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Your system doesn't have *very complicated rules nonsense*, but it does have *dying later is worse than dying earlier* nonsense. (Which is what I think damerell meant.) Btw, I think that it is good that dying later is sometimes better than dying earlier, because of you had 9 lives to survive the las...

Maybe I misunderstand something in the OP. I did not see that the required XP to restoring revive is necessarily tied to the character XP. A better solution would be to simply base it on the number of previous deaths: with 0 deaths it is cheap, with 8 deaths it is expensive. So it is clear that not...

I died trying to get into Zot at XL 20 (for a tournament challenge) :cry: morgue is here: https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/morgue-petercordia-20200208-155013.txt It was going well, though I had had to take a few risks. I had successfully obtained 3 runes and dived down to Depths:5, and...

Right from the start I've never trained UC, because the transmuter playstyle anti-synergises with Tengus. Beastly appendage and Sticks to Snakes have been nice though. I've had some nice horns and a friendly snake for every hard fight. (Except the minotaur, i just realise, where I could have died :o...

I agree that seeing exclamation marks for the % of max hp damage done would, in general, be more useful than exclamation marks for absolute damage. Currently at the beginning of the game I see almost no exclamation marks, and at the end of the game I can't see the difference between !!!!!!! and !!!!...

I've been kicked to death by centaurs too

Often with octopodes and other low-ac species. It doesn't help that I'm often at low hp when I'm finally adjacent (because they nail me with arrows first)

Auto training also leads to some new players training 7 different weapon skills...

I still use auto-skilling, sometimes, though never at the start of the game.
Sometimes it's just easier. You don't have to switch which skills you're training as often when using it.

Nevermind

Maybe there is some misunderstanding here, but it looks to me like you'd want to put an undue burden on the game developers. I like the occasional heavily armoured orc wizard/priest (even if I wish the game warned me about them), and the existence of orcs/gnolls/vault guards/convokers with reaching/...

I rather like the variety in Orcs which is derived from their equipment

Even if it does lead to situations like "why won't this orc priest die?" ... "Oh Sh**, it's wearing plate" ...

So a player called "Engine" had some impressive results in a CSDC tournament game, killing pan lords left and right with a pretty pure stabber, and nabbing the golden rune without killing many greater mummies at all. The morgue is at https://webzook.net/soup/morgue//0.24/Engine/morgue-Engi...

You can switch to a mode where xp is evenly divided between skills of the same emphasis level.

press /

As it says at the bottom of the skill screen:

Code:: [/] auto|manual mode

Another question, which I have because the wiki is a little confusing: Is the batform UC base damage equal to 1 + skill, or 1 + skill/5 ? I'm not sure it will matter, but vampires have decent UC aptitudes, and it'd be interesting to know whether a vampire can have any success biting things to death ...

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~ebering/crawl/csdc/0.24/1.html This weeks combo is a Vampire Assassin of Dithmenos / Kikubaaqudgha / Qazlal It sounds like a strong combo, but I don't have much experience with it Dithmenos & Kikubaaqudgha sound much stronger than Qazlal, especially given the -1 invoc...

Since I didn't get any feedback I decided to make it a 3-rune game. Vaults:End was much less bad then I expected. Overall the enemies just weren't that strong. Also Evy healing meant that getting swamped isn't nearly as bad as it usually is. I did dip into 5* piety in Vaults, but went back up to 6* ...

Statueform is 50% slower than Dragonform, which makes things appear to die relatively fast (from your perspective) whilst still giving them more actions before they die.
Against OoF specifically, rF++ should make Dragonform tanky enough.

It sounds like you may have placed the lighting spire suboptimally since you had to use beckoning, though sometimes that can't be avoided. Also dragon form would have helped more than statueform.
But you're mostly just unlucky. Melee dudes get mutated

Firstly, after paying your money to Zin, you have to wait a while before you're up to fill piety. I don't know whether this is turncount gated, xp gated, or exploration gated. Secondly, mutation potions are only cleanst whilst you have full Zin piety. If you leave Zin, go back down to 5 star piety, ...

I'd always go fighter because I'm addicted to shields. With Demonspawn you can go to one of the invo-intensive gods, like Nemelex and Qazlal, which is extra reason to want a shield. (tbh those 2 aren't too good for extended. Qaz can do a zig though, if that's your thing.) Also Strength is better in ...

TBH I almost always stick to a single weapon - melee or ranged. Usually even if I go throwing. So to factor in competition for scrolls in this way doesn't occur to me, except in the specific situation where I consider enchanting a non-endgame weapon. If I train slings, I go pure slings. Yes, I did h...

I just wanted to add: The (only) annoying gameplay aspect of this game is the invis timer. Basically, you (sometimes) get malmutated if you trigger invisibility whilst still contaminated, but there is no warning when you try to do so, and contam is written in light grey which means I have to pay exp...

- magical staves (not reliable) - unarmed (better without a shield) - unarmed transmuter (I heard these tend to be so powerful they don't need a backup weapon) None of these are accurate to my knowledge. Whenever my ideal endgame weapon was a stave, I've been able to find a stave of earth/fire/etc....

I'm playing a DDFi in bcrawl, and I've now got 2 runes and have cleared the depths. As far as I know, the only change that has been made to Deep Dwarfs is that the intrinsic Heal Wounds ability has been removed, and they start with Evy by default. It's been a fun and interesting experience so far. a...

Why lightning spire? I’be never used it, but I assume I can just drop it and walk away so I can’t get mutated, but it will zap away at the mutator? Because you can choose where to place the lightning spire, so (unlike other summons) you can guarantee that a mutator is blocked after 1 turn. (Same go...

Definately enchant the dragon scales, If they suit your character. You might well want to replace the shields at some point, but very few armours beat maximally enchanted gold dragon scales.

Octopode of Zin is really bad though. Zin prohibits transmutations.

Just equip the shields and watch what happens to AC, EV and SH. If you use spells, also look as spell success. Generally I maximise AC + EV+SH.
+6 str, rPois, rN+ is a nice buff, and might make the shield worth using.

bcrawl buffed Giant Clubs by giving them cleaving, which also works to make them viable.

Fulminant Prism also blocks hexes, which I find hilarious.

If you're comparing to throwing, and using 'optimal play', the only strategic advantage is that Slings need less xp. (At 14 skill a Fusti might just do more damage than a javelin.) There's also the practical advantage of not having to think as much about ammo and having less inventory slots used up....

Yes, I think mostly the sweet gear.

Enemies getting 'distracted by gold' is also a noticeable buff, and potion petition is a good panic button provided you recognise trouble whilst you still have most of your hp.

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/morgue-petercordia-20200124-132100.txt I rolled up a Gnoll Fighter of Gozag. In short, it is a very powerful combo. I now understand why some people like melee so much. This is probably one of my first 3 rune games. On most other characters I've played,...

I did Pan without too much trouble. I got on very low hp once, when I was repeatedly tormented by a curse skull. I didn't play that well, but did manage to teleport away without dying. All the pan lords died to my maga-chomping powers. Usually I just take the rune and run. Was a nice change :) I hea...

Ideally you'd go down the stairs first to magic map, then take the shaft. If there are no choke points and all the walls are crystal, you don't want to go in (this happened to me once). With your stealth you should be able to keep the fight fairly localised.

I'd take a shaft into V:5 whilst still with Oka, but your plan also sounds good. Good luck

TSO actually does let you poison freely, mmm. That's good to know. The wiki says TSO still blocks the Poisonous Stinger mutation, and the in-game description says "Followers of the Shining One are bound to the code of the honourable warrior, soldiers in their god's eternal crusade against evil...

I agree with VAF.
If you are happy with 'only' 6 runes, I would find it easiest to stick with Trog and get a Hell rune. In hell you can choose what threats you want to face and you can get out when you feel threatened.

This would make tabbing much more complicated/inconvenient.

It would also reduce the overlap in function between reposte and cleave, which I would find sad. (Pseudo-)cleaving is nice.

Returning to the OP, it would appear sufficient to make the reposte chance scale with longblade skill.

I'm playing a draconian, with my own 'cosplay challenge', which is to spend most of the game stomping as a giant Dragon and have a go at bcrawl extended (ie, 15 runes if I get that far). My first draconian went with TSO, then turned green. I rage quit on that one. No useful resistances after Dragonf...

You have a medium shield, which needs 15 skill to completely remove the penalties (which you have) Large shields need 25 skill to completely remove penalties, but at 20 skill the penalties are already quite minor (roughly equivalent to an untrained buckler, or 1-2 spellschool skill levels). Large sh...

Congrats on surviving! But... why didn't you use herosim for Mensas, or even for the Nikola + Mennas + stone giants fight? If you're training UC & Fighting, you know that 5 extra UC & fighting skill is beneficial... (not to mention dodging and shield skill) You could memorise Yara's and Irra...

Strange. I've never had that problem. I usually manage to get a broad axe/demon trident/etc fairly early, either by finding it or using acquirement.

I've done this quite a long time ago tbh
I recall pressing &?# in that order, and then entering the file name

delarado wrote:So now I have 52MP instead of 43. Am I correct in assuming this basically conveys to an extra 9HP?

yes

you can copy all of a characters equipment, stats, and experience by saving a character dump locally and using WIZMODE &# It's buggy when you have equipment / mutations which give stats, can't copy dungeon information, and is finicky when it comes to the dump save file name and location, but it ...

For what it's worth, I don't dislike the OP proposal, but I think throwing is already sufficiently differentiated.

Javelins are insane, throwing has good damage but ammo problems, and throwing even helps with darts. Throwing and slings are extremely different to me.

A spell idea to fill a void which is felt in Ice & Fire: type: level 2, fire/ice name: ??? flavour: rapidly heat & freeze a random target in LOS. effect: deal damage to random target in LOS. Deals double damage to brittle creatures (like LRD) Game-play aims: 1. give IE something to spam agai...

I like this idea.

There'd be some advantaged to merging Necro -Hp with rot, amplifying some of the rot already in the dungeon, and making both recover with xp. (I think)

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