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Last i checked, green rats can still cause problems on the early Lair levels where you're most likely to see them--esp. if you don't have appropriate resistance or a decent weapon when you arrive. I always thought of them more as a 'check' that way. I don't even recall seeing them anywhere else othe...

dpeg wrote:Backgrounds in Crawl never give game-modifying features; that is left to species and gods.

i meant species. tired, have insomnia. subject adjusted.

just a random idea i've been playing with. would it work? you are a shapeshifter. all weap/armor slots in your basic, unshifted form are disallowed, as they would interfere with your ability to shapeshift. you are given a few very basic forms to start the game with. after, you may shapeshift into th...

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You know you want to. You know you want to be cool like the rest of us. You KNOW you want... horns.

galehar wrote:I won't miss you.

Hooray! That's a pretty big immersion-barrier tackled.

Stabbing them works if you can catch them asleep. I one-shotted an Orb once with a stab on a SpEn. If you worship Fedhas, they'll fall surprisingly fast to an Oklob garden. Just be careful not to attract the whole floor at once. I made that mistake and my Oklob garden didn't last long after that. h...

i think you're assuming a lot of givens in making that statement, and even then, i don't have much of a problem with that kind of 'shoehorning', since it seems realistic to me. but as we're now hijacking this thread, i'll respectfully bow to your superior expertise and assume that the STR weighting ...

haha... ok, fair enough. we can offer sympathy if you change your avatar to something other than the sexy shoeless god of war. otherwise, you know, you had it coming

you have a STR 24 char and you're using a quickblade. Strength weighting is utterly irrelevant. Nothing wrong with using a quick blade with 72 str and 1 dex. huh, you're right, my bad. i ran the numbers through the DCSS lab. that's also absolutely ridiculous, practically speaking. so there's no wea...

Aizul is the only enemy i've come across that seems to victimize you with chain sleep, and i think, as far as a unique goes, it's fair. Respect him/it. If you have either rPois or Clarity you should at least have a fighting chance. more than anything, it sucks that you pulled him/it as early as Orc ...

you have a STR 24 char and you're using a quickblade. you didn't use your potion of speed, even when cautioned that you might drown if you didn't make land. you don't seem to have tested out the ring, to know that it wasn't re-evokable, beforehand. you drowned in an ICE CAVE, where the water is mayb...

since you're playing 8.1: repel missiles is your first priority. one poison dart from a kobold can end your game on D:1 and D:2. training this spell will also give you the spell levels you need at L3, when your better spells can be accessed. save those spell levels (don't start picking brands, altho...

i don't think you'll find a lot of sympathy on the boards. you made the *choice* to assault the castle. you didn't need to do that. you could just as easily have gone to L6, ignoring both Blork and the castle for the time being. if i get one of the orc castle/vaults with two warlords and two high pr...

I've taken a small score out with no rF--it's not impossible--but i wouldn't advise it. you just have to hit *really* hard and *really* fast (say, freezeblade +haste(speed) +swiftness AND flying +berzerk(or might/agility) +finesse +herosim) take tcjsavannah's advice, add this: use corners. lure, ret...

Does branding a weapon (say with flame, or ice, make you more visible to monsters/reduce stealth checks?) or is that just my imagination?

sry, missed Galehar's most recent post.

Not to ignore the entire discussion, but isn't this character now, effectively, exactly what most of us imagine a Reaver is or SHOULD be? Multiple blade/weapon ways of inflicting damage, quick-healing, and hard-to-kill from afar. Add in swiftness as an added touch, and call it a day. Reaver. Almost ...

i'm also guessing part of the real reluctance to the Silence change i propose is that, for casters, you could double-or-multiple-silence, covering even more ground. that's a problem, now that i think about it, although i can't imagine you'd get enough scrolls of silence to do it more than a couple ...

silence is mostly an offensive weapon. you use it before a battle, not when things go wrong and you must flee. technically, depending on char type and if you know how to use it, it's both. it's defensive value actually outweighs its offensive value in the game, although i agree it is often used mor...

part of the reasoning for silence is that, IMO, scroll powers don't emanate from the caster, they emanate from the scroll. currently, silence doesn't help you run away, which would be its major use, IMO. if you get out of range of the spellcaster, it can currently ping/nuke you. What if the scroll ...

galehar wrote:
QTQuazar wrote:i can't help but disagree on scroll of summoning though. abominations have 27hp--they're wall paste by mid game.

abomination stats are randomised. They'll lose their effectiveness about mid-game, but so do plenty of items.

I have to learn to stop quoting from the wiki... :oops:

ah, too bad, i think more could be done with these scrolls strategically, but just my opinion. perhaps HW could have an improved effect, as proposed, if you aren't currently worshipping a god at all? i can't help but disagree on scroll of summoning though. abominations have 27hp--they're wall paste ...

Three scrolls in mind in particular: Holy Word: I think Holy Word should not only cause the usual dispel/convulsion damage, but should also have a high-random chance (scaling with monster HD) of slowing, confusing, fear, or paralyzing affected enemies. Right now, the scroll is basically useless by t...

If you are mesmerized by mermaids or sirens (or Ilsuiw herself) and are in a position where you're going to die, you cannot C-tele away normally out of the zone of mesmerization. You can, however, select a deep water tile within the region of mesmerization to C-tele to, and will then port off somewh...

true story: Morguefile, 3:11am, June 13, 2011. Level 18 HE crusader. So I finish killing Roka, Boris, Agnes, Aizul, Rupert, Frederick, Xtahua, and Donald, all slumming down in Snake. I'm in really good shape this game, equipment and character wise, but I need a breather, so I go roaming along Elf: 3...

On the bright side, however, your character-naming abilities clearly rank among the best of all Crawl players. :) Hahahahaha... i suppose Merfolk would be somewhat, uh, disinclined towards clothing. I don't even want to know what he was crusading for... :P take heart... i have about 850 chars in my ...

NOTE: it isn't stated in the wiki that zig tomb levels block teleport control. be aware! The reason this isn't stated is that it isn't true. All deep ziggurat levels can block teleport control. Tomb levels are no more likely to do it than any others. ah, just my luck i'd get CTele every time... :( ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. 7940513 Q.T.Quazar the Meteorologist (level 27, 234/234 (251) HPs) Began as a High Elf Crusader on June 21, 2011. Was the Champion of The Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes (of 15 types) on June 27, 2011! The game lasted 1day 14...

All 4 Pan runes done, the lords weren't much challenge (Cerebov went down like a creampuff, compared to Antaeus, who had me down to 33hp).... haven't been able to find an exit so i'm screwing around on another Zig. I'm probably an idiot, since i haven't had my first win yet and this is now officiall...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Q.T.Quazar the Meteorologist (High Elf Crusader) Turns: 188589, Time: 1, 06:27:45 HP 228/228 (235) AC 29 Str 13 Exp: 27/3112820 (34631) MP 46/46 EV 31 Int 30 God: The Shining One [******] Gold 12129 SH 29 Dex 20 Spells: 17 memorised, 3 levels l...

Hmmm... you should post your char details at time of death... none of those monsters should have posed a serious threat to your char at L27, even after a major battle, unless you were totally out of health. Even then, DMSL + a deliberate berserk back to the stairs (since it boosts your health) would...

1. scroll of acquirement: on 5 armour calls, boots 4 times. and not good boots. except for the last which was a +0 boots of speed. of course, i've had a +2 boots of speed since about D: 5. am i missing sth, or is the RNG just laughing at me? my other armor is seriously pathetic (at L27, no less) 2. ...

I regularly play a HECr. I'm not an expert on Pan/Zigs yet but can maybe help you until you get up there. Most of this advice comes form stuff players gave me over time. First off, above advice from xrbob about Long Swords is accurate--not an efficient use of skill points beyond L14-16. The new weap...

priorities before taking on anyone or thing that can banish you: Best: Swift+Fly, or Boots of Lev+Control Flight, or Haste (unlikely), or Wand of Haste, or (if nothing else) some mode of Berserk (though if you don't get far enough, you're finished--maybe just buys you time to try a few other last di...

Time to start practicing Slings until you can ditch the zerkitis. The good news is that Trog will keep you supplied with ammo. agreed. and you're not really in bad shape, since you can mostly mitigate those mutes with appropriate ring+amulet, and work towards mutation potion roulette by mid-game. s...

On average, about how many empty inventory slots should I have when heading into a treasure trove? Since I can prep for it, what critical equipment should I be carrying?

What code do i need to add to what file in order to put a query halt before drinking potions of CMut? I just accidentally wiped out everything good about my character when trying to drop a potion in my stash. :( Also, in the Ossuary with the 9 pillars, in the secret room to the SE (the corner ones h...

I've acquired a +10, +6 katana (god gift). Perfect primary weapon, and I'm still early in the game (Lair 8, no sub-branches cleared).

What brand should I vorpalise it with for maximum results?

I'm 3-0 against Mennas playing melee style. Swiftness, Flight or Finesse are crucial (don't like to engage without at least one of them) IMO, and a mid-level summons (I use the fan for air elementals) also helps a great deal I keep running into him on Shoals 3.

thanks all for the help. for the record, my wonderful warper got shredded by 4 Sphinxes in the Tomb. looks like i learned something about the importance of MR today. or maybe just to carry around the amulet of stasis when i come back next time.

Your weapon skills are way too high; it is not worth raising them beyond the level needed for minimum delay. Ah, thank you. I wasn't familiar with that concept. You have pretty bad intelligence for a high elf; you should pick intelligence over any other stat if you are casting spells at all. My equ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. Q.T.Quazar the Blademaster (High Elf Warper) Turns: 238528, Time: 1, 15:14:18 HP 157/157 AC 19 Str 27 Exp: 27/1298201 (4) MP 42/42 EV 24 Int 22 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 9799 SH 33 Dex 24 Spells: 16 memorised, 2 levels left Res.Fire : + . . Se...

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