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I just started a new game, and immediately notice that it seems like the first floor vault in this game is broken. It starts off with all three doors up lined up next to each other at the top of a hallway, the hallway goes down, showing various monsters behind glass, with no branches to go out from....

I think it might be of a benefit to have the ability to cook. Due to the way chunks are handled, only Trolls and Kobolds can use chunks to exceed 'satiated' and often when playing by the time you are allowed to eat chunks you have almost no time left to get a monster to drop a corpse before you hit ...

Berserking near unexplored territory is a mistake. If you find something that you would prefer to kill while berserk, lure it towards a safe zone. Emergency teleports are attempts to recover from a mistake. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but the mistake was nevertheless made. You should never pick ...

Well see, when i say impractical/impossible to run; I mean situations more like: coming off the tail end of a berserk and a new group of orcs show up and I'm slowed so I can't run without everything getting free hits. alternatively just plain being slower than orcs. Emergency teleport landed me into...

when i say impossible or impractical to run, its not due to unpreparedness; its due to their unique attack type. if they are on the field they get a chance to smite, and no matter how fast a race I run (doing Kobold at the moment) I'm ALWAYS so slow everything gets to take a movie, then an attack ac...

smite: any defense against this thing at all? 90% of my troubles right now after getting a character strong is a few priests standing in the back of a fight where I can't reach them and its impossible or highly impractical to run, but fighting causes me to get most turns at least 1 smiting for a goo...

I'm wondering; do I get any exp when a tear in reality consumes someone I hit with my daggar of distortion? A character ended up equipping one early on and while it is useful, and it is dangerous to unequip, i grow concerned that i may be missing out on exp. I want to know if its worth the risk to t...

You didn't mention your build but if you had a few levels in stealth they might not have all seen you. Also it is a game based on chance you could be extremely unlucky. For example you could theoretically get hit by every hostile attack even with 50 evasion or only shave 1 damage a hit with 50 AC. ...

Hey man, listen, don't let it get you down. I've lost many characters with insanely nice gear... A nice example would be my most recent DSMo. Had a +2 +7 ring of slaying in the early dungeon, another randart ring with +4acc +3 dmg and some other stuff and a robe with +4 dmg. He was hitting very har...

I hear quite often how all deaths are avoidable if you 'know what you are doing' which makes things like this extraordinarily jarring; as though some people forget after getting 'good' that there were a lot of unavoidable deaths. For example, just now. My crime was opening a door on the 7th dungeon ...

Trolls aren't much of a problem since they quickly get over 20 STR This may be part of the problem. You seem to think that strength has a large impact on damage output - it doesn't. 20 strength gives about 12% more melee damage than 1 strength...barely noticeable. In practice, when I run a troll he...

Trolls aren't much of a problem since they quickly get over 20 STR and some fast attacking, but I hate how quickly they hunger. I've tried a few other races but by about the 4th or 5th floor of the dungeon I get into a sort of rolling problem; I start running into strong monsters that I just can't d...

Thanks, I'll try searching for the book when I get on that character next time. Fairly sure i haven't been gifted though as I've been waiting impatiently since getting that religion for a book drop XD

Been a while since posting here, anyways, I made a summoner, and got lucky with a couple early artifact items, as well as a ring of sustenance and even a staff of energy so my spells don't cost food. All seems to be good, except one major problem.. I'm 11 floors down, xp level of 12, with Lair and O...

I don't think I had gotten any mutations; when I was a kobold berserker it would berserk while attacking sometimes without using the skill so I figured that was a kobold thing. Anyways, I was wielding a staff of summoning, which isn't bladed so I couldn't butcher while berserked. Hadn't run across t...

I randomly rolled a Kobold Summoner; figuring that with the kobold's ability to eat any time would help pay for the food cost of expensive summoning spells. I've cleared lair and orc; and reached 13th floor, but over the last couple floors I've been forced to use ALL of my permafood. Maybe it's due ...

JeffQyzt wrote:
varkarrus wrote:IDEA: Scroll of Unconfuse.
Unconfuses you and your allies, and this includes butterflies.

Ponders reading scroll of unconfuse while confused...

I figure it has written on it something so amazingly blatantly obvious that it's impossible to be confused afterward.

I've heard comments about how terrible Orc Mages are; but they are -nothing- compared to the priests. They don't tend to give me trouble when playing a berserker as I prioritize their deaths when I berserk. When playing a magical class though, I can't seem to deal with them. If they can see me; in o...

I have occasionally run across instances where something completely unexpected or weird might help me make an escape from a powerful unique or nasty situation. I'm assuming that the most unusual probably go away as you get more experienced and know what useful things to save to make escapes. I'll st...

Just found a vampiric dagger; that seems to do pretty well for survivability, since my attacks while berserk do a good bit of damage.

I am picking up every single dagger I find; When I said 'pray to trog' I was being ironic. Do 'regular' unidentified daggers have a chance of being venom, or only glowing/runed ones?

Well, I seem to have terrible corpse drop luck. I'd say maybe 1 in 10-15 monsters I kill (that can drop a corpse) actually manages to drop a corpse. I figure it's just a terrible quirk of luck on my part but I have issues keeping my hunger at 'full' most of the time. So, especially when I'm on one ...

FlyingPants wrote:Apparently you can berserk when you are hungry now, has it always been that way or is this a recent change?

might be recent, I seem to remember not being able to when hungry (and I only started playing a tiny bit ago) but now it will let me until I hit very hungry.

Is there a reason you don't want to berserk? Kobolds are approximately the best race in the game to berserk, since they have a 6,000-nutrition pad over most other races before they get too hungry to berserk. You'll want a venom-branded short blade over all other probable weapons, but whatever crap ...

The strategy guide on the wiki seems to be quite bold in assuming you can find a venom short blade early on and can actually gain exp by poisoning then running from powerful enemies. I've so far today played at least 8 Kobold Berserkers, 5 of which reached around floor 8-9 and have only once found a...

minmay wrote:Worms are very slow. You could have just walked away.

Had I known before hand that it could hit hard enough to one shot me while berserked, I would have. I think the game hates me as a Kobold though, tried 3 more times, and each time it seems almost like all monsters are appearing 3-5 floors early.

Try a kobold, they have even fewer hunger problems than trolls, and are excellent berserkers. Well this is COMPLETELY random incident of (slight) OOD interference, but I took your advice and survived exactly 4 turns. My Kobold berserker took a step to the left, opened the door, wherein lay a worm d...

Yeah, but I always seem to end up on the constant verge of starving when I'm not a troll (berserker anyway); since I can't eat unless I'm hungry and as soon as I get hungry nothing ever drops a corpse. (And any attempt to pre-chop anything ends up with it rotting shortly before getting hungry)

Were you on Orc 4 when you died? One of the endings is like 40 ogres + a couple mages No, I cleared out Orc 4 and went back up to the main dungeon as I figured that I probably wouldn't be strong enough to visit the elves yet, that being a complete guess erring on the side of caution. The ending of ...

I've managed to get deeper than usual on this character, and I was wondering if you guys think it has potential to survive. Main thing I'm really liking is the luck in getting 2 rings of sustenance; making my character hunger far less than normal for a troll, so I can sacrifice to Trogg a lot more. ...

So, I'm walking along, not sure what floor I was on, when I came upon what appeared to be a moat almost and a castle in the middle. I killed the tons of Jacals along the outside and the couple Gnolls, and that being done I decided to open the only door. It was a doublewide door, and when I open it, ...

I have learned that the ghosts of my lost characters are like my old characters on steroids. I don't think I would ever have pulled off spam summoning 10 ice beasts in a row while playing o.o;

Signs that my character is now noticeably more powerful than any of my previous characters: Steamrolling Azrael and Saint Roka in quick succession. Signs that I shouldn't get carried away: Getting fought to a standstill by Snorg and a few elves and having to scarper :oops: Yeah, I just got mauled b...

Misfortune is walking around a corner and seeing a small army of orcs while you are still too low level to beat them. You could not possibly have known all those orcs were there until you ran right into them. Yeah, but because you walked around a corner to see them (which is the right way to travel...

I ended up drinking a potion of mutation while trying to figure out what all my potions do, and wound up getting one level of talons, frail, and weak ><; The second two are quite obviously bad for me. I was wondering if I get an extra attack on top of my existing claws, or if unarmed combat only get...

Glad to hear I managed to at least make a good run of the death. XD

So hey, the webcomic QC went and gave us a mention, and linked the wiki. I'd have enjoyed it more if it didn't depict someone being mean to a new player, because as a community we are so all about helping new players. And the hating on tiles and berserkers was just uncalled for. That Dale guy would...

Ahh, ok. Thanks

- Do you get emotionally attached to particularly promising characters? I tend to get about as attached to a character as the time spent developing them. The longer I play a character the more frustrating it gets to lose them. - Roughly how many games of Crawl have you played? About how many of thos...

Playing a summoner on version 8, I notice that summoned creatures are almost entirely ineffectual. most of the time, they will refuse to actually attack the enemy until they have been hit first, or I have been hit since summoning. This makes distracting a monster with a summon while escaping rather ...

Created a new character, a summoner, and died to the very first creature. I summoned a few rats, and walked into a hallway with them, only to have a kobold that apparently picked up a wand or something shoot lightning down the hall, kill all my rats, and knock my health halfway down, I tried to get ...

Yeah, I do find it odd that most of the time, especially if I'm hungry, stabbing a monster results in it's body completely disintegrating into thin air. XD

I started with Trogg; I opened a door in the dungeon, and it had an alter of TOS, and an angel in it, and the angel attacked me, after saying a line about being greedy for power or something, I can't remember the exact line. That was the same fight that I had to flee from with the teleport wand in t...

I was severely injured as I used berserk to fight and the monster I fought was too strong even with berserk on, and had to use a teleport wand to escape the battle as soon as my berserk wore off, and managed to be teleported to an empty room I had already explored. My character, from berserking and ...

I can't wear armor; playing a troll. You can't wear an inflexible armor, you mean. Don't forget that some of the dragon armors give very nice AC. (You can get them normally or by using Enchant Armour on a hide; you can get a hide by butchering the appropriate kind of dragon corpse.) Of course with ...

Yeah, I am also having Hydra issues; 8 headed one just inside the lair, barely escaped it and ended up with it following me into the main floor. teleported with a wand and found a stair down, fell down a shaft on that floor, tried to climb up only to find a 6 headed one right near the stairs and had...

Are there scrolls which reveal invisible? I don't think so... I suppose you could try reading scrolls of immolation. Or go into a corridor and shoot wands at it until it dies. It doesn't hit THAT hard, put some platemail on. I can't wear armor; playing a troll. @Tiber: I do have a scroll of fog; di...

On one of my characters, A berserker, I ran into a very problematic enemy. It's invisible. not by a spell that it cast, while in my sight anyway, and it is very powerful, knocking about a fifth of my health down per hit, and is fast enough to chase-hit when I attempt to flee. I managed to get to som...

Prince Ribbit doesn't appear before D:4, though even on D:4 he is in my opinion the deadliest unique in the game. As many as five uniques can be on D:2. Ijyb, Jessica, Sigmund, Terence, and Crazy Yiuf. I don't remember going down more than one flight of stairs in that run; I know it was Prince Ribb...

Ooooh, that opens up a lot of possibilities actually. There are a few races that seem like they would be good with a certain class that was grayed out. Got another horrible luck death; this one is terrible spawns. 2nd floor, there were 6 named enemies. Including this one 'Prince Ribbit' that hit for...

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