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Potions of Brilliance/Agility/Might temp increases your INT/DEX/STR (among other effects), 40 to 80 turns. You may also wanna carry some extra equipment that raises the particular stat. Even if it's not very good, swapping when needed may just save your ass when you're hitting stat-zero. By the way,...

I'll say it for the third time, groups already have AI to keep them together. Yes, it's still possible to separate individual creatures - otherwise the group could get bogged down even more easily than they already do - but they already try to stay together. Waaay too insufficient (the proficiency ...

Just make all members of the group chase you if one of them does. A simple idea, but I have no idea how hard this is to code. That would kill luring completely and be unrealistic. Monsters don't have walkie talkies. If you manage to split up a group, that should count for something. Coding: Group i...

if you run into your brother's room with a hammer, it's really hard to hit him in the cock with it. but if you wait outside his door until he opens it and has his guard down, it's really easy. so i think the tactics for luring monsters are very intuitive I see you've read Sun Tzu's Art of War. IMO,...

Cleaving isn't good or matter on this consideration at all. I respectfully disagree. Cleaving is da bomb. Well worth the base stat trade off (in comparison with Long Blades). Given how a melee fighter already has high AC, you'd benefit more from higher damage output than extra SH. This is especiall...

You may wanna quaff a CureMut. As far as Axe weapons, 2h Axes are generally preferred over 1hAxe+Shield, since you're all about that cleaving. But you've already invested quite a lot into Shields. It depends on the loot, if you get a nice Broad Axe and Shield, pick that (you already got the skills),...

Mutations roulette from the very start? Sounds fun.

I guess this race can't follow Zin then?

1) It doesn't work well with translucent walls. It considers it explored, even if you can see some stuff behind it (but can't reach it.).

2) When it says, "partially explored, can't reach some places...". I'd like it to tell me WHICH places.

I love it when you get saved by Banishment.

Thanks guys.

Yeah, 15 runes is no big deal really. In late game, once you get the hang of Torment, you can just OP everything.

Heh, by the end, when escaping with the Orb, I had a Pan lord trying to cross me, biiiig mistake, went through him like butter.

My very first win! Haaaaaaaaaaa feels good. Finally, I can have my life back. Pure melee build under Trog, switched to TSO around level 25, then started adding Translocation and later Summoning to my arsenal. Ironically, the loot in this run was the most MEAGER I ever had, like D:9 and still only my...

If I'm to be brutally honest. I think DCSS has design flaws on the fundamental level!

It's both too easy and too long. The toast is too big and the jam is spread too thin.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/AC_calculations

According to wiki, Armour skill is a mulitplier of your total (of all equipment) AC

NVM

But I want to kill every single thing.

To me, unfairness is one of roguelike's qualities.

I describe unfairness as sudden spikes of difficulty.

My complaint is that DCSS needs MORE unfairness. MORE!

To add to earlier post: I always equip-id equipment. This brings some risk with it, worst being Contamination (from unequipping) and Banishment (25% chance from unequipping weapon of Dispersal), but those are low chance and I just take it on the chin.

I'm a slightly experienced player, playing melee brutes exclusively. Having an easy early game, I hold out till I have two stacks of scrolls standing out (Identify & Remove Curse), I then proceed to use all my Id scrolls until I know Heal/Cure/Teleport/Blink. After that I gradually continue to u...

Obviously, not anyone who starts the game with an idea of an initial build. But I can imagine it being a thing for the very experienced player or those roleplaying Crazy Yuif.

Anyone? Your motivations?

I think the general opinion is that if you're strong enough to safely grind the Abyss (or Pandemonium), you're strong enough to win the game. So there's no problem. Really? In my newbie opinion there is a huge difference in 'general ability' between say a MiBe who just hit lvl 27 and has max skill ...

Once you hit say XP level 20, you can go (through a portal in the Depths) to the Abyss and (relatively) safely grindkill till max level and from there continue grinding for all the skill points you want. This makes race aptitudes only as relevant in the early-mid game. After that, you can max out al...

I mean like, emotionally. Like, in your life... to place this in your... I mean it's just not uh... It's cruelty really. It starts out harmless enough, a small thing. But then it becomes more important in such a way that... I can't eh. I can not, My Life can not... this abstract monster.

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Fyi, I can only add attributes per 2 points. So I can't split the 18 points like +7 Str +11 INt

4) Pray at Trog's altar. If the messsage is something like "he's ambivalent towards you", then you're kosher.

Hi, As a Demigod Skald (Charms magic),I start out as Str/Int/Dex = 15/16/15 and add 2 points to a chosen Attribute every 3rd level (another 18 points total). My longterm plan is to become an Axe Fighter with high skills in Charms (fight buffs) and Translocations (defense and escape). How should I di...

For the AI issue: Crawl is very clearly built with intentionally dumb monsters that use their good abilities a variable but low percentage of the time. There are some, very rare, games that allow enemies to act as smart as possible and provide interesting but not brutal challenges; Crawl is not one...

Thank you for addressing my post. I appreciate the attention from dev. 1) Too much cheese tactic in the game. [ stair dancing and luring ] I actually agree with this, but I don't think your solution for stair dancing is very good (especially I'm against making stairdancing less urgent by changing ho...

P.S. from https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... ng:wont_do

"52 item slots, that's it."

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRhgghghhg, I refuse to accept this.

1) Too much cheese tactic in the game. I'll admit I've used them, but I shouldn't be able to. 1.a) Stair dancing is CHEEEEEEESY. More monsters should follow you up the stairs, at least the ones that see you when you go up/down, more so if they got high intelligence and are chasing you. Conversely, w...

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Re: Luring (was: DCSS has a power creep problem)

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Anyone using the random altar?

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A question on "infinte skill points"

How do you deal with this...

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Advice on a Demigod Skald build

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