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Right? After reading that title I was hoping I had missed an update that introduced things like Garbage Golems, Awful Offals, Waste Wizards, Rubbish Rats, Junk Jousters, Litter Liches, Filth Fiends ...

So uh, is it okay if some of us like Beogh as is? The ally management stuff is a little fiddly, sure. Overall though, I like it. It makes for some different gameplay when I'm tired of the same old. It may be considered less than ideal efficiency or playing-to-win-wise, but then we've got things like...

I got really into DCSS when it struck me as "a roguelike, but with an extra helping of fun flavor!" Lately, though, the Crusade for Maximum "Interesting" Challenges and Trimming Out of Stuff That Pros Find Trivial And Annoying (Or Just Not To Their Liking) has turned me off to th...

I don't need it built into the game - I usually find an altar fairly quickly. I just like the idea of being able to hack the game to my own fiendish desires, so I was hoping for a starting point on that.

Is there a relatively easy way to hack in a "paladin" background for those who would appreciate the flavor? Either adding it, or replacing an existing background with it? Like changing Chaos Knight to Paladin and having it start with Shining One instead of Xom?

My favorite moment is when Zin expelled Blork: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2230 Second favorite was when my TSO crusader got sent to the Abyss, the mass of demons and other horrors closed in, and a daeva showed up to help me hack my way through them. It was a sublime exp...

I'm as confused as the jelly was. Should jellies be able to be conused, considering they're mindless? Happened when my wandering mushroom spored it.

Those did make me consider trying out a skald and seeing how the new "songs" work, when I read them over while thinking how they could apply to Crawl. Of course, hip-hop is more like a Scroll of Noise. At the very least, any Skald using hip-hop for their Songs should have a 100% chance of ...

Aha! Shows how much I pay attention to magic. I didn't realize "bolt" was the Crawl version of Angband's "Beam". Good to know!

(They should still totally be blockable though, and stop the beam at the point they're blocked!)

Nice job, and Go Team Magic-Shunning Gargoyles! I just got my first win with a no-magic Gargoyle Fighter of The Shining One. Mine was a newer one though, with flight. What did self-petrification do?

Thanks for all the useful info, everyone! I knew some spells weren't blockable, but I wouldn't have guessed all the bolts weren't. That's really weird - anyone know why? Game balance? I just figured if you could evade it, you could block it, with the exception of explosive stuff (if it hits your shi...

I don't think using Bullseye on that Gr was a good idea (compared to a branded shield or something). Congrats, though. What's included in that "or something?" My only other option was a +1 regular shield of reflection, but you know how those high numbers can tempt you (or maybe you don't!...

Oh yeah, I loved that shield! Combined with Divine Shield my SH was around 93, I think. It was love.

How many acronyms can we incorporate into one subject? Whee! Anyway, this is my very first win after years of playing. Yes, it was with a gargoyle, so let's go ahead and get the "Gr is broken, doesn't count", "Gr are for newbs", "Come back when you win with a real race"...

Different strokes for different folks is all; didn't mean to sound ungrateful for your advice.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice! I really appreciate the supportive community here. 2. Going for Tomb as your third rune because TSO is faulty logic (unless you're a Gargoyle maybe, and even then I think I'd do it 4th or 5th) Yeah, I was in new territory, and enjoying exploring. I figured, &qu...

Ah, Tomb, not Crypt. Sorry for the confusion! Huh, I tried reading a scroll of blinking, but nothing happened. I was admittedly in Panic Mode and don't recall what the message was when I tried it. As far as retreating, I was in the middle of a very long, open area along the edge of the map, so I did...

I was looking forward to my first ever win the other day when I was doing significantly better than I'd ever done before. I needed a third rune, though, and being a follower of Shining One I decided to try my luck in the crypts, blasting all those undead into dust. I barreled though a bunch of stuff...

I don't think it's a bad thing to try to understand someone's frustration so people can potentially address it, regardless of this being Crazy Yiuf's Corner. For what it's worth, the other day was the first time I ever got two runes, was able to clear Elf, entered Vaults for the first time ever, etc...

This would help with the recent issue I had with Cleansing Flame angering the Shining One, though I still question its ability to be used around angel allies (they're immune to the damage) if it's just going to get you into trouble anyway when it hits the enemies said angels are attacking.

What happened here? http://i43.tinypic.com/iyge2e.png Only thing I can think of is that the hell knight was occupied by the angel, so the cleansing flame hit a "helpless" creature and that made the Shining One angry. If that's it, kinda silly for a mass, angel-ally-friendly attack to trigg...

In addition to. This isn't destroying weapons specifically, this is destroying any items that are considered particularly evil. Consider books such as Book of Death, Book of Unlife, Book of Demonology, etc. Not meant to be a huge addition or game-changer, mostly a flavor option that I thought would ...

This run-through I just converted to The Shining One and promptly found a Book of Death, and that got me thinking: How about the ability to destroy "unholy artifacts" such as this when you're converted to a Good god? Thought it would add some flavor and get rid of some junk, maybe grant a ...

I wanted to start working on adding it on my own just for fun, but I've had no idea where to start hacking when it comes to gods. Anyone know which files I'd need to look in? Can't seem to find the stuff anywhere.

I'd say invocations rather than go through the fuss of making a new Water Magic skill. I imagine it'd be easier to implement and I see no reason not to go that route, unless Water Magic is going to be somehow available to people outside worshipping this deity. Hrm, now I want to hack this in myself....

I've always loved the concepts of a sea god and water magic (water magic seems to always get turned into ice magic instead). Here are a few other ideas for water powers: Protective Hydrosphere: You are surrounded by swirling waters. Incoming attacks suffer a major to-hit penalty, particularly lighte...

I just used a Wand of Enslavement to have Duvessa kill Dowan. I thought I would feel clever if it worked, but ultimately it just made me feel like a horrible person. Interesting to see her kill him, then rage about it (and kill some jellies and a phantom for me). I took her out after the rage and en...

I don't mind if this is working as intended, but it struck me as a possible bug. Are branch staircase mimics supposed to exist? I found a themed room with various naga inside with a staircase to the snake pits, left it alone for a while, came back later, and found it to be a mimic. Particularly clev...

I just found the ecumenical temple of the "autumnal ruin" flavor, with a river down the middle. It's extremely awesome, and I'm hoping a branch of a similar feel is added at some point.

TehDruid wrote:Do I detect a fellow Final Fantasy 6 lover?

Gruuu ...

I just realized the changes to Zin when I gained the "imprison" ability, and wanted to give my thanks to anyone involved in making the changes. Before, Zin seemed like something of a joke god with mediocre powers and poking light fun at boring or confusing sermons one might hear at church....

I found this to be quite hilarious:

Ah. I'm hoping all that experience went to Necromancy, then. Thanks.

Apologies if this has been asked before: both "vampire" and "invocations" are apparently too-common search terms. Can vampires (in v0.8) learn invocations? I know they've got a -2 aptitude, but I've sunk several hundred points into it and haven't picked up that elusive first rank...

Something I haven't been able to puzzle out, and searches returned irrelevant results so I apologize if this has already been asked and answered.

A spell's "Power" rating - does it go up with use, or does it go up as applicable skills (i.e. Ice Magic and Enchanting) go up?

Their forum has also probably been going longer than this one (didn't this one just migrate from somewhere else?) and so they had more people aware of the voting. Bad timing for DCSS.

I'd play one. I almost always convert to Fedhas as soon as I get to the Temple anyway.

I think I just tied DCSS with ToME. They're both at 249 now. I liked the old ToME, but this new one turned me off within about a minute.

A slime. Terrible aptitudes, except stealth and maybe poison magic. Ability to spit poison like naga, except with no recovery (or at least significantly shorter recovery time). Innate poison resistance. Only a hat slot (maybe a cloak too - what a dashing slime!). I suppose rings and amulets could be...

Fancy seeing you here, ekolis.

Yeah, the lack of "warp speed" monsters probably has a lot to do with it. I don't worry so much about having to see enemies halfway across the map in Crawl like I do in the 'bands.

I very much like those icons. Props to Denzi for drawing them. Marc's suggestion to dim the aptitudes for dimmed skills would definitely be nice, though I don't find it terrible as-is.

I'll have to give an ogre a whirl, then. Just elves and bird-people sitting on the sidelines now; ogres got called off the bench.

That would be awesome.

Do naga use their tails at all in unarmed combat? If not, it'd be a pretty nifty addition.

My favorite is probably merfolk, not necessarily because of their abilities or aptitudes but because I've always been a lover of all things oceanic. I've really enjoyed my merfolk ice elementalists. Seeing how many people play them (merfolk, not ice elementalists) is turning me off to them, though. ...

I don't play any of the elves because I'm racist. I find the saturation of elves in modern fantasy works (literary, gaming and otherwise) to be silly and highly annoying; particularly the multiple sub-types counting as completely different races in games (wood-, dark-, half-, high-, blood-, night-, ...

I play all other roguelikes in ASCII and avoid tiles like the plague. For some reason I really enjoy tiles mode for Dungeon Crawl, though.

Thank you very kindly. I couldn't find it in the docs anywhere either, but perhaps I wasn't looking in the right places.

I once stumbled on the command to reorganize my memorized spells, allowing me to change the spell's number. For instance, if Sting was spell 'b', I could change it to spell 'a' instead. For the life of me, I cannot remember what command it was or which screen I was in when I executed it. Anyone know?

Why is it that the Wandering Mushroom minions evolved via Fedhas stop moving when an enemy is in sight?

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