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Been playing Skyrim, loving it, but jeez, what a time hole. It sort of makes grinding fun-- smithing gets you good gear quickly, for instance-- but still. I'd say the biggest thing mainstream RPG developers could learn in the anti-grind department is simple: merchants shouldn't buy. Skyrim drops a l...

I hesitate to mention these dungeon crawls as they may be obvious, but Dungeons of Dredmor http://www.dungeonsofdredmor.com/ and Torchlight http://www.torchlightgame.com/.

By coincidence I watched part of your video today. Someone mentioned speed run videos on another board, so I looked for Crawl runs. I enjoyed what I watched of it-- I've never really tried SpEns. I'll finish it later.

He's dead now, isn't he.

Still pleased with that sonnet, almost as much as I'm pleased with that topper for the ever-wordy mageykun. I saw a nice Russian rhyme a while back, maybe that could be added?

I can't remember ever getting GDA early. I think I recall finding artifact Crystal Plate early on once. It killed me via stat death when I put it on.

My best D1 finds lately were a ring of magical power and a sling of flame.

You have heaps of food for the labyrinth, I'd be surprised if you got through the meat rations, let alone the bread.

Mephetic Cloud + Throw Icicle should work on the minotaur. I killed a character once by being so excited to get to the end that I took him too lightly.

I'm impressed that you've managed wins so close together. If I recall, you posted that you only picked the game up a few months ago, right? I haven't won since before DCSS came along. I never even considered taking longer than 6 hours to win as a sign of suckitude. Never heard of a farming tag befor...

There's also Evaporate, Portal Projectile, invisibility potions...

Seems to me that Orc branch got tougher recently, particularly Orc 4.

Is this some kind of stealth brag?

Fiend Folio?

I can find a lower denominator than that:

Punk and a quick blade,
Two bits.

Ode to a Deep Dwarf Necromancer I recall you, whip in hand and casting Pain And Dispelling the ghost of a Draconian Monk, Or wading through green waters beyond a drain Leach'd the life of rats when the last Healing's drunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy unhappy lot, Too bold did you strange dungeons ...

Quite sure that deep dwarves can't use the regeneration spell. Spoiler wiki says that the health you drain with vampiric draining is based on spell power, which is based on (in this case) necromancy skill, plus any boosters.

My cousin Olaf made this one up:

I will hit you with this log,
Berserker!
Do you want to worship Trog,
Berserker!

KoboldLord's strategy summary should go on the spoiler wiki, if he doesn't mind.

I had the same situation. I tried reading unidentified scrolls next to it in hopes of blinking in (and using the escape hatch to get out) but didn't find one prior to the temple.

Summon Small Mammals is useful for escapes, I've often seen it on people's spell lists even though they have no other summoning spells.

Silence and Deflect Missiles are pretty major. You could use Sure Blade to train Enchantments so that Flight is reliable and attempt to train Air as well.

Marvin already answered this, and I'll just add that the messages for both bazaars and labyrinths will trigger -More- prompts in 0.8 by default.

I noticed this tonight. It's great, thanks for adding it.

I like the idea of a merchant god but would like one that wouldn't require lots of sacrifices-- possibly only accepts artefacts? Also likes the collection and the spending of gold, grants discounts at shops as a passive ability, allows player to sense shops & bazaars. Combine merchant with craft...

To weaken the ability, make it kick in at CharLev 5 (or higher). Berserk loses its shine as the game goes on. To reflect the player ability, add Ogre berserkers as a new monster type-- possibly equipped with helmets, spiked flails, and shields... or butt naked. Add Rage to the Ogre Mage spells. Remo...

YAOS = Yet Another Ogre Suggestion Somebody suggested the ability to toss dwarves; which for some reason made me think that Ogres could have the species ability to go berserk. If they do so via spell or god ability, the state lasts longer and the recovery period is shorter. I know, I know, Ogres are...

Out of the three caster gods, I usually pick Kiku or Vehumet over Sif, and if the first two aren't available I'll consider Chei or Makhleb. I'm annoyed when I feel I'm stuck with Sif. Largely this is because I prefer hybrids, and piety for kills goes up faster than piety for spell school training. I...

That's awesome, Minmay. Is it OK if I just express that I had some trouble with it?

I'd say yes, turn it off, and stabbing as well. You need to get some spells skills going so evaporate will be reliable. Distillation and evap will be key. Curious why you'd pick a stalker over a transmuter, though. The book of changes has blade hands and stalkers will train transmutation a lot anywa...

Trog gave me the following with my first winning character, a long time ago. a - the +2,+8 executioner's axe "Pukux Lot" (weapon) It allows its wielder to attack twice when they would otherwise have struck only once. It protects you from fire. It protects you from cold. It protects you fro...

I'd much rather use a demon whip of speed than a quick blade of electrocution or pain. Most of the really dangerous stuff is immune to both of the latter's brand effects, and quick blades aren't very good against stuff with high AC if you don't have slaying. In the case that you can't get speed wha...

IME, yes, deflect missiles is much better than repel, and I aim for it with casters, although it might be too late with this character.

for us less-skilled players. My XL 10 MDFi with rPois just got taken to pieces. With no true choke points and the sudden appearance of a mass swarm of bees at the foot of a stairs, he had little choice but to burn all consumables and desperation-teleport until death. Three bees attacking a melee ch...

While I take issue with your contention that trolls don't butcher all that much for their own use, hey, it's true that you can pick-- some-- the corpses to sacrifice. I tried Kiku with a TrHu, on your advice. It died, unfortunately, but for non-religious reasons. An orc knight gutted him with a bolt...

I tried a troll healer today. It wasn't pretty.

I don't see the point of demonspawn anything in the main game. Even with the best mutations it doesn't seem worth the bad aptitudes, and most importantly the fact that smiting or that holy stuff does so much more damage to you. Then again, i've never been able to actually make a magic user yet. Eve...

I reckon this is a great newbie build, at least for getting through to see the early branches. I was surprised how quickly I cleared dungeon levels. I know troll berserker is recommended on the wiki but hunter goes a lot faster as you don't have to wait around to recover from slowness. Huge rocks wi...

Maybe only offer the bonuses if all used slots have Ponderous gear: a character with only a robe on and sufficient piety would get the offer to add another degree of slowness and receive the ++ bonus, but adding a non-ponderous cloak (or a cloak and boots) means only getting the bonus for a single s...

I like using throwing with Minotaurs and Sludge Elves in particular. Nets are good both for escapes and to get in a few free hits on troublesome monsters like mambas and hydras. A common tactic is throwing or slinging stones at jellies and some skill makes it quicker. SEs will train throwing anyway ...

I got into roguelikes via ADOM. I'd played at least two other ones, but only a bit. ADOM was the first one I really got into. Never won it, though. Shame that Biskup didn't pass it into open source, IMO. It looks like he's updated it? It's too much of a grind, though, it really rewards tedious thing...

First of all, demigods are in no need of a buff whatsoever. They are a similar situation to centaurs: they may sound like one of the weaker species, but they are actually very good. Understood, but I expect that there will be a change to demigods, possibly some sort of buff. From my point of view, ...

Haven't tried it in a long time but bolt of draining used to work pretty well with undead minions. You could fire through them.

I read the dev wiki discussion about demigods and have an idea I'd like to run past people, in short the main proposal goes something like: Demigods are both dull without a god and a bit of a challenge, despite the boosted stats. To remedy this, as the player gains in power they gain in notoriety (&...

My favorite classic builds are: MiBe of Trog using axes, armour, and unarmed so that when I had to I could kill hydras barehanded. My first win was with one of these, back before there was a Stone Soup. SETr of Makhleb, which I remember winning with once, but I couldn't even estimate how many of the...

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