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Spell hunger? Eat more permafood, eat more chunks. Spell hunger becomes more of a problem later in the game but while getting to that point, don't worry about spell hunger. ... unless you're a spriggan. IMHO, for them spell hunger is more of a problem in early game, when lack of permafood may be a ...

It seems to me, in light of the answers above, that there is no such thing as an OOD monster, at least as a binary condition. Monsters may be more or less OOD depending on how unlikely they are to appear at a specific depth but it seems that that is primarily determined by how surprised you feel at...

my current plan is to cast shroud of G., Drink potion of speed, step up stairs (get hit and blasted), blink (and hope to get lucky); and once again FLEE. That's about the best plan available - go for it. Take the nearest upstairs, heal up there and then descend through a _different_ staircase, so y...

nordetsa wrote:Anything that says 'extremely dangerous' means OOD to me

I've seen centaur on D:2, don't know how he got there.

Well, Sigmund on D:2 is definitely not OOD, and he is still extremely dangerous

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Approach Orc:4 (and all branch ends!) with caution. Lair, Orc, Swamp, Snake, Spider, Shoals, and Crypt don't print an explicit message that you're at the end, you just suddenly find a million hydras or greater nagas or impalers or an ancient lich and then you're all "oh noes!" So, um, be ...

Got some teleportation scrolls? Read one while still in the Temple, and go upstairs just before the teleport kicks in (there's a ~3 turn delay, so going up two turns after reading should be just right). If done right, the teleport will kick in right as you enter the floor above, and hopefully send y...

Given your love for KoBe, you may try to go a bit more extreme and try a short blade SpBe. Focus SBl and Dodging, turn off everything else until SBl=14 (min delay for a sabre). If you survive until that point, unfocus (or turn off) SBl, turn on Stealth, Stabbing, Fighting and Traps and try a more st...

There is a difference between penance and wrath. Penance is what happens when you break a commandment, such as attacking a creature you've pacified under Elyvilon. You lose your granted abilities until you earn enough piety to earn forgiveness. Wrath is what happens when you leave your god. Oh, sor...

3: The effects are completely the same, perhaps except for duration (affected by spellpower for the spell and Evo for the wand). Renaming the potion might indeed be a good point. 4: Just a little advice - when you get hit by sticky flames, your scrolls have a chance to burn every turn. If you want t...

⋅ If a situation is dangerous to life, just press Ctrl-S. When you're on the way to the supermarket you'll suddenly remember that you have this scroll of blinking e.g. I actually have trouble with the opposite of these - when I get a character out of the early game, I have a high chance o...

cerebovssquire wrote:mimic (at least there is a d:4 decaying rune mimic vault, don't know if it exists for other runes but no way that's real)

Holy ...
Is there no end to the dev's cruelty? :shock:

(a rhethorical question, for sure ...)

I can't believe this is humanly possible. My goal is to one day win a simple 3 rune as a caster, and then maybe one day do a 15 rune. I find it incredible that sombody can be this good at the game. I hope the devs don't decide to make it even harder because of this! It has been done - so it is poss...

Meeting Mara with a fully going Poison Arrow Gatling Gun => run as hell. Meeting Mara with a fully going HOPr with his army => stand back and laugh as (s)he's hacked to pieces in less than ten turns. Being "Misled" tops the fun off to see that "your kobold" landed the killing blow.

some12fat2move wrote:
Zicher wrote:
BlackSheep wrote:Kobolds and Felids cannot eat bread or fruit.

Then it is absolutely no food for you. Better stock up on those potions of porridge and find as many fountains as possible ...

Well there's always honeycombs, pizza, cheese, ambrosia, and royal jellies.

Oh. True.
/me feels a bit stupid right now.

BlackSheep wrote:Kobolds and Felids cannot eat bread or fruit.

Then it is absolutely no food for you. Better stock up on those potions of porridge and find as many fountains as possible ...

Jabberwocky wrote:
Blade wrote:I love it when I manage to get two Trog gifts by D:7.

SpBe? When I tried playing one I had a D:8 gift.

D:7? Meh ... I once found and slaughtered a gnoll/jackal castle and started to receive Trog's gifts on D:3.
SpBe is fun

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Stormfox wrote:Carnivore 3 + Herbivore 3 == No dietary restriction.

Carnivore 3 = no herbs for you.
Herbivore 3 = no meat for you.

Carnivore 3 + Herbivore 3 = no _nothing_ for you (except bread rations, if the devs are nice (can Kobolds eat bread? Can't recall now ...).

You have to play _fast_.

Favourite player, who creates your favourite ghosts online?

As for noodles, bacon, sausages, blue cheese and cream in the oven are the only proper way!
(beer included, if course)

Okie's gifts are a bit of a lottery - you can end up with a truckload of junk, but sometimes you can end up with all slots covered with his gifts. His abilities are very nice in the longer run, and he is a great god to give up for TSO-extended game, and possibly an all-runer.

Sometimes a good beat-em-up works well to vent the fury. There is nothing like having Nick Fury smash a battleaxe into a skull of some hapless sucker standing in his face

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Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast (My Homeland) Prague Radio Orchestra dir. Otakar Jeremiáš rec. 1940 Wow - would you please tell me where did this ancient recording? I like this music, and being Czech, it _is_ a part of my homeland (no pun intended here at all). Looks like a French label released it years...

Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast (My Homeland) Prague Radio Orchestra dir. Otakar Jeremiáš rec. 1940 Wow - would you please tell me where did this ancient recording? I like this music, and being Czech, it _is_ a part of my homeland (no pun intended here at all). For myself, I just listen to the general pu...

mumra wrote:Let's put it to the test. Here's a random poll, plucked out of thin air:

Q: What is the best fruit?

a) Yes
b) No

A steak. Hands down and uncontested.

"Would you answer a poll if the only answers are "Yes" and "No"?"
Depends on the _question_ I should answer. Oh so much.
This one, in particular, is one I can not reliably answer.

Well, at the time I usually meet my first jelly, I really don't have too many op the listed options available - so I just use whatever is at hand. Nothing at hand? Just get out of there.

I think he meant forms with intrinsic reaching, rather than forms that interact with reaching weapons. Ah, I didn't think of that option. But still, such "spear hands" would only benefit to nagas and octopodes, unless you would like to create a form that combines both effects. IMHO, overp...

Now that Constriction is available and Reaching is common, would it be prudent to include forms that take advantage of these abilities, or to apply ability for Constriction if Beastly Appendage creates tentacles? For the first part, you don't really need a form. Play a polearms naga, and you can co...

Raptorraging wrote:Never underestimate early game giant worms. Those things can hit real hard, or at least in the newest trunk they can.

They always did. Then again, they also always were really easy to run from.

rchandra wrote:
zasvid wrote:Are Okawaru powers helped much by high Invocations?

they last longer, which is pretty useful.

The success rates of invoking his powers are also affected - although this stops to be a problem around Inv=10, which is probably not that "high".

Grimm wrote:My favorite combo is BVDM - Brain in Vat Drunken Master. Very powerful.

Aptitudes, please?
EDIT: Oh - and starting skills too, please?

Adding starting spells per class would be awesome.
(are they the same for every race ... Are they?)

EDIT: And please, rename this thread to "DCSS 0.10 ExcelLENT Sheet of Reference"

I've been playing a couple months now, and if my morgue is an accurate account, I just hit my 500th game. The height of my effort has been experience lvl 19 with only two runes collected. This is in no way meant as a complaint; I absolutely adore crawl's unforgiving nature and the sense of accompli...

Suggestion: Rename this thread to "General BrainYiufing".

Found out that I installed DC:SS on my computer at work (long long ago), Version 0.7.1 or something like that. Started it and there was a savegame: A XL:14 DDNe of Makhleb. I loaded the save game, looked at the character, the skills, the inventory, the spells. Exited the game in shame. Why the hell...

As a SpVM I always learn Dispel Undead the moment I find it. I don't like branching into Fire or Ice for the storms with a PAGG build (could be viable, but it's too much out of style for me), Necromancy at 8-10 seems to make DU reliable enough even against high-level undead and it is way more effect...

Any players here who answered arcade games' "Insert Coin" call way too many times, like I did when I was young? Then the Arcade Museum near Prague in Czech Republic might be interesting for you. It certainly is interesting and worth a visit for me :). Though that would be interesting to g...

Congrats on making it into the top ten, guys! You seem like by far the most balanced clan out there -- nobody head and shoulders above the rest, nobody dragging you down to the abyss -- and your current placing is very impressive. Keep it up; I'm having fun observing. Thanks for these words :). I h...

I believe that this might have posted in Dungeon Crawling Advice rather than at Yiuf's

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I am out until Monday, so I hope I'll be able to contribute some more towards our clan next week.
Until then, GO EXPENDABLES!

Woah! The clan of "somewhat not terrible players" is occupying the top ten of clans!
GO GO GO EXPENDABLES!

Any players here who answered arcade games' "Insert Coin" call way too many times, like I did when I was young?

Then the Arcade Museum near Prague in Czech Republic might be interesting for you.

It certainly is interesting and worth a visit for me

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Also, be careful when using autotravel during the Orb run. You may miss some escape hatches, and these are your great friend on the run. And a heavy +1 on Happy Corner's wand of digging advice. Unless you absolutely must, don't try to fight the tougher enemies. Not only they can kill you, but _anoth...

Probably just for the record, but noone ao far mentioned large rocks. Although usable by Ogres and Trolls only, they are truly a high power weapon, IMHO superior even to crossbows. Oka or Trog will gift them on a regular basis, their mulching rate is lowest of all missiles (1/25 IIRC), and generally...

galehar wrote:
crate wrote:I don't think UC skill does anything for any auxiliary attack that you have via mutation.

It used to, but I think aux only depend on stats now.

Does this also apply to minotaur's reflexive headbutts? In my last MiMo game, it seemed to me that I was headbutting both more frequently and strongly.

Heh ... Shortest CIP post ever?

... when you can't play Crawl ... doubly so during the tourney.

galehar wrote:Nice. So, in my current game, I should reach min delay at skill level 28.41
(CeAM with a longbow)

So? You're a dev, no problem for you

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(why you went Sif on a character who wanted to avoid casting spells is another issue) Not quite necessary to "avoid" spells. I can imagine trollish casters who do better ripping and tearing everything with their claws while training spells schools (and thus gaining Sif piety) at least to ...

Holy crap, first for the YASD and then for the insane GDA.
Lesson learned: You see a Pan Lord (already explained before), you run as fast as you can.

You follow the instructions here , i.e. add my name as instructed. It's ConfidenceInterval (no space) online. Then you play Crawl online. Be sure to win big time. Okay, I've followed those instructions, I don't seem to be showing up in the clan though. The clan script checks every four hours for ch...

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