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Cast Call Canine Familiar five times in a safe place, and you'll most likely get an average-to-decent mix; hounds, war dogs, wolves. Now cast it five times in a life-or-death situation; all jackals, maybe a hound if you're lucky.

Humming Giggle At The Ghostie won't make the RNG any nicer.

That oft-suggested forest branch is a good idea, but where would you put it? Across D:5-20 there are about five branches -- You'd either need to stick it right at the beginning or right at the end of D, or maybe as a side branch -- Orc perhaps?

Hurr. At this rate, by this time next year, ToME will be considered super-hardcore.

--Don't rely on Summon Scorpions if you're on low HP or are in a closed area.

--Contrary to popular belief, Menkaure is a complete pushover.

I like to put 1/3 in spellcasting and 2/3 in whatever magic class I want to train, then turn everything else off.

I thought this wasn't supposed to spawn outside of Slime?

WHenever I get a message like this, I'm all like "D'aww <3"

They trying to market this game to furries or something?

I encountered a pack of orcs consisting of a priest and three wizards.

I played ToME a heap earlier this year. Got bored of it when they started offering stuff for donations -- I dislike this stuff, not because of the cost, but because it's such a pain to ask my parents whenever I need to make an online transaction. I got ---THIS--- close to winning on two occasions. G...

Sorry, D:1 is down for maintenance.

Is it normal to have abyss gates of D:5?

Thanks for all the advice!

No, I don't think I ran into any of those traps.

Today marks the day I FINALLY reached XL:10. Here's the morguefile: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-a0-1214-g92a3a48 character file. 7374 Pteriforever the Convoker (level 10, -16/50 HPs) Began as a Kenku Summoner on Oct 12, 2011. Was a Priest of Vehumet. Demolished by a wolf spider (17 damage)...

How do we know? The game might take place in soviet russia for a all we know.

YES. I just recently had Dowan, Duvessa, and Menkaure in one 3x3 room. Gawd I love Call Canine Familiar. Sigmund was elsewhere on the level.

Today, I encountered a fungal colony really early which did this:

ToME has sound, but it's basically five music tracks across the entire gigantic game with an explosion and a slashing sound as the only sound effects.

But, needing 7.1 Summonings instead of 8 really is a breath of fresh air.

I also like the food reform.

KeSu. KeSu all the time. NEVER anything else.

The very next unidentified scroll you read after accidentally equipping a piece of cursed gear will always be Detect Curse.

Can someone tell be why, even though I play the exact same race/class combo as before, I start with 4.8 summonings instead of 5 + 65% that I started with in 0.9? My other stuff also took a hit!

Fill in the spaces between branches with little extra random ones -- Like ToME's farportal, random generation algorithm, random wall type, random names, random number of levels, randomly selected monsters.

Tiles. Always. Console confuses the heck out of me.

I usually say "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?" or "WHAT THE HELL!" or "DAMNIT!!", depending on what kind of death it was and my current mood.

I haven't gotten mine yet. 7 months in!

I only ever play KeSu -- they're fine to me.

Is a D:4 Necronomicon (or other high-level book) really that much of a prize, though? No character is even close to being able to use it at that point, and if you die after that, it has also has the afterthought of "Damn, I never even got to use my Necronomicon..." Course not. It's just h...

I listen to this, but it always makes me play recklessly for some reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9HCa5NSKvU

There are Zot traps on D:1?

What does it mean when I get the message

"You hear a distant "Zot"!"

Sometimes you get OOD monsters, and sometimes you get OOD items. NEcronomicon on D:4 anyone?

As I only play KeSu, I pour absoluely everything into summonings up until XL5, by which time I've got Summoning 8, and therefore enough spellpower to get two small mammals at once. Then, I put half into Spellcasting.

"If in doubt, drink all your un-ID'd potions until; the problem goes away"

If you want to escape, this is one stairway you shouldn't follow down:

It is an extremely stupid idea to eat poisonous chunks to see whether or not your un-ID'd ring is rPois.

WIndows 7 has a program called the Snipping Tool. It also has options for capturing menus and things which disappear if they go out of focus, which is useful.

You know what would be handy? An option that lets your alies displace you for a frew turns.

Back in ToME, since I only needed to make one up every twelve hours or so, so I named them after all kinds of things in a Sincerest Flattery style.

In this game I just name them all after myself.

I always kill him because I like his +3,+3 quarterstaff of chaos.

Weapons of chaos for some reason.

Jenga can be really useful if you can get one that isn't cursed, but most of the time my army of small mammals destroy them before I can get to them. Any advice?

On (I think) D:5:

I didn't touch any of those hammers. They were all there to begin with. Maybe Crazy Yiuf has gone mad survivalist?

So... These scrolls I have like, 5 of that don't seem to do anything? Fear, right? Nope, Curse Jewellery.

I had Sigmund spawn directly adjacent to me the moment I stepped onto D:2.

Thnaks for the advice!

I beat all of the tutorial without dying this time! Progress!

Alrighty. Hi, I'm Pteriforever, I'm 14, my homepage is /ma/, my favourite ToME build is CoBe and my favourite DCSS build is KeSu of Vehumet. I've played this game a tiny bit over the past few months, but I've decided today that I'm going to have a serious attempt at it. I used to play ToME a lot, bu...

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