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I'm having a lot of fun with a Spriggan Wizard of Vehumet right now, I got some lucky spellbook drops / spell gifts and I just felt like rambling about how much fun I'm having with it and some other combinations. First, Inner flame is just fun, but dangerous. Being a spriggan plus having Blink help ...

I'll just elaborate on what I said above since some people have still said that vamp makes no sense for stabbing - vamp healing is tied to the HP damage dealt, so with the massive damage that stabbing does, it can give you a whole lot of healing. Naturally the best outcome of stabbing is that you do...

Chaos kicks ass on axes, I have to say.

Yeah, I know the stabbing damage is the same, but there are still pros and cons e.g. if you don't want to carry other melee weapons (or don't want to switch because your dagger is vamp or distortion), speed lets you stab more guys in the same amount of time, poison can be good for kiting with a spri...

Just curious what people like best for stabbers. I've become fond of Enchanters of Dithmenos but I have these niggling doubts about which daggers to carry / enchant. My top picks, in no particular order: - Vampiric - you can get a ton of healing with the damage you do on a successful stab. The downs...

I've got an XL17 MiFi of Yred. AC 50 and a pretty comprehensive set of resistances, thanks to the +8 orange crystal plate mail, Amulet of Cekogob, and Ring of the King. Feeling pretty unstoppable actually - I just marched into the Elf:3 vault and cleared it out like a drunken frat house. What I'm cu...

It seems to me it would be pretty easy to add a difficulty setting to the game. Monsters generate with more HP, less item generation - whatever seems to make sense. Let newbies play at level 1, and the players who need more of a challenge can play at difficulty setting 2 to 4. Setting 5 just places ...

Found this in a labyrinth with my XL11 MiFi of Yred: - the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAb} - the +3 battleaxe "Kumuas" {freeze, rPois rC+ Dex-1} And in a shop on D:7 I picked up this little trinket: - the ring of the King {rElec rF+ rC+ MR+ Curse} Usually I jus...

Well, I tried reverting to the Ex axe and not using the shield, but found I was having a harder time surviving fights. Then I ended up rebranding my broad axe to Chaos and there was no looking back. Chaos is a kick ass brand for the late game. Sure it occasionally hastes or heals an enemy, but for e...

Wow. The character is long since dead - not long after this post actually. Can't even remember what I took.

Yeah, Lugonu was not an option though.

A lot of people are saying Kiku - can you explain why? Forgive me if someone already did.

Dammit! This character was so promising - found a +5 ring of slaying early on, then a scroll of brand weapon that made my war axe electric, and a +5 ring of dexterity - I was set! Plus, Qazlal is fricken awesome, I'll be going back for more of that! Anyway, I was only XL 9, and I think maybe on DL 8...

So I found this nice little trinket in a vault in Lair. I've got a SpAs of Okawaru and am tempted to experiment with using a spriggan as a straight-up melee character - not stabbing, not using much magic. The -3 aptitude for polearms is a minus, but spriggans also have -3 in conjurations and play co...

Here's my chardump, any other feedback welcome: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.2 (tiles) character file. Glimt the Executioner (Hill Orc Fighter) Turns: 32964, Time: 02:46:34 HP 53/170 AC 28 Str 30 XL: 18 Next: 23% MP 31/31 EV 8 Int 8 God: Okawaru [******] Gold 1988 SH 0 Dex 10 Spells: 0 memo...

Also, haven't found any armour better than plain plate yet, needed more defense, and I noticed the shield slowed down my attack, so I thought some shield skill might improve my attack speed.

Cuz I'm stupid I guess. Haven't played in a while.

F - the +12 Executioner's Axe "Ajiffuac" {flame, rF+} I had been quite happy relying on a +9 broad axe of flame while wearing a +2 large shield. Now I don't know what to wield. Axe skill is at 22, or 27 when I activate Heroism. EDIT: I've cleared Orc, Lair, Spider and Swamp (this was a gif...

Yeah, it seemed like there was no item destruction but I wasn't sure. I also did not mention above that all wands ID on first zap - and there's been similar changes with scrolls, they all ID on use now. I think the inventory management was an issue where there was some discussion here, some ideas we...

Hmm, lots to think about. I'd probably avoid kiku because I probably would forget to use corpses etc. Might try Dith just because I haven't before. It's interesting to see the allplayers numbers, and specifically how common different ones are. A few are off the charts: Oka (4,449) Ash (4,269), Nem (...

Isn't Zin a good god that would frown on stabbing?

Didn't know nemelex had been reformed. I always read that he was good for SpEn but I found the deck management game too tedious.

I have not played DCSS in a while - like, a long time - and I'm liking a bunch of things that have changed. It seems like a lot of things that used to be kind of annoying are gone: Carrying capacity - I see no reference to weight of items anymore. Not being able to carry stuff was a drag and promote...

Just found the temple, and have also found the book of minor magic as well as a book of battle. Both books offer intriguing options but I don't want to spread myself too thin skill-wise. Should I start branching into conjurations, or more melee magic buffs? And given that I have this choice, which g...

I think it might have been me that came up with the original description. I think I was sort of imagining it within the game world, pretending other languages were things like Entish - truly, languages some player characters would never have encountered. In light of the point about English not being...

I just read about this: http://gamesondelay.kinja.com/dying-as-a-feature-dont-starve-and-impermanence-and-b-1625190832 In the game you wake up in a field or something and you just have to gather firewood, food and make stuff in order to keep from dying from starvation, insanity, cold, or big angry b...

Goblins & Hobgoblins Local 135 has been lobbying for this for years! Why not just brick up the dungeon entrance rather than expecting us to try to keep the riff raff out. Or just station a Balrug in the entrance chamber. But does Management listen to us? Nooooo. Instead they leave us scattered a...

Based on that link - are snails hermaphroditic? Or are they just showing us the anatomy of both sexes on a single diagram?

Note, I haven't played in a while, and it's been even longer since I've seen the orb chamber, so I might be getting some things wrong.

To me, apporting the orb is a tedious tactic, and should be removed. This is consistent with game philosophy. For example, Crawl does not allow selling items in shops for gold. This is expressly done so that players do not spend their time tediously scouring the dungeon for ring mails and clubs to g...

Here is the tactic I am having fun with: - Conjure flame. Some of the bigger baddies will walk right into this and stand there. - Battlesphere - Searing ray. Then wait three turns. Each turn, the baddie is cooking away in the fire - or safely on the other side of it, and getting pelted with increasi...

Yes, just getting into battlesphere now. Also cool. I like these conjuration spells that are not simply different flavours of blasting away at stuff, but actually add different tactical elements. E.g. with searing ray, you have to stay put and not do anything else. Battlesphere is also a summoned al...

Hey, it's been a while (both playing and posting). Love the new Vehumet mechanic. And the second spell offered, Searing Ray, is pretty gnarly. May be a bit overpowered, but I'm loving it. I also see stabbing is now eliminated as a skill. Nice change too. What else have I missed? Hill Orcs can fly? H...

Baldu wrote:Alright dude, this fun thread has now irreversibly entered creepy territory, i'm requesting thread lock.

Everyone crawl away from here!

Request granted. The inanity has to stop somewhere.

Tlwelwe, modding this forum is not a paid job. Grimm should not have harassed you. He was just being a goof. No malicious stalking or anything creepy. I am really not that active here at all, my last post before this was probably months ago. Maybe there is another mod that cares more about this issu...

and for an internet moderator you are remarkably cowardly for deleting one reply end completely editing another B-but it's one of my signature moves!!1 And the Founder was woken from his slumber to find that dischord was growing in the happy little tavern that he had established. This aggrieved his...

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My apologies if this discussion has happened before, but: What is the rationale for spellbooks all being unique, i.e., unlike wands, where once you know what one type looks like, you instantly recognize all others of that type, but with spellbooks, every new book is unknown until you pick it up and ...

I'm starting to see that Evocations can actually be a very important skill. In another game, a ring of invisibility was causing me some problems and I had like 16 Evo, and still getting contaminated more than I'd like from "miscasts".

In my version (trunk from sometime in the last few weeks) it's just a two-way toggle between off and on. When I hit _ for help I saw that Ctrl-D can be used to restore to default, but there's no visual indicator to know if the + by non-perishables now means "all" or "default for your ...

The speed dagger is the best for invisibility stabbing, at least with your current skills. The rest are useless except for the +Blink. Just curious, why is the speed dagger the best for stabbing? Also, is the damage component of an enchantment significant when considering a dagger for stab damage? ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1397-g08371cf (tiles) character file. 631330 Splat the Archmage (level 27, -1/133 (141) HPs) Began as a Spriggan Wizard on Jan 4, 2013. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Engulfed by their own freezing vapour (2 damage) ... on Level 14 of a ziggurat on Jan 9, 2013...

Oh well, died in Snake Pits. Apparently Blink is not a guaranteed escape from constriction...

Playing a KoBe, I was having no trouble staying fed so I decided to turn off autopickup of non-perishables using that brilliant new feature on the known items screen. But then I wanted it back on, and suddenly I was picking up bread rations and other inedible food as well. So now I have to just keep...

I think it's not "mechanical" traps that are the problem, but traps that cause instant HP loss. But I agree, such traps don't really add much to the game. If you encounter them while simply exploring, then you just rest up before continuing. But if you encounter them while in a dangerous s...

That's what I was thinking with the vampiric dagger too but sadly I never saw any massive heals from it, I wonder if this used to be the case but has been fixed? I have actually found the dagger of draining very effective, I believe draining takes quite a few HP, doesn't it? And the XP loss has been...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1397-g08371cf (tiles) character file. Hedbut the Fetichist (Kobold Berserker) Turns: 33268, Time: 02:19:12 HP 81/94 AC 15 Str 17 XL: 15 Next: 43% MP 32/32 EV 37 Int 5 God: Trog [*****.] Gold 1851 SH 23 Dex 21 Spells: 0 memorised, 14 levels left Res.Fire : + ...

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The Crawlmas mod should cause a minimum of 1-3 randarts to be generated on every level.

The trouble can be, after having an epic character like this, thinking your next ones will be as awesome and getting killed a lot as you keep playing as if you had that same character again.

Do I sense a new Earth conjuration in the works?

I read it differently. I saw King_jelly trying to stay civil when others were getting unnecessarily rough. He was a relatively new member but I'm guessing he won't be hanging out much more after the reception here. I'm not saying the ideas were any good but I don't think he deserved to be singled ou...

Here's another proposal. Assuming that Haste is just about a requirement for doing the extended end-game, and that therefore virtually all good players will try to get it with all their characters, maybe it could just be built into the game in a way. E.g.: - Player movement speed could be boosted as...

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