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I'm having the same problem (Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon). Depending on libstdc++ 4.9 would seem to make it unusable for the majority of Linux systems. If it can easily be made compatible with a more widely used version of the library that would probably be a good idea.

IMO Deep Elves are pretty damn distinctive purely on the basis of their apts and stats and don't need any fixing. I do sort of look at them more as a practice mode species for learning how a starting book works rather than serious contenders for clearing out rune branches though.

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sgrunt wrote:Also try using enslavement with Inner Flame. It's a real blast.

Inner Flame FIRST, then Enslave.

Curare first is also worth considering.

What about Rupert's paralysis? It's flavoured to be a shout of terror e.g. it is a physical/mental effect, but game-mechnically it is a spell. Is that physical or magical? Given that we are offered little metaphysical insight into the exact vectors by which the players own spells accomplish their e...

Senban wrote:what impact does flying everywhere have on your hunger rate?

Maybe a better way to put this is: when flight is available, assuming no enemies who you suspect can cast Airstrike are visible is there any reason not to use it?

Quick question (since the subject came up), what impact does flying everywhere have on your hunger rate (and does it vary depending on the source)?

As a minor note on terminology, the business end of a sai is a blunt steel rod rather than a blade (I'm pretty sure the notion of stiletto bladed sai comes from TMNT). My suggestion for naming this kind of weapon would be to call it a main gauche, which I think is a pretty widely understood term. If...

I often find that Regen more than covers lack poison resistance, even against red poisoning from a sea snake I've had characters health go up instead of down. This may depend on the source of regen and the character concerned though. P.s. anyone know how regen works in relation to stacking, is it wo...

specifically attempting transparency where possible. This is called "being unspoilery" in crawl parlance and remains a tantalizing pipe dream. There are a bunch of advantages to crunching the game mechanics through formula that look like jokes from Big Bang Theory, but comprehensibility i...

And if you forgot that I think you can wait out Immolation.

Also drop your potions if you are going to shoot yourself with a Wand of Frost.

Never read ID long overdue stacks of scrolls without at least one + on Resist Fire. As you read the scroll labeled OWKOLU NUALYAM, it crumbles to dust. The creatures around you are filled with an inner flame! It was a scroll of immolation. As you read the scroll labeled NALIEM OTSI, it crumbles to d...

dck wrote:Right let's give a town full of people to the maniac that just walked into a dungeon to kill and eat most if not all things that were killable and/or edible in it.
Surely that'll work out just dandy.

Yeah, that's almost as batshit as real world politics.

While having powerful ranged weapons with highly invested skills isn't important, having a viable throwing weapon to hand is somewhere between indispensable and worth the inventory slot. A decent javelin (steel or branded) and about level 5 throwing skill will take out a fleeing dragon, intercept sp...

For what it's worth* I think dazzling spray holds it's value very well for a lvl 3 spell, maybe consider how much actual use you're getting out of flight. In general I even prefer it to meph due to it affecting poison resistant targets, being usable point blank and dealing solid damage to boot. Dunn...

Regardless of exact specifications I do like the idea of Sif for Wizardry / Veh for spell power/damage. Maybe just dish out about +2 wiz per 3 stars worth of piety with diminishing returns if you stack it with rings, staffs or potions. Applying a cap based on the characters skills with the given spe...

Please read the 1st post more carefully. Shitdamn. Okay point taken. But yeah, that guy would be properly screwed over, and probably royally deserve everything he got too. That said I'd find it a little hard to believe he'd have nothing ranged at all, not even an un-ID'd wand he'd auto-pickuped and...

I really like the idea of ADOM Deluxe: If you buy the game you get a global high-score table and the option to play without perma-death, for perma-death inclined players the game remains non-commercial. Actually lol'd when I read about that, though my sense of humour may be as perverse as my taste i...

Why wouldn't loading her up to the eyeballs with curare work?
Or more frugally 1 shot of curare and if she takes that a sustained volley of poison arrows. If the mechanics are really sound curare's breathlessness will stop her singing too, unless it's the bikini that's meant to be causing Mesm.

Yeah the only time I staved to death I had permafood on me, just cleared out an Ossuary went from near starving to starving on the stairs, didn't notice the status change, but did know I needed to go hunting pronto, and was also surprised that I just dropped dead at full HP. I think starvation shoul...

Vegetables are corpses too.

Things like poison, starvation and curses are powerfully effective psychological weapons in crawls arsenal. Of course beyond a certain level of nuts & bolts familiarity players will immunize themselves against these mind games and become bored of them (although really some of the things people c...

the idea that someone's gone to all the bother of turning Doom in to a top down RPG and I can turn it back in to an FPS http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=37044 Ha, that's pretty cool. Don't see it cutting in to my Brütal Doom schedule too much although if I could cajole some friends into LANin...

My experience with Elyvilon is more along the lines of EAT! EAT!! EAT!!! EAT IT ALL GODDAMNIT! Yeah this is what stands out about Ellie for me - you think you're going to be playing some insufferable hippy type and end up needing to BBQ the whole of lair. I don't know how serious you are, but DDHe(...

whip of elec is also better than +0 morningstar of crushing I hadn't read the Autumn Katana thread at that point and didn't realise just how superior Elec is. According to the much revered wiki the noisiness effect doesn't even work these days so it's even good for stabbers. In this specific case i...

Am I the only one who dislikes that weapon? A +0 morningstar is simply bad at this level, and there must be a dozen better maces&flails around. It is a bit of an issue with my clustering illusions here, search gives me 0 dire flails, 14 great maces with nothing fancy in their description on the...

Nice to know about great maces, I've got another character on the go with an executioners axe and anything that trumps that must be good. Not sure I'm up for converting just to get Holy Wrath but there has to be a great mace or even a dire flail about here somewhere with a good brand on it. Not that...

How about some kind of spell editing ability? Say fireballs aren't big enough for you so you go up a size in blast template, for a corresponding increase in MP and difficulty. Or you have magma bolt but need to switch it from fire to ice for very import reasons, or like Haste but don't like contamin...

Why would anyone want a first-person view in a game that doesn't even try to simulate cone of vision? The answer could be in the question, that person might be thinking "I'd love to get in to roguelikes but the idea that all the sentient races, even the ones with good apts for archery have the...

The best way for it to work would be for there to be a timeout, if you don't take an action in a proscribed length of time, you are forced to rest for a turn (.) (or perhaps tab if you are adjacent to a creature, or maybe you act with a monster AI :) ) You could have a chess clock like mechanic whe...

I'm thinking as far as shields go that I'll be going double handed sooner than I'd get a worthwhile benefit from training shields (also why I've overshot mindelay with my weapon skill), although there is a pretty consistent clustering illusion about this particular crawl-space continuum not containi...

It also lulls the player with its mindlessness, which can be a result of a YASD too. Maybe teaching players not to snooze-tab all their Minotaurs to death is a design goal here. Crawl can get hairy at any point and orc 1-3 have some of the most marked tempo shifts going. Aside from the way it throw...

*daydreaming* DCSS on the T-Engine with 64x64 tiles, music, sound effects, better graphic effects, improved UI, functional hotbar for spells and abilities. http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/attachments/news/119967d1381267087-ducati-panigale-r-superleggera-launch-soon-xbhp-news-drooling-homer-simpson_reas...

My most successful character so far - 2 runes in (which takes my total ever to 3). Reasonably confident on skilling, magic was probably a bit of a bad idea but I've never had access to Crystal Plate before and I'll probably stick with it unless some seriously good dragon armour drops. The gods of cl...

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XuaXua wrote:I don't remember what I answered.

As long as you put "Yes" for sex that's the main thing they look for on these things.

Senban: This talk about pro/anti Tolkien/D&D is pointless. That was not the reason why MD got the axe, and it's definitely not the way to bring them back either. I also deny your point about the "homage" -- who are you to tell us what the flavour of our game should be? (I have never p...

tolkien races are really boring and overplayed if they aren't subverted in some way, and if we could vote to rename humans, and all elf races I would be all for it There are no Tolkien races in crawl only Gygax ones, and if we're playing a game that's set in a dungeon and revolves around casting fi...

To me it seems a little quirky to rip off 99.9% of the things that are in D'n'D and then not bother doing dwarves properly. If there are balance or distinction problems with them versus other cool stuff that is in the game then wouldn't thinking of ideas be a better approach than just going "pe...

Don't mourn fallen characters, Valhalla needs more VpEn's!

pratamawirya wrote:okay, this is creeping me out...

Wait till you realise that you're Tiktacy: All of your memories, all of your dreams, your entire sense of self and identity all fabricated for the sake of a single, more baroque than it is funny joke...

I rarely even learn fulminant prism when I play conjurers. It just takes too much micromanagement for me, and it isn't particularly reliable as a main AOE spell. Hopefully by then you can find something else, and if not, battlesphere plus mystic blast does solid damage. I love it, it is situational...

Disclaimer: I'm pretty n00b myself so whatever I say can't completely replace your own judgement and all advice from more experienced/competent crawlers supersedes mine, but: The crawl orthodoxy for (melee characters) is to train your primary weapon to min-delay at the exclusion of all else. Auto sk...

Grimm wrote:could never be expressed in any legislation

Trans: No rules here please l0lz. (Sorry if I thatsthejoke.jpg'd there)

Ah, I assumed that this character had gone into Elf:1 at a more common time in the game -- e.g. around the time they're considering Vaults or later -- and by then it's pretty rare not to already have a better short blade. Even just clearing Orc often gets you a short blade of elec or distortion. Ed...

A sabre of speed is basically an unbrandable quick blade. It beats a sabre of flaming/freezing against many targets, but would lose out to pretty much any short blade of elec/distortion and probably draining too. It's particularly bad against high AC targets, since the speed brand decreases damage ...

Current run is a SpAK. As the thread title implies, scroll IDing brought my first short sword of the game to a +5/+5, and with Short Blades 10 I'm hot on the heels of min delay for it. Should I still switch to a sabre/quick blade given the chance, or given the chance plus certain conditions? May be...

All monsters will occasionally gain or lose a tile during a pursuit*. I'm pretty sure that the reason this is most noticeable with ogres is to do with their psychological impact, and the fact that when an adder closes with you a tiny bit faster than in should have you take the glitch in the matrix f...

It seems pretty clear to me that the Base Damage and the enchantment/slaying are going to work in not quite the same way, but you might have a point there. My initial assumption was that they would be - I don't want to reduce the point to something that specific though. The general idea I'm getting...

Eh? I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Enchantment and base stats? Dagger = Accuracy rating: +6 Damage rating: 4 Base attack delay: 100% Shortsword = Accuracy rating: +4 Damage rating: 6 Base attack delay: 110% A 0/+2 Dagger does not work out interchangeable damage and accuracy wise with a ...

This is a general issue for melee fighters. Crawl's number crunching is formidable - this is not a game that's going to see a crowd funded pen 'n' paper release anytime soon. That said, it would be really nice to work towards a parity of information flow between spell-casting* and physical combat. A...

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