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OK... and it happened again on the next level.

So after fighting, like, 3-4 hydras on each level of L:1-3, I create my stash on L:2 and go down the stairs to L:4 to find... this: You climb downwards. Your mindless thrall stays behind. Found twenty-three items. You now have 92 gold pieces. There is a stone staircase leading up here. To whomever d...

Need to break this down somewhere. I was wondering how to suggest changes to range, targeting, and damage based on (1) weapon type (2) current strength (3) current dexterity, but I'm not thinking strong at the moment. Additionally, I was wondering if one was skilled in Short Blades or Axes, does tha...

Sometimes you get a really good character and you just know you're going to screw it up. And all you get with Crawl is one chance. So I ask you 1) Have you used wizard mode yet? I haven't. 2) Have you gone to the saves folder under the crawl game folder and copied your character out, gotten killed, ...

I've only been the the Abyss once before (and died pretty quickly) and I've never been to pandemonium so I'm kinda apprehensive about subjecting myself to them, don't know what to expect. Messing about in the slime pits with dig right now. No wall is safe. Dude. Acid blobs. Run. Run far, far away f...

That's pretty depressing, but if it helps, I just threw a randart dagger at a shark. You can get that back in several ways, I believe. My post: Hubris will get the best of you if you let it. I was having the best game ever, then ran into Pikel and figured I could take him, but his whip of electrocu...

Probably going to get decks of escape for the rest of the game. Welcome to the abyss, XuaXua.

Found an artefact ring of rpois +1 Str on the same level, so at least it was easier hauling it to the temple, which was coincidentally right on the next floor next to the stairs (I dropped a lot of stuff to carry that thing around). Temple wasn't corrupted and had Nemelex; the only bad thing is that...

You can always skulk around Abyss or Pan for a while to find more spells.

I can wear this 110aum armor with a rating of 11 and an EV of -9, but holy crap. I mean, I guess if I was a SpBe like I normally play, I'd be happy, but I'm suspecting I need to stash this somewhere and sacrifice it to Nemelex for piety when I start worshiping him / can find his damn altar, right? M...

FlyingPants wrote:Slime pits is easy enough, but you need acid resistance. I had amulet of corrosion and cloak of preservation, and you can easily do slimes, enemies won't do much damage.

It's the acid blobs and the post-kill treasure raid that are the problems, ultimately.

If you want to sneak, stay away from the electrocution brand. That spark shower is loud.

Now someone will come and tell me I'm wrong, but every freaking time I use it, other creatures come running. Electricity is like catnip to monsters.

Not that I've done it, but isn't he supposed to abuse necromutation or something to win?

One thing I noticed was that I ran out of places to go shortly before I died. I had cleared the Lair, Hive, Mines and 1-2 of the Shoals and Swamp. Diving deeper into the Dungeon didn't seem like a viable option after D:19-ish, and the Uniques in the side branches were too tough for me as well. I di...

Hey all, what's up with the Xom card popping up in decks?

I'd think apportation wouldn't destroy a stash, but only partially move some or all towards (or away) from the character.

Might be a "fun" (read: appropriate) penalty when failing to apport an item over a lava flow.

Thanks. IIRC the Cutlass is a sabre. Thanks. Apparently the +6,+7 Sabre of Speed with +3 Damage (Captain's Cutlass) gives 25.9 damage/turn. the +6, +5 Vorpal Quick Blade gives 27 damage/turn. Guess I gotta go with my Quick Blade unless fighting jellies. Also, I'm playing trunk with nerf'd Speed bra...

galehar wrote:Holy wrath works against demons and undeads. The "infused with unholy energy" is because of the draining attack, but that doesn't make it a demon. It's still an animal.

An evil, life-draining animal of eeeeviiiil.

Thanks. IIRC the Cutlass is a sabre. Thanks. Apparently the +6,+7 Sabre of Speed with +3 Damage (Captain's Cutlass) gives 25.9 damage/turn. the +6, +5 Vorpal Quick Blade gives 27 damage/turn. Guess I gotta go with my Quick Blade unless fighting jellies. Also, I'm playing trunk with nerf'd Speed bra...

Fix C50, D50 and E50.
Fix is obvious when checking B50, which works.

Discovered when testing a +5,+6 Vorpal Quickblade against the Captain's Cutlass (+6,+7 Short Sword of Speed +3 Damage).

smock wrote:I heard someone mention that bringing a pile of stones to a labyrinth helps, a la Hansel and Gretl. So, maybe it's 2 rations or 1 ration + 20 stones.

Amateurs note: This stone thing does not work in The Abyss.

I asked because my Spriggan berserker of Trog had just run through 6 orcs and there was not a corpse to be found for sacrificing. Figured it was because I was so awesome (or lousy) at small blades.

Is a holy branded weapon supposed to make Orange Rats (infused with unholy energy) convulse? I could be wrong, but I don't think they are working that way at the moment.

I figured I'd ask this potential bug question in this subforum as it seemed the most likely.

If I felt like there's too many monsters in an area, I just hide inside a hole and wait for the Abyss to teleport me somewhere else. I think the whole place re-does itself, so if you get teleported, you won't have to worry about the monsters that were chasing you ever again. At least, that's how I ...

If a target is asleep, can a scroll of fear affect it?

Moose wrote:had a very unlucky troll that started off engorged and had to eat 5 rations ...

Results may vary depending on metabolic rate.

Is there a way (higher weapon skill level, specific weapon, melee vs. ranged, worshiping a specific god) to increase (or alter) the chances of leaving behind a corpse when killing a target?

Obviously this doesn't apply to jellies and targets that do not leave behind corpses.

Does strength affect ranged weapon damage?

I'd think it would definitely add damage to thrown, some to slings and blowguns, less to bows, and nothing to crossbows (mechanical).

I couldn't find anything in the game wiki about this, but it would be an advantage of bows over crossbows.

It's only helpful if it works correctly (control teleport ring!).

Don't blink away from a fight and land in the middle of it instead.

I have blink/translocation mutation (2HP + Food) at Very Good.

How do I train this? I had about 500 experience sitting around and hit the action several times, failing once, and my XP never went down.

Well, it didn't when I tried it.

When you Polymorph Other a rat into a boggart with your newly acquired wand on dungeon level 2 and the boggart is summoning crap that the rat couldn't have even comprehended, you know there is something wrong with the spell. And that's fine. That's how the wand works. It works the other way too (ie...

Every death reduces maximum character values by 1-5 random.

What the hell is it lately with ranged attackers (allies and enemies) attacking through their own teammates and hitting them instead I don't think this behaviour is new. Although yes, it should be addressed. There's still a lot of work to do on the monster AI, but it seems this is off-topic here. D...

galehar wrote:
danr wrote:I wish bows were better. One thing that would help is if they had longer range or more accuracy at range than other ranged weapons.

They already have a full LOS range. How could it be higher?

I think he was focused on higher accuracy at range, which I'd be more apt to apply to crossbow bolts.

I asked the robot, but it didn't give me squat.

FlyingPants wrote:It wasn't in the shoal, it was like D20 or something.

Oh. That's when you run. Also when you see the hunger ghost room.

Depends on how terrible you are at keeping track of your position and how capable you are of taking out or avoiding a minotaur.

2 breads at most.

FlyingPants wrote:even after hive it's a problem if you get mobbed by like 5 harpies, not only do they hit disgustingly hard, but they destroy all your food too!

That's why you drop all your food at the entrance to The Shoals and run back when you have to. Spriggan speed.

The Alchemist card converts gold to HP/MP. Lacking the former, or not lacking any of the latter would make the card ineffectual. Thanks. That is totally not in the game wiki (that I could find). So it only works when you aren't healed? Eh. I wonder if the legendary card should be reworked to add 1 ...

minmay wrote:
XuaXua wrote:I always berserk. Why wouldn't you?

Because if you're a spriggan and you always berserk, you'll starve to death in Lair.

Somehow I've never had that problem, but I abuse wands and hit hive as much as possible.

minmay wrote:SpBe almost never berserks. KoBe almost always berserks.

What, really?

I always berserk. Why wouldn't you?

I keep pulling the Alchemist from my decks (with monsters present!) and Nemelex Xobeh keeps getting disappointed.

What the heck?

From what I've learned recently, it makes little sense to actively train Short Blades beyond 14, as that gets you confirmed fastest attacks. Going further just gains you accuracy. Is there a maximum for missiles? Should I stop training bows after 12 or something? What are the arbitrary numbers for t...

What makes KoBe's so different than SpBe's?

Can't the advice be consolidated for them?

Exploding arrows that only blow up in the direction it was aimed (forward and backwards one space) might be a cool alternative to penetration.

ghend wrote:Teleportation: not always a good idea.

Take a good, hard look at that treasure trove.

First, that is a really awesome way to die. Congrats. I never said I died. Unfortunately, a kobold who was throwing an axe at me missed and killed the boggart instead, sniping my XP. What the hell is it lately with ranged attackers (allies and enemies) attacking through their own teammates and hitt...

Lawman 0 wrote:I mean what the hell are a bunch of cute magic cats doing worshiping the ancient magic hating god of ultra-violence?

I agree that Trog needs more restrictions regarding magic use.

galehar wrote:It's true that some poisons can work just by contact, but I don't see Crawl's poison as one of them. I'd rather remove poison bullets.

No way. Love poisoned bullets. Granted, with enough ammo they make the blowgun (throwing skill?) useless for me.

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