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Wow. Ok, I've finally beaten this thing. I've been playing it on and off casually for a while, finally decided to buckle down and play it seriously for the past two weeks. A couple of things I learned/did differently (from previous tragic deaths): ⋅ Avoided trying to kill *everything* and ...

Halberds have the lowest possible base damage of all two-handed weapons. You sacrifice a shield to wield a weapon less damaging than some one-handed weapons. Compare the broad axe, which is fairly common on basic orcs, and lets you wear a shield, has the same attack delay, is more accurate, and act...

I've died to the minotaur before. He had some kind of artifact weapon in his stash, which he wielded and proceeded to beat me to death.

Funny, I was about to post something under the same title myself.

Except I haven't won yet, so I guess I'm even worse?

Back to the topic on hand, I would suggest that anytime you run into something you haven't encountered (a unique, a new monster, or even a spell you're not sure of) you run it through the learndb . Besides giving you raw numbers, there are often some helpful tidbits in some of the entries. This is b...

This sounds cool.

Erolcha banished me when I was XL11. I made it out, went on and returned to her level when I was a bit tougher. She then fell in two hits. Revenge is best served with a double sword to the face. Erolcha did this to me once at about XL 12. I managed to escape (my first time!) and returned to Erolcha...

Congrats! DS are my favorite race, I think it plays into what draws me into playing crawl -- the random slot machine "luck of the draw".

I ran into something similar in a vault, iirc a "moon moth" that was invisible AND drained mana on a hit.

I've been playing around with dragonspawn and demonspawn elementalists recently, and I found that air elementalists, at least for the first couple of levels, are a lot more fragile than others. I think this is due that shock can be pretty inaccurate and weak, compounded by the fact that they don't s...

It seems like monsters that create travel exclusions shouldn't be generated over stairs.

galehar wrote:
fnwc wrote:Hmmm... I didn't even know you could forget from books.

This feature is a bit hidden. But the new tutorial teaches about it.

+1 for the new tutorials!

Congrats!

Hmmm... I didn't even know you could forget from books.

I've played a bunch of roguelikes and Crawl is better than all of them. I think Crawl is proof that having clear design philosophies and goals is imperative to creating a good, balanced game. I love NetHack for what it did for the genre, but it is an inferior game. So much of the game is spoilery an...

You shouldn't be able to... isn't Mennas a mummy?

My advice (and I'm not very good... I've gotten to Zot but never recovered the orb)... don't go Elf 5 initially, especially if you've only ever recovered one rune. Elf 5 (I assume you're playing trunk since you died to a blademaster; otherwise Elf 7) is particularly dangerous, and should be avoided ...

I've never played Chei, but won't switching gods force you to lose all of your gear, given that it's all ponderous?

LOL ok. Great cloak for me.

I'm probably going to die now, but this is probably one of the best cloaks I've found (other than one other time a cloak that rF++ rC++) Demonspawn Earth Elementalist A: horns 1, demonic guardian 2, powered by pain 2 just bought this at a store: e - the +2 cloak of the Sea (worn) {+Blink +Rage +Inv ...

I think the message should say something like, "Your cursed items glow softly and fade." It only takes one reading to figure out what the original message means, and a player may read a spoiler to figure it out anyway. I don't think it's necessary to have that level of obfuscation on an id...

If they don't... they should. Seeing a ghost running around shouting would be pretty funny, not to mention an interesting monster, since it would draw other monsters to it...

Good article. One of my first near ascents in NetHack I was escaping the dungeon on like, Level 2 and for some reason decided to eat an egg out of a chest I had left there.

Turned out to be a cockatrice egg.

Man, was I pissed.

The plan is to make melee more interesting by rewarding positioning. Currently, it is pretty simply: fight in corridors as much as possible. Sure, there are some monsters which are designed to break that routine (orc priests, slime creatures), but it'd be very nice if the player had some incentive ...

I do worry a little that there might be scummy ways to abuse this (go around and mephitic cloud tons of monsters over and over again?) but most of them seem like they'd just get you killed. This isn't really any different than spamming mephitic cloud to practice poison/air when your experience pool...

Erolcha banished me to the Abyss. I even managed to escape through a portal when she banished me right back again.... Lesson learned: Have some magic resistance handy when fighting her. If this doesn't help, have more magic resistance handy. Or just go berserk and kill her in three turns :). Yeah, ...

danr wrote:Thanks for the post. I've read a lot of comments here saying the XP loss from a draining weapon is negligible. Now it appears it is significant.

It's definitely significant when you run into your ghost with a draining brand. In a vault, no less, which I've never seen before.

mageykun wrote:Firing un-IDed wands at giant spores is a bad idea. I accidentally charmed the horrid thing! I managed to kill it before it could kamikaze-cuddle me, but now I'm under Oka penance... o_o

Hahahaha... this kind of thing is what makes Crawl -- and roguelikes in general -- great.

It used to be much higher, but it was gradually reduced to 12.5% for balance purposes. When the damage bonus was higher, it basically outclassed most of the other weapon brands. Hmmmm. I wonder if it should be improved slightly, so that it isn't necessarily a non-choice of a brand (except when noth...

I just got a dagger of stabbing, which seems to be the vorpal brand for daggers. Is there a special bonus for stabbing with these, or is it just the standard +12.5% on average to damage? That's all you get from it. Meaning, instead of doing 4 damage, it does 4.5. Not a very good brand on daggers. I...

I'm a lvl 17 HaBE of Trog and i'm torn on what of his weapons gift to use i have never had so many strong weapons before so i dont really know what is best. B - a +4,+8 anti-magic katana (weapon) {god gift} P - a +4,+4 double sword of holy wrath {god gift} I have never had a anti-magic weapon befor...

I really dislike the abyss result of distortion. All of the other mishaps I can handle, but sometimes the RNG sometimes just decides to kill your character. Sure, sometimes you'll survive the Abyss, but it's tough at low-mid levels. Sometimes it gives me pause when testing weapons with the threat of...

Erolcha banished me to the Abyss.

I even managed to escape through a portal when she banished me right back again....

I can say from my experience with roguelikes that allow selling is this: for "optimal" play (so you can afford certain things later), it forces you to haul things back and forth to sell them. Because selling is a valid action in those games, costs have to be balanced against it, which in t...

I'm wondering if there are plans in the future to somehow support tiles online play, even if it requires a dedicated client (as opposed to telnet).

Thanks!

I've read several mentions of a "tension" rating/mechanic but have been unable to find anything on the wiki that describes what it means exactly.

Can anyone here elaborate what tension means in the context of crawl development?

Lack of tiles online is the only thing preventing me from playing online.

tcjsavannah wrote:I'm already a bit of a pack rat as a player anyway - I realize I carry around much more than I ever need.

Use stashes.

In one game I was gifted two hammers, two axes, and *five* slings.

I've been on the KoBe train for a while now, they're pretty damn good. I can usually always get one to at least 15th level, which is pretty decent for me. However, I've noticed that Trog gifts me a *lot* of slings, even when I have no skill in it. I thought Trog's gift tendencies were based on your ...

Is there a vault creation tutorial around here? I used to write areas for dikuMUDs a long time ago, and this seems like a nice way to contribute something small.

I think I read a vault text file that came with crawl a long time ago, but reading it just made me want to go do something else. :p

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