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IIRC, it was one of my many failed attempts to streak some wins on a new account (like all of the other bats there).

Wikipedia says moss-forest blossom bats are threatened by habitat loss and they're on the red list :'( screw the whales, Greenpeace, there are more important problems!

The delay for swapping shields prevents using an xbow/bow and then swapping to a shield and melee weapon for melee, which would get annoying very quickly. UC is much stronger than other one-handers damage-wise at high skill levels, so having a shield penalty is a balancing factor (but it isn't very...

rasteroid (or anyone else who knows), I looked in the manual but couldn't find anything: does 'We cannot attack our allies in monarchy' mean I can't attack other monarchic governments unless I change my government under any circumstance, or can I find a way to attack them?

I don't know how WalrusMcFishSr did it, but in general: there are no undead early on that are faster than speed 10, and ice beasts are speed 10, so you can always run away. Exceptions are fast skeletons/zombies, but they don't follow you up stairs. Menkaure too, if he hastes himself, but usually you...

Tasoniraga(?) Also, for those that don't know you can tell sequell to alias your nick if you want aggregate stats for all your accounts on ##crawl [11:24] <Sequell> Mapping elynae => elynae elynaeandxom hyperelynae danceswithwargs mossforestblossombat* cretiantourist dwarfmountainbat huckleberryfin...

Also, tasonir, if you are the tasonir next to me (Ellie), I'm waiting for your shield to go down :p That could be interesting. You see, I signed up, poked around for 15 minutes, and then decided I shouldn't be playing while at work. Since then I haven't logged in again. I am not sure what you'll be...

Starspawn (edit: I mean starcursed masses) are very dangerous. If you hit them, they quickly aggregate back into one starspawn. So you should be fine if you can either attack quickly (use brothers in arms when necessary) or block LoS and flee.

Hi guys, just to share a few thoughts. Psi is not correct, you can not yet win enough gold to pay for autoharvest, nor terraforming. To justify autoharvest just a little bit: It's not unreasonable to charge for because it takes a little more processing power to check for autoharvest. It takes me ju...

MR does not affect distortion banishments, or any other distortion affects, at all. Losing Trog would be annoying, but more importantly, Trog wrath is more dangerous than the Abyss (he will summon multiple berserk trolls/giants around you, for instance). You have great AC and decent reserves of cons...

Is "being able to stop using ranged weapon and switch to using a one handed melee weapon with a shield, instead of a two-handed weapon" really a buff to bows/crossbows? (I mean I suppose it would be if one-handed weapons with shields were considered generally superior to two-handed weapon...

The delay for swapping shields prevents using an xbow/bow and then swapping to a shield and melee weapon for melee, which would get annoying very quickly. UC is much stronger than other one-handers damage-wise at high skill levels, so having a shield penalty is a balancing factor (but it isn't very ...

mopl wrote:New Immolation scrolls are awesome (you used to lose all XP for kills).

While that was stupid, it hardly affected how strong they were (compare the exp lost by using a few ?immolation, even in places like V:5, to the exp available in the game).

The antimagic demon whip is a good candidate for an endgame weapon (and thus, enchanting it would be a good idea). In general, most melee characters will prefer two-handers, but a big reason for that is the availability of good two-handers, and that no longer matters if you are lucky enough to find ...

Wear the CPA and the shield of resistance. rN isn't important at all.

Right, I did get a gold coin for completing chapter 1, but I used it for iron (a mistake in retrospect). Autoharvest costs 5 gold coins anyway. What irritates me is that you have to unlock an interface improvement rather than having you the most convienent interface right from the start. Autoharvest...

It is a pretty cool game (have been playing since Friday night) but the "no need to wake up at 4:00 AM to check anything" doesn't seem accurate. Maybe for combat, but since you have to harvest your mines at specific times for maximal efficiency, if one was to take the game very seriously i...

Guppyfry wrote: Flash freeze wand - Ok, I don't really know what flash freeze does, but I like the way it sounds. It makes me think of freeze dance.

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Maybe OP meant a player that was burning to death due to sticky flame!

From the OOD path it looks like the N wall was blasted away (and the NE wall was the only other wall next to him, and not orthogonally adjacent).

The slaying ring would be a better purchase. Before Zot, rF++ isn't important.

nicolae's point also applies to spellcasters + Trog, necromancers + good gods/possibly Fedhas, transmuters + Zin, anyone who has attacked an ally + Okawaru, etc, they're not specific to undead and demonspawn.

Having a monster be fully immune to ranged combat would mean that builds based on ranged combat can't interact with it, aside from running away. Shutting off options entirely is generally not a great idea, particularly when the options being shut off include the majority of the different attacks in...

Bcause it's totally possible for a scale mail to be enchanted to +20? The only armors that are difficult to enchant to max are CPA and GDA, both of which tend to be a bit too heavy for casters and unarmed characters. Not that you can't make it work, but I'd say it's definitely rare. It's rare that ...

and after a long long period of sexual frustration, the character falls into a kind of apathy and the status no longer confers any negative effects besides a subconscious hatred towards life in general the character themself doesn't know the root of

The orb chamber is always the same these days, there was a time when the layout was random but that was reverted.

All demons are immune to silence (though Geryon's horn isn't). I would rarely, if ever, raise a stat based on melee damage output; the relevant factors tend to be ranged weapons, spell power/success, EV, and encumbrance penalties from armour, in no particular order (however, note that reducing encum...

Zin forbids transmutation spells (and polymorph wands), yes. The other good gods don't.

They submerge if you hit them with a pole arm, and you can't hit them anymore. I think they should probably submerge unless more than one of them can hit you. Maybe if their AI is changed to never enter water that is adjacent to a space that is adjacent to only a single water space? That just reduc...

OOD spawns in Lair aren't very dangerous (and there comes a point where OOD spawns in D aren't very dangerous either, so you could e.g. go back to D:1 and scum it as a high-level character). Assuming you worship a god without piety decay.

Doing a couple more dungeon levels can be reasonable if you get D:8 lair. They might have equipped you better for hydra-killing (for which a Tr of Oka would want some fire/cold/draining/lightning wands, or large rocks/javelins). But even if they didn't, you should still go to lair instead of orc or ...

headcrab0803 wrote:Imo for the purpose of making faster weapons better against high ac dudes can be done by adding the previously discussed acid brand

If you reduce the practical differences between slow/high damage and fast/low damage weapons you also reduce the reasons for having the two different types of weapon.

Hunger is necessary in its current state to prevent strategies like scumming the Lair for exp. It also has some tactical impact (you can't spam spells with high hunger cost or Elyvilon invocations during a long fight). I wouldn't call it a brain-dead issue though you could certainly consider it non-...

Just stick with your claws, the polearm thing is never really effective and certainly not compared to troll claws, one of the best melee options in the game. The Necronomicon isn't useful either, but I guess there is at least a faint possibility of getting Borgnjor's Revivcation at some point so I w...

Isn't taking stuff that appears completely useless and not finding a use for it afterwards (because it's completely useless) the exact opposite of what point 'n' click adventures are about?

when i was 10 or so and walking home from school i saw this iron bar lying in a guy's garden, and i couldn't stop thinking about it. the next day i was very relieved to find it still there and i took it home and hid it from my parents. i don't know why they would have objected to me owning a piece o...

tasonir wrote: Won't be too terribly long before I can finally ruin great players with my awful stats

I've already taken care of that

by virtue of allowing ally creation, training necromancy itself adds value to your combat abilities, in a way that I can't quantify in terms of weapon damage. So my response is: I don't know, but probably, unless they have terrible int and necro aptitudes. ...if you have found good ally spells. If,...

For pain, I think necro is useful for many characters, so it should be useful for almost anyone who wants to wield weapons to wield weapons of pain. Would you say that most characters want to train enough necromancy to make a pain weapon useful? Most characters want regeneration, but I don't think ...

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it makes sense to make all the god gifted brands only appear on artes and from gifts or acquirement if you do it for two of them. But pain and distortion are both very interesting brands. With pain you have to consider that it's useless against a few enemies (how will you deal with them with other ...

Most bad mutations aren't that bad, yes, but some of them (teleportitis, berserkitis, especially blurry vision) are. There aren't any good mutations which have an impact that comes close to these 3.

Dragons would have to be ridiculously powerful (to an extent that is obviously undesirable) to warrant switching weapon classes/enchanting up a dragon slaying weapon. But that isn't the main issue with the brand, it's that it is simply not an interesting brand. Why do you think the game should encou...

an erotic tragedy in which stalin goes mad with jealousy because lenin and trotsky are a couple, arranges the death of lenin (the government didn't tell you about that bit, did they!), but trotsky rejects him even after lenin's death and then, inevitably, the icepick

They can also be ?feared, so try that next time when you are about to die to an unseen horror.

If anything, this change adds flavour because it makes Wyrmbane a more unique weapon and also I don't understand why every second gnoll on D:2 would have a weapon specially made for killing dragons.

Dragon slaying kills draconians and dragons very easily, but are they ever a big problem once you reach Zot? I would rather have a brand that isn't completely useless against egolems, orbs of fire, orb guardians and ancient liches.

in my favourite cafe they have a big poster that looks really cool and says that they have "uncensored literature" and i want to ask them about it, but i'm afraid instead of radical life-changing ideas i'll get some really weird porn, not that they're mutually exclusive i guess

Yet players cast multiple Charms on themselves near-simultaneously all the time for the added benefit. Or Sphere and any Conjuration. Tell me how that's different. Sphere costs 4 MP, so it's harder to keep up all the time than a 1 MP spell. But I guess that if you can keep battlesphere up all the t...

If Beastly Appendage stacked with every other form you would be casting Beastly Appendage and the other form all the time. It basically makes you cast two spells instead of one, i.e. spend more time and keypresses, without adding an interesting decision (if you just walk around with Beastly Appendag...

Xom should stay the way he is. Xom is meant to be the god of absolute randomness. I would love it if there were better ways to get Chaos weapons though, probably not through Xom at all. You know about the Disco Fortress of Pandemonium, a special vault that can show up, and the Red Devils there are ...

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