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If you are playing Webtiles I generally doesn't stop no matter what you do - even if you press a key. In downloaded versions of the game, generally pressing any key will stop Auto-travel. I wonder, why is the web version such a terrible mutant? Is there a deep reason against using the downloadable ...

Early game is the best, it gets super boring beyond lair.

gorbeh wrote:how do you guys change your font?by me,its always raster fonts and lucida console,with no further options

@dpeg:thumbs up!:D

Using putty to play on the servers. It has access to a lot more fonts. You can actually change the windows console font, but it requires registry hacking

Anyway, something ive noticed about .12. It seems like im in a perpetual state of starving, all the time. Even when im only using magic dart. This is so annoying, i had almost no perm food by the time i got down there, and was of course at "near starving" when the centaur showed up. Even ...

Keyboard commands. I highly recommend leaning the VI-keys for movement, especially on a laptop. Saying things like "VI-keys" is not a way to work towards my understanding :D vi-keys means using the hjklyubn keys to move instead of using numpad. it may seem very annoying at first, but it w...

Why do you actually need to use the mouse? Im interested to know. I use a laptop that does not have a numpad. So I need to use the mouse to move, when I am not autoexploring. (Yes, I know, this is not an ideal setup for Crawl :D) Other than that, I use the mouse to manage equipment, drink a potion,...

Let us add that the abstractness of glyphs is not the main disadvantage of console. To me, the main disadvantage is that I cannot use the mouse. In this regard, webtiles version is a cousin of console in my eyes: so uncomfortable that it borders unplayability. Why do you actually need to use the mo...

He can still hear you moving.

Try backing up when you see the first jackal so you fight them one at a time instead of all at once. From my experience the jackals always follow each other, even if only one is aggressive the others stay right with him. Thats why theyre so annoying to deal with on D1 Definitely not always. You can...

Its just random like that. Its only weighted in certain directions by your skills.

as for SpSt, you can turn off stabbing when it's high enough, 14 or so and you can kill anybody with it anyway. Am I correct in guessing that even though you might instakill anything asleep or paralyzed, continuing to train stabbing will increase the random backstabs while in plain melee? Theres no...

The best thing to do is actually just not kill them at all. Just dive through the first 4 levels of zot. Magic map zot:5 and buff up and tele around until your near the orb then run for it :) If you really want to kill them you could do it with poison arrow, but youll need some form of channelling. ...

Earth elementalists have Lee's deconstruction, Air elementalists have poisonous cloud, ice elementalists have refrigeration at level 5, all of these are actually better than fireball. sticky flames nerf has made fire elemntalists surprisingly weak and they really need some sort of boost, this seems...

4. Should I level stealth? I always keep this skill off. There is no character that should ever turn stealth off, ever. Probably not even trolls worshipping TSO. The benefit from stealth skill is very minimal, you can totally turn this off, the best players do. This is my progress so far. What god ...

doesnt really look like there was much you could do there, just really unlucky. I do wonder why it says you were helpless and unable to dodge the arrow? Centaurs have always been possible on d:2, nothing wrong with it. Normally youd expect a centaur to not even wake up most likely for a SpEn, so the...

you can easily take zot with that char. dont bother clearing zot, just get down to zot:5 and either kill the dudes or buff up and tele around until your close to the orb and run for it, whichever you prefer. the tele route is the easiest way of doing things usually.

just use the temple, walking around at even burdened is dangerous, it slows you and costs food and stealth. You can pretty much just use the floor for stashing to, stuff doesnt go missing really.

joellercoaster wrote:Hmm actually come to think of it, I almost never find fixedarts, and this game has had at least three - the Crown, the Scythe of Curses (very funny) and the Bow of Krishna "Sharnga".

Artifact generation was changed recently to make unrandarts more common.

thats due to speed brand, the demonic bonus is something really crappy like a 1d3 extra dice

What exactly is heroism? I've never played trunk. And doesn't heavy armour like Dragon Armour cripple your Unarmed Combat? Heroism adds +5 to all your melee / ranged skill levels, which makes it pretty amazing with unarmed. Armour does affect unarmed combat speed, but talk of it crippling it, or be...

i agree, this would be a nice change.

I think one of the problems with Earth Elementalists, and with Earth Magic generally is that there is no race that is particularly good for using it. The only races that get better than 0 aptitude are MD, DD, SE and Gh, and of these the dwarves and ghoul are all-round bad at magic, leaving only the...

electrocution doesnt make any noise anyways, only if it hits water.

KoboldLord wrote:Big weapons, no. The only weapons that will lower your spellcasting success are special cases like the staff of fire, which will inhibit cold spells.

This is wrong, big weapons do indeed affect spellcasting success, but the penalty is pretty small.

No, shields of reflection just reflect stuff that you would normally block with the shield, and cut the range in half. They are generally regarded as being pretty crappy. Use that nice buckler you have instead

spell is the same, only hungers when its actually healing. i think its been in since 0.6

adom is a great roguelike, its almost an rpg though and required reading a huge amount of spoilers to win, but has a great theme and story, and is well worth investigating. it can be a bit buggy though, so its wise to make save backups some times

its a waste of resources to kill stuff you dont need to, just leave them alone.

Offhand attacks arent as important anyways, shield using trolls are awesome.

You have abnormally high dex though zicher. It would indeed get you up to 29 ev. I was assuming based on a normal game, anything is possible if you want to scum pan long enough

it wont work at all, the penalty for gda is way to high. Assuming max all skills, 30 str and 9 dex, youll have a great 11 ev. A pretty crappy trade for the incredible amount of xp youd have to dump into dodging.

you can easily solve this by adding a force_more to your options.

force_more_message = You are starting to lose your buoyancy

then youll have to hit enter when its close to expiring and youll remember to recast it.

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