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It's probably possible to make a rogue-like that doesn't use permadeath. A big part of Crawl is accurately making risk assessments over and over. If you take away permadeath, you take away the penalty for taking dumb chances, and you take away the incentive to make the risk assessment correctly. The...

Hey khalil, I sympathize with your frustration since I'm a fellow newbie. I wanted to make sure you didn't overlook this crawl-specific tutorial. It helped me a lot. Crawl git quickstart guide: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/develop/git/quickstart.txt You mentioned just...

I realize not all crawl players used to play nethack, but I did. I loved that game. Nethack did not have uniques distributed throughout the dungeon like Crawl does. Most uniques appeared very late in the game. A loose (very very loose) Crawl analog would be if extra-special-unique-of-your-choice was...

I was only on IRC briefly before being called away, but a couple of points came up: *Adding new mutations one by one was favored over any immediate attempt to rework the whole system. This makes a lot of sense, since there's no point in trying to reorganize anything major unless we develop enough co...

cjo: Great news! Would you do me the favour and try to establish contact with Cryptic? He's a crawl dev interested in DS, and just yesterday mentioned something about them. He is most easily reached on ##crawl-dev. Just send him and/or me a message (!tell Cryptic). I would also be very happy if you...

Thank you for the collection, you have convinced me that maybe that could work. There are some good candidates there! Let's try putting together a new mutation system. My first attempt would be the following: 1. One scale type mutation, from the current list. (maybe some of them should be adjusted ...

If you want to change things, it's best to create a new branch and make your changes there. That way you can easily switch back and forth without losing anything. I did keep my tinkering separate from my regular crawl install, but do you mean I should also make a separate branch each time I start a...

Now what if the effect was passive but not always on? You'd have to trigger it but not via the 'a'bilities, but through action on the battlefield. There is a chance to trigger the effect whenever you attack (not just kill) a monster, depending on the rough assessment of the monster's threat. Since ...

How about this: If you defeat an enemy whose HD is high enough, there is a chance that Okawaru offers to destroy a piece of the enemy's equipment and give an equivalent piece of equipment in your inventory the brand or enchantment or base type of the enemy's weapon. If you say no, you can pick up t...

mumra wrote:
Code:
git reset --hard HEAD^

Here's some more information on the git reset command: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-reset.html

Thanks, both for the command and the link!

I wanted to mess around with Crawl code, so I consulted the stickies and used msysgit via the following quickstart guide: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/posting.php?mode=post&f=22 I had no intention of submitting code at this point, I was just testing my own ability to make changes to the code ...

What dpeg is saying about power makes perfect sense to me. It isn't that devs shouldn't consider power. It's that if a core mechanic is good, the power can always be balanced one way or another. Pick the mechanic first, then adjust for balance. I don't like the "chaining" mechanism because...

I love playing DS because I find the random mutations hugely entertaining. I love the ideas in this thread--some would need adjustment in order to avoid being too extreme, but there's a lot of great suggestions! You no longer naturally regenerate mp, you must consume magic items (books, wands, rods)...

There's probably a thread like this already, but I couldn't find it, so... I've been away from Crawl for a while, and have been trying out .11 this week. I love the new tiles! They really look sharp. I especially noticed all the plants in the lair and the different entrances and exits. The trapdoor ...

I think confusing touch got nerfed awhile ago. It didn't seem as effective as the last time I used it. I don't track all the changes but it does seem weaker. Confusing anacondas was awfully nice, though. I had originally been planning to learn invisibility eventually, but I think that wasn't a good...

Char dump, followed by long ramblings: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. Reghaina the Black Belt (Demonspawn Monk) Turns: 35064, Time: 04:13:49 HP 119/119 (120) AC 12 Str 12 XL: 16 Next: 55% MP 24/35 EV 18 Int 17 God: Okawaru [******] Gold 1597 SH 0 Dex 17 Spells: 8 memorised, ...

After clearing Orc and Lair I, wanted to confront Erolcha, who I fled from before (is this correct english??). I thought I was extra clever casting an Orb of Destruction on her and then quickly blinking away, to reduce the risk of being banished. Well... I started the Orb and then blinked... exactl...

This is my 1st win for 0.10. I haven't played Crawl since 0.9, so I was a bit rusty. Still, ogres seem to have gotten a lot easier. My previous ogre win was pretty hard. <snip> I went into 0.10 almost completely blind, so seeing all the new changes was nice. I like the changes to the Orb run and al...

Congratulations! I too am a less than stellar player who only plays offline, so I am thrilled by your triumph!

Standard disclaimer: not an expert. Your skills as they are look pretty good to me, so congrats on keeping them focused. Haste is a good goal. Another good goal IMO would be summoning. You have some nice summon spells available - abjuration combined with summon demon can give you a lot of firepower ...

My go-to combo when I am feeling discouraged is vampire stalker of kiku. These guys initially can't sneak up on too much, but it's fun when they can. So I one-shot stab things when it's possible, muddle through most of the "regular" fights with dagger or short blade, and use evaporate to s...

I like distortion weapons because I think they can be a kind of cool curve ball. I don't mind them in the early game. Moving them to D5 and lower would be fine, but keeping it as is would be fine too. It's not that I usually want to wield distortion, it's just that distortion acts so differently tha...

That is the freaking rocket-jumping double-flipping Xom-enraging Trog-arousing problem, dagnabbit! How to read this ridden ankus-beaten wand-affected quokka-destroyed Fedhas-recycled spelling?! You swear beautifully :) These words were designed to look alien and menacing, so the obvious pronunciati...

Congrats Shwa! I love your posts because of your enthusiasm and because you're one of the players who has to Try Everything. I do think you sometimes take comments by forum posters more personally than they are intended.... a lot of the regulars are optimizers, and if you ask them for advice (or occ...

This is more about what branches I find fun and entertaining than about midgame balance: Orc: having multiple levels is neat because the paths up and down can be complicated. You often can't clear all of the early levels without going deeper so you can take a different staircase back up. Shoals: a l...

Taking the above advice, I concentrated on developing invocations, unarmed combat, fighting, dodging, transmutations (to get blade hands reliable) and spellcasting (to drop the hunger rate). This worked really well, but eventually I got myself killed by a hostile executioner. I didn't notice that it...

Char dump (trimmed): Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0 character file. Freya the Grappler (Yellow Draconian Transmuter) Turns: 24496, Time: 02:32:20 HP 85/85 AC 14 Str 15 XL: 12 Next: 56% MP 28/28 EV 13 Int 17 God: Makhleb [******] Gold 2141 SH 10 Dex 12 Spells: 10 memorised, 4 levels left Res...

I cast my vote for seven of the listed options, including enhancer stave... it's rare but it has come up. My favorite is conjure flame. I love seeing them creep over the flame columns, then finally try to run away by backtracking over the same flames that roasted them to start with. Serves the mindl...

As a player who doesn't win very often, getting a rune is a big deal to me. Even though they don't do anything, it feels like a big milestone. I would voluntarily play rune levels earlier if I felt like I had any chance of surviving them. I used to finish Snake before finishing the main dungeon, jus...

I really liked Swamp the first couple of times that I survived to find it, but I found over time that Swamp has become tedious and does not have the same replayability as the other branches for me. * Swamp worms: these alone would be enough to make the level tedious. They are never really a threat, ...

I find the ice vaults frustrating, not because they are bad, but because they seem awfully tough for the level I find them at. I can rarely complete them.

My favorite vault ever is the humble sewer vault. It has so many versions, and all of them are fun. Hard enough to be exciting, but not so hard they feel unfair. No matter how often I find it, I am always thrilled to see a glowing sewer grate.

Okay, I tried the Demigod Fire elementalist and here's how he turned out. He was struggling with hunger the entire short game, demigods level so slowly that I was having trouble getting decent spells, and demigod fire elementalists don't start out with great casting skills. The morgue is saved as a...

Str/dex is a lot more important for ranged weapons than it is for melee weapons, yeah, to the point where you often actually want to raise those instead of intelligence even when casting spells! In particular, it affects the attack delay as well as the damage and accuracy. Since I wasn't casting sp...

As TehDruid suggested, I tried Trunk with eating only clean chunks and permafood. It works for a surprising amount of characters in a surprising amount of games. I was pleasantly surprised. However, it did not work for every character in every game. Builds with normal food requirements which are on ...

I'm no expert on healers, but I do occasionally worship Ely. My tips: first, pick a ranged weapon (as a DD, crossbow if you can get it). Enchant up some ammo, and use it regularly against tough enemies for closing / fleeing damage. If you pick crossbow, you'll get huge amounts of ammunition in the V...

Jeremiah wrote:Congratulations on that - I still have 8 attempts remaining, but I've been playing some other characters in the meantime.

Thanks! And good luck! That suggest-a-combo thread has been really fun too.

I actually did it! I can't claim too many props, because I got something resembling a hunter instead of the usual mish-mash. But kobold wanderer #8 became my second ever victory. Char dump posted in the CIP forum.

Over in the Character Builds section, Varkarrus suggested playing as kobold wanderer, 10 tries. I thought what the heck, why not, if it's impossible I'll just die fast. I lost 1 character to an OOD encounter (D1 hound), 1 because I'm the world's worst Nemelex player, and another five because wandere...

Freya died in the process of getting my first peek at Hell. It was genuinely Hellish. But now I have had a little taste of what it is like, so hopefully will be better prepared next time. She was really fun to play, and I will definitely play more builds like her.

New suggestion: Demigod Heavy Armor Fighter. OK, this has been weird.... I found the +9 dwarven armour of ponderousness on D2. Then I found more early spellbooks than my spellcasters ever find. I have books of air, burglary, ice, transfigurations, and power. I'm on D9... I'm told it's possible to c...

I killed off my DSVm when I tried to fit in a little 10 minute crawl session before leaving for work, started playing way too fast, and mistook an ice dragon for a white imp. My suggestion: demigod pyromaniac. Start as a fire elementalist, get every spell to at least excellent, but never learn a non...

I don't hate playing the food game in stable, but to me Trunk just pushed it over the edge. I tried it, and my character was constantly nauseous. It is not a big fantasy of mine to be constantly nauseous. The food changes are the reason I'm not playing Trunk right now, even though there's stuff I a...

I am not the right person for late game advice, but I have had great early game success with spriggan followers of Fedhas. Maybe I just got lucky though. In the games I played, these little spriggans need so little food that they don't miss the fruit at all. Wandering mushrooms are great early on. I...

Weellll.... Way back when I started the game, I started with a mino zerker 'cause it's what the tutorial used. But I wasn't very happy playing a book-burner all the time, so I switched to fighter. Now the jump in difficulty from zerker to fighter is much higher than a newbie might guess. Also, I mad...

My DSVm splatted on D4. I was careless. I met a ghost with no ranged effects but too much for me to handle in melee. I fled down, rather than up-then-down. I found myself in a cul-de-sac facing an ogre an iguana, and I just wasn't ready for them. @Jeremiah: do what's fun, but if you haven't picked a...

Nothing clever about my suggestion: just a straight up draconic wizard of Ash, because I love them and want to share the joy.

Killed off kobolds 5-7 in short order; they all led brief yet tedious lives. You know, the kind where you run in circles to regenerate hp / mana over and over, then die anyway. With kobold #8 I lucked into one that imitated the hunter background - I started with a crossbow and 5 ranks of crossbow sk...

Picky picky Post lair, I had remarkably few spellbooks: the book of minor magic that I started with, the book of morphology, the book of ice, and maledictions. That said, put together they could have made a very smooth progression. I could have moved into unarmed combat without unbinding my glaive,...

Since some forum posts and a friend helped me overcome my fear of curses, Ash has become my current favorite deity. I've reached the point where I take a perverse pleasure in the curse game, as going through a period of denial helps create a heightened sense of anticipation for finally being able to...

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