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Amnesiac wrote:Hmm, bots playing crawl. I haven't heard about that.

I'm a bot designed to make stupid mistakes and constantly lose.

Psiweapon wrote:TvTropes will ruin your life and your vocabulary.

Besides that, I pretty much worship it

The terrible posters and their creepiness sure will, I agree

...until I read up on evil gods and I stumbled upon this: "Ambiguity in the Crawl notion of 'Evil' [...] How the hell did this psuedo-philosophical nonsense get past the radar? There is so much wrong with this passage I don't even know where to start. First, I really, really don't think that a...

I'm not sure where to put this so because this is the catch all forum, I'll just slam it here. How often does the settings folder change? I used to overwrite the settings folder every time I downloaded a new trunk version but that got to be a huge pain in the ass, so I just overwrite everything else...

Hi, I'm playing DCSS trunk, 0.14-a0-2632-gd2f732a (today's build) in Tiles on Windows 8 and the health and magic bars are extremely dark and almost blend into the background. Normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal and I have been ignoring it but I'm currently playing a lava orc and it's extrem...

I don't know if this is better here or in design questions, but here goes...

So I got a new computer and unpacked the latest trunk version. Where's tiles_options.txt now? I'd like to play in a window and it's just not there.

I'm playing Trunk, and my spell failure %s with a couple spells are displayed in red. Lightning Bolt is 45%, and Bolt of Cold and Freezing Cloud are 100%. My spellcasting is 4.1, my Conjurations is 6.9 and my Air Magic is 2.2. I'm not wearing any armor or wielding a shield. Why are they red?

I'd say fighter, because MD is IMO the only species for which you could make some kind of argument that fighter is a better choice than gladiator. Once MD are gone, they might as well remove the fighter background as well. Wait, why'd they remove the MD? Too similar to Hill Orcs and... another spec...

Jeremiah wrote:I'd say fighter, because MD is IMO the only species for which you could make some kind of argument that fighter is a better choice than gladiator. Once MD are gone, they might as well remove the fighter background as well.

Wait, why'd they remove the MD?

Maybe this should be the general quick question thread?

I have one myself: Do rods still only train Evocations?

XuaXua wrote:The game wiki is horribly out of date.

Would you say the Knowledge Bots are a better resource to rely on, then?

Only problem, of course, is that the classic Deep Dwarf CK of Makhleb start is now gone. Oh well, I'll just have to zap myself with the wand until I find an altar.

This means a zot trap is nearby, right? So why am I seeing this message on Dungeon 1?

If I throw a branded weapon, does the brand affect the target as it would if I wielded then hit that monster?

"I don't think my character will get hungry soon, I'd better sacrifice this corpse." Guess what happens the next turn?

Is there ever any point where a character specializing in unarmed should switch to weapons? Transmuters have this covered by Blade Hands, but how about other builds, such as troll berserkers?

Haha, you're right. I guess I just push z then a so fast when fulsome distillating that I didn't even notice.

I might just be stupid, but in the latest version of trunk (4788) there's a way to make a certain spell default (it asks if you want to cast it whenever you cast a spell) Evaporate was set to this and I have no idea how, or how to turn it off. Is it because I'm playing a Transmuter?

Relatively, I'm a noob. However, I've been to the Lair and beyond, and I've never even thrown a single item, ever.

Not D1, but D2: Ring of Slaying +2, +6 with a Felid Crusader. Too bad he was killed by a wight a couple levels later when I decided to press on instead of resting off a Berserker Rage.

I had bad slowdown too, using tiles-0.8.0-a0-4377-g2e00b12. However, now that I switched to tiles-0.8.0-a0-4390-gc2f102f, it's gone. Even with the new command console present.

I have similar stats to Regnix, except I have a GeForce 9400, and Windows 7.

Speaking of Ash, is he still bugged so that being at highest piety with him crashes the game?

I will admit that I haven't really tried summon imps that much, the only time I used it I couldn't kill anything with it because whenever my imps got into range they would blink away. It was really annoying so I just stopped using the spell altogether. I had a hard time killing rats and goblins wit...

Don't assume you can stave off hunger with transmuted potions of water, either - you still have to chop chunks. I learned the hard way.

Easily my favourite Roguelike, with Incursion and IVAN following close behind.

If I have a weapon with a -CAST attribute, can I still get spellcasting 1 by reading scrolls?

Just started a Demigod Gladiator, and a few steps from the entrance room, behind a hobgoblin that got quickly captured in one of my nets and disposed of was this thing I had never seen before-newbie here remember. It was blue and it looked like it was some kind of monster like a newt with four arms...

Crawl's tileset is gorgeous. The only ASCII roguelike that I still play at all is Incursion, and if Julian Mensch ever adopts a good tileset, I'd switch. I don't have a problem with ASCII, I'm just kind of tired of it. Not to mention that the tileset has enabled me to get a few buddies into Crawl, w...

Forgive me if this is the wrong place or is a totally dumbass question, but what exactly do the racial modifiers do for weapons? Tying it into the topic here, if I have a regular +1,+1 short sword and a +1,+1 short sword with any of the three racial qualities should I always use the racial one?

How about elemental people a la the genasi from D&D? Start out with a high magic attribute for their element and gain a single + in resistance at a high level? Or conversely, have a permanent + in their corresponding element, but a permanent - in the opposing one? Of course there would have to b...

I've never played a centaur, mostly because I hate ranged combat in this game. I agree that demigods are not very interesting: they have no god and get something in return which may be good enough but is just not as cool. However, I came up with an idea I like a lot, called "abstract worshipper...

I don't know if this is really a YASD or just being killed by the RNG, but... I just rolled up a DECj. The first dungeon chamber was next to one filled with monsters, including jellies. It had transparent crystal walls, and a door with a warning scrawled on it. So I set a travel restriction on it an...

So, do helmets and gloves incur spellcasting penalties, like body armour? If I'm playing as an elf caster of any kind, is it advisible to wear elven armours of leather and above?

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Re: SpeedRunning

Re: I thought the wiki was good until...

Re: I thought the wiki was good until...

Settings Folder

Health/Magic Bars Too Dark

Super dumb question

Re: The 'Questions too small to need their own thread' threa

Re: Mountain Dwarf, what class/god?

Re: Mountain Dwarf, what class/god?

Re: Load of newbie questions

Re: Makhleb CKs?

You hear a distant "Zot!"

Re: Which weapon should I use?

Re: Immutable Laws of the Dungeon of Zot

Re: Which weapon should I use?

Re: Auto-spell?

Auto-spell?

Re: early game balance

Re: Good finds on D:1

Re: DC performance issues

Re: Ash's wrath?

Re: Deep Elf Summoner

Re: Potions and transmuters: how to use appropiately?

Re: Thank you!

Re: Which weapon should I use?

Re: Good finds on D:1

Re: ASCII vs. Tiles

Re: Which weapon should I use?

Re: What new race you would like to see?

Re: What species do you never play?

YASD - Jellied on D:1

Non-body armour and spellcasting