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If you worship Ru, you can Sacrifice Arm. Then it becomes a pretty serviceable Amulet of H.

Otherwise, no.

Slimes wake up and eat items I think we might be on to something there. Item destruction is known as a bad feature, but that's mostly about the destruction of items already in the player's inventory or stash. OTOH, tined portals work as level-wide quasi-timers with a threat of "if you waste ti...

So... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.2-android (console) character file. Diablo the Heretic (Demonspawn Abyssal Knight) Turns: 126622, Time: 21:17:36 HP: 232/235 (238) AC: 40 Str: 37 XL: 27 MP: 32/44 EV: 22 Int: 21 God: Gold: 6448 SH: 21 Dex: 18 Spells: 13 memorised, 1 level left rFire + . . ...

Alternatively, there's a solution that removes the need to complicate UI, makes the decision "fight the summons or go after the summoner" less of a no-brainer and makes multi-summoner fights more challenging (and easier to spiral out of control and make player use resources to reset the fi...

How does it interact with Vehumet? Is it theoretically advantageous to join Vehumet, milk him for spells and then abandon, in every game?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.1-android (console) character file. Raziel the Agent of Entropy (VSAK) Turns: 3571, Time: 00:22:31 Health: 39/39 AC: 31 Str: 16 XL: 8 Next: 29% Magic: 12/12 EV: 5 Int: 12 God: Lugonu [***...] Gold: 52 SH: 10 Dex: 15 Spells: 0 memorised, 9 levels left rFire + . ...

Playing an OgHu in 0.17, D:3, not much protection yet. Got lethally poisoned by an adder. Only three potions, all unid. What do? >qf It is a potion of mutation! You feel agile! Thin metallic scales grow over part of your body! Rough black scales grow over part of your buddy! You're now the sexiest o...

If you expected a down hatch, it couldn't have been lowest level of a branch. And if it weren't, why couldn't you, as a formicid, shaft yourself down?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W2KwFMky5Y4

Rename them to Tomtenisser. That will teach the devs to support you.

Character is a Vine Stalker of Okawaru (for Heroism, not for weapon gifts, i swear…), level 12, 12.2 UC, blade hands are not online, no notable (or any) mutations. The Labyrintine Minotaur (not even Okawaru) drops a demon blade described in the title (good thing i didn't hold back on heroism and fin...

Scimitar is not a great base type. I think it's better to keep up with the axes, Trog will probably gift you great ones. And if you train up swords, he'll dilute his gifts between axes and longswords, which do not crosstrain.

I don't really understand how this ended up in Crawl Advice subforum of all things; i weren't asking for an advice, and i thought i'm quite clearly voicing a proposal for tiny but meaningful change. And i didn't assume i've "done everything reasonable to succeed on d:1 and it's because of a des...

HD is not indicative of monster strenght, though. All these propositions (and i remember multiple) need a new metric for every monster.

MP leeched should depend on damage done to avoid bag-of-rats syndrome. And i think the weapon in question (it it must be a weapon; i think an amulet or a ring could work better) should have some other properties that would make it worthwhile for a spell-focused character to use (and preferably not o...

I've just started a new character and was in the middle of the usual routine of mugging the nearesr goblin for his club and hoping it's not a -2 cursed one, when it dawned on me: Having no starting weapon until you mug a (hob)goblin (or pick it up from the floor) does not matter at all, unless your ...

The name most reflective of their gameplay would be "Deminogod".

I haven't found the Fulminant Prism. Has it been removed, or did i just miss it?

Not native English speaker's perspective: 1. Most summon spells starting with "summon" makes looking through the memorise list easier, not harder. It lets me limit my attention to those entries starting with "summon" (or exclude them from my attention when skimming over) and clea...

Airwolf wrote:Feature request: make all levels like this!

Linesprint does it better.

Aaand that's the second promising conjurer in three days that died because i got tired/emotionally compromised/distracted and misplaced a Fulminant Prism. I still love that spell, it's very potent and ten minutes ago it killed me Pikel, Erolcha and Erica who tried to gank me by gathering into a merr...

BTW, i've already realised that picking Ashenzari and abusing monster detection would be godlike. But i don't want to win yet another character of Ashenzari so soon, so i'll pass in favour of Gozag.

Here i am, playing yet another low-level demonspawn, and then i get a mutation i haven't played with before: Nightstalker (-LOS, currently at -1 but it will go to -3 eventually). And i know it's not only THE TheoreticalOptimalPlayer's wet dream mutation, but also legitimately very cool for, say, any...

Early game, it shines. Its cost is significant but you probably don' have many options against being overwhelmed yet, so if being overwhelmed looks like a threat, it's 100% better to eat the drain than to spend non-renewable escape options or die. Mid-game, it shines situationally. It's bad to spam ...

True, after fetching the Hat the character curled into a ball and started rolling. Died on Zig:27 (orc level) out of boredom: after nuking every remotely threatening floor with Immolation+Apocalypse (hilarious, effective and a bother to scroll through all the mesaage-spam), i've underestimated the o...

To me it still feels like it would be cause for a whole lot of luring. Maybe if the 'turrets' had a timer... but then would you have time to set up any sort of clever pattern? A radical proposition that i don't support myself: merge Fedhas and Qazlal. You have monsters constantly coming to your loc...

Thanks! TBH, i was afraid i scared everyone away with my wordlyness. Regarding rings: i don't like to fill up my inventory with situational rings of rSharks, so i'm guilty of often playing suboptimally regarding ringswaps. However, this game has been pretty poor on rings; aside from rings of fire/co...

To provide a different perspective: my perception was always that at least some Crawl gods are intended to shift the game feel and priorities away from the basic Crawl tabber/caster/stabber/thrower roguelike experience, including shifting the genre somewhat: i. e. Beogh "you can play a turn-bas...

Status update: Snake went well, so eventually did the Shoals (i attribute that solely to a strange lack of krakens). The rest of the game up to Zot:4 was more or less a safe-ish hack-n-slash, save a very close call in the Vestibule: killing Geryon lured in an Alich with summoning spells, i've decide...

You are very dopey. (Int -4) You resist negative energy.. You cannot be stealthy. You cannot train Dodging skill. You cannot study or cast Conjurations magic. You cannot study or cast Ice magic. You cannot study or cast Necromancy magic. You have somewhat slow reflexes. (-3 EV) You are somewhat uns...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.1-android (console) character file. Damask the Cleaver (Gargoyle Artificer) Turns: 34938, Time: 03:29:57 Health: 104/104 AC: 33 Str: 23 XL: 16 Next: 30% Magic: 22/22 EV: 7 Int: 9 God: Ru [******] Gold: 252 SH: 12 Dex: 9 Spells: 0 memorised, 15 levels left rFire...

The initial idea was the question if I should activate dForm for saving turns :-) In the meantime my char found regeneration spell and the problem is solved anyway. However, thanks for your answers. "Congratulations, you have finally mastered the ability to transform your very body into an awe...

All Int and no food make kroki a dull bovine...

I've been honestly surprised to read that these consoles, with these given limitations, are still relevant. What kinds of situations do people find themselves in where they have access to the console game but not the tiles? Personally, i play Crawl (offline Android build) on my smartphone, which ha...

It is pretty much horrifically bad unless you kill things via Magic Dart or summons.

Do they get: 1. The usual bonus for being fully bound in jewelry when in a cursed amulet+two rings, no further bonus for having more cursed rings? 2. The usual bonus for being fully bound in jewelry when in a cursed amulet+eight rings, only partial bonus for less cursed rings? 3. The usual bonus whe...

tasonir wrote:Since you're pretty low on scrolls you'd really be hopping for a decent randart

Fixed.

A proposal: just make all ancestor spirits move at 1.6x speed or whatever it is that spriggans and centaurs go at, then balance them appropriately. This avoids both the "disparsity in speed between races makes the benefits uneven" problem and the "spriggans/centaurs have to slow down ...

Obviously its name has to be Amon. For he provides ammo a-plenty. Amen. --- Serious answer: this is not a well-designed idea. First, Crawl tries to avoid "niche" gods (other than Trog, and he's both a legacy from older days and a very controversial god among here, and has his own dedicated...

2.1 mana per turn was used on average.. How is it possible? Does DE replenish more than this on turn and you almost never were at full MP? Natural replenishment + Vehumet mana on kill + Sublimation of Blood + some staff of energy (that one has been used too little to matter, though). Very, very imp...

What if i don't want no removal of none on the list?

On the other hand, i'm already several versions behind by choice.

He did not spam Spammals to check every non-checked tile? Boy, am i disappointed.

i've already created a DeCK with an intent to, well, spice it up a bit by abandoning Xom but keeping a chaos weapon for a while. *Bows respectfully* Don't be bowing until i actually get somewhere! Besides, Xom's wrath is actually beneficial, dontcha know that? I've already lost three DeCKs (of Xom,...

and must be the only god you worshipped during the run. Well, damn. Does it really follow from "must worship the first god you find" requirement? Personally, i've interpreted the opening post in vein of "as soon as you find an accessible altar, you have to worship this god from here ...

And so it came to pass that Nimoi the Pointy-Eared skipped Mennas (twice; had to blow him away from a staircase with a Fan of Gales while feeling utterly helpless in his silence field), escaped with the Orb of Zot while finally breaking Ashenzari's curse, reached the surface and became a famous TV a...

Is the mini-vault with a pressure plate and a boulder beetle eliminated as well? That's been fun.

protection brand has already been changed to just give +7 AC on hitting a dude, rip That sounds really… What's the common word around here? Grindy? So you're a caster, you find a protection stick, congratz, you get a Stoneskin that you can only cast while in melee range, and you need to hit a monst...

I see, that's risky play IMHO. If you get 50 damage and have 100 HP remaining, instead of mere running away like I would do you cast SoB and get to 70 HP remaining No, i won't. First, my example with 70 vs 100 hp was relating to a phase when the character had 100 max hp. To be clear: i DO NOT SoB w...

Both 100 HP and 70 HP turn into "I did something wrong, time to use consumables to escape" if you get hit for 50 HP and don't matter at all if you don't, which is partly a matter of EV/SH ratings being a chance to negate damage instead of semi-guaranteedly reducing it (a high-EV, low-AC ch...

I'm currently playing a pure robecaster HE and, as the action log shows, i'm using SoB a lot (combining it with Regen spell and TLA; the later isn't much of a sacrifice since there were no decent armours all game anyway). Reason? On this kind of character (namely, a HE offensive robecaster who dippe...

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