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Got to get that MR+ from somewhere! Allowed me to wear the dragonskin cloak instead of cloak of magic resist.

This game was just absurd. So much slaying, more or less perfect weapon, and several unrandarts. I don't think I have ever had an easier win. I stopped working about survivability and just went all out for slaying. I almost regret not using a lajatang of speed, but then I wouldn't have gotten the Sl...

Thank you for the trunk changes! I am really liking the new amulet changes, and I feel like the reasoning expressed in the listserv emails is spot on. Removal of resist mutation in particular is a welcome change. I am loving amulet of reflection for how it makes SH more interesting and further disti...

I'm an idiot and have been playing Git online on CBRO for months now, never realizing I wasn't actually transferring my save files to the latest version. I saw "[T]ransfer your save to the latest version (0.17-a0-blah)" and just blindly mashed Y not realizing I was supposed to press T. It ...

So I just died to death cobs in Zot. I feel really really stupid for tabbing through that. I've never died to hunger before and for some stupid reason assumed their attacks wouldn't continue lowering my hunger past starving. Silly me. Super fast death cobs stacking hunger through armor is bullshit,...

OK, that makes sense. Thanks!

You can use it evoke rage while silenced, but otherwise it seems like Trog's rage is as good or better. I know amulets of clarity are grayed out for Ashenzari worshipers. I'm trying to understand why it isn't the same for amulets of rage and berserkers. Is there more to it, or is this simply an over...

Hey guys! I'm looking for a clan that is competitive-ish, but still looking to have a good time. Experience: I have won with all 26 races, but my best streak is only 2. I don't consider myself to be that good a player, but I have put a fair bit of time into the game. I don't know too much about the ...

Absolutely, my kobold win actually used staves the whole game! Like you all mentioned, training long blades blades with a halfling means using an early dagger of venom is a viable option. My only point is that poor aptitudes in everything but short blades is annoying, but that doesn't mean you can't...

Sounds like it's time for you to win all of the races again, but online this time. Why? I got the same achievement offline and then went for just interesting combos (like FeSk in extended or pure caster no consumables SpVM or pure thrower OgHu) and sometimes for unwon gods (Zin, TSO). Repeating the...

So for some reason I never investigated the different servers and have always gone with CAO. I just looked at the locations for the first time and I'm kicking myself...I'm in Georgia so CBRO/Atlanta is ~1 hour drive from my house whereas CAO/Arizona is ~28 hours. What the hell was I thinking?!?! No ...

Thanks guys! Playing all these races has definitely improved my skills. I probably never would have seriously attempted mummy, vinestalker, felid, and a few others. Having to adopt new play styles really forced me learn new strategies. Felids and mummies in particular really made me appreciate steal...

Haha, I'm already playing again! I still haven't won a transmuter and I'm trying to get a merfolk going.

I've been working on this goal for about a year now and I have finally won a character with each of the 26 races! I've been working towards this ever since my first win with a 3 rune Deep Elf of Vehumet. I have the morgue files for 22 out of 26 races in this Google Drive folder. Deep Dwarf - I'm alw...

⋅ Kill everything This point needs more elaboration: ⋅ You know how in the Pokemon games you should fight every trainer so that your Pokemon get strong and grow? DCSS is the same way, but with monsters. ⋅ Don't skip a floor planning to come back later. That XP from Sig...

Also, there is little in the way of 1:1 information grouping, which would seem to require even more heroic efforts to untangle and reweave with all the wiki content than if one were to just log in and make the changes to the wiki. Furthermore, why change the servers? What purpose would that serve o...

I figured I would post this here instead of starting a new thread. Proposal: Create a new wiki based on the current one hosted by chaosforge. I am by no means a webadmin, but I am confident that I could figure out how to host it on my current Amazon webservices account (or elsewhere). I would probab...

Damn, that's a shame. I am mostly attracted to the lichform idea since Beogh loses a lot of his appeal in the extended game and this would counter that to some degree.

⋅ At 33,000 turns a follower named Judas wanders away from your band of followers. He returns later as hostile and with a band of vault guards. ⋅ Upon reaching level 27 players gain an extra life similar to felids. Upon dying, this life is consumed and the player is resurrected ...

Nice, that's a good lookin' font! That's the type of color scheme I'm looking for - nothing too garish.

This is what my current setup looks like. I generally play fullscreen and alt+tab to change windows.

Hey guys! I've been using Ubuntu's default Gnome Terminal with the Monospace 12pt font for as long as I can remember. I really like Monospace's simple look and the colors are not jarring. Do y'all have any suggestions for terminals and color schemes on Linux that make DCSS look good? I could just Go...

I understand the criticism of GDA, but I think the resistances granted outweigh the EV penalty. It is only useful for a narrow range of high strength characters, but for a berserker in heavy armour using shields I don't think you can get better armour late game IMHO. rF+, rC+, and rPois are all good...

Congrats! I just won my first felid today with a FeBe. I can't imagine getting 15 runes with a felid...they are so squishy. Your rings are to die for...I only had 1 level of rF unless I was fighting OOF in which case I had to take off my slaying ring to get rF++. Basically, I have cat envy. Dungeon ...

I trimmed some lines in the vanquished monsters list so it would fit in the post. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16-a0-39-g9858ce8 (console) character file. 1989707 Ian the Intangible (level 27, 199/199 HPs) Began as a Kobold Gladiator on Aug 10, 2014. Was the Champion of the Shining One. Escape...

I have successfully switched from Oka to TSO twice recently and it hasn't been too awful. Once with a Kobold using staves and again with a Troll monk. Definitely dangerous, but with an amulet of warding and some free time to chill in the abyss it isn't too bad. I'm sure others will say this is a sub...

Hmmmm, all true. The 100% return rate and no mulch is not any better than a big stack of standard large rocks...and a accuracy/damage boost would probably be OP. In an effort to save this idea...what about nixing the returning ego and accuracy/damage boost and adding a portal projectile effect inste...

Reason: Ranged weapon users have a variety of unrandarts to choose from. However, the Throwing skill only has The Blowgun of the Assassin which is useful only for needles. This leaves tomahawks, javelins and large rocks all lacking any type of unrandart. This is somewhat inevitable since there are n...

"make clean" fixed it! Thank you so much for your help!

sudo make install * If you experience any problems building Crawl, please take a second look * at INSTALL.txt: the solution to your problem just might be in there! * rebuilding crawl: new build flags or prefix TRACK_CFLAGS = i686-linux-gnu-gcc i686-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wformat-security -W...

That is logical considering how much Crawl penalizes you for not specializing.

It probably would have been best to memorize orb of destruction or something to take out Orbs of fire.

Disclaimer: RNG blessed me this game. I had the ring of the Mage AND ring of Robustness AND a shield of resistance AND two (2) ice magic manuals. Not to mention several good randart rings and overall good luck with items. So take the following with a large grain of salt. Why was anti-training remove...

This is all true. I'm wearing the boots of flying now. It feels wrong to not have any rN late game though. A single bolt of draining can put a huge dent in my health and torment even more so.

Edit:Just found a ring of positive energy in Vaults 5 so goodbye -5 boots!

That's what I was thinking. The thing about the boots is that they are literally the only source of rN+ I have found besides crappy randarts. I hate being drained and I would rather have 7 less AC and have a level of rN than have no rN. But then again, I could easily be wrong.

I'm looking to do 15 runes with this Merfolk gladiator and I'm trying to decide what weapon to use for the rest of the game. I'm thinking Wyrmbayne since it's all but maxed out and it has useful intrinsics plus I can use a shield for extra resists. The bardiche of flaming is nice, but there will soo...

WOW. For some reason I thought Vehumet protected against the conjurations miscasts that he also supported, but clearly I am mistaken. Actually, that explains a lot! I feel stupid. As for the drinking game, I dunno...I think I could come up with a better way to reduce the behavior. Same basic rules, ...

No, I did the first time I went down though just to make sure I took care of the initial guards. With 40+ magic points I can cast it enough times that at least one of them will succeed and that is usually all it takes. Anything that lives and comes up with me I just bash with my sword. It looks like...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0-12-g87ee3b7 (console) character file. 497524 RepHenryClay the Eclecticist (level 25, -2/153 HPs) Began as an Octopode Conjurer on Apr 16, 2014. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Killed by the air ... invoked by a titan (39 damage) ... on Level 4 of the Vaults. The...

That is a fantastic script! Definitely going to start using that.

This is all true. I suppose I should set a timer for an hour or so and do something else for 10 minutes afterwards. Maybe I should record myself repeating "You are one with the source code. Let it crawl through your veins. Take no risks. Be wise in all actions." Close my eyes and mediate o...

I've been playing for a while now and I can reliably get a couple runes, but I often run out of patience. I start playing too fast and begin to take stupid risks which leads to either a) burning expendables that I end up needing later or b) getting in over my head and not being able to heal faster t...

Very good point about crosstraining and manuals! I don't know why I didn't think of that. I have changed it to accept aptitudes between -20 and 20. I can't think of a case where your aptitude would actually be 20, but better safe than sorry.

Awesome! It was actually your post in this thread that got me interested in this idea!

Hey guys! I was reading a thread the other day about what skills to train. One thing that was discussed is what a given amount of experience would give you if you put it into another skill instead. It can get a bit confusing what with aptitudes, different skill levels, and different skill levels req...

Do you have access to an amulet of warding? You don't have to wear it constantly, but being able to put it on when hostile BOA are summoned will greatly increase your chances of surviving.

I was talking to a coworker yesterday and I realized in the process that Crawl is the best game I have ever played. Period. Granted, I'm 23 and a youngone, but this is the best RPG experience I have ever had. The race and class combinations are damn near endless. Combine that with procedural generat...

I guess that does make sense because more HP will always be useful whereas shields and dodging will only block damage a percentage of the time.

Noted.

So you think the extra HP from fighting would be more beneficial than increasing defenses so it doesn't get lowered in the first place?

I'm not having any trouble killing stuff at this point so I figure I should put some points into defense. My dodging is 15 and shields is 5 so I can use my buckler with no spellcasting penalty. Would I be better off investing in shields or dodging? I've found one (unbranded) regular shield and the b...

Maybe "p"raying while berserk could sacrifice all corpses in LOS to extend the berserk, which would obviously come at an implicit food cost, and a LOS thing might help some of the problems with blood sacrifices. That said, food costs don't matter much and Trog is already extremely powerfu...

I can think of two ways this might work. One is that corpse sacrifice would be done automatically by advancing over bodies while enraged. I love the idea of a berserking warrior wading through dead bodies that burst into flame as he walks by them, his rage fueled by a terrible God craving blood. Two...

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