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Sorry about the death, dying with 15 runes always hurts... It's ok. Games should be taken lightly anyway (...even thought there is sometimes frustration, perspective is to be had on that matter). We are fortunate enough to be able to play them, come to think of it, especially when it is freely give...

Gozag has a very interesting design because I think it's fairly reasonable to stick with him for a 3 rune game, but he should almost certainly be abandoned if you're going for anything more than that. It isn't even that he gets much less useful (he does get somewhat less useful, but potion petition...

Boy, am I unlucky with the game these days ! After completing Zig, I was looking for a gate out of Pan - but of course, only abyss exits were to be found and I wasn't feeling for it - when I got paralyzed by a lucky giant eyeball near a random Pan Lord. Died 4 turns later, still marked and para. Sur...

Hi all. That char made it to the endgame without much of a struggle. I scummed pan for a (long) while after tomb, trying new things and learning a bit about the place since I don't go there often (...not a big fan of the 15-rune-win thing). All in all I played it safe, and beside Lom Lobon and those...

Nice. Lost mine a few days ago to ignorance & it still hurts. IKR- finding the ring of robustness as early as I did made a huge impact in the lair and mid game, let alone the others. This is so true. I was hoping to get it in my run as well. Alas wasn't meant to be. I see that you also found the...

I guess when changes like this are made, they should be clearly communicated to the player. Something like this might work: A death cob comes in to view. IT WAS PREVIOUSLY COMPLETELY HARMLESS BUT NOW HAS A REALLY EFFECTIVE HUNGER ATTACK THAT WILL KILL YOU IN A COUPLE OF TURNS. --more-- Yes... I let...

Well, that was unexpected. I died of starvation in U5. How, you might ask ? When I entered Zot, there was a welcoming party of moths, dragons, draconians and, you guessed it, death cobs. I attracted their attention by casting phase shift while standing on the gate and waited a turn to let them come....

Hi all. Been running this OP for a while now. Started as a throwaway character, to get my mind off things. RNG was pretty cruel with me, denying good utility books or protection ring (...witch I still haven't found even thought I entered like 7 or 8 jewellery shop). Doing snake and shoals without re...

The last time I did Elf 3 with SpEn of Nemelex I just used silence. It made the run real easy. You get their attention and line them up, silenced, in a corridor. Since they don't hit hard (the casters), you can melee them one after the other (5-6 at a time). If you get in any sort of trouble, just s...

Hehe, congrats !!! Yeah, very nice : )

Lost this one today. The trek was difficult and I got lucky a few times, especially D11 and D12 witch were full of uniques that I wasn't ready to face and a pack of 4 centaurs and a centaur warrior (...escaped by a hair). Mahkleb also saved me on D15 or something. A vampire mosquito was stabbing at ...

minmay wrote:I guess my post wasn't clear enough about this: you can't be banished in tree form in 0.12, but you can be banished in tree form in 0.13.

Good to know. At least, now, you have an escape option. Much better than have none and wait to die. Make sense.

zot trap badforms were really awful so the best advice here is to stop playing this particular version (i have no idea if this made it to 12.1 though) Hmmm... Yeah, make sense. It was sort of funny this time but i'm not sure I want to experience this again. This was my first serious run on 12.0 so ...

Besides, I was only giving advice. Not being patronising on purpose. True. Your comment/advice was also right. I should have been more careful. I knew there was danger there but decided to take my chances. Got unlucky, it happens when you take risks. Pulling the GM to me was the safer play. Sometim...

The problem is that you were walking forward with monsters in sight. Very often, if something comes into line of sight, you can get it out of line of sight by taking a step back. It will then happily follow you into known terrain, without being able to do anything. Then you fight it with no additio...

I have no idea what most of those tiles are, but usually if you are in tree form and there is anything dangerous around, you will die unless you either polymorph yourself again (which could still be very bad but no other form is as bad as tree form), or banish yourself (only possible in 0.13). If I...

Actually the ring isn't so dangerous. If you play well you only have to fight one greater mummy at a time (instead of 5...), which is fine. It's just really long and annoying. But you also get to avoid the tomb:2 ambush by teleporting. And also the ring is really long and annoying. Of course, there...

I see... Will keep that in mind for the future. Yes...very good to know. Thanks for the tip.

I died. Used all my heal charges and attacked a bit. Died as a tree... Didn't see that one coming. This game is awesome !

Think I am going to die. Stepped into a Zot trap in Tomb 1, when you climb up after tomb 2, near a pack of Greater Mummies and got transformed into a Tree. I am silenced, sick, rot and low on hp. Can I get out of this ? Any ideas ? Damn, everything was going so well since I rearrange my gear for thi...

Yeah, already figured that out about the trident. I can probably survive with the flail in the meantime.

So, I have 5 rune now. TRJ mob almost got me in slime. Thought berserk 1 mutation would more likely help me. True sometimes, not always : Berserked in statue form a few turns after the fight started (like 375 HP!!!). Got cocky. Used reaching to kill the golden blob witch was hiding behind it's allie...

Thank you both. Just noticed that haste was not an option while wearing stasis. Oh well... Doing vault 5 now, all is fine. Went for the piercing demon trident.

Hi all. Currently running this OP and I hope to go all the way with it (15 + zig if I get there). Never did extended, never entered neither the Hells nor Pan. The plan, from the beginning, was to survive early game with fire spells & worship Makhleb for the regain health ability, than transition...

Thanks for the tips. Just cleared it this morning : MiFi + Makhleb + Singing Sword + Gong Shield + GDA. Needed a few tries. Almost died to a mid level Draconian floor. Learned a few things, like the usefulness of fog scrolls. All in all very fun.

SC is overpowered indeed, I have just used it in D25, it summoned several Hill Giants, Frost Giant and a few weaker monsters. Yeah, as you go down it kills. Nothing good in the shops and 2 acquirement scrolls gave me robe of Misfortune and +2 FDA despite I have no hat. Hehehe, so useless ! I am goi...

Yes, you have to eventually chose a path : ninja or killing what I can't stab. Earth is indeed low, but you have a boon from Ash and can still focus it to crank it up - evading stuff that you aren't ready to kill yet comes to mind. Conjurations will cost you (-2), and less magic schools is better im...

I was thinking a bit of Evo for wand damage. It can save you when you use silence and things starts to get hot. As cerebovsquire pointed out though, it's no priority. LRD is not ideal, but you can kill almost everything that can see invis with it (Gold/Shadow Dragons, Mennas, TM, etc...). Speed is a...

Hmmm, I would personally do this : Skills : Turn off dodging & stealth. Train spellcasting for half a lvl (or more) to get a slot. Learn LRD. Spells : Things you can consider forgetting : Sure Blade, Polymorph, Corona, Cause Fear Things you can consider learning : Sub blood (later though), Fligh...

Fighting up to 10 for a start. Stabbing up to 15. Stealth all the way eventually.

Don't use FDA. Go steam or mottle when you find a hide. Grab a buckler. Shield 9, Armor 10 I think.

Hope you find charms & transloc spells soon. Those are nice.

Earth is a fine choice.

Good luck !

Keep at it, you should secure a win next time around. As Psi mentioned, TM can shut down a SpEn really fast. If you let it get close to you, well, trouble is in store.

Congrats : )

Yeah, I don't think I'm a very efficient player. Too noob anyway to pretend ; )

No, I always use draw one. That's why 3) happened. The safe way is to peek at 2, for sure, but you lose a card that way. Also, I think you gain more piety when you blind draw (...but the main reason I do it is for the fun factor : ) If i'm in trouble, I sometimes triple draw, but it's rare. I used s...

Permanent swiftness is just awesome. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. 2222061 Pythagoras the Ninja (level 27, 150/152 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on Mar 21, 2013. Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh. Escaped with the Orb ... and 6 runes on Apr 4, 2013! The game la...

Thank you both. This is helpful. I wasn't sure if Nemelex gift score was resetting each time you get a deck, witch would allow more control over whats received, or if there was a global scale that keeps track of all items that were sacrificed throughout the game. The latter make more sense and it's ...

Sorry for being unclear about the Nemelex question. I chose him mostly because I like the cards and wanted to try them. My questions were : Is there a way to manage my deck collection ? Is it useful to try do so (...does it make, at the end, a difference) ? NB : I used the wonder deck example becaus...

Hi all, I have this SpEN in progress. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. Oedipus the Imperceptible (Spriggan Enchanter) Turns: 76391, Time: 18:37:52 HP 100/100 AC 6 Str 11 XL: 20 Next: 43% MP 40/40 EV 32 Int 19 God: Nemelex Xobeh [******] Gold 2341 SH 15 Dex 19 Spells: 1...

Nausea won't necessarily wear off, but you can eat while nauseated once you hit "Near Starving", that may be what you were thinking of. Alas no. I've been lucky. Also didn't know you could eat while nauseated & near starving. So yeah, "real illusion" here (...if these words ...

Fear not, you didn't die in vain. I actually didn't know this could happen. Yeah, I was under the illusion that nausea status would always wear off before you starve to death (...thought the game was build that way). I'm stupid like this sometimes. So, as you can guess, I also tend to wait out nause...

I am storing evereything up because the game can only get harder. No. Done right, the game only gets easier once you reach Lair, because you get stronger faster than enemies do. Many consumables are made for the earlygame and they quickly grow obsolete as the game goes on. I second this. When I sta...

crate wrote:In 0.12 you should get to 8.6 traps so you will 100% of the time detect any traps that are adjacent to you.

Thanks for this. Very good to know.

Well, I do disagree that newbies won't enjoy hard 'interesting' races. One of my all time favorites is Vp; another is Fe. I enjoyed them both long before I got an ascension. (Though Felids make you sloppy...) But that was because I didn't mind them being hard; I'm playing a ROGUELIKE! Just because ...

I don't see why octopodes should be change. On an average run, you'll get 4-5 rings before lair, and a complete set once you've cleared it (... some of them ok). Rings are not the difficulty here. Getting spells/skills online as you have to face tougher monsters with that crappy AC is the real chall...

byrel wrote:I had thought multi-wielding was on the list of things never to happen in crawl.

Make sense. I guess I should have read the Guidelines for Game Design before submitting. Got carried away at the end there. Will edit my post. Thanks.

I agree that this species overlaps with the golem ideas in the wiki, even though from a flavour perspective it's not meant to be the same And I think golems fit crawl's universe much better than constructs. In most D&D-derived games including Crawl, golems are constructs... Indeed. But with the...

Extra wield-slots is indeed very powerful. It has to be. Imagine if you would be offered/allowed to play a race with an extra pair of arms (i.e. 2 glove slots, 2 one-handed weapon slots/1 two-handed, 4 ring slots & 2 buckler slots/1 medium or large). Now that would really be over the top. Good i...

I am not entirely sure how a tentacle would be so good at pushing. In the movies they are always reaching through portholes or wrapping around masts, but they tend to wind up dragging the sailors to a watery doom rather than throttling them to death... --- oh, but I suppose it does crush the ship a...

All in all, great concept. I really like the flavor of Quinby, god of the Overworld. As previously mentioned, I think his Altar should be a timed portal witch brings you to his temple somewhere "outside" the dungeon. As if his followers opened a gateway to the underworld in search of worth...

Some of the more useful potions are also the more common ones. If you do the stacks first, you have a higher chance of getting something that's actually useful, at least until the useful common potions are already identified. Bingo. In the early game, I rather know what's useful to me in case of em...

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