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How about this: Add "Throwable" as a possible ego (is that the correct term?) to daggers, pole arms, axes and hammers. (Except that Crawl has some silly stuff in it so why not all melee weapons? There are double and triple swords already.) It probably should only appear on a dedicated mund...

I have had a bit of a similar god idea, that I posted a good while back to Crazy Yiffs. (it was not fleshed out, so no room for it here) The main idea was that it was a God of silence who disliked noice. The god would silence you if you made too much noice. You could still cast big noisy spells, but...

Also, a bit of a bummer, but you can not dash up stairs. Luckily I tried this in a non life threathening situation.

New unrandart: Sabre of Light +15 (Slicing, Reflect, SH+5, EV+5) It is a long blade, so it can parry. You can evoke it to throw it like a javelin of returning (Penetration+return) It makes cool sounds when you move it around and even cooler if you parry an other Sabre of Light with it. These can be ...

You come across an altar in the dungeon, but instead of a god, it is dedicated to an artefact rod. Infact it is the Rod of Zot. It has a round socket in it that could perhaps fit an orb in it. You could take it if you want, but the power emanating from it seems really strong, really tempting, but at...

Also, just my luck. Right after I had spent nearly 500g on the fustibalus from a shop, the next thing I find on the floor is a fustibalus. We really need a return policy in shops...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.24-a0-182-gc7eaa07895 (webtiles) character file. MrRokkomies the Slinger (Halfling Hunter) Turns: 16937, Time: 01:21:22 Health: 90/90 AC: 8 Str: 20 XL: 13 Next: 84% Magic: 19/19 EV: 22 Int: 10 God: Dithmenos [******] Gold: 645 SH: 14 Dex: 20 Spells: 3/12 levels le...

Any time you find your character in a bad situation, just stop playing for a minute while you evaluate. You can get up and take a break, you can chat with spectators if playing online, you can ^F ingame to search for items that might salvage the character, you can alt-tab out and do something else ...

I had not tought of that. Simple, yet effective. Thanks

I think I got all other necro books except Necronomicon, but since I am already deeply in summoning, it would seem to overlap with that a bit too much. Tlock books are sparce, I do not have even blink. There is also a randart book with controlled blink in it, but the other stuff in that one is not u...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1931-gf4bb0bd (webtiles) character file. MrRokkomies the Fencer (Octopode Fighter) Turns: 48805, Time: 03:09:33 Health: 133/137 AC: 12 Str: 39 XL: 20 Next: 81% Magic: 43/43 EV: 28 Int: 36 God: Cheibriados [******] Gold: 831 SH: 19 Dex: 27 Spells: 6 memorised...

Actually wery fun game and my only CK win was a Slime troll. Started out as CK, converted to Jiyva in Lair. I had some nice Xom gifts at that point and Jiyva is really nice with a troll.

Also, IE trains Conj, IceM and Sum to get the starting book online. WIzard needs conj, tloc, sum, airM, PoisonM, hex. IE also ends up with higher levels on the relevant skills, which pays off in the future. Wizard gets really easily thinned out too much, if you try to get all starting spells online ...

It doesnt seem to confuse enemies for every long. Then again, ive never tried it on a dedicated hexer with high spellpower... much safer to cast confuse at range and then close in on the helpless enemy on such characters. So it would seem, especially on a felid that is faster than most enemies. The...

I could handle death yaks quite easily, altough they did not stay confused very long. It just meant that I needed to stay focused on what was going on and not use Tab. :P Corridors help with keeping your victim in place, but then again, you should always fight in corridors anyway. Good to know about...

I am currently playing a FeEn of Fedhas and happened to find confusing touch before lair. I have only little previous experience with this spell on a troll monk, but barely used it, since a Troll did not need stabbing bonus to wreck things. On a Felid though, this spell seems even OP. The spell was ...

Polearms also help with Ce speed. You can still kite when you are gettin low on ammo. Bows are especially good, since you will find more ammo early on from Centaurs.

Suprisingly, I did not die. :) I managed to grab 6 runes, including Holy Pan rune. I accidentally took a portal to Pan instead of Abyss, and ended up to the holy level as my 2nd Pan level. Almost died to Seraph there, but a Wand of Acid took him down. :P Zot had a lot of Fire Orbs, but they were rea...

lethediver wrote:Watch out for constriction.

Doesn't blink allow easy escape? Or was it completely the opposite?

I have had only one Branding scroll, which gave me the poison brand I am using atm... I got a freezing bow also, but it is only +1 so Venom will have to do for now. Portal Projectile has not come up, atleast yet, and there is very little chance it will, unless I go extended... Too bad, it would have...

True, I would like to have some better bodyarmor, but then again, my AC is 41 and I got all the resists I need.

There is a Trove of Treasures that asks for 4 potions of resistance, which I have found only 2 in the entire game. Perhaps that is where my ultimate body armor is waiting.

MrRokkomies the Slayer (Centaur Hunter) Turns: 71110, Time: 04:22:22 Health: 245/245 AC: 41 Str: 24 XL: 26 Next: 27% Magic: 34/34 EV: 14 Int: 9 God: Dithmenos [******] Gold: 1170 SH: 0 Dex: 17 Spells: 8 memorised, 10 levels left rFire + + . SeeInvis . b - +11 demon trident of the First Dances {elec...

Also that exit appears literally right under your feet, so it is very unlikely (but not impossible, I think) that you will be teleported out before you can make use of it. How ever, it is entirely possible to not notice it, if you are figting a horder of monsters and every tile is occupied and you ...

How guaranteed is "guaranteed"? Is it one of those things where the formula eventually spits out a 100% chance for the exit to spawn, presumably on a visible tile? As far as I remember it takes the same amount of XP which recharges lamp of fire to create a exit and double that XP to creat...

Inner flame can easily take out a whole pack of orcs with one cast, even when the first warriors come in. Mark the first regular orc you see and pop him from distance. Inner flame might also allow you to take out a priest that is hiding behind some "soon to be living bombs". (On a side not...

Since no one has commented on this, I would like to point this out more. As far as I know, this is the case. You get more MP from training either evo or spc, which ever is higher. I would assume that both are equally effective This is wrong. Nago gave the correct factor, which is max(spc, evo/2, in...

The only skill of Spellcasting/Invo/Evo that affects max MP is still whatever's highest, correct? Since no one has commented on this, I would like to point this out more. As far as I know, this is the case. You get more MP from training either evo or spc, which ever is higher. I would assume that b...

duvessa wrote:Take away dracos369's cloaks of invisibility, please

Let's remove cloaks of invisibility and create a fixed art "Draco's cloak of invisibility" with fragile, so that you can not take it away.

Best brand depends on where you are. In a lot of extended fights, Antimagic is unbelievable. I usually tend to carry around an antimagic weapon of the type I use as my main weapon, just to be able to switch to it when I encounter something that needs to be shut down. I dump all my extra EW scrolls ...

In my current game as an Ogre Hunter I came across a Fire Dragon Hide on D1 and have been running around with an FDA since I got my first ?ea. It was totally worth it! Ofcourse the situation is really different for an Ogre, since you'r options for AC are really limited untill you start to encounter ...

Moving around volcanic lakes that generate smoke is really annoying. Auto explore breaks all the time on the popcorn mobs and you can not tab them either when they go in and out of sight every other turn.The smoke power would cause this to happen all the time...

I have been thinking about a slime species too, but not around the mutation game. My idea was to have a slime specie, that would not "wield" or "wear" anything. Rather, it would engulf stuff to gain their magical effects. It would not benefit from any weapons or armors damage or ...

What happens to the tentacles if I Confuse the head? I managed to confuse a Kraken in my last game before it had spawned any tentacles and stabbed it to death without learning this.

I also remembered why I used Steam DA on one of my more successfull Ogre IEs. It allows Ozos to be used. How ever the pondering change to that spell makes me hesitate to use it. Also on the topic of EV. If I worship dith, the umbra gives -Acc to monsters, so how does that affect the low numbers of E...

Ogres can cast spells to some extent and they really help you survive. And even if they can not dodge well, I would not throw away that little ev I have.

Getting a GDA is much easier than PDA though, so GDA might be an option.

I have had varying success playing Ogres, but they all struggle greatly with defences... Now that they changed how ozos armor works and removed stone skin, getting AC up early game is even harder. In my latest game I have got a +1 Steam DA, which is nice to have now, but might not be worth the scrol...

Yet again I managed to get the orb and escape. I did not bother with hell or pan runes. Those are so tedious, I did not want to go trhough that hassle. I had the easiest Tomb run with this char. Shatter left the place in ruins. :P I did not find any "brand weapon" scrolls, are they removed...

The morgue did not tell the whole story. I had stashed a huge amount of ?EA, they seem to be lying everywhere... Reason for FDA was my lack of rf. I had the Ring of Ice, which I could have used to overcome the malus if I came across ice creeps. I am now in a much better situation, since I found a Pe...

Thanks! This is in Trunk, so no Phase shift. Also, as far as I know, AE and EE no longer hamper each other. Wasn't that removed at the same time cross training got reworked? I was thinking that with Ash, dMis is not that hard to get online, since charms is already something I want to train. I got go...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1454-g5e6cd1e (webtiles) character file. 3403488 MrRokkomies the Petrodigitator (level 27, 112/192 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Earth Elementalist on Feb 11, 2016. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Escaped with the Orb ... and 6 runes on Mar 1, 2016! The game laste...

kuniqs wrote:Isn't this god Xom, basically? Xom is amused when you do stupid things, like hitting a 'red' monster with a weapon of chaos, or drinking unid potions when threatened.

Kinda, yes.

I was thinking this would be more like Jackass personality, when Xom is purely insane.

Croases wrote:FR: a portal that scrambles your keys and puts you in the midst of a ton of monsters, so that you have to type around trying to identify your z key only to find that your spells are scrambled too.

New ubermegazig. This happens on each floor.

This is a very raw idea that I came up with and have no intention on fully designign. Just wanted to throw it out here if it amuses some one. :P When you worship this god, he will give you dares when entering new levels. You get to choose if you want to do it or not, but if you decline, he might get...

The way I see it, traps have two conceivable purposes in the game: 1. To put the player into unexpected and unanticipated situations, and 2. To be terrain that has tactical significance. Traps do not need to be hidden to serve purpose 2, and I think if traps were intended to serve purpose 2 they ar...

You could make it work with an actual visual clue, like a slight color flaw on a tile or a "hard" to spot icon on a tile. I hate to be blunt, but nothing remotely like this will never happen as long as I have anything to say about it. I absolutely despise games that do this, and it's comp...

Trap detection is an other issue... You could make it work with an actual visual clue, like a slight color flaw on a tile or a "hard" to spot icon on a tile. Sorry but this seems like a terrible idea. I definitely don't want to scan the screen for traps myself. I know, me neither... But i...

A permanent merc summon should not be a card effect at all in my opinion. It has too many issues (mentioned earlier) and fixing it as a card is probably not possible. It could be made in to a god power, where you can summon a "permanent" ally that grows in power over time. Let's make a Pok...

Trap detection is an other issue... You could make it work with an actual visual clue, like a slight color flaw on a tile or a "hard" to spot icon on a tile. How this would work on console I have no idea. Then there is the auto explore issue. How it should treat traps? Perhaps it would mov...

I was thinking about the trap issue the other day and came up with the idea of making traps take effect with a delay, but the consequences would be much more severe. The simplest would be Indiana Jones style Boulder release. Get out of the way fast or get crushed. (No instadeath of course) There alr...

Lightning balls is fun, lightning balls on a servitor is even more fun.

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