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savageorange wrote:I hope you at least use the 'repeat last command' key

Never.

Psiweapon wrote:[proposal]:Change [mechanic of the game] to [what I like] because of [buzzword]

Change eating to having sex because of fun. Yes, it works! Let's incorporate incubi and succubi to Crawl.

I think I've pressed TAB about a dozen times in >5 years of playing, so I hadn't thought of that as another culprit for YASD's. HOW?! As a melee character, not pressing tab would give me carpal tunnel after about 10 minutes of play!! Heh, I've pressed TAB about a dozen times in >15 years of playing...

SchwaWarrior wrote:Wiki, I think.

Who would've guessed?

Just out of curiosity: what made you turn your DSNe into a Vehumetian blaster? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

(I'd definitely take LCS.)

Although the interface is not a reason to disallow training the useless skills. (hitting * to expand the list could allow you to train anything, if for some reason that was desired) I think this would be the right solution (show all skills / show currently usable skills). If even more 'newbie prote...

If the probability of generating a flame cloud on a particular spot was tied to spellpower, the balance of the spell could be adjusted simply by that probability. It could be close to nonexistent at low spellpower.

Lesson learned: don't fight merged slime creatures. Try to pick slime creatures up one by one. If they merge, get out of their LOS. This makes them unmerge.

I agree that bolt of magma should probably go, if there's no reason for anyone to actually use it.

What about if bolt of magma had a chance of generating flame clouds in it's path? The chance should obviously scale with spellpower.

Eat which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit) Your spider closely misses Maud. Your worker ant bites Maud but does no damage. Your ice beast hits Maud but does no damage. Your yellow wasp barely misses Maud. Your ice beast hits Maud but does no damage. Maud hits your worker ant with a scimitar! Your sp...

It is very useful, because many dangerous monsters don't see invisible. The whole of Shoals:5, for example, or draconians in Zot, giants, many dragons etc. etc.

I died once on D:1 on my way back up with the Orb. After that I've tried to stay focused until it's over.

+1 for bone shard breath. They already hit hard enough for a dragon, they just lack the ranged capability.

I just had a challenging enough fight with the minotaur. I'm playing a DEHu (is it a challenge combo?) and was just about to enter Lair on D:11 when I fell through a shaft 2 floors down and there was a lab was on that level. The mino had a rod of swarm which prevented me from pin-cushioning it from ...

You fall through a shaft! The shaft crumbles and collapses. You hear a distant snort. Hark! There is an entrance to a minotaur's labyrinth on this level. Find the entrance quickly before the gate is sealed! That just happened to me, even went two levels down. Playing a DEHu, I had already found Lai...

Quicksilver DA: +speed.

Sandman25 wrote:I wonder when you stop counting wins ;)

Stop counting wins? But... that's crazy talk!

Also, congrats for the win. AC 38, EV 39 seems pretty solid for a 3-runer.

Congratulations, nice rune set for the first victory!

I would say both of your Abyss trips were quite short, though. Especially, you got the rune extremely fast. In my last game it took me 1243 turns in the Abyss to get the rune, and that felt like a breeze compared to some other times...

Sandman25 wrote:+5 pair of gloves "Thruzykk" {+Fly rPois Int+2}

Hey, a while ago you reported another pair of +5 gloves. How have you bribed the RNG?

You were probably just confused by Xom.

I don't know if you still need this tip but here it is: Leave krakens alone.

and into wrote:I think this thread could be read as an allegory about discussions of Crawl in Tavern in general.

Needs more Chei debate.

I like card games, so Nemelex, I guess.

In particular, you should only read-ID scrolls on a level that you have fully cleared, because 1) teleportation can land you in the middle of unexplored territory, surrounded by dangerous monsters 2) noise can wake up monsters, which is not as high risk but still annoying If I still have magic mapp...

SE's made pretty bad everythings due to their horrible HP, IIRC. True. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.1.2 (crawl-ref) character file. Sener the Elf of Death Race : Sludge Elf Res.Fire : + + . See Invis. : . Class : Necromancer Res.Cold : + . . Warding : + Worship : Kikubaaqudgha Life Prot.: . ....

Some statistics: I've played 521 games of Crawl. Of those, 24 were monks. For some reason, my second best monk so far was a tengu (actually kenku) who scored only 5801 points! high elf Monk 3887950 tengu/kenku Monk 5801 merfolk Monk 1700 draconian Monk 644 elf Monk 409 halfling monk 320 demigod Monk...

cerebovssquire wrote:(exceptions: Lair, Dungeon, Depths)

Some Lair:8 vaults are quite a bit harder than rest of the Lair, though. Dire elephants, for example (assuming it's still in).

A new race: Nostalgic. Selecting it will randomly give you an Elf/Grey Elf/Sludge Elf/Gnome/Mountain Dwarf/Hill Dwarf. Not sure about Ogre-Mage. Whenever a race is removed, it can be added to the Nostalgic list! And everyone's happy forever!

I guess HEMo is not a very popular combo due to the -2 UC and -1 Fighting aptitudes, but Nemelex in 0.14 is like an easy mode for Crawl. I stopped counting after 7 experience cards. I hit XL 27 before getting the second rune. So removing experience cards is clearly justified, although personally I w...

I've noticed that getting drained has the effect of making me play more stupidly and recklessly. Even though draining isn't usually a big deal, it's very annoying for some reason. I get the feeling that I have to get the required experience as fast as possible, which makes me careless. One of my &qu...

Hirsch I wrote:
Kaeoschassis wrote:
Hirsch I wrote:yeah, fuck porcupines.

I cannot recommend it.

dont worry, I'll use a condom.

They have condoms that fit a porcupine?

Hopeless wrote:I think the misconception is that people talk about crypt not having food when they mean not having corpses to eat.

...which is also a misconception, since there are at least deep dwarf, deep elf and necromancer corpses to eat (although not too many).

Hopeless wrote:And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion).

I really enjoyed the Hyperion quadrilogy by Simmons. Other similarly astonishing scifi writers are Alastair Reynolds and the late Iain M. Banks.

Just out of curiosity: has anyone tried playing the FoAE as an air elementalist rather than going for earth magic?

Just give them some more str to compensate and to take advantage of that armour aptitude. They're small but sturdy, you know.

Igxfl wrote:Only Nethack characters can go to heaven.

Nethack characters get their pets with them, too!

KoboldLord wrote:The owlbear, the rust monster, the gelatinous cube,

Nethack!

Extended is just as easy as everything else after Lair:1, man. I disagree, because of hellfire, torment, hell effects and mummy death curses. Slime and Abyss are usually quite easy after getting 3 runes, in my experience. And we have come full circle in this thread. None of those are actually that ...

tabstorm wrote:Extended is just as easy as everything else after Lair:1, man.

I disagree, because of hellfire, torment, hell effects and mummy death curses. Slime and Abyss are usually quite easy after getting 3 runes, in my experience.

FR: a unique named Monty Python. Tosses holy hand grenades. Abilities: "silly walk" (confuses you), "summon big stomping foot" (massive impact damage, shafts you).

stickyfingers wrote:
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Oh no! The game development will stop completely if the active devs are just pushing things back!

Usually I have at least a vague idea of what deity to pick from the start. I prefer gods I haven't won with at all / for a long time. But early altars have a huge impact on the decision. For example a HECj picked Okawaru without hesitation at a D:2 altar (splatted in an Ice Cave in the Lair after un...

You can also ride certain monsters (horses and dragons spring to mind) in Nethack. It also has saddles, lances and jousting.

Slightly OT, but this reminds me: Back in the day, a group of people from rec.games.roguelike.nethack organized a Nethack T-shirt campaign. The shirt read "I explored the Dungeons of Doom and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".

I guess Xom found the Exxon Valdez oil spill hilarious!

Misc trivia: Hunters used to be called Rangers at the time of Linley's Dungeon Crawl 3.20 or something.

My HEMo of Nemelex has been exploiting the hell out of Animate Skeleton, casting it on all applicable corpses. Can anyone tell me how it is decided whether an animated skeleton wields the weapon and/or wears the armour of its previous living self? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I seem to h...

I wonder why you didn't suggest Cryomancer for Ice Elementalist?

Personally I don't see any point in changing these, they have such a long history. Except Skald, which is indeed strange.

shizmoo wrote:Some annoyances I hate is the game generating monsters around a corner when you are retreating and the whole "x appears out of thin air!" is pretty dumb.

I believe that that message means that the monster stepped on a teleport trap somewhere else and got teleported to your LOS.

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