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All right ! Anyway, I won't have the opportunity to test the character further : just met a gnoll with a distorsion halberd, striked from afar, cast to Abyss... just near a Tentacle Starspawn. Too bad, a +12 Plate Armour artifact and some othe incredible stuff found on lvl 6, for once I had a chance...

OK, thanks !
I thought it was a 1/1 ratio.
Is this a new feature or am I turning too old and amnesic ? :oops:

Good evening gentlemen. I'm playing a 0.15 game with a DSFi of Ashenzari. Because I wanted to curse some equipment, I dropped 3 remove curse scrolls and prayed upon them. Then 3 scrolls turned into... 9 : 1 curse jewelley, 1 curse armour and 7 curse weapon ! Where do the 6 bonus scrolls come from ????

Weapon: your weapon is not exactly good. If you really want to go axes + shields you can look for a broad axe and enchant it. You have a lot of axes skill though, if a good battleaxe or executioner's axe exists you can use it too. Stat points: those should probably go in Dex. 1 - stat points : so n...

Thanks for the tips, I am beginning to use them, I'll tell you later about this character when really hard stuff will come. I may need more advices at this time :) SInv : my bad again, I forgot about Ash's gifts, this randart was a really useless ring. Protection from magic is fine instead. Moreover...

Sure, advices are welcome ! I'm sometimes kinda tired to die all the time, either in stupid ways or (sometimes) just because Crawl has obviously decided to kill me right now :mrgreen: But... right, I guess my mean play style / tactical choices / whatever is THE reason why I fail. BTW, I'm also under...

OK, thanks for the advice ! I raised the spellcasting because this character found a lot of books with low level spells, and some hexes & charms stuff like you said. You tell me it's an option for a heavily armoured guy, then that's good news for me : I'll try to use this spellcasting XP investm...

Wear lighter armour and train the actual school to which the spell belongs to. Yup, that's the point, thanks ! I forgot the (plate) armour ^^. My bad... Well,I'm afraid this means I spoiled the XP put in spellcasting then, unless some interesting light armour shows up later in the game. And I'm als...

I'm playing a HOFi whith Int 17 (13 + 4 through a worn artifact) and Spellcasting to raised ro 6.
However, evel low levels spells still show a 100% failure chance for learning - at least after the Memorization screen.
Why is that ? How can I make this character lear some spells ?

Scrolls of Acquirement can give you The Absolute Crap : the -18 Crystal Plate Armor "Chulocimp" (Acc+4) maybe...

Scrolls of Acquirement sometimes have a whimsical sense of humor.

With jokes like : giving you a -1 Hat of the Wizard when you're playing a HuFi (with the 'antennae' mutation).

Too bad the guy was not worshipping Xom... :roll:

I've already posted here when I was a new player and um... Some people (namely, *** and I guess Herode2) made fun of me for putting up a list with too many combos (it's on page two), [snip] It's been a long time since I've been reading this thread, so I'm answering with some delay. The post you're ...

Your hat is cool. I always wanted to meet an octopod with a purple hat.

sorry but... cogito ergo sum That's fun because my dreams are full of shadows who ergo are. Until I wake. Last night I met a lot of interesting and extremely optimistic ones. They vanished nonetheless. Too bad. That's why I tend to consider Nicolae's assertion as a stronger one. The philosopher als...

... but safe at least :P abyss_dsbe_xl17_trapped.png I'll take the opportunity to ask for some advice about the situation. The character is a DsBe^Trog : _Belcombeth03.txt He has done pretty well until now, thanks to his good luck : the 'powerful demonic guardian' mutation is obscenely... powerful. ...

I'd rather see them as Octopods with the ability to wear four pair of boots instead of 8 rings.

Also, we me take into account the fact that spiders having 8 legs and 2 pedipalps, they keep the opportunity of wearing gloves.

That's very convenient in ice-themed levels.

inkydood wrote:-High Elves are aligned with good and can't (refuse to) worship evil gods

+1 !

I wonder what would Philip K. Dick say about this thread.

OK, thanks for the information. In Lair:8, a catoblepas petrified me once (at least...). He perished anyway thanks to the 'demonic guardian 3' mutation (I've been amazed how poweful this mutation is, and my character gained it around D:8 or so ; Balrugs and Executionners just turn everything they me...

Without spoilers, said you ? Well, looks to me like a pretty good performance. I began playing Crawl around 2011 nov, that's nearly 10 month of constant YASDs. Best score by now for me: HOPr^Beogh died at XL16 in the Lair. But I do use spoilers in order to avoid (some) brutal death. Also, now that m...

Keep in mind that page is wrong about several things (probably more than I noticed): they keep agony and petrify now, and no way are centaur ghosts only 12 speed. I noticed several warnings about badwiki on the forums but I don't understand why no experienced players (I mean players who know what's...

I'm reading the last dump of my current main character, a DsBe^Trog who is doing pretty well by the time. In the 'notes' section at the bottom of the file, I noticed that some events are logged in this section while similar events are not : About monsters and fights : 16623 | D:10 | Killed a centaur...

In Soviet Russia, catholic priests... hem... nah, forget it.

OK, I'll avoid the Nest then. As for rP, I had the Cure Poison spell available instead but anyway, the Nest looks too hard right now. Thanks for the advices !

Confidence Interval wrote:Perhaps writers of consistently poor jokes should be given a colour too.

I agree. One very suitable colour for the role : #7981AB. My favourite.

Here I am again with my soon to be YASD. The guy is exploring Lair because the Skelettal Warriors in D:12 are really too strong for him. OASimeon.txt After the lost of my HOPr I wanted to try something different so I just generated a random viable character and got this SESt. Pretty viable indeed si...

You can use your wand of digging to create an escape route if you want. Well, maybe I should have tried that on the wall right to me, despite the fact that Mara was nearby in that corridor. Instead, i tried to reach the left wall , hoping to dig something allowing me to reach the stairs. But I ende...

RIP. Despite drinking potions, using the Box of Beasts (rather weak item at this stage of the game) etc, HOPr 01 has been overwhelmed to death. So shall perish the fools who do not wear all their Teleport scrolls in their equipment (yeah, I have a few more of them saved in my stash on Lair:1 :roll: ).

I'm not a native english speaker, so take cautiously my advice but to my eyes, the sentence both looks grammatically and syntactically correct. If you're not sure the reader will understand your point about the timeline, I'd add some short information in order to disambiguate. Maybe She found the ch...

As I said, I've notices that Teleport Scrolls do not like me at all : either they send me the wrong way, or they trigger too late. :P Just for fun, a resume of what went on : my priest reached the D:20 with his followers. Some easy encounters led the team to a room filles with slimes. Of course, the...

Yep, I've just notices that 'slow' mutation. It's a recent one, I don't know where it comes from. Maybe those ugly things with mutagenic radiations I've encountered on the last level. I guess it's time to find some potion of cmut. OK, I'll try your advice, let's see what going on downstairs :mrgreen:

All the XP on Axes, so ? Sounds good, although it raises another question in my mind : I've noticed in the logs that once in a while, the armour impedes the delivery of a blow. What is the skill level required to cancel that penalty ? As for Mara, your advice is then : flee ! Am I right ? Running is...

Gentlemen, I am proud to present you HOPr 01 the Bludgeoner. XL16, explored down to D:19 thus by far my best character from the first time I played Crawl (and that's close to ten month ago...). HOPr01.txt He has been pretty lucky until now. The +5,0 Great Mace of Protection and heavy armours (plate,...

Damn it ! I should have guessed

So, what's UC worth for ?

I forgot about those timers. Hmm ... But I'm not sure that I can afford any risks with those human light melee types. I used the same strategy for some time but no more. Loosing the opportunity of visiting reasonably easy portals where you can grab XP and stuff, just because you started the timer a...

There's another penance of Beogh that I didn't consider in time : my XL15 HOPr enters the Orcish Mines with the idea of grabbing easy XP. But there's no way to fight, mind you : all the orcs knee a mile away when I'm approaching, and attack the fools who didn't knee in time. With all those sweet orc...

Finding the Orb is one thing. Another is to put it in your pocket and bring it up to sunlight. Why the hell any rational character would want to do that ?

OK, the corridor trick was the solution here. Only two Unseen Horrors on these rooms, obviously they were warding the Treasure Trove (not yet visited...). BTW, they were far from being a threat here because my HOPr has AC30. Anyway, some of their attacks bypassed the armor and the priest lost around...

For the second time now, one of my characters encounters something invisible who attacks him. The only messages I have is "it hits you", sometimes "x2". The thing seems to be invisible without any spell casting, or it has a very very long lasting spell because its invisibility do...

cursednobleman wrote:Losing characters is an inefficient, but effective way of [bla]

Looks like an oxymoron to me (maybe because I don't speak english). Oxymorons are dangerous.

Well, I think I have an idea of what went wrong because some corridors later, I inadvertantly prayed over another kobold corpse and obviously, this seems to upset Beogh. Thus, I suppose the kobold corpse stacked with my two fellow orcs remains was the problem. As for the duration, the penance disape...

Playing a HOPr, I reach D:8 with a small group of followers, During a battle against big kobolds, the priest and another follower die. After the battle, my HOPr come on the tile where 2 orcs corpses and a kobold corpse lie. My HOPr prays as usual but this time, instead of being satisfied by the sacr...

KoboldLord wrote:If you have less strength than the body armor in question requires[...]

How can we know what strength is required by a armor ?

Ring of the Pariah - alerts everything on a level when you enter Sounds fine since adventurers often suffer from loneliness. Let's have a party ! BTW, I was thinking this morning of some kind of monters with similar effects : the dreaded Grumpy Shadows (I have some of these in a remote bush on the ...

pratamawirya wrote:but alas, the gods don't seem to give any visible abilities (some players even argue whether the gods are useful at all)

That's because most of the players are playing DgSomething characters. Mostly DgWn I guess.

OK, that's a real clean functionnality then 8-)

Thanks !

I was wondering what is the effect of this "clear map" command ? I tried it several times but I don't see anything different on the map.

Yep. Unfortunately, blink does not always drive you out of danger. A few turns before that unfortunate encounter, my HuFE met a troll. Trolls hit hard. Trolls regenerate. Trolls do not fear conjured flames. So my HuFE ended blinking. The spell transported him... just left of the troll he was facin. ...

... and another fail under Nessos's arrows.
This one just left me not a single chance to escape : he took me by surprise, his arrows are really lethal, even fog/running is useless. Too bad.

Next time, maybe...

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