Search • The Tavern

(This is also of course the game where you see three randart helmets before clearing Lair and to artifact leather armours on the same floor.)

As a Spriggan, when you find an artifact cloak and get all excited.

f - the +0 cloak "Zomeah" (worn) {SInv}

Now that they've stopped permacorrosion, I can't even use it for Slime

Funny you should mention Iron Giants, I just died in Dis with 7 runes

Iron Giants and Juggernauts are OK - my death was 100% stupidity - the shrikes, the flayed ghosts, and all the corroders in general I could happily never see again.

Realising that "Tzitzimitl" is Aztec for "Shadow Fiend" took me a while.

New Hell bottom maps! Yay.

You can be happily murdering everything you encounter postgame, but a single Brimstone Fiend on its own can still nearly kill you if it decides to.

Related: Torment resistance isn't really.

Hmm. Hell Sentinels.

I love it when I start a thread on a game forum, stop playing the game for three or four years, give or take, and come back to find the thread is still going five years after it started :P (I also love it when a Hell effect mob is so enormous that in the time it takes me to fight through it, another...

I take it back, after the initial novelty (hey, this is different!) the Abyss is still extremely annoying if you're actually trying to get the Rune. I guess not everything changes

(I caved and quaffed. The first potion cured the blinking and the rMut and nothing else. I love it when etc etc.)

[edit: and I saw a Cyclops! I was so happy.]

Things got a little hairy on Tartarus:7 so I went and got the Slimy rune. A couple of Shining Eyes got me pretty good as I was in the open though... I am so conflicted now: You tend to lose your temper in combat. You can translocate small distances at will. You are clumsy. (Dex -2) Your magical capa...

could you post a dump? :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-979-g9f96267 (tiles) character file. Missing the Conqueror (Demonspawn Monk) Turns: 90245, Time: 11:47:06 Health: 247/249 AC: 41 Str: 28 XL: 27 Magic: 27/27 EV: 16 Int: 12 God: Qazlal [******] Gold: 4403 SH: 16 Dex: ...

Agreed, I think the changes are definitely good and it's a better game now. Item destruction and corrosion going away is worth the effort of coming back on their own. Actually just not having to stash vital potions and scrolls alone... so great. I must have missed the Cyclopes in Shoals. Sprucery: m...

...but the continuing Trunk updates on the blog eventually dragged me back. I'm not even sure what the last version I played was, but sometime in 2013 maybe? Anyway, had not been playing much for a long time before that. Anyway, I like what you've done with the place. I fired up a random character a...

Assuming I ever do another 15-rune run, it's normally: having got all the runes, grab the Orb without clearing the whole thing and leave. I suck at the ninja stuff, mostly this involves killing maybe 1/4 of the level. I hate Zot in general (although not as much as the Hells) and try to spend as litt...

Great game. Fucking painful with a nipple mouse though.

DracheReborn wrote:You can find them already peeled in cans too so maybe that would make it easier to start with.

Crawl Is Not Nethack(tm).

Song of Slaying-related hubris is a really effective killer of my low-level Skalds.

Almost literally.

My wife goes sesame seed, ham and cream cheese, saying "Mmmm. Sacrelicious."

Mankeli wrote: gimmicks at the moment (player status effects, "intelligent (annoying) monsters etc.)

New Crypt is also like this

Nethack always takes me like 30 hours to beat I think my Nethack games were a little longer than Crawl, but Nethack also has a lot more rewards for grindy play. But it was there and it was good at the time... I think I had 26 wins before I found Crawl and literally never played NH again. It absolut...

Gr now feels medium-powered (little high, little low), but also like it makes Hells and Pan slightly less fiddly with the AC, flight and resistances (and by which point the HP matters less).

Overall, seems good.

This we refer to as "astroturfing".

I love it when I procrastinate about going to Tomb until I'm massively overpowered... then meet Mara in the entry hall in T:3.

I especially love it when my clone then immediately casts Shatter.

So the 15-rune game is, at least to me, not fun. It takes too long, and involves too many tests of mental endurance. But the postgame areas are individually cool (even Tomb and the Hells), and I like to visit them. Don't get me started on Ziggurats. How do people deal with it? Lately I've realised t...

Plutonium wrote:Are they all lying?

Effectively, yes.

An antimagic lajatang, on the other hand, is amazing and something Trog might reasonably be expected to give you.

Shambling, Bandage-Wrapped Death-Cursing Jerks Of All Kinds

Many-Headed Roaring Bitey Jerks
Herds Of Poisonous Jerks
Trumpeting Jerks Disguised As Statues
Pointy-Eared Jerks
Little Spherical Blinking Jerks
Massive Tanky Hell Jerks
Tall Icy Flappy-Winged Tormenting Jerks
Invisible Mana-Draining Jerks

I think the most dangerous potion is mutation, so I think it's safe to drink them after you have identified a potion of cure mutation with a scroll. For beginners this is not bad advice. But for players whose games last longer and for whom late-game mutation can sometimes be a serious hassle, this ...

Not boring, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S82jwZ0pD1k

savageorange wrote:Pan has also been removed in the last few days.

Well played.

Post mocking person's persistence in the face of developers' flat-out refusal and detailed idea rebuttal, with suggestion that perhaps the developers have some idea what they're doing.

tcjsavannah wrote:Are you hiring?

Possibly. What are you good at?

(Obviously you like bacon, we are off to a good start.)

People used to complain about Pan, but for whatever reason I am enjoying it the most lately. Possibly as a contrast to the Hells, which have always been and still are a general pain in the arse.

It's not scumming, it's procrastination

I've decided I would answer yak. I'm slightly shaggy, a good source of experience and supply plentiful nutrition.

(I buy my current team bacon sandwiches.)

Yeehah!

It would really suck to tank the interview because you answered a different question to the one they asked, though.

the first one had some unlucky rolls and the second one was a Dire Elephant. Dire Elephants are jerks. So it turns out this phenomenon is true of Hell Sentinels too. Tank a bunch of them and think, this is going well. When actually the first lot are all just loafing, and suddenly I am at 23/168HP :o

It is possible to get hilariously into trouble at the bottom of any of the Hells at any time.

One-shotting Murray with LRD is pretty nice.

Ha, cool!

I had never run into it before (but then I've also only ever seen the Lernaean Hydra once despite many visits to the place where it can occur, so I guess the game has a lot of stuff I haven't seen yet. This is a Good Thing).

njvack wrote:Also the lichform felid tile is the best ever.

That is, unquestionably, true.

Hmm, that's a pretty interesting point.

I had often thought that the first key realisation when you're starting out is that munchkinism and minmaxing are good. Pick one strategy, play it to the hilt. Hence DE.

But I am not a good player. Go with crate.

As others have pointed out, it's not just the turn to cancel lichform. Necromutation is also very expensive to acquire for limited real usefulness, and the XP and spell slots you spent getting there mean other, better choices not taken. It's not utterly worthless, but it's much less of a good idea t...

Necromutation may not be entirely worthless all the time, but it's about to contribute to the entirely avoidable death of a 15-runer here. I'm sure he's very glad he has the extra carrying capacity right now and doesn't need to eat :P And it's about to do it in about the most classic way possible, s...

In current trunk, someone has implemented something very much resembling the Nethack Castle as a Zot entry vault.

This amuses me greatly.

I dont seem to be able to run away, most things seem to be faster than me This is largely an illusion, and once you understand it and where to move in certain situations (in particular, understand corridors and corners), your overall Crawl success rate will improve regardless of your character back...

TeshiAlair wrote:1. Tornado or Shatter make the welcoming party a piece of cake.

This is true of much of the game though.

Siegurt wrote:Is the Lernean Hydra a dodecahydra?

Get.

Out.

Search found 1054 matches