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I have played DD of Ru and it provided enough healing to be viable through a three runer, played right. It was more difficult than Makhleb or old Ely. So if that experience contributes to this discussion, there you go. A functional non-Makhleb DD

True story. I am related to the inventor of the artificial diamond. well met, false heir of zirconia Yeah, this one time I got to go on a tour with all my dozens of relatives of a little building in Utah containing early machines used to make artificial diamonds. All the females were given a little...

This one time in anatomy and physiology lab my classmates and I were studying the gastrointestinal tract. I decided that a good way to remember the sequence of the GI tract would be to track what parts of the body a bolus of food would pass on its way from the plate to the latrine. So I decided to s...

Like the other starting spellbooks, I have found the Book of Callings to be completely adequate in finishing Lair. I had a character use Ice Beast, Lit Spire, and Golem almost exclusively to clear Lair.

True story. I am related to the inventor of the artificial diamond.

In MoO2 the main special power of Humans was that their government was a Democracy, which gave them some really strong boosts (but forbade you from exterminating species). In Twilight Imperium humans are the best at conquering worlds using their marines. In MoM humans were divided into Barbarians, N...

Arrhythmia wrote:
Bloax wrote:(why the hell do you think they got to the top of the food chain in the first place)

Agriculture.

Humans are considered specialist-generalists. We specialize at excelling in every ecosystem role.

The ratskin cloak should spawn friendly spectral rats (and river rats and hell rats) when you take large amounts of damage, perhaps using a formula similar to Dith's fog bleeding.

The scummy mummy has deity piety. And boredom that's more dumb. There is a brief rush of excitement when you realize that you just killed a two-headed ogre on D:1. There is also a brief rush of anxiety when you have to flee a fire dragon on D:2 while its breath destroys your line of minions. I neve...

The first time I tried this I killed a two-headed ogre at character level 3 on D:1. On the next floor I killed two members of a redback pack and then fled when I saw a tarantella in their midst. On another character I killed a big kobold on D:1, and a boggart pack on D:2. Turns out that boggarts are...

Want to win a mummy? Is your main problem making it to Lair? Here's some advice! Be a necromancer. Memorize reanimate skeleton and clear the first floor. Lately in trunk jackal packs seem to be the major player slayer on the first floor, so use caution around them. Find a nice place to camp in view ...

damiac wrote:Acquirement is probably the most reliable (hah!) way to get a top end weapon.

Yeah, it doesn't work so well for most weapon categories. I have used acquirement for long blades a decent amount, and it loves to give me great swords instead of triples.

you are all wrong the correct answer was OpTm^Gozag

If you're running a character and trying to get a top tier weapon as soon as you can, you can dependably get a quick blade or lajatang through acquirement. You'll have to have already seen the other short blades or quarterstaff and have decent skill in the weapon skill. I suspect that it helps the o...

Twelwe is my role model for forum posting. Someday I hope to overcome my compulsion to use correct punctuation and capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

Edit: "Twelwe" in the above paragraph should just be "twelwe"

Now that we finally have the Qsilver and Shadow dragon armour that we, as players, have a responsibility to extend the same privilege (of being hunted and butchered to extinction for their hides) to the two remaining true dragons in Crawl: Iron Dragons and Bone Dragons. Obviously Bone Dragons don't ...

randart +0 pearl dragon armour (rElec, rN, Slay+6, Stealth+)

A really great find for a Troll just lying there on Lair:2. Carried me to the end of a 3-runer

randart +5 boots (+Fly, +Rage, Slay+5)

Convenient evokables in an attractive package

Solving the labyrinth mazes is a lot of fun to me. I've said this before, and I don't think I'm the only one. I enjoy it too, and I enjoy recognizing that the boss fight is coming and buffing up, and then I enjoy slaughtering the Minotaur. And I love the loot. And I love being an EE in a lab. and I...

personally I like ice form more than blade hands, though I seem to be alone there You're not alone! I won an OpTm recently that used Ice Form far more than the other Tmut spells in the later game. It provided helpful rPois, had better armor than Blade Hands especially with Ozo Armor, and had no hun...

Also had a character with qblade of chaos. Didn't have phenomenal slaying, but every enemy was guaranteed to die to it eventually - even OOFs. If a monster transformed into a berserk ettin, well, a couple hits later it was petrified and got stabbed to death.

qblade of chaos is great

I feel like Gozag worshipers in Hydra Form don't get nutrition from killing smaller enemies. Seems like smaller enemies also don't leave piles of gold behind. Is this the case or am I mistaken? Large foes like Swamp Dragons and my fellow Hydras leave behind piles of gold as normal (since you can't e...

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I propose the formation of an account called jesterrobin Conduct: 1.) locate Xom altar 2.) locate Nemelex altar 3.) join Xom and then as soon as possible switch to Nemelex 4.) over the course of the game memorize every spell in the Book of Party Tricks Except unless you use that old April 2012 vers...

What do you get when a Gozag worshiper casts orb of destruction?

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Midasintegrate. I love how the gold coins scatter.

I won the FeWz in spite of the tedium of summoning shadow creatures all through Zot. I did discover the new power of Force Lance but it wasn't MP efficient enough for me in general (but it was great on the orb run for pushing away foes just before going up stairs!). I tried out Malign Gateway a bit ...

I propose the formation of an account called jesterrobin Conduct: 1.) locate Xom altar 2.) locate Nemelex altar 3.) join Xom and then as soon as possible switch to Nemelex 4.) over the course of the game memorize every spell in the Book of Party Tricks Except unless you use that old April 2012 versi...

Normally the point of having Tloc is not to fight with it, though Summon Forest, Malign Gateway, and now Force Lance may assist offensively. It's more about escape and some defense. When I play a Warper I explicitly focus on my weapon skill early for offense. Like Skald, you actually get a weapon ch...

Maybe a bit off-topic, but how often do people visit the Elf:2 Hall of Blades to find a nice weapon?

My FeWz^Sif is delighted with the two new trunk spells, Cigotuvi's Embrace and Singularity, since I have focused on Necro and Tloc just to avoid losing all my lives. Thanks to Sif I have quickly acquired these new spells. I have tried using Singularity as though it were a lvl 9 elemental attack spel...

Death Knight as a starting background provides the ability to make allies from the beginning of the game. This allows species without decent Summoning or Necromancy aptitudes to get some help form minions. This is what I see as the DK niche. You don't need good necromancy aptitude to cast Animate S...

Death Knight as a starting background provides the ability to make allies from the beginning of the game. This allows species without decent Summoning or Necromancy aptitudes to get some help form minions. This is what I see as the DK niche.

Greyr wrote:I like to think of you as a haunted keyboard in an abandoned warehouse somewhere.

Code:: You see here the ghost of twelwe the Vexing, an average keyboard stalker.

Hey guys and twelwe I know I never officially applied for a position but I coded a loading splash screen for you. Here it is. If you don't like it I'll start my own pizza tornado branch.

http://debschlegel.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_32061.jpg

edit: sorry, this advice has already been given My last character was all set to enter V:5 and get that silver rune. Then I noticed I had all the good amulets for Slime Pits, and went and killed the Royal Jelly with a rod of ignition and scroll of immolation instead. In this way, I survived Vaults 5...

He has a mysterious green bodysuit. The first couple times I saw Harold, I thought "Neat! A unique wearing that Troll Leather Armour I've heard so much about!" I had to kill him and loot his body a few times to catch on that he doesn't wear trolls. But he wears green, therefore -> he -> sh...

twelwe wrote:
Rumbleguts wrote:What are these called in Pizza Twister branch?

exoelves

Trick question suckker

What are these called in Pizza Twister branch?

I think Op should also get Formicid-style weapon and shields and +1 XP aptitude

Dispelling miscast could potentially cancel flight while over water or lava. Perhaps if it worked like some of the dispel effects do now, such that it reduces the duration of certain effects to one or two turns instead of instantly ending them? Such a miscast effect might still not be noticed by a ...

Sar wrote:
Rumbleguts wrote:Earth - Doroklohe's tomb!
??? - vastly reduced LOS for a brief period

those are beneficial

Yeah I know. Shafting could also be useful I guess.

In the last weekly update spell miscast effects have been revamped, and there was mention that some better ideas could be used for some of the schools. I have some ideas; I don't know how useful they would actually be as miscast effects though. Poison - take corrosive damage Any elemental school - s...

Training a skill with an aptitude less than 0 is sub-optimal. You should never do it. Ideally you would only train skills with very positive aptitudes so you need to play races with good offense and defense skills. So only play HO, Mf, Gr, and Mi. Do not play Ha even though they have good off/def sk...

Never worship Chei. Your reduced movement speed will never ever make up for the vastly increased spellpower, spell success rate, reduced amount of exp needed to train magic skills, AC, and EV that he provides. If you must worship Chei, don't bother to train invocations because Slouch is not as good ...

When I think of "class" in Crawl I feel like deity choice best reflects what RPGs usually consider to be a class. It's sometimes a more important choice than species (depends on the species). Many traditional RPGs define a character by combination of race+class; Crawl primarily defines a c...

New god: God of Dance Provides several invocations that must be maintained by continuous movement. Example Dance-vocations: Victory Dance - if you move around enemy corpses while this dance is active you get some additional experience. Obviously victory dancing was awesome. It must return to Crawl i...

Because now that they and their larger cousins have returned, I have no urge to insist that quickblades be reflavored as rapiers.

Scroll of Random Uselessness Form: tmut/summ... you continuously do awesome things such as make enemy's weapons or the dust on the floor glow a brilliant puce, reassemble yourself, and occasionally summon a vicious swarm of butterflies. Hall of Blades Entrance Mimic Form: tmut/summ... you take the f...

Dissolution Pool: tmut/summ... you transform into a jelly similar to Dissolution, but as an immobile shallow pool. However, you may still perform Dissolution's most important function. You continuously spawn (friendly) eyeballs of various sorts. The eyes are heavily weighted toward eyes of devastati...

Ice Statue Form: Tmut/Ice/Summ (Level???) you spawn ice beasts like crazy and can fire off icicles and freezing clouds. Silver Statue Form: Tmut/Summ... you spawn demons like crazy. And chaotic things don't like to touch you. Zin has mixed feelings about this spell, since silver=good but demons=bad....

Orb of Zot form: Level 9 (or 10) Transmutations/Summoning. You transform into the most powerful artifact known to DCSS. Has one of four effects: 1.) If cast on the dungeon entrance, you win the game. Good job. 2.) If cast over the actual Orb in Zot, summons player ghosts to play a tower-defense styl...

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