis of "cool"

pedjt

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9163D30ECE5BA2F9 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=09913DB36548A7D6
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=user:pedjt

peek at two

Discards a card from your deck, draws two other cards and shows you their names. Deck is re-shuffled with two shown cards and inscribed for future reference.

peering into the shadows

The monster can see or sense invisible, but is running from you or does not have a target.

peltast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltast

penance

With every god (not just yours), you have a penance number, which can be increased for long-term punishment. Every 20 turns, you have a 1/100 chance of taking retribution for each god for which you are in penance; you then lose 1d3 points of penance for that god.
There is a chance that divine retribution will confuse or slow you in addition to the normal effects, which can be found in ??<full god name> wrath.
Penance also denies the use of most (active or passive) abilities.

penetration

Missiles fired from a launcher of penetration act like bolt spells and can hit several targets. Not unique to crossbows anymore, as javelins may have this brand as well.

penguin

see b0rsuk[6]
< Omnijim> The +7 +5 executioner's axe of the Penguin (Speed, +Inv, rElec, MR)
<st_> G - the -2,+0 executioner's axe of the Penguin (weapon) {speed, Str+3}

penis

Penis the Stickfighter (L15 HOMo) reached level 5 of the Snake Pit on turn 38147.

pentagram card

Summons a demon, greater common or lesser by power rank. Always friendly. Found in decks of summoning (and indirectly, war)

people

Always wrong.

percolator

Kirke wakes up grumpy, grunting and squealing. You hear a grinding noise. You smell coffee!

permafood

Unlike chunks, permafood does not rot away. Types of permafood include bread and meat rations, royal jellies, fruit, etc. The only rotting food are chunks and blood potions.

perryman

<Sequell> Perryman has 13 consecutive wins (DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE).

petard

an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc. If you are not careful when using your petard you may find yourself hoisted on it

petato

Big fan of reading the changelog and Surfing Norris. Last seen on irc December 2009. :(

petrify

Level 4 transmutation/earth spell found in the book of hinderance and stalking. Useful for annoying monsters with low MR. Works nicely with LRD and stabbing.
Petrification works in two stages. First the monster is slowed down in all of its actions and cannot move away (petrifying), and when that times out it remains properly petrified (no movement or actions). The second part is similar to paralysis, except that insubstantial monsters can't be affected and that all damage is reduced by a third.

pfehhh

The sound of extreme disapproval.

phantasmal warrior

phantasmal warriors don't bear mentioning

phantom

A ghost that is the same sort of bastard blinker as an imp. Has more AC and hits harder, but doesn't regen like an imp and can't use weapons or armour.
Their regeneration rate is quite low so its possible to damage them, get away, rest and they won't have full hp (while you hopefully will)

phase bat

see spam
Travels through all of the dimensions. All of them.

phase shift

Level 5 translocation spell, temporary +8 EV. Found in the Book of the Warp, the Book of Dreams, and Xom's random spell list. Duration can be extended via recasting to a maximum of 30 turns. Replaced forescry (div 5) in 0.6.

philosophers

friedrich nietzchei, ludwig wittgenchein, georg wilhelm friedrich HeGl, soren kikugaard and nicolo macheivelli

philosophy

phoenix

Holy flier. Revives, unless you destroy the corpse.
!lg mpa place=zig:12 1 -tv

phyphor

<Sequell> phyphor has won once in 5536 games (0.02%): 1xMiBe

physics

<instar> how can swamp have shafts. all the water would drain out

pie

A custard pie. Use it to blind enemies, or as a snack.
http://i.imgur.com/9P8cx3H.gif

piercer

+2 +10 longbow of velocity, -2 EV

piercing whistle

You are wearing amulet of stasis and drinking potion of slow/speed

piety

With your current god, you have a piety number nominally from 1-200. If your piety reaches 0, you are excommunicated. piety[2] describes piety and penance. piety[3] describes piety growth in general. piety[4] describes piety growth for each god. piety[5] describes uses of piety. piety[6] tells you how you can determine your piety.
When you gain piety, first try to deduct as many points of penance. Failing that, deduct that many points from the gift timeout. Failing that, or 1/4 chance if gift timeout was reduced, you either get a god gift or piety, depending on randomness, your god, and your current piety.
Piety growth slows at high levels; 0% at 200, 44% at >=151, 66% at >=101. Sif Muna's taper is slower - 0% at 200, 80% at >=151.
Piety for most gods decays over time: 1/14 every 20 turns for Trog, Oka; 1/16 for Makhleb, Lugonu, Beogh; 1/17 for Yred, Kiku, Vehumet, Zin; 1/20 for Jiyva; 1/25 for Ash; 1/35 for Nemelex, The Shining One; 1/50 for Elyvilon; 1/100 for Sif. Xom has his own system. Chei and Fedhas piety does not decay.
Piety controls what abilities you can use, chance of miraculous salvation by good gods, and ability power with Trog; gaining it is the way to get divine gifts.
Piety display: 0-5 Sinner, displeased; 6-20 Believer, noncommittal; 21-29 Believer, pleased; 30-40 *, pleased; 41-49 *, most; 50-70 **, most; 71-74 **, greatly; 75-99 ***, greatly; 100 ****, greatly; 101-119 ****, extremely; 120-130 *****, extremely; 131-160 *****, exalted; 161-200 ******, exalted

pig

Linley Henzell knows how to spit these.

pikel

A (big) kobold slaver, on his way to the Orcish Mines to sell his wares. Comes with a band of 4 humans, which will be pacified when you kill Pikel. Has a whip of either flaming or electrocution.

pilcrow

a pilcrow is the 'backwards p' editing mark, used to indicate a paragraph

pillar dancing

Common tactic for regenerating health while running from an enemy. Find a pillar and keep making circles.
Kills Gastronok.
Pay attention when you're doing this: !lg roundrobin ghsk 1 -tv:<0.3

pillar of salt

<Gretell> pillar of salt shaped pillar of salt (8) ...

pillowcase

Linley Henzell doesn't know how to open these.

pillowcases

Apparently, easily opened, though not in my experience.

pingas

<Pingas> I will not stab your penis

pistachio

Delicious when salted 'n roasted! Not to be confused with Eustachio.

pit fiend

not hell sentinels

pivotal

<pivotal> I am the undisputed King of Cash and utterly free.
faze

pivotal teleport

getting abyssed

pivotalrc

http://dobrazupa.org/rcfiles/crawl-git/pivotal.rc this is just ellipticrc with pickup_mode = multi, mostly.

pizza

If it tastes good, it's not New York style.

plain deck

a deck with only power level 0 cards. See card power for more details.

plans

If you are interested in some potential plans for further development (or interested in patch ideas), !tell dpeg your email address and the topics you are interested in. See plans[2] for a list of available texts.
Player gods. Sif Muna and artefact books. Okawaru. Demonspawn. Ranged attacks god. Slime god. Thief god. Miscellaneous items. Deep Dwarves (no innate healing).

plant

Plant. It will die if you hit it a lot.
How do they get the light to grow in the dungeon? It is a mystery.
Kobolds love sneaking up on people killing plants.
<twelwe> the tried and true strategy of 'running away from the plants' worked out

plate armour

+10 ac -6 ev. Weighs 65.0 aum.

player only spells

As of trunk: Delayed Fireball, Conjure Flame, Enslavement, Control Undead, Animate Skeleton, Fulsome Distillation, Sublimation of Blood, Control Teleport, Recall, Death Channel, Darkness, Inner Flame.

player status

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/player-status

playing while tired

Great way to die!
4DONT
!lg WYA turn=70345 killer=rupert -tv
!tv myuzinn xl=27 place=abyss ktyp=lava
!tv IonFrigate place = D:19 killer = "smoke demon" (note the +6 mace in inventory)
Summoner of Okawaru

playtesters

People who are willing to playtest your vaults and patches. !nick playtesters for the list.

playtesting

You can help DCSS by playing the most recent version: telnet crawl.develz.org 345. Windows builds available at http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/. See the next page for today's hot topics.
bugs

plinker

Cryptic <3s it.

plog

When Crawl's name generator generates a name too short, it returns "Plog" instead of rerolling. That's why this name appears relatively often.
No relation to Trog, apparently.
Misspelling of ploog.

ploog

Misspelling of plog.
Also the last name of several developers.

plutonium sword

The +12,+16 plutonium sword {Contam Stlth-}. Base type is triple sword. Sometimes causes transmutation miscasts (damage, petrification, confusion, polymorph) on things it hits.
<danharaj> I feel like learndb should have an entry on not hitting ballistomycetes with plutonium sword.

ply

mikee_'s third-favorite thing.

poetry

<Danei> My character's skills run the gamut / but not Traps and Doors; I just spam it / Now on hive level 4 / I shall search for the door / search, search, search, search, search, search, search, splash, damn it.
<punpun> what is grum? baby don't hurt me.
An elf corpse falls through the shaft / Damn centaur drowns with all his arrows / ITEM: nothing, nothing, nothing
GDA! / DAMN! / mimic
< CatEater> is this the nature of crawl? a pack of yaktaurs, about to kill a player, forever?
Ignite it and kite it. Sticky flame for the fame.
see trizap
Grum is engulfed in a mutagenic fog! Grum evaporates and reforms as a warg!
<[Hanged_Man]> this dgsk's ghost tile has a spear and a knife <[Hanged_Man]> for some reason I don't think that was what he had in life
<mong> five oklobs stand guard / over the entrance to slime / one ice storm is cast
<kats> People try to put us down (javelins of penetration) Just cause we're too heavy to carry around (javelins of penetration) Without throwing skill I'm badly missed (javelins of penetration) Hope I die before I get abyssed (javelins of penetration)
<archl> HP 200 spbe... <archl> I want tobe...
<Kyrris> So many Jiyva altars. <Kyrris> And me with bad mutations. <Kyrris> But oh, to fire storm.
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=107965#p107965

pointless

Why would you read a pointless learndb entry?
The player with the most necromancer wins (including Og and Mi). Also died to the most damaging death blow (Tiamat with holy wrath), and the most damaging mummy death curse.

poison

A condition that reduces HP every few rounds. Comes in a few different flavors corresponding to severity and duration of the poisoning. Yellow is minor to moderate, whereas red is severe.
Monster's level of poisonedness = P. [If 50% chance: dam = 1d(P+1)]. [If P>=4: dam += 1]. [If vuln poison: dam += 2dP -1]. So on average: Dam = (P+1)/4. If vuln: (P+1)/4 + P-1.
Monsters with ordinary poison attacks have a 1/4 (1/20 if you took no damage) chance of inflicting 1 level of poisoning; medium poison, 1/3 (1/15 with no damage) chance of 1d3 levels; nasty poison, 100% chance of 2 levels; strong poison, 1/3 (1/5 with no damage) chance of 2d5+1 levels, or the effects of medium poison if you are poison-resistant.

poison arrow

Level 6, range 7 conj/poison spell (Annihilations exclusive), inflicts incredible damage, deals 70% resistable damage and poisons poison-resistant natural creatures, the undead cannot be poisoned but still take some damage. Used by naga casters and draconian/deep elf annihilators, as well as Aizul, Green Deaths and Gloorx Vloq.

poison bolt

You probably meant one of venom bolt and poison arrow but we can't tell which one.

poison magic

Let me blow your mind: this skill lets you cast spells which poison people. Poison is absolutely fabulous against anything which isn't immune to poison, since it confuses things and kills them while you wander off and do more important things. Unfortunately, the scariest baddies are immune to poison.
There are a lot of great poison spells, but few of them are high level. High poison magic isn't useless, but you can almost always get away with just turning poison magic off. There are poison-vulnerable enemies everywhere except Pan - they can be dispatched with the 3rd level spell meph. cloud with poison magic 0.
The primary gem of the poison school is poison arrow, which is arguably the best single-target damage spell - even against poison-resistant enemies - in the game.

poison miscast

1: 2-4 poison / meph cloud self 2: 3-11 poison / large meph cloud / 1 stat loss if not PR 3: 10-28 poison / poisonous cloud / 1-5 statloss

poison needles

These handy items come in two major flavors: poisoned needles and curare-tipped needles. The latter are far more potent than the former due to their ability to slow down enemies as well as inflict damage over time. Both require a blowgun for best effect.

poison resistance

Reduces by 90% the damage from poison attacks, as well as the chance to be poisoned. Only 50% effective against parrow. Also lets you eat poisonous chunks and walk safely through poison / meph clouds. Useful in Swamp/Snake/Spider, not so much anywhere else.
Warning, many poison spells still have impact damage even if you can't be poisoned.

poison weapon

This spell will temporarily bestow the venom brand.

poisonous cloud

Level 6 poison/air/conjurations. Very strong if you get it castable early. Smite targetted. Destroys Elf and other places. Use in conjunction with ignite poison to create lingering clouds of flame.

polar bear

Resistant to cold, as you would expect. As, er, you may or may not expect, they are amphibious as well. In 0.6, bears go berserk when afraid (due to Fear or low HP).

polearms

[hands](Dam,Acc,Delay): Spear[1] (6,4,11); Trident[1] (9,1,13); Demon trident[1] (12,1,13); Trishula[1] (13,0,13); Halberd[2] (13,-3,15); Scythe[2] (14,-4,20); Glaive[2] (15,-3,17); Bardiche[2] (18,-6,20)

polearms reasons

You are a merfolk.
You are not a merfolk.

polite monsters

some monsters inquire first whether you can survive in deep water before trampling you into it

poll

1.Age 2.Country 3.Local/server/both? 4.Tiles/ASCII/both? 5.OS(es) at home? 6.Roguelikes played before? (Nethack, ADOM etc.) 7.Learned about Crawl where? 8.And when? 9.How many Crawl wins? 10.Heard about tournament where? 11.Ever recommended Crawl? 12.Which computer game played most in the last month?
Read about the poll results at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/poll_results.txt. Feel free to contact us about the evaluation or ideas for the next poll (think 2011) at crawlpoll@gmail.com.

polymorph

Gives you a random form, usually bad, and changes monsters into other monsters, likely to be harder, but without equipment.
Monsters turn into monsters of the same holiness and with similar HD, but undead and nonliving monsters cannot be polymorphed.
Good targets for polymorph wand: killer bees, jellies, boggarts, harpies, electric eels, wasps, brown ugly things, and well-equipped monsters (e.g. orc knights).
See !lg MadDasher place=D:2 ckiller=Dragon -tv for what can go wrong.
6733 | D:5 | Grinder changed into Grinder the hellephant

polymorph other

see polymorph
<mikee_> it polymorphs others

polyphemus

A cyclops. Throws large rocks. Comes with death yaks and the like. About as strong as your average Death Yak and slower to boot.
Really boring.
Polyphemus says, "@Foe_genus@ for dinner? Sounds delicious!"

polytheist

A player who has won every available god. Type !polytheist to check your (or somebody else's) progress.

poncheis

6 games for * (musu sc>20000000): 6x Poncheis
<Poncheis> nooooooooo
<Poncheis> come on me bro
<Poncheis> but a thing i like of eyeballs <Poncheis> is that it makes a nice burger

ponderinghat

todo: mumo of chei, mibe of chei, optm of chei, 4-game chei streak, sp of chei, na high-socre, spell-less naga maybe 15-runes, chei min-turns
long term goals: join greaterbarricades

ponderousness

Bad armour brand that adds +2 to movement delay. Bad.
<phyphor> +8 platemail! <phyphor> of ... <phyphor> oh, suck
Bad.

poop

A player shrouded in mystery who does not have the goal of placing a player ghost on every possible level of the dungeon, even though it may appear that way. A hero to all.
Tremble, mortals, and despair - poop has come to this world!
<Pooooop> When I play priests of Beogh, all the orcs are like "Beogh is great, and so is poop!" It confused me at first.

poor

so bad it doesn't even get an entry

pop

this word seems to mean 'use'
this word also seems to mean 'drop'

popcorn

rats, grey rats, bats, goblins, kobolds, quokkas,

popular combos

see {!lg * won playable recent s=char x=cdist(name) o=-char join:" " title:"Popular combos" fmt:"${.}" ?:cdist(name)>=10}

porcupine

Polearms 27 title. Also a new monster in 0.8.

porcupine form

Small, spiny, fast-moving form. Can't cast spells or use wands.

porkalator

A unique spell of Kirke that transforms you (or anything else she sees) into a hog. You get faster movement (unless you're already moving quickly), but no equipment. Just run away and wait it out.
<minmay> (pig form is basically paralysis except you can move)
Was the reason demon polymorphing was added. No, really.

portal

See portal card. Also used to be a spell that teleported you across levels in the main Dungeon.

portal card

Teleports you. power_level/2 chance each of being controlled and of randomly blinking you. The teleport control lasts for several turns.

portal distance

Portal distance by adjective: a long way away, >30; distant, >15; nearby, >7.

portal mimic

It is as big as a portal.

portal projectile

Teleports a fired (wield launcher) or thrown missile directly to its target, greatly increasing its accuracy (but not damage). Has many interesting tactical uses, e.g. hitting the orc priest hanging out behind the pack. Does not pass (transparent) walls. It is the rough opposite of apportation, in that it can also fire whatever wherever whyever.
Projectiles of returning do not return when Portal'd.

portal to somewhere

Beware eldritch tentacles, may be summoned by a zot trap.

portal vault

A vault on its own separate map/maps, entered through a portal (same symbol as e.g. the Hell entrance). Portal vaults include labyrinths, bazaars, treasure troves, ziggurats, sewers, ossuaries, baileys, ice caves, volcanoes, and wizlabs.
see portal_distance[1]

positive energy

Armour brand that gives resistance to draining.

potion card

Gives the effect of a random potion from agility (2/11), brilliance (2/11), might (2/11), curing (2/11), confusion (1/11), slowing (1/11), paralysis (1/11). 50% chance of replacing it with with magic/invisibility at power 1, or speed/resistance with another coinflip at power 2.

potion of blood

Vampire food. Decays, but quicker to eat than sucking a corpse. And weighs less. Other species get only a very small amount of nutrition, and often get sick if they do not have gourmand or carnivore. Can also be wielded for sublimation of blood.
Blood decays 10 time slower in the bottle than in the body, so extract them fast if you want them to last.
<Pariah> WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN BLOOD?

potion of coagulated blood

A potion of blood that is about to completely rot away soon.

potion of cure mutation

Removes 1 to 7 randomly chosen mutations. Don't forget that a potion of gain $STAT works by causing a precisely defined mutation.
When you've got crippling mutations, the Random Number God will make sure you won't find one for 20 levels. Enjoy your crippling mutations.
When you find one of these, usually you'll want to leave it on the ground so it doesn't get shattered.

potion of curing

Common potion that restores 5-11 health and cures sickness, poison, confusion, and rotting. Compare with potion of heal wounds.

potion of decay

Immediately rots 3-5 MHP. Don't drink.

potion of experience

Gives you a bunch of experience. The amount of XP you get is enough to take you the same proportion of the way between the next two levels as you currently are between your level and the next one. You gain 750 * (your new XL) experience to spend on skills.

potion of gain dexterity

Causes you to gain a mutation that increases your Dex by 1.
Can be undone (accidentally or by purpose) with a potion of cure mutation.

potion of gain intelligence

You permanently gain a point of intelligence. Bypasses amulet of rMut, but not the mutation.
Can be undone (accidentally or by purpose) with a potion of cure mutation.

potion of gain strength

Gives you a good mutation - You are strong (Str+1). Go into baileys for a chance to get about 9 of these!
Can be undone (on purpose or by accident) by a potion of cure mutation.

potion of magic

Is just like a potion of heal wounds except for MP.

potion of mutation

Attempts to give you three random mutations. Also, outputs the message "you feel extremely strange" whether it succeeds or not -- if you're looking here to see what that message means, you probably quaffed this while resistant to mutations.

potion of poison

One of the more useful potions to evaporate, it creates a 3x3 squares poisonous cloud. Also, don't drink the potion, it's not good for you.

potion of porridge

A special treat for Oliver Twist! 6040 nutrition. Gluggy white or gluggy brown potion.
Unless you are at 12000 nutrition, you can drink this even if you are engorged, if for some reason you want to. This will waste most of the nutrition.

potion of resistance

Gives temporary resistance to fire, cold, electricity, and poison. Duration is between 10 and 29 turns. Nice against Nikola and on Zot:5.
Good against anthills, beehives, elec eels, enemies with venom weapons, fire drakes, lindwurms, Harold, and Fannar, too.

potions

agility, berserk rage, blood, brilliance, coagulated blood, confusion, cure mutation, curing, decay, degeneration, experience, flight, gain dexterity, gain intelligence, gain strength, heal wounds, invisibility, magic, might, mutation, paralysis, poison, porridge, resistance, restore abilities, slowing, speed, strong poison
Certain potions have fixed unidentified appearance descriptions, or are limited to a few; porridge can only be gluggy brown or gluggy white, blood is always red, coagulated blood is always sedimented red, and water is always clear.
See quaff_id for advice on when to identify potions by quaffing them (as opposed to using scroll of identify).

powered by death

Appears as 'Regen+'. Turns on when you kill something. While on, for each corpse in mutation_level * 3 radius, your regeneration rate is boosted by 100 (max of 700). Duration of the status is mutation_level * 8 + 2d8 (maximum of 40 turns). Doesn't matter how the corpses got there.
For each corpse affected by PBD, the corpse rots faster, chance of rotting is a factor of duration left on PBD. Additional decay is fairly insignificant.

powered by pain

Taking damage sometimes restores MP (50%), or gives agility (25%) or might (25%). Tier 2 DS mutation.
Requires random2(damage) > 2 + 3*mutlevel or damage >= maxhp/2 to trigger. You regain 3d(2 + 3*mutlevel) MP, might/agility effects last 35 + random2(20*mutlevel) turns.

powerful

Describes an experience level 11-15 player ghost.

powerfun

something powerful and also fun
see meph reasons

powergamer

POWERGAMER
see dpeg
<N78291> will anything bad happen if I run out of bazaar maps
<Heteroy> i starved a kobold of nemelex. i had some decks of dungeons stored and i kept getting bazaars but none of them had any food
<Sky__> Too many items on level, removing some. Too many items on this level, not dropping the item. <Sky__> what <Sky__> what do you mean too many items D:

powergaming

<Blade-> GUYS <Blade-> MAX POWRE SLPLJELLS

pr

it's called rPois what the hell is wrong with you
It can also be the abbreviation for "Priest."

praise

Cloud wizlab is cool :)
thanks for the message on entering labs with teleportitis
<3 new uniques except menkaure
Through all the complaining, we're still here. <3
<sluggo> Hey everyone.. I just wanna say profs off to all the devs.. I am really digging v7+ . I just had my first good game and had a blast.
greensnark is awesome, see listgame[1]
Thanks for improving sequell to count sprint trunk! <3
tornado looks amazing in shoals
Praise be to dpeg!
zonguldrok is awesome
You are under the weather. You are standing in the rain.
whoever added the description for normal spiders: I like it
Crawl inspires great passions in its players. Forgive us.
<vimpulse> Also, thank you, all, for making Crawl what it is. <vimpulse> (Probably the most-fun game I've ever played.)

pray

This means that you are currently praying (because you pressed p). View the ^ screen to see what this means for your god.

preservation

see cloak_of_preservation
It's rCorr that (partially) protects equipment from acid damage, not Preserve; so an amulet of resist corrosion is at least as good as a cloak of preservation in Slime.

press s

!lg djanatyn place=pan 1 -tv

pressure plate

A mystery trap whose function is defined in lua

priest

A class that starts out with a quarterstaff, a robe, some Invocations skill, and piety with a god. Priests of most non-evil races start with Zin (they get some healing potions), and Hill Orcs start with Beogh (they get a hand axe instead of a quarterstaff).

primal wave

A merfolk aquamancer spell that does a lot of damage, creates water, and knocks you back. No longer able to hurl the PC into deep water. :(

prince ribbit

Blink frog unique. Found in the main dungeon. Nearly the same as a regular blink frog, except that he's light blue, has a human (contaminated) corpse, talks, doesn't come with 3 more blink frogs (except in Lair), and knows teleport self for when in trouble. Found as early as D:4.
He's a prince who got turned into a frog, in case your parents never read you fairy tales when you were a kid.
No, you can't polymorph him into a human.

priorities

<elliptic> what sort of university wifi blocks ssh <elliptic> imo move to a better university

pristine statue

A silver archer statue, armed with a crossbow and silver bolts. Watch out, as their damage is relatively high. Found only in Sprint III.

private messages

If you need to read all of a topic, use these (/msg henzell ??foo) instead, so you don't choke up discussion on the whole channel. Henzell will respond in private. Henzell will also respond to some ! (foo) commands in private, Gretell will respond to @ commands in private, and Sequell will respond to !lg, !lm, and even !tv.

probability

The chances of something with 0.01% probability occuring are certain given how much Crawl you play.
see availability heuristic
see gamblers fallacy[1]
<elliott> ZRN: that's not meant to happen by virtue of it being really improbable

proc

When the thingy does its thingy thing.

proccing

the ugliest verb ever seen

procodile

<mikee_> i just wanted to play a dsmo with a dumb name

profane servitor

A terrible undead angel, with both vampiric and draining attacks, and sometimes a demon whip. Resistant to holy attacks because of its blasphemous nature! Surrounded by an unholy umbra, which cancels out halos and causes accuracy penalties (but undead/demons/**+ Yred worshipers are immune)

profanesave

The D:27 strategy in which you save immediately after entering profane_halls.

projected noise

Trivialized zigs, Tomb:3, and probably other places too. Projected to oblivion in 0.11. Will live on in our hearts.

protection

Bonus AC. On rings, anywhere from -6 to +6. On weapons, +5 AC. On shields, +3 AC. You could also have learned any of this by viewing the in-game item description.

protip

<elliptic> it seems like projected noise could be potentially useful on late zig levels
(5:57:02 PM) casmith789: I attack orbs of fire with sbl all the time
<elliptic> should have worn the gloves <elliptic> unless you did, in which case you shouldn't have
<elliptic> hatm is nearly as good as spen
<BirdoPrey> lkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkiu <BirdoPrey> switch from crawl window to irc window before cat steps on keyboard
For the record, Sure Blade is far from useless both early and late in the game. If anything, the spell is closer to being overpowered than underpowered. --rwbarton
<N78291> 3d30 really means "tickles a bit" if you have any AC at all
<rwbarton> yeah, attacking with exec axe is a good way to rest faster
< TGWi> ice cave strategy: teleport to the end, put on all the rC gear, then clear it backwards
<ebarrett> just don't land in sight of hellion island but with it out of tornado range with your back to a wall and forget to dig
Your two-headed ogre shouts, "Beware of monsters!"
<rwbarton> xom is possibly more useful than TSO for much of the game
<minqmay> wand of paralysis is not very harmful in the early game
<monqy> HangedMan: keep a moth around so it will zerk the priests/sorcs so they won't summon neqoxecs
<elliptic> invis > haste
<Chapayev> on a stabber with no disint and no ability to do enough damage to get through 20 AC, apport the staff and go in invisible and use the staff to hit the statue
<Patashu> if you cheimove everywhere your turncount is lower <Patashu> if your moves are three times as slow <Patashu> they still only take one turn <Patashu> and other stuff is happening 3 times as fast
<crate> disc of storms might actually be kind of OP now in zigs
<crate> xom is much better than godless for trolls
<elliptic> zin is much better than yred
<mikee_> there's not a lot of brilliance because i drink brilliance for food
<mikee_> so if you go downstairs and you see a wand between you and an imp you might want to go back upstairs and then back downstairs

prussian

<prussian> im a ddne irl

pseudonut

Plays a lotta unwons.
Favorite achievement: Pseudonut the Merry Mummy (L27 MuBe), worshipper of Trog, escaped with the Orb and 3 runes

psyche

A purple unique magess that is generally unremarkable in both dungeon spawn location and ability, but can still be quite dangerous when she hastes herself and unloads a wand or chaos dagger on you. Or in the 25% of the time that her dagger is distortion.
YOU ARE VIOLATING AREA SECURITY!!!

psymar

Is still not sure how the hell he killed Gastronok.
Trolls ##crawl more than actually playing crawl.
responsible for some of the cruft in the learndb.
KILL _ALL_ THE THINGS!!!
<PsyMar> no, I didn't typo elynaie

puberty

"Strange energies run through your body." This message, by itself, is meaningless.
<Rebthor> what does You have a feeling of ineptitude. mean?
"You feel odd for a moment."

pulsating lump

Has a mutating melee attack, but if you let it catch up to you then you deserve it.

pump and roll

the advanced technique of berserking from far away and then running up to someone

punch

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have claws or unarmed skill and you're not using a shield or two-handed weapon. Damage is 5 + (unarmed skill / 5). Add +1d3 with claws (any level), or +6 with blade hands.

punk

A +9, +12 sling of frost. Gives rC+.

puns

<Henzell> I don't know about !learn add puns.
<larasium> menkaure is a pain
<Raycaster> what if power ranger was a character class <Xiberia> ??arcane marksman
see slouch[4]
Sizzell: Morphy (L14 OgBe) entered a bailey. (Bailey) Morphy: hopefully this is just an Irish Creme one

puppykicker

< Sizzell> puppykicker the Charmwright (L4 MuSk), slain by a hound on D:4, with 254 points after 2514 turns and 0:09:28.

pure caster

!tv elynae killer=eidolon 1

purgy

An unusually thin and nervous troll. Sad, really. :(
True professionals that play trolls will religiously kill and wear Purgy to prove they are the mightiest troll bully of them all. What a bunch of trolls. :(
Do it. Be the troll troll.

purification

Removes negative conditions (Rot, Poison, Slow, Sick, ...) and restores all stats

purple draconian

A form of draconians that has an affinity for spellcasting. Player character gets +1 aptitude in Spellcasting, +1 in Charms/Hexes/Evocations, and higher magic resistance than other draconians. Breath weapon is a bolt that dispels buffs.

putty

Can be found at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
If you need help connecting with PuTTY, check this link out: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/msg/895edd287e71faa2
Before SS 0.5, numpad doesn't seem to work on connections from Windows users using both teraterm and PuTTY. As a workaround in PuTTY, you can go to Settings->Terminal->Keyboard and set your numpad type to NetHack (there's a little radio button for this). This changes so that instead of outputing arrow movements from the numpad it outputs vi-keys.
If even these settings are insufficient for your preferred numeric-keypadding ways, under Terminal -> Features, try checking the box for "Disable application keypad mode". This will cause +-/*enter on the keypad to behave as expected, and possibly other things. Der slinkmeister knows no fix for making shift-keypad5 do a long rest as per local mode.
Control+Numpad does not work in 0.58 release, upgrading to 0.60