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Excuse the noobness but I don't understand what trunk is. I've been clicking "Play 0.22" which appears to be later than trunk. Should I be playing 0.21? It does feel like I get shafted a LOT. And it's generally multiple floors, early on. Last night I played probably 15 games as I'm trying...

Well, I understand. However, if so, the ability of the Triple Draw needs to be changed. I have seen tomb, tomb, and tomb in the choice menu of Triple Draw. So, when using triple draw in the last floor, it's also possible to see Shaft, Shaft, and Shaft, right? This is a very terrible punishment. I l...

When running is an option, the correct answer is always running. Boots of running are one of the best items in the game for any species that isn't inherently fast.

Feature request for the weekly scoreboard: For active games, don't display a zero under: Unique Kill, Branch Enter, Branch End, Collect a Rune, Collect 3 Runes, Win. If the player hasn't scored it yet, just leave it blank. Mind if I ask why? The current color coding makes it clear if a player hasn'...

I'm pretty sure that (R)emove and (T)ake off are redundant, actually. You can unequip items through the (W)ear and (P)ut on menus. If you want to remember half as many keys, you can do that right now. I don't particularly care about the answer to this question, just thought I'd put in a hot tip.

Yeah, you're on V:4 with ~60% of the floor cleared. I'd probably just leave and go do Depths. The tricky bit is that will require blowing tp (which isn't SUPER safe,) or haste (which is more valuable.) TP is decent, though.

One - don't read the rest of this post. Win. You've never won before, don't worry about switching gods or getting more runes. Go straight to Zot and win the game. Win with some other characters. Try casters and Beogh worshippers and stabbers. Try spriggans and octopodes. Extended is boring and monot...

I'm excited for TrCj. Really looking forward to the TrCj coolplay where someone's showing off their blaster caster only troll strats. 0 UC and killing things with orb of destruction plz.

While we're bumping this thread - Stonar from the future can still say Mummy is my hardest species, now that I've won with it.

Well, I'm an idiot, don't mind me. Silence and killhole will still do the trick, just a little less attractive. Also, it seems like you dropped your digging wand? If that was on purpose, don't... do that. Since you're not on E:3, a teleport would probably get you out of this situation, but that'll t...

The thing to know about that room is that it has way more than just those 4 scary casters - there are probably 15 more, plus master archers and blademasters. For next time, the end of Elven Halls always has a giant room full of nasty stuff. Lure them out one at a time, and try not to engage more tha...

Why don't you just keep one or two stacks around the dungeon? With the changes to books (and previously food and ammo) already there's less of a need for inventory space. I mean, I do. I hold on to them until I really need all the tactical resources I have, then wind up dropping a stack of remove c...

So I was thinking earlier today - typically, when people talk about how there's plenty of room in your inventory, they talk about how you just need to carry around wands, blinking, tp, haste, etc. But man, is dropping every remove curse, enchant scroll, mutation potion, etc, you have no tactical nee...

Tarantella don't paralyze, they confuse - one of many reasons that you should fight on stairs. In this case, if the tarantella had confused you, you could've gone up immediately, and you wouldn't have had to deal with the spark wasps right away. I watched the end of this game a couple of times, and ...

In my rcfile, I have a force_more set up for scary brands: force_more_message += wielding.*of (distortion|chaos) That message will cause the game to stop and force me to acknowledge the prompt any time a creature wielding a distortion/chaos brand enters view (and again when you hover over them when ...

Also make sure you check monster stats, even a single Caustic Shrike is a huge emergency, it can deal up to 228 damage per turn without rCorr. Can it? 57 damage per attack, times 2 if you're moving at 1 aut/turn is 114. Random energy could cause it to attack a third time, but I didn't think it was ...

One - Lajatang of pain's probably the best weapon you'll find this game. Two - How often do you get to swing a lajatang around this early in the game? More than that, how often do you get to swing one around and not have to waste a bunch of XP skilling it? Three - How often do you get to swing a fas...

I'd guess the easiest change is to change it in the inventory inspection screen, which seems fine by me.

I actually think the opposite. Diving straight for Slime:5 as soon as you can is some of the most intense gameplay I've ever had in Crawl, and immensely satisfying if you can pull it off. I really like that there's a god that's kind of rare - one that if you see it in the temple, you can pick it up ...

In general, take the sacrifice that gives you the most piety, unless it's love, artifice, words, or drink. You want to hit full piety as soon as possible. Unless you're bad about using wands and evocables, then artifice is a great sacrifice. ;) Similarly, love and allies. Though "Sacrifice Lig...

Do the gold dragon scales/plate armor of MR increase your defenses? (AC + EV?) I suspect they do, but I'm always really bad at eyeballing these things. If they do, the MR plate is particularly good looking, you don't really need the aux effects on the scale mail, a pip of MR will be much more useful...

Look at the table lower down on the Ash wiki page for better information. Hand slots are special, kind of. They're either bound or not, and their boost depends on what kind of weapon you're wielding (ie - if you're using a two-hander, you get a bigger boost than with a one-hander.) I don't think &qu...

The way to think of fighting, IMHO, is to pretend it's down at the bottom of that first column. It's a defensive skill like armour, dodging, and shields. Vitally important, but probably after you've gotten your "kill stuff" skill under control. As to the matter at hand, I'd go for abyss. I...

Now that I've won with all the races (braggy,) I'm realizing more and more that in my opinion, Crawl has too many races that are mostly "human but slightly different aptitudes." I mostly agree with the OP, except for the part where it totally ignores crossbows, which are absolutely a bette...

The question is: Do people who want to play a caster just do it wrong, if so is there enough of a reason to try and address this? I think a corollary to this question is: Are casters just harder, and if so, should they be? Because to say the problem is that there are no races that make casting easi...

Nobody has said this explicitly so far - LRD doesn't let you bust open walls any more. That said, these vaults can be entered with Passwall. I think they should probably be removed, but you don't need Shatter to get in. Passwall only lets you go through rock, not stone. There's transparent rock and...

Nobody has said this explicitly so far - LRD doesn't let you bust open walls any more.

That said, these vaults can be entered with Passwall. I think they should probably be removed, but you don't need Shatter to get in.

Yes, I would trade that plate armor for that gold dragon armor in a heartbeat. 2 AC and 2 EV is worth less than rC+ and rF+++ in Zot. (And rPois, while not critical, can really increase your staying power when you run into things that poison - gold dragons and green draconians are nasty when they br...

What are the parameters? Is it against the rules to abandon Chei? Leave Slime? Convert to Jiyva? Presumably leaving and coming back is against the rules, but "Abandon Chei, run at and worship at the Jiyva altar" might give you a high chance of getting the rune, though your survival chances...

I've said it before, I'll say it again, if summoning is too strong, the fix is to make summoning less strong, not to give some weird, arbitrary, spoilery XP penalty. If we want to encourage hybridization, why not give more enemies abjuration or whatever? It's how we encourage hybridization everywher...

They pause reporting games during the tournament. Not sure why, but they'll update eventually.

...I think faded altars are fun. Sometimes, I don't particularly care about making sure I win the game. I also don't really like the proposal, because I LIKE that Jiyva is rare - I think it makes Jiyva and Lugonu fun to worship when you hit a corrupted temple. I like the challenge of sometimes divin...

For future reference, you can typically just wait until a random teleport in a trapped room like that. Digging is a fine answer if you have charges, but in case you don't next time, you can just hit 5 a few times and teleport again.

Ooh, I like that. Have a "heretic" line of titles for any invo character that has abandoned a god?

Yeah! I've managed to get greatplayer, greaterplayer, and polytheist at this point, so DCSS is probably going on the back burner for a little while, but the tournament's always a ton of fun. I went into this tournament thinking "Okay, I've improved since last year, so my low bar is Gelatinous B...

There are a ton of voluntary ways to increase the difficulty of your game. Most of these things are just things you could impose on yourself, if you want. I don't really see the value in this. Further, is this what people who find the game too easy want? When people ask for ghosts to come back, they...

Hey! It's a "Oh crap, I might be in trouble" post that's salvageable! Good on you for realizing you're in trouble, and stopping to assess. This should be doable (though, whether I have the answer is questionable - I'm hardly an expert on extended.) You have 4 major issues. First, you're in...

So, as a player that likes tournament time as a time when lots of people are playing, but has zero interest in the tournament itself, I'm a big fan of banners. I don't personally care at all about the general tournament score, but I really like having something to work for that is different and time...

Because it would massively slow down gameplay. How? I see three cases: 1) People who prefer to keep their inventory light. For the most part, these players can deal currently. However, there is the annoying interaction where autoexplore is blocked by an autopickup item, it prompts you to pick it up...

I mean, yeah, there's no reason as far as I can tell that the inventory is 52 slots other than "that's how many letters there are, lower- and upper- case." But a lot of people seem attached to that fact, so here we are. I personally don't see why we couldn't just remove inventory limits. M...

Which version? What OS? More information is better. It might be that someone can fix it, but if they can't reproduce the issue, then it's really hard to fix.

The idea that Vile Clutch is worse than Control Undead is mind-boggling to me. Vile Clutch is one of the best spells in the game right now. Also, I just want to make sure this is clear. Mummies are arguably the worst species in the game. They have terrible aptitudes at almost everything, they're wea...

My first instinct is that god abilities taking MP doesn't make any intuitive sense to me, so I'm favorable of the idea, initially. Remove the MP gains on invocations training, rebalance god abilities such that they don't take MP - that sounds good to me. However, lots of god abilities become better ...

Doesn't Yara's cause malmutation, which decreases hit dice, which determines magic resistance?

I mean, I agree with the fact that it's poorly-messaged, but I think that's what it's doing.

Plantissue wrote:Doesn't lignification give the same increase in HP?

They're already a tree. Lignification won't do anything. I don't know how cancellation affects your current HP, but there's some possibility where cancellation and then lignification again will eke out a couple more HP, but I don't think it will.

Yes, a red "Pois" means you're badly poisoned. In addition, if you hit "@", the game will tell you how poisoned you are (in this case, your poison will bring you from 6 HP to -3 HP before it wears off.) You're still lethally poisoned, which means you're dead unless you deal with ...

RoGGa wrote:Only other decent artefact armour are Plates at +6 &+7.

What about non-artefact armor? You're not casting that many spells, all told, and most of them are lower-level. What does your character look like in gold dragon scales?

I'm pretty certain I can't do that. You can. https://imgur.com/a/VHw9kuf (This is trunk.) See the "* to show all" up at the top? That's how you access firing/quivering non-missile items. I don't think there's ever a good reason to any more other than roleplaying being mad at an item and t...

I never said it wasn't helpful, just that "Maybe not fighting a thing right now" is worse than "Not dying." It's not BAD, it's just that you're really not getting much out of that stealth, compared to the survivability you'd get from good armor. You asked why more experienced pla...

No amount of stealth will guarantee you won't get caught in a bad position next to more monsters than you can handle. The chain mail gives much better defenses for when you get into that position, and 8-16% failure chance is really not that bad for a utility spell (though you called poison vapors a ...

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