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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1513-gf6d23ed (webtiles) character file. Odds the Spry (Merfolk Ice Elementalist) Turns: 64024, Time: 04:18:09 Health: 161/161 AC: 15 Str: 14 XL: 19 Next: 35% Magic: 29/32 EV: 28 Int: 25 God: Okawaru [******] Gold: 2180 SH: 8 Dex: 16 Spells: 8 memorised, 12 ...

update please Gladly! I won: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1496-gfc80c20 (webtiles) character file. 3614028 Odds the Middleweight Champion (level 27, 230/230 HPs) Began as a Ghoul Fighter on Sept 6, 2016. Was the Champion of Hepliaklqana. Escaped with the Orb ... and 5 runes on Sept 10, ...

For my own amusement, I'm trying to work out how deadly the various levels of the game are - that is, what percentage of players who venture onto them die there. (Executive summary: stay out of Ice Caves and Baileys) Sequell tells me where everyone died (restricting to 0.18.1 as we need a constant l...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1485-ga29127b (webtiles) character file. Odds the Brawler (Ghoul Fighter) Turns: 26646, Time: 01:42:41 Health: 99/129 AC: 25 Str: 25 XL: 16 Next: 65% Magic: 21/21 EV: 17 Int: 4 God: Hepliaklqana [******] Gold: 655 SH: 15 Dex: 19 Spells: 1 memorised, 14 level...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. 1868297 Odds the Wrestler (level 26, 293/296 HPs) Began as a Troll Arcane Marksman on Sept 4, 2016. Was the Champion of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Sept 6, 2016! The game lasted 03:51:51 (55339 turns). ...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I did write "before Zot" in that sentence

Ah! I thought you meant "in time for Zot" rather than "until Zot"

Oh, and the MR+++ ring is Ice - so I could be going around with rf++ and rc+ at the cost of 6 AC.

I like to have both rC+ and rF+ before Zot, that's much better than rF+++ and no rC+. Do you have a quicksilver dragon hide to enchant? I'm surprised. I tend to find Orbs of Fire by far the scariest thing in Zot - the cold threats (Ice Dragon only, I think?) are pathetic in comparison. No, no quick...

2 runes now, and steaming through Vaults. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Wrestler (Troll Arcane Marksman) Turns: 42730, Time: 02:54:14 Health: 230/243 AC: 30 Str: 28 XL: 22 Next: 13% Magic: 28/28 EV: 19 Int: 9 God: Trog [******] Gold: 31 SH: 2...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Brawler (Troll Arcane Marksman) Turns: 32319, Time: 01:59:18 Health: 196/196 AC: 23 Str: 27 XL: 18 Next: 45% Magic: 21/21 EV: 19 Int: 9 God: Trog [******] Gold: 5 SH: 24 Dex: 24 Spells: 2 memorised, 16 levels le...

Escaped! Hardly ran into anything dangerous, and kill some abominations and so forth until they gave me a gate. Now I'm wondering whether to burn my 7 scrolls of enchant armour getting a max MDA. Currently got a +2 robe of resistance, which is also pretty sweet, so inclined to wait for a more intere...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Brawler (Troll Arcane Marksman) Turns: 23800, Time: 01:25:10 Health: 154/158 AC: 12 Str: 24 XL: 16 Next: 2% Magic: 16/16 EV: 15 Int: 14 God: Trog [******] Gold: 1814 SH: 13 Dex: 13 Spells: 0 memorised, 17 levels...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. 1477977 Odds the Acrobat (level 27, 233/233 HPs) Began as a Merfolk Summoner on Aug 29, 2016. Was the Champion of Ru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Aug 30, 2016! The game lasted 07:31:29 (89499 turns). Odds the...

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Oh, I agree, it might be very hard to make ammo management fun, and I don't like ranged combat very much overall for reasons similar to yours. But if there is any niche in current design space that ranged combat occupies, then it is, "limited use based on ammo drops." If you take that awa...

Actually it wasn't in one turn. You were at full health (101), and then he hit you two times in a single turn (because of haste), bringing you down to 66. Then you shot him again, and he missed you twice, then you shot him again, and he hit you two more times, killing you. Also your attack delay wa...

Fair enough. Those ideas are pretty off the cuff, and I'm sure there's something wrong with some or all of them, but I feel there must be something better than the current system. Or it may be that I'm just unusual in hating ammo management, in which case I'll just not play ranged characters (after ...

Infinite ammo eliminates any drawback to ranged combat. "Ammo always mulches" would also solve the ammo pickup issue. (Number of bolts/arrows/etc. generated can be tweaked alongside this change, obviously.) I feel that when ammo is meaningfully finite it's mostly annoying because of weapo...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Acrobat (Merfolk Summoner) Turns: 65131, Time: 05:01:33 Health: 170/170 AC: 14 Str: 16 XL: 20 Next: 89% Magic: 39/39 EV: 30 Int: 14 God: Ru [******] Gold: 1066 SH: 0 Dex: 18 Spells: 10 memorised, 1 level left rF...

It's just that rejecting sacrifices delays getting new ones. Wearing faith should make the delay shorter though. That's what I expected. But I rejected my last sacrifice between levels 13-15, and I'm now level 20 with no more offered! That can't be right. EDIT: got my last sacrifice 5 minutes later...

So, something's weird here. I rejected a couple of rubbish sets of sacrifices from Ru. Now I've been walking around for far too long without getting sacrifices. Does Ru every stop giving you sacrifices before ******? Or does it have some weird interaction with amulet of faith? I've been wearing one ...

Thanks! I stopped on Polearms the moment I saw the book with more Summonings. I'll get the summons I have to a good fail rate, and then pump defences + evocations. When you say the chance for a hostile demon is 4/spellpower - how do I find spellpower? I currently have 5 pips on Summon Demon, but no ...

Update: shortly after this, I found a Book of Summonings on L:8.

For Summon Demon, it says there's some chance of it being hostile. What kind of chance are we talking about here?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Spear-Bearer (Merfolk Summoner) Turns: 20366, Time: 01:15:47 Health: 101/101 AC: 10 Str: 9 XL: 13 Next: 3% Magic: 22/25 EV: 20 Int: 16 God: Ru [*****.] Gold: 1107 SH: 0 Dex: 17 Spells: 4 memorised, 15 levels lef...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. 98007 Odds the Sharpshooter (level 16, -1/101 HPs) Began as a Kobold Arcane Marksman on Aug 28, 2016. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Slain by Asterion ... wielding a +2 demon blade of draining (26 damage) ... on level 1 of...

Cheers, fixed it. Funny, I thought they were the first two letters except where there were clashes.

This guy died a very, very stupid death. One of those fights that you don't realise is hard until too late. Level 8 of a shallow zig dive (would have bailed at 10). Pan lord and killer klowns. Pan lord turned out to be a beast in melee. I blinked away, Slouched him to death, but the klowns had *just...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. Odds the Warrior (Naga Wizard) Turns: 51326, Time: 03:57:11 Health: 230/230 AC: 57 Str: 33 XL: 23 Next: 47% Magic: 33/33 EV: 7 Int: 42 God: Cheibriados [******] Gold: 2359 SH: 20 Dex: 24 Spells: 10 memorised, 3 levels le...

But there's a difference between "unlikely and boring" and "unlikely and interesting", and it matters. I think we agree here, though this particular statement makes me feel uneasy, since "boring" and "interesting" are not well-defined. It makes me uneasy too,...

You can see the code that calculates spell failure rate here: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/871b111e60c93f05b9c9ce61f5f4e838c1da4543/crawl-ref/source/spl-cast.cc#L2022 You probably also want to understand how random2avg works: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/source/random...

This thread is quite interesting. "Unlikely" events happen all the time. This one in particular stood out for you, and that's reasonable; miscasting a spell four times in a row in a crucial situation is memorable. But what about the D:1 layout you got this game? Surely the probability of g...

You're not the only crawl player, though. If you're saying "this is only likely to happen within 1100 hours of playtime, and I don't have that much"(well, you're talking about constantly casting it, but bear with me), what about this happening to 1 of 2 players with 550 hours of playtime ...

Yes, I understand that - but that explanation breaks down for sufficiently unlikely events. The reason I ask here is that the particular event is so unlikely that I wouldn't expect to see it *ever* in a long career playing Crawl. If I cast one spell with 4% failure every ten seconds, and retry every...

I just miscast Controlled Blink 4 times in a row, at 4% failure (entering a new Pan floor, dropped into the middle of the action. Turned out OK). That has odds of 1 in 390,625. Or, more likely, there was something at work I didn't understand. So - is there any hidden effect that can make spellcastin...

The reason I don't like paralysis is that it's a boring way to go. Most ways of dying in Crawl are rather exciting; you can flail around at near-death, quaffing stuff, hitting stuff, and desperately searching for a way out. I rather enjoy it. Whereas with paralysis it's "everything's fine, ever...

Died not long after this. I tried both branches multiple times; lack of MR and just the general fighting strength of the enemies made Shoals nightmarish. And spider 2 and 3 both had ghost moths, which I simply had no way to kill (or avoid). Eventually died a pretty SD in shoals; I let flying expire ...

I can ramp up Evo and get some hex wands powerful - that will help in Shoals. But I'm still worried about the general toughness of enemies there; wouldn't normally do it for a first rune. And there's no source of invisibility or see invisibility in the game; I'm struggling to see how I deal with Spi...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1253-g9e1c3a1 (webtiles) character file. Odds the Spear-Bearer (Pale Draconian Summoner) Turns: 47603, Time: 02:55:55 Health: 125/136 AC: 19 Str: 12 XL: 16 Next: 0% Magic: 29/29 EV: 17 Int: 20 God: Sif Muna [******] Gold: 1214 SH: 5 Dex: 13 Spells: 9 memoris...

I'm trying to do this "properly" - taken Sif, going to collect loads of fun spells and cast them with a few levels plus Spellcasting. Tier 1 done: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1134-gff269b5 (webtiles) character file. Odds the Thaumaturge (VSAE) Turns: 10414, Time: 00:55:48 Heal...

Ashenzari is also very good. You are a hybrid - so boosts to all skills are going to be helpful. Scrying is dead useful for setting up stabs (also with Passwall, if you find it). Later, you are going to want to get pretty strong at melee (I recommend Long Blades, with Hexes remaining really useful s...

I've never got a Summoner off the ground. Once you have got to the stage of casting Call Canine Familiar and Summon Imp effectively, what's next? Those dual skill level 4 spells look quite a long way away. It's very tempting to concentrate on melee for a good while instead - perhaps adding Ice Beast...

Wooooo! Grabbed all the Pan runes - ninja'd all but Mnoleg's. I then ventured into Hell. Tartarus was fine, but I woke up too much on Cocytus 7. Between a lot of nasty monsters and hell curses, I didn't like the look of it, so I just grabbed the Orb and left with 11 runes (Tomb would have been fine,...

Cheers. Ash makes sense - I wouldn't usually think of her as an endgame god, but with Mummies' poor aptitudes, plus the large number of skills I've trained, she fits the bill nicely. I actually have two wands of HW already, so I've gone and converted. You were right about the sometimes-hilarious wra...

So, still going strong - got two runes, cleared Elf, Vaults 1-4, and currently on Depths 5. I've just found/bought books with the last spells I might need (Dispel Undead, Deflect Missiles, Haste, Glaciate), and now Gozag has little left to offer me, unless Bribe Branch is really good - I haven't use...

Cool. I'll wear it, and sub in Four Winds or the current ring when MR++ isn't enough. Since that dump, I've also found some more strong robes (as if Archmagi isn't enough). Resistance, and this little chap: the +3 robe "Ecoralo" (worn) {rF+ Int+7 Stlth+}. Pretty sure the RNG wants me to wi...

17:43] <Odds> !greatplayer [17:44] <Sequell> Unwon species for Odds: Mummy Trying to complete the set. First ever Gozag. He seems kinda unbalanced for Mummies; no corpses doesn't matter, and potions are awesome. I'm loving the excellent new unrandart buckler I found - it's great fun reflecting Petr...

Thanks everyone! I won in the end, with 5 runes. Never did find a particularly good brand (other than antimagic), until I converted to TSO and blessed that lajatang of venom. However, my first step into Pan almost killed me (mostly due to a Brimstone Fiend who played unusually well - almost perfect ...

Cheers. I've turned off staves. I'm also training up a bit of crossbows, for a ranged option.

First brand weapon attempt on the venom produced slicing. Oh well.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1098-gc0d3725 (webtiles) character file. Odds the Spry (Kobold Berserker) Turns: 33491, Time: 03:03:04 Health: 146/146 AC: 23 Str: 26 XL: 20 Next: 36% Magic: 28/28 EV: 48 Int: 5 God: Trog [******] Gold: 2877 SH: 6 Dex: 33 Spells: 0 memorised, 19 levels left ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1098-gc0d3725 (webtiles) character file. 48 Odds the Skirmisher (level 4, -2/29 HPs) Began as a Kobold Berserker on Jan 15, 2016. Was a Believer of Trog. Slain by a kobold ... wielding a +1 dagger of electrocution (16 damage) ... on level 2 of the Dungeon. T...

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