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There's been lots of areas where poor documentation have irritated me, along with other issues. Altogether, they've pissed me off. If you think Crawl has poor documentation, so much so that you're angry, perhaps you've the wrong idea about the documentation. I've read that Crawl's manual, tutorial,...

I consider Short Blades as a challenge start because by the time you have enough piety to make the distortion blade, you probably won't really need to make the distortion blade. Polearms are a safer bet in general, they give you more tactical options and powerful early weapons (halberds) are readily...

Hmm, I wonder if rebranding weapon should invoke unwield mechanics...

He won a MiFi of Oka, here's the YAVP: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13464&p=187436

Best of luck, any time I get drops like you mention on a character I get overconfident and stupid myself to death.

Have you ever seen a dragon with hiccups?

All right, I'll give it a go. Thanks for the quick response

[character dump at bottom] I'm pretty bad at this game, but I think I actually have a chance to win with this character - I'm not super interested in extended as I've only won once before and never since the introduction of the Depths. I started with long blades, but picked up the whip of elec off a...

{{Mod Note: Split from Advice}} How would headshots make ranged combat less boring? Many modern games use the random rewards (such as critical hits, or random treasure) to invoke a kind of operant conditioning to encourage play. Since most people don't really see through the ruse, the conditioning e...

I think that anyone focusing on UC should consider Transmutation (unless they are performing a conduct or chose a god that denies it) as the increase in base damage from those spells is not inconsiderable. Assuming no Claw mutation, the boosts look like this (information pulled from knowledge bots, ...

Crawl is messing with me. Found a high-damage cutlass with rF- (maybe a late game weapon, I don't like the fire vulnerability) and on D7 there was a bailey full of gnolls with elec halberds led by an orc warrior wielding a distortion trident. I'm an idiot, so I killed them all and brought their weap...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give it a shot and hope for nightstalker

Edit 2: YASD. Slain by my own hubris through the agency of a player ghost in an ice cave. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-3127-g5fcec12 (console) character file. 12551 zogre the Covert (level 11, -10/78 (79) HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Monk on Mar 7, 2014. Was an Elder of Ashenzari. Mangled ...

Some of the starting backgrounds really require a good knowledge of the game to do well, you are probably best off picking a single, strong-early background and just sticking with it. If you prefer Melee types, the most common suggestion at start is a Berserker (Be). I think that this is because Tro...

Does that trick where you have enough money to pay(tithe) Zin to protect you from further mutation right after you convert work against Xom wrath?

Did it ever work?

The DCSS Weapon Comparison spreadsheet (viewtopic.php?f=5&t=359) can tell you exactly what you're asking.

Itemdest is pretty useless and annoying. If you know what different monsters can do, you can avoid most of it, by just taking cover/taking stairs and dropping everything, but isn't it ridiculously tedious? This is a great game, but itemdest is surely not the best way to handle things and even just ...

Tedronai: I do know that and never asked advice for that situation. Just read my first post. Early out-of-depth monsters are terrifying, yes. But what can you do if you see an orc priest as a, let's say XL1 spriggan wizard? On D:1. If it smites (and it most likely will), it's an instadeath. What yo...

Although it's never fun to die, if you're going to lose, at least if you die on D1 you haven't lost much. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/streaks.html http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/zogre.html I'm bad at this game, but one of the reasons I keep playing Crawl despite being an awfulplaye...

Distortion GSC seems pretty awesome to me. Why would you not want distortion?

A NaWz or NaCj is not a weak character on D1. Spit poison is just great at that point in the game. Without it, I would agree that NaCj or NaWz is probably one of the weakest starting characters. Now, a DeCj is a pretty weak starting character. Even still, most of the time you can take out 3 jackals...

It's much nicer than it used to be, imo

Bravo to the devs for using the correct english terminology for the dead and decaying flesh of an animal.

I was unsatisfied with my earlier answer, so I decided to test out what happens. (note: I only play online so I don't have access to wizmode, and I'm too lazy to do a local install in order to wizmode test.) (note to note: yes, making characters and levelling to test is probably more work than wizmo...

I just use the abilities remap to change berserk from 'a' to 'A' (press "=" then "a" twice then "A"), which I think is what Arrhythmia suggests? It works well for me, since I'm not going to hold shift by accident when selecting another ability. It sounds like though you...

Trog penance is bad, when I abandoned him he killed me pretty quickly. I'm not sure how bad it is for merely memorization of a necromantic spell/learning necromancy, but the wiki says deprecates learning spells and devoting experience to spellcasting, I'm not sure I'd risk it. It's a pretty good pol...

Tiktacy wrote:
asdu wrote:Do they sever hydra heads?

Lol that sounds kind of silly.

I think it's a reasonable question, as tomahawk is a Powhatan (native american tribe) word for throwing axe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(axe)

Though I don't think throwing weapons have the right damage type to sever heads.

That clarifies things. Thank you.

This one still confuses me, I guess it's because I don't really understand the relationship between encumbrance rating and EVP. Does Strength reduce EVP for Spiny's calculation? Before the Enc rating I knew that if I wore anything heavier than scale mail I couldn't expect Spiny to be reliable. Now t...

It is my opinion that Crawl play is not trivial, and so winning is something one should be proud of, even with an "easy" race/starting class. Plus, I think it's a good thing for Crawl that races and classes with an easier power curve exist, so new players can get a handle on the game with ...

Just because Gr has a good power curve doesn't mean the entire race is broken. Since crawl is a single player game, why would your enjoyment of the MuFE experience (for example) be lessened by the existence of GrBe? After all, it's not like crawl has a PvP component the devs have to balance around, ...

I always have fun with Demonspawn.

crawl forums strongly follow the second law of thermodynamics

Sticking to autoexplore and excluding other means of non-combat transportation could be called a "newbie trap", and one I'm not fully free of yet. Once I know enough about the capability of my character to face the expected threats for the area of the dungeon I'm in, autoexplore becomes le...

Do you do a lot of stabbing? in trunk, Stabbing is (basically) the average of your stealth and appropriate weapon skill. Kobolds have a very high apt for it, as long as your weapon's at min delay and you're not having any difficulty in fights, why not keep raising it?

Off-topic, but am I the only one who's had trouble wielding arrows from the 'b' slot? It works fine for stones as an EE, but I can't get it to work for arrows as a Tm. Not the biggest deal in the world, but it puts extra work into spamming Sticks to Snakes. I wouldn't worry about forgetting Beastly...

use your item arrangement to put the staff in your 'b' location, and something un-wieldable (like body armour/robe) in your 'a' location. Do this by typing an '=' character, then 'i' for item, then 'b' then the letter of your staff; then repeat with 'a' for your body armour. Then you can use the sin...

Blade hands is an unarmed attack, and is based on your unarmed skill: From Henzell: Blade Hands: A potent level 5 transmutation spell that grants a large increase to unarmed damage but impedes spellcasting while active. Base damage is 8 + str/3 + dex/3 + UC. Also adds +6 to offhand punch damage. Doe...

Non-spellcasting fighters, like MiBe, should choose dex most of the time. (this might change with the 0.13 armour changes, as they do make str better). Some hybrid fighters like necromancer that start with high int and/or don't care that much about spell power, if you're fighting and not just tryin...

A while back I read someone's remark about Oka's gifts - it's a crazy old coot with a closet full of an eternity's worth of junk. You don't get anything that won't fit, but there's no guarantee it'll be worth a damn to you, either.

Inner flame an enemy, and then enslave it. Makes for fun times as long as your new buddy doesn't decide to blow up when he's next to you

would it stop the rotting from the demon mutations?

Upon reflection, I also think it will be fun. I'll give it a try, see what happens

EDIT: Carried the black blade, had blast, died. Would switch again, standing behind a zombie horde led by two bros was neat-o. Hi, my name is zogre, and I probably should be on the awfulplayers list :) Started a MiBe this morning, just tooling around the dungeon, and I see on the floor - Zonguldrok ...

In console, if you hit ? while in the map overview (shift-x) you get a page which shows you all the commands you can set with regards to the map.

If you have stasis or teleport control, a teleport trap makes a really safe stash - but as nicolae says, the floor is fine most of the time unless you're with the slime god.

I don't know about tiles, but in console there's red text that says "Starving" when you are in that state.

You can also set up your init.txt file to automate eating of safe chunks, if you search the file for "chunks" you will find the appropriate section.

It depends on the race I'm playing. With races that get mostly INT or an even chance of all 3, I will raise STR if I am near an EV penalty "break point" (9, 12, 15, 18) or having encumbrance problems, but still focus on INT for spells. If I'm playing a race that gets a lot of STR/DEX boost...

I don't think the AC boost from the CPA is going to offset the great resistances and invisibility on that plate armour. You might want to memorize some low level spells like Blink, since it's not too tough to get that stuff castable in regular plate and they give you great survival and escape option...

it really doesn't make sense No it doesn't. But: Game Balance > Common Sense I could expand my point and go into a long tangent on Dwarf Fortress' direction of development to illustrate my point but I shall hold off until asked. As a DF (fortress mode) dabbler, I am interested in reading your tange...

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