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eh, either way I wouldn't do swamp or snake with out poison resistance, and I wouldn't do shoals without an on demand source of levitation, usually the spell or flight. You can usually have at least one of those by the time you're done with lair.

I can report that I've lost potions in ice form, but really doesn't happen often enough to not use it.

I'm not exactly sure, but I do think multiple sources of conservation do stack. At that point in the game I'd actually say that while pots are useful, they're not near as important as early in the game. For healing, you're much better off with a wand of healing. If you don't have one, then now's the...

Can you really skip 6 floors in a single shaft? I think the biggest fall I've ever had was just 3.

I think it's possible to have some sort of soft keyboard on screen, though a real keyboard is always preferable. I don't have an ipad, though if I was on a long trip and I could play crawl that'd be cool, but then at that point why wouldn't I just use a laptop?

Ah well, it helps to know I'm not alone in making silly mistakes.

Yeah, thats my biggest dislike too. All Gods should have viable endgame-options. But it's especially noticeable on those gods, that rely on corpses. I dunno, are gods designed so that they should be equally useful throughout the game. I haven't used most of them, but if you look at the standard Oka...

I found a pearl dragon armor on D:2. Thought it'd have to be a mimic. It wasn't! Tried to put it on, was dead from a snake by the time I was finished putting it on. Lesson learned? Don't put on large armor in an unexplored dungeon when you're level 2.

Never mind! YASD, I just feel dumb here. There were no monsters around! I just escaped from the first level of shoals and a merfolk came up with me, I killed him with 21 hp left. I wanted to check what my AC/EV was in ice form. Ice form is z+h, refrigeration is z+g. I killed myself with refrigeratio...

Sure, if you know people who play crawl and enjoy this sort of thing that sounds fun. There might be a severe case of back seat driving though. The problem is that as you can see from the slow forum, this is kind of a niche game. Those who understand it and enjoy it really do like to play it, but ev...

This is the farthest I've gotten with a deep elf. I think having low hp is helping me to be more cautious, I'm much more careful and think about each move ahead of time. I've also learned to be more liberal with my consumables, especially with heal pots. My main concern right now is balancing offens...

I'd mostly just raise strength so you won't go crazy always getting burdened. If you're good at managing your inventory and don't mind going back to your stash often, then you surely leave your strength at 5 or 6, though having it a tad higher makes the gameplay less frustrating. High elves are glas...

I'd feel better with a distortion weapon just to fight boredom. I went through pan once and fought all four pan lords, got all five runes, and never found an exit, abyss basnishment here we go. You're plenty strong to fight the hall of blades, there'e a chance you can pick one up there. Leather armo...

Well it's kind of a question of what you want to do. Vehumet kind of pigeon-holes you into nuking/conjurations though, if you wanted crusadin' you'd probably be better off with okawaru, or maybe sif muna as a middle ground. I'm not really experienced with this, but I kind of feel like you're spreadi...

At first glance I'd say your long swords skill is too high. Others can explain this better, but you really don't need it any higher after you get min weapon delay. I'd say you switch to TSO when you 1. don't need his gifts any more 2. don't need his skills (heroism, finesse) anymore 3. want to do cr...

I'm trying to play a caster, but their low hp from not training fighting high is quite troublesome. So I figured I'd try a deep elf crusader. Is that a doomed combination? The idea would be to melee through the early game so that when I start doing nukes more regularly I'll have trained fighting up,...

I find air elementalist to be pretty general and similar to wizards. Low nuking power, but many utility spells. It really lends itself to hybrid play though, as shock and static discharge often aren't enough to kill everything until you get stronger spells. Even if you don't focus on air, there are ...

ack, killed by mennas, that guy is crazy strong and near impossible to escape from. That's cool about the steam breath though, it seems that if you can't see the monsters they can't see you, so that would help.

cool, do you ever call him Dr. Wizard?

honestly I haven't used them, but it I see a free resistance as a nice perk for draconians, the red draconians get free fire resistance, pale doesn't get anything, except maybe steam resistance? I've been using a lot of point-blank fireballs, so the free resistance has been useful. Pale does have a ...

I'd been doing draconian wizards for a while, but this has worked out well for me so far, it's more focused and I can play more carefully when I have less safety net spells. I honestly just got lucky with the red draconian and level 7. I started out thinking, as long as it's not ice I'm ok, but real...

I'm trying to play a conjuration based caster, but I'm finding that my biggest issue is how easy it is most of the time, but also how quickly good fortune can turn around if you're not careful. I feel like most of the game I go on auto-pilot, just keep nuking and nuking till they're dead and move on...

What are good venom mage tips and guidelines? I'd to try one, but I've found in the past that they're powerful against non-resistant enemies, but can't really do anything against resistant enemies. Early game this is pretty much undead/phantoms/imps. Early undead isn't too much of an issue I suppose...

This is true, I've thought that if moster ai acted intelligently with their spells then the game would be significantly harder. What do you mean by foobar? Thanks for the advice, I'll give naga wizard of vehumet a go.

hmm, I'm seeing that necromutation is actually a pretty big investment for a character. Not only do I have to figure out how to get the spell, but I'm sure the skill investment into schools I may not need is pretty costly. Can I ask what are the best ways to manage torment? I'd imagine level 3 life ...

I considered vehumet, he(she?) has a lot of great bonuses and great book gifts. The sif reasoning is that in the later part of the game the most dangerous thing you'll run into is torment, so I'm wanting to have some sort of plan for torment immunity. Randomly finding the necromonicon on the floor o...

I'm looking to play a naga caster. My original thought was wizard, but after I died due to not being able to run away from iron devil from a mahkleb alter, I noticed that transmuter begins with spider form. I haven't tried the naga transmuter yet, but I would think that early access to spider form w...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. 7423328 Anelle the Conqueror (level 27, 250/250 HPs) Began as a High Elf Warper on May 28, 2011. Was the Champion of The Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes (of 15 types) on June 3, 2011! The game lasted 1day 05:04:07 (246152 tur...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Slayer (High Elf Warper) Turns: 226989, Time: 1, 02:59:32 HP 245/245 AC 29 Str 10 Exp: 27/3531006 (5183) MP 47/47 EV 33 Int 27 God: The Shining One [******] Gold 9409 SH 48 Dex 21 Spells: 17 memorised, 0 levels left Res.Fire : . . . ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Slayer (High Elf Warper) Turns: 210440, Time: 1, 01:07:47 HP 229/229 AC 21 Str 10 Exp: 27/2911877 (4) MP 46/46 EV 32 Int 27 God: The Shining One [******] Gold 7007 SH 36 Dex 21 Spells: 16 memorised, 2 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See...

Yea I used the strength ring to help carry a lot of stuff up from the lair to the hell stash. I kinda like the +3 to all stats ring, is it actually not very good? I guess I can stick with the slaying ring, though the other slot could be up for grabs, who knows. I went ahead and cleared the first lev...

ack, zot:5 is tough. I got nearly killed from a killer klown that got berserked from that raging moth. Orbs of fire do a ton of damage with the spells, fortunately they like to nuke me once then walk to me for melee, which is easy. I'm thinking about maybe wearing dragon armor for fire resistance an...

hmm, tornado seems to be the best bet, though it's still at useless, it'll take some time to get it castable. I've about 5 book of clouds, but no book of the sky, so lots of tornado, but no airstrike. I'm looking at this page: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Spell_success I certainly mig...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Warrior (High Elf Warper) Turns: 172845, Time: 20:51:27 HP 213/213 AC 29 Str 13 Exp: 27/1934461 (2409) MP 46/46 EV 27 Int 30 God: The Shining One [*****.] Gold 3124 SH 35 Dex 25 Spells: 14 memorised, 6 levels left Res.Fire : . . . Se...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Spry (High Elf Warper) Turns: 100770, Time: 12:19:10 HP 156/156 AC 24 Str 14 Exp: 22/636524 (2), need: 104475 MP 39/39 EV 29 Int 27 God: Okawaru [*****.] Gold 3587 SH 30 Dex 24 Spells: 14 memorised, 1 level left Res.Fire : + . . See ...

quick question: What do the racial modifiers on armor and weapons do? If I find an identical leather armor, except one is elven and one is orcish, are they actually different in some way? Also, is it true that dungeon branches found later in the dungeon are generally going to be harder? More specifi...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Fencer (High Elf Warper) Turns: 71325, Time: 08:38:56 HP 132/132 AC 29 Str 13 Exp: 19/379721 (98), need: 57528 MP 33/33 EV 27 Int 26 God: Okawaru [*****.] Gold 2717 SH 25 Dex 24 Spells: 12 memorised, 7 levels left Res.Fire : + . . Se...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Carver (High Elf Warper) Turns: 22164, Time: 02:09:51 HP 78/78 AC 18 Str 10 Exp: 12/24045 (4), need: 19454 MP 25/25 EV 20 Int 21 God: Okawaru [*****.] Gold 917 SH 17 Dex 21 Spells: 8 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invi...

I'm not sure what the white wolf rpg is. Google turned up a white wolf.com, looks like they've made a bunch of games? Did they do the vampire bloodlines games?

I've always played casters, but trying okawaru is new ground for me. Here's what I've got: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Slicer (High Elf Warper) Turns: 10875, Time: 00:50:24 HP 57/57 AC 17 Str 10 Exp: 9/5417 (0), need: 447 MP 18/18 EV 15 Int 20 God: Okawaru [***....

is there a similar command for low magic? Something like force_more_message = LOW MAGIC

That way I can be alerted to stop nuking and start thinking about what spells I can use to runaway.

that does look like the one I'm at, it's just odd that ash tells me there items next to the walls with no way to get there, thanks though. Edit: I found a staff of conjuration, but I remembered that if I curse it I won't be able to use my sword to cut meat into chunks. Is there a way around this? Ar...

I'm in a bailey portal. You start in a small room with lots of alarm traps, you open the door north and there are kobolds throwing shit at you across a one tile wide moat. Beyond that there is a medium room with a couple orcs and gnolls. My question is where is the treasure? I have ashenzari and the...

Ugh, I got foolish in the lair. I was on level 3 fighting a blink frog, he was almost dead, and was I. I missed, he killed me. I might start playing wizards more, they've got blink to help soften the blow of my sometimes reckless tactics. That's interesting about vampires though, you continuously wa...

I feel like I've got a foothold on Vampire Stalker, here's where I'm at so far. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Anelle the Miscreant (Vampire Stalker) Turns: 14512, Time: 00:41:35 HP 65/65 AC 4 Str 10 Exp: 9/4303 (951), need: 1561 MP 14/14 EV 14 Int 16 God: Ashenzari [**....] ...

Ah well, thanks for the encouragement, I haven't tried vampires before, and they're actually pretty fun. Forum question: Is there a secret to the search function? I try to search "vampire" or "enchanter" and it says it' too common of a word, which is lame. I tried a vampire stalk...

This may not belong here, but the forum seems slow enough and I feel silly making lots of threads. Does anyone ever get really frustrated with this game and dying? If I die early on, before the temple or so, meh, bad luck, start over. Once I hit the lair I start to get momentum and become invested i...

I recently tried ashenzari and he's really cool, I like all the extra information you get. When you use his exp transfer ability, does it take into account aptitudes? An obvious use might be to transfer exp with a deep elf to give him more fighting ability, even though he has a low aptitude for it. ...

How do you guys deal with orc priests in the early game? Usually when a bunch of orcs come after me I can go into a one tile hall way and take them one at a time. Even orc wizards aren't too big a deal, they need line of sight. Priests though just need to see you to smite you to death. Wat do?

can you explain the way damage works? More specifically, I'm looking at the wiki page on stone arrow. It says it does 3d11 damage, from last version where it did 2d12. What does that mean? How big of a difference is there between 3d11 and 2d12?

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