When I originally posted this, I couldn't remember why I said to train Armour up to 1. I remember now: When playing a crusader or warper or gladiator until Armour 1, your leather armour will occasionally prevent you from hitting the {foo}. Particularly in the very early early game, missing on a reg...

Average Fighting skill gain is proportional to damage done, right? I've suspected that it's not, because my two-handed wielding characters have tended to be low on Fighting skill, which characters wielding demon whips, say, have tended to amass a lot of Fighting. This seems right. (I haven't source...

Why not put it in the game's install directory like the datafiles? The Windows installer defaults to installing where Crawl can't write savefiles, as of Vista and higher. There's no reason not to with a static archive (and indeed the ZIP archive does as suggested). (zaimoni looks around for a metho...