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JeffQyzt wrote:Although it was recently claimed in another thread that the Amulet of Inaccuracy is a special case, and *does* affect spell targeting.

This is true, it does affect spells as well. A good reason to never test-ID amulets with early-game conjurers and similar chars.

This is a Temple entrance vault. The flame clouds will never spawn in the very central corridor, though.

On the OP ... Well, simply put ... ouch

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danr wrote:Wait - I thought Centaurs couldn't wear armour like ring mail?

They can, the AC gained from the armour is hampered though.

Lucky, but nice story. Grats on your first rune! My questions at the moment: - How high should I get Traps and Doors before Zot? It's at level 8 now. - What branch should I go for next: i.e. should I finish the final level, or try and brave the final level of the shoals, start on Elf, or keep diving...

Not on D:1, but D:4 I found these things with my CeMo: a - the +4 pair of gloves of the Commoners {+Blink +Inv rPois rC+} x - the +5 ring mail of Maesa {rN+ Acc+3} g - a ring of protection from fire (right hand) r - an amulet of warding (around neck) This totals at rF+ rC+ rN++ rPois - quite a beaut...

Perhaps these were guarding the Vaults' staircase?

- Do you get emotionally attached to particularly promising characters? A bit, I guess. The relation grows stronger the further the character gets . - Roughly how many games of Crawl have you played? About how many of those were wins? 1105 games on CAO/CDO up to now. Seven wins, one of them an all-r...

The ONE point that can save your ass in the early game. One point of non-body armor AC will reduce a maximum of one hit point of damage. It's probably my playstyle - but in the early game I tend to end up a fight with, say, 2/45 HP way too often. These are the times when that single point of extra-...

Curio wrote:Another lesson: Avoid overconfidence

Henzell bot has a well-fitting entry on overconfidence:

Henzell wrote:Avoid, or meet your future.

The "your future" entry is more than appropriate then:

Henzell wrote:Death!

When was the last time you actually decided not to cast a spell because you thought you might starve? Not you might have to dig into permafood, but that you might starve? I just have not experienced this. Acvar, "I didn't" does not equal "anyone didn't". For me, it's mostly earl...

Clearing Orc Mines, you should have enough gold to buy one of those (probably not both, though).

danr wrote:My guess is that all the ASCII players do their chatting on IRC.

Not at all - some, myself included, want to rant at as many places as they can

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Should keep that one for the morning, I guess :-D

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Holy crap, Grimm! You owe me the beer I spilled while nearly laughing myself off my chair! :lol:

Volgon wrote:Don't Panic!

This should probably be written and highlighted on the very first screen of the manual, of the FAQ and probably on the tiles' welcome screen as well

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joellercoaster wrote:
danr wrote:So much time is spent regaining MP when you play a primary conjurer.

Ain't that the truth!

Sure it is!
I can compare my MDFi and SpVM winners' turncounts. That MDFi was almost twice as fast (99k vs. 171k turns, vs. 242k turns on my SpVM all-runer).

Curio wrote:Orc Warrior on a D2.
Seriously. WTF?

Either free XP, or a lesson to get the f**k away.

First, welcome to the huge world of Crawl :). For me, there is one huge reason to play trunk online - I see the game evolve right under my hands. Seriously, when I drop Crawl for two weeks and return to it yet again, it feels like that game I played before is even more awesome than it was before. An...

Sprinter wrote:
Zicher wrote:When in the middle of creating a FAQ (see one danr's post], DO NOT ever touch Backspace.

Not sure what u used to write FAQ but try CTRL+Z( undo)

There's no undo if your browser does not remember what you did before that freaking mistype ....

Strongpoint wrote:trivialize any non poison resistant enemy (meph, then poison to death)

Well, this is exactly what Venom Mages are about, at least in the early game.

Just a rant, but ...
Tried to write one, and after an hour's work, I hit Backspace when I should not have

... Gotta meet a death yak IRL, I guess

When in the middle of creating a FAQ (see one danr's post], DO NOT ever touch Backspace.

MarvintheParanoidAndroid wrote:[15:34:15] <Henzell> encumbered[2/2]: Encumbered: Bad. Don't be that ghost.

At least, danr is the ghost only to himself

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Yep - type "#y" in the drop menu (called by "d"), where # is the number of items you want to drop and "y" is the letter of the stack.
E.g. "d3g" command makes you drop 3 items in stack lettered "g".

If the imp locks the trove, it stays.

I think that, in current trunk, troves are permanent but always require a cost in items, not in gold. There was even a trove that required a Horn of Geryon to open

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Yukuai, the second one is quite cool IMHO, showing what's about to come ingame.

Almost makes me want to take up tiles (I won't)

Sprinter wrote:lesson for today if u find a wizlab entrance dont wait till whole lvl is clear or u might find empty archway when u come back

Works for pretty much any portal vault.

My two Czech hellers: Firstly, I have to say that this is how a new god proposal should like - well-thought, elaborate and fairly balanced. Kudos! Folllowing are my comments, feel free to disregard any of those in case of missing any point. Also note that everything from now on is IMHO :). Please as...

[*]Helmet That's ONE point of AC. The ONE point that can save your ass in the early game. Plus, it's a covered spot against early game jellies - they do hurt early and fighterish chars usually don't have many more options how to prevent them from devouring all of the level's stuff. Running away is ...

smock wrote:I'm annoyed that it's often a good idea to berserk and then flee to the nearest staircase. It'd be fun if all monsters turned into sirens when you berserked.

Flavour-wise, this is truly a brilliant idea!
Would probably need some balancing, though.

My apologies - I should probably do a bit of sourcediving before relying on Henzell's learndb too heavily ...

(SpVM of Vehumet, Poison Arrow Gatling Gun in process) Off-topic, but it's great to hear of any success with both this build and the appropriate term for it ;) Thanks. Ilsiuw was the worst threat down there, so the rune was no trouble (and I'd already grabbed the Swamp rune). Abjuration is a must f...

LOL playing crawl while wasted? That's hardcore dedication to gaming there. Playing roguelikes while intoxicated is great fun. But what's even better, is to play Crawl a bit drunk in front of a bunch of other people with your laptop connected to a projector, creating an approx. 2*2,5 meters ASCII t...

You already mentioned it in another thread, but, as a lesson to everyone:

Code:: You were encumbered.

Which means:

Henzell wrote:Climbing stairs takes 1 extra turn, +1 to movement delay, +2 hunger, stealth is halved, slows unarmed combat.

The lesson should be clear now.

Mara and Mennas are both worse proportionally for casters. Mara you can game to some extent (and it's fun) but at some point, somebody has to go toe to toe with Mennas and he's no slouch at all. He's lurking by the upstairs on Snake:1 in my current game and I am furiously trying to think of things ...

I wanted to have a little vacation on the splendid beaches located in the Dungeon of Zot. However, when I got there, the quality of my destination was significantly lower than advertisements suggested! The beaches were all rocky and not at all filled with beautiful, golden sand. It's disappointing ...

Fedhas: Oklob Flower Children.

tcjsavannah wrote:The one Heal Woulds potion that could have saved your life is always the one you don't quaff

More of the time, it's the one you don't have at the moment

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pratamawirya wrote:What do you feel like right now? Oka follower? Orc? Sigmund ( )?

Sometimes, especially at work, I'm feeling a bit Troggy, if you know what I mean :-D

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Age: 29 Sex: Male Citizenship: Czech Languages spoken: Czech, Slovak, Polish, English, German (plus the ability to curse and swear in about eight different languages (especially when Crawling ;) )) Education & Occupation: IT Family status: a lonesome cowboy (a lonesome Crawler, perhaps? :) ) Com...

Jenx wrote:Uuuuh....well I guess this explains why there are no baby ogres in the dungeon.

LOOOOOOOL!!! Thanks for the laughs, Jenx!

minmay wrote:
mageykun wrote:You never pass out from 'zerking under Trog.

This only applies if your piety is 150 or greater.

To be exact - the chance of not passing out under Trog is piety/150, and is applied after the other checks, e.g. wearing the amulet or knowing the appropriate spell.

Grimm wrote:Best drunk build would be Troll or Minotaur Monk of Trog.

A raging drunken master build?

I recall playing an SpVM while fairly drunk. Somehow it felt appropriate to intoxicate others as well

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Nikola, Mara, Mennas and a few others are usually a three-meter neon-light sign calling "GET THE F**K OFF THIS LEVEL!" I learned the hard way for those. Mara is a special case, as he gets more dangerous with your improvements, due to calling your clone. If I can't beat him the very first t...

This sounds, well, crawlish ...

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IMHO your best bet would be the potion of heal wounds. The hellephant could move toward you, fire another bolt (no pun intended) and miss, or hit you for less damage - or you'd be dead anyway.

IIRC, the chance of getting a weapon that trains a particular weapon skill is (1+ weapon skill) / (8+(sum of all weapon skills except Unarmed)). This formula should work for weapon gifts from all gods (probably except Xom), as well as for weapons acquired via the scroll. You'll never receive a weapo...

Stormfox wrote:(SpVM of Vehumet, Poison Arrow Gatling Gun in process)

Off-topic, but it's great to hear of any success with both this build and the appropriate term for it

The orcish bonus for weapons can be even better IF you have high piety with Beogh. It's a requirement to worship Beogh to be an orc? With that, the bonus seems somewhat redundant. Orcs using orcish weapons have +1 to-dam as a racial bonus, another +1 by just worshipping Beogh and up to +6 when thei...

Sealer wrote:I just had an ogre on D:1 and an ogre on D:2. I decided to go downstairs early because of the D:1 ogre (KeVM xlvl 2).

Why so? Sting is a perfect way to deal with ogres - I suppose you were not able to keep your distance from it?

szanth wrote:I suppose that's why people look for the GDA with trolls. Finally get to train that armor skill.

And die 99,9% of the time before ever finding one.

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