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Spaceward Ho! That's a name I haven't heard in a while. Watching my dad play that game is one of my earliest gaming-related memories. I never understood people who play console instead of tiles. I can't speak for everyone, but I play mostly console because the roguelikes I played before Crawl were ...

so, just to doublecheck, if we play hellcrawl we can now do absurd xomscumming with all races instead of just mucks?

intriguing

This is amazing. I am beyond excited to watch this game. Brilliant job, PurpleRed.

Who was the person covering notable Crawl wins? This game would certainly make for another interesting story. I have this pattern where I drift in and out of Crawl without warning for months at a time. I always keep an eye on things, though, and seeing this win and now the new highscore by PurpleRe...

Okay, update time! Sort of. See, I had a hard time making the qw one interesting as I was going through it, distracting me for that crucial long-enough-to-get-out-of-the-habit moment. I have it about 66% done, though--all the watching and photo gathering and everything is set, I just need to do the ...

If you mean theoretical fastest you also do things like leave one of the demonic crawlers alive, not kill anything in the kobold/eye room, etc. Yes, these are single turns, but you are talking about a theoretical limit. You should not talk about theoretical limits in crawl. Also you don't close the...

Tricky question to answer. Assuming maximum helpful RNG... well, insanely fast. That would assume constant blinks to ideal squares, though. Let's break down a more realistic option, assuming same RNG as this (all monsters stay asleep): Currently, we have the following: 67 - Hog room 128 - Orb 172 - ...

Already put it in YAVP, but thought I'd stick it here for reference as well. Red Sonja speedrun.

Whee! I just had the luckiest run I've ever gotten in the Sprint map Red Sonja. I had I'll get a bit technical below. If you don't care about details, watch the pretty movie. If you obsess over them, read on! First, a bit of background: The old speedrun method, used by pubby, involved using Dithmeno...

You know something embarrassing? I try all sorts of tricky challenge runs, and even do pretty well at some of them, but I still haven't learned to use many invocations in combat. Honestly, after early game, I completely forgot shadow form was a thing. I forgot shadow step most of the time as well.

Zotwaltzing. I skipped a few frames, but the general idea should still come through.

I smell a bit of overconfidence. I think you didn't clear the depths - what about doing some more of it *now* before diving into Zot? For more XP = HP, for more consumables, maybe a good item? Maybe rF? Good question. There are two reasons I didn't do this. First: it wasn't that sort of game. I alw...

I got so close. Argh... I got so close. Someone on ##crawl suggested it might be fun to try a branchless (no orc, lair, or vaults) game where you obtain one rune from each of hell, pan, and the abyss. Instead of going the sensible killdudes route, I decided to pull out a SpEn. My one goal: get Contr...

It's not practical or reasonable to discuss DD outside of the context of DD*Makhleb, Ely, Pak, or Trog, since that is literally the way DD was designed to be played. It's like talking about Sp*Chei. It just doesn't make sense. DD is not number one because of DDAK, it is number one because it's incre...

Oh, sure! You can find it here: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rcfiles/crawl-git/demonblade.rc

As you'll see from the top line, it's basically MarvinPA's rc with a few personal touches added. I'm a big fan of his changes.

Yeah. Instadeath by banishment makes no sense since being abyssed has no bearing on skill and has no real material advantage attached, so I took that part out of the challenge. Playing a challenge game is a lot more fun when you don't have to worry about ^Qyesing when a reaper has a distortion scythe.

The DUHZ challenge: Win a game by going through dungeon, depths, hell and zot, and nowhere else. You must get all 4 hell runes, kill all 4 hell lords, and kill the serpent of hell. You are allowed to enter temple and any portals, not abyss (except by banishment, but you must escape as quickly as pos...

It takes 30 auts and gives you 1.5 move delay, which translates into two turns of action before turning fully to stone.

Did you mean my Crawl init or my terminal init? If it's terminal stuff, I'm a bit embarrassed to say I don't know how. Regardless, it looks like the problem had to do with my terminal settings after all; I can solve it with the line > export TERM=gnome-256color It defaults to another value, though, ...

Thanks for the feedback and the ideas, everyone! Glad to hear you're enjoying the stories. I really like the idea of commemorating a game mysteriously lost from the score list, so I'll keep Charly's in mind for the future. I'll look into what to do with the animations in the future, since there's be...

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Well, #3 is here! This was a very different experience to the past two games. Lots of fun stuff here! prozacelf, I hope the balance struck between animations and stills works in the final album. I used them only for critical moments where seeing a bit of animation struck me as interesting. If animat...

I played some games with enchanted forest and I considered it to be harder than crypt. Interesting branch but it didn't really fit thematically - what about players who switched to TSO and wanted to get full piety in crypt for blessing their endgame weapon? I mean... that's one of the biggest reaso...

Scalding Steam wrote:Seeing how AlphaGo is all the heat these days, I think it's a good time to document qw's first win

I actually love this idea. Thanks! I'll most likely cover that after I finish this current one.

Great mace, great sword, helmet, troll leather armour. Maybe one or two other things.

A preview for Crawl Legends #3, now with animation!
https://i.imgur.com/HYiZFP7.gifv

Depending on how things go, I'm hoping to have this one out in the next few days.

Congrats on your first win! That's awesome.

I honestly think the Fire Elementalist background would be better without throw flame. Throw frost is fine for IE, but I almost never memorize Throw Flame on my Fire Elementalists. If you need extra range, you stick a conjured flame between you and the distokobold/ogre/foo attacking you. Throw Flame...

I am intrigued by the potential food removal has to turn every chaos knight into a mummy chaos knight with curing.

Stay in the dungeon until the world ends 200 million turns later.

You might have more luck asking on the irc channels, ##crawl or ##crawl-dev. More people there have experience with that sort of thing.

nago wrote:Probably this is worth of embarrassing deaths db's entry.
One of the best death I've ever read here!

I concur, and so I added it. This is a death worth remembering.

Well done getting through Vaults:5. That's awesome! To answer some of your questions: Invisibility will certainly help against draconian packs, which don't see invisible, if you need extra insurance against them in Zot. That said: The cloak of starlight is a much better choice right now. rElec is ba...

http://webzook.net/soup/morgue/trunk/giantspikedclub/morgue-giantspikedclub-20160309-061821.txt
This was a good bug. May it rest in peace

but on a serious note has the patch been pushed to all servers or is there still hope of playing a goodpak game somewhere

wheals wrote:There is nothing new under the sun.

But this is one we cannot take back by a mere button-click.

I've been trapped again

I strongly disagree that DEFE is really hard for new players. Yes, it's fragile, but it's straightforward and powerful from the beginning. I recommend them largely because they are one-note characters; you don't need to balance a lot of things, and they let you get used to magic and only magic befor...

http://imgur.com/a/GQ9e1 The first picture in this album shows, more or less, the way my Crawl looks currently. Most importantly, most colours are darkened, and the darkgrey (for useless items and squares outside of LoS) is now the same colour as the background. This doesn't quite make Crawl unplay...

How large is the Korean roguelike community?

Actually people who post in-progress characters to advice get yelled at to go to CiP. Which is silly. I think there's probably a better arrangement for the Advice / YASD|YAVP|CiP / CYC forums. Maybe: Discussion (YAVP(?), "Best Artefact", "how does stealth work" threads go here) ...

How strong is a +72 club, compared to, say, a +9 giant spiked club?

This sounds awesome. Thanks for posting it! I'd love to see the whole source. Always good to see more projects like this around.

So in other words, a return of pre-0.15 Tukima's Dance?

giant mosquitoes (insects. Can't pacify them.) You could pacify most insects back then, though, that's how he clears Hive. Were giant mosquitoes special-cased? I don't remember, though when I played they were called "vampire mosquitoes" (and were using blowfly stats?) already, I think. Th...

did Rob walked into it without realizing it was there? That is correct. He was running from the mosquitoes and the bat appeared on the edge of his field of vision, then right in front of his path, in the space of 2 turns and about a quarter-second. I had to replay it several times to see exactly wh...

For a future write-up, I'd love to see a comparison between sapher's NaWz and sapher's later DDWr. I bet there's some interesting contrasts to be drawn between these two speedruns; you might also make a detour to point out that PurpleRed probably would've beat the NaWz run if it hadn't been for one...

Rob the Almost Pacifist http://imgur.com/a/dow49 Hey, everyone! Stories from Crawl History is back, this time highlighting the story of Rob the Almost Pacifist (thanks for the suggestion, nago!). This game was a very different experience to the previous one I profiled, but satisfying and engaging i...

When I was starting to learn Crawl, the simplest conjurations build for me to pick up was DEFE of Vehumet. In the early game, you just have to make sure you're only taking on one or two monsters at a time, but flame tongue is strong enough to take most monsters out. When you get conjure flame, you c...

It's very, very hard to get maximum spellpower. From memory: At 27 skills, you need three enhancer items (ring, staff, archmagi) and 30 int or two enhancer items and 50 int. At some point, increasing power becomes a much less significant concern.

I think we're gonna try a run without thanks for any of the things. It may be terrible, or it may not make any particular difference. But please don't keep on with the "thank" spamming actual threads. The whole point is to try to keep signal-to-noise a little higher in threads with actual...

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