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What are some general rules of thumb you use when moving around the dungeon?

How do you explore a new level?

How do you break up a mob?

How do you run away, if you don't have escapes available?

How do you act around the stairs?

So here's the challenge: What is the deepest dungeon level you can reach, at the lowest possible character level? Challenge 1: How deep can you make it without levelling up at all? Challenge 2: You must stop at level 3. How deep can you go? (this might give some more flexibility, but if you accident...

I think it comes with win98 but I'll likely replace that with Debian and the lightest environment i can find.

What are the absolute lowest spec's Dungeon Crawl would run on? Someone is offering me an ancient P120 mhz laptop for basically nothing, and I figured it might be decent for playing Angband and Dungeon Crawl while my son watches cartoons on the PC upstairs.

Does stabbing work for unarmed attacks? Might be a dumb question but I am not sure how literal the skill name is

Any significant changes to felids in 10? (Trunk, as it were)

Are you using any thrown weapons or no weapons at all? D:17, alive and kicking, Lair and Orc cleared! This wasn't a challenge at all so far... and look what just happened 10 turns ago... it's going to be genuinely easy now. Lack of shields isn't too noticable (a buckler doesn't do that much, I don't...

What on earth does "kiting" mean?

ah okay, thanks!

Fighting skill does not, to my knowledge, affect damage. It affects hit points and attack rolls.

Weapon skill does improve damage as mentioned above.

If I want to throw daggers at people should I be concerned with short blade skill or just throwing?

Xom is a sentient waffle, transcending time, space and our feeble attempts at defining gender.
It may be covered in marionberry jam.

Apparently WOTC is doing a limited print run of the original AD&D books, as some sort of anniversary/memorial set. Very keen on picking those up. I enjoyed AD&D quite a bit, back in the day.

Seen it twice now, but the Gnoll fortress was quite cool. A stream of the blighters charging out at me, then storming the fortress and berserking my way through the hordes. Good stuff.

It amazes me how much this game can evoke with so little.

I kinda imagine figure that the orc priest is rallying all the oppressed orcs to liberate the dungeon for Crawl Marx

"from each orc according to his weapon, to each according to his thirst for plunder"

And if so.. which ones?

I don't get much time to game anymore, but I do enjoy it. Rolemaster (2nd and Standard system), Runequest, old school D&D, WFRP, some new indie games (Burning wheel etc) Traveller and whatnot.

Any other old school nerds out there?

Metal or random stuff, but my speakers are part broken.

I think Im equally terrible :) Two characters out of.. 60 ? have made it to deep in the lair or orc mines. It was way cool reaching them. Both were trog berserker types. Part of the many deaths have been from trying out weird races and classes, and dying horribly while "messing around" and...

Anacondas are hardcore.. that's what my fully armoured dwarf fighter would say if he was still alive to say that. Or anything else.

Is it worth trying to train up dodging if you are aiming at medium to heavy armour?

Does armour affect Invocations (for god abilities?)

What are the hardest or most challenging build you have tried playing the game with? Bonus points if you made it far.

If you won the game multiple times, what is the toughest build you have won with?

I see. That explains a few things then. Thank you so much!
I am assuming weapon skill is a far bigger contributor than Strength as well, right?

Every time I try to do anything on auto pilot (walk, fight, etc) I end up dying horribly

To be fair, I also die horribly when I try to do things slowly and deliberately but at least I can't blame me mashing buttons then

The gamers standby of mountain dew? Coffee to keep alert? A sophisticated cup o' tea? A mug of beer because that'd what Trog would do?

Maybe this should be the general quick question thread? I dont mind at all if others ask questions here too, or maybe a mod can merge the threads? I wasn't sure if the short question thread was for more advanced players, rather than the ones still thinking that Lair is a massive monument of achieve...

Mountain dwarf fighter... I have a short sword +2/+5 and a sabre +0/+3 speed. I'm level 7, and short blades is my main weapon skill anyways. Which should I stick with? edit: it just got upgraded to a +3/+5 short sword Neither is good for a fighter, which is forced to depend on that weapon for the m...

Mountain dwarf fighter... I have a short sword +2/+5 and a sabre +0/+3 speed.

I'm level 7, and short blades is my main weapon skill anyways. Which should I stick with?

edit: it just got upgraded to a +3/+5 short sword

well, in the end, I bit the bullet on the last level of the orc mines. Went down the last stairs and was mobbed instantly by a horde of hardcore orcs. That was a super fun run though. So many exhilarating moments :) Even if it's not newbie friendly, I think I'll give them another shot, probably as a...

another newbie question: When an attack misses, does that indicate the target evaded? Or can attacks miss on their own? In other words, I guess what I am asking is.. does the game make a to hit that has to meet a certain threshold, or does it just compare attack rolls and evasion/shield rolls? Ther...

Not since XCOM has a turn based game induced so much tension, exhilaration and excitement in me. Simply amazing.

Aha! I will have to mess with that then

Sometimes we're our own worst enemies!

Well, the highest I had before this cat was 7 or 8 :) So I think this may have been a lucky break. The things I've noticed though: 1: I die all the time from trying to fight everything. 2: I die all the time from fighting a large group. Try to use terrain for cover. 3: I die all the time while stil...

another newbie question:

When an attack misses, does that indicate the target evaded? Or can attacks miss on their own?

In other words, I guess what I am asking is.. does the game make a to hit that has to meet a certain threshold, or does it just compare attack rolls and evasion/shield rolls?

Well, the highest I had before this cat was 7 or 8 :) So I think this may have been a lucky break. The things I've noticed though: 1: I die all the time from trying to fight everything. 2: I die all the time from fighting a large group. Try to use terrain for cover. 3: I die all the time while still...

Well if you're just starting out, I'd really not choose a felid. They're terrible, and besides being good with a felid will not make you good with other species, since felid strategy is magnitudes different from a normal species. I've been doing more regular characters (had a good run with a kobold...

I figure it'll be less effective at higher levels, but at least when starting out, it's proven handy quite a few times, to pick fights on my terms. Given that level 12 is the furthest I've made it with a character (still in super newbie mode, since I just started some 2 weeks ago), what is "low...

I imagine the stealth aptitude might work out really well? Given you can't wear armour anyway, and you should be racking up a good dexterity score, you might be able to avoid some fights you don't need to take.

Thanks for the heads up. I actually did a side run as a felid berserker and that's going really well. I'll experiment a bit and see what works out for me. The reason the human seemed like a good starting point is a lack of any obvious weak points in skills. I figure I can hopefully add some spell ca...

So the felids have caught my attention. Anyone playing one presently or had good or fun runs of them in the past? What options did you go with? What things were hard? I am presently having a ton of fun with a stealthy berserker: sneaking about the dungeon, pouncing on things and running away a lot. ...

Another question:

how exactly does speed work mechanically. My felid has it as a mutation and i occasionally outrun monsters.
Does it just mean it takes less time units per square moved or?

Thanks in advance

Thanks guys. I started the cat last night and actually managed to get further than I have before. Stealth plus berserk equals kitty pounce :) I suppose fighting rat hordes as a kitty is thematically appropriate as well, and the blighters go down a treat. No veggies but I can eat cheese. Rat fondue a...

Is a felid berserker completely insane? :) Im not really aiming at beating the game at this point, just messing around and having fun for a bit, before I take another serious stab at making a few more levels with my current chosen race/class. edit: also, how can I view the floor / area I am in curre...

okay, I get it now.

Very cool, I like that.

Thanks guys!

So I want to make sure I understand delay. I read the wiki, but I am still missing a few basics I think (and I understand the wiki isn't always the most ideal) So.. I understand where delay comes from (weapon), that skill reduces it, and that each weapon has a minimum delay. However.. what are the c...

That makes sense. Thanks! I was mostly wondering since last night i ran into a really peculiar situation where I entered a level and from the stairs there was only really 3 rooms connected with some tunnels. In the end, I ended up going back up and finding another stair down, but it got me wondering...

When you hit 5 to search, roughly how big an area is searched?

For example, if there's a big room, and I want to check for secret doors, should I check each corner, stand in the middle etc?

Thanks!

Thanks so much guys. I've been reading this forum as well, and one thing that is standing out is there seems to be very few objectively "wrong" ways to play the game. Just easier and harder. Very impressive game design then :) I think I am going to stick with one race/class combo for a bit...

First things first: If any of the developers read this, good work guys. This is the first rogue-like (other than Dungeons of Dredmor) that I've really been able to get into, and it's providing a really compelling gaming experience. That being said, after perusing the wiki (without trying to spoil to...

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