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Well currently, if you are standing adjacent to two open doors and you try to close one, you are prompted as to which one you want to close. I just pictured it working the same way whether the doors are closed or open.

I love this idea! Also, just a quick suggestion, could Shift-C be changed to open/close door instead of just close? There have been times when I've closed a door and then hit Shift-C again, thinking it would open it, only to be told "there is no open door nearby" (or something similar). It...

What if vorpalize weapon, instead of making a temporary brand permanent (or in addition to it), allowed you to transfer a brand from one weapon to another (whether the weapon was generated with a brand, or branded by a god)?

Mutation resistance. The amulet version lets those potions through, but the mutation is effective versus all sources of mutations. I am not a fan of the "gain" potions being mutations rather than simply applying; that makes them much less rewarding and easy to lose as opposed to, say, a p...

I understand wanting to stick with one race/class combo to limit your variables, I did that myself at first. But honestly, I think you get a much better idea of how the game works if you give a lot of different combos a try. I'd suggest doing something like making a goal of getting each of these to ...

joellercoaster wrote:evilmike: "greaves", then?

I'm pretty sure greaves go on your legs, not your arms.

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/ffjh/thompson/apostro/npractic.htm

So, do only fire and ice count? Or is there some randomness involved? I'm not 100% positive, but I was under the impression that it's just Fire skill that counts. So if you have any Fire skill at all, you'll get the fire+earth book, and otherwise you'll get the ice+air book. Edit: Ok, I just checke...

Well, just to avoid over-generalizations in this thread, I've been playing on a Mac (two different Macs, actually, both with OSX) for months and my keys work fine. # is Shift-3 for me, { is Shift-[. No idea what kind of mac has alt-3 for # and alt-8 for {. I know that doesn't help anyone here, but I...

The monster panel does show every monster, their health and attitude/behaviour. You even get more information than console because you also see terrain and wielded weapon. I think it's just a matter of getting used to it for console players moving to tiles. Funny thing is I actually started out as ...

Are the links under "Scoring" on this page not what you're looking for?

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/

I realize this is a bit off-topic for this thread but since we're talking about it anyway, I have to agree about the monster list. The two biggest things that I miss when I play Tiles are the monster list (even though I have the config set up to always show the monster panel, it's not as useful as t...

Is it possible you received the book while in a portal, missed the message, and then left the portal? If so, it'll be gone and wouldn't show up in the CTRL-F find list (I think). Vehumet gifts all three conjuring books before the summoning books if your Conjuring skill is higher than Summoning.

@evilmike: I was wondering about that, thanks. I think I dropped them on the entrance to Zot in D:27 (along with some other things that would have helped me escape, like a wand of teleportation) and then completely forgot about that stash in the mad rush to the surface. @Jeremiah: looking forward to...

618543 Fvandir Bolei the Meteorologist (level 27, -7/155 HPs) Began as a High Elf Wizard on Apr 28, 2011. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Killed from afar by a Shadow Fiend (28 damage) ... with a bolt of negative energy ... led by Thryb ... on Level 3 of the Dungeon on May 1, 2011. The game lasted 14:...

Good stuff! One tactic I use a lot that I'm not sure if you'd want to include, is if you happen to be in an open area you can still get bizaps pretty easily if a monster is chasing you. You have to position the monster against the wall by running along it, let it catch up to you, then step away from...

You can rebind it by putting something like this in your .crawlrc:

Code:: bindkey = [C] CMD_CHARACTER_DUMP

where C is the key you want. You can specify ctrl with ^ as well, (so [^C] for ctrl-C). I think the key is case-sensitive but I'm not sure.

I've noticed myself doing stuff like this on occasion, too. Not that I've gotten any characters to that level, but I recently killed a level 16 character in a similar way. I think sometimes I get a momentary feeling of game fatigue... tired of playing (been playing too long), or tired of the charact...

Hmm, I don't know, then. I just downloaded that osx tiles build (from here) to check it out. I started up a Demonspawn Abyssal Knight and ran around the Abyss for a while (until I died), and everything was visible.

What build are you playing? There was a similar bug fixed a few days ago, but I don't know if it affected tiles or not.

I was having some issues with terminal.app as well. I ended up using iTerm2 and I like it quite a lot. Among its many options are the ability to change the term colors... maybe that would help.

morgue: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/sxoz/morgue-sxoz-20110416-013543.txt Disclaimer: this is the best run I've had yet; I don't have any wins. I'm wondering why Enchanter isn't recommended for a Demonspawn. I had been playing DS mages, and kept getting stealthy mutations, so I thought I might ...

Well, I finally got trunk to compile on my mac, so I thought I'd share what I had to do to get it working, in case anyone else is having trouble. I'm running the latest Snow Leopard (10.6.7) and it doesn't have the older SDKs that the crawl build process assumes exist. I couldn't get it to compile i...

It'll certainly be annoying, and you've already lost the magnificent range of Bolt of Cold. Actually, no. You've gained the magnificent ability to hit things out of your LOS. Truly? I didn't try it, but does that mean you'd be able to target beyond LOS or would you have to just shoot in that direct...

njvack wrote:Man, it's depressing to lose a character after 12 hours. Maybe I'm done with this game for a while :-/

I often feel this way, too. And then I find myself playing again the next day. There's just something about this game...

Thanks for all your advice, KoboldLord. I love reading your posts, whether they are replies to me or someone else. They are packed with helpful information! Unfortunately, Uethib the DSIE died in the Swamp, due to me being overly confident. Not worth posting the morgue, in fact. Stupid! (Though this...

Wield the staff, but immediately switch to the axe when you need the properties. Okay, yeah that makes sense. 2) ...that's my only source of rPois right now... It turns out that one of my DS mutations provides rPois and I didn't notice, so losing those gloves isn't such a big deal. Definitely victo...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5780-g8f58253 character file. Uethib the Eclecticist (Demonspawn Ice Elementalist) Turns: 57398, Time: 04:22:09 HP 89/89 AC 15 Str 15 Exp: 16/169783 (7302), need: 44716 MP 36/36 EV 16 Int 24 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 2251 SH 17 Dex 19 Spells: 13 memorised,...

Vampiric draining seems to barely return any health I thought this too, the first couple of games where I tried using it. But it actually does work well. It seems to work better, the more health you need and the more health the enemy has. If you're only down a few points of health, it won't do much...

This guy was doing so well. This ended up being my best run ever, and I learned a lot from it so hopefully it won't be too long before I have another character to this point. I had some lucky mutations from a potion and was very happy with the spell books I had found (including all of Vehumet's gift...

This is great. With that autoinscribe setting, I now have a macro that's "w1zs' " and so with one button I'm sublimating chunks and switching back to my weapon. Love it!

Does anyone know why the mac trunk builds are usually a week or two behind the windows builds? Please don't read this as a complaint of any kind, by the way, I'm just curious. A while ago, I tried compiling a git clone with Xcode, but ran into some trouble, so I've been just downloading trunk whenev...

Glad it's working!

In your init.txt file, make sure you have this line uncommented (meaning there is no # in front of it): include = tiles_options.txt Just to help clear up your confusion a little, if any line has the # in front of it, it will not be read by the game. So any options you are trying to set need to have ...

Question for OS X binary users: where do I find this options file? I have a sneaking suspicion I have to compile it myself if I want to alter the options o_O The options file is in the app bundle. So assuming you put the app in /Applications, you'll find the init.txt in "/Applications/Dungeon ...

My latest game, I got much much further than I had before, and I managed to kill 7 hydras with no problems, all thanks to the advice here.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/635546/pics/death_of_elcici.png Well, I died. But I did so well! I cleared Lair and Orc:3, had just cleared a bailey and was trying to take some stuff back to my stash on Lair:2 when a stone giant cornered me. Swiftness was not enough to let me get away from him (probably be...

This is great, thanks for all the incredibly useful information! I'm about to jump back in and see how it goes. @hxy, no I'm not planning on boosting melee skills, so I'll definitely try to find some other means of hurting cold resist monsters. Perhaps a little Air magic, as Ashery suggested, along ...

I'm currently running with the best character I've had yet, he's level 13 and cleared over half of Lair and the first level of Orc. I've gotten to see monsters I haven't seen before, cast spells I've never seen, get to the entrance to other branches besides Orc and Lair... I'm very excited! But also...

Wow, thanks for all the responses, everyone! There is so much good info here, this is great! Lots of things I hadn't thought to try. As for Mephitic Cloud, I had thought they were immune to poison, but cast it anyway out of desperation (and panic). After that, I thought I saw the little '?' on its t...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/635546/pics/so_many_hydra_deaths.png Hydras keep killing me. I've gotten to the point where I just want to run away from them and leave them alone, but they usually catch up and block off a stairwell. I actually managed to kill one with this last HEAE, using Mephitic Cloud a...

@joellercoaster, thanks for those tips, I understand better now just how foolish I was. I love how much there is to think about in this game! :D As far as Lair... all of my top 6 characters died there, mostly to hydras, but for other reasons too. It has definitely been my first major wall that I'm t...

Thanks for your response. I didn't know that mutation wouldn't work, that's good to know. I also hadn't thought of berserk rage in that way, that's a great idea. I suppose I would have had to chug it once I got very low on hp (I am assuming the extra hp are based on max hp and not current hp), but s...

PebbleHelm the Earth Mage (level 11, -1/75 HPs) Succumbed to poison (a potion of strong poison) Hi everyone, I've only been playing for a few weeks, but have been steadily improving (I've reached Lair about 5 times now, but haven't been able to get past L:4 yet). Anyway, as my first post, I had to ...

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