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I just played a couple of random/FE to Temple. Some comments: Foxfire is pretty fun, and generally powerful enough. Foxfire means I have to think more in the early game (eg: when our of mp, should I run into a corridor?), and that's also fun (to me). However, it's a bit confusing when the foxfires j...

I recently finished this game for a Cosplay conduct. https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia6/morgue-petercordia6-20200109-233741.txt (The rules where: GoKl^Yredelemnul, Maces & nets, rocks, needles only, no shield, only level 1 & 2 spells, get 7 runes, enslave soul 9 uniques.) Mostly...

but they're my food!
Must... Eat... Orcs...

At a certain point of the game titanic slime creatures are the only real threat to characters with massive AC. I found out the hard way, losing my sand dwarf in the process. It would be nice not to have to wait for slime creatures to separate. Being able to split packs of slime creatures with stairs...

4. humans can only wear 2 rings. But in real life some humans can wear a ring on each digit. And on their toes, if they really want to.

Crypt and the Vestibule are good for 'safe' TSO piety. Pan, Hell & Tomb are also full of Evil creatures, but the Abyss isn't.

Wouldn't Spriggan Transmuters be better with some other god?
If I wanted to use UC transmutations as the primary offence on a Spriggan I'd go Ru or Wu Jian, or something like that, so that you can still run away.

If you want as many runes as possible, I'd recommend switching to TSO/Zin. Specifically, such to TSO, then do crypt, bless your demon trident (beware you can't use a demon trident with the his god's), then switch to Zin. Before switching, it's probably worth spending all your Trog piety in Zot. OoF ...

Those are pretty good resistances

Have a felid-specific background: Puss in Boots. Starts with the (questionable) artefact Puss' Boots equipped.

I really like the new Conjurer. IMB is fun now

Prism spam works exactly the same as before though.

I'm actually in the middle of a challenge just like this. The tavern thread is here: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26590&p=341092&hilit=+gnoll#p341092 I haven't played this character in quite a while, but I intend to pick it up again when I feel like it. As for the ...

I never use it, because all of my characters who would like to use it have already trained shields to 15 by the time they find it...

I actually agree that removing chosen stat gain weight be good.

As I have already pointed out in another thread, ER^2/strenght - ER^2/(strenght +1) ~ ER^2/strenght^2. Hence a linear correlation between strength & ER is expected.

Several of the options listed in the quoted post are available from D:1. Your continued mischaracterization of previous posts is really not helping to make the case that your contributions here are anything other than trollbait. Dang, you might just have to use blink or might or lig or agi or fog o...

If there's a level with 1 or 2 strong uniques, and you can choose when to engage, you can use Statueform (+Oka powers) to defeat them. Eg lure Bai Suzhen to the bottom of some stairs, then go to the top of the stairs and repeatedly cast Statueform until it works. (beware contamination.) When you're ...

It's almost always possible to hurt stuff for a quarter of their hp reliably We must be playing a different game. Attacks in dcss are anything but reliable; even with a great weapon and mindelay it often takes 50 auts or more to deal 25% HP. I suspect the cleaner UI of melee (tab) is making you und...

You can kindof work through the maths on http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Spell_Success. It's slightly easier to use wizmode, which is accessible if you download the crawl exe file. If my maths is right you'll need 10-12 average skill in earth/tmut/spellcasting to get statueform castable. The best path t...

Yes but, if going up the stairs takes a long time, and you take an unlucky stair down, you're f'ed. You couldn't go back up without dying. Reading a Tele scroll could still leave you dying. The elegance of the bcrawl system is that you can still stairdance if you really need to. But if you stairdanc...

I agree. It's almost always possible to hurt stuff for a quarter of their hp reliably. When you've got your damage-dealing sorted, spells like Swiftness, PoG, Deflect Missiles, Yara's, Fear, various AOE / non-elemental damage spells, Animate Dead, Aura of Abjuration, Darkness, Gell's Gravitas, Invis...

It's true actually, bcrawl almost entirely stopped me stairdancing, and the mechanic they use is hardly obnoxious at all. The bcrawl mechanic is that each time you take a stair you have a small chance of being teleported. The only annoying thing is that this interrupts autotravel, which shouldn't be...

How is TheMeInTeam exhibiting bad faith? BTW: That doesn't by itself mean luring is any worse as a mechanic than AC. My dude, are you seriously using AC as a litmus for acceptable mechanics? Using AC as a litmus test is perfectly valid. AC is considered a good mechanic. Something cannot be bad becau...

It would be funny if you could 'poison' the undead by affecting nearby natural creatures with the plague...

I was only trying to critice specific proposals

So long as the statue density isn't too high, it would make luring less common and more interesting. (I would consider the existence of blind spots as good.) I would be concerned that this would punish careless play a lot. Currently crawl games are too long for me not to get careless occasionally. I...

I just had a game where I went down a stair, and was immediately adjacent to an 8-headed hydra, then went down another stair and was suddenly ascent to azreal. Both of these where way out of my league (Azreal deals 3D20 damnation damage and my maxhp was 64.) Because of the way stairs currently work ...

The problem as I understand it with balancing is that most things you can change globally would make some aspect of the game unfun. The characters max-hp can't be too low, otherwise you get one-shotted and that's unfun. Some monsters can have too much hp, because they're only funish if you can take ...

I wasn't actually aware of this feature. I might use it. There is one specific poster who I've already decided to ignore, because I've only seen him post something productive in one thread. Calling him out in public feels a bit rude though. Then again, there are the disadvantages you point out. Than...

Wait, you have 27 Conjurations, wearing a robe, with Vehm's conjuration wiz, and only have firestorm (no other level>7 conjurations)?

duvessa wrote:Rename the Trident of the Octopus King to the Octodent of the Octopus King, make it two-handed, and increase its base damage and delay to 24 and 18 respectively.

Is this some kind of pun? It sounds like a significant buff (comparing with the other 2-handed polearms)

I think the point the others are trying to make is that Crawl is more interesting if some games can be won by average players and other games can only be won by excellent players. This doesn't "dilute the outcome differential between good and poor play", it is the very essence of the outco...

I tried this. When javelins are turned of in autopickup (bold minus), my character just walks past javelins :cry:

In Tomb you have lots of torment, damage spikes (some of which are unavoidable, the death curses), and very large groups of enemies which are all susceptible to the same OAE spells (Ignition, Shatter, Firestorm, Tornado, Cleansing Flame). With TSO AOE spells cause you to regain hp, reducing the effe...

Currently in Trunk, missiles are picked up by default. Which is great at the start of the game, but halfway through the game I want to switch to only pick up missiles I've already got (eg regular javelins but not silver javelins). And I don't know how to tell my character to do that, so I'm having t...

I agree Zin is stronger in Hell and much stronger in the Abyss
But TSO is stronger in Tomb

Ice form (as suggested by le_nerd) gives poison resistance.
If it reduces your defence/offence to much for general use, you can still transform into ice form the turn you are first blasted with pois clouds. Temporal distortion might also help, but I don't have much experience with that.

On tomb: 3, with PoG, you can get to an upstair before fighting

If you've done a bit of Hell, stairdancing V:5 shouldn't be much of a problem. I would't shaft into V:5 without stealth on a Formicid, because if you shaft into a loot chamber you'll get absolutely swamped and you can't teleport away. I once lost a very beefy Naga that way. (I could have survived th...

Should have gone Naga / Mummy :lol:

Would being shafted feel more fun/fair if it was coupled to some kind of reward? (like a consumable or quasi-acquirement or shop placement?)

(I'm asking the people who dislike shafts)

I agree about translocations. I would stairdance V:5, after making sure you have a way of dealing with Vault wardens. (EG portal projectile or javelins.) Immolation can also be a good way of dealing with Vault wardens if you have sufficient AC & rF. Is +4 slaying really better than the ring &quo...

I already ran a human summoner earlier this week. He got abyssed because his summons couldn't open doors (because of which I decided to spend a turn in LOS), then went splat 2 turns after exiting the abyss. Got 22 points. https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia2/morgue-petercordia2-20191123-1...

I was ready to settle for 50* I got out of Pan after 14 floors, and after seeing all the Pan runes (of which I took 4). I was rather sloppy in Zot:5 tbh, but luckily I was really tanky and had plenty of teleport scrolls. I took all my 4 pan runes and the Orb with Apportation :lol: I got the win in t...

Code:: 39348 | D:15 | Escaped the Abyss 39350 | D:15 | Killed from afar by a wizard

I exited the Abyss with less-than-full hp.
He got me with a bouncing Lightning bolt doublezap.

Code:: 91023 | Pan | Entered the realm of Gloorx Vloq. 91023 | Pan | Noticed Gloorx Vloq 91025 | Pan | Got a dark rune of Zot 91038 | Depths:3 | Escaped Pandemonium

Yes, just enter pan and get out alive

I have now finished everything exept Zot:5 and Pan. I'm in Pan currently, looking for a way out. I ninja'd 2 runes so far, Lom Lobon & Cerebov. I spend a little bit of piety & 1 tele scroll to get Lom Lobon's rune, (and another Tele scroll when he showed up again on another Pan floor,) and f...

Slime, Depths & Vaults are now completed. I learned to cast Ignition (the first time with Brilliance, after that I didn't need to.) Ignition solved those situations which I had a lot of trouble with before, where I got swamped by enemies. With Ignition more enemies = more carnage :) I also got f...

There's only one book for sale and it contains some ice/poison conjurations. If Portal Projectile or SLS was for sale I'd have bought it :( Thanks for pointing out I have Summon Butterflies. I just discovered I also have Blink (after clearing Elf). I cleared Elf. The biggest issue was that Louis ban...

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