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a vampiric weapon with a good base type is pretty much the best thing for a 3-runer.
distortion, yeah, i keep trying and i always wish i hadn't bothered. it's just not my thing.

unless it's you who eats them.
which is reason enough to avoid them in the first place.

you don't cast scorpions in corridors or the like. they aren't effective, you're cutting down on the number of summons, and they can cut you off.

The big kobold throws a dagger of electrocution.

my my, actually, he was! and he has to lose over 100 games to make it back.
so by thursday i guess.

If I try playing a video game for 11 hours, 48 minutes straight, I get a throbbing headache and I can't see out of my eyes. I don't know if I could streak five games in a row, but I certainly could not do it in one single day. don't forget that he had some splats, so it took longer than that, and h...

i don't have numbers for it (i'd have to look at the source), but from playing experience i'd say both mushrooms and oklobs are rather dependent on invocations. it's only that mushrooms start strong already. they could take a nerf at low invocations, since fedhas is very good very early even if you ...

crypt:5 has good endings that should definitely stay in the game. crypt:1-4 are dull, but there's no need to single them out. vaults:1-7 are just about as bad, there are more of them, and since they are always open there's more to explore. and the last 10-12 dungeon levels aren't much better. There ...

ebarrett wrote:shorten vaults and make D harder plz

that's pretty much my take on it too.

well, sorry then. but the only way that can happen, as far as i know, is when you trip all over the OOD timer. which is a separate discussion. edit: Crawl sometimes generates unusally hard monsters to keep you on your toes. The maximum possible is a 9 level difference, or 5 on D:1; add 12 as a speci...

i can't say anything about that, but i can say there are quite a few guys who win at a 40% rate. and 70% is not unheard of.
hell, i'm pulling about 10% on random characters and i'm not a very good player. it took me a long time to get there though.

i played one locally until the midgame and then forgot about it. i went for heavy armour and nemelex, and in practice it felt like a mountain dwarf with slightly different aptitudes (worse weapon skills, some better magic skills if you are so inclined) and the power to enchant items, which i used on...

he meant a warrior.

hey congrats. 27 ev in gold dragon armour, nice. how many splats did it take you this time around?

sorry, but that is just bad advice. draining is annoying but not very relevant: with the new skill system you'll lose experience levels but not skill points, so at worst you'll lose some max hp. tso'd do less for you in vaults:8 and zot than trog, specially if you have to deal with trog's rage, spec...

if there's a small door, it's the prison vault. there's not much in the way of loot and it may contain an ancient lich or something. if the door spams several tiles it's jory's castle (they're similar in layout), there's loot, and i've never had problems there (beware vampire knight paralysis). ther...

holy crap dhex, i thought you were dead. i didn't post much but i lurked early ic a lot. you should update your blog sometimes, there is at least one person who cares for your recommendations (i'll never be able to pay you back for time machines, and hell i even like some of your stuff). slime is ea...

i was actually talking about your original proposal. that's why discussions should be kept on a single thread unless it really goes off the rails. please picture me shaking my fist at eevlac. you can reflavour the phylactery (i learnt what that was like two weeks ago) in that you need a vessel to co...

yeah, but the problem is that there are so many caveats with this new "spell" (single-use, requires a gadget, and what's this about delayed potion use and the like?) that it's clear that it doesn't fit the description of what a spell should be. if the spell's too nonsensical or unflavourfu...

uhm this was fully meant to go in the other thread, i probably mixed them up after logging in.

yred needs to take demon (but not undead) kills, for a start, and see how that plays out. i'm sure this has come up before, so what was the rationale behind keeping it as is? (please don't say flavour.) god-gifted permanent lich form is very flavourful. i'm not sure how good it would be, and i proba...

Then you should listen to this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/220/testosterone great listen, thanks for the link (and this is probably the first time i visit this thread). this is the third or fourth time that i fall into TAL only to forget that it exists a couple days later.

no need to entomb a dwarf to build a single floodgate or something.

wine in the evening, tea otherwise.

But does it really work? They don't seem to behave like neutral monsters at all. Looks broken to me. i could swear it worked that way when i started playing, which was 0.7. i don't think i've used them since. then again, i had just started playing, so i didn't know right from left. i'd fire up wiza...

frenzied monsters not only berserk, but attack friend and foe alike. so use it on packs from far away. like enslavement, but not quite.
i've only used them a couple times, early on.

it's coltrane season for me.
edit: i don't have "crawling music", i play whatever i play at any other time.

sample (this goes in the config file, of course):

Code:: spell_slot = Dispel undead:u

you can use multiple letters in case one is taken, if i recall correctly.

early evokable rage or invisibility are even better than most of those.

i second most of KL's changes. some of them have been implementables for some time, irrc.

ghosts with chain lighting can hit for 149 damage in a turn, no problem.
(to make it even more fun, it was an earth elementalist.)

they are already dangerous, specially to low-ac characters. they are very fast, hard to hit with AOE spells, hit twice, and come in packs (which can be large). i may be biased because i do hate them with a passion, but i don't think they need a boost.

people. mutations are terrible.
(and noone plays a halfling for innate rmut anyway.)

the sewer entry vault with a hidden door (you can see the portal and a few critters through a couple of glass walls). the last two times i've found it, it's timed out before i found the door. regardless of what you think about hidden doors in general, it can appear by d:3, and you won't have traine...

vitalization does boost stats now, which would've won you some time.
it's pan though, so pretty hard to escape.

the sewer entry vault with a hidden door (you can see the portal and a few critters through a couple of glass walls). the last two times i've found it, it's timed out before i found the door. regardless of what you think about hidden doors in general, it can appear by d:3, and you won't have trained...

by "casting in heavy armour" most people mean dragon armour: swamp DA is quite easy, and fire/cold/pearl DA perfectly doable. (ring and scale mail are better in trunk too, if you find one with nice properties.) you usually start with light armour and worry about that later. casting mid-lev...

fire and ice id themselves on trunk now, though.

that's it. it'd make permafood more relevant, and get rid of micromanagement. overall it might be more tame than when we had sickness though. i don't know. but i dislike having to game the system. and don't worry, i bitch about it whenever i'm on IRC. :p i'm not sure it's wiki material, just wanted ...

i like it, in principle, but i find myself consistently doing silly stuff like casting high-level spells when i'm near starving to drop another satiation level and then eat some permafood (or even chunks!). if the idea was to force players to rely more on permafood, why not let them use it when naus...

hey thanks!
i tried to get the scoring scripts to work instead, without much luck. i don't think it's intended for general use and i can't tell a python from a viper (anacondas are white though). i'll have a look at this too.

there is no prompt, use ":" to write a note. people watching you will see it (for as long as it remains in the message buffer). works offline too (the message will be logged).

yeah: bindkey = [o] CMD_NO_CMD_DEFAULT

also on the --more-- thing: no, there's no generic way to filter all hell effect messages. but some good online players have a comprehensive list on their config files, you can use that. i think i got mine from marvinpa.

it's 0.10 slaying though. and silence or no silence i wouldn't even peek at tomb with teleportitis. less so with spriggan hp. i mean, tomb:1 could be doable, but :2 and :3... mageykun: check the options guide. i think it's "spell_usage" (queue it in "dump_order") but i wouldn't s...

i've only had about 3-4 decent runs for a 3 rune win (v0.9.1 - so take my comments with a grain of salt) and i must say that it bugs me how, pre-lair is based on pure luck and somewhat random decision making (early temple/altar, rpois, curare kobolds, ...). this is just not true, and has been discu...

Just reading sparingly it seems that FDs suit good for Chei worship to make tank casters, aren't they ? any caster benefits from more int. as for str, what you've got plus what you'll gain on level-ups should be enough to cover the armour penalties, unless you want to cast in very heavy armour. Als...

deep dwarves have -1 for short blades and 0 for long blades, and they are the same size. in fact their aptitudes are a good template: Fgt SBl LBl M&F Axs Pla Stv UC ------------------------------- -1 -1 0 0 +1 -1 -1 -1 polearms and staves are slightly below-average, and axes have +1 because &quo...

he hadn't won a naga nor an AM, so that's two birds with one stone.
(if it sounds weird to you, try playing some random combos.)

i thought the drop would be more noticeable. <1%? you should splat another thousand characters out of principle.
congrats.

yeah, i don't get that. why long blades at -1? the differences between weapon apts are slight so they don't bar you from polearms or whatever, but given the choice you'll always go for m&f. i would stick with flat apts at 0 or as close to as possible. they just make the game more interesting. st...

ah, i only tried creating the file, i don't know why, but i didn't think it'd be plain text.
that works, thanks.

i get this, after a good while of building:

Code:: [...] CXX util/levcomp.lex.o GEN build.h No Git, and util/release_ver doesn't exist.

(that file doesn't exist in either crawl or crawlfd.)
any ideas? i have no problems compiling regular crawl.

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