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I only use auto-explore to finish off levels or with characters I'm feeling pretty confident with. That alone will get you some nagging online, as some people think there's no point to picking your route or making them wait (or something)... I also spend a lot of time fussing about inventory and ski...

I've only played one character with Pakellas, a kobold assassin. It was a bit of an easy cruise with lots of ignition, and shadows summoning going on. I didn't quite get evocations up high enough for paralysis to be uber, in lair branches, but some of that too... In the end, I think I maybe didn't h...

What race can you benefit from if you don't drive?

Naga ??? Please, save me with more options. :roll:

1. Are you proposing a new game mode (like sprint?) Or like a fork of crawl or something? I suppose it's a fork? I'm not really that familiar with the term. Sprint seems much more different to me. 2. What effect would killing a ghost in ghost crawl have on regular crawl (if any) I didn't imagine it...

I've only actually used it occasionally and usually in desperation (except for the odd luck of Warp Weapon showing up). One (possibly obvious?) thing I'd toss (cough) in is, you might want Throwing skill with that. And missiles for tossing. Lots of them. Some of your enemies may blink just a little ...

I'm a little confused by what you're saying, but I think both of our theses aren't that different. You say that "it would have been "better" gameplay to show us you could do the last 10 levels with no inventory at all", and I'd agree (to a point, not with the part about having n...

Oh pffft, I meant to post this in Design / suggestions. Please move. (Would this leave a messy space if I copied and then deleted everything here?)

Sorry, I was in the right place until my connection got disrupted and I got mixed up coming back.

I've found player ghosts some of the most shocking encounters in the game, and I recall seeing others posting much the same. They have the capacity to add lots of surprises, while not being exceedingly common. I don't know a lot about how many ghosts are in circulation generally now or whether playe...

If game 2 is played with a felid where no good wands or evokables drop, and I'm just using my claws, I'm going to have a lot less incidence of needing to drop things. This does not signify I'm playing well in any way. He didn't say that. He said that if you're hitting your inventory cap, then you'r...

This appeals to my inner simulationist, but do you think it would make for good gameplay in Dungeon Crawl? Sounds like a loaded rhetorical question to me, where you've perhaps already made up your mind to scorn it. Good gameplay is whatever people feel like it is. Some people would be happy with no...

Like what? Early on I'll grab useful brands like elec and poison, but not more than one of each... and nothing redundant(eg: if I find a whip of elec, I'll basically just use that and drop anything else.) Maybe I don't like to rely on one skill too much, so I don't train deep enough faster, sometim...

Centaurs can be good with polearms, but for some reason I'm unimpressed with early polearms generally. Maybe I've just had bad luck the fewer times I've started with them. Centaurs also do well with unarmed, especially early on. It hasn't the slightly deeper penalty of melee weapons and hey, hooves.

Well off the bat, I'll admit I'm something of a packrat. I tend to fill up around Lair and constantly discard/stash and pick up. It's the worst if I didn't get an early smoking weapon, and grabbed all sorts of situational ones. But then I think it makes some sense to be a bit packrat in Crawl... At ...

Trove on Vaults: 2 Ticket price: +4 Ice dragon armour Contents: Crystal plate armour +1 cloak of magic resistance +4 ring mail of cold resistance +2 plate armour of cold resistance +2 plate armour of poison resistance +0 hat of intelligence +2 robe of the archmagi +9 plate armour of ponderousness +2...

I spend some time going back to stashes, but it's usually not a problem food-wise. Many games have so much food late-game that it really doesn't matter.
Unless you're some heavy caster maybe?
Once in a while I do have a serious food shortage game, but it isn't all that often.

It still depends a lot on the character. If you're always playing missile characters, and you're leveling those missiles early and kiting a lot, yaks (edit: yes, hydras, ha) should often feel pretty mild (as long as they don't appear adjacent to you). If you're mainly relying on cutting weapons, of ...

Yeah, while I'm not brilliant at later mages... Flame Tongue, Freeze, or Sting will get you a long way. I also often go for slings or even tossing rocks, and skip the Level 2 Throw spells. Throw Flame/Frost are nice for range and can be useful if you don't find slings, but often they feel like an od...

That file was way too long, so clipped some parts. I win so rarely, I can never recall exactly how to post the morgues in here. :oops: A rather charmed run with excellent shopping and armor drops (Robe of Resist Cold, Robe of Resistance, enchanted Ice Dragon armor, artifact Quicksilver armor, many u...

All but Pan and Tomb, out of Cure Mutation pots and never found Portal Projectile. Wasn't feeling ambitious about many more Torment and caster bosses. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18.1-48-g4cf74bf (webtiles) character file. 5402474 loopi the Heavyweight Champion (level 27, 291/291 HPs) Began a...

Bolt wands! Confusion wands (plus missiles, ideally) Mephitic cloud (or however you spell it) Bows and crossbows Summons, lots of summons Enslave other mobs and send them after it Enslave the hydra and work it to death/make it retreat the other way Large rocks (ogres and trolls) Run toward walls and...

It never occurred to me for the longest time that you could somehow walk right over a Shaft tile, and not automatically fall in!

:oops:

It's still possible to get a Penetration weapon, yes? Or no?

Although I do rather miss the ammo. Needles were just reduced in frequency; I'm a little surprised the same couldn't happen for at least some of the crossbow ammo brands.

I feel like reducing the melee advantage to "stabbing" is too simplistic. Dith does give stealth bonus, which is also helpful especially early on. But often I have enjoyed it more for the ability to leap close to a sleeping target. This can make a big difference for a melee character who m...

I had a suit of armor on with Corrode a good while back (in 0.17), and it did proc "sometimes" but not constantly was my general feeling. Assuming the item has some other awesomeness to make it worthwhile... I see the Corrode more as a multiplier of how things are going already. It wouldn'...

I'm not sure how much has changed for Dith with 0.18, but I recall in 0.17 there were some rather successful Minotaurs of Dith. I got one down into somewhere in Depths or Vaults myself. Stabbing with a battleaxe was quite fun too. :lol: Imo (a marginally experienced one mind you) the Shadow Mimic pa...

Oh yes, and the Royal Pain of a Ghost award for this run goes to Placid.

Took multiple escapes and revisits to finally put that one to rest. Fit right in on Depths 5! :evil:

Slow dwarf squeaks out after a seesaw time with mutation roulette. Almost died to a Tormentor oops, (edits) Hell Sentinel even (there) just short of the exit, rescued by lots of distracting summons and luck. Had great defenses until Zot, but never found a serious blitz weapon beyond the early fun Wa...

I'm still getting used to Abyss... I've only gotten the rune there a few times. I've done Vault 5 many more times, and feel much more at home there. Abyss has some freaky vault layouts, like the one where you get multiple negative energy bombs sitting all around the rune. On the other hand, there ar...

Just checking... When you said throwing Yaks, I assumed you meant tossing them into a distant position like Robin tosses around goblins. Or did you mean, throwing them as ammunition? (Or both??) Anyway, yeah I'm still not sure about a whole +4 to Throwing. Even with Inacc, that makes even Kobolds an...

Maybe a horn of recall, similar to Geryon's, at a certain level that brings the yak pack back (with a delay). Again, might be ineffective in some branches like the Abyss. Although I do like the idea of breeding some new ones now and again. New numbers could be also be based on the number of existing...

Add throwing Yaks at even higher strength. (Or are there really that many sheep in the game?) Maybe a Breath delay between throws if this is getting strong. +4 might be overkill for Throwing... Trolls aren't even close but my PC trolls blast them at the rock contest with only 10-12 Throwing. So not ...

Fear may work on giants just to scatter them.

It probably won't work on them awfully long though, fyi.

I've been playing for a month off and on; I've got 3 10,000+ scores under my belt (& one going on) and I'm an obsessive wiki and forum reader. So ... I almost feel silly asking this, but what does enchantment do? Obviously, it makes a weapon/armour "better", but how so? For example, I...

Aren't there a lot of Korean players who love Beogh? It seems like they value permanent allies a lot more than we do. Tavern likes to see permanent allies as tedious and not very useful, but the Koreans like them, so they rank Beogh and Yred higher than we do. I think it's funny that they rank both...

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That wouldn't be bad, but...

Just because you have new messages, doesn't mean you have to keep reading them.

You also won't be finding artifact tomahawks.

(Eep. Yes, Joe is ahead of me.)

Crossbows can get you penetration in endgame. Tomahawks can't. Just a thought.

It's not my favorite evocable (I much prefer the other elemental items or a rod of clouds/shadows), but it does have some situational potential. Mostly I carry it for those situations where the enemies are coming between walls and you've backed into the clear. Not the most common situation for those...

Those whips of electrocution really do help. :lol:

I had one going along right outside of Lair, but was silly enough to stop for "one more mob" which turned into a herd... Doh. :roll:

Lom Lobon is a nightmare. He's the only Pan lord that's ever killed a character I considered good (I lost a DsGl^Makh to manfighting Cerebov once, but that character was pretty weak considering that he couldn't beat Cerebov in a straight up 1v1 with buffs). Takes out your summons with tornado and g...

Haven't played Dithmenos much before, but finally caught the Dith-Minotaur bug from some tourney inspiration. Dith actually helps a lot with attack rate, which can make missiles a lot more fun. Of course, axe-"stabbing" is also amusing. Flopped in Pan. Totally forgot that Tornado could cre...

I'm mixed about them (shrugs a little). I don't agree with those who think there should be "random death can occur just anywhere " on principle (so scratch the "everyone" from that claim please). That's one of the things that can annoy about shafts - when they do annoy. You have ...

On a similar note, playing offline I just passed Sigmund on D2 wielding a Scythe of Distortion.

He teleported me, but very fortunately didn't banish or disintegrate/disrupt me.

Came back and Polymorphed him into a wasp, outlasted him in Treeform. But dang, no Lugonu-corrupted temple. Ha.

Are you sure that it's not just monsters adjacent to stairs following you up when you ascend the stairs, and you never knew they did that for the entire time you've been playing? Well for my part, I'm quite sure I knew they do that. :geek: Unless some of them really took their time "following,...

Yeah, those wily kobolds (and now increasingly, goblins?) are kind of notorious for sneaking in a nasty piece of gear every so often.

Quick weapon + electrocution is definitely nasty on early levels.

Any specific reason why you went to Gehenna for the 5th rune? Yeah, it's a fair question. I'm still a bit inexperienced with Pan (only did it with the one 15 rune ghoul). And also still quite new with deeperAbyss, where I've had pretty mixed experiences on the rune level - the ghoul sailed through,...

Happy ogre: Oka, rock, Portal Projectile, crushing/netting/needling from and to behind the lines. :P Kept the Club of Valiance and Amulet of Gumyetu active most of the game since Lair . Although the Holy and Speed clubs certainly helped toward the end. Never did find a spiked club I liked better, bu...

Blade Hands will do much more damage, yes, but you have failed to evaluate the many incredible defensive benefits of Statue Form, such as complete poison immunity (!), rElec, rPetrify, rRot and increased GDR. White weapons in hand can also come with awesome defenses, when you finally get to levels/...

Currently, the ID minigame mostly denies you access to items you have in your inventory. Of course, you can still use them, but it's like using a wand of random effects, and you're rolling the dice when you do so (unless you've read up on the spoilers and know things like "the biggest stack of...

Then there's the long rectangle vault full of fire, with a single tengu at the far end and no significant loot... At least, one observer reported stumbling into the exact same thing.

Painless if you have rF+++, but still a great waste of time and dungeon space.

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