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It's an interesting thing. No one seems to have difficulty with the idea that as adders become a nonissue, they should appear less frequently or not at all, making way for other things. When it comes to curses though, you have exactly the same dynamic and yet there is no recognition that they shoul...

It's a good idea to use shields if the absolute best armour available is a +2 troll leather armour or something similar. Not very uncommon until late Vaults or Depths when playing ogres. In that case you can a) dive Depths for a dragon corpse, b) count on your superior positioning, game sense and pa...

Good job proving the challenge wasn't too hard at all.

While you're at it, please remove Centaurs, the kings of kiting too.

I overreacted a bit, I have a tendency to do so right after playing, but I think it would be much more bearable if you could go back up, but only if it's the first time you used the stairs down and you haven't moved away from them. But of course it's supposed to be a challenge, so it's fine like it ...

jwoodward48ss wrote:Why does holy pan even exist?

Because it's cool and also a source of !cMut, good large shields and decently enchanted holy weapons.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1107-gc676ff4 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Destroyer (High Elf Conjurer) Turns: 13068, Time: 00:50:10 Health: 72/72 AC: 9 Str: 6 XL: 11 Next: 8% Magic: 15/21 EV: 16 Int: 23 God: Yredelemnul [***...] Gold: 74 SH: 5 Dex: 17 Spells: 6 memorised, 5 ...

After reading the first post several times, I find some contradictions too. You can't backtrack, but you can leave the branch entrance and come back to it later? Weird. So is this challenge only about going down the current branch all the way down once you enter it? Then it's not really much differe...

I was always wondering - why don't AM have Portal Projectile in their starting books? If there's any spell that makes sense for a "marksman" using "arcane" to have, it's this one. Would it be too good or something? But then Warpers start with it, so that can't be a problem.

Doesn't seem very casual to me either, but it should be fun.

Tier 2. I turned off my brain for 15 seconds and this is the result. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1068-g99dd0f4 (webtiles) character file. 428013 Leszczynek the Peltast (level 25, -5/188 HPs) Began as a Human Skald on Aug 1, 2016. Was the Champion of Cheibriados. Slain by a vampire knigh...

Ogres love it before and in Lair. The 20-something AC it gives makes early game monsters unable to harm you.

I've also seen a player use it in Tomb to survive a bad situation, but I don't remember the exact circumstances preventing just walking away, might have been Chei or something.

It's too good as it is. A ranged beam (penetrating) attack using an element rarely resisted by monsters with possible double hit, when used effectively can clean up packs of monsters even in Vaults. The drawbacks, as I understand, are losing some XP and requiring dual schools to put XP into, however...

Sprucery wrote:Benemut is good and should be quaffed. It is also the new rMut.

It's also rcMut.

Got a full script. { -- line of sight radius LOS = 7 -- add more prompt if a monster's threat level is equal or above this. 0 = very low/dark grey, 1 = low/grey, 2 = high/yellow, 3 = very high/red THREAT_NOTIFICATION = 3 local threat_array = {} -- switch to true if you want to see a debug message sp...

Okay, this should be doable but I don't have much experience with clua, so my first attempt was an utter failure and the second, while closer, didn't work either. I really don't have time for this right now, so let me just give you some pointers. You want to alter force_more_message option; you can ...

I'd suggest adding a requirement of worshipping Chei to all tiers, just so nobody has an excuse of "Chei altar wasn't in the Temple" or so. I think all altars except Lugonu's and Jiyva's are guaranteed to appear in Dungeon, so it should be a valid restriction.

From my somewhat limited extended experience, Hep is actually pretty okay there, at least better than a decent chunk of other available gods.

Tier 3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1019-g9c6a58d (webtiles) character file. 1783104 Leszczynek the Champion of Chaos (level 25, 224/224 HPs) Began as a Ghoul Necromancer on July 26, 2016. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 04:13:57 (56817...

Doing greatrace gets really boring after a while, just so you know.

.rc can easily handle exceptions you are looking for though.

I like the idea of one of the two generated Lair branches being a bit harder than the other and Shoals do this very pretty well. What I'd do would be to pair Shoals with Snake as the stronger pair and Spider with Swamp as the weaker and consider buffing Snake a bit, maybe do something to nagas so wa...

Crypt is pretty much a TSO piety storage. And, I guess, a source of some items at the end if you aren't already bored out of your mind by the time you're strong enough to do it.

This is actually more immersive, as you can more quickly and accurately imagine a monster, without x view. Remove console and leave only webtiles so that players are forced to have immediate visual information and don't have to x the monsters. Jokes aside, you're proposing a big nerf to orcs and or...

You are really putting too much thought into digging the orb run path. The orb run is already easy even without any digging, so why is it even any issue to you? Because for whatever reason you feel compelled to do it just because you can? Then it's probably your, not the game's, problem. Now, if the...

Tier 3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-981-gaae9137 (webtiles) character file. 1563412 Leszczynek the Hand of Fortune (level 27, 212/215 HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Skald on July 13, 2016. Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on July 14, 2016! The game las...

You can add a possibility of Wild Magic exploding in your face too, but your example is spectacular.

Still, this is pretty damn stupid; I can't believe the possibility of a mid game character getting oneshot by his own friendly! summon is an intentional trade-off for picking Nemelex as your god.

Not sure if this is the right forum, feel free to move the thread if necessary. I'm also not particularly good at this whole code diving thing so it'd be cool if you could keep your answers relatively simple. 1. Is there any even partial documentation of functions exposed through clua? I remember se...

I don't know what's "easy" about going to Elf at XL 15 with MR+ and sub-par offensive capabilities. Anyway, after barely surviving a trip to abyss followed by having a hell sentinel and an executioner appear right in my face, I died to an animated weapon because instead of using my last re...

Since I broke my ogre streak, I can go back to weekly challenges. :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-926-g4486784 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Basher (Grey Draconian Summoner) Turns: 10556, Time: 00:52:42 Health: 71/71 AC: 20 Str: 11 XL: 10 Next: 96% Magic: 14/14 EV: 17 Int: 19...

FeCj, kite for days. It plays like a centaur with a bow except with even more running. Hex the monsters that are faster than you.

Do you get any bonuses on the liquefied floor as a merfolk?

So now you have to remember to unwield your non-flaming long blade if you have a hydra next to you?

It's not really a problem of torment; torment and hellfire add some challenge and make you at least consider what direction you want to build character in after getting the first two runes. The problem is that once you character is strong enough to deal with torment and hellfire, extended becomes ex...

Some things broke in trunk. When resting, you auto eat a chunk when you get hungry, except it's immediately interrupted with a prompt... because you got hungry. Also autoexplore seems to no longer stop when you are attacked by an invisible monster.

Remove no buff/debuff from Stasis, make it self-castable for the same effect as on monsters and make it cancellable with potion of cancellation. (-Tele is useful for perma tele traps, teleportitis and Xom.) Also give it to some fast monster for additional fun - maybe limit its range in that case.

So, why Nemelex?

I'd probably put him at 0 or 1 buff, 0 or 1 improve (these two can be shuffled around I think), 3 help and 1+ drawback - just had a game where Wild Magic exploded in my face for around 40 damage.

"I'm not saying your way of playing is bad, but play in the way I consider the best or I'll make a 15 minutes video displaying my superiority over you." What's even the point? Just have fun with the game. Then he goes on making a lot of valid points later but the overall tone of the length...

River rats in sewers are decently strong opponents, usually.

Wow disagree, look what they did to Oka. I think its perfectly fine as it is to have no invo gods, some invo gods and heavy invo gods. Making every god's power scale with invo only brings more problems than whatever your goal is. What did they do to Oka? I never level Invocations over 6.8 necessary...

@chequers Starting with just a bit more Fighting doesn't seem to make up for having to rely on 0 UC at XL 1, especially for species unable to get anything out of the Armour skill; better piety doesn't matter as you won't find an altar until XL 3 or so. Every other start has something to rely on even...

Tier 3. Lair: 0:30:51 (with Orc done first) 1st rune (Spider): 1:03:51 Win: 2:52:53 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-607-g42021f0 (webtiles) character file. 1637565 Leszczynek the Axe Maniac (level 27, 243/243 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Berserker on June 13, 2016. Was a High Priest of Trog. Es...

Tier 3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-593-gf2cdb02 (webtiles) character file. 15887543 Leszczynek the Grand Master (level 27, 220/220 HPs) Began as an Octopode Abyssal Knight on June 8, 2016. Was the Champion of Lugonu. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on June 10, 2016! The game last...

choosing the category I want from all available categories is the same every time Just because you do it the same every time doesn't mean I do it the same every time. Also just because duvessa created a good acquirement flowchart doesn't mean I follow it, even if I generally agree with its contents...

Tier 2, 68 banished so far. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-585-ge40200b (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Blocker (Octopode Abyssal Knight) Turns: 38397, Time: 03:00:51 Health: 123/123 AC: 3 Str: 23 XL: 17 Next: 33% Magic: 26/26 EV: 20 Int: 23 God: Lugonu [****..] Gold: 1532 SH: 20...

So how choosing the category I want from all available categories is not fun while having no control over the item type and facing a possibility of all presented items being useless is fun? Sounds like a personal preference to me. Jewellery acquirement got better by the way, play some trunk. You wil...

Tier 1, 26 banished so far. Turns out I didn't have to bump up the counter with rats and jackals early on. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-559-ga3d69d0 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Basher (Octopode Abyssal Knight) Turns: 13344, Time: 00:49:05 Health: 67/67 AC: 3 Str: 12 XL: 11 ...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/b ... fe98649073

A new non-unique monster, an orc priest glued to a bee. Appears in packs of three, apparently.

the ? indicates stabbability, not confusion (hence why it also appears on wandering monsters who haven't noticed you or who are distracted by an ally). the stab indicator doesn't appear on your allies, since it's generally not very useful to know when to stab your allies, and since it'd appear any ...

Conjurations which you cast to instantly turn mp into damage mostly don't seem to be very good. If you compare summon ice beast not to throw icicle but to other lvl 4 spells like animate dead, sticky flame, passage of golubria, ice form, and summon lightning spire, the contrast looks less stark. Th...

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