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Player tile pieces are scattered throughout player.

lmao at staff complaining about the word gish > HuGl of TSO->Good god is....not great? TSO is kinda hot garbage outside extended. That's not what I wrote. HuGl would start Zin, then Ely Lair probably. Affinity for TSO means e.g. maybe doing Crypt earlier. My bad, posting at 2 AM leads to some misrea...

If you're factoring in stuff like the "essence of the game" and maximal differentiation, it's kinda weird to call your list optimal since it's...really not going to be win-rate optimal. Anyway some of my thoughts on the list from a more standard definition of optimal: HOFi of Beogh that co...

So looking at this, it seems like you're less interested in finding optimal backgrounds for a given race (and vice-versa) and more in creating a mapping that includes every race and background with as few duplications as possible? There's a lot of combos that, if one were to start with just the race...

Ugly things are fast, which is why you use a pack of them to open doors for you. When you need to get away from them, it's easy because they're constantly stopping to put on a colorful light show.

There's another option; nerf kobolds and kick them into the Advanced category as an explicit challenge race alongside Mummy. I also feel obligated to point out that kobolds are significantly better at crossbows than deep elves, which helps early on ranged backgrounds since it takes forever to get to...

Panlord looking for the disco hall:

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Panlord who couldn't afford a nice realm:

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An unusual choice of kindling:

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With regards to dicking around waiting for monsters to come to you: I absolutely do this! I usually only do it on important dangerous floors like Zot:5 and some rune vaults, but it's a thing you can do because you tend to end the game with anywhere between 20 to 60 rations so you might as well use t...

Without a turn limit, the safe way to clear every level is to sit stationary in the best terrain while waiting for every monster on the level to wander there, one by one. Just tried that with a Mummy. Does not work. It will work with the monsters that wander and aren't patrolling, eventually. They ...

Okay as someone who participated in the 0.22 tournament the current flowchart is like: Are you starving with 0 food (impossible)? Acquire food Is there something shiny in a shop that you can't afford and want? Acquire cash Do you use weapons to kill things but currently lack a good weapon? Acquire w...

Martial Spriggans also are not recommended polearms, which makes sense if you look at aptitudes but not if you know what polearms are actually used for.

Isn't the thread's stated purpose (supposed to be) accomplished by highlighting the races for viability? I'm all for adding a third color though and combing through the current definition of "viable", since there's a difference between MiAr, DsSu, and OpAs. (only the last of the three is c...

I believe Angband and the games built on it do something like that, and if you take off an item with a full inventory it lands on the floor? Been a long while since I played a band though.

Probably easier to just have one inventory for consumables and another for weapons/armor/jewellery.

The swamp worm throws harpoon shot at you.
The harpoon shot hits you!
You are yanked forward by the harpoon shot.
You fall into the water!
You drown...

The spell attempts to drag every creature that can see the target closer to the target. Stationary creatures (plants, spires, roxanne, etc.) and the caster do not get dragged anywhere, nor does anyone standing at the target. Creatures are dragged floor(((spellpower + 100) / 20) / (distance ^ 2)) til...

Upset vault warden locks himself in his room: https://i.imgur.com/HG0le5Z.png Transporter vault gets meaner more exciting on orbrun: https://i.imgur.com/T0iPVPZ.png Snake Pit vs Spook Pit: https://i.imgur.com/Wn5bTKv.png Arc blade does some pretty good damage: https://i.imgur.com/YfXMnHE.png Mummy g...

I looked it up and the healing is actually capped at the amount of MP you have. It's still really silly to me that they heal, since it's not even relevant in the usual case on account of them wiping your MP bar in three turns. For practical purposes it's just a hidden extra punishment for desperatel...

TombZig floors are best answered for normal dudes by just blinking past everything and leaving.

It's much easier to move from land onto water than it is for a creature in the water with no limbs to climb onto land.

Why does Harm still magnify incoming damage instead of just applying -17% max HP (or whatever) again?

There's an upside; when using it early while you're fragile, it has a consistent radius so you can use it on adjacent enemies without accidentally hitting yourself or your allies.

This probably shouldn't work on water elementals, but it does.

Fun spell though. Feels broken as hell but I reserve judgment until I've messed with it more on a non-Ash character.

It has; Necromancers used to cast Inner Flame. It wasn't exactly good for their mortality, or that of their allies. Might be saner in places like Gehenna or Volcano where most monsters have rF anyway.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7 ... c848699ccc

My ideal state would be if the only ghosts the game ever generated were fabricated, since then you keep the flavor of the dungeon having claimed previous victims and the mechanical consequences of undead uniques, but without the walking brick walls and metagame nonsense and potential for griefing.

The game doesn't constrict ghosts by XL at all, although realistically that'd only happen due to either trolling or orbrun death.

Is waiting on the stairs for monsters to come to you really a good idea? It means you're giving the monsters more time to pick crap up off the floor and potentially use it against you, or to set of alarm traps and get the entire floor doing this.

if a petition with no potion sets less than or equal to the entry fee of using the ability (400 normally, 0 on the first one) would be created, the game flips the table and starts over until it gets an offer that has at least one potion set on it that isn't above the entry fee if i understand the co...

Yes, spellpower boosts stack up to 3. Unless you're an Octopode, this cap only comes up if you're wielding a staff of fire, wearing two rings of fire, and are casting Ring of Flames. Do try to mind your cold resistance if you're in an area where frost giants/ice dragons spawn, but if you aren't then...

good to know, i was wondering how i managed to one-shot a caustic shrike with the dumb knife on my first character to use it

Shots from Punk inflict 2d4 acid damage (after the physical component) and have a 2/3 chance to induce corrosion status, which lowers monster AC by 8 regardless of intensity. This is pretty good; on average every hit after the one that inflicts corrosion will do 4 more damage if the monster had 8 or...

Uniques can be polymorphed into shapeshifters, if memory serves. Were you worshipping Xom? He'd do that for you happily.

I believe "the top players approach" here means that OP ignores all normal speed monsters without ranged attacks while in reality gnolls are top-killers in every (or is it almost every?) tournament. Crawl levels are crowded enough so it is impossible to avoid all normal speed monsters. Gn...

My turncount experience is lacking but weirdly successful, so pinch of salt. Play a Deep Dwarf for turncount. Most of your turns are spent regenerating and the only race that compares in healing speed is Vine Stalker; DD is just simpler IMO though. For obvious reasons pick a martial class and healy ...

Someone do a query one orb-run deaths in the recent tournament please. It's often quite exciting. <Doesnty> !lm * t0.20 orb <Sequell> 1782. [2017-06-11 19:57:05] demenzo the Wrestler (L27 TrFi of Okawaru) found the Orb of Zot! (Zot:5) <Doesnty> !lg * t0.20 won <Sequell> 1710. demenzo the Wrestler (...

Slime isn't guaranteed to malmutate you and there are things you can do to minimize the risk of taking bad mutations. Nuke shining eyes pre-emptively or block their fire on turn 1. Fighterdudes have it rougher in there since they have to rely on throwing or invocations to do the job, obviously, but ...

if you can still eventually kill it unskilled with a +0 spear without any damage taken it's a bad monster, and honestly it sounds even more obnoxious than goliath beetles were because you're now required to do so to prevent it from charging at you

Gods aren't balanced against each other, and people enjoy Trog, so I don't expect significant nerfs to him anytime soon.

it is called gdr because that's what the code calls it, as does the game if built with debug functions

I agree with the first bit but not the rest. What if both hats and helmets had the same compatibility with head mutations?

Entry fee: 4* of Sif piety on D:10, for a char with Faith a - (?) a scroll labeled GIS INEATS (enchant weapon) b - (?) a scroll labeled GIS INEATS c - (?) a scroll labeled GIS INEATS d - (?) 2 scrolls labeled GIS INEATS e - (?) a scroll labeled KANIDA LEUF (magic mapping) f - (?) a scroll labeled KE...

I have a really hard time with the premise; silence is incredibly good even with the risk. ALiches can just erase you with the right rolls and are a major hassle otherwise, as are many other monsters that just get neutered by silence. Yeah, if you're dealing with an awkward spawn or bad positioning ...

Pacify odds. This one is really bad as looking at the source isn't enough if you're not patient and good with probability.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/mas ... ngelog.txt

Here you go.

You riposte. You impale the shock serpent!! You burn the shock serpent! The shock serpent is severely wounded. The shock serpent's electric aura discharges, shocking you! i just wanted to zap polymorph at it but apparently riposte can be countered so i took more damage from the shock serpent than i...

free cloak

You can't even do much digging in the lungs, they're made of unnaturally hard walls. You need certain capstone god abilities to be cozy; stuff like Shadow Form, Sanctuary, or an active bribe.

"we can't say anything without opinions from christians" "hi i'm a christian and i think this part specifically is bad" "shut up uneducated christian, stop crying about feelings this is a fantasy game" I see what you're getting at, but go look up the definitions of some...

i'm probably not sufficiently devout for y'all's purposes, but i think beogh is mostly okay except for the titles, which are waaaay too unambiguous. i sent a PR offering less loaded titles and it got rejected because "flavor" shout-outs to "proselytizer" being used for orcs that ...

Yes and yes.

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