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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...

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...

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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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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Re: List of letters and monster classes?

Re: List of letters and monster classes?

List of letters and monster classes?

Re: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

Re: 12-hour roguelike marathon!

12-hour roguelike marathon!

Left-clicking minimap should not overwrite Ctrl+G

Re: The Forge (reflavour HoB)

Re: Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Trog Troll faced with tricky situation - thoughts?

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Enemies following you on stairs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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