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Kill all of the things Boogersnot the Executioner (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 46143, Time: 02:20:21 HP 132/186 AC 35 Str 31 XL: 19 Next: 16% MP 21/21 EV 7 Int 5 God: Trog [***...] Gold 3593 SH 0 Dex 14 (15) Spells: 0 memorised, 18 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. : + a - +5,+4 executioner's...

robes and leather are essentially the same when it comes to spellcasting, don't worry about the difference.

however you should wear the robe. But never ever berserk in it.

I usually don't post these, but check out the kit on this guy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11-a0-3198-g6e5327a (tiles) character file. Boogersnot the Severer (Deep Dwarf Berserker) Turns: 14455, Time: 00:39:25 HP 96/109 AC 20 Str 30 XL: 12 Next: 69% MP 24/24 EV 8 Int 5 God: Trog [****..] Gold ...

The word was in a thread title, I kept seeing it over and over and it bothered me. Yes, this is the Internet and profanity is everywhere. Doesn't mean it has to be here. I don't get angry at profanity on a message board, because it's not worth getting upset over. It's not a huge deal, just one perso...

I like that spell skills and weapon skills are fundamentally different. Not everything has to work the same way. Yes, but this has more to do with flavour and balance. Try to image if the most powerful weapons in the game required two or three skills to be brought to min delay, casters and hybrids ...

Don't bother with slow if youre a spriggan, everyone is already slow to you.

I usually dont bother because there's a very good change of finding swiftness or haste anyway. Would you rather slow one monster, maybe (slow) or slow all monsters for sure (swiftness)

The best amulet in the game? It's about as good as a couple potions of resistance, I guess. Trade you for a rmut, rage, faith, conservation, or almost any artifact amulet.

Can we please keep titles of threads clean? Thanks.

My basic rule on shields is bucklers for casters. Otherwise nope.

What that's called is startscumming and yah it works, but it is super boring for me. If you want to do it, OK.

For me because of some handicap I have, it's difficult to play, so I have to make every move count. Almost all of my characters make it to lair.

Let me put in another vote for a curse overhaul like the one I suggested at the end of the other curse thread. The basic premise would be 1) curses aren't sticky and instead do something else, 2) there are no scrolls of remove curse (or maybe a very rare 1-item target scroll), 3) curses appear on o...

I agree. we should just remove every race that has ANYTHING in common with another. Its just unacceptable. This means we should only have humans, Felids and octopodes as playable species. clearly all these humanoids are far too similar. But why stop there? look at all these backgrounds we have? jus...

High elves are honestly just good candidates for removal. They don't really have any interesting hooks other than 'being elves' that are stereotypical as possible, and they don't have any interesting features as a species. Their weak aptitudes are carefully placed to be as irrelevant as possible, s...

Eat a contaminated chunk:

"Eww, that didn't taste good, you spit most of it out!"

Lose the chunk, gain some fraction of a chunk's worth of nutrition.

carnivore mutation removes or ameliorates this effect.

Mmm, love eating some delicious 'meat unit.'

How about removing nausea and making it so that: if you eat a chunk you get x nutrition Contaminated chunk is x/2 nutrition except for carnivore 1 , who gets full nutrition from contam but cannot get "full" from chunks. Carnivore 2 lets them get "full" from chunks. This would be ...

minmay wrote:While we're at it, can we make all these different food items take up only one slot in your inventory?

If you do that, you're opening up a big bag (of holding) of problems.

Where would it stop?

New players tend to fixate on the wrong thing to work on in order to get better at the game. How should I distribute my skills? Is this god/background/race combination good? Should I use weapon A or weapon B? Those things are good to learn, but far less valuable than learning how to properly engage...

Thats the way it looks on my netbook too. no real problem with it.

You get at least 50% xp just for showing up but in practice the "less xp for summons" thing doesnt really affect the game much

He complains about the map being too hard to see... using dark grey text on a black background...

All of this discussion is rather silly to me.

"Curses are too easy to get rid of, so they're irrelevant"

"You're right! Here's fifty different kinds of curses we can try!"

It doesn't even solve the 'problem.'

the ONE time that the forums are used to make a change to crawl, and it happens in the Advice forums. Hahaha.

Wow, looks like you've got it all figured out then

Sorry to so rudely offer advice ^_^

(but dig is not required for Orc, and DH + MA is a fine combo)

In my opinion Shadow Creatures is really inconsistent. Shroud is pretty useless. Just pick up Mass Abjuration so you can cast Demonic Horde with impunity (if they go hostile, send em back where they came from.) Turn off Summoning for now. But its a huge waste to train a skill just for the chance of ...

pratamawirya wrote:
Jabberwocky wrote:Adding rHellfire to the Sword of Cerebov would make sense.

No, I think it'd be overpowered (since rHellfire also gives 100% rF).

Ummm... once you have the Sword of Cerebov, it doesn't matter...

... because you no longer need the Sword of Cerebov.

For some reason I thought the general consensus was that Okawaru was too dull. If that's not the case, then that's fine. But I'm also surprised that the fact that Oka is fine as is the focus of the discussion--anyone have things to say about the ideas presented? . Somebody already said it above, I ...

Bloax wrote:
Deimos wrote:And I'd suggest something like "It burns through your resistances!" to make it extra clear, in your example.

I think this is the best solution.

This still implies that resistances do something

I'm not a purist but if it's not turn-based, it's not a roguelike.

to "HellPain" or "HellAttack" or "HellOuchies" or anything which doesn't have "Fire" in it

That way it would be clear that rF does nothing.

I can't think of a good reason NOT to rename it.

drag0n wrote:I tried this out with a high level DsFi and it didn't make a noticeable difference. Too bad. I wish there were more unusual combos like this that had a big impact on the game.

"Unusual combos" usually become "go-to strategies" before long...

Without native app support I cant bind diagonals I think the problem is that if you bind left to h and down to j, then down-left sends h+j instead of b. You could bind down to j and left to ctrl, then down-left would send ctrl-j which you could macro to b, but then you couldn't go left because you ...

I definitely think autotravel / autoexplore could be smarter. I believe the game calculates "tension" which is some measure of the level of danger. A rat on the other side of some lava should not break auto-explore. And once you are XL10, a rat standing right next to you should also just ...

This sounds like something pretty fun, but the improvements of the monster (and loot) should scale with player level. Not for anti-scumming purposes, but for making sense ones. Perhaps even have the monster scale a bit more for every additional kill it gets. This could potentially result in some wa...

I think using burden for piety is a clever idea, but is it taken as a percentage of your capacity or as an absolute amount?

Yes that would be an extremely useful feature for me.

with my setup it is press and release, it can be configured either way but my thumbs are slow.

Something which I have not discussed before is that I have a disability which makes typing slow. Essentially I type using my thumbs. Recently I rebound my gamepad (generic PC 'dualshock') to input commands into crawl. this works great. I think lots of people would benefit from true gamepad support. ...

Bleeding isn't nearly as cool as it should be.

BlackSheep wrote:to unequip your weapon, press w then -

Or, techincally, you can also press d then the weapon letter

I tested this around in wizmode in zot with a high-powered character. It basically gives you a single extra turn before death. I wouldn't waste the amulet slot.

You are training way way way too many skills at once! Turn at least half of those off. Others will have more indepth character building advice.

Anyway, to answer your question, stay out of spider lest you get splatted.

Draconians should get bonus to hunger for eating sheep.

Octos should get bonus to hunger for eating fish and jellies.

Centaurs should be allowed to eat grass/bushes.

I'm definitely not fighting that iron dragon as the turn I noticed it left me at 30HP. I thought I closed the door on it, but I later saw it roaming the level - can dragons open doors? Only one dragon can, the unique Xtahua. This is neither here nor there, but in my dialect of Malay, Xtahua means &...

Following on from that, I have meant to ask for a while whether there is some rationale in terms of game design for some resistances to have levels (rC, rF) and others being binary (rPois). Is there? It kind of makes sense that rP would mostly be binary, because you're either poisoned or you're not...

Does anyone use Summon Hydra? Ever? The short duration of this spell and the level req to use it seems a bad match. At the time you can use it so many better summons out there. Maybe upgrade timer or remove it altogether? Or is there a niche for SH summoners? If you were to theoretically take out a...

Hi, Playing a DsFi and found an amulet of rage on D2. Was considering going either Okawaru or Makhleb ... just wondering if the "rage" from the amulet stacks with Heroism etc. from Oka, or if with the amulet I'd be better going Mak? Thanks, Dez If you're actually planning your god choice ...

Here's my little humble opinion: doing the MfAK thing is neato, it adds a tiny bit of coolness to the game, and it's absolutely worthless to do it (in game terms.)

Why change it?

galehar wrote:A summon can attack a monster only if it and its target are both visible to the player. This only applies to free summons, not permanent allies or god gifted allies.

Do you mean "within the radius of LOS of the player" or literally "what the player can actually see?"

I chose Unarmed Combat for my beastly Minotaur Berserker. However my character still clearly is using his arms to hit enemies. This should be fixed.

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