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lol best of luck, my games thus far have generated Spider and Shoals :p

Let us know how things go!

Well I would definitely not recommend Elf (Elf 3 has master archers, demonologists etc that can ruin your day without high AC/EV and MR I believe), so it's between Swamp and Snake. Do you have a source of rPois? I'm not sure how important it is for Swamp, but I know it's a big help in Snake. If you ...

Hmm, does 8 total games played and one 4 rune win qualify me to start giving advice?

Uh...lol? Hydras will kill anything up to and including orbs of fire. Mennas becomes a trivial non-threat if you have Summon Hydra castable. You may as well tell me that Trolls are bad at unarmed combat, that is the level to which you are talking nonsense. My 1 on 1 melee duel with Mennas was the h...

Maybe I'm just missing the obvious, but are you saying the spell is good or bad lol Here is a simple guide you can use to help you decide which spells to learn: Anything that uses either the Charms school of magic or the Summoning school of magic, and is NOT named Song of Slaying, is absurdly overp...

And why wasn't it added to another, maybe even a new god? Necromancers have it made with Kiku, why were summoners given the shaft?

I would say if it did guarantee every scorpion to be friendly it would be overpowered. Even with the summon gap and even against the opponents that are poison resistant. It is overpowered already. The 4 cap succeeded in making it not overpowered due to the fact that it completely neutered the entir...

Just completed my current game, which was the reason I made this thread. Was my first crawl win, 4 runes from shoals, spider, slime and vaults. I found the slime pits to be fairly easy, but I did them last before heading to Zot. I swapped between an artefact rCorr amulet and an rMut amulet and it wo...

I don't know how to get a dump for a character that ascended with the Orb (will post it though if someone tells me!). Anyways, just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has been sharing their knowledge, experiences etc and giving me advice when I post dumps, especially Cerebovssquire. Beati...

Don't forget the halbard to go with that D1 Gnoll. I love poison, preferably in the form of finding a nice big stack of curare needles, but yeah adders are among the worst of the things you'll meet on D2 and they don't sleep on the job all the time like that lazy Sigmund chap. That said being poiso...

Yea I also meant are there circumstances where attaining your runes from something besides spider/snake, shoals/swamp and vaults becomes desirable (maybe you lack poison resistance but have good gear to do slime or crypt/tomb or something, I'm still quite new to the game, currently on my eighth or s...

Like elf, crypt, slime pits, hall of blades and tomb? I assume pandemonium and the hells are purely for extended, same with voluntary trips to the abyss, but as for the rest are there particular reasons to go there on a 3 rune game besides extra challenge?

Specifically, why can they appear hostile? Summon ice beast has no chance of summoning hostile, you do get more than one scorpion but aren't they significantly weaker than an ice beast?

Does high spell power prevent hostile scorpions arriving, or just increase the number/duration of the summons?

I got ambitious and just plowed down to D27 all the way to the Zot entry chamber. I read that hubris kills, and I'm trying to take things as cautiously as I can, but my character seems to have become fairly powerful at some point and the monsters in the regular dungeon can no longer challenge me muc...

Great to know, thanks guys. Yea I was asking for the benefit of my current character, the demonspawn. He has 4 hexes skill and I was wondering if invis or mass confusion or something would be a good investment (would require further training of the skill but I have numerous spell books with mid leve...

The wiki says it's not as good as one might think, but seeing as I've seen a tavern goer who seems extremely knowledgeable say it's one of the best effects in the game, I'm thinking this is one instance where the wiki is not quite on the money? I have the spell available and already have some hexes ...

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. The armour seemed pretty amazing, it would probably be a mistake to ignore it. I had planned on learning haste and invis, but that may be a bit too much in the chain.

Edited the original post with a better dump, and yea the armour was a different type. It's included now in my inv in the dump

The hero mail in my stash seems very nice, but kills my spellcasting and hampers stealth (in case it's not in dump or hard to find, it's a +8 ring mail artefact with rF++ rC+ rN+ and curse). That's an interesting complaint, considering that it has the exact same spellcasting/stealth penalty as the ...

Here's my latest dump, realized I got the abbreviations wrong but it's all there in the dump anyways Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. Kael the Carver (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 78177, Time: 23:56:08 HP 152/152 AC 21 Str 20 XL: 18 Next: 6% MP 28/28 EV 19 Int 11 God: Ma...

crate wrote:With summoning in particular worshipping sif for books is a good idea.

Very disappointing, I really wish Vehumet's summoning support wasn't removed. Being locked into choosing the same god every time I want a reliable summoning game kind of sucks.

Yes, the lajatang is excellent and, if enchanted, will clear the whole game with ease. Switch to Staves. The brand is also excellent, don't change it. That weapon is powerful enough to allow someone to beat DCSS with ease? One item can really do that? I thought this game had a pretty brutal difficu...

So between the 3 ranks of nightstalker mutation that I randomly gained, and my choice of gear, I am "extremely stealthy". Are there any good tips and tricks to maximizing this aspect of a character?

Specifically, summoning spells, if I don't choose Sif Muna? I really don't want to be locked into choosing her just to make sure I find more summoning spells beyond what my beginning book provides.

Just shot bolts of fire at it, retreated from it's LOS, then repeated until dead. The bolts actually were going over the water, the steam just had me confused. Thanks guys!

Let us know how your run ends (with the orb or in ruin :p)

Thanks for your replies, will try some of the suggestions and report back

It's guarding a pile of treasure, and is tempting me. I have a ring of flight and wands of fire, but throwing bolts of fire over the water from land just dissipates them and creates steam. I feel like evoking flight and flying to its island will be the end of me as it blasts me with its spells en ro...

Here's my latest dump Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) character file. Kael the Carver (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 45204, Time: 14:47:57 HP 112/112 AC 15 Str 18 XL: 15 Next: 13% MP 28/28 EV 15 Int 10 God: Makhleb [******] Gold 1608 SH 10 Dex 17 Spells: 5 memorised, 11 levels left Res....

Yea I mean I'm a total newb to crawl, but I feel like people are being a bit hard on the wiki. People are clearly putting a good deal of effort into it (they should be thanked for this), and I'm getting the sense that it's far from perfect, but that effort is definitely appreciated and so far for me...

Knowledge bot?

Thanks, is claws 1 worth training a bit of UC for? It may mutate further into claws 2 or 3, it may not. As it stands now I have nothing else to put in that hand (besides a shield that greatly hinders spellcasting) and a pair of +0 gloves

As in you can only have so many sources of them actually work? My demonspawn has horns three, hooves 2 and claws 1, he kicks and headbutts all the time but I've never, ever seen him use his offhand (always empty, not wearing gloves) be used for an offhand slash or anything like that. Any idea why not?

Seriously, you guys just rock. The wiki for this game is massive, detailed, looks great and so very helpful. Cheers

My 5th or so game, going much, much better than my previous attemps (none of which made it passed D6-7). Had a few near death run-ins lately, and I really want to take this character further, so I decided to come to the forums with my dump and ask the veterans for advice. Here is said dump Dungeon C...

Thanks for sharing your strategies guys, I'll read-ID my scrolls and wait for more identification scrolls to ID the potions

If read ID'ing a scroll asks me to choose an item to use it on, can I potentially harm my venom short sword by choosing it?

Does the game track your time spent on each level and only spawn out of depth monsters when you reach a certain turn limit for that specific level? Or is the OOD timer general, as in after a certain point ALL floors will begin spawning OOD monsters? I ask because I'm wondering if too much hiking aro...

I'd like to know people's preferred strategies for ID'ing the hordes of potions and scrolls you accumulate, I have many but have been badly burned by use-ID'ing them in the past. If anyone would like to give specific advice to my current situation, here is my character dump Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup ...

What about learning spells though? I've read that some of those spells I could use if I went for a lighter equipment loadout are extremely helpful (repel missiles, blink, mephitic cloud), and with plate armour I'm guessing I won't be casting anything anytime soon or ever. Also, how do I make the mos...

Found the folder, edited my first post as appropriate!

The game said it dumped my char info to C, Users, Owen, AppData, Roaming, but I've checked around and the only things I'm seeing are "Intel" and "Wireless" folders?

So I'm in my first relatively successful game (it's all relative, probably achieved extremely little compared to most players here ;) ), and I have a few questions as to optimal choices given my circumstances and how to best to proceed. Here's my dump Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.1 (tiles) ...

If I want the newest (stable) tiled version of the game?

Thanks in advance fellow dungeon goers

Haha yea I embraced the losing is fun mantra when I was learning Dwarf Fortress. I'm psyched this game has a tiled version, does it run much slower than the non-tiled version?

Just found out about the game and it looks great. I could definitely use some assistance though with the following - I'd like to play just single player with the newest version that is stable and polished, which version of the game should I get and where can I download it? - I read in a review that ...

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