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The majority of my acquirements are for either armour or jewellery. I'd be split 50/50 in this case. There's room for a nice randart along with a good chance of getting complete junk either way.

I think I'd go for jewellery, but that's just me.

I recently found -2 chain mail lying on the ground in a game, though I do not remember if it was in .20 or in trunk. Are negatively enchanted armors gone in trunk? I didn't know, but it sounds lovely. On the topic at hand: granted, I've not been playing quite as long as some of the regulars here, bu...

Oka's always been one of my favorite gods, and in my experience they really are just spammable like that. I wouldn't use finesse on every passing goblin, but you can use it in essentially any *dangerous* fight without issue. It doesn't cost that much. Heroism really is that expendable; it almost doe...

OK, OK.

I apologize. Carry on.

It's on the list of things that will never happen, because it's been well established that Crawl is a game about food and eating things. This has nothing to do with either. Whenever you make a suggestion about a new game mechanic or other aspect of the game, you must remember the spirit of Crawl's p...

I love the New Gnoll! I tried them out last night, and while the character ended up splatting stupidly in Crypt, that is my fault and does not reflect poorly on the species. It actually was not difficult to get there. There is something greatly satisfying in being able (and encouraged) to use whatev...

I concur, as a regular on the same server. MiBe/Fi ghosts are so common there as to seem ubiquitous at times. They're almost all the same; high ac, high damage, high hp, sometimes with a dangerous brand. I have seen ghosts as early as in Lair and Orc with fairly ludicrous stats in those areas and ca...

Congratulations! Holy moley, that storm dragon armour is outstanding. So are your mutations. Cool character!

I think MiMo of Jiyva was my first online win. It's quite a lot of fun. Jellies eating everything and the resultant message spam drives me up the wall these days, unfortunately.

On the subject of removing items, we have some thoroughly obvious candidates hanging around. Scrolls of random uselessness are literally randomly useless and there's absolutely no reason for them to still be here. Potions of degeneration are a mild annoyance at best and largely serve to waste identi...

But...but "you don't actually get that item, hyuck hyuck" is a perfect summary of what makes Crawl great! Alongside "you have to eat something NOW!!!" it ought to be the official motto. Don't you agree?

Oh, no no no. They are far more interesting this way, because they now do absolutely nothing instead of *almost* nothing. No half measures, no compromises. They must be actually, entirely pointless to be worthy of the great triumvirate of food, ghosts, and mimics. Ezero: traps still exist! Thank Tro...

Nobody has mentioned the sole occupant of SSS tier. Mimics. The most fascinating feature in all of Crawl's distinguished history. Whenever you read the words, "The foo chuckles and vanishes in a puff of smoke!", you feel such a rush of satisfaction at seeing this *wonderfully* interesting ...

As much as I personally dislike the distortion brand and the Abyss, I have to agree with the opposition here. Distortion's no worse really than electrocution in terms of instantly murdering weak characters early on, and even draining or venom can be almost as fatal on D:1 or 2. You could ask the bro...

Code:: 988 gold the ring of Tizxount {Wiz rF+ MR+ Slay+5}

Holy moley.

You want to know something funny? In the same shop...

Code:: 1092 gold a +4 ring of slaying (unknown)

I am confused.

Ghosts are a reason *not* to play Webtiles. I play online because I've met some cool people there and I like the record keeping and the tournaments and such. The novelty wears off after the 300th MiBe blob of HP, AC, and EV with a weapon of insert brand here making the game more of a chore than it o...

Wait, are eveningstars going? Why?

Ghosts should not exist, let alone have a greater impact on the game than they already do by dropping usable equipment. They're a terrible influence on game balance; some are incredibly disproportionately dangerous for the area they appear on, some are free bags of experience, and many are pointless...

Speaking of good chain... the +8 chain mail of Trial and Error (worn) {rElec rF++ Dex-5}. I am quite seriously considering using this throughout the rest of the game. I found it lying about on the seventh level of the dungeon. It's true that chain is overshadowed by a number of other armors in terms...

Code:: The +7 broad axe "Qiunk" (weapon) {elec, *Slow rElec MR+++ Stlth+}.

Feels too good not to use, with rElec and enough MR for the rest of the game, and I'm a barachi of Chei anyway so being sloooow is inevitable.

Hunger-induced hallucinations: at near starving or lower satiation, a progressively larger proportion of enemies and items will be seen as random comestibles. When truly starving, you will be mesmerized by anything which appears to be edible and forced to consume it. Items will be identified only af...

When D:2 decides that it is, in fact, D:6.

EDIT: And the orc warrior had poisoned tomahawks, which two shot me. Because I was XL5, on D:2. I almost made it to the stairs, too.

In addition to watertreatmentRL's advice, which I fully agree with, I'd recommend getting one last point into axes in order to reach minimum delay on your antimagic broad axe. You could also do with a source of rElec, if it exists in the game; if not, you may want to consider wearing storm dragon ar...

7 free points of AC and resistance to both fire and cold is pretty great early on, and since you are a MiBe as well you should now have a pretty easy time with most early game threats. Orc priests don't care about AC or resistances, though, so be careful around them. I have seen pearl dragon armors,...

I would personally love to see this implemented. Every time the game brings up a menu when I am finally forced to press "e," as if it actually matters whether I consume a bread or a meat ration to make the game stop shouting at me that I need to eat something "NOOOWWWWwwwww!!!!!!1!1!&...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1-1-g8b1a95d (webtiles) character file. 1784394 Blomdor the Conqueror (level 27, 249/249 HPs) Began as a Barachi Wizard on Sept 12, 2017. Was the Champion of Cheibriados. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 02:52:13 (74162 turns). Blomdor the ...

Just remove food. For God's sake. I'm of the opinion that if your one and only fixation above all other things including entertainment and sanity is to win such that you will resort to "degenerate" and "unfun" behavior to even slightly increase your chances of doing so, that is y...

Code:: The +4 pair of gloves "Dusetudekeodgh" (worn) {rElec rN+}.

This after having a *very* close call against a cyan ugly thing. I was severely lacking in armor of any kind, so this was most welcome.

Nevermind; died in an ice cave...will try again later. Argh, this is hard.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-264-g3e31e41 (webtiles) character file. Blomdor the Cleaver (Barachi Wizard) Turns: 10276, Time: 00:17:10 Health: 86/86 AC: 19 Str: 27 XL: 11 Next: 16% Magic: 15/15 EV: 11 Int: 32 God: Cheibriados [*****.] Gold: 644 SH: 6 Dex: 24 Spells: 9/16 levels left rFi...

Ever since the changes to monster generation came through, I have noticed far more out of depth monsters in the very early dungeon. D:2 centaurs (leading to one autoexplore death), D:2 worker ants, D:2 phantoms, D:2 imps, D:3 orc warriors, D:3 hippogriffs, D:4 hornet zombies, killer bees generally; ...

You die autoexploring to a centaur on D:2. Immediately after you go down the stairs, so you know that this is not a result of you being on the level for too long; a centaur just spawned naturally on D:2 and got the hit on you as soon as it came into view.

Hope your D:1 wasn't too exciting!

Tried to hop away; was a barachi. Turned to stone immediately after. I completely forgot about cancellation, because I am a doofus...

When you lose a character because the RNG decided that three pips of instadeath resistance was not enough, by which I mean MR because that's essentially what MR is in some cases. In this case I was petrified by an ancient lich on V:5, but it could have been paralysis too. And your MR rings are extre...

B - +7 crystal plate armour of Resilience {rC+++ rCorr Dex-3 Stlth+} F - amulet of Relativism {Faith MR+ Str+7} G - ring of the Firefly {rElec rN+ AC+3} W - ring of Waeg {rElec rF+ MR+ Str+4 Slay+3} Had all of these on the same character, along with the axe "Bingo" mentioned before. A comp...

Code:: the +9 broad axe "Bingo" (weapon) {chop, *Slow rF+ rC+ MP+9}

Would you do it?

Victory! I shall keep the advice in mind in the future; it's something I've never been sure about. When it gets hard I need to learn to be more efficient with skilling; I'm too used to stronger combos that can win without thinking much about it. Will post the dump when it shows up on the score sheet...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-228-g14ccbf3 (webtiles) character file. Blomdor the Severer (Barachi Skald) Turns: 23970, Time: 00:46:32 Health: 127/127 AC: 34 Str: 24 XL: 15 Next: 74% Magic: 19/19 EV: 16 Int: 11 God: Okawaru [******] Gold: 806 SH: 12 Dex: 15 Spells: 17/18 levels left rFir...

Death by firestorm spamming pan lord on the orb run. I dislike the orb run in general more and more with every game, won or lost. It is a trial by RNG at the very last five minutes of the game. Most of the time, it's less trouble than Zot:5. Sometimes, you are opposed by almost absolutely nothing mo...

Thanks, guys. I'll try to learn fsim more and use it in these cases in the future. Duvessa's numbers are concise and helpful, so I shall keep that in mind. For the record, I lost the game in question being an idiot and either axe would have resulted in the same outcome, haha. I guess it didn't reall...

This is something I've always wondered a bit about, and after finding an executioner's axe of speed in my current game I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask the question. I'm currently using a +9 executioner's axe of chopping with +6 strength on top of it, and the speed branded executioner's is only +2 ...

I was actually on the way up to the exit with the Orb in hand when I remembered that a trove had spawned in my game and I thought of this thread. It was probably not my brightest idea ever to investigate it for the sake of reporting at that point, but things never got too hairy beyond a couple of un...

While frantically test-quaffing your unidentified potions looking for curing or heal wounds, the last one you see before you die is experience. There is something uniquely painful about it. Potions of experience are so vanishingly rare that they never appear at all in the majority of my won games, a...

I don't relish encountering Maurice at all; he's one of those things that has somehow outlived mountain dwarves, high elves, yellow wands, and so many other less pointless and needlessly annoying things for reasons I cannot fathom. But I especially dislike it when I am wielding a weapon of venom, an...

For some reason, I cannot start a new game on Berotato. No version seems to work at the moment. : (

Anyone else having issues on that particular server?

EDIT: Thankfully, the problem seems to have been resolved.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-210-gbfa5647 (webtiles) character file. 1784040 Blomdor the Axe Maniac (level 27, 161/249 HPs) Began as a Barachi Gladiator on Aug 21, 2017. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 02:53:27 (67957 turns). Blomdor th...

While I lack the ghouling and 15 runing experience to feel comfortable offering advice to the character (I've only done extended twice, both times with more standard, TSO-worshipping characters), I believe the message is referring to the branch as a whole and not simply this particular level. Each u...

Righto! I always raise strength over everything else; if I could drop my Dex and Int to 3 and raise Str to 50, I'd do it. No persuasion needed there. The ring situation makes me wish I had the macabre finger necklace; rF at least shouldn't be necessary in either Swamp or Spider, but after that it wi...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-210-gbfa5647 (webtiles) character file. Blomdor the Severer (Barachi Gladiator) Turns: 23130, Time: 00:42:08 Health: 119/119 AC: 26 Str: 19 XL: 14 Next: 91% Magic: 18/18 EV: 13 Int: 10 God: Okawaru [******] Gold: 1925 SH: 12 Dex: 17 Spells: 13/13 levels left...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-203-gb066a6e (webtiles) character file. 1961609 Blomdor the Invulnerable (level 27, 224/224 HPs) Began as a Barachi Fighter on Aug 19, 2017. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Aug 20, 2017! The game lasted 02:35:15 (56923 tu...

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