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Also an evokable passage of golubria would be a nice ability.

As already noted destruction is not inherently evil. Every DCSS player character is inherently a genocidal maniac anyway. Heck, most RPG protagonists are, going by modern standards.

I find it a good source if you read between the lines and form your own opinions; since the knowledge bot tends to either be too damn cynical or provides no objective opinion and analysis. Whilst the guides might not help you win and are indeed stupid in many instances, one does have to remember tha...

Of course, you can render this moot by immediately going in and changing the paperdoll. Apparently Crawl does not really encourage you doing RPG things like character customisation, but I'm always more likely to try and preserve and take fewer stupid risks with a character I spent ten minutes custom...

In theory, Trog's got eternity to try, he's a god and you're mortal, after all. He'll eventually win by sheer fluke, right?

Boots of kicking would actually be awesome for unarmed characters. Anyway, since we're cyc'ing here: The Iron Boots: -5 EV & Ponderous, but +2 AC, Immune to trample and removes penalties for standing/fighting in shallow water. (fixedart thats obviously a Zelda reference) The +27 Hat of Zot: Surr...

I don't think the idea of having to grind a certain species, particularly an early-spawning species, to get a summoning book is a good idea -- it incentivizes hanging around on levels until OODs start spawning just to get enough vermin corpses. However, even if this were a great way to get summonin...

crate wrote:The question is why do they step into tele or alarm traps.

They're saying "Look how much fun it would be to have teleportitis and shoutitus, master!"

So ... I was wandering around in the Abyss as a DS magicker of Chei wearing the Hat of Pondering and in two moves an Ancient Lich and some equivalent nasty blew me up. Yes, it was dumb (I could have totally Stepped from Time in the second turn), and I'm not bothered that the game killed another mor...

This god is narrow in focus in a way that almost no other gods are -- Kiku, Trog and Veh are the only ones that come close, though Kiku and Veh at least will help induct people into their specialties , and Trog supports all sorts of magic-free characters. On top of that, I feel quite strongly that ...

I think the stat shuffling, if kept, should be more like the 'wobbly jelly' it's trying to imply; as in, it only shifts 1 point around, but does so rather rapidly and randomly (every 500 turns or so). And it shouldn't be weighted to anything in this case. So it might be possible to be horribly STR n...

His gifts are great IMHO. Sure, you get some stinkers (I recall getting the '-1 Shield of Fun and Games {rPois, -2 INT}' directly after the Shield of the Gong fixedart once), but that's part of the fun. Getting bonus arrows and javelins makes being a hunter nice.

Armour only affects unarmed and throwing delay btw. It never affects attack delay with a weapon, melee or ranged. Only shields do that. I could've sworn I recall being slowed down by armour in the past but I may be misremembering that. But I certainly remember things along the lines 'your scale mai...

I dislike his dislike of charms, hasting allies is fun This is true, so do I, but you've gotta have some things as balance if you're going to have more summons. If he's a god associated with swarms and summoning, he really needs to have at least one of his abilities provide allies. Just as Vehumet ...

I like that idea for the 2*, actually, probably more thematic as well. On the other hand, the 0* is the core thing (the whole point was a return to the old versions of Spamammals and Savage it with dogs which made summoners so fun in the older versions), so I'm reluctant to let that go completely. P...

Vathoros: Emperor of the Swarm Gains piety for: Discovering new monster species, offering corpses- 1 in 4 chance of getting 1 piety, (none for killing). Gets angry over: You using Charms school spells [loss of piety], Abandoning him [Penance]. 0*= ‘One of the Many’ Summoning Support: Whenever you c...

Sprucery wrote:Yeah, it's too bad they're on the same breath timer. I remember having a naga with spit poison and breathe flames once. Somehow I just thought frost would have cancelled the flames.

Its clearly cold-fire from that point onwards.

I think the installer might set your morgue directory somewhere in your appdata folder (which is a hidden folder, thanks Microsoft), but I'm not going to try it myself to check. If that is the case, go into My Computer and type %appdata% into the address bar. Gets you there in a jiffy. Obviously, y...

Presumably, if you used the installer, it would likely have placed Crawl in your C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory (with no x86 if you're on an older non 64bit system). Though I wouldn't know as I use the zips myself.

Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear about shields: I have that +4 Shield of Protection that I equip with the +9 Quick Blade when I'm up for spots of melee (you'll see in the action chart at the bottom I do that from time to time). Typically this is when it looks like I might be dangerously surrounded. An exam...

Ah fair enough. Does abjuration even work in hell? Since they're not summoned demons, they're just the 'locals', so to speak. Can't say I've tried, my only trip to hell was with TSO's help on a Fighter. A Zig is likely your best bet in that case I think (EDIT: Ninja'ed by sandman). STR is a good bet...

If you've not found any of 1-4 AND those are the quality of your RandArts, you really do seem to cursed by the RNG. Did Vaults/Elf have nothing much of use? Nothing in your stash you can use? And what of the shops? Hells can be a problem without god backup and without a stack of the correct resists....

Also: picture of the current stash etc. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjimm/Hollyn_zps38077ceb.jpg Other discoveries of note ⋅ Since ranged attacks cause no hunger, you end up eating less than you might expect as a Hunter. ⋅ Armour does fuck all to ranged attack speed,...

First time I've played a Centaur, and I have to say, with the right equips they are just as deadly and horrifying as your early encounters with them in most D floors! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (tiles) character file. Hollyn the Crack Shot (Centaur Hunter) Turns: 74268, Time: 09:59:43 H...

^ agreed ^

If you're the kind of person that has urges to read a wiki every time you see something new and there is no clear data on it (I know, I'm one of them- alt-tab is my greatest friend), having at least that basic information straight on the interface would prevent that!

Red - +3 Fire; -2 Ice. rF+ Breath unchanged. Mottled - +2 Fire; +1 Spellcasting; -2 Ice. rSticky Breath unchanged. Purple - +3 Spellcasting; -2 Fighting. MR+. Breath unchanged. White - +3 Ice; -2 Fire. rC+ Breath changed to freezing/slowing effect like Glaciate. Damage uneffected. Silver - +3 Earth...

Hand weapons D - the +11 trident of Odghisk (weapon) {flame, rElec rF+} (You acquired it on level 3 of the Lair of Beasts) It emits flame when wielded, causing extra injury to most foes and up to double damage against particularly susceptible opponents. It protects you from fire. It insulates you f...

An enjoyable read if you ignore the argument about xbow stats.

Omega Good job, sir.

There's a far stretch between summons being a joke skill compared to .12 summons and it being an actual joke skill. And yes, permanent summons are problematic. Twisted res in particular was ridiculously good in the days where you could, for a minimal investment (say 10 necromancy), have dozens of l...

I don't love it when I find that Summonings is now a joke skill compared to its days in 0.12 when I last played (where are my spamammals!?) and I also find that Twisted Resurrection is going away soon... do the devs hate permanent minions now or something? :shock:

"Mundane and average"? Is that how we represent ourselves in a game? How about "a race of strong, intelligent, dexterous, industrious, hard-working, adaptable, ingenious, resourceful, multi-talented and flexible?" Srsly, I rarely see anyone play humans (except one person, you kn...

^ Thanks. Figured as much. Happens every time though at the moment; so I wonder what causes it? Never had that on my old machine in 0.12; and my new one is vastly more capable (not that it really matters for Crawl). Since the screen flickers a little bit when it terminates full screen I'm wondering ...

Just leaping in this topic to save creating a new one (I also haven't played since 0.12, but have just picked up 0.15.2). For starters, thanks for the various init files; some useful stuff I've liberally grabbed and copypasta'ed from everyone's files since my old init was on my old machine and never...

Ah, ok, thankyou, got it now.

Hi, I've just come back to Crawl for .12 (last played in .10), and it seems things like save & exit are no longer on the command menu, and are now always relagated to the system options tab. Anyway, probably just my OCD showing, but I hate the system tab being down there, and I'd like to force t...

I'm curious what screen capture programs any of you use. I have some nice stashes which I would like to take a picture of, but I'm having a very hard time finding any programs that I can use to take pictures of crawl. I use Hyperionics Hypersnap. http://www.hyperionics.com/hsdx/ Mainly as its the o...

XuaXua wrote:I would totally use the chaos brand more often if it didn't randomly literally shaft you.

Huh... I didn't even realise it did this. Never seen it, and I've used Yiufs staff quite alot.

What about the Elvish Cloak bonus to Stealth? (always wondered how good that was~ is like Stealth++?)

Yeah, it happens. I've not booted up Crawl in nearly a fortnight in order to take a break from it since I've also had the same thing (with 5 characters between 11 and 27). Sometimes you just need to take a step back for it to become fun again.

Don't think I've ever claimed to be good or even offer good advice. Nor have I ever said streaking discussion is m00t. So its all good, right?

What I mean to say is, it's a game. It's supposed to be fun. It's not really important to everyone to end up streaking awesome chains of combos. It isn't to me. Maybe I'm crazy, I don't know. I like what some people do and how driven they are about this game but please remember us casuals. High Fiv...

June 27,
Dear Diary,
Today, somebody mocked the uselessness of the wiki. Crawl marches on.

I think most Minds would be insulted at being called mere AI ;) Haha, yes indeed. The books / official backstory do specifically mention Earth and that it's not a Culture planet, at least not at the time of the books; it's hinted at as a young civilisation that the Culture are actively investigatin...

Yes, Consider Phlebas is a bad way into the Culture. Fortunately, I read Player of Games first, which is a magnificent book; and it's possibly one of my all time favourite Sci-Fi's. I have Phlebas on my shelf only for completionist purposes. Frankly, I love the idea that humanity becomes a bunch of ...

TehDruid wrote:
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This took me a while... Each tile is 7x7. Laying all of them was boring enough, lol.

Now you just need the airship mod, so you can move each piece individually by riding it into battle! :lol:

If you want the Sigmund version of "the most interesting gentleman in the world", get it here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... igmund.jpg

Besides, saying "Yeah, that's right, I live in that and it's all mine." is pretty cool. ^^THIS^^ Making an entire homestead, complete with all the Better Than Wolves stuff is quite enthralling. The other part of note is exploring and seeing the hilarious crap the world generator spews out...

That would be a very nice option for the game to support. Although most of the time I'd like them off, I think I'd also find ghosts more interesting from time to time if downloaded.

You see a Goblin. The Goblin Shouts!
The goblin hits you.
You miscast Shock.
The air crackles with electricity.
The goblin hits you.
The shock misses the goblin. The shock misses the goblin. The shock hits you.
The goblin hits you.
You die.

D1, 186 turns, RIP.
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Well, if you think there is effectively just a net gain of +0 with the robe. However, your +2 Robes are effectively +4 AC when compared to this one. Still, extra slaying bonuses are nice. If you want to shape yourself into more of a glass cannon, go ahead, just hope you find Phase Shift or something...

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