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There were times when I was quite a bit more active in DCSS, returning here and there to give new versions a shot. And today I finally managed to get a win, my first since an all-rune MiFi way back in 2014 (0.15 trunk at that time). After a winless and runeless 0.27 tournament, I tried something I c...

Well, damn me. Died in Shoals, in a small part due to bad luck (ran into Polyphemos, and Ilsuiw joined the fray three turns later) and in a larger part due to overconfidence - I had quite a break from Crawl and forgot how dangerous each of those can be. Let alone both at once. And Trog's Hand only l...

I'm just playing an OgBe of Trog, and got already quite far (D:15 and Lair cleared), when I found this: k - +10 gold dragon scales of the Thirsty Songs {-Cast rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ Str+4} On a freaking ogre berserker. Just how terrifying death can I expect now? Full in-progress dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone...

Roderic wrote:If a TrEE falls in a dungeon and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Well, Henzell and other bots will report it in ##crawl, so the answer might as well be "yes".

Meh, that was really sudden. XL4 and XL4. No wonder I'm among awfulplayers ...

There is one aspect not mentioned yet, and that is that you would have to identify _every single ring_ you find. I don't know what are current opinions and plans for the ID game, but the ID scroll cost just for rings throughout the game would be increased _heavily_, some four, five times IMHO. Jewe...

There is one aspect not mentioned yet, and that is that you would have to identify _every single ring_ you find. I don't know what are current opinions and plans for the ID game, but the ID scroll cost just for rings throughout the game would be increased _heavily_, some four, five times IMHO.

ToME solves this issue by applying a red-ish "tint" to the whole screen whenever under 50% HP, with the tint more intense the closer you are to die.
I do not know whether and how much this is applicable to Crawl (especially with Webtiles in mind), but it may help at least as an inspiration.

Another point- Changing the fight difficulty is tricky due to the diverse playerbase. This. This and this yet again. I'm sorry if this post brings nothing new to the game, but please, be aware that if the game gets harder and harder to satisfy veteran players, it may as well have serious problems i...

Interesting change, if a bit against logic. I kinda liked the fact that as a Spriggan I simply had to take care about what items I carried, but I guess I can get used to this change.

My question is, how is drowning and scrambling out handled now?

Zicher joins the fray. Expect a few splats

and ten max HP from the damn death oozes (how ARE you supposed to avoid that?) if you get status then heal it with potions of curing and recover your missing HP, 1 potion will cure 1 HP (guess potions of heal wounds works too, tho never tried those). Potions of heal wounds and wands of healing reco...

I always use manual. As nooby as I sound I've got maybe a year of accumulated experience in the game (knew about it for two maybe and took a long break in between). I'm just still really bad. I've had absolutely no intention of calling you a noob :). But then I wonder why are you not focusing LBl (...

Both fighting and long blades have been trained since turn 1. The difference between the two is exactly...1 skill level. Are you using automatic or manual training? Automatic distributes XP between skills based upon their use, and melee fighting puts way more XP into weapon skill than into Fighting...

HenryFlower wrote:If you aren't using web tiles, I dunno.

Easy. After connecting to your server and logging in with your username/password you select your version (0.14 for this tourney) and then there you can select "o) Edit options" with the "o" key. This opens the rc editor.

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khalil wrote:Currently, killing Boris is rather pointless because he's going to show up again.
Thoughts?

And that is exactly the thing why Boris is _unique_. Not only in Crawl, but pretty much in any RL I've seen before.

GlassGo wrote:What is "plaing normally"?

Without intentional Pan/Abyss scumming, at least once you have all the runes from those places.

What if some of the weapons in the Hall of Blades spawned or could be made allies? Then the fact that it's full of overpowered enemies would be less souring since some of them would be on your side, you could use them to make positioning more important, etc Like... there's a unique low-MP/Skill inv...

Finesse does not stack with either haste of zerk, and zerk already contains haste, so these two do not stack either.

Confidence Interval wrote:How much nutrition does popcorn give?

1000 per chunk

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That spell set looks like all four unique Hell lords combined. This would be _deadly_.

duvessa wrote:SpEn ghost from a webtiles player

I seriously do not understand the feeling of condescencion against Webtiles and/or newer and/or curious and/or not-knowing-and-just-asking players I feel from certain users here.

Is it really almost five years since my first win? Man, all those changes, all those improvements both of the game and of me as a player, all the time spent on nearly two years hiatus ... /me is washed by waves of nostalgia ... The most interesting win of those eleven was a 23-rune MiFi of Oka->TSO ...

A kobold in Vaults may seem out of place, sure - until it shouts and wakes up that nearby yaktaur pack you were sneaking towards for some quick stabkills. Popcorn can still be dangerous.

0.02CZK: While the minotaur in Lab can become way more dangerous if he picks up some of the loot, this mostly happens when you already _see_ him picking up and equipping it. Seeing him pick up those items serves as a fair enough warning that the fight may quickly turn nasty. I found myself on the bu...

Currently, only manticores do this. So I think it will not be that annoying comparing to lose the char for this It might be very annoying when you're one step away from the manticore and you want to move that one step for the kill. In general, however, +1 for your suggestion when you are at Low Hit...

I can see the danger of experienced players thinking: "Oh, a four-staircase vault. I'll cast [whatever damages mimics] and see which of the stairs are mimics and which are true." Mimics are the real things until they are next to you, so that part isn't a concern (for example, you can appo...

I can see the danger of experienced players thinking: "Oh, a four-staircase vault. I'll cast [whatever damages mimics] and see which of the stairs are mimics and which are true." Still, I believe it might be interesting for newer players and/or if this be a very rare encounter. Then again ...

Zicher: I say it's alright. Back when I handled vault review duties, I would have accepted it. Since it's a bit gimmicky, just give it WEIGHT: 1. Good to hear that the idea is not totally out of place - thanks, Dpeg. Could you please point me to some vault-coding guidelines? Especially whether I ca...

An idea slipped through my mind while playing and seeing a staircase mimic in Lair. The idea: There is a vault in Lair:3-6 (where the Swamp/Snake/Spider/Shoals entrances normally appear). All of the four staircases are present in the vault. Two of them are actual staircases to the respective branche...

thromnambular wrote:Never blindly draw from a legendary deck of wonders. You might end up getting your 31 str shuffled with your 5 int.

In fact, that is a way to give your TrWz some real headstart.

I hear ice dragons breath on the water and create a frozen bridge ADoM has that. Then you can cross deep water over the ice bridge, provided you're not carrying too heavy a load. Then a fire-breathing dragon comes around while you're on the bridge... Or in a certain dungeon a certain monster confus...

Note that "TeamSplat" is already taken

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My 0.02CZK regarding SpBe: It is quite a challenging, yet very fun, combo to play. Very low HP, almost no AC at all and heavy reliance on permafood are the downsides. On the other hand, you get awesome EV (50+ in the endgame is nothing to sneeze at), awesome stabbing skills, and with all those corps...

Grimm wrote:we should stage a Great Outdoor Fight of all Crawl monsters

"Welcome to the Rrrrrrroyal Rrrrrrrumble!"

Beogh, after you convert an orc (high) priest:

"I said, DROWN THE UNBELIEVERS IN A SEA OF BLOOD!" *smite*

Flame, frost etc are very good to soften an early dangerous foo... 'Foo' is not a synonym for 'monster'. It's a placeholder most commonly used to represent a set of things that all have part of their names in common. (e.g. potion of gain foo to represent potions of gain str, dex and int; or summon ...

Stealth. Using meph at all means you give up on stealth. If a priest gets 2 smites off on a Sp before you get out of LOS, you were very unlucky or were making noise. Granted I have a meph addiction too, but I can certainly see that it's not essential if stealth is used. I have to disagree again. By...

That's what I generally do, even if it is not a good thing, find orcs, spam meph, spam magic bolt. Win. Sometimes die, more ofthen than not I don't. But meph is pretty awesome, so is iron shot :D The discussion was VM not Wz. VM have sting so there's no reason to meph orcs unless you can't get away...

Link wrote:That's what I generally do, even if it is not a good thing, find orcs, spam meph, spam magic bolt. Win. Sometimes die, more ofthen than not I don't.

Fair enough, if you know when to bail out and call it even

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Cardhalia Cardhalia is a grid-based dungeon game we created quite a long time ago now. As the game was very successful in those times in Czech Republic, we were asked to create an English version so it can be played by people who don’t know the Czech language. We decided to proceed this idea and ho...

The problem with using meph against orcs as spvm is you actually have to get closer to use it than to use sting, so you're actually putting yourself in more danger by using it than by not using it. True in general, but it depends on the situation at hand. If you bump into them just around the corne...

njvack wrote:Bug, right? I'm not expected to read mapping and start torching trees or anything?

Read that mapping and post the results, this certainly sounds interesting.

Venom mages specialize in poisoning enemies and then running away while the poison does its work. Spriggans have a very easy time doing that. This. Plus, spriggans have the advantage in their stealth, giving them good chances just to walk away before the unbeatable enemy you just noticed wakes up. ...

I love it even more when, after a few weeks, the same boss uses the internal communicator to get my help regarding the Swamp ending. What did you tell him? That the Lernaean hydra can easily be killed with a +0 hand axe? :-) I'd like to keep my job, thank you ;). For the record, it was the undead/m...

I love it when I'm bored at work, so I start Crawl yet again, and I don't notice my boss coming around and looking over my shoulder until he says: "You really shouldn't be doing this at work." I love it even more when, after a few weeks, the same boss uses the internal communicator to get ...

TehDruid wrote:There should be an IQ test prior to picking your combo. You are eligible to play a species with starting INT <= IQ/10

No more Deep Elf Wizards and the like'

If I met three groups of orcs in a row with spvm I can tell you I almost certainly wouldn't be using meph on them. You have move delay 6, put it to use. Oh, that's what I do :). The help of meph simply grants me a much better chance of actually killing those dudes, instead of just running from them...

crate wrote:You could also just put xp into useful places so you don't need to be using meph....

Again, it's my SpVM point of view. Meet three groups of orcs in a row, each with a priest, and you'll be really happy meph-spamming them, instead of getting several smites in the face.

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 ...

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