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I would love to play a fire elementalist, necromancer, or enchanter with support from Lugonu. But instead I have to play a generic melee character and rely on random book drops if I want to worship her. I'm in full support of lugonu being a temple god. It makes her much more versatile, rather than a...

Got my five runes and finished Zot to the orb chamber. It felt like some pretty good revenge that the orbs of fire were nothing more than harmless blobs that occasionally tried to malmutate me. It was by far the easiest orb chamber I've ever done. I was wrong about the eyes of draining and ghost mot...

Things have gone great so far. In depths 4 I finally got my ice dragon hide, and I had enough EA to enchant it up all the way. It still leaves me completely immune to fire. I think I'll head to abyss or slime for my third rune. A standard game for me is typically five runes, including abyss, slime, ...

So apparently I started a game LOOOOOOOONG ago online in trunk, but I never play online and usually don't play trunk, so now I have a Djinni Fighter game that I had left off at about dungeon 3. I started it up, and it's now in the most recent version of the game. I'd really like to finish this game,...

My trove required a +6 demon trident in order to enter. That was basically free for me, because one had happened to spawn (a +6 demon trident of flaming) in the Shoals, and as a DSBe going flails, the weapon was already useless to me. Within the trove itself I had: +3 pair of gloves of Defiance (rEl...

I sometimes use poly against enemies that are mostly dangerous because of equipment (orc warriors, etc.)

My biggest problem with the abyss is that there doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between abyss 1 and abyss 5 spawns aside from spawn rate (ie, you'll get the same enemies in both cases, you'll just get more the farther down you go.) But an xl10 character can die just as easily to an LDS ...

Agreed, the vamp lajatang is the best weapon you have. That being said, optimal or no, I actually quite like stabbing with unarmed. I have a VSTr of Dith going right now, with a dagger of distortion. I stab what I can while they're asleep, and can always rely on blade hands or other forms to meld my...

I recently updated my offline version from .15 to .16. Usually all of my save files remain intact (although they have to accommodate changes between versions) but in this case my save files disappeared. My high score list is gone as well. Are they permanently gone? Or where would I find them? And ho...

Why the hell aren't you calling it "Dungeon Crawl Stoned Soup?"

The +9 dagger of Caabliph {elec, +Rage, rF++, rC+, MR++}

Hey, y'all, I started a DSFE game, and got some interesting mutations that I would love in any game (claws 2, iridescent scales 2, cold resistant flesh 1 so far), I just got to the temple and it has all of the gods in it. But on dungeon 6 I picked up the +8 longbow of speed Sharnga. So now I'm at a ...

Comparing UC to spellcasting as a whole doesn't make much sense; a much more apt comparison would be comparing UC to an individual school. Is air magic so overpowered that air magic, and only air magic should be penalized in heavy armour, whereas none of the other schools receive that penalty? Diffe...

Playing version .14, I rolled an ogre wizard of fedhas. I've been using the starter spells for utility, but haven't really been blasting anyone with spells. Just softening enemies up with magic dart, while I gang up on them with my GSC and wandering mushrooms. But I'd really like a better ranged opt...

That’s why I play crawl, for the realism. But in all seriousness, how long do you think that you’re in the dungeon for? Let’s assume that a turn (10 auts) is 1 second. An unskilled punch takes 1 second, swinging an axe might take two seconds per swing, etc. Then let’s assume that an average game is ...

My point was that a staff of earth for an earth elementalist seems like a more versatile weapon than a staff of fire for a fire elementalist.

I've never actually used an enhancer staff as a weapon before, but it sounds to me like checking the resistance sounds like a bad thing. Presumably if you are using the staff as a weapon, you are doing it because you are A: lazy, against weak enemies B: using it when you run out of mp C: using it ag...

Weapons meld whenever you use blade hands. You could just wield the lajatang while you're walking around slime, and closing the distance between you and the enemy, and then cast blade hands whenever you attack something. I sometimes do something similar with the staff of energy so that I don't incur...

Draconians are my favorite. They don't need to worry about their armour impeding their spellcasting or UC abilities, they naturally get an extra 13 AC over the course of a game, and their breath weapon can be an extra advantage that is icing on the cake. Also, draconians keep their extra AC while in...

Unfamiliar with the (un)popular opinion puffin that was abused to death on reddit? It's for posting opinions about something that are supposed to be unpopular, but are secretly popular as hell. I'm ambivalent about Chei, but this seems like a good use of the meme.

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A couple of thoughts about this new system: 1: It flies in the face of what has been changed recently rmsl and it's ilk. Instead of the tedious process of constantly buffing before battle, the semi-permanent status effect allows for fewer button presses. I would rather see other status effects made ...

In order to blow thine enemies to bits in his mercy. Instead of a burst of damage centered on the PC, it is a beam targeted projectile that explodes after 3 aut. 4 aut it will not delay, neither will it delay 2 aut except with the understanding that it will proceed to explode on the third aut. 5 aut...

Mottled is very good for the same reasons that the sticky flame spell is good.. Sticky flame hastens the deaths of people you're already going to melee anyway, and has a chance to splash onto multiple targets. If the opponent is too difficult, sticky flame kiting makes short work of them, and is use...

From the slime pits: The cursed -7 leather armour of Yredelemnul’s Esteem {Str-2 Dex-5 Acc-4} I guess I shouldn't have abandoned Yred in favor of Lugonu earlier in the game. Lugonu helped me break into the slime pit treasure chamber, though. Also from the slime pits: The +8+3 crossbow of virtue {pen...

There's plenty of piety to be had in abyss/vestibule of hell, even without crypt.

+7 +12 Lajatang "Uziowec" (flame, +Rage, rElec, MR++)

on sale in the orcish mines (un IDd) for 850 gold. A vanilla +0 +0 lajatang was on sale in the same store for 650.

I've never started the game worshiping TSO, but I have switched to him several times for the endgame. I agree with most of what was said, but something that nobody has mentioned so far is that you regain HP for killing evil/undead/demons. In a lot of ways, he's kinda similar to Makhleb, in that he h...

"For me the low success rate does just the opposite. Since I know I want my Really Goog Weapon at some point I must now stack up scrolls to ensure that I get good enough enchant for it. Why waste a scroll on some weapons that I know I'll replace probably sooner than later." For better or f...

I also rarely use many of the less-common tactical scrolls, because I know that I am much less likely to use them in battle than I am to lose them to mottled dragon fire or bolts of fire. I typically find only 2-3 scrolls of summoning, silence, torment, or holy word in a given 3-rune game. While the...

If there’s anything this forum cannot tolerate, it is a small amount of hyperbole. This can and has happened to me, and mathematically it will happen about 1/64 games (roughly, I’m not interested in doing the exact math.) While it is true that the odds of it happening are very small, the 4 scrolls i...

I'm getting tired of using 6 EW scrolls on a +4 weapon, only to have it refuse to take any additional enchantment. I would rather see a situation where fewer enchant scrolls spawn, but they have a higher success rate, or are guaranteed to succeed (like Enchant Armour scrolls already are.) Or perhaps...

Love is already blossoming within the dungeon; they've already made a movie about it:

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What if there was a new type of undead monster called a poltergeist? It would appear in the early-mid dungeon, and when it was aware of the player, would make loud noises (probably louder than a typical shout) to alert nearby enemies that the player was nearby. It could also slam doors from across t...

In Lair 8, in the Dire Elephant statue vault, there is a forest on one of the sides. If you burn down the forest, there is usually an item hidden amongst the trees.

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With your Invocations skill, the chance of hostile servant is 8%.

I like it. That would be much more clear.

For Makhleb's summon lesser and greater servant abilities, the flavor text says something to the extent of "summon a lesser servant of Makhleb with a chance of it arriving hostile at low invocations." While gaining several levels of invocations does reduce the likelihood of hostile demons,...

Alternatively, what if you could pray over any piece of gear for a one-time (per piece of gear) cursing ability? Remove and curse scrolls could continue to function as normal. After all, acquired gear is cursed when worshipping ashenzari. Would it really be so bad to allow the initial curse for free...

I like the idea about cursing your equipment from an ability menu. It takes a lot of the tedium and randomness out of acquiring cursed gear, and it's not as though you're able to uncurse it at will. I also like the idea about converting each remove curse into multiple curse scrolls. I would perhaps ...

Playing as a DsAK with the intention to corrupt a demon whip. But I got to Lair 2, and there's a quickblade lying on the ground. I have 14 levels in maces and flails, but it's not exactly tragic to get the 8 levels needed for short blades to get the quickblade up to minimum delay. So would you switc...

Suggesting using a wand of teleportation to get away from Mennas is useful. Implying that not having a wand of teleportation is your fault is disingenuous. There are very few reliable sources of anything in the game. While I often have a wand by the time I meet Mennas, I rarely see one for purchase ...

My favorite thing on the wiki is in the Mennas article when it tells you to plan ahead; a wand of teleportation should be one of your first purchases...

There should be a more reliable source of evoked protection from missile attacks in the game, other than a rod that is fabled to exist and a legendary amulet that includes inaccuracy as an intrinsic. By including a source of evocable repel/deflect missile, it would allow berserkers access to this us...

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