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A garg zerker with points into int gives you enough str + int at the end to wear dragon scales when you do your zig. Here's how it's going for me currently: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.25-a0-565-g8875c97ebb (webtiles) character file. sky the Conqueror (Gargoyle Berserker) Turns: 243848, Time:...

I'm working on a zigger now. the strat is garg berserker (easy mode), all points in int, then at level 27, switch to tso and farm abyss 1, then zin away any muts. you can use lua to automate the process. optimally you get to a point where you're doing it in lich form with mahkleb, but tso is great f...

wear regen and shadow dragon armor (or robes) and 15+ stealth. if you can tank, stair dance what you can until they get locked, then teleport. otherwise just teleport. try to clear a corner of the map with summons and consumables; don't berserk or use conj (iron bolt, etc) because you can't use stai...

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Sorry, it looks like I was mistaken on how these work. For some reason, I had thought they work like teleport rings....

use it when your mp counter is yellow.

I think you can channel with staff of energy to get your mp into the yellow

Yeah, they're really good with ranged attacks, especially with oka. As for slowing down in the end game, I don't think that's so. Skills at 27 eat up so many points, and instead having them at 16 across the board makes them incredible tank mages. I'm trying to figure out what's the best god for them...

they start with a ton of MP, can learn all the utility spells without sacrificing anything, and grab a great sword to wreck confused enemies with. is there a reason gnolls wizards aren't a suggested combination? they're far easier than deep elf wizards. actually, i think gnoll wizards might be the B...

What files are used to generate the dungeon terrain and place vaults? I'm digging through the source code now and there are hundreds of files. I'd like to port some of the dungeon generation code to JavaScript. The idea is to create a microservice that would take input the parameters and return a JS...

That works for when they resist, but not when I resist. That helps, though, thanks.

I want to do this:

force_more_message += \bresist\b, so when something is resisted, I get a force more message, but not when I walk over a ring of fire resistance. Is that possible? \b is a word boundary.

spriggan wizards are the most fun combo. just get 5 conj and meph cloud everything, and kill hard stuff with conj flame. and all in stealth/fighting/dodging with the dream item being staff of energy, which lets you spam stuff like iron shot, but even without it mystic blast can get you through most ...

I don't see the reason that the new gnoll species can't have its attributes boosted by rings or gods. It's currently the worst species in the game by a large margin at the moment but allowing it to join chei or make use of a +5 ring would almost make it playable.

I recorded zig 26: https://youtu.be/cvP__9Hrx-0.

I made some mistakes in this run but it still turned out OK. The only threat at this point is silence. In that case my strategy is to teleport around until I'm not silenced... I might need a better strategy. :lol:

I'm doing mega zigs right now. My goal is to beat the record of 147 zigs. I've completed 25 zigs so far. Sky the Conqueror (High Elf Wizard) Turns: 563544, Time: 2 , 09:33:16 Health: 291/291 AC: 54 Str: 38 XL: 27 Magic: 71/71 EV: 35 Int: 57 God: Makhleb [******] Gold: 52481 SH: 40 Dex: 37 Spells: 10...

What? Why does that matter? You said "Silence just makes them faster in that you can be less careful but not easier in that it changes your success rate for killing or dying to them", but like... Silence does in fact make them much easier and changes your success rate for killing them wit...

An ancient lich can kill you in two moves, a silenced ancient lich cannot kill a character at the level they are meant to be encountered. There's no such thing as overestimating an ancient lich, they're like... the most dangerous monster in the game. Of course, most of the time they'll do a bunch o...

I'm having a hard time understanding the argument in the OP. The first post brings up several things at once that are actually different problems. I agree that very weak spells should be buffed or removed. I also agree that Crawl should avoid spells that create lots of rules/exceptions/knowledge bu...

I bet you don't play hybrids often. Silence is amazing vs half of crawl monsters which are more dangerous as casters than as fighters. It is a huge advantage to be able to choose how you want to fight a monster. Met a Hill Giant - cast some spells, met an Ancient Lich - cast Silence and kill it wit...

I never said it wasn't. I said it's underused because if you can win with it you can win without it. That's bad criterion IMHO, it is not too hard to win with 15 runes as DEBe without abandoning Trog. Does it mean all spells are underused? Silence is amazing in Elf, Vaults, Zot and especially Tomb....

Sandman25 wrote:Silence is amazing spell.

I never said it wasn't. I said it's underused because if you can win with it you can win without it.

There are some spells that I never use. For example, Alistair's Intoxication. I can't imagine a situation where it would be useful and you couldn't win without it and the mechanics are really complicated. Silence is another one. The term I see tossed around in various games for these sort of things ...

why does everyone want to remove everything? i don't even use swiftness because it sucks. look, if there's a spell that helps good players and kills terrible players (i'm in the second group because I can't imagine swiftness ever being good) then it's a GOOD spell as long as it doesn't require ancie...

Are the tiles in this game public domain? I've been working as a software developer for a few years now and have a small game I've made for my portfolio to help market myself. I would like to use some of the Crawl tiles in it because I can't draw very well. Is that OK?

i played a game with this god. it was inventory management hell though and the god wasn't very strong. yeah the abilities were helpful but the opportunity cost wasn't worth it. the god should be more passive. something like adding a flat 10% for status effect wands to work, and passive wand charges ...

what you really want to remove is food; removing spawns just gets you closer to that goal as it removes one of the crutches for it
anyway, there's nothing wrong with monster spawns

the main limitation is the keyboard
though that could probably just be replaced with an alternate interface
i.e. one button in the corner that lists all your items and skills

you could write a ruby or perl script to delete the shit you don't want

alternatively, just delete all your scores and start over. you'll eventually get a new highest-score-ever anyway.

potions of might are a vital utility, and can almost always turn the tides in your favor unless you're poisoned with like 15 hp and a spiney frog comes into view any even then it might still save you. lamp of fire could also save you, if you invested in it, but so could any other investments, and th...

i think hexes are fine and the only really broken one is hibernation, because of stabbing You probrably think that because you play as a Spriggan, since you can just run or evade most of the time it fails, the spell is fine as it is. actually stabbing shouldn't even really be based on stealth... yo...

also that level 1 spell that lights up an enemy is sort of silly Corona is fine as is. More accuracy early when you have no skill is a big deal. AM and En should be using it whenever they can for a few levels. i've run a bot a bunch of times with en start... corona usually isn't worth it. can get l...

i've always found evocables to be sort of lack luster except for wands/cards, and even then nemelex sort of sucks now. i've never been like woohoo bag of spiders! or whatever... usually whatever spells or axe i have does the job fine. if not, god ability. what if evocables didn't suck and to justify...

i think hexes are fine and the only really broken one is hibernation, because of stabbing maybe it could be gotten rid of and confuse/invisible stabbing could be improved, then just have that dazzle spell and you're good i find spen to be REALLY fun, but sleepy-stabbing is sort of lame. also that le...

ely is a cool god, and i think the % success should be shown. if that means changing how it works or how max hp works or whatever who cares. maybe the changes are for the best anyway also i think ely is a good starting god. they're ely, death guy, and trog, and xom. can't remember if they're any mor...

you can draw a soup can and don't owe anything to the people who make the soup, someone did it once i doubt anyone cares at all if you make a youtube video; it's the same thing as drawing a soup can kinda (though less creative) i think a derivative work is like if i take the crawl code and modify it...

Stasis is basically scroll denial. Imo we need more aura of stasis/silence/no healing

Spwz is my goto char for easy 15 rune wins. I win one basically every tourney i play. Best advice is to get like 12 or so in every skill and dont try for crystal spear or anything silly like that. Just grab every decent mid range spell regardless of school and wear wizardry. Finally use protection w...

For all the work involved in creating a new branch, I think it's a bad idea to spend time on creating a branch if player who wants to win will skip it every time. People skip extended because it's not fun and not because it lowers their chance of winning. I think only people on their first win or t...

Well, you could get one or two random hells instead of all 4, and pan could lose some runes too. I think we just need a really hard (without torment or hellfire of course) extended branch to be added before making any cuts though. It was sort of disappointing that the forest was yet another mid game...

They're also useful for the resistances.

Lasty, I just hate looking at an empty mutation screen knowing there's so much potential there. I want to keep good mutations and gain bad ones. Mutation roulette currently just lowers your chance of winning and I just don't have the time to lose 1000 spriggans a day anymore. At the very least I fee...

Why give a species a particular god? The question that should have been asked. The problem is that it's a self feeding system. Hill Orcs only exist because of Beogh and Beogh only exists because of Hill Orcs. The problem is we already have a god that's basically Beogh only better (Yredelemnul) and ...

How about all up hatches are converted to down hatches and adjacent enemies can't follow you through them? Then we'd have the best of both worlds.

I disagree with you. You should not be able to rest in Hell. Granted there shouldn't 4 Hells (it's boring to have to do the same thing over and over again), but there should at least be one branch where you can't rest. The way enemies spawn on you prevents resting and I like that. The other hell eff...

You're already encouraged to have fights near stairs. Having some stairs that work slightly differently such that sometimes you want to use stair A and sometimes you want to use stair B depending on your situation isn't bad. Also remember this only really matters before the lair. By the time you're ...

1. It's currently a bad idea to drink potions of beneficial mutation. They basically lower your chances of winning (but the margin is so low it's rather negligible). If you want I can elaborate but you shouldn't even drink potions of gain stat in older versions. 2. I get that some people like to sip...

Sandman25, I really don't know how to respond to your post. You are talking about end game things (Necromutation, malmutation), and "avoiding mutation" is basically just not playing mutation roulette. The current mutation system doesn't encourage anything as it basically doesn't exist. It'...

Beogh is terrible. Though it doesn't really matter since Hill Orcs are really easy. You'd expect Beogh to be the best god since only one species can follow him but for some reason he's Xom tier.

Also, writing a Lua script requires being able to find the documentation and examples/tutorials for the API crawl exposes. None of that actually exists by the way. You literally have to read Crawl's source code to find which LUA hooks exist. Anyway, my point was that there's too many things like th...

KoboldLord, I think the biggest design issue with a holy rune is that mummies are a thing that exist. I actually don't find holy Pan to be annoying and liked silver stars when they existed (at the very least they were more fun than randomly generated pan lords). Also, I don't think it's a bad idea t...

Just write a Lua script to do that. And to swap gear to eat poison chunks. And to warn you if you're about to cast invisibility while contaminated.
Basically any sort of automatic action or warning can be done with Lua.

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