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Congratulations :D I love hearing these success stories <3 That run was so epic I asked my 12 year old daughter to press the last "<" key for me; she is a connoisseur and plays from time to time. Her younger siblings (twin brothers) enjoy pressing "o" and "tab" and mos...

Congrats on your win. For future reference, a shield (or large shield) is pretty good on a TrBe. I considered using one, but one of the aspects that I find more difficult to grasp in Crawl is Skill Management. My skill point allocation tends to be all over the place - that's why I decided to keep i...

Hi guys. Just wanted to share my first win in 10+ years since I've been playing this game. I feel that I couldn't have made it without the invaluable help from "A Guide to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup" by Ultraviolent4 (if by any chance you're reading this, know that you ROCK!). EDIT: Just to ...

FE: Flame tongue most things until you get sticky flame, using throw flame if you need longer range and conjure flame to hold monsters back or kill mindless ones outright. Once you get sticky flame kill just about everything with that. Get fireball because you will still want to kill things at rang...

Thanks everybody.
Sticky flame is great. But will these spells be enough to get me through the late game (3-runes)?
I've just discovered that EE have a lot more trouble early on than FE - sandblast and stone arrow are no match for sticky flame, inner flame + fireball, IMO.

Hi there, I'm currently playing a Gargoyle EE and would appreciate some tips on what higher level spells I should be aiming for (never played Earth Elementalist before). Also, concerning FE, I usually clear the Orcish Mines and the Lair with a combination of Inner Flame + Fireball and then end up de...

Seems now you can go in Orc up to 3, Orc:4 can be a nasty place but you can try and see... You may want to train some more Bows I usually like Polearms on a Centaur : high speed allows you to kite easily You can also stash items in Lair (empty wands, some scrolls and potions) Sound advice, tks. Wha...

I'm learning things already. Archer the Markscentaur (Centaur Hunter) Turns: 23918, Time: 01:59:14 HP 43/103 AC 36 Str 17 (18) XL: 13 Next: 77% MP 20/20 EV 16 Int 10 (11) God: Okawaru [******] Gold 809 SH 0 Dex 17 Spells: 0 memorised, 12 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See Invis. : . S - +4,+0 great sw...

nordetsa wrote:If you play on console, you can get your character dump on 'morgue' folder.

Ah, thanks! Attached it to this post.

It's my first time playing a centaur hunter (and my 1st time as a ranged character as well) and since things are really going great I decided to come here and ask for some advice on how to stay alive. Right now, "Archer" is a level 13 Centaur Hunter of Okawaru and he is wandering the deepe...

It's all fun and games until somebody loses a server.

Jabberwocky wrote:Probably about a week after 0.11 comes out. So shortly.

Joy! A new version and a tournament! Collect all the runes!

So, I was wondering, when is the next tournament? Are the tournament dates published anywhere?

cerebovsquire & CommanderC, excellent! This is the kind of feedback that I was looking for. Thanks.

Hi there, Need help on playing a Demonspawn Hunter - I've never tried playing Hunters before so all advice is very much welcome. Here's what I thing I should be doing right from the start: 1. Turn off all skills except Crossbows and Dodging, with focus on Crossbows; 2. After running out of bolts, tr...

the instructions on the front site are pretty self-explanatory: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads you can also just open a terminal and type "sudo apt-get install crawl" (or crawl-tiles), but you'll probably get an older build (0.8 on my system). Absolutego, feeling really dumb ...

Hi there, Could anyone please provide step-by-step instructions on how to install Crawl on Ubuntu? I'm a newcomer to the Ubuntu scene and I'm still trying to figure out the basics, such as installing stuff and controlling the urge to get back to Windows 7 asap... Hope that didn't sound too much of a...

tasonir, the reason I've tried this build was precisely because of your guide. Being a long time player of Crawl, I feel that one of my weak points is that I've yet to grasp some key concepts like skill management and other stuff - for instance, it was only after reading your guide that I understood...

Oh, what is this? A wand of Haste, you say? My, my, this is just what I needed! I'll zap the bugger with this, then super-haste him with Bend Time and then Slouch him out of his boots! Yes! Perfect! Plus, the wand of Haste is displayed in RED letters, so it must be super-effective, pokemon style. S...

From the knowledge bots: Bend Time: Slows down everyone who's standing just next to you, after a making a (Monster HD)d3 > ((16+INVO*8)d2)/2 check. If it succeeds, the monster resists. So by using this, you're actually reducing your Slouch damage. Hum... interesting. Note to self: Must pay more att...

So one of my most successful characters so far, a Naga Monk of Cheibriados, is happily steamrolling everything in its path on D6 or D7 when suddenly an enemy appears (a named character whose name I can't recall, but it wasn't Sigmund). He looked very dangerous, though, so I wasn't about to take any ...

galehar & BlackSheep, kudos to you.

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I really feel that the high score table is an important part of the game because it gives me a sense of achievement and allows me to keep tabs on my most successful builds.

Tried changing the parameters around a bit and it looks better now. Thanks for all the input.

There are two ways to get there. Either go to your saves folder, and open the scores file with a text editor (the formatting makes it kind of hard to read raw though), or open crawl, roll a new character, enter wizmode with &, and then quit, taking you to the scores screen (Using wizmode keeps ...

Does anyone know how to display the highscore list that you get after your character dies? I've checked the manual and it doesn't tell anything about this.

Hi there. I would like to change the in-game resolution to something that allows for larger icons and fonts. From what I've gathered and tested so far, if I set the following parameters in tiles_options.txt: tile_full_screen = false tile_window_width = 1024 tile_window_height = 768 I get a window th...

Pteriforever wrote:ToME has sound, but it's basically five music tracks across the entire gigantic game with an explosion and a slashing sound as the only sound effects.

How does ToME compare to Crawl? I've checked the website and it looks nice enough. I've tried other roguelikes but, for me, Crawl reigns supreme.

Zzz wrote:I messed up on the html. Yay me.

Drama button - awesome. And appropriate.

Desktop Dungeons had sound back before they sold out. It worked surprisingly well with a turn based game as it is. I hope to hear the future of crawl someday. Yes, my thoughts exactly. However, I could never get really far in Desktop Dungeons, because most of the time it felt more like doing math e...

AtT wrote:Are you trying to keep me from doing my research paper?

Oh oh... I know that feeling... Must resist the dark side... Noooo....

And that's because there's no sound.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with Darklands music and sound effects (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ymOA3ajgo) -- now that would be my cup of tea.

...and then Kitty was swarmed by a really, really large number of orcs in the Orcish Mines and lost one of its lives. I consider this to be a minor setback and will kill them all after having a short nap.

YES! This kitty went to Hell and back! Must print this on a T-shirt!
Couldn't have done it without the tips

Thanks for all the quick replies. Levitation isn't an option - been throwing them potions around thinking they weren't all that useful. Guess I was wrong :) So the basic idea is just to run away from everything, correct? I do have a couple of decks of escape and also a ring of teleportation. I'm ass...

Ok, for the love of Nemelex, I really don't want to lose my lvl 14 Felid Transmuter that has just been sent into the Abyss. This is my first time there - how do I get out? I worship Nemelex. I would provide a char dump but I don't know how to take it.

Any greatly appreciated! Tks!

Crusader has been removed in 0.9. It has been replaced with skald which starts with 2 spellcasting and 3 charms, so I'm not sure what's going on. I tried rolling a DgSk, and first spells are at good. Are you wearing armour or a shield? Damn, I've just noticed that I'm running 0.8.0 on my laptop and...

Hi there. I'm currently playing with a level 5 Demigod Crusader, with INT=17, spellcasting lvl 1 and charms lvl 1. He has a book of War Chants right from the beginning but all of its spells are ranked "useless" - I can't even memorize them. Is this a bug? This is my 1st play with a Demigod...

My most successful character so far is a Vampire Summoner named "Bastard".

Thanks all for the advice. I managed to get myself killed on D:9 or thereabouts but at least now I have an inkling on what the hell I'm doing. Alas, once more onto the breach! Make way!

Thanks for the input, everybody. Let's see if I can last a bit longer this time around

(a) a transmuter does most of the fighting in forms, so you don't want to disable the unarmed combat skill, nor use melee weapons. (b) being hungry does not impair your skills (unless you're starving), but you want to be at the highest satiation level possible. eat whenever you can. you may pass a ...

Hi there, newbie here. Great game & community you have here guys. Ok, I'm still learning the ropes here and would greatly appreciate it if you could enlighten me on the questions below. Here we go (I'm playing 0.8 - trunk, right?): a) My Sludge Elf Transmuter is a pretty neat character, with goo...

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