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... and then I got eaten by a spider after being turned into a pig by Kirke. I wish I could say I didn't see it coming or something like that, but this was simply a matter of getting way overconfident and careless for no reason. The second time I saw her it was due to going down the wrong flight of ...

Thanks very much for the tips to all of you! I don't want to do a full post, since I should really be asleep right now, but the short of it is, I'm on Dungeon floor 15, thinking I should have been checking out Swamp and Spider before even setting foot in here (no truly scary moments yet, but I think...

Hello everyone! I've come back to this game after two years of hiatus, and I've started a run with a DeCJ which has so far been much smoother than I anticipated. For a bit of context, back when I played this game (I think may have been somewhere between versions .14 and .16), I ended up getting two ...

Victory! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1 (tiles) character file. 1858250 Hacknor the Axe Maniac (level 27, 402/402 (405) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Berserker on June 6, 2014. Was the Champion of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on June 10, 2014! The game lasted 08:48:10 (117445 turns...

Put further stat ups into dexterity, at level 24 and 27. And put on a better ring than see invisible. You shouldn't have trained axes to 27 (should have stopped at 26), but otherwise, looking good. Yeah, I was planning on putting stat ups into dexterity (I've basically been told to stat up int if p...

So, after getting my first win as a Naga Monk of Chei (posted on this forum earlier), I figured I ought to actually get a win with a MiBe since I spent so much time trying to earn a win with them. I think the game is growing tired of seeing me play those, as I got some pretty lucky loot this time ar...

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I feel like I should actually try and score a win with a Minotaur Berserker and a Spriggann Assassin/Enchanter (my two most successful combinations until yesterday) now that I've seen the game through and have a decent general idea of the game's structure (for a 3...

I DID IT! MY FIRST VICTORY! YESSSSSSSSSS I'm rather amused that my first victory was with what is generally considered a challenge combination. But mostly I'm super excited that I finally achieved a victory in Crawl. And tired, because I kept myself up way too late to finish this (playing with fire,...

Alright, I've cleared all of The Depths. Aside from one really close call when I ran into a group that had two Ancient Liches, a Gold Dragon and a whole bunch of other stuff, I didn't really have too many scary moments, though the monster set is pretty ridiculous down there. I guess all that's left ...

Welp, cleared Swamp 5 and then went through the first two levels of Elf. Found a book of Changes, which gives me access to Statue Form. I've heard a lot of good things about Statue Form for Unarmed Combat (and the Wiki seems to agree)... do people suggest I learn it? I'd probably have to train nothi...

Cleared Vaults all the way up to V4. V2 had a nice combination of Boris, Sojobo and Saint Roka, but I managed to stay alive (and I don't think Boris ever woke up). Nothing especially noteworthy, Vaults is pretty exciting overall, although it becomes a lot more manageable when you figure out how to d...

Thanks very much for the info! I'll keep this in mind when I get back to the game. Thanks also for pointing out the fire vulnerability, I had put on the ice ring to deal with ice attacks in the Swamp (I think?) and kept it because I was worried about Magic Resist, but that's partly because I'm never...

So, while I haven't played this game seriously for a few weeks (really busy, a couple of fairly advanced MiBe/SpAs runs are lying around forgotten since I haven't had the concentration to play them recently), I've been messing around with different/random starts in order to familiarize with differen...

I rated Nem a '2' for basically just that reason. Nem is way better now than he used to be (I refused to play him back in the days when deck gifts were tied to which items you sacrificed), but still requires way too much item shuffling to be fun. I also dislike that I have to change my rcfile optio...

Personally I'm most surprised with finding Nemelex at "Yawn" level. I'm guessing it's because of the inventory management, similarly to the way that Beogh is so low because of the Allies management? Personally those two Gods are the ones I had the most fun with (especially Nemelex). I gues...

I GOT MY FIRST RUNE EVER WOOOO! Okay, had to celebrate :D Anyhow, thanks for the replies! I used the majority of my ID scrolls on potions, which left few over for equipiment (though now the only beneficial potion I haven't yet ID'd is Cure Mutation). Also I lost a few to a couple of unexpected Fire ...

Why skip Lair 8? (Orc 4 after Lair 7 in particular is pretty strange. What would lead you to think Lair 8 is more dangerous than Orc 4?) 1) Spellbinder is way too fun, and you won't find it this often. I would go for it. 2a) Bows can't be distortion, so assuming your supply of remove curse > 0 you ...

Hello everyone! I'm back with another MiBe, and this time I'm feeling really lucky up until now. I just finished clearing out Orc4 after Lair7 and I've never had an easier time before; it helps that the main Orc4 threat here was a bunch of Sorcerers and that I'm wielding an Anti-Magic Demon Whip, bu...

Patashu wrote:Playing Crawl while sleep deprived is as bad as driving while sleep deprived.

Hahahaha, true, but thankfully playing Crawl while sleep deprived doesn't put the lives of other players' characters at risks

(Well, maybe their ghosts if I get lucky...)

That's a little weird, Firestarter (the unrand great mace that inner flames opponents) doesn't have SInv. You know, I just went and checked my morgue file, and you're right; the mace doesn't have Sinv. And yet, for some reason I was certain it did when I equipped it (I didn't have any other SInv eq...

Well that was silly. And very sad. I cleared out Lair until floor 7 very easily. Ran into two Hydras, which died to wands + smiting as I had planned.Then continued until D14. Things were awesome: My best Orc Knight Boghold was now a Warlord and kicking as much ass as ever, two wizards had become sor...

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, searching for enchanted armour and axes only gives a couple of glowing hand axes (one of which was -2 -2 cursed and cost me my last remove-curse scroll) and a couple of glowing/embroidered robes. Like I said, pretty terrible loot so far XD I'm also out of identify scrolls...

I'm back with yet another character! Took me a few tries to get a HO melee character off the ground (they're less sturdy than MiBe so I kept underestimating threats) but this guy is doing really well for now I think. I went through Orc before Lair since I had enough piety to convert almost every Orc...

Yes, having more Fighting is good when you have ok offense and reached point where training more Armour/Dodging is not useful. Why were you training Transmutations? Oh, I had found a book of earth magic and was trying to train Passwall (and possibly Petrify/LRD later) as an escape option. Maybe tha...

Hopeless wrote:Hit points are pretty darned important imho.

So, should i have been allocating more Exp into Fighting? (serious question, I don't really know these things

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There's probably a number of questionable things about my build since this is my first time playing it, so any comments/suggestions are welcome! :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1 (tiles) character file. ... 60357 Schachter the Spry ([b]level 14[/b], -13/63 HPs) ... Skills: - Level 2.1 Figh...

This is what happens when I'm doing well. I start thinking that I'm invincible and then die stupidly to a bunch of Orcs. Such a waste, too, there was absolutely no reason other than carelessness for me to die there. Anyway, first time playing this combination (excluding one very very early playthrou...

When in doubt, remember you CAN'T bum rush and tank the unique you've never seen before. Even if you can, you probably can't. I *really* need to learn this lesson. Also when my best character died fairly recently I learned that if the game is telling you that monster is drowning you, that might act...

Neat game! I gave it a try, and beat level 16 (the last level of the free version) on my third attempt. Compelling enough that it made me decide to get the premium version, since this is exactly the kind of game I want with me on the bus. Thanks for linking me to it!

Wow, thanks very much for the above writeup, very useful :) In any case, I just went and got killed in Shoals 4 (well, just managed to climb up to Shoals 3 in an attempt to escape, but that didn't save me). Shoals 3 had been quite easy, so I went down way too confident and got swarmed by a ridiculou...

Thanks for your feedback! A few questions: -Should I not keep the Ring of Ice in case I run into Ice-using enemies? -Why are the slings problematic? I ask this because I've found them very useful so far, and Mi has +1 apt in them. What projectiles would you suggest? Should I even be putting XP in a ...

Hello everyone! I'm currently running yet another MiBe and it's by far the most successful (or perhaps most lucky) attempt I've ever had! I just cleared out Lair 8, and I'm not sure where to go next, so I thought I'd post a dump here (wasn't sure if this should go in the advice forum instead, please...

Thanks for the tips everyone! I'll give those suggestions a try!

Hello Everyone! So, I've been getting significantly better at the game; I've recently managed to get a MiBe all the way to Lair 8 (Yeah, I know, that's not much, but it's a big deal for me! I got murdered by a spriggann riding a firefly in a forest :0). It's been fun, but I've been playing a lot of ...

I've never gotten as far as getting a rune, but I tend to have similar problems, moving around really fast due to impatience (as soon as I realize my character has gotten strong-ish) and getting into terrible situations without noticing until it's too late. Then a few days ago I tried playing online...

I just made an account since I thought I should join in on thanking the dev team for continuously developing this awesome (free!) game, as well as for inspiring Desktop Dungeons, which is probably my personal best game ever. I'm still really terrible at DD:SS, but that's mostly because I play it in ...

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Re: CiP - DeCj: Suggestions for how to proceed?

Re: CiP - DeCj: Suggestions for how to proceed?

CiP - DeCj: Suggestions for how to proceed?

Re: CiP - MiBe - Going well so far!

Re: CiP - MiBe - Going well so far!

CiP into YAVP - MiBe - Going well so far!

Re: YAVP - NaMo of Chei - Was not expecting to win this!!!

Re: YAVP - NaMo of Chei - Was not expecting to win this!!!

Re: CiP - NaMo of Chei - Was not expecting to get this far..

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Re: CiP - NaMo of Chei - Was not expecting to get this far..

YAVP - NaMo of Chei - Was not expecting to win this!!!

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Re: CiP - MiBe (again :P) - thoughts and suggestions welcome

Re: CiP - MiBe (again :P) - thoughts and suggestions welcome

CiP - MiBe (again :P) - thoughts and suggestions welcome!

Re: YASD (formely CiP) - HOGl of Beogh - Suggestions welcome

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Re: -CiP- YASD - HOGl of Beogh - Suggestions welcome!

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YASD (formely CiP) - HOGl of Beogh - Suggestions welcome!

Re: YASD - SpAs of Nemelex in Orc 2

Re: YASD - SpAs of Nemelex in Orc 2

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YASD - SpAs of Nemelex in Orc 2

Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.

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Re: CiP - MiBe - What next? (Noob Alert!)

Re: CiP - MiBe - What next? (Noob Alert!)

CiP (now YASD) - MiBe - What next? (Noob Alert!)

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Thoughts on Deep Dwarf + Elyvilon? (Noob Alert!)

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