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https://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20221223-135644.txt Going Sif on a character with no spells? Well, I hadn't won with Sif since 2017, and I suppose at some point I'll have to think about the 0.24 changes. I took Sif from a D:5 Temple; it was Lair:2 when they started to se...

I fear I have another correction; nobody joins up here. Tavern registrations have been disabled for years. weird how that guys account was made dec 2022. does that mean you'll issue another correction? It wasn't. "Long-time lurker", says the OP. The "Joined" date is inaccurate.

Way to shoot down their enthusiasm. I'm sure everyone joins up here hoping they can immediately face a wall of corrections and caveats... I fear I have another correction; nobody joins up here. Tavern registrations have been disabled for years. More seriously, eh, I like DCSS but let's not pretend ...

It's worth finding out how to post a character dump monospaced. Shields are nice, but it's worth remembering they don't do a thing against torment and damnation, and killing the tormentor or damnation-hurler faster very much does. A couple of centaurs with bows aside, not an option you have, the las...

Did you wear that -Tele amulet as default? I'm always so scared of -Tele that I probably never have it on a non-Formicid. I wore it in Zot - I was out of blink scrolls, a teleport's kind of a desperation move on a Zot level that isn't mostly clear (in particular, it always seems to land me in the o...

Oddly we now almost always switch with CK, having swiped the superb bcrawlism that Xom doesn't care, they just keep on annoying you.

DCSS is impressive, but earlier roguelikes took player feedback (mostly on USENET), were developed by their players (why else bother?), and have had near-complete development turnovers.

(Also, Linley didn't release DCSS :-)

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20221207-082900.txt Who's Ihp'ix? Ihp'ix is our attempt at an archery god that doesn't gift ammo or stop it mulching or provide powers that look too much like Heroism/Finesse in a funny hat. We had the idea three years ago but then there wa...

Bravo for correctly sticking with Xom, which I did on HuCK.

https://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20221119-114142.txt My fourth merfolk, and technically a one-and-won although I don't know that MfGl is that different from MfFi. Another one of those "terrible MR all game" games. I found a Kiku altar on D:2. Didn't fancy that m...

I used Banish a lot on MfAK, mostly on inconvenient hydrae in Swamp, and like most hex-ish effects it's too late to train the skill after you find you want it (whereas, say, with a damaging spell or wand you can zap the monster more times and resolve to train up more spellpower/Evo later), so I was ...

https://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220923-020637.txt http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220928-191504.txt Another twofer, with a cheeky one-game streakbreaker inbetween, a GhCK who got rinsed by Harold on D:8. I don't have much to write about th...

Solution[/b]: nothing as easy as the other two and not Maybe on Orb pickup: "The dungeons secrets reveal themselves, you know the fastest way now" - and make hatches/TPs known after that. That's certainly on our list in Stoat Soup - as you say, Hypothetically Optimal Man should use every ...

I know Bloat's thing is silly, but that's a silly background.

tasonir wrote:It'd be interesting to try them again.

I guess we may get our 0.23 out for more general release some time this year. The damned plague very seriously threw a spanner in the works.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220717-193924.txt I'm kind of pleased with this since it was a win the first time I played a combo, but equally I escaped death by the narrowest of margins more than once. In particular having splatted a perfectly good HaFe on Dis:7, I we...

I'm glad to see I'm not quite the only person posting VPs on Tavern. :-)

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220612-220641.txt I've got two 15-rune wins, both punch ghouls, and joked for a while that some day I'll have to get a 15-rune win that's not a punch ghoul. It turns out some day is now; after rolling through Gehenna 6th and Tomb 7th, I d...

Sprucery wrote:You had 12 potions of mutation left. Why didn't you quaff some to get a nice set of good mutations?

Partly because I'm a halfling and partly because I forgot. Ahem.

Do shining eyes still have malmutate?

No, Polymorph, but I haven't fought a post-change shining eye yet.

Hmm, so in a 3-rune game you probably won't face any malmutators? How do potions of mutation work in Stoat Soup, are they the same as in DCSS? In almost any game; Mnoleg is unchanged, but neqoxecs get paralyse and cacodemons entropic weave. I think we basically agree with the Goons that malmutate i...

And now look what just happened to Nebukadnezar's CeAE : Entered Z:5, immediately was teleported, char died and 7:45 hours of game play were lost. So I'm no great fan of explore traps, but "lost" doesn't make a lot of sense to me here. I enjoy playing the game; if I die, the time I spent ...

What's the powerful magical force warping space?

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220409-015352.txt It's been a while - my last win was in January, and I've splatted a wide selection of characters since - but this HaBe got home; it's my first win where I've switched gods en route, other than very early game good god sw...

chromat wrote:Ah, ok thank you so it is known issue.

I didn't say that; I have no idea if this effect is one the developers are aware of.

So, i was playing an octopode transmuter and got a lucky early scroll of acquirement and picked mask of the dragon. After equipping the mask and first time i cast beastly appendage spell the mask melded! Now i read the spell and it says it melds things on affected appendage but as an octopode i got...

Grats on the 2 streak. Especially re some of what you said re Usk... I still haven't tried Usk in any playthroughs and need to give them a proper go. One thing about Usk is that (while this win was melee+slings) they're not oriented around melee in the way, say, WJC is. They don't care how you do t...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220123-003717.txt http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220130-151148.txt Another twofer - but it was a two-streak, they both did Tomb excessively early, and I don't have much to write about the VpVM. The VpVM was ...

The frequency of Pan levels with runes increased at some point after 0.18 - getting a bunch in a row is unusual, but they are more frequent than they were.

I'm pretty sure they're too good, but at least you don't have haste there. I think I might argue the other side of the question - how good they are has been pretty steadily eroded away since the first implementation. You save turns, of course, but it's hard to get Shroud back up in combat once it d...

For what it's worth, I've mostly got nagas home by spitting poison at everything.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20220103-212354.txt Oh, wait, no. That's a Merfolk Fighter who I got home with Qazlal, but didn't have much to write about; I got a demon trident off an Orc:2 room of bastards with demonspawn, so unusually (for Merfolk) went 1h+shield. I di...

On slingers I inscribe stones "@Q1" and bullets "@Q2 !t" then macro '1' and '2' to 'Q1' and 'Q2'; the scheme extends in an obvious way for throwing ammo.

Sprucery wrote:Mentioning GrSu brings back memories. The only character I've had killed during the Orb run, and on D:1 no less (Pan lord with Ice Storm).

My one Zot/orbrun splat is a TeAE who forgot to check for fire resistance before fighting an OOF. :-/

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211225-214847.txt What, a sludge elf in 0.23? We'd been talking about maybe putting them back, but then reproduced a vanilla bug that let you get removed species (whose stats are still in the game for savefile compatibility purposes) from...

Sprucery wrote:After splatting a SpBe with 6 runes in Pandemonium (Cerebov's level)

I've had a couple of high-hubris splats recently, most obviously a GrSu who cleared Tomb 4th but splatted to Asmodeus. Well done on playing it safe and getting this one home.

I think you could quite easily pick up the Spellcasting / experience levels to get Orb of Destruction without amnesia-ing anything. I am a big fan of IOOD; while it takes a while to arrive (and is no good in corridors) it does huge globs of damage and can't be evaded, and is hence very good against ...

I think you can increase your success rate for CL quickly by adding a few levels of Spellcasting, where you are still very low, and where adding levels is currently much cheaper than adding the spell schools. To be more precise, Spellcasting affects failure rate 1/4 as much as the average of the sp...

wizard44 wrote:Should I buy the amulet of magic regeneration from the jewellery shop? Or am I better off with my current amulet of regeneration?

I think if a Veh worshipper with two rings of MP+9 is considering needing more magic regeneration, something is badly wrong. :-)

Am I correct in thinking that the artefact amulet is useless? I have two artefact rings that give rPois, and my acid dragon scales cover rCorr. That leaves the amulet’s main function as a method to turn invisible, but the Contam attribute does not seem to make the amulet worth it. I would not use i...

This is perfectly fine, and completely different than the issue of conflicting demonspawn mutations, because there's no hard limit on skill experience gained, so if you're willing to put in the time and effort, you can eventually make up any disadvantage from atrophied skill experience. Well, yes a...

But, you and I are looking at this general issue completely differently. You're looking at it like, "Okay, it's not the best but it's still better than nothing, so I'm happy with it." And I'm looking at it like, "This is underperforming and I had to give up some other mutation line t...

I'm not sure I get most of these. Yes, claws and demonic touch don't go well with weapon+shield (and demonic touch should clearly work with a main-hand attack), but what's that got to do with mutations that give bonus SH? Bonus SH is good whether you use a shield or not. Unarmed fighting is perfectl...

I knew what doom hounds do, but they're still pretty horrible: http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/dame ... 125003.txt

"No worries, I'm immune to torment... oh"

Assuming I don't have some specific god in mind (eg when I was approaching polytheist I'd, obviously, hold out for a god I hadn't won), I ask myself - have I found a god that's good for me? Take it. Have I found a god that's viable for me? If so, how likely am I to die if I keep going in search of a...

Yes, but perhaps not one that made sense from the point of view of just winning the game; I like to play gods I haven't played for a while, and I haven't played Vehumet at all since winning a GrFE in April.

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211114-000648.txt This was a bit of an unusual game. I went Vehumet on D:3 without knowing any spells; I knew Veh would provide soon enough, and nagas' generally good (if boring) spellcasting aptitudes would mean I could use whatever I go...

http://crawl.montres.org.uk/morgue/damerell/morgue-damerell-20211022-230905.txt I'm still playing random combos, playing each one at least until I hit Lair and maybe then until I'm fed up. I managed to get killed in Tartarus on a MuEn, and then the RNG handed me MiIE. As we'll see, I went Chei which...

I think drain is tuned to be too weak now. Even heavy drain doesn't reduce max HP by very much (like, 5-10%, maybe?) and clears up quite quickly. The effect is so minor and so temporary that I've stopped paying attention to it entirely. I'm wondering if others feel the same way, and if so, I'd sugg...

After a 2 year break, I decided to start trying to win with a few combos I never finished. So I was running a Demigod Wander and doing ok. I was level 11 when I ran into a tough fight. There was a good bit of deep water in the immediate vicinity, but I thought I would be clever and quaff a potion o...

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