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Cursing one doesn't have any effect on skills, and cursing 2 is too restrictive for my current jewellery options. I recently started branching into necro and transmutation to go go spriggan lich form!, so it might be worth restricting myself to get that functional. It's a bit tricky atm, as my resis...

Xom is amused.

I've never taken a spriggan this far before, but I must say that it's extremely fun. I haven't been too concerned in any branch ends, leaning on high speed, monster sense, earth magic and my crystal ball of energy (best item ever). Scariest moment actually came in shoals when a bunch of javelineers ...

You may think you can take a hit, but a titanic slime creature will Crush you.

Forgot to add: I was also under penance for accidentally ice storming my daeva :P A little investment in evo would have saved my butt and given me teleport on demand, but of course I skimped. Totally sucks. I've had far less powerful characters blitz through zot 5. They weren't all cocky after effor...

Geez, Cerebov... I approached cautiously with a couple of daevas for back up. Cerebov hit me with a firestorm, which stripped almost half of my hp instantly. I back around a corner waiting to mug him with my back up. He quickly nailed me a few times, so I backed up to let the support hem him in. One...

Moot now. Got Cerebov's rune, then some more totalling 10. That cost me every piece of healing, so I thought I'd just pop by zot 5 and get out with the orb. Rounded a corner, ended up face to face with 3 orbs of fire, closely followed by an ancient lich and a few orb guardians. Splatted. Gutting, se...

Stumbling through Pan, I find myself in a blood red maze contemplating the nasty bastard ahead. That's right folks, it's Cerebov. I've read enough to know better than to think "how tough can he be?". Based on my set-up, do we have any recommendations? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10....

Just as damn well, too. Engaged with a random pan lord off hellion island, all of a sudden TSO starts getting pissed at me. The daeva I summoned gets pissed too, so I smack him a couple of times (duh) and make things worse. I realise I'm not helping by defending myself, so blink run blink run until ...

My first semi-successful melee character has now begun a real chance to do big things! The regular game is all but done, and I've beaten a Hell branch for the first time. Came across Ereshkigal and expected some brutal punishment, so summoned out a couple of divine homies and got to work. Ereshkigal...

I did ok with a melee ogre following a strict "if it looks a bit scary, throw a large rock at it" policy.

Okie seems to approve of my choice to go 2-handed as well! This is so much better than anything else I had available. Totally plotzed when he dumped this on me. c - the +13,+6 halberd of the Puffball (weapon) {god gift, venom, +Lev Str+2 Stlth--} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 6 of the Vaults) I...

Nice tips, fella. Since I put on that mottled armour and starting swinging around my giant's toothpick, I'm laying waste!

Hello, all. Rolling off the back of my 2nd relatively simple 4 rune win, I decided to push on with a melee type, seeing as I've never managed to get them to work before. It seems to be going pretty well so far. For one thing I'm not dead yet, which is a step in the right direction!, and starting to ...

Eaki Godsbane wrote:Why do all the critters of the dungeon go against the laws of nature and are intent on getting a piece of your backside?

I detect a subtext.
You're not prejudiced... Are you?

Next up, all possible race/class combinations?

D&D is packed to the brim with barrel scrapings to pad out new monster manuals. Like sea lions. They're actual lions that live underwater. The result of some demented wizard experiment, along with everything else that doesn't make sense. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/monst...

Best death evarz

Wait... Mountain Dwarves are being replaced by a new "Junkie" race now? really, will wonders ever cease? All he set out to do was cover the race. Ended up shambling past ogres, bats and snake people chugging bottle after bottle of whatever he could get his hands on chasing down the Americ...

Grimm wrote:Okawaru wedding gift: a pair of his'n'hers +0 rubber gloves.

Sounds pretty practical for an Okie gift. Perhaps an artifact sheath of speed.

Piece of cake! One slightly dicey moment on Zot 5 where I got semi cornered by an ancient lich and his legion, but nothing a sneaky ice storm or two couldn't handle. 15 runes next time! Really enjoyed the ease of magic use with this char. Not long after I would decide on a spell route I had quality ...

Trying to stay just out of view and just blast those suckers with ice storm. Pretty easy to do with controlled blink.

This is going exceedingly well so far. Cleared all the non fiendish branches, heading into Zot and the difficulty level of even the hardest monster is moderate if I stay on my hasted toes. I'd very much like a win and I can do it if I don't do something stupid like blast myself with an ice storm (di...

Why would you want to do that?
OVER_RIDE
You are reduced to molten adventurer in the lava tile.
You die.

Well, I've got that tasty cloak of preservation and an ammy of rmut. could always stick a staff of earth on if i need an extra dot of racid. Edit: Oh, and I'm also a friggin' idiot. I have a demon whip that's one accuracy dot from opening a treasure trove for me, and I accidentally blew 2 enchant 1 ...

Hello. Now that I've hit Zot 5 for long enough to die to 2 ancient liches once, the rest of the game just seems to be falling into place. Got a neat wizard going here. A staff of channeling and a spot of evo to keep mana topped up, OoD for the big guys, ice cloud and bolt of frost for everything els...

What skill levels do I need to get ice storm castable?

Very cool story. That took mettle, sir! Mettle!!

Why would you want to? It's a nice fail-safe against death by mis-click or mis-calculation.

I need a +6, +6 demon whip to get into a treasure trove and I'm stuck at +4, +6.
Is there some trick to getting these suckers enchanted, or do I need to keep throwing enchant weapon I scrolls at it until they stick?

This is turning out to be as good a character as ever I've had. Vaults cleared to 7, Elf cleared to 4 and now descending the dungeon ever so slowly with deadly, but slow, pointy knife hands. Where would be the place to go next? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.0-27-g8a39726 character file. Anony...

Hi, all.

Quick question. Is naga barding so rare as to be worth enchanting up a vanilla one before making ponderous?

Caution and gratuitous use of blink is doing for me in the swamp. Ignite poison makes short work of hydras, at least when I can get a bit of distance on 'em, which makes me utterly grateful that I FINALLY got blink. Problem on Swamp 5... The Lernaean hydra, Considering how much pain a mere 6 headed ...

Learned that the hard way. After a short, what the hell!?!? moment I just zapped him with evaporation.

The main reason I wanted ignite poison was for Snake. The hive part was just a bonus. I got a sneak preview of what it'll be like in a killer bee vault.
Bzzzzzzzzz... BOOM!

Bloody marvelous.

One thing I'm uncertain about is whether a monster walking through a cloud takes damage from each step regardless of whether you see it, or if he just takes the one.
And don't worry about me, minmay. I can die equally well with a fast character.

Noticed that in my current game. Pressing "s" instead of moving seems to give them fewer actions. Be nice to have this confirmed.

Another day, another attempt at not dying. Naga Transmuter, one I've tried a few times before, really enjoy and always struggle with. At the moment my mission is to gain 2 more spell slots in order to learn Ignite Poison, which ought to make Snakes, Hive and errant hydras a walk in the park. Where w...

Would also make excellent priests and exclusively worship the might Do'lar.

And also hubris. Thrice damned and buggered hubris.

I'll get you some day, you fiend.

Oh, never mind. Poisoned to death through stupidly underestimating a sea snake. Got away with SEVERE poisoning, blasted myself with an un-ID'd wand praying for healing and got a wand of random effects. Continued to blast with that and prayed for healing. Got it! Put on my ring of poison resistance, ...

Grimm wrote:Russian characters get innate rC++, and a single shoe as a starting weapon.

1 in 4 chance of having been assigned a weapon at commencement of mission.

Progress gained. Haste castable and working on freezing cloud. Lair cleared and Orcs attempted. Down in that hole I bumped into Nergalle, Aizul, Louise, Nikola and Saint Roka. The first two I took out, but after meeting the others I just said to hell with it and ran like a whipped cur. Attempting sh...

Just found a demon trident on the heavily poisoned corpse of Maude, and shortly after a great sword of electrocution.
I'm rocking the sword now, seeing as I have some skills and all.
Is it worth switching to polearms?
Are those tridents all they're cracked up to be?

And the next attempt at winning is a high elf air elementalist. Survived the early game with gratuitous use of shock and swiftness, and found some clouds to pwn the lair. Currently standing on some sweet spellbooks with haste and tornado, none of which I can use yet. Your skill advancement tips, gen...

It's good old fashioned slapstick comedy, I tell you. Any stooge-ly adventurer would happily do this if a door was all that stood between him and a m-m-m-monster.

Yeah, I did. Found a remove curse scroll at near starving, quickly went down to starving and in desperation tried to melee kill an iguana with woefully insufficient gear. At least one of us got a meal.

Too morbid, daggaz. I'm saving death to be my last resort!

No Kiku until I get a Kiku altar. One ration doesn't last -that- long with a ring of hunger on.

After a nice, comfortable start with my draco EE I seem to be racing against my own death all of a sudden. Wear IDing a ring, which I have every reason to believe is a bloody ring of hunger, was irritating enough. But now, having IDed every other scroll so far, none of them have been remove curse! W...

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