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Is it possible to have this branch on servers other than CBRO and CPO, like CXC? Because the lag is pretty unbearable.

Welp, just did a decent Chei Troll run, it had such good RNG(statue,wizardry,dragon scales,1 billion blink and tele scrolls) but died because I quaff ID'ed berserk in depths instead of just using my numerous tele scrolls to get away. I think I'll need to do something non-chei for a bit, because that...

Alright, guess I'll do a couple VS or Tr runs, the biggest problem so far with DUPZ has been low MR but I guess I'll skip Mnoleg's realm this time so I don't get chain-confused by golden eyes and go beat on cerebov or something.

If the only restriction is that you have to do dungeon>depths>pan, I'd suggest trying a statue/unarmed build, to resist torment. You're going to be under leveled and can use all the buffs you can get. Getting it going will be tough but you should have enough experience if you fully clear depths, an...

I find it strange that you're wearing leather armour..with 0 spells memorised.. as an ashenzari worshipper at XL 23. Riposte isn't worth wearing crappy armour especially on a low HP race like tengu.

Tbh, Gozag isn't much help with tarantellas because potion petition doesn't work while confused. So the only way you're really surviving a tarantella encounter at a decent amount of health is if it's 1v1 and being tanky as fuck.

You could really just go as anyone and then abandon Xom for an actually decent god, unless you want to play as Xom all game and not just have the CK title?

Dioneo wrote:
Vajrapani wrote:Ah, babby's first existential crisis.

Where in my post do you find this "crisis"?

The long-winded run-on sentences that read like they got copy-pasted from some depressing Cioran text.

Posting in the tavern is a more or less repetitive action ;) Other Taverns posters are (at least in theory) capable of providing some sort of intellectually stimulating exchange or even, dare I say it, maybe even a sense of shared humanity and understanding, while computer games rarely engage beyon...

By 'compact, I mean characters who's skills are concentrated heavily in a few areas, like Skills: + Level 26.1 Fighting - Level 17.9(18.0) Axes Level 4.0(12.7) Maces & Flails Level 2.1 Bows + Level 22.5 Armour + Level 21.4 Dodging O Level 27 Shields - Level 1.3 Spellcasting Level 1.0 Transmutati...

On something with a less-than-stellar invocations aptitude, I just get around 4 invo pre-lair for lesser demon summoning and then never bother with makhleb's active abiltiies again. I don't think the destructions are worth anything at all besides convenience, like if you want to hit an orb spider an...

It seems like most posts here are about removing certain features,races or spells or shortening the content in the game, presumably so they can finish the game faster... and do something actually exciting? Are all these attempts at reducing 'tedium' simply because crawl is, at it's core, not a fun g...

I didn't really care too much about rPois until recently, where I lost a promising ogre to a sea snake, in shoals, because he didn't wear rPois and got screwed enough by the RNG that he only had like 3-4 curings generate in the entire game, which he had used up by that point. So he died to poison. I...

Edited OP, since my new run is basically the same , except with Chei instead of Trog, and it still is trying to accomplish the same conduct run.

To properly leverage a demigod's big stats, you'll most likely want to play a mage, a conjurer most likely. They're fairly easy to play, train conjurations until you can memorise searing ray(at XL2) then train conjurations/spellcasting 50/50 until you can memorise battlesphere. Then do Conjurations/...

Are there certain rules like 'If you don't make it to to X in Y turns, ctrl+q' What do you mean by speedrunning? Do you want to get 15 runes in 18k turns? Or 30? Or 50? These are quite different goals. I just want to start off with a 3-rune in about 20-30k turns, I'll try DD,for melee, as tabstorm ...

Normal runs with strong combos are boring o-tab fests and weak combos are just complete dicks to play, so I've started to be interested in unconventional runs. Like speedrunning. Are there certain rules like 'If you don't make it to to X in Y turns, ctrl+q' and are the species that feasibly speedrun...

Welp, I splatted in Pan after facing Trog wrath + tormenters with 0 tele or blink scrolls. Everytime, I switch gods the wrath always fucks me over at the wrong exact time. Same thing happened with a similiar character that went Oka -> TSO.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.3 (webtiles) character file. Vajrapani the Severer (Minotaur Fighter) Turns: 23530, Time: 01:06:18 Health: 188/188 AC: 32 Str: 53 XL: 18 Next: 60% Magic: 8/8 EV: 22 Int: 25 God: Cheibriados [******] Gold: 356 SH: 38 Dex: 30 Spells: 0 memorised, 17 levels left r...

always hitting things with giant clubs is so exciting It's an ascii/tiles based game and either way you're still bumping against things until they die or you die, it literally does not fucking matter if your beatstick of choice is called a 'giant club' or 'spear' or 'dagger'. Man, playing an ogre w...

"No set"? You're saying even... Str +4, Int +4, Dex +4, HP +30%, MP + 30%, AC +7 rF+++, rC+++, rElec, rPois, rCorr, MR +90 Clarity, SInv, Passive Mapping Movement Delay -4, Stealth +120, at-will Blink Carnivore, Regen+++ ... wouldn't be good enough in your opinion? Because I've tried that...

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I'm curious as to why you think this. I haven't got a ton of experience with hunter, but are bows that much worse than crossbows for formicids?

The problem is that sacrificing your god slot in favour of stacking mutations is little better than playing godless, because no set of mutations will ever offer the same amount of power as Oka,Trog,Ash,Makh,Chei etc.

Centaur Fighter^Oka, on the first try. Being a fast AND bulky species is really strong and makes you not be punished for your mistakes as much. The vampiric battleaxe gift from Oka in lair also helped

I want to win with all species, and I've currently won 10, I've got Unwon species for Vajrapani: Barachian, Deep Elf, Demigod, Felid, Formicid, Gargoyle, Halfling, Human, Kobold, Merfolk, Naga, Octopode, Ogre, Spriggan, Tengu, Vampire these species left to win, and some particular species, like Kobo...

I'd rather just make the AC and encumbrance equal to swamp dragon armour and allow it to be enchanted to +7 while giving MR++

I'd be interested in playing this, it seems a quite a bit better than barachian anyway.

Unless it's some explicit challenge race like Mummy,Felid or Octopode, I don't understand why Ba is slow. The hop is nowhere near strong enough that they need a limiter, and it's an especially bad limiter considering it makes speed 10 melee-only monsters an actual threat rather than just dungeon dec...

Essential: [list] [*] Animate Skeleton (Necr 1): Early on it's a superb buff, after Statue Form it's still quite nice but not more than that. I never really got why people like this spell so much, it creates very shitty allies for a small amount of time. Even when I've got like 5-6 skeletons with m...

The species just seem so...inoffensive. The aptitudes are fairly flat across the board, and they're limited by being slow just because they have something that's about as reliable as uncontrolled blink. Damn, so amazing 10/10 race.

If you xv a monster it should tell if they are either affected by silence and/or antimagic,which you would probably check if the monster is that much of a threat that you're considering silence instead of another option,so it's not really that spoilery but I 100% agree that silence is too strong on ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1-1-g22dce08 (webtiles) character file. 10426259 Vajrapani the Conqueror (level 27, 249/249 HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Fighter on Dec 27, 2016. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Dec 29, 2016! The game lasted 13:38:07 (161037 ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1-1-g22dce08 (webtiles) character file. Vajrapani the Slayer (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 122365, Time: 09:21:24 Health: 217/217 AC: 43 Str: 22 XL: 27 Magic: 39/39 EV: 24 Int: 3 (6) God: Makhleb [******] Gold: 2474 SH: 29 Dex: 22 Spells: 7 memorised, 29 levels l...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1-1-g22dce08 (webtiles) character file. Vajrapani the Slayer (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 106720, Time: 07:29:01 HP: 173/213 (214) AC: 44 Str: 20 XL: 27 MP: 35/46 EV: 22 Int: 8 God: Makhleb [******] Gold: 3756 SH: 27 Dex: 22 Spells: 6 memorised, 31 levels left r...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1 (webtiles) character file. Vajrapani the Slayer (Demonspawn Fighter) Turns: 86932, Time: 05:42:31 Health: 233/233 AC: 43 Str: 20 XL: 27 Magic: 37/37 EV: 21 Int: 16 God: Makhleb [******] Gold: 1393 SH: 25 Dex: 22 Spells: 3 memorised, 32 levels left rFire + + ....

I always play rap like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRMABsht-o whenever I play Makhleb, he just feels like a stone cold gangster.

I always see posts about strong Kiku is and the playstyle seemed fun, so I've wanted to win with him. The problem is I have no real idea how to play him. The corpse drop + animate dead is strong but your defense is likely to be weak(since you're wearing ring mail at best) and your offense isn't like...

Is there an ETA on when this god comes into trunk?

Quick question, did you add "The Saviour" to the inscription manually, or did it come it that? If the latter, what does it mean? I inscribed it 'The Saviour', mostly because it made my run alot less tedious. I was nearly dying against popcorn with short blades and once I got swinging at m...

The right definition is that VS aux bite is so strong that it makes a viable choice even short blade in late game as primary form of offence. This doesn't mean you can use a +0 dagger and hope to be fine, or that any other slower weapon isn't good. Anyway from my various experience a well enchanted...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1 (webtiles) character file. 1675081 Vajrapani the Slayer (level 27, 161/161 HPs) Began as a Vine Stalker Fighter on Dec 21, 2016. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 06:45:03 (75427 turns). Vajrapani the Slayer (V...

I wouldn't really start to develop a proper ranged attack until you shore up your fighting,armour and dodging. Once you feel like these are becoming too expensive is when I would focus on getting a ranged option because otherwise you're spreading yourself too thin, especially since you're not using ...

If you're with Oka, you can just cast hero, which gives you +5 throwing in addition to other stuff, and throw rocks/javelins at it, which is fairly effective. if it's in melee range, it's a speed 10 monster so it can't really hurt you when you're running away, so just run around a pillar until it la...

[*] Theosophist : The first 3 piety points in any invocation cost are converted to MP (So a skill costing 2 MP and 6 piety would cost 5 MP and 3 piety instead). Non-piety costs such as MP, draining or gold are reduced by 30%. Is that really going to make the ability like as spammable as you want? G...

Siegurt wrote:OTOH, new ogres do make for really good transmuters.

Isn't it a worse version of TrTm, or is -1 transmutations and -1 earth magic(for statue,I assume) that good?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1 (webtiles) character file. 1630327 Vajrapani the Slayer (level 27, 262/262 HPs) Began as a Purple Draconian Monk on Dec 18, 2016. Was the Champion of Cheibriados. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 05:37:50 (81321 turns). Vajrapani the Slay...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1 (webtiles) character file. 469906 Vajrapani the Warrior (level 23, -9/215 HPs) Began as a Grey Draconian Transmuter on Dec 16, 2016. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Killed from afar by a tengu reaver (42 damage) ... with a bolt of lightning ... on level 5 of t...

Why Ash for DrTm? It does not support Unarmed Combat, which is the most crucial. I was originally going to pick Okawaru, but his altar wasn't in the temple, so I decided to just go with Ash, and try it out for the first time. I didn't really expect this run to go very far. The skill boost was helpf...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.1 (webtiles) character file. Vajrapani the Brawler (Grey Draconian Transmuter) Turns: 47469, Time: 03:19:05 Health: 169/169 AC: 32 Str: 19 XL: 18 Next: 39% Magic: 33/33 EV: 21 Int: 16 God: Ashenzari [******] Gold: 1984 SH: 0 Dex: 11 Spells: 6 memorised, 10 leve...

I would choose a weapon other than UC at game start. Monks don't get transmutations books, so planning for them is like planning to get a triple sword of speed: it might work out, but you'd be better off working with what you actually have. I don't recall what I did with my DrMo, but what I would d...

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