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Crawl is supposed to be winnable 100% of the time if you don't make a mistake. It's a common misconception. Here's what the in-game manual says, under "Philosophy": Not really a misconception. Here's the specific bit of your quote: Ideally, a game like this would be really challenging and...

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.11/prestonbroadus/morgue-prestonbroadus-20130123-074314.txt Here's an old XL18 door-instadeath from full HP. Open a door... die. And they say that stasis is useless! Also, today I saw my HPs go down to 70% (that would be 162 HPs) so I decided it would be best to re...

I cleared the entire dungeon and subbranches, other than Crypt:3 (met Mennas and went "lolnope") and Tomb. All the way down to Zot:4! I did Slime because a treasure trove wanted to see the rune. I sneakily got close, but it was awake. So I quaffed my buffs, read a couple of ?torment (rN+++...

Pollen_Golem wrote:Am I the only one that could have potentially dressed up as my own username?

No.

You forgot your code tags.

I forget to put on my amulet of rMut when facing my first Shining Eye in Slime and I'm reminded of this fact by the following message:
"You feel more robust (HP+10%)"

I've just seen one asking for a wand of hasting with 3 charges. I've never seen a trove ask for a wand without specifying a minimum amount of charge (the same way a +5 ice dragon armour works when it asks for a +3 one, wands only need to have at least the right number of charge). But I've very rarel...

Ah, yes, ability loss is one of the great underestimated threats of Tomb. Now you learned something important to win your next attempt at 15 runes!

Spell invis no longer has this problem. My dedicated campaign of bitching at various devs got it changed so that a single cast of invis won't give you yellow glow anymore, assuming you're casting it from a state of zero contam (sometime in 0.15-0.16 I think?). That being said, I still wouldn't comb...

typhen wrote:Beogh smites anyone who smashes an orcish idol. In former versions, TSO would smite slayers of angels.

He doesn't do that anymore? Awww, that's too bad. I loved it when my Demonspawn got suddenly smited and just answered with "next time, bring your A-game!".

Is there any rcfile magic for making [Tab] do throwing instead of advancing or swinging my resist stick?Thanks! You don't need rcfile magic to use Shift+Tab, which will make you throw your quivered projectile instead of moving closer. Wielding a launcher would do the same once you're in melee, but ...

I did almost die early game when I ran up the stairs from a centaur into line of sight of grinder and then teleported into line of sight of an orc priest. That's some bad luck, congratulations on overcoming the odds and winning this. Especially a 4th time in a row! Just one question: is there a spe...

This has opened my eyes to the awesomness of FulPrism, thanks a lot for the well written (and illustrated!) article.

I was too busy playing crawl and having only friends who work 50 hours weeks to even notice it was Halloween.

my DD is doing better and better , now i'm in Gloorx Vloq's Realm , it's just i'm tired so i guess i'll stop for today btw is my char Zig viable ? (first time Zig) At first I was like "wtf, he's already on a new character?" then I realized that you meant DE and not DD. Anyway, this charac...

Draining also makes less noise than other bolt spells (I am not sure if this applies to wands though) That reminds me that spell noise is no longer shown on the spell list. That's too bad because that's a moderately important balance factor for spells. Especially for the really noisy ones like Meph...

I don't think you can ask for a scroll. The last level of Vaults is 5, not 4. And yes, Discord works like a charm there (or more precisely, like a hex, hehehe). You should wait until you've cleared all of Depth and Shoals before you do that. In a 3 rune game Vaults:5 is usually the last stop before ...

I've noticed that when I want to make a character who is going to focus mainly on religion, I usually make a fighter. Makes sense since religious abilities don't care about heavy armour and tend to overlap with magic. I currently have 3 such characters which I intend to win with, and I'd appreciate ...

Having the ring available to swap when you need it can help, even if you keep the artifact ring most of the time. I wouldn't get rid of the robe of the archmagi for rC+.

Given your situation wand acquirement is probably the best choice. You could get something good with armour given that your hat and shield are not interesting, but you're more likely to get a body armour you won't use.

Next target should be either the Abyssal rune, or Pandemonium.

The main issue I see with your character is not enough escape option. No Swiftness or Haste to run to a stair or blink (let alone cBlink) or Passage of Golubria to disengage. Repel and Regen are very good, but at the point you're at (FS castable) you should definitely get more utility spell if you c...

Random Effects - good when you're on stairs or escape hatch and either there are at least 3 tiles between you and the monster or it is slowed. That's way too situational. Draining - fire it through your undead or demonic allies at your enemies. I do that too, but most characters don't have either o...

A 15 runes win is definitely possible. One pip of rN is usually all you ever need, so forget about the rN+ robe. The rC+ robe could possibly be useful in Slime given that Azure Jellies are one of the worst threats in there, but I'm not sure it's worth giving up Archmagi for that. rF++ is nice, but r...

So I went ahead and learned Ozo, not realizing I couldn't use it in my current armour. So I'm going to need to switch to Steam Dragon Armour. I take it you still suggest that over keeping the medium armour I'm using? Also, Draining isn't the best brand and I have 3 scrolls of Brand Weapon, should I ...

Annnnd I died on the ascent. I really shouldn't have taken that Pan Lord so lightly and thought it couldn't deal more than 30 HPs of damage in one turn. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.2 (tiles) character file. 744301 Zorgdub the Hawkeye (level 27, -1/282 HPs) Began as a Troll Hunter on Oct 18...

As for me, here are the consumables I use rarely (as in most characters end up never using it) or never. Scrolls: Amnesia - I'm usually very careful not to learn spells I'll want to forget and use the book if I need to. Still use them a couple times for about 1/3rd of my casters Holy Word - I hoard ...

The Black Draconian / Blue Storm Dragon thing is annoying, for sure.

WingedEspeon wrote:That is why you use the end invisibility ability.

I often wished the spell version had that option. I had a character with enough Hex spellpower that they usually ended up glowing yellow from a single cast of Invis.

WingedEspeon wrote:I'm not sure if this is a new unrand, but it should be.
Code:
the ring of Sunlight {rF+ rN+++ Slay +3 Stlth-}

This is way too apropos to be a randart. And also, awesome.

Taken from another thread because I think that it's worth discussing. Even though I disagree with almost everything you've proposed I think this is a discussion worth having in general. I'm curious whether others could point out which consumables they hate Consumables I almost never use (note this d...

Could you explain why you made these changes?

I think this 'both high and low can work' category is a great idea.

I'm halfway through the Depths now and I'm wondering how good Faith would be on this character. I've been very stingy with Heroism (and even more so with Finesse) but I still struggle to stay to 6* piety. I rarely use the blowgun now. Mostly I throw tomahawks at stuff until it gets close enough to b...

infinitevox wrote:I tabbed through the Holy Realm in Pan, only losing at most 20hp throughout the whole thing, so I'm not daunted by the thought of a holy floor tbh.

A high Holy Zig floor is way more dangerous than Holy pan. Don't underestimate it. Seriously.

Found some rC+ and went to do slime. The Royal Jelly was much harder than she should have been because I auto-explored right into her, and then forgot to use a haste potion to get some space. I ended up having to teleport to save my life after killing it. Thankfully the immolation scroll still works...

A holy floors will most likely murder you. Violently. Not to mention the things a mummy floor could do to your tactic of killing stuff fast. I'd definitely bail out now.

Went down into the crypt hoping to find a ring of fire resist, and I got just that! I also got a nice cloak with rElec (well, more like decent). So I now have options. The XP was also good, allowing me to get UC to 22 among other things. Even with the artifact armor on, I have MR+++, and since I've ...

haha yessss I've found another insane person. Insane like me, which of course is the best sort. Well done so far. Looks like you've gotten past the tricky part of the game Thanks! :mrgreen: (although I note with some disappointment that you've abandoned the One True God--don't you know a MuCK only ...

By scumming Xom and being very boring, I got plenty of rods but also some good artifacts like: the amulet of the Elephant {god gift, Spirit rElec rN+ Int+3} and the ring of Satisfaction {god gift, SustAb rPois rF+ Int+3 Dex+4, Thanks Xom!} (excellent to deal with Xom's random stat nuking and blasts ...

I got red contamination from zot traps a couple of times. And once I made the mistake of casting both Haste and Invisibility*. I soon started glowing, ruining my invisibility. So I had to run away really fast, spamming cBlink, which I might have forgotten give even more glow**. And since I had tons ...

Pollen_Golem wrote:Something like that could work, although it would jar players that paralysis/confusion/polymorph/enslave/disintegrate/teleport have one failrate, and slowing has another.

Disintegrate already has a different failrate from the others, actually.

Wear the MR cloak, do V5, and then go to zot and win the game. Are you saying I should skip Crypt entirely? And what sort of tactics should I use in Vaults:5? Last time I tackled it with a melee dude there weren't any vault warden to lock me down so stair dancing was an option. Should I use ?Immola...

I've found a mask of the dragon and swapped it on for the SInv, because not having that has been a pain in a few situation. I think that and the slaying are worth the two points of AC I'm giving up for it. Throwing is at a nice 22, and Armour is almost at 12. Still some work required (especially UC ...

Do you have any sense whether this would be feasible with a vampire? Vampires ALSO don't starve waiting for 400,000 turns... but perhaps not being able to flee and recover, that would be a barrier? (You know what I mean. You can flee, but you can't recover without some blood or consuming a consumab...

So I tried again, as Mucky the MuCK. I did a lot of waiting and fleeing before Xom gave me a rod. Inaccuracy, sweet! However that doesn't work on Harpies so when I made the mistake of stepping away from the stairs I got annihilate. But Xom revived me! Later I met a fire giant who one-shot me while I...

So I have been trying out Blade's Xom Scumming strategy for winning MuCKs . After getting a number of mummies killed getting the hang of it, I managed to get a rod gifted to me and proceeded to slay out of depths monsters for massive XPs and scum some more for equipment galore. Then I was abyssed. B...

You don't need more than 18 in Long Sword, this vampiric blade is all you need to beat the game. If you intend to do extended you might want to switch to the freezing triple sword and train up your skill accordingly, but you're not there yet. Also you have way more than enough Dex, but not enough St...

OK, after some number crunching, switching from my artifact FDA to QDA makes me lose 4 AC and 1 EV (on top of the egos). Changing to SDA makes me lose another 2 EV. So overall they provide: Heavens : +4 AC, +3 EV, rF++, rC-, rElec, rCorr, MR-, Slay+2 (some dex) Quicksilver : +0 AC, +2 EV, MR+ Storm ...

I'm not sure I like the cast-then-charge-forward use case. Assuming the pack is at the edge of your LOS, there's 6 tiles between you. Let's say the yaks move once and you move 5 times, if you cast swiftness (10 auts) and then move 5 times (8 auts a step, 40 auts) that's the same as just walking 5 t...

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