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Wednesday, 31st December 2014, 19:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: List of letters and monster classes?

Replies: 7

Views: 2031

Re: List of letters and monster classes?

I remember that jackals were yellow j originally. Ah, that's interesting - a class of their own? I assume j was removed for looking too much like i... No, it's because they drink a lot. Surely this could make for a new 'q'? Drunken Draconian Brawler? Anyway, if anyone can confirm/deny that logic ab...

Wednesday, 31st December 2014, 00:46

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: List of letters and monster classes?

Replies: 7

Views: 2031

Re: List of letters and monster classes?

Thanks folks, this is very useful! Ontoclasm - a lot of those make a lot of sense. Is that REALLY why d/q? It seems so obvious now you say it, but it had never clicked. Colossi - I thought it was "Cyclops and others", rather than "Colossal Humanoid" or something like that. How co...

Tuesday, 30th December 2014, 22:24

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: List of letters and monster classes?

Replies: 7

Views: 2031

List of letters and monster classes?

Is there a page on the wiki anywhere (or anywhere else) that shows and describes why each letter has been chosen to represent each class, and what they stand for? Some are obvious, whilst some of the letter choices are really puzzling, and I'd be very interested to know if there's some information o...

Saturday, 23rd November 2013, 23:32

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Replies: 10

Views: 2726

Re: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Did about 5 hours of DCSS, 5 hours of DoomRL in the end, now going to do a couple of hours of a few stupid builds then call it a night. Thanks to all who watched! We'll be streaming a lot more o' both in the future :).

Saturday, 23rd November 2013, 15:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Replies: 10

Views: 2726

Re: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Grammar is hard.

Saturday, 23rd November 2013, 14:09

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Replies: 10

Views: 2726

12-hour roguelike marathon!

My friend and I are doing a 12-hour co-commentated roguelike stream on Twitch today, probably something like 6 hours of DCSS (which she and I both know well) then maybe 6 hours of DoomRL (which neither of us know). We've had a few wins on stream: some 3-Rune wins, a 4-Rune splat and a 5-Rune win, an...

Sunday, 20th October 2013, 21:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Left-clicking minimap should not overwrite Ctrl+G

Replies: 3

Views: 1314

Left-clicking minimap should not overwrite Ctrl+G

So. I had a 4-Rune centaur doing the Orb run. I had Ctrl+G'd to D1, and was on my way up, fine. When on D:6, I ran into a little trouble, and I did the thing where you hold down right-click on the minimap, move it to the square you want, and then left-click to head there. I then had a Pan Lord spawn...

Wednesday, 2nd October 2013, 09:41

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: The Forge (reflavour HoB)

Replies: 12

Views: 5284

Re: The Forge (reflavour HoB)

I think this is a great idea in several ways. Firstly, I really like it thematically - would seem appropriate as a branch off the Vaults, appropriate in the Dungeon per se, and certainly more interesting than the Hall of Blades. Secondly, as others have said, this would make a nice counterpoint to t...

Friday, 20th September 2013, 22:53

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Replies: 7

Views: 2662

Re: Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Take the staircase to your left upstairs, kill the two yaks that come up with you, rest up fully, go invisible, call a brother in arms (or two if you get a lame bro), take them downstairs, berserk, beat the enemies up and be sure not to be in the basilisk's line of fire. Maybe this is a bad plan bu...

Friday, 20th September 2013, 22:18

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Replies: 7

Views: 2662

Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Troll of Trog. I haven't identified teleport scrolls/wands, blink scroll, potion of hasting or whatever. Just descended to a new floor, and found an interesting situation. I think the entrance to the Lair is to the right (the trees) and that's why there are so many creatures here. All three stairs h...

Sunday, 25th August 2013, 12:35

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6415

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Thanks for the replies all! I've read the manual piece which I think is a very interesting exploration of the idea (indeed, I think all the "game philosophy" bits for Crawl are tremendously interesting, and I'm drawing on quite a bit). I hadn't appreciated the stupid/intelligent distinctio...

Sunday, 25th August 2013, 00:49

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6415

Enemies following you on stairs

Hi all. I'm a PhD student in the social sciences, and I've been trying to get into the academic side of game discussion for a little while. I'm currently writing a thing about the concept of "unavoidable death" in games, and I'm using Crawl to illustrate a few points. However, I have a qui...

Re: YASD: 12 runes, forgot what a fire vortex looked like.

Cerebov slipped me a twenty. I knew it! I had some problem too recently, because I was trying to needle-stab Cerebov and I couldn't understand what was wrong for a couple of turns, until I realized there was a fire vortex between me and him. Surely the new fire vortex's tile is easily confused when...

Re: Want 15 runes, but no rMut yet - strategy?

Thanks for the advice both. I died on 12 runes, having cleared hells, abyss and slime pits, then I died to Cerebov because I didn't know the fire vortex image had been redrawn, and just in glancing at it thought it was another flame cloud. Tried to move into it, hit it instead, didn't move from in C...

Wednesday, 26th June 2013, 20:12

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD: 12 runes, forgot what a fire vortex looked like.

Replies: 18

Views: 5083

Re: Want 15 runes, but no rMut yet - strategy?

I've just read up on Zin, and I see what you mean, but my big concern is that I have basically no sources of rN+ at all. Seriously. I've found a single large shield which gives rN+, and I think that's it. I haven't even found any rings of basic life prot, and I don't fancy being tormented to death....

Wednesday, 26th June 2013, 18:06

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD: 12 runes, forgot what a fire vortex looked like.

Replies: 18

Views: 5083

Re: Want 15 runes, but no rMut yet - strategy?

Any enemy in the game need a clear LOS to malmutate you - that means you can usually clear Pan, Hells, Slimes and Zot using summonings (angels for TSO), other enemies and so on to block polymorpher LOS and kill them in melee. Anyway, I find clearing Pan without rmut really boring for a melee charac...

Re: Want 15 runes, but no rMut yet - strategy?

Makes sense. Cleared zot 1-4, but now I have a new problem (see changed title) - I've cleared it out apart from 5, but still no rMut. I guess I really have to go TSO now, clear Crypt, then start on other areas, and just hope I find my way to an rMut before too long? I also haven't found a single pot...

YASD: 12 runes, forgot what a fire vortex looked like.

The nature of this post has changed hugely - below is my original post, then the third post (my reply) is the latest situation: Having been taking a long break from Crawl, I return to try and get a 15-rune win (I last died on 14 runes). MiFi, all going fine. I've got the two Lair runes and the Silve...

Tuesday, 20th November 2012, 13:40

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

danr wrote:The trouble can be, after having an epic character like this, thinking your next ones will be as awesome and getting killed a lot as you keep playing as if you had that same character again.


You said it. Just got that promising Minotaur killed in a profoundly stupid manner...

Monday, 19th November 2012, 20:57

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

The agony! I died. 14 runes. [...] Damn, that's galling, but having cleared out Zot:5 long ago, I feel happy in myself that I could have stopped and ascended at any point, so I'm not too peeved. You're not too peeved, but I'm heartbroken :x . Ah, my apologies! But give it a week or two and I'm sure...

Sunday, 18th November 2012, 21:10

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: I think we learned an important lesson today.

Replies: 2859

Views: 971663

Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.

When you've never got a Rune before, and never won Crawl before, and get your first ever Rune, and decide to go for all 15, and get 14 of them... don't forget poison resistance/some way to cure poison against Draconians.

Sunday, 18th November 2012, 21:08

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD - first ever Rune, 14 Runes, then dead.

Replies: 2

Views: 992

YASD - first ever Rune, 14 Runes, then dead.

Well, before this game I'd never got a Rune before. I got one, and decided to go for the clean sweep and get all 15. I had only Gehenna left, but my maximum health was a mere 2/3rds of what it should have been from mutations and rot, and having struggled significantly in Cocytus, I decided not to ri...

Sunday, 18th November 2012, 21:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

The agony! I died. 14 runes. I decided to investigate a Ziggurat again to try and get my health up, got poisoned, and just had nothing to cure with. Damn, that's galling, but having cleared out Zot:5 long ago, I feel happy in myself that I could have stopped and ascended at any point, so I'm not too...

Sunday, 18th November 2012, 16:28

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re:

Gehenna will burn your scroll before you get all the way to the bottom. I've got more luck with this, maybe because of preservation/conservation: knowing the risk, I usually take one scroll of magic mapping down to Geh:7. If I remember correctly the scroll always "survived" to the last fl...

Sunday, 18th November 2012, 16:05

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Not only are the resistances you have plenty for the job, you aren't going to find ice in Gehenna or fire in Cocytus, barring a freak player ghost that you can just avoid. Doing them without some mythical super-artefact is going to be faster *and* easier than trying to raid Ziggurats for the perfec...

Saturday, 17th November 2012, 12:05

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

The solution to stat drain from Hell effects is to leave some potions of restore abilities in the Vestibule. As long as you can get to a stairwell, you can return to the Vestibule immediately through it no matter how deep you've gotten. You do not have to (or have the option to) pass through the up...

Friday, 16th November 2012, 11:41

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

If you've never won before, I suggest doing an orb run. It can be quite exciting the first time. After experiencing that and enjoying your first win, you won't feel so bad when you die in Tomb on later runs. That would undoubtedly have been the wise move, but I have instead explored Pandemonium, th...

Thursday, 15th November 2012, 15:27

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Thanks all for the advice! I checked out Zot1-4, found two golden dragons but neither left a corpse. Bah. Put everything onto plate armour, then cleared out Zot:5 without a problem, and I'm now standing in front of the Orb debating whether I want an all-but-guaranteed 3-rune win (AC now 53, nothing ...

Sunday, 11th November 2012, 17:53

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Well, I killed Geryon with ease, used the treasure trove, but didn't get anything too game-changing. Went down to, and cleared, DL:27 - enjoyed repeated torment at the hands of some tier-1 demons which had me down to about 1/4 health at worst, but blinked away and all was fine. Cleared Elven Halls, ...

Sunday, 11th November 2012, 01:48

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Re: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Just about to go to bed (2am here) but scanned responses, will give longer thoughts tomorrow (thank you all a ton for your comments). Apologies about character info, wasn't sure what counted as vital/non-vital. Here's the rest that seems useful: Inventory: Hand weapons Y - a +7,+8 eveningstar of hol...

Sunday, 11th November 2012, 00:31

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

Replies: 38

Views: 9269

Never got Rune before; now got 3, ready for Zot? MiFi.

So, I've been playing this game for a week. Up until this character, I hadn't acquired a single rune, but things have been going reasonably well (and I've been reasonably careful) and I've now got 3 runes. I've not explored below DL:20, the Crypt, the Slime Pits, nor the Elven Halls, and I haven't b...

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