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y'all heretics don't even believe in the heart of the cards

I like drawing all my decks blind one card at a time so clearly we're going to have different preferences

I like it, it removes the inventory hassle but keeps the theme of 'random, but manipulable' abilities. If cards change when you use other cards, I don't see the point of the ** ability. If I really wanted to have, say, Tomb available, it sounds like I could spam card abilities until Tomb popped up w...

killing them with wands/evocables or javelins or summons works well. Having melee as your main mode of attack doesn't mean you have to sacrifice all other means of battle.

I never knew I wanted a roguelike fishing game until now

Last night I dreamed that I was swimming, and I could swim really fast. Han Solo and R2D2 were on a little boat, fishing to get fish to supply their fish and chips restaurant. They'd caught a lot of fish. They had like six hooks per line and I was all "hey I don't think that's legal" and ...

Not like that armor does you any good against smite and torment anyway

Roguelikes I play and recommend to other people tier DCSS, Demon, DoomRL Roguelikes I have tried but no longer play and do not recommend to other people tier Nethack, Halls of Mist, Adom, Brogue Things I played in the past and have seen people call roguelikes despite them seeming rather like somethi...

If you want to get rid of tomb:3 stairdancing, by far the easiest ways are to either: 1. remove the silly ambient noise mechanic, so that you can attack something in tomb without waking up the whole level 2. put a bunch of flying skulls next to the stairs in the tomb:3 vault, so that noise always h...

Currently, Tomb is probably the branch that requires the most stairdancing in. I think this is tedious and not very fun, and there's not much point in having big packs of scary tormenting and smiting enemies if everyone is just going to fight them in small manageable groups anyway. Would Tomb be bet...

The top three killers of players are complacency, inattention, and boredom Chaos prevents psychological habituation, (or more precisely extinction) in regards to frequently irrelevant tab-based stimuli due to the widest variety of potential relevant events, and provides the highest rewards in exchan...

The extended post-post-endgame has long been a breeding ground for insolence and badwrongfun. To strike fear into the hearts of players once again you must release the forbidden post-post-post-endgame content, like Orbs of Hellfire, Oklobstorm Dryads, Hydrataur Sharpshooters, Living Singularities, a...

This sound like good heavy metal band name. It could be good lyrics, too. Just imagine some fast drumming and frenetic bass in time with the lyrics, and then, in a metal growl spitting out the word in, I'm thinking, ~1 1/2 second, each syllable about 3/8 second long, small silent beat between the w...

Chaos is great and don't let any weenie scaredy cats tell you otherwise

To the OP: You also can't use mutagenic chunks if you worship Gozag, as nothing leaves a corpse. As a pedantic quibbling aside, believe bribed neutral monsters leave corpses, I managed to eat a Vault Guard in my last Gozag game http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Wizzzargh/morgue-Wizzzargh-20160216-090255....

Apart from Nemelex being criminally underrated, I agree more with the Korean tier list

I'd probably switch. if you get gifted an amazing axe you can always switch back, or just keep going in Polearms till Oka gives you a sweet Glaive or Bardiche. Also I think plate is a fine idea- you have 23 strength but only 6 dex and you aren't casting spells, so stack that AC. Edit- I just noticed...

Could be interesting, though as others have said it would reach a point where it was just 'easier ziggurats.' Kinda reminds me of Angel of 100/666 from DoomRL. I don't really care about the infinite part, but I'd love to play a no-branches, no-upstairs, small-floor version of the game! Small-floors ...

So long as we keep the best-designed direct damage spell (Orb of Destruction) I think this is an excellent idea

Hermit crab races aren't as great as they sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeDNPX8s7I

The jellies aren't really your allies, they're more like something you summon when you want to turn floor trash into piety/healing. And obviously you freeze them when you see them about to eat something you want. That's about it- I'm pretty sure you don't get XP when they kill things, so definitely ...

I think these curses would go a long way to make loot more interesting, especially if uncursed magical items became a rare find. After all, if it's easy to find an uncursed version of your item, you'd just switch to that. I wouldn't keep remove curse scrolls in this proposal(meaning the Bound curse ...

I got two words for Sniper revamps: Ranged Stabbing.

Elemental Evocables could be revamped as Hell or Pan Runes. Lom Lobon's rune=Fan of Gales, Cerebov's= Lamp of Fire, Dispater Stone of Tremors, and Antaeus Phial of Floods. I dunno if those evocables are enough a reward to dive for them in a non-speedrunning sense but I don't think it would be harmfu...

Honestly I'm kinda surprised that this character had trouble killing ghost moths in melee, but the obvious tactical answer is that Ghost moths don't see invisible which would help let you avoid their MP draining gaze and then kill them. On a strategic level, training hexes for Corona would have been...

Well, looking at Saphers 9,786 turn MiBe run, I think the most important thing for going fast is diving fast and probably never hitting Autoexplore. So you could consider shafting yourself through bits of Dungeon, not just Hell. When your character had done a thousand turns, they were entering Dunge...

Good job dude, I always find it pretty neat when people 15-rune their first win.

Instead of cutting down Lair, turn the last 4 floors into Forest. Or cut down the size, but still make the second half of what's left Forest. That way we get interesting gameplay of having to sneak through Forest while underleveled to get to Lair branches that spawned on 5-6, and the potential to ha...

It depends, are those eyes on stalks? That would push them more into abominable parrot/slug hybrid territory. If those are just lil horns or antennae and that light crescent is supposed to be indicative of a large eye, I'd say they're decently cute. You could grab them from behind and lift them off ...

1. Fedhas- Everyone screams the praises of this guy but somehow I always run out of piety by mid-game and never get it back. 2. Dithmenos- I'm not sure I've ever used this god past earlygame dungeon splats but he looks boring, just giving me fakeHaste, Umbra, and some dumb situational abilities. Dum...

Dominion strategy? Is this a support group where I can talk about the game I lost against someone who had never played before and "stupided" (it's a word) their way into a big money strategy unintentionally and won? Or how I wish it was easier to make powerful engines but I know that in r...

I won 2 games with the Macabre Finger Necklace on the "rlgs BIG BLACK THROBBING Macabre Finger Necklace" team, which pleased me greatly. Given the amount of artifacts I was swimming in every game I'd swear item generation became much more generous for the duration of the tournament. I have...

Dood what the heck, you had demigodly strength and demigodly dex and yet here you are wearing +1 Ring mail without any dodging

You've streaked 5 characters in a row before

You got more high score combos than fingers

I don't even

with those defenses I'm really surprised you're having trouble with a hydra vault. Pick up a long blade of Flaming and you should be able to kill hydras no problem, and even the Lernaean Hydra should die to a round of intense wand-zapping and a few lopped heads (ID your wands, by the way) Your weapo...

Well, I noticed too late that we could double-dip VpAE in .17 to accommodate the regular tournament, does that also apply to this week's challenge? If so, here's a 4-rune win that I flubbed the 1 and 2 point bonuses on. http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Wizzzargh/morgue-Wizzzargh-20151118-074833.txt I had...

You could also become invisible to them if you could stay outside their halo radius, which I think is kinda nifty.

nice try, you'll have to wait for the official novelization like everyone else

Ugh, I despise playing spriggans

Luckily I splatted twice before ever even reaching level 5, so now I don't have to!

I tried to go with early TSO and Giant Clubs, with the idea that a Holy Giant Club could probably get me through Hell/Pan for a first rune, dabbling in Whip of Electrocution + Shield. Was working fairly well with my +4 Protection Ring, and found two Manuals of Fighting in a bailey. The other thing I...

Welp, I won a 47k turncount 3-runer. Had lots of fun with evocation rods and Quickblade of Electrocution+Vine Bites and Excruciating Wounds. I ended up flubbing the Tier I and II bonuses when I had to stairdance on the lair stairs against a wolfpack(did you know Vine Stalkers can't heal from potions...

no no, thank YOU

Got Zin from a faded altar and went on to do quite well with a Lajatang of Electrocution and stabbing hexes until I stupidly splatted on Spider:4 when a spider pack got a bunch of hits and webs in through my EV and got me down to 2 poisoned HP, forcing me to quaff Healing while webbed next to a bunc...

I thought the .13 wandering mushroom style curse skulls were actually pretty amusing, but I also liked Forest, so that should give you a notion of my deviant sense of 'Fun'

Repositioning and kiting is an important part of crawl, so I thought monsters that benefitted from those behaviors could create interesting situations, where retreating may be the safe option that will nevertheless result in a minor long-term downside. Example X-eyed Argus, spawning with 12-16 eyes/...

I had a great run going with superb item and spellbook drops, Poison Arrow, etc, stupidly threw it away in an ice cave to a berserk polar bear. http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Wizzzargh/morgue-Wizzzargh-20151005-234217.txt Training stealth up to 10 let me avoid a lot of nasty situations, but I was able ...

Now that I've run out of Demonspawn to splat I'll gladly leap on this new splatting opportunity

I hope Juggernaut packs become a thing in Dis

In that case, rename Vaults to 'Hotel California'

I thought an implied combo would be to Inner Flame something, then blow it up by squashing it under a pile of monsters who would then themselves be destroyed in the fiery explosion, but between targeting, spell failure, limited MP pool early on, and damage so low that I'm pretty sure it is inferior ...

It's an uphill struggle to get good conjuration damage with vampire aptitudes, and your mana problems get even worse if you have bad melee and can't finish off enemies safely without having to spend mana. You might be more impressed with the power of fire conjurations if you played a Hill Orc or som...

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