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Well, I'm back - and for once, I'm not dying of my own incompetence yet. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.28-b1-25-g9875b3fc8c (webtiles) character file. dornbeast the Thaumaturge (Djinni Conjurer) Turns: 26811, Time: 02:46:38 Health: 103/103 AC: 9 Str: 8 XL: 14 Next: 73% Gold: 1500 EV: 18 Int: 23...

+ Level 3.8 Spellcasting * Level 9.5 Conjurations * Level 8.7 Fire Magic * Level 8.6 Earth Magic You don't know any spells. Your skill choices seems a little bit strange to me. Also, your acid dragon scales and the kite shield were very questionable equipment choices. A +6 flail is also not a good ...

Did the game not generate a morningstar yet? In answer to your question --- if you don't have rPois yet when the time comes, I'd do Swamp. It's probably more survivable without, and you could get swamp dragon armour. Nothing interesting. Stock +0 morningstars. Headed for the Swamp, then. EDIT: Argh...

I've been throwing random Demonspawn in for a while, then this guy happened. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.26.1-2-gb8aa6d0cf2 (webtiles) character file. dornbeast the Basher (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 23432, Time: 03:06:50 Health: 98/98 AC: 23 Str: 25 XL: 14 Next: 46% Magic: 21/21 EV: 12 Int: ...

Well, I've been throwing random wanderers into the dungeon, and seeing what stuck. I'm taking any and all advice. I think I'm going to toss out the great mace, because I expect it won't hit mindelay. Beyond that, what can I expect from a gnoll? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21.0-3-g78d12a8 (web...

I know how to get the banner, except I don't know what Nemelex's Choice is. Is there somewhere where it's posted, in case I'm not online when it's announced?

Yes, the supply of halfway decent Necromancy spells is a bit low. I've enchanted the whip to +5, though, so I'll take the complaints about my incompetence with the whip. In other news, spinning the disc of storms took me from 0 MP to 38 MP, and the defenders on V5 down to two left. I took roughly fi...

arandomperson12 wrote:You have not found any great maces?

Um, shield?

I did just find a +3 Demon Whip of pain. Is it worth training Necromancy for that?

rMut amulet has been removed from the game. No need to use MR ring, you are high XL DD with MR++ body armour. Try to find another weapon or brand the mornigstar, protection is the worst brand for melee character. My ideal plan for Vaults 5 is to find a place where you can be attacked by just 1-2 mo...

Not like there haven't been tons of DD of Pakellas... ...anyhow, I've had a lucky run so far. Fastest Labyrinth in my experience, three randarts of +STR, and more recharge-type evocables than I usually live to see. On the down side, the only boots I've seen were randarts so bad I left them in the La...

a - the +11 hammer of Laotwimi {antimagic, rPois rF- rN++ MR+} Ok, it isn't that great. The rF- kills it. But I had to post is anyway because how often do you see an artefact hammer ? Not very. I got one from Crazy Yiuf's hut once. For a Spriggan. On the good side, it was something like +5, and it ...

mps wrote:The game could use more bus-themed monsters.

Cereal Bus: Originally meant to transmit information, it now hauls bread. Guaranteed drop of 2-5 bread rations upon killing.

School Bus: Aquatic. Releases 2-3 giant carp upon killing.

The cross-over between sci-fi and mafia crime family sounded really good on paper, but some elements didn't work, despite the excellent acting. Why did Lando Calrissian side with the Gotti family when the Jedi and Star Fleet had already saved his ass like 10 times?!? It wasn't clear in the film, bu...

"That book is BORING," Xom says.
Your book of Air transforms into a book of Flames!

Turukano wrote:The amount of piety for losing genitals depends on the size.

No, it's based on gameplay effects. In DCSS, it doesn't make a difference. In Dungeon Crawl XXX, it does.

I'd post screenshots, but it's totally NSFW.

Also, I might be lying somewhere in all this.

Berder wrote:I'm in favor. I'd also like to see vampires drain blood from nice juicy meat rations.

Meat rations are probably something like beef jerky, or smoked sausage. There's no blood there, that's part of why they're permafood.

The same thing is probably what makes ghouls prefer chunks to rations.

Currently, my personality type is XXWn.

Rats. Abyssed and killed.

WingedEspeon wrote:definatly do orc, there is a good chance that you can find a better axe there, and the shops might be good. raise dead/simulacrum could be good if you can find them.

I assume you mean Animate Dead.

I'm a bit surprised you have chosen Kiku. I had a look at the wiki and found that Kiku is slightly suggested here . Very unusual, however. Makhleb is definitely much more common for DD. I've tried it. I can't get my healing rate above my damage taken. With Kiku, I just have to be fanatical about ke...

So here I am, at the bottom of the Lair, wondering what to do. Snake? Shoals? Orc? There's no rPois that I know of, although I have three magical chain mails unidentified. The original plan was to use Kiku for healing and chop things up, but I had to change it up a bit when I entered the lair and be...

duvessa wrote:halberd, spetum, glaive, fauchard, guisarme, glaive-guisarme, lucern hammer

...glaive-guisarme-voulge, guisarme-voulge-glaive, glaive-glaive-glaive-guisarme-glaive...

Sar wrote:"shit axe", "bad axe", "okay axe", "good axe" and "huge axe"

Well, if that's the plan, I vote for the unrandarts Unnatural Axe, Horrifying Axe, and Forbidden Axe.

Pollen_Golem wrote:By the way, does shooting bolts of cold from a crossbow of electrocution make you deal cold damage, and electrocute on top of that?

As far as I know, it doesn't. The last time I checked, Nessos was the only being in the dungeon that could combine ammunition and a weapon brand.

love the idea but isn't 'wound' the wrong tense? shouldn't the move be called "wind"? (lie) No, "Wind" is a zero-cost Air Magic spell that results in the message, "A brisk wind blows through your hair." It was only in the game prior to 0.01 as a placeholder so they cou...

Or, for the really silly approach, make them stackable, and each extra one reduces the recharge time. Something like (recharge time)*(.95^(total stones -1)).

Wiz mode doesn't have any specific commands for it, but if you wizmode polyomorph an orc priest into a seraph, it'll call down the wrath of beogh instead of tso(or zin, whichever has the angels). Works the same way with other creatures, angels into orc priests are orcs that worship zin (or tso?). I...

ajon wrote:I don't have issues. I am one. I think we're pretty awesome people. You should really get to know us. For only $100 an hour.

I knew a guy who didn't have issues.

He had a lifetime subscription in bound volumes dating back to 1966.

treerex5 wrote:I just post in CYC when I'm bored.

And if you think my posts have been awful:

1. You're right.
2. I've been sleep deprived.
3. My posts are going to improve.

My post quality resembles my DCSS success rate - one win, lots of splatting. I hope you do better.

Personally, I've found that now that I have the basics, playing random-race wanderers is an interesting way to broaden my skills. It's frustrating some times, and I've sent a fair number of wanderers back up the stairs rather than trying an obviously poor start, but I'm learning new methods.

xentronium wrote:If you throw your entire inventory into the lava, you unlock a secret mode where you get to play as cerebov!

So how do you unlock the Secret Cow Level?

Sandman25 wrote:Crawl, are you trying to tell me we need a "superoctopode" race who can wear 6 amulets?
I've just got 3rd rune, even Vaults 5 have not been visited.

Six heads, permanent confusion.

bcadren wrote:...I'd rather get that corpse to eat than break into porn.

I know what you meant, but what you typed...

In my personal canon, they're beings of such cosmic scale that puny mortal minds can't comprehend them, so reduce them to gendered beings of their own race. As a result of this, demigods born of (for example) The Shining One may have a mortal mother in one case, and a mortal father in the other. It'...

My current method is to aim for 10 in the weapon, followed by my primary defense and Fighting. Then I look for mindelay. I'm still trying to work out how casters go, although "10% fail unless yellow" seems to be a decent target. On the other hand, I've ascended once, and died countless tim...

Pollen_Golem wrote:What is your name?
What is your species?
How did you prepare for your adventure?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

If you have observers making comments on your run, ignore them. What do they know, anyhow?

Just my opinion: Under the current system, a decent cross-training weapon can get you by while training the main skill. That +2 whip, for example - I would have used it while focusing experience on Axes. In my experience, this won't get you to the Lair, but it usually gets you to a decent base damag...

No, sometimes I've ditched an enemy upstairs because I knew he'd beat my Spriggan senseless. Eh. If it's something you're willing to allow to linger in LOS, and then give at least one free hit to, it's something you could tediously kite to death like 90% of the time. One hit. Not two. And I was bad...

Perhaps for the purpose of counting enemies, it could only count those that were on that floor to begin with? That's the intent, but unfortunately it does make it a bit opaque since there's no way for the player to distinguish original enemies from spawned enemies. The best solution is probably a c...

Sounds interesting. I guess if a monster falls down a shaft, you won't be penalized? Since I consider deliberately luring enemies into shafts to be good tactics, I'd count it as beating that opponent for the level. Of course, it will be added to a later level. (One of my best moments - shafting Sig...

XuaXua wrote:If you give a quokka a chunk, it is bound to want some blood.

If you give a quokka some blood, it will want a dead adder for a chew toy.

Too bad; I usually discard them as trash on my melee characters unless I can cover the resist malus they give. You should keep them in your inventory and equip them only in fights where you need them. At the very least, haul them along until you have been through the areas where Ice Cave and Volcan...

duvessa wrote:it's about et

It's about ethics in game development?
It's all about that bass?
It's all about the benjamins?

Generally, evocations is not a priority for anyone except Nemelex worshipers. Agreed. The few reasons I've found to train Evocations early are based on items that fit perfectly with the build (invisibility for a stabber and +Rage for a melee character are the most common ones), and there's no guara...

It was a potion of poison. That liquid tasted very nasty... You are lethally poisoned! _You feel sick. It was a potion of lignification. You turn into a tree. Your +0 cloak melds into your body. Your roots penetrate the ground. _You feel sick. ... You feel less woody. _Your +0 cloak unmelds from yo...

Ignite Poison is a level 5 fire/transmutations spell, requiring no poison magic at all despite the name and theme. Fire magic creates fire. Ice magic creates ice. Poison magic creates poison. Ignite Poison does not create poison. It transmutes poison into a flammable material, and ignites it. Trans...

edgefigaro wrote:Also, Qaz makes Vaults 5 a blast!

I'm not sure if the pun was deliberate or not, but either way, I groaned.

(Random thought: Cause Fear + Disaster Area means everybody catches a nuke.)

duvessa wrote:Yeah I just tested viable species using tab, and sure enough it's broken. Make a bug report, I'm too lazy.

Yay! My first bug report!

Also, you don't fool me. You aren't lazy. You're busy dealing with more important stuff.

Viable means that either the background is white for the species, or the species is white for the background. Are you certain that it gave you HOTm? Yep. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (webtiles) character file. 1383 dornbeast the Ruffian (level 8, -7/59 HPs) Began as a Hill Orc Transmuter...

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