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Can TRJ be actually banished with the ability? Wiki says it has MR 196, so no go. With disto weapon yes, but you'll probably have to hit it 10 times.

So in the case of fireball, for example, tracers could also be fired to the squares surrounding the target monster. Then the balrug could select a target spot which wouldn't hurt it's allies, if possible.

Of course we can just say that it's a demon after all and not shy about hurting allies.

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Yeah well he completely resisted so it wasn't much of a sacrifice from his part.

I guess balrugs can't aim their fireballs next to the target so that the blast wouldn't hurt the one who summoned them.

I don't really like it when a friendly balrug (by Makhleb) casts fireball that both hurts me and destroys my scrolls (this is 0.14). But I guess this is intended behaviour? Your balrug gestures at the golden dragon. The fireball explodes! The fireball engulfs the golden dragon. The golden dragon res...

First of all, I didn't mean to insult anyone who's been killed after Lair, when I used the expression "stupid mistake". I also said that I think the difficulty level for "new players and so called regular players" is just fine. But for those who want extra challenge, HP scaling w...

Well, In Orc you can go downstairs and be immediately in a very good position for a ?immolation (a bunch of regular orcs with some tougher ones in the middle). I wouldn't call it useless.

I think the difficulty level of Crawl for new players and so called regular players is just fine. However, I also think (like I guess many others) that after Lair the game is quite easy if you know what you're doing and avoid any stupid mistakes. So I understand that some people would like the game ...

Dropping all your cursable items is much more interesting and fun. does anyone actually care about lower-case 'mummy' death curses like, at all. ever Why do you think people went to the trouble of using summons to evade them, then? Yeah. Most characters don't do Tomb, so mummy death curses just mea...

XL 19 DDAs with Short Blades 2 and Axes 16 acquires a glowing short sword. I should've known better than to acquire a weapon...

Ratboiler wrote:Perhaps i should have ran for the stairs a few turns before.

Most probably. I know how you feel, I did it once myself with a GrSu - only I was already on D:1.

Better luck next time!

You could have ended the transformation yourself, couldn't you?

I wouldn't ditch Trog. You can still use Hand for more MR when facing banishers or sentinels, for example. Also for regen. And bros are always useful when facing dangerous stuff. If you decide to do Slime, a bro or two for TRJ make it smooth. Also wrath is not nice.

It seems to me that the rod works differently than the spell, which depends on location too. At least my current DDAs used it in Spider and got a troll, ogre, ice dragon, stone giant, ugly things etc. (Evo about 14 - 15.) No spiders. With the spell I'd expected to get usual Spider inhabitants.

If the wand or spell is removed, some aspects of the game have to be rebalanced accordingly.

My suggestions, _if_ something has to be done: make Haste level 8, reduce the chance of getting the wand with acquirement. One alternative would be to significantly lower the duration of haste.

Congrats! A Demigod for first win is quite cool.

Really even if a random 1/3 of the gods weren't available on a particular game, it's not like there would be *no* god available that you could use, and use effectively. But if I wanted to play a god I haven't won with yet, and none of those gods would be available, I'd feel gutted. You might have t...

Don't train stealth, it's useless.

Ice beasts.

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Answer to the original question: go ask them nicely.

In Linley's Dungeon Crawl 3.40, several slimy runes were possible. IIRC, all treasure vaults on Slime:6 had a chance of containing a rune. I got two slimy runes once: Dungeon Crawl version 3.40 character file. Ajaja the Annihilator (Human) (Level 27 Reaver) Experience : 27/987777 Strength 18 Dexteri...

Yeah, there are _so_ many situations where you'd really want to swap out that ring...

One lesson to be learned from this is never to quaff !mutation or eat mutagenic meat. You really want to save all cure mutation potions in case you get some really bad mutations at some point.

Elf:3 is definitely not the most dangerous place in the entire game, not even close.

Have you tried iTerm or iTerm2 for OSX? It should be better than the standard terminal.

Yeah, that's what they keep telling me ;) My only defense is that when I started Crawl, there was no online. And I'm too old to change my habits.

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Learned LCS, and though failure is low, hunger is extremely high, so it won't get used much until spellcasting goes even higher. Nevertheless, it's a beaut. Reading up on it, it's possible with good rolls to get ~250 damage in a single shot. Does this mean that any of the monsters who know that spe...

It seems to be that when something is claimed to be indisputable, there actually is a hell of a lot to dispute.

I thought something was going to be done for the death curses to make Tomb *less* annoying.

Found a potion of beneficial mutation. Casting: Regeneration Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells. Aiming: Apportation Press: ? - help Apport: a potion of beneficial mutation Yoink! You pull the item towards yourself. T - a potion of beneficial mutation Unknown command. Drink...

After a 7-runer HEMo I started up a DEHu. I should've gone for 8 runes but when I realized that this character could actually win, I decided to just get 3 runes and my first ever streak in my long and windy Crawl career. I did Elf, Crypt, and Blade, though, as I always do. Boringly, I went Okawaru a...

I'd also like to point out that there are more possibilities than 3 or 15 runes. For example, my last 3 victories were with 5, 6 and 7 runes. I really enjoy the possibility of doing whatever parts of extended I want with a certain character.

3. Quaff potion 4a. If you got something bad, wait it out Would you really risk getting confusion or strong poison without the possibility of reliable curing? Doesn't sound like fun to me. I'm not a developer, but I'm pretty sure there's about zero chance for a race with this kind of gimmick to get...

Extremely annoying? None. All of Crawl is quite enjoyable. However, the branch I like the least is Depths. Clearing a single level of U seems to take 3 times the time it took to clear a D:twentysomething. Most importantly, because I'm a dinosaur, in my opinion Crawl should have 27 Dungeon levels (it...

If I am a weak mage, and can carry 20+ rations, then starvation will never "await me" on the Labyrinth. That was a price for being weak. Now everything goes into INT and/or DEX. Hmm, I don't remember if I've ever had to eat more than one ration in a Labyrinth. Usually there's no need to e...

Commiserations. I'm pretty sure you'll be more careful from now on (at least for a while, until after a few more 15-runers you get sloppy again... :)

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Make also a siren rider which mesmerizes you and can't be killed before killing the kraken first.

I have an XL 19 DEHu with one ring of +MR, so MR is 4*19+40=116. I'd like to know how probable getting Marked is. It is always 125 (78 after stepdown). Characters with at least 178 MR are immune to this enchantment. (50% success rate when MR=78) Can anyone estimate what's the success rate for MR=116...

OK, I guess if they break the law of the dungeon, the punishment is death by being transferred to the Vaults for being slaughtered by the PC. It's just cruel.

To my surprise, Sigmund appeared in the Vaults. Usually he preys on 2nd and 3rd level characters, but now he was brave, trying a XL 20 adventurer. Quite out of his league. How is that even possible? I wonder what's the level range for Sigmund anyway. Wiki says D:2 - 7 which seems appropriate. Somet...

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How about wands don't zap-id at all if wand of random effects hasn't been identified? I mean, how can you tell the difference?

Exceptions: heal wounds (not randomly zappable), random effects (if 2 zaps give different effect).

Btw. I'm not serious.

But at least my experience was that elven cloaks and boots were more common than boots of stealth. No idea what the actual generation probabilities were. Of course, those were still mostly just a slight improvement over plain cloaks and boots, if nothing better had been found. Getting rid of useless...

tasonir wrote:Edit: The NaTm morgue is kind of funny, in its own way: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/tasonir/mor ... 100215.txt

Why didn't you cast Beastly Appendage?

khalil wrote:I played Nethack once and ended up clawing my own eyes out.

(sorry for OT) 20 years ago, Nethack was the greatest roguelike (I've ascended all classes and then some). Unfortunately, its development stopped 10 years ago.

The things I miss are branded elven ring mails for spellcasters and elven cloaks and boots for all kinds of characters.

Just for the record: I'm sure that autofight is good when used sensibly and if I were a new player picking Crawl up as the first roguelike, I would definitely use it.

Aule wrote:So, on the off chance that I try another build, what would be the species/background of the unbeatable tank alluded to in prior posts?

Well, MiBe would be at the opposite end of gameplay spectrum compared to DEWz.

Playing with different kind of characters would teach you different aspects of the game faster than just sticking with one type.

(When I started Crawl, I played one game with each race-background combination. That first round amounted to 356 games and my first 6 victories.)

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