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"too close for your liking" already stops you, when you are autotraveling. The poster has a problem not when he's traveling, but when he's tabbing.

you finished a fight with 50% mp, retreated a bit, and started resting up (but not on the upstairs). A killer bee pack rounds the corner. Since you can't beat them in melee (assuming no venom/elec weapon), you are in trouble if your mp isn't enough to take them out. In normal circumstances, blaster...

I don't see the logic behind the argument against guardian spirit. Yes, there are better amulets; if you find something better, wear it. But I cannot see a situation in which guardian spirit would be a bad thing to have. In general, since guardian spirit splits the damage proportionally between your...

I think it's very helpful. If you just took a big hit in your mana pool, that absorbed a lot of damage that would have drained your hp pool instead. So, you're low on mp, but you're not dead. It may only give you one extra turn, and you might not be able to escape with just one extra turn. Often, th...

Get your Mephitic Cloud failure rate down under 10 percent.

You handled hydras ok in Lair, so you should be fine in Swamp.

If you can find a book with a necromancy spell in it, the falchion of pain will carry you through the midgame pretty well.

More observations. The RNG has provided a lot of nice jewellery, but so far only generic boots ... :( r - a +2 pair of boots (worn) Jewellery l - the amulet of Plog (around neck) {RegenMP rC+ Int+2 Dex-3} n - the ring of the Mage (right hand) {Wiz MR++ Int+3} C - the ring "Mioh" (left hand...

Trog gifted you Wyrmbane!

He must like you better than me ...

Well done!

If they just sit around and summon, you can just go upstairs, wait 20 turns or so, and go back down again.

Heal up. Go back down. Wait for an elf to work his way around to you, while you wait at the stairs. Pull him back up to Orc 2. Kill him there.

Don't go extended. Get your three runes, get the orb, and win.

You'll make other strong characters and win extended victories with them. For now, just get this first win under your belt.

Drakonos the Eclecticist (DrAK) Turns: 78015, Time: 20:47:01 Health: 184/184 AC: 23 Str: 20 XL: 21 Next: 66% Magic: 50/50 EV: 12 Int: 29 God: Lugonu [******] Gold: 3092 SH: 7 Dex: 3 Spells: 13 memorised, 3 levels left rFire . . . SeeInvis + a - +2 trident (freeze) rCold + . . Gourm . (armour unavai...

I appreciate all this information. Thank you. I'm really trying to be "an effective caster, with the highest possible AC, because casters do get hit." I see that better armour skill means better AC. Good to know. I see that better STR means better Evasion to overcome the armour EV penalty....

So no one ever reaches it, since 27 is the max skill possible?

The game now nicely tells you how much Shield skill I need to overcome my shield penalty. That's nice, it saves me always having to look it up on the wiki with every different character. But it does not tell me how much Armour skill I need to overcome my Armour penalty. Is there a place to look that...

Thanks. That's the information that I needed.

I'm currently running a level 24 spriggan wizard, and the dungeon is not doing a good job of providing food. I've got 6 fruit and 2 royal jellies left. I'm level 24 and just finished clearing Depths 5. There was just one bread ration in the Depths (on Depths 3). I still have to do Slime 6 and Vaults...

So my level 26 red draconian air elementalist of Ash didn't want to fight Geryon and Murray and their various minions all at once, so I would pop down into the middle of the vestibule, turn on Tornado, swirl away in whatever direction there were the fewest mobs, refresh Tornado once, and then scampe...

This Minotaur Berserker is pretty fun. I haven't gotten much in the ring-and-amulet lottery, but I have picked up a few other nice items. I've got a minor question and a major question. First, which cloak to use? As a Minotaur Berserker I don't think anti-stealthiness is much of an issue, so it's no...

Stupidest death was flying over a lake and not noticing that my levitation was fading. Plenty of mana, plenty of time to fix it, and just didn't pay attention. Poof drowned dead.

Successfully cleared Crypt with the eudemon blade, and found 3 scrolls of enchant weapon 2 along the way, so now it's 2,5. It did kill things pretty fast there. Got my ass kicked in the bottom of slime. Ran away. Waited a few hundred turns, came down a different staircase, got my ass kicked again. H...

Ouch!

Wish I had a dollar for every "ooh, this will work" that I didn't think all the way through ...

I really intended for this character to be a bow specialist, no shield, switching to a big two-handed sword for melee; then I got the Shield of Resistance and started to rethink that. My current troll leather armor has me casting Tornado at Great. My development plan is to get Air Magic up to 27, wh...

A couple of quick notes. Your wizard hat is worth zero (you could enchant armor on it, eventually, but that's a poor use of enchant armor scrolls. Find a helmet. Switch to the poison morning star. Beat on things with it till you find out its stats: they might well be better than the one you're using...

I successfully cast Poison Cloud to the other side of a glass wall earlier today. Actually to the inside of a glass vault, where there were four unseen horrors. :lol:

I have found it easy enough to set up macros on the F1 - F12 keys, to cast spells a through l. Once the macros are set up and saved, they are always there, and you just fill in the spell slots as you find books. You don't always get the same books, so you won't always have the same spells available,...

To kill melee and archer enemies in the Elven Halls, get into a corridor, conjure a cloud of poison or cold on top of them, and then run away from them. As they chase you, they'll die. If there are a couple of survivors you can do it again.

I would turn off: m&f, throw, stealth, stab, traps. You're either not going to use these any more at all, or else you've already got more than enough skill. I would temporarily strip down to leather armor or a robe to memorize an air spell (Deflect Missiles, if you've got it in a book), cast it ...

Tornado is no longer an automatic win spell, but it is still reasonably powerful; and lightning multi-zaps are now limited to two hits, but that is still reasonably powerful.

That means that air magic is no longer the obvious best choice; but it is still a good, workable choice.

First played around Memorial Day this year. Probably about 100 games so far. First rune in July. First win in late August or early September. I still frequently lose characters within the first three levels, when they get one shotted or caught between two monsters in a hallway. If they get as far as...

Thanks all. Somehow I had learned / read / assumed that walls in labyrinths were undiggable; but one shot with a wand of digging, on the rock wall immediately adjacent to the stone wall in question, immediately broke me through to the rest of the maze. A few minutes later: done.

Thanks again.

So I found this labyrinth. I've always solved them without difficulty before, but this is my first labyrinth playing in 0.9, and it seems not to be working. I am currently wondering if the grinding sounds and creaking of gears indicate that a wall has moved, and access to the minotaur and the exit h...

f - the -4 buckler of the Blacksmith {MR}

Granted this is not as awful as some of the items in this thread, it is the worst scroll of acquirement armor I've ever got. The icon is pretty, though ...

Heh, OK. They seemed much slower than my spriggan, so I thought they were slower than the average character. Oh well :oops:

Tentacles move after you quite slowly. Turn on Tornado, stay 3 squares away, and they'll take damage for about four turns, and then poof.

Well, to give myself due credit: I've splatted my next two tries without making it to the Temple ... :roll:

Woo, made it out, the ascent was pretty easy. My latest spell, Summon Dragon, is a very comfortable fire and forget missile when all you want to do is keep moving: sic the dragon on the Pan Lord, and go around the battle via the other corridor. 8 runes in all. Might have gotten more, but I felt like...

So I've just found a Necronomicon for the first time, lying around on the floor as I make my way around Pandemonium for the first time. This is the time, I think, to consider the philosophy of "keep on with your original plan, or adjust your plan because of what you found?" In this particu...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.1 character file. Sperry the Sorcerer (Spriggan Air Elementalist) Turns: 155364, Time: 1, 14:28:43 HP 124/124 AC 11 Str 15 Exp: 27/1228367 (9524) MP 54/54 EV 29 Int 29 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 6039 SH 0 Dex 21 Spells: 16 memorised, 2 levels left Res.Fire : . ....

So I started working my way into Crypt, and on Crypt 2 I found a side branch graveyard, set up in a nice ring, with orc zombies spawning from tombstones in a ring outside the building, skeleton warriors inside the building, and a named headstone that spawned an ancient lich as soon as I tried the do...

And here's a book with Fly in it, on Shoals 4.

But: still no tornado.

Stepped down to Shoals 5. Took out a few monsters close to the stairs, but it made some noise and now here they all come. Too many to avoid getting swamped. So: back upstairs, will try Crypt tomorrow.

I seem to be stuck in my progression. XL 23 Spriggan Air Elementalist, spellcasting 19, air magic 17. I have 33 spellbooks plus a manual of axes, but have not yet found Fly or Tornado. I've cleared Snake, Vaults, and Elf, and down through D20. Options: (1) Try Shoals without reliable flying. I'm ner...

defen wrote: ... gave my entire pile of permafood to Nemelex along with the corpse.

Well, it should have given you a pretty decent shot of piety, anyway ...

I try not to think about it as "fleeing", "running away" or "healthy cowardice". I try to think about it as "tactical retreat" and "dynamic defense". In this game you get to die exactly zero times. So if you routinely fight in situations where you h...

As suggested above, try some different builds. I suggest that for education's sake, you try something with a Spriggan and something with a Naga. The Spriggan gives you a frail character that can successfully run away from almost anything. It will teach you that there are many situations where your c...

This is very helpful. Thanks. The complexity of the calculations under various conditions is certainly intriguing. At various stabbing skill levels, it could be better to use a dagger, or a sabre, or a heavy axe. If I've understood this correctly, here's how I should compare an unenchanted dagger (b...

Is there an init setting that I can modify to decide where I want saves and morgue files to go? I've got crawl 0.8 on my flash drive. I'm trying to use it on someone else's computer while I'm out of town. Their file structure does not match the default locations where crawl wants to write files. I w...

Anyone?

bobross419 wrote:Where exactly can I find this config file?

For me, anyway, it's in the crawl directory, in the settings directory, and it's called "init" rather than "config."

I see the table here : http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Stabbing It seems to reference both an additive bonus for short blades, followed by a multiplicative bonus that applies to all weapons. The wiki states that the additive bonus, short blades only, is capped at 30. The calculation for ...

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