Search • The Tavern

OK thanks, will do

Hello, I am trying to win a vampire ice elementalist neither of which I have won before. And I'm also worshipping Sif Muna, who I have not won before and decided to try out with the rework. Here's my character dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.25-a0-561-g0977b4d (webtiles) character file. Ups...

Oh man, this felt really good seeing as I'd attempted this combo nearly 100 times before finally winning it. I'd actually taken a break from Crawl because I'd gotten so frustrated by trying to win this combo, but also was too stubborn to give up and try a different one. When I saw the tournament was...

I played and won a gnoll during the tournament, I thought it was kinda cool as a change-up from 'regular crawl' but it's not a species I think I'd revisit super frequently. Which is fine, I think it's fine for species that are described by the above to exist in crawl (this is also how I felt about W...

I kind of like the summon forest spell and would be a little sad to see it go, but I agree that if this rework were to happen it would probably need to go, and this does seem like a good rework.

If I'm not mistaken you can cast deflect missiles in the Robe, then switch armors, provided you're in a safe location. It's only really an problem if you want to recast mid-fight. Also DMsl isn't super important until vaults (and isn't all that important there imo)

This seems sensible

So I was going to try my first run at extended with this guy, but he felt kinda weak so I decided to abort and just take the three rune win. But I'm thinking I'll try another to do extended with and would like to know what to do differently. Obviously different runs will have different stuff spawn, ...

TSO no longer cares about poison in newer versions

So did you escape?

Sorry, not first win, first Draconian and first summoner (and first ash) win. But thanks, it still feels good to have this one checked off.

At long last (literally over one hundred tries, though for a lot of those I was pissed off and playing on tilt) I finally won one of these guys: Learned Shadow Creatures and Deflect Missiles at first, then eventually ended up investing heavily in spellcasting so I could add mana vipers, hydra and bl...

K, there is a book of unlife for sale somewhere so that's something I could consider.

Definitely memorise Shadow creatures + Mana Vipers + Aura of Abjuration + Blink + PoG

In that order? Because the whole point is that I don't have nearly enough spell levels to memorize all of those. Also. no deflect missiles?

Followed the advice here and learned Freezing Cloud and did all of Elf with it. Used up the last of my heal wounds unfortunately, and there wasn't a demon trident in hall of blades. But I did find a bunch of good spellbooks, including some summons. Shadow Creatures seems like the correct choice to m...

Ok freezing cloud is available, so I'll grab that. My overtraining in summoning seems like a good opportunity to make use of Transfer Knowledge (which I forgot about until now), no? Also, potentially a silly question, but a minimally enchanted demon trident is better than my current trident, yes? Or...

Hi All, I've been trying to win one of these guys for longer than I care to admit. Seems like I might finally be close with this guy having finished Vaults:1-4 and having found good gear. Problem is that I've been investing heavily in summoning on the assumption that I'd eventually find some good su...

No you can't haste with chei

I just won my first troll as well, as a hunter of nemelex. I got lucky with with getting Bai Suzhen in Nest4, but yeah the armour curve is definitely their trickiest part. Nemelex is good since I think his powers "peak" in usefullness around the lair branches/early vaults, which is where t...

Remove spells

Bolt of Fire and Orb of Destruction are very strong spells and are capable of winning the game with just those (Poison Arrow is quite good too). I'd train more defenses (fighting and dodging specifically) and turn off spellcasting. Ring mail is maybe a mistake with only 4 strength? The advice I got ...

Ah you meant dealing with the annoyance of people being blinked away, nevermind then.

Lugonu lets you unwield safely no?

I will weigh in that I like the changes, especially in Zot, and I think making the mid/late game harder is a good direction for the game to be going in.

So what I got is that anyone who is good at this game hates level 9 spells and shields for 3 rune games except some strange Dynast thing?, clan?, player?. Also when I hit a monster their health will go down by a number which has a concrete mathematical relationship, which I should probably figure o...

It's worth doing specifically for the royal jelly. I ignited the V:5 welcome party one time when I went downstairs on V:4 by accident. I figured since I wouldn't be coming back for a while (still hadn't done depths or elf) the noise wouldn't matter too much. OTR+Ignite Poison is a fun way to do the ...

I'm otherwise enjoying Beogh though and would not want to see him be removed from the game. I think the fact that 1) his allies are living not undead and 2) You convert the from the dungeon and level them up instead of having them gifted and then remain at one level is sufficient to distinguish him ...

I'm playing through my first Beogh game and was thinking about this thread since I'd read it while it was actively being discussed. There were some people calling for waterwalking to be removed because of it's reference to Jesus. When I read that I thought "I understand where that's coming from...

I lost a guy to this (granted there were other contributing factors) on Zot:5. Supposedly early floors of Zigs are a good place to find cure!mut (if you're playing 0.19) or regular mutation if not. Obviously if you have a -tele artifact that fits roughly with what you want to do that's a good option...

Got one finally: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1125-g174c675 (webtiles) character file. 1484457 UpsideDownChuck the Sorcerer (level 27, 137/170 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist on May 15, 2017. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on May 17, 2017! Th...

Died in depths, specifically to a spriggan air mage but really due to not luring enough and running out of magic without a clear line back to safety. Got kind of overconfident because Poison Arrow + Ignite Poison was destroying virtually everything I came across. But not when I didn't have mana. Als...

Update part dos, spent WAY too many consumables on the rest of the lair branches but didn't die and got those two runes: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1070-g0c522bc (webtiles) character file. UpsideDownChuck the Eclecticist (DEFE) Turns: 56334, Time: 03:00:46 Health: 112/112 AC: 12 Str: 9...

Popcorn stick of disto? That's a new one ;) Here's where I'm at after doing first three levels of swamp (which were about as easy as a lair branch has ever been. Burned one tele scroll when I ran into Kirke because I was already lowish on mana, but that was mostly a precaution): [list][/list] Dungeo...

This is the guy in question. I abandoned weapon training when I found an artifact flail with Int+6 and rC+. Decided I'd carry it around and pretend it was an enhanced staff. Not sure if that's a mistake or not but it feels like I never got much mileage out of my weapons when I did train them. Traine...

By the time the thing gets into melee range, it's already drained the bulk of my mana. I was actually trying to get into melee with it for that reason when I realized that, I wasn't super concerned about the other monsters at the time because with OTR+ignite poison they typically die in 3-4 turns, b...

Just to update everyone on my quest to win one of these, splatted another very promising dude who lucked out by finding an earlyish Young Poisoners Handbook and then having Veh gift Ignite Poison then Poison Arrow. Sadly I wildy underestimated the dangers of ghost moth to a character with no sInv. I...

Thanks everyone. That guy ended up dieing in snake to a naga sharpshooter. Tried another (well a few others) and got one to Depths:5 before splatting to a combination of fire dragon that snuck up on me and yaktaur captain. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1009-gc986637 (webtiles) character f...

I shouldn't have pushed on once I reached statzero, but I had already cleared the first four levels of vaults and I didn't know where else to go. Am I the only that grieves over lost characters? I feel like the more I play and the further I get, the worse this will be for me. I was also enjoying my...

Hi Everyone, This is the furthest I've ever gotten a mage. Have finished dungeon, lair and orc, about to do snake then swamp (probably switch back and forth as needed). Wanted to see if there's anything in general I should be doing differently and ask about training defenses/armour selection specifi...

Congrats on first win, it's a good feeling

I think cure!mut is removed in trunk? And mutation resistance has been gone save a few unrandarts for a while

Been playing on and off since 0.4 (I think, I looked it up to try and see and Ogre-Mages were definitely around when I started so I think that's right). Had made it to Zot twice, and the Orb chamber once (documented here) but never won. Feels good man. MiBe I'd been playing them with 2H axes and Bow...

Huh, interesting. Good to know.

Ok thanks yeah. I definitely could have quaffed might and/or berserked. I actually did try to read my blinking scroll I think but blurry vision messed it up. I also did a heal wounds but then immediately got hit for as much damage the next turn (seems to be what always happens with heal wounds in cr...

A few other reflections: Thanks for all the help everyone. I appreciate it even if I wasn't able to turn this into a win I'm surprisingly non-upset about losing this guy so close to the end. A few years ago I'd be super pissed/sad, now not so much I think I'm going to play around with other characte...

So it started when I picked up an unidentified potion. I didn't have an id scrolls but I thought to myself "oh when you are quaff iding potions on D1 you quaffed potion of cure mutation, and you've definitely ided potion of mutation and degeneracy. So this must be a potion of experience. Spoile...

Also in terms of evokables I have found some phials of floods, at least one fan of gales, disc of storms and phantasm mirror. Would those be more worthwhile then my other wands (and I know I need to drop another food item)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.5 (webtiles) character file. UpsideDownChuck the Slayer (Minotaur Berserker) Turns: 84825, Time: 05:44:44 Health: 250/250 AC: 42 Str: 42 XL: 25 Next: 97% Magic: 10/10 EV: 24 Int: 8 God: Trog [******] Gold: 5222 SH: 18 Dex: 17 Spells: 0 memorised, 24 levels left...

Ok thanks, I will do that when I get home. I'm curious why you recommend dropping the eveningstar over the demon whip? I was under the impression eveningstar's were better in general. I'd heard about training a mix of dodging and armour even when in heavy armour but somehow forgot about it for this ...

Trying to get my first win (3 rune). Really hoping this'll be the one, I got to Zot:1 once in an earlier version with a MeDK. That was a while ago but this guy feels subjectively stronger. I'm a Minotaur focused on Maces with branching out into Evocations and Slings. My thinking with Evocations was ...

Search found 55 matches