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Bump, more tales of the spider's nest people! For a new year!

I decided to quaff 4 mutation potions and eat 5 chunks of radiated meat because the game is still early, XP lvl 10. I got Positive - RC++ - Shaggy Fur 1 (+1 AC) - Clarity Negative - Clumsy (-2 Dex) - Weak (-2 Str) - Blurred Vision (Slow Scroll Reading) I also got bigger wings on my Draconian body an...

Awesome, thanks

As in how do I target enemies one square away with reaching weapons like spears? I can only use the keyboard for commands

Non-installer version? As in a compressed file of the game that needs to be manually unpacked before installing?

Can DCSS be run off a usb stick or external hardrive? My job has a fair amount of downtime some days, but there is a firewall in place or something that prevents downloading DCSS and websocket technology so I can't play online. If it can be run from an external storage device, how exactly would I go...

Specifically, the ability to fling volleys of spines similar to the ability used by manticores, with whatever adjustments deemed necessary for balance

Thoughts?

Changing up the format, if you have ever DIED in the Spider's Nest and remember the details, please share them here. They can potentially help the rest of us by avoiding similar mistakes, recognizing dangers etc, and if nothing else should prove interesting and/or entertaining. If you feel like shar...

Scroll of random uselessness serves one incredibly important purpose: You read the scroll AHGFAZ MORLEI. You summon a stream of butterflies! It was a scroll of random uselessness You read the scroll WHYDI DOTHIS. It was a scroll of immolation. The adder bites your butterfly. Your butterfly dies. Yo...

The idea to open up Beogh to other species is old, of course (with Ogres and Trolls as the canonical candidates). I don't think it's a good idea. Hill Orcs are a very broad species, so you can combine Beogh with anything Crawl offers you. The fact that Beogh is the orc god adds great flavour: Crawl...

The hell guys...Beogh's flavor, his flare, is in his unmitigated hatred of all foul non-orcs! Orcs are the chosen race, Beogh is their god, and you can be their messiah, but only as an orc dammit! Seriously though, making him available to non-orcs wrecks alot of what's cool about him IMO, and making...

what if you could have natural flight and fly all the way into the atmosphere and no one could target you.... whydon`t the devs put this in its realistic.... Could of course have a turn limit on staying submerged or something, it seemed like a fun mechanic if it was possible to implement properly. ...

Similar to that of swamp worms, fish, etc etc etc. Is there a reason aquatic player-species can't go under the surface of the water like aquatic monsters can? Balance issues perhaps? Or is this just something that's never been considered really?

As a Merfolk? Such a transformation would cause you to lose your swimming abilities and drown, no?

Topic, thanks in advance

Just lost the character due to being PO'd and making dumb choices. It's been a long time since a game actually got me angry, kind of sad on my part really, but holy fuck sticky flame is annoying.

It's just incredibly tedious to run and drop your scrolls when you sight something like a mottled dragon, and by far THE most annoying thing I have ever encountered in this game is getting hit with sticky flame and watching your scrolls go up in a whoosh. I just ran into a mottled dragon, had no tim...

Our more realistic options for a third rune to attempt the endgame and win are V5 and slime, both of which are brutal for those without certain items or abilities. What would really be cool IMO is a new branch with a rune, if the devs feel stair-stealing in V5 should remain in the game.

no, it was not unavoidable. I just put myself in a terrible situation. I breezed through Elf:3, and destroyed both Snake and Swamp. dephts was piece of cake as well, but vaults:5 messed me up completely. That sequence of events (switch snake with spider) just happened to me as well. Stepped down to...

It's a challenging break in, and that's cool. Where I feel things get too masochistic is how there's often vault wardens around who will seal the damn stairs back up, pitting you against often insurmountable odds and virtually guaranteeing your death if you don't happen to have certain escape option...

Well since none of the 20 or so viewers of this thread deigned to give me an answer, I took a guess and deleted the "Crawl" file in the Appdata folder. Hopefully that doesn't screw anything up down the road somehow.

There has to be a simple answer to this, I am just and always have been a bit un-savy with this sort of thing.

As in any records of past games, I tried uninstalling the game, deleting the download and re-installing it, but somehow Crawl remembers my past games.

Thanks in advance

I've learned enough about the game to have a decent understanding/handle on it, so I usually don't bring my character dumps to the forums anymore, but now and then I like to get new tips, feedback etc from the many players far, far better than I am around here. Here's my dump Dungeon Crawl Stone Sou...

51 damage!? Did not know a single bolt of cold could do that

Mishandled Zot 5 and splatted, was so close! I should have just used the 50 or so fruit I had to make an Oklob death wall in the middle of the map, waited/fought with everything that came along/that I could lure back there, and then went for the Orb. Oh well

Didn't just dive down to Zot entrance, slaughtered my way down with full clears on each floor, with a harrowing sojourn into the abyss spicing things up even more after a miscast (did NOT know that could happen lol). I've claimed D27 and the Zot entrance, one last trip back to my stash for an amulet...

If you are sure you are going to starve, converting to Jiyva will save you because jellies feeding feeds you as well. But that's rather drastic and probably careful play and possibly food acquirement will be enough, depending on the specifics of your situation. Since you already have 3 runes, it sh...

duvessa wrote:when u gt hungry eat food

haha guess I wasn't really missing anything with this particular mechanic, succinct and spot on as always Duvessa

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I've got a pretty good handle on the mechanics related to satiation levels, satiation action costs etc, but there's always things I miss that other player's know in any given area of the game. I've got a spriggan summoner going, 3 runes, just finished Vaults, but he's running low on comestibles. It ...

Amnesiac wrote:The title looks like a title of some book

LOL

It sounded cool to me, a new branch would be great IMO (if it applied to 3 rune games)

I thoroughly explore every level of D, lair and its branches (not slime) Orc mines and vaults. I thought that was the norm lol

Amnesiac: It's not the message I dislike (if your Orc was trivial, you've got all right to say this) but the tone. There was really no constructive way for me to react to this. Your explanation afterwards is very sensible. I believe that in the end, Crawl is too open for it's own good: it's a given...

lol was this a bad question or just one people don't know/are too lazy to answer

Does/will Fedhas grant friendship with the new plant-type monsters in 0.14, primarily found in the Enchanted Forest?

Crimson imps and phantoms? You can lure those guys upstairs and escape from them thanks to their random blinking, then go back downstairs Oh snap, can't believe I didn't think of that. I've achieved a 3 runer before, I should be thinking of these things by now! You just saved me a ton of headache l...

Based on anything; theme, convenience, rewards or whatever. Just kinda curious!

The description says it has an "easy time early on", but I assume this means VERY early on, because if you get unlucky spawns you start running into alot of poison resistant or outright immune enemies pretty quickly. Running works, but eventually I find there's fewer and fewer avenues/meth...

SublimeSnake wrote:Trying out potions on a cleared level (had already id'd mutation and cure mutation)
strong poison
no cure potion
died
YASD

No offense at all intended, but that's pretty fucking funny (and something I'd probably do as well lmao)

Arrhythmia wrote:
AzuredreamsXT wrote:Wait, did some guy post his idea for a new god, and the devs actually decided to implement it in 14? Or is the op a dev?

Yes and no, respectively.

Wow, mind kind of blown

Wait, did some guy post his idea for a new god, and the devs actually decided to implement it in 14? Or is the op a dev?

It sucks to lose a good character, especially when you could have saved it, which is usually the case for me even looking only at immediate tactics. I try to learn from my mistakes. My main lessons are a) recognizing an emergency situation, which I am getting a little better at, and b) not panickin...

Had a pretty phenomenal game going, saw a D:11 vault with some random monsters of little note along with a yaktaur captain trapped behind rock walls and translucent walls, but there was treasure in there too. In particular, a shiny looking staff. Used wand of digging to open up a hole and ran away, ...

Permadeath is something of a difficult adjustment for me lol, I just died with a character I really liked, a perfectly preventable death I might add, and it sucks! I'm so used to being able to reload and try again... Actually this brings up an important question, I hate losing characters probably be...

The hell...Dithmengos?

I think next time you should start as a wizard or as a conjurer. Those backgrounds are much better for your game plan (summoner/conjurer of Vehumet). I wanted to make sure I got at least one summoning book, that's why I started as a summoner. I figured Veh guarantees conjugation spells so I was cov...

Either starting as a summoner is kind of hard, or I just do not know how to manage one well. Enemy AI in this game, even "mindless" monsters, seem to always beeline past my minions and come straight for me. My hunger is becoming unmanageable, I'm scrambling from one fight to the next despe...

Also, in case you didn't know, you can get those 4 missing hit points back by drinking a healing potion or a few curing potions when at maximum health.

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