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Awesome to see another of us noobies ascending. Summon Dragon and Fire Storm would likely have carried you easily through the extended game. I think I'll fire up a DEFE next :) I'm sure they could have carried me, but like I said, I didn't want to jeopardize my first victory. 15 runes can come late...

OK, fine, I'm a 14 year old whippersnapper. And I remember cassettes too. I still watched a couple up to 2007ish. This statement pretty much prooves the Cassettes joke. When referring to cassettes, we aren't referring to VCR 'tapes'... Back in the good ol' days everyone kept #2 pencils around ;) He...

I found one that's neither fantastic nor terrible, but it has an awesome name: the +0 cloak of Idealism {+Lev Str-3 Int+4} You always have your head in the clouds (+Lev), never do anything practical (Str-3), but are pretty smart nonetheless (Int+4). Also falling into the "awesome names" ca...

It is not an arbitrary punishment, as there's a skill to prevent that. I don't like the mechanic of trading XP for items. It seems like a very forced attempt at making a skill more useful without making it more interesting tactically. And besides, we already have shops. What's wrong with having a s...

Playing a caster, you will find over a dozen armour shops and several weapon shops, along with no book stores.

Playing a melee character, you will find over a dozen book shops and all the armour shops you find will contain trash.

Yes, this actually happened.

After reading cerebovssquire's exploits with an XL20 DEFE (https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2670), I decided to try one for myself. Deep elves are just silly. They really are. Deep Elf Fire Elementalists are hilarious to play. I cleared D:1-10 and Lair with only Flame Tongue,...

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2658/boris.png The International Committee of Dungeon Crawling declared Boris to be a plague on society and stuck him in a maximum-security prison. (it's faded out because when I saw him in the vault, I decided I didn't need to do it after all and ran away. It was...

You just stumbled into a vault (a pre-defined area of the dungeon that can have special characteristics). The flame clouds are just a feature of said vault; the 'X's indicate that autotravel won't take you into that area.

The races actually have a pretty logical organization already. Human to Merfolk are regular humanoids, Halfling to Spriggan are small humanoids, Naga to Draconian are monstrous races, Demigods and Demonspawns are divine/demonic, Mummies to Vampires are undead, Felid and Octopode are special cases. I...

What are some good (3-4 hit KO) spells against Orbs of Fire?

Found a nice one in a shop recently:
- The cursed +10 plate mail of Smixin {+Blink +Rage rN+ SInv}

Pity the character that found it was a DEFE.

A hydra is probably too strong to burn down with Throw Flame, and hits too hard to rely on Sticky Flame, but that's why you have Conjure Flame. Hydrae will barge right through the flames, and you'll have another flame behind that one, and then another flame behind that one. Throw Flame will probabl...

I started the second thread back linked back there (I highly recommend reading it; it has a lot of tips relevant to you); I was in almost the exact same position you are (DrFE was, in fact, my most-played combo). I haven't used many DrFE's lately, and all of mine petered out at about the same place ...

bobross419 wrote:Do disintegration wands work on Trans Stone Wall?

Nope. That was my second thought (my first thought was to optimistically cast Controlled Blink)

edit: Okay, Control Teleport + Scroll of Teleportation works. Easy enough.

How can you get through a translucent stone wall into a Ziggurat (excluding Earth Elementalist spells / Lugonu)? Is it possible to cTele (not Controlled Blink, which obviously doesn't work) into it? As a related question, how many levels is it relatively safe to go through when one has Fire Storm (b...

Could just do away with the carry requirement completely and allow the selection of all skills (including 0 level) right from the start. Its not like its really difficult to pre-victory dance anything to 1 as it is then not use the skill until much later when its effective. It wouldn't really make ...

New item: Enhancer lajatangs.

I love it when I'm playing a Fire Elementalist and I encounter lots of OOD melee threats. D:6 troll? Sticky Flame. D:8 Hill Giant? Sticky Flame. D:9 Guardian Serpent who casts Teleport Other first turn in LoS? Sticky Flame. A few turns later: You feel more experienced. Mostly I just love sticky flame.

My vote goes to: 1. Changes to Hexes 2. Permabuffs 3. rPois changes 1: Hexes is the only school that gets weaker as the game goes on instead of stronger. Ensorcelled Hibernation, Confuse, etc. eventually peter out almost completely with every enemy having high MR; Invisibility doesn't fare much bett...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:What level is Lair entrance on? And what level is Snake entrance on?

That appears to have been the problem. Lair on D:11, Snake on Lair:6. I am no longer surprised.

If the RNG is kind to you with very few OOD monsters, lots of good items, and just about everything you need pre-Lair, it will suddenly turn on you and spawn Mara, Saint Roka, and Snorg just inside Snake:1.

I had no clue Mara could spawn that early.

What is the movement delay of a character with Swiftness, Flight, Boots of Running, and Haste? (starting from normal speed) I should also mention that I'm in .9, so Swiftness+Flight synergy still works. Also, would said character be able to outrun a Spriggan? Before 0.10, Swiftness + Flight give yo...

I play tiles offline and ASCII online. My biggest problem with ASCII is when I see a \ or ) lying on the ground I have to walk over it or X over it to see what it is. In tiles I can instantly tell if it's a sabre or shortsword or arrow or crossbow bolt. This is my biggest reason for playing tiles. ...

My favorite practical builds: MiBe (M&F with a side of rods) -- heavy armour and a large shield allow you to laugh off most every hit; demon whips tear everything to pieces, and rods are excellent for cleanup, among other things (-3 evocations means nothing when you're training four or five skil...

I think that the page sounds, in general, very reasonable and will go a long way towards making T&D feel more like the other skills, especially the trap creation idea. I'm a bit skeptical of monster traps, but I imagine they'd make more sense if I actually saw them when implemented.

I find they're best handled by coming back to them later when you can cackle maniacally as they're helpless before your new found power. Revenge is a dish best served freshly butchered and eaten raw. Or freshly butchered and left on the ground because really, why should you give them the honor of b...

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 as...

Killed themselves with bad targeting (100 damage) ... on Level 4 of the Crypt on Oct 8, 2011. Res.Fire : . . . Firestorming stuff with no rF is a really dangerous thing to do. Unless I'm mistaken, even one pip would have saved you. You are correct, and usually I would be wearing my ring of fire (I ...

Normally I wouldn't post these, but this was just too agonizing. I need somewhere to vent. So after my near-win with a MiBe, I've been trying the other side of things with DEFEs. I find that the early game is usually a breeze; Flame Tongue takes out most easy monsters and Sticky Flame defeats the re...

What is the movement delay of a character with Swiftness, Flight, Boots of Running, and Haste? (starting from normal speed) I should also mention that I'm in .9, so Swiftness+Flight synergy still works.

Also, would said character be able to outrun a Spriggan?

Troll Rock Armour and Troll Iron Armour are both really awkward-sounding names; I think it might be better to just call them Rock Troll Armour and Iron Troll Armour (this would also fit better with the dragon hide armours).

This was all after I had cleared Mines:4 and was cleaning up. So...9 uniques in side branches of the Mines. I was laughing by the time I fought Uruk.

When imps find wands of lightning, death is not far behind.

If I hit a monster, then charm it, and another monster kills my charmed monster, do I receive xp for the death? It looks like it. I tested in wizmode and gained a level after my damaged slave was killed. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Led/morgue-Led-20111006-234702.txt Are flame traps supposed t...

Interface improvements will come. Three hopefully simple ones: 1. inscriptions for food items: d - chunk of giant frog meat {edible if hungry} e - chunk of orc meat {edible if very hungry} 2. currently inedible (but edible when hungrier) food items coloured brown If this is a choice between the two...

Okay, I've changed my mind. After finding some success with a Fire Elementalist, my new favorite spell is Ignite Poison. I cannot remember every having so much fun in Crawl as when I cleared Hive by spamming it. ...even when I used it while standing over a bee corpse and burned my scroll of blinking...

Confidence Interval wrote:
Mackerel wrote:First played around Memorial Day this year

When's Memorial Day?

Late May.

I'm just curious which version of Crawl most people play. I started out playing Console exclusively; I've been playing roguelikes since I was six, and learned to love character graphics. I played this way for my first few weeks, and then decided to give Tiles a try. ...as it turns out, Tiles changes...

That Ice Dragon guarding an ice cave in the Lair? You're not ready for it.

Lost my most promising caster yet. :/

Started playing in August, got my first rune a week or two ago (after several hundred games, because I don't value the lives of characters very highly until past the Temple). Shortly after that, I got five runes with a different character. I haven't won yet, though.

No, damage and to-hit are only on the weapons themselves, so only your +6/+8 sabre. Question - Could I, as a mummy, collect a ton of armor; switch to Cheibriados, spam Make Ponderous on all of my gear to turn them into artifacts, and then abandon him, wait out his relatively harmless punishments in...

I don't really see why a food clock exists anyway. Let's be honest: it only matters for berserkers and high level spells. Exploration hunger has never mattered except for maybe trolls. You don't want players spamming high level spells or going berserk for every fight then any other system could be ...

If you use [code] tags instead of [quote] ones, the dump will be nice and contained instead of stretching the page out a ton.

I'm not sue abut the wrath, though; I'll let a more experienced Crawler answer that question.

but something like this is terrible: ############# .00000@00000. ############# :idea: How about zapping that wand of digging which is taking dust in your inventory? Apparently this doesn't work: !lg ragdoll place=zot 6 -tv (this shows a cloud trap spreading into a corridor that is dug... note that ...

there's no need to reform acquirement as a whole. (body) armour acquirement could be bettered, is all. also (and despite your efforts), there's no need to test jewellery acquirement (nor wand or weapon acquirement, for that matter), the bots ( see ) are quite clear as to how it works. I just had wi...

dpeg: yes, my sample size is 1 in the case of the fullplate. This is sufficient to support the claim that the algorithm should NOT return an item which is so well beyond the scope (or variance, if you will) of the players skill set. In this case, we are talking like six sigma or more. This event sh...

Together with the Hive cut the food clock might actually make itself felt at times, but don't hold your breath yet. The food clock making itself felt is exactly what I don't want to happen. The only way it make itself be felt would be if there was a significant threat of starving to death, and that...

Here's my final morgue: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.0 character file. 522706 Grimtooth the Conqueror (level 27, -4/243 (249) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Berserker on Sept 28, 2011. Was a High Priest of Trog. Splashed by acid (8 damage) ... on Level 3 of the Realm of Zot on Oct 4, 2011. The gam...

Well, you had initially talked me out of it very well, and I went on into Zot. The turn after I entered, I was cast into the abyss. I wandered around, lost 10% HP because I forgot to wear rMut for a nexoqec, entered Zot again, got sent into the Abyss again 17 turns later by the SAME DRACONIAN, wande...

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