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I've started a few different combos in an effort to falsify this claim. One of these four characters, a DeWz, managed to die to a D1 jackal, through position mismanagement. the others all encountered a pack on D1, but didn't even come close to dying. The DjWz died to a hobgoblin with a +1, +2 mace o...

D:1 jackal packs are not something that you are required to defeat, unless you start with them immediately surrounding you. But (if you are not an overly squishy caster), you can do so, simply by drawing them off one or two at a time. To me, such a statement reflects either a) hyperbole or b) poor ...

D:1 jackal packs are not something that you are required to defeat, unless you start with them immediately surrounding you. But (if you are not an overly squishy caster), you can do so, simply by drawing them off one or two at a time. To me, such a statement reflects either a) hyperbole or b) poor p...

The problem of the wiki is not that it's wrong all the time.

It's that it's right enough of the time while being significantly wrong the rest of the time. That makes it untrustworthy.

(also, that when it is substantially wrong, it is often wrong in a way that a newbie will never notice.)

If you quaff ID a potion of beneficial mutation before Lair and get an awesome mutation (like fast movement), it would be a good idea to stop quaff ID'ing potions until you have identified also mutation and cure mutation. The next potion just might be cure mutation... Don't ever quaff ID potions: 1...

As I said, Gargoyle did get into 0.13, but LO, Dj and Enchanted forest got bumped to 0.14 because they aren't mature enough yet. Ditto for large rocks penetrating -- there is actually nothing shown there that wasn't on pre-0.13 trunk.

Well, I don't actually care if it's unrealistic, but I -do- care if I have all those slots to manage, so I'd want to keep the options easier to choose from. Less slots is less management.
Someone who's won an Octopode would probably have some good feedback on this subject

The changelog. 0.13 0.14 The changelog may also be in your installation of Crawl. They are in mine (at /usr/share/stone-soup/data/docs/changelog.txt) 0.14 is short enough that I'll paste the 0.14 changelog here: Stone Soup 0.14 (up to 0.14-a0) ------------------------------- * Two new races: Lava Or...

I admit that I simply assumed that the automated builds were continuing successfully; I myself use the stone-soup-git package to update to the latest, rather than explicitly downloading anything. I can confirm TehDruid's report, however the link is not to that item -- I had to subscribe to the relev...

@ original post: This seems a bit like POWDER. Have you investigated that game for ideas? Some general thoughts: * More formatting, eg " rogue : Weapons are either", would make it much easier to read. Some things would benefit from becoming proper lists too. * I assume that you're going to...

When you see '.14' you should read that as 'trunk' (since it's coming up to 0.13 release time, the version number for trunk got bumped.)

Using this information you should be able to find the download on the main crawl site.

@Amnesiac[1]: Good to know; I'm obviously not gonna get there with this character. (only 32 Int, and that's with a Int+3 from the cloak). In particular I was hoping to max OoD because of its close-range damage reduction (after getting a few shots off, the enemy is too close to manage to inflict the ...

My current character (a TeCj) is trying to max out spellpower for OoD and Tornado. With 27 Conjurations (and 27 spellcasting), I would have expected that OoD would be maxed out; but it isn't. It shows "########.." in the Power column. Wielding a staff of Conjuration has no visible effect o...

When you write posts like that, the troll is you.

"Frayed" ghost... :lol:

"The frayed ghost unravels you!
You are coming apart at the seams!"

I usually wait until I have a few more types than that before IDing. DL6-8 is usually the time that it seems appropriate, IIRC. This is pretty generic stuff -- you probably want to have enough items that you have the counter-item for any bad use-IDed thing (Scroll of Curse foo and potion of Decay be...

In my current game I encountered a water nymph in the checkerboard vault in Vaults:5.

She touched me. It was scary :shock:

But yeah, isn't this a bug? AFAICS Water Nymphs are totally ineffectual if there is no water around.

I just can see feedback and make decisions without guessing. I believe it is not bad. Dude, I am in no way saying that you're doing anything wrong. I just wanted to point out the different priorities: The people who want numbers have a higher priority on winning, and the people who don't particular...

I wanted to point out that DCSS hides numbers for a better reason than 'it will make you a -better- player': Personally I find that the more numbers I see, the more munchkin-like I behave. I don't prefer to spend my time optimizing numbers, but this is a well known, natural human tendency (to want y...

^ To move to a more productive subject, how do you not die? I mean, Trolls definitely have great -offensive- capabilities, but I usually die because I don't manage to shore up their defenses well enough. (also, because I'm nearly always hungry, I feel compelled to fight more enemies than I would pre...

I like the idea of death as a result of int drain occurring in the form of your character losing animation. I wish I'd figure out how to describe that in terms of damage. "loss of sentience"?

TeCj of Veh is pretty satisfying. I get the impression that Veh is best for a generalist(Wz) though, because he often gifts spells that are a) based on a spell school that I have no skill in at all, or b) a handful of elemental variations on spells I already have (eg Magic Dart -> Sting -> Shock -> ...

One other route (not one I'm advocating, mind you) would be for Crawl to adopt a less-open development process. The mailing list could be invite-only, the trunk branch could be on a private git server until merging for a numbered release, and the server(s) running trunk could be restricted to a few...

^ I made an edit which guessed that you were using automatic skilling mode. Autoskilling is frequently regarded as crazy or just plain ineffective (though it's not clear that this is actually true), so you definitely need to indicate that this guide -is- based on autoskilling -- otherwise a lot of p...

5.) Once you get your first wand, STOP! Turn Evocations off Hold on. You never said to turn Evocations -on-. In fact, just a few steps ago, you implied it should be -off- already. EDIT: unless you are using auto-skilling mode and that is why you are expecting Evoc to end up enabled. If so, it's sig...

^ I certainly think that the current situation, where I can start with a book of Conjurations but still need to pick up a random flavoured book from the ground before I discover that -that- book is Conjurations, too, could be improved. It seems a little silly, overall, that you wouldn't know the 'fl...

AFAIK XL is not factored in to monster generation, only effective DL (each of the different branches have a 'base DL' from which the effective DL is calculated based on depth into the branch). Your experience looks pretty typical for a character with atrocious AC, unless you are forgetting to mentio...

(XP level × Fighting) / 8 cannot be called a linear function, it depends on 2 variables (not counting HP aptitude and mutations) After more testing, I agree that it is not effectively a linear function (EDIT: actually, neil explained this. I think. I'm tired and need sleep) I haven't considered the...

^^^ Looks good to me! On the subject of this: Tracking Inventory - Keeping all of your consumables in one place allows you to easily take stock of what you have and what you're lacking. Also, poring over your inventory may remind you that you have resources you'd forgotten about, and which would hav...

^ That's a very self-aware statement to make :) I don't believe you misinterpreted my original post intentionally; But I feel obligated to disapprove of distorting the facts, no matter how accidental it is. its a linear 2.2% increase This is your misinterpretation of my statement. My actual statemen...

^ There are two kinds of people: Those who have good reading comprehension, and those who don't.

That way is known as Wizard Mode, and it is vastly underused.

If you think you need to know these equations (hint: you don't), then you'd better be prepared to deal with complex integer arithmetic. DCSS calculates everything important using integers -- "2.2" isn't a thing.

Recently I got 2 Trog vaults in the same game.. same DL, even. So I'd bet it's possible to get another Veh altar. Just unlikely. I think the idea with the flame altar is to pop a potion of resistance (and if you don't have one, sucks to be you), much like the .. SIf Muna? one that's surrounded by de...

^ You don't need an excel sheet as-is, as I pointed out in my post. The equation is linear, with a ~2.2% gain every level. Fighting=8? 17.6% more HP. Fighting=13? 28.6% more HP. I'm doing these calculations in my head, which I am not even that good at. at fighting=27 you get 59.78% HP boost; using t...

After some testing, I realized Fighting can actually be this bad. Wizmoding a FeWz (which should have pretty much the most terrible HP in existence) and setting Fighting skill to 27 raises MHP from 6 to 8! a whole 2 points for 27 skill levels. Of course, it's more realistic to expect that you would ...

^ Not a great user of Ctrl+F, are you?

Escape hatches don't connect, IME.

There should be no secret rooms anymore. If the room is not accessible via normal stairs it's probably a bug.

^ That it "increases your maximum hit points" is only useful to the metagame: it lets me know that if I want to increase my MHP, then training Fighting is a possible way to do so. But what is actually useful in game? In order of effectiveness: 1. Raise your character level 2. Raise Fightin...

^ Of course, if you go through a hatch instead of stairs, to a level you haven't cleared, you're basically taking your life in your hands anyway.

And you should definitely mention that that is a screenshot from an old version of crawl (back before the kenku->tengu rename)

It may have sucked more if you have been using that dagger, with little skill, against the ice beast. More than what? I didn't use the dagger much; I liked the AC and the ability to occasionally save an MP by delivering the final strike via melee. Certainly not crazy enough to use either of the men...

XuaXua wrote:
dpeg wrote:PROPOSED: Fighting skill increases your accuracy and damage in hand-to-hand combat, and also increases your maximum hit points, scaled by your species hit point aptitude and level.

Yuck, but there it is.

s/scaled by/proportional to/ would make it more readable to me.

@Amnesiac: Thanks. Would you be so kind as to explain why dagger is a bad base weapon, for a caster? (I normally opt for daggers because they have good speed with only a very small investment in weapon skill.) @XuaXua: Good point that short blades aren't necessarily the best long-term investment for...

Just found this in a Orc:3 shop with my HuCj: The +6,+9 dagger of Bread {speed, rF+, rC-, MR++} 1766 gold (btw I'm currently short ~500 gold to buy this) This looks like an attractive option given that my existing weapon is a +2,+2 elven dagger of protection Definitely more damage output given the d...

^ the same flavour of English that has 'Nukular' weapons. I should have known.

You are so far a remarkable contributor. Just a few errata: landluber Not that Seth hating slugs is not amusing, but somehow I don't think that's what you meant. rMissles Of all the common typos I see, this by far is the most annoying one. It's not said 'missels' or 'missls', so why would it be spel...

Acquirement can still give you bad items -- it's intentionally included. it's just that good items have more (statistical) weight. learndb gives a good summary: 1. Will give you a random item moderately likely to be better than a random item off the ground! See also ??<type> acquirement, where <type...

the ring "Vishoh" {-Cast +Blink +Rage rC++ EV+5 Str+3}

.. found with a caster character, naturally

^^ I like the contamination mechanic but it's weak in effect (I've heard several people say that temporary mutations are a joke). We also need to consider whether having spells give only contam will remove an important distinction (between spells that we want to discourage people from spamming in a ...

as opposed to Elyvilon's existing ability? ('p' over an evil weapon, or at lower levels, any weapon)

What gave you the idea that I missed the ironic intention? The fact that I replied seriously?

(this reply is also 100% serious

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