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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Snakeman the Nimble (Naga Necromancer) Turns: 38854, Time: 03:16:28 HP 131/131 AC 15 Str 27 Exp: 16/147491 (103), need: 24108 MP 41/41 EV 21 Int 38 God: Cheibriados [******] Gold 1556 SH 21 Dex 25 (27) Spells: 8 memorised, 5 levels left Res.Fir...

Now I mostly listen to music from other dungeon crawling games, notably those from Atlus games with music done by Shoji Meguro (Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, etc) Mostly ambient stuff with some battle music thrown in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5_dbyxLQNw The music from the SMT games is pretty ...

I name my characters after characters from fantasy books and movies, usually. Mostly characters from Dragaerea / Song of Ice and Fire / First Law.

Ninefingers! The Hound! The Imp! Shivers!

HEEE!

Now I mostly listen to music from other dungeon crawling games, notably those from Atlus games with music done by Shoji Meguro (Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, etc)

Mostly ambient stuff with some battle music thrown in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5_dbyxLQNw

After Zot, you only have the run out of the dungeon, which is a running joke among players who have experienced it because it is anticlimactically one of the easiest parts of the game. Haha, yeah I got my first victory the other day and was surprised by how little happened once I actually GOT the o...

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Replace gila monsters with basilisks"

D:

Step one: Press 'a'
Step twp: press 'c'

Repeat as necessary until enemies are eternally silenced.

Just got my first victory with SpEn of Zin. Zin didn't really do much for me by the time I hit mid-game (I completely forgot to use most of his powers for many tens of thousands of turns, I think), and I never once used Imprison, but the shielding he provided me in + using Sanctuary 4 times let me s...

Hey, first victory. I couldn't really fight anything so I just loaded up on scrolls and wands and zipped through Zot and stole the Orb. Had no issue reaching the top. Really never found anything too useful this game, though I guess I just took the controlled flight and teleport for granted after a w...

Started this character as sort of a throwaway to play around with Zin and ended up doing kinda alright, for me. Got two runes, not really struggling too much, but I'm having a hard time with liches/dragons/etc. Any advice would be useful. Should I just ditch Zin and get something more... useful? Dun...

Playing around with that SpEn of Zin thing. Should I bother training Invocations specifically or just leave it on? I'm at 10 right now. Dunno if there's an optimal level to reach.

Am I right in assuming I retain my piety when I switch between good gods?

I'm guessing one of the random effects was enslavement, but since he was invisible you didn't realize it. "Nothing appears to happen" doesn't mean that nothing actually happened. His attacks stopped after those messages, then you killed him. Gods are pretty forgiving about you doing things...

Ah, well I think it's to avoid the miscast effects mummies or whatever can put on you. I know -7 is a number that people have told me is bad, anyway.

Shadowgate - The point and click adventure game where you die over and over again!

1. You typically want to bring any stat that is below 8 up to 8 first. This basically rules out stat death (dying as a result of a stat hitting 0) as the biggest stat drain is -7, I believe. After that, you only want to pump what you are actually using. If you are not using magic at all and just hea...

If we are counting the Nightmare difficulty of DoomRL, then there's no contest. Even the latest release on average difficulty is a bit rough for me.

I've never managed to beat DC:SS though.

Spells come with noise descriptions now! Although it would be nice if you could check these without the books- I think they'd be most useful if you were in a stealth-dependent situation and you really wanted to check which spells were safer to risk. Although I suppose you could always just use ctrl...

Running a HODK right now and it's pretty brutal. Any class that can effortlessly take out Prince Ribbet, Duvessa and Dowan all at once is OK in my book.

(Blasted Ribbet with wand of cold while my minions held off the other two, injury mirror'd Duvessa down and then drained Dowan of his stupid life.)

Just because you see people in ##crawl doing it doesn't make it right. Those are bad people.

Got one off the ground tonight. Pretty much flying. Only real scare I've had so far was when a spriggan druid shot some holy crap at me in Lair:7. Pretty much annihilated Orc and now I'm just building up Air and taking my time. Poisonous Cloud is ridiculously fun to spam. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup ve...

This build is really fun and not at all difficult. Wow. I'll take any more tips. <3 Not sure there's much more to know though. I think I'm just being savaged by the RNG. Like, not having access to Vehumet until D:9 three times in a row, if at all (who surrounds an altar with trees?). Not to mention ...

If you're following Vehumet as a venom mage, your eventual target is probably Poison Arrow from her third gift book. It's quite good, although unless you find a lucky staff of energy it will be quite some time before you can cast it frequently.. It's the most beautiful thing in the world when Poiso...

Scumming is where you make a backup of your game to reload if you die. It's scummy. You can also start scum by restarting new games if initial circumstances don't suit you. Victory dancing is where you do the same action over and over again to pump your experience pool into a skill. So you kill an O...

Mythological faeries are pretty awesome, honestly. I would support a fey dungeon branch and then never enter it.

On topic: I new sequester was a word, but sequestration? Thank you, Crawl!

There might be a seed of an idea there for using floor trash for other purposes...I like that Nemelexers get to utilize otherwise useless crap for a good purpose (even though decks of destruction are weak). Maybe artificers could reforge weapons or something? Use the metal to power some sort of dev...

Haha, why did you stop and learn a level in Bows before fleeing?

(Unrelated question, how does one separate the menus (inventory, monsters, etc.) in tiles like that?)

I already knew henotheism and ecumenical, but I don't know where I would be without mephitic. Thank you, air magic!

Some old crappy Dell laptop. Sometimes I play CAO on my Droid but that's mildy painful.

I taunted myself! Spoke too soon! Mangled by my fellow spriggans who turned to Trog worship after I destroyed their village in Lair:8! Also, resuming a perfectly fine game after drinking a bottle of wine probably isn't the best idea. Coulda just escaped to the Abyss. >_< Time to go back to rolling !...

I'm way further than I thought I'd get! Just got my third rune (swamp, snake, abyss), up from my previous record of no runes ever. Just gonna keep going down and down and running like crazy if I get hit.

Going down the Swamp now. Having no issues. Massacred Nessos and Tesla. Still waiting for any decent armor, really.

Got Invocations to 10 and am now the proud owner of a +8 quick blade of distortion! Thanks guys!

While ID-ing scrolls, I activated Acquirement! I went with weapon in the hopes of getting a well-enchanted blade and got a +7 quick blade! I'm pretty happy about this and am wondering if I should make it distortion. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5830-g7a32b22 character file. Abysstros th...

Yeah, I'll use spellbooks as a land mine for the first few levels of the game to snag something stupid/OOD, but it's not very useful later on. Def. worth holding onto them for a little while though. Better to be prepared and you can always burn them for piety later. Just don't find yourself sitting ...

I think that guide is a bit outdated, you should keep shortblades on until you reach the skill needed for the minimum delay of your weapon then turn it off, pretty sure it is 8 for quickblades, 10 for knives and daggers, 12 for short swords and 14 for sabres. How is this determined? Hitting '@' and...

What mageykun said. Maybe I just don't immerse myself enough, but the scrolls could be telling me exactly what they were, but in ALL CAPS and I wouldn't ever see it.

a scroll labelled IM MOLATE

It's not suicide, just making a boring character interesting.

I mean, I've never won this game. Every character is suicide.

I prefer to join Xom rather than abandon characters or play sloppy. Fundie > ragequit.

Well, I wouldn't say it removes strategy as much as it forces you to reprioritize targets, but yeah I can't say I'm a fan. Is there a way to mitigate smiting damage?

Yeah, I was fooled by my own ghost before. It was even worse when I killed someone else's ghost online, then that player came in to observe my game and started talking to me. I assumed I had run into some kind of feature where other characters haunted you.

It was embarrassing.

Wow, I completely posted that other post in the wrong thread. Multiple tabs and drowsiness wins again.

I saw an entrance to Hive mimic. I wonder if you can use your known features / autotravel to identify those kinds of mimics. After I found the Hive, I found another HIve, and autotravel took me to the correct one.

I could possibly make this post more difficult to understand.

The big metal room with a hidden door that is full of a ton of bug monsters. And no treasure.

Also, bee rooms. Because dropping mephitic cloud in it rules.

Probably a worshipper of Chei, unfortunately.

Sweet, sweet poison.

And sometimes you're just going to get a few dozen slings. Just use them for jock straps.

I wonder what the least mentally taxing build is... I often play while hammered.

So far this build is actually pretty simple.

Yeah. That DS port was hot though.

We should use the god and piety level titles. Because that would be amazingly complicated.

Royal Jelly! Pandemonic!

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