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OT: Is there any way to watch those games? I've heard a few references to footv for watching stuff but I have no idea what that is.

This is what rings of hunger are for. Also, high spell hunger. At near bloodless you don't have any spell hunger. Rings of hunger do help to some extent once you find them. Being stuck with blood in your system for a long time is a part of the strategic challenge of a Vampire only relevant in Hell ...

The only reason I can think against this is that so if a tormenting critter comes into view you can't just become immune. Then make it take multiple turns, ie You begin drawing blood from your body. You continue drawing blood from your body. x10 You finish drawing blood from your body. You feel dev...

once your character is capable of taking on Pan, you have already beaten the game, and maxing your skills eventually is a given so long as you have a steady stream of monsters. You could probably do the same in Hells although probably not so easy to script. Nah, you'd run out of curing and get rott...

Why not implement a slit wrists ability or something like that so that a vampire can take satiation down to zero with one click?

SustAB and RestoreAB exist, so don't ever in a 3-rune game pump a stat just to avoid stat death. Even for extended it's questionable IMO.

Mutation -> Cure Mutation is a bad idea because cMut removes 1-7 mutations and adding mutations may cause cMut to not get rid of what you want it to get rid of. Also, -10% hp isn't that big of a deal in the first place, I would save cMut for things more drastic (teleportitis, berserkitis, slow movem...

Got it. Thanks.</derail>

From _catchup_monster_moves (effects.cc): switch (mons_intel(mon)) { case I_HIGH: x = 1000; break; case I_NORMAL: x = 500; break; case I_ANIMAL: case I_INSECT: x = 250; break; case I_PLANT: x = 125; break; } OT: I dabble in C++ and Python and searched for a way to switch a string...to no avail. Wha...

There's also slowing and (to a lesser extent) disintegration.

If you're a berserker, IIRC you can enslave -> drop book -> ignite on its feet without de-charming it.

Tukima's Dance takes away your weapon, and doesn't scale in effectiveness with your character's melee combat ability.

Another thing to note is that while the information can be helpful - it doesn't necessarily mean you aren't going to get killed. You need to have a high capability of understanding all the numbers and stats; new players are likely going to miss more then half the information their are viewing and s...

I believe the x-axis is turns and the y-axis is score, and the lower line represents 14 runes while the upper line represents 15 runes. So if I'm reading it correctly, 100k turns with 14 runes would be the same score as 120k turns with 15 runes. And 30k turns with 14 runes would be the same points a...

The big problem with always showing all those numbers, in my opinion, is that it suggests to (new) players that parsing and using all this information is necessary to improve at the game. I think this is why galehar's proposal makes this disclosure optional, but I am still not convinced. (Of course...

Also, reaching is an excellent ability, and works well on polearms, but it gets a lot worse if it doesn't proc consistently. If it becomes a no-training, always-proc ability for polearms only, polearms become more powerful because they have a unique proc in addition to all the new procs, but if it ...

An in-game database of all the numbers and specifics about everything (monsters, spells, etc) would be very cool. I too make extensive use of the knowledge bots.

Sounds feasible, but that wouldn't fit mindless creatures (slime creatures, oozes, etc) with no sense of self-preservation.
EDIT: apparently mindless isn't that mindless, so it would fit

Grimm wrote:WHEEL IN THE PRIZE CART

again?

The tedium of the slam effect could be reduced by making the motion completely predictable - that is, 100% chance of working and always counter-clockwise unless no room to swing that way in which case clockwise. This would let you simply move your mouse along the predicted path of the enemy without ...

In case anyone cares: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. 8540734 Sir DrWz XVII the Archmage (level 27, 243/243 (249) HPs) Began as a Black Draconian Wizard on Jan 10, 2013. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Jan 13, 2013! The game las...

You might just scroll to the bottom to see what's so interesting about this character. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. Sir DrWz XVII the Cryomancer (DrWz) Turns: 120309, Time: 14:07:44 HP 253/253 (254) AC 20 Str 12 XL: 27 MP 44/44 EV 19 Int 32 God: Ashenzari [******] ...

So basically, with this proposal maces will encourage you to fight enemies against a wall to get the bonus "slam" damage. That sounds like it would mix up the tactics a bit. The only problem I see is that a lot of important fights already take place in a corridor, which is already against ...

Will go with the vampiric bardiche as the support for it is unanimous. Thanks all

All right, I guess I'll forget about the protection bardiche then. But no mention of the axe? It looks pretty amazing (I think), and with Ash I could just reskill to axes...

This is my first really "hybrid" character, generally I rely on either physical or magical (rarely both). I figured I'd try a hybrid, and thought draconian would be cool for the penalty-free defense, and wizard cool for the INT and handy cheap spells. First try was a splat (stupidly forgot...

On the twelfth day of crawling, Xom gave to me Twelve branded blowguns Eleven-stop teleport trip Ten purple smoke clouds Nine cursed -9 -9 maces Eight brands of chaos Seven hostile pit fiends Six hammers of distortion Five stupid deaths Four books of Callings Three rune mimics Two bad mutations and ...

Ahhh, now I see.

What on earth is a "stop teleport trip?" And why isn't it plural if there's eleven of them?

Here is what I could imagine: 1. Remove cTele (and hence the -cTele flag). 2. The scroll of Blinking works as now Finally that might give us a good reason to wear conservation. As for Directed Blinking: I'd make it so that it was a level 5 spell since while semi-controlled blink is pretty powerful,...

with meph, orcish mines shouldn't be too hard. Also trolls, knights, and warlords can be conjure flame kited.

That Lord is unique to that level. While that Lord exists, that level cannot be consumed by Yred. Take out a Lord, Yred can take the opportunity to "expand". I don't recall anything about Yredelemnul consuming dungeon levels to "expand." I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the ga...

How is killing a lord expanding the realm of the dead if the area is still crawling with demons and continuously spawning more?

No, I meant "I don't understand why there's no joke in this." Can't I say something in CYC that's not a joke? Octopodes, like regular octopuses, have no bones, allowing them to find into incredibly tiny spaces. Regular octopuses can fit their entire bodies through holes an inch across, su...

Does it grant the coconut effect? -Jabberwocky I had to look up Coconut Effect. I think Crawl in its entirety is one long concatenation of Coconut Effects. (see: Mountain Dwarves) I had to look up concatenation. octopus != octopode human cannot fit into coconut shell human body size ≈ octopode body...

octopus != octopode
human cannot fit into coconut shell
human body size ≈ octopode body size > octopus body size
∴ octopode cannot fit into coconut shell

OK. I'm actually curious: is necromutation that bad? Let's say it still let you drink potions at will, did not give dispel undead vulnerability, allowed borg and ddoor, and was a L1, pure necro spell. Would it still be shitty? What I'm getting at is: are there ways to mitigate the downsides of bein...

Soooooo...how is this better than current Yred in postgame?
Disclaimer: I've never used Yred so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

EDIT: didn't understand your wording initially so ignore this

Short blades do very little straight-up damage but absolutely murder when stabbing. Simply put, they're not suited for trading blows, they're for use in conjunction with things like meph/ensorcelled/passwall/invis and other things that help you get that super stab.

minmay wrote:Except weapon damage and delay is wildly different between monsters and players

Aren't monsters completely unaffected by weapon delay?

Trolls and ogres and centaurs and minotaurs seemed a bit like one-trick ponies with very frustrating equipment restrictions. Techinially, no. But if you want to view it that way, it's a really good trick. Mind clarifying this for me? Their aptitudes make it a bit hard for me to imagine them doing m...

Well it's explicit all right, but not terribly unusual by online communication standards. At least I know now the claims aren't totally unfounded....

Grimm wrote:minmay entering thread in 3...2...

I've seen references to minmay like this a lot of times on this forum, and it seems kinda mean. After all, it's just a running joke...unsubstantiated......right?

DuxOrbis wrote:dwarven armour is explicit about it being difficult to cast in

I'm curious, does this apply to dwarven shields as well?

It's also based on your STR and DEX, which wizards are pretty low on and fighters are pretty high on. That could skew the results a bit (or a lot, I'm not sure how big the impact is).

The staff of cold will not only make you more badass, it'll help you with spell hunger since you will be killing things in less casts. Against resistant enemies you already have running away skill, though LCS or Iron Shot would be preferable (and as sheep pointed out they make less racket than ice s...

Maybe enemies should use danr's weapon comparison spreadsheet?

When using a plain deck, you are guaranteed card power 0. When using ornate, it is either 0 or 1 with chance based on evocations and nemelex piety. When using legendary, it is either 0, 1, or 2 with chance based on evocations and nemelex piety. The experience card gives 20,000 skill experience at ca...

Devine retribution has nothing to do with your piety level. The good gods (TSO, Ely, and Zin) won't put any wrath on you for abandoning them unless you switch to an evil god (Yred, Kiku, Makhleb, might be forgetting some), but other than that you will always experience wrath after leaving a god.

From a training standpoint, I don't see whips properly categorized under M&F. Just because I'm great at using a club doesn't make me think it translates well to whips. That's because clubs fall under the "maces" side and whips fall under the "flails" side. It is kinda weird ...

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