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Well, it's not just him. I mean you have comments like this Wow, deep dwarfs and Cheibriados are a really good match. I just made it to the lair and I already have several resistances and all my stats in the 30s. And this and definitely just burn the scroll of fog, those things are useless. That sh...

I'm reading through the thread at Giant In the Playground and there is so much wrong and bad information. It makes me :'(, especially when I think of the ways that I perhaps led other astray in the past. I'll admit I only came in at about .11 or so, thus this thread for me is making it hard to disc...

Then perhaps you might consider Ashenzari? Ashy will warn you about distortion weapons, at which point you can take whatever precautions you need to.

Based on my experiences with it, it's definitely more dangerous but far from unmanageably so. It's just actually interesting now, whereas the old Crypt was "come in here and spend some time doing easy crap for easy points for your easy-o-meter."

If you don't want ammunition or throwing weapon gifts, keep your throwing skill(or bow or crossbow skills for that matter) below 8. Also, Zot is easier than Slime Pits in just about every sense. Going into Slime Pits like that was a pretty big mistake. You could have switched to Zin to deal with the...

And 100% of the time, manual XP allocation is preferable to automatic XP allocation.

Well, it's up to you to decide if it's worth it or not. In my SpEn game, I gave up on getting fifteen runes even though I had everything in my pocket pretty much for doing so, because after twenty hours(and five more runes than I'd ever gotten before, and a SpEn that had 8 runes and then splatted) I...

Oh my goodness, yes, slap that Robe of the Archmagi on right now. I found one of those rather early in my SpEn victory game and kept it on the whole way through. It'll make quite a difference. If you can get LCS, you probably should. It's more accurate than Iron Shot and can do more damage, especial...

The Lernaean Hydra actually does exist. (Seriously in over nine hundred games I had never seen it before (I've had that Swamp ending, but never actually ran into it for some reason). Just now it came out and bit a large number of chunks out of me, causing me to burn the only scroll of blinking I've...

Congrats on the win. Also that's good to know that the Lantern of Shadows can actually be useful somehow. I've never used it or the other elemental summoning thingies before, but the impression I'd gotten from what I read on the forum was that they weren't useful at all.

Yeah, you definitely want maxed out stealth almost immediately. Short blades is fine where it is for stabbing--with it there plus maxed out stealth you'll be able to kill anything in the game in one stab except for Pan lords and Hell lords. (And even then, if my stabs on Mnoleg were any indication, ...

Apparently kobolds can spawn with exploding darts on D:1. And can kill you while you're putting on a pair of gloves.

If you don't mind another random piece of advice, I will suggest that you turn off spellcasting for a while. You already have zero hunger for all your memorized spells and loads of spell levels free. Instead I would train a little dodging, at least to around 5. Are you going to memorize fulminant p...

All right. I think I'll go ahead for armour then. Thanks, Rchandra!

EDIT: Ah, carp. It gave me a shield of protection. Which isn't bad but...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-1673-gf59dc81 (tiles) character file. Kyronea the Conjurer (Deep Elf Conjurer) Turns: 11798, Time: 00:55:41 HP 50/50 AC 6 Str 5 XL: 10 Next: 13% MP 30/30 EV 13 Int 24 God: Ashenzari [*.....] Gold 107 SH 0 Dex 15 Spells: 5 memorised, 16 levels left Res.Fire :...

LCS doesn't miss all that often in my experience. It's what I used to kill Orbs of Fire on my SpEn, and that character wasn't even primarily geared for destructive spellcasting.

You might be killing yak squads fairly easily with Mystic Blast, but that storm dragon you just ran into on D:13 can still eat your face in two hits. Pay attention to Ashenzari's warning of "super strong monster" next time, goofball.

I think dungeon level 8 is too late for identifying unknown scrolls. I usually do it at level 4 (magic mapping can help to find temple), the only exception is when I am going to worship Ash who automatically detects curse foo and remove curse. It really is. See, I just generally prefer to avoid use...

I'm really sorry for your loss. That is just so painful to have had this happen to your character.

Teleport is not always a reliable escape method. Sometimes it will place you in the worst possible spot:

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(Wand was out of charges after that, and while I had recharge amongst my scrolls, I found it too late.)

After investing so much XP into Maces and Flails, I see no reason to switch to something else for the sake of an artifact. You've got a pretty good weapon that you should be expending enchant scrolls on--you did save any you ran across for a demon whip, right? As for spells, it depends upon how far ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-1445-g95d0da8 (tiles) character file. 6273908 Kyronea the Archmage (level 27, 133/133 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on June 10, 2013. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Escaped with the Orb ... and 11 runes on June 15, 2013! The game lasted 18:52:17 (153687...

mumra wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if you meet it again in another game...

Nor would I. Only so long as I don't meet again this game, is all that matters to me right now. I'll deal with that situation when it arises.

After some dithering I finally decided to chance hopping to another floor to see. And it turns out that, yes, you do leave your ghost behind. Thus, question answered. (Hopefully this thread can be useful to anyone searching for the answer to this question in the future.)

So, starting a new SpEn game after my last one splatted in Pan with 8 runes, I just came across the ghost of said SpEn in Pan. My question is simple--so simple that I didn't think it hadn't been asked before, and yet, couldn't find it in searches. If a player ghost spawns in Pandemonium, does it con...

I've had Okawaru gift me with Maxwell's Patent Armour once. Also boots of running, and some other good things. But for the most part, yeah, you don't choose Okawaru for the gifts. You choose Okawaru for Heroism and Finesse, which carry you through until you switch to TSO if you want to do endgame ar...

Good advice all. To address specific points: Siegurt: Yeah, you're definitely right about that. Originally when I played mutation roulette I only had -10% HP, but it kept getting more debilitating as things mutated me despite the mutation resistance. I wanted to cure my mutations--I was constantly t...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-1445-g95d0da8 (tiles) character file. 757376 Kyronea the Ninja (level 27, -12/99 HPs) Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on June 6, 2013. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Mangled by Ignacio ... wielding a +6,+7 executioner's axe of pain (25 damage) ... in Pandemoni...

Getting antennae 1, evolution, and chameleon all on D:3 as a SpEn is great! But if you do you will invariably do something stupid to get yourself killed, like trying to melee an orc wizard instead of casting Ensorcelled Hibernation. Or rather, the real lesson: remember your weaknesses as well as you...

If you've identified scrolls of immolation, it's not a good idea to leave them in your inventory. Especially not if you're clumsy like me and misclick the wrong item sometimes when going for a scroll of teleport. 16854 Kyronea the Destroyer (level 12, -3/61 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Conjurer on June ...

Congratulations! I am not sure I understand your complaint about restistances. I have never had rF++, rC+++, rElec, rPois, Clarity, rCorr, Cons and SInv in any of my games, even after getting 15 runes. Well, in my last couple of games where I got to three or four runes and then died before seeing t...

Grats on first win. My next game will be very much a caster with high levels of necromancy, so that I can use lichform. Torment is horrible--the small amount of time I spent in the Tomb before running for my life taught me how horrible it was and it kept being horrible anywhere else I went too. I w...

This is why I personally recommend keeping a decent amount of food on your person, if you can carry it. It might seem excessive, but it's better than this. Especially when you're about to go for the Orb, the best thing you can do is drop everything you don't need, and carry anything you might just i...

So, after the advice received on this forum in many places, as well as just taking the time to play more carefully, I've finally managed to win a game of Crawl. I, admittedly, wanted to take this game a lot further than I did. A lot of things were set up for a fifteen rune run. But I couldn't, for r...

Moths of wrath berserk everything and will happily do so just before you kill them, leaving you with a swarm of draconians to murder your face. Also for goodness sake: don't panic. This game is turn based. Always pay attention and STOP before you continue to act. The very worst thing you can do is d...

Usually Vaults 5 is done after Dungeon 27. I ran into Boris on D23 and didn't look back after running. That was before I got the runes from the Lair branches though. I probably would have been able to take him then but I decided to try Vaults 5 first. I'll avoid doing that next time though. Always ...

384589 Kyronea the Shatterer (level 23, -25/226 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Fighter on May 18, 2013. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Annihilated by an ettin ... wielding a +0,+2 dire flail (28 damage) ... on Level 5 of the Vaults on May 19, 2013. The game lasted 07:51:09 (77827 turns). Kyronea the Shatt...

Watch the weapons those orcs are carrying more carefully. Even if you're level 16, have crystal plate armor, a +4, +5 great mace of holy wrath, etc etc, an orcish warrior with a vampiric battleaxe can still waste you if he has enough help. Even if you've help of your own from BiA. Never take on more...

So I dunno if it qualifies for this thread, but on D6 in my current game (MiBe) I've found four different shops, including one food shop, and a whole heap of uniques. Sigmund, Eustachio, Blork the Orc, Grinder, Dowan and Duvessa, Pikel, and Ijyb. As far as I can tell, everyone was on their weekend s...

Just because you can handle wights in melee with a single hit doesn't mean you should. Sometimes they have weapons of distortion and they will banish you to the Abyss and then nothing you do will save you no matter how far you run.

I'll just say this is already proving to be helpful to me. I've been playing Crawl for a while, off and on, and the furthest I'd ever gotten was with a MiFi to just before the Vaults. Most of the time I die before or just after seeing the Temple, and from what I can see here the primary reason for t...

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