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zasvid wrote:Reading scrolls of curse weapon/armor/jewellry (and I guess other harmful/useless scrolls) is a cheap way to victory dance your way towards gaining Spellcasting.

...................why did I never think of that?

MarvintheParanoidAndroid wrote:Uniques don't spawn on D:1, so that'd be a bug.

My thoughts exactly. Has happened since 0.5.0 or whatever version it was when I first started playing.

Anyway, today I had a mini-vault full of Jellies pop up on D1 in trunk. I ran while they ate everything.

Here is the answer to what shape the shafts made in my last post.

You'll find everything you need to be perfectly prepared for Zot, Hells, etc. on the armor you find... if you're a Felid.

By the way, your char name made me lolcat. So far, all of my Felids have had lolcatish names. Zombeh Cat, h34lz cat, lawlkitten, etc. Can't resist doing it. I just have to ask - what's the deal with all the +Rage amulets? I think Crawl was trying to reinforce my character's name and background. I a...

I'd second (or third or whatever) going a Crusader Felid. I did a Berserker for the hilarious mental images that would ensue playing it, such as a pissed off kitty chasing down a dragon that's fleeing in sheer terror from seeing it's brothers torn apart by said housecat. But, on Vault 8 I maxed Unar...

It was mentioned earlier, but I'm going to second the status effect inducing chunks. Pretty much, you find yourself only eating clean chunks, poison chunks if you have resist poison, and sickness chunks because they seem to be the most common and don't always make you sick. All other chunks except m...

Funny thing is, I was doing that and had an awesome mutation set in the mid-game that made me say "Ok, I'm not touching this." Control tele, resist fire, resist cold, resist elec, clarity, boosts to all my stats, magical resistance, fire spitting, spriggan metabolism... it was only marred ...

Congrats on your first win. Winning Crawl for the first time is a pretty awesome feeling. Only thing is, you forgot to carry out the runes and artifacts you found. They would have boosted your score. I don't think the extra lives are overpowered. They're great for non-uber players as it lets them ma...

Gloorq can Torment multiple times a turn. Especially if you're slowed after Berserk. Ever been tormented four times by the same creature by just taking a single step? I would have avoided him entirely after that, but he seemed rather reluctant to step away from his rune...

I don't remember which it is since it was a long time ago, but one of my mummy characters found a hill or stone giant zombie on D1. I was a summoner, so I threw every spammal I had at it, but to no avail. I ran away and then died later for reasons I don't remember. I'm not even sure which Morgue fil...

The idea of a pissed off house cat slaughtering hordes of enemies and scaring the crap out of hydras, dragons, and demon lords was too tempting to pass up. Who would have thought it'd actually be my fourth win? Pulled off an eight run win (seven types), which is now my current record. Working my way...

These shafts vaguely form a shape. Can you guess what it is? Hint: It's a number. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/TwilightPhoenix/4-shapedshafts.png And here I'm attacked by a ? mark. Oddly, it never confused me. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/TwilightPhoenix/AttackoftheQuestionMark.p...

Thank you. The interface gives no indication I can see you're trying to drop some instead of the whole stack, even though it works. That could probably use a change.

A treasure mini-vault. Except with no guards and only randomly generated traps. Usually there'd be a bunch of somethings hanging out there. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/TwilightPhoenix/Picture1-4.png While I've seen a vault full of a type of enemy, I've never seen one that was so secure. T...

...how do I drop only part of a stack of items? Say, if I'm carrying a stack of 70 stones and I want to drop 35 of them, how do I do that? Is it possible?

"You open the door.
Elrocha shouts!
Elrocha mumbles some strange words.
The crystal spear hits you!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die..."

Not really sure how prevent that though other than making door manipulation a free action, which would mess other stuff up...

For the most part, yes so long as certain abilities are scaled to the appropriate level (such as Cleansing Flame), perhaps by using the ghost's HD. Aka, a level 4 high piety TSO ghost wouldn't blast nearly as hard as a level 14 one. But it all, to me, sounds like stuff uniques can typically do anywa...

Ok, here we go. Ignore the above entries on Ash and the incomplete one on Beogh. It seems there's a lockout timer on editing. That sucks. :/ Ashenzari: Always knows where you are at and can see invisible and has clarity. Maybe can even curse your gear through some method, such as melee attacks? Alth...

Edit: Misclicked submit, typing up as you read this. Not sure if this was ever brought up before, but it could be pretty nifty if ghosts of characters with very high piety, say no less than one pip from max, could generate ghosts that are somehow "enhanced" by the gods they worshipped, add...

I was about to make this topic myself. Yes, I know it's been up for a few hours, but it wasn't here when I was last on. Anyway, I've love to see staves as a starting option. Sometimes, I just want to make a new character and just beat things with a solid piece of oak without worrying about finding o...

Also, for air elementalists, there is a spell called Airstrike? Maybe you've heard of it? Why yes, I have. However, as nice of a spell as it is, it doesn't make up for the fact that anything with electric resistance will be completely and totally immune to your higher level spells or lower level sp...

A few things that bother me... Repeated early game deaths before I can properly react. Some characters have this easy, but throwing hordes of the Class X Species Y combo, even if the combo is "viable", until one makes it past the first few levels of the dungeon isn't very fun. This is espe...

Toying with mutations is one of the best parts of Crawl. Even though my last winner had a pretty good set aside from Teleportitis, I was disappointed when my mutations got irrevocably fixed.

And if you do have either of those, it'll be the vault where it's blocked by a stone statue instead.

The moment you have any confidence in your character is the moment things are about to get bad, if you don't just outright die.

Ijyb if he spawns early with a wand. Once he was carrying a Wand of Disintegration on D2. Needless to say, that character was splattered all across that room. Also, Prince Ribbit can be a nightmare if he pops up too early. Moves fast, blinks, and has too much health for a lowbie to kill. If you don'...

Start starving while next to an Orange Statue and eat a ration right there instead of backing off.

Try casting spells rated "Terrible" and watch the miscast fireworks.

Decide you're going to play a specific combo until you win. You'll never reach Lair, if you're lucky.

If you don't find any rElec in Elf 7, check Crypt 5. Crypt 5 is mostly like the previous levels outside of the vault. Inside of the vault there's mostly just a lot more enemies (particularly Skeletal Warriors, Bone Dragons, and Curse Skulls in my experience) and one or more Liches or an Ancient Lich...

If you get Teleportitis early, you will never get rid of it. In fact, you will get the third rank of Resist Mutation mutation and be stuck with it permanently if you live long enough. Also, if you have Res Mut 2, drinking a potion of Cure Mutation will almost always just say "You feel odd for a...

DO NOT shout in the Orb's Vault to attract that Orb of Fire to your Oklob Farm without getting in its line of sight. Doing the latter is a far safer idea.

To be honest, I'm surprised I won with this character for three reasons. First, it was a random generated character. Second, I worshipped Fedhas "just for fun" since I didn't expect to live past the lair. Third, I lost count of the times I should have died but miraculously pulled through. ...

Looks like the Abyss is being invaded.

I think I'll probably go for the Abyss rune next (after some floor clearing, of course) and then, if I have a better stock of food, find a distortion weapon, and am feeling a bit more awesome than I currently do, I'll try sneaking around Panda and try apporting a rune here and there. Otherwise I'll ...

Found a vault with... four emerald wall tiles. No monsters, no treasures, and no traps. Just four wall tiles. Anyone got a pick I can borrow?

So, I have a Merfolk Venom Mage of Fedhas, who has since branched out into may other schools. Currently sitting on three runes and not sure what to do. I'm fairly confident I can win it if I were to try, but I don't want to do a three-rune win. I know I'm not going to be able to pull a fifteen-rune ...

-Food will be extremely plentiful if you're playing a Spriggan But it'll be all meat. Fountains of Blood are fairly common... until you play a Vampire. If you play a Merfolk, you will not get both Swamp and Shoals. If you're a caster and you do not take Sif Muna, Selective Amnesia will forget to sh...

Okawarau gifted me a sabre called "Killer Bee's Regret" after slaying the Queen Bee in the Hive once. Unfortunately it didn't have Bee Slaying, but I suppose Vorpal is close enough. Keeping with the theme, I later found another sabre called "Killer Klown's Regret" in Zot on the s...

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