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Gratz man! The first win is always memorable.

.....))....... ..)........... ......}....... ...).......... ....).......@. _a runed great mace (tango) _a dire flail (tango) _a glowing lajatang (breakdance) _a runed dagger (waltz) _a triple sword (waltz) You put the m&f in a pair and sbl & lbl in another, how racist! :P You should mix sla...

Completely off-topic but who cares in here. The last comment reminds me of a very old idea of mine... Dancing weapons should dance when alone. I'd even provide some patterns. They could dance alone, in twos and so on. Of course, only the most stealthy characters would even have a chance to witness ...

Pteriforever wrote:It always irritates me that there aren't any blue draconians.

This ain't the Power Rangers headquarters son. :lol:

A MuBe, who found out that he shouldn't engage Menkaure just yet, because he hit hard. Woodstock99 the Chopper (level 5, -1/41 HPs) Began as a Mummy Berserker on Nov 9, 2011. Was a Priest of Trog. Slain by Menkaure (14 damage) ... on Level 5 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:13:57 (5658 turns). Ah...

Is there a good reason to why you didn't avoid this? You even had a cTele ring equipped and knew blink. You could cast semicBlink with these. And slimes hurt only in melee. Just a tip for slime creatures, especially since you play a high stealth character: First of all remember that these guys are m...

Demonspawns can join Fedhas so he's obviously a Neutral god. After all, in RPGs most (if not all) gods of nature and the characters worshipping them are of Neutral alignment.
He doesn't accept the undead though, as far as I'm concerned, since he claims that all that is dead must return to the earth.

To further go with the "turtle" race idea, and after seeing the Kenku to Tengu rename, you could base the race off of Kappas, another creature from Japanese folklore. They are water imps who are often depicted as having a turtle shell. They are also tricksters, so stuff like high hexes an...

A SpEn who was heavily buffed up with invisibility, phase shift, etc in Vaults:5 happily stabbing Margery's band, who was by far less dangerous than some stuff I killed. Then the RNG rolled five heavy hits on me through 44 EV and Invisibility on the same turn, taking me from 70 HP to dead. That's m...

Black's breath is WILD! :lol: I've only gotten a single black draconian ever, who was a transmuter and the breath rocks at the early game real bad even if it's "slightly" uncontrollable. Well breaths may lose a lot of their shine later on, but most have a utility that persists. Free resist...

I'm no pro at this game, but here's my two cents... Since you don't have a robe or resistance or anything remotely great on the body slot, if you could wear any dragon armour (except steam, which doesn't give any minus to EV) or even troll leather (you should have a troll hide for sure at this point...

Respectfully disagree. I'd even be willing to defend the position that a troll, or anything for that matter, with high str and a good deal of skill ought to get a bonus to combat for using shields. When I'm picturing the combat play out I can pretty easily see a character bashing the everloving sno...

The sword is really good as it is currently, no need to buff it. And I agree, it should have Curse, or else -CAST is just an annoyance.

@tazoz I like the revised idea much better. However, I question the dopellganger's ability to copy equipment properties, it just seems weird. If there's an explanation to how it can create exact copies of unique arttifacts, please tell me how. My suggestion would be, if it does copy equipment, let i...

SpBe meets Ettin in Orc:4, after clearing it. SpBe attacks said Ettin, doesn't get hit for about 75% of the monster's health down (note that i have 70 maxHP) then on a single turn I get hit by two attacks doing rough 45 dmg each and die (i had 9 AC). I should have berserked or used BIA, but no, I wa...

goo wrote:Haha, TMNT definitely came to mind when I was writing that post. But we already have bull, fish, cat, octopus, snake, bird, and dragon people, so I don't think a turtle race would be too out of place thematically.

The more the merrier, for me.

Grimm wrote:That's the one who gives you rN+++ right?

Only if you're a Mormon.

You may want to take a look at this topic. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2064

It's a monster suggestion that copies a unique's major gimmick. This is like adding prismatic draconians, or regular 27-headed hydrae. I doubt that the proposal aims at such a difficulty ramp-up as: regular hydra -> 27-headed hydra. Imho, the doppelganger, if ever implemented, should be nowhere nea...

Ah thanks, I don't always keep up with trunk changes. I like the new stuff although I find it extremely perplexing that they're buffing fire and moving it down a tier. I'll take it on faith for now that there's a plan. Still other issues still stand if other people have feedback. As for frail skele...

What's going on currently in trunk, in case you don't keep up with it: 35bc405 | Chris Campbell | 2011-10-31 18:32:04 +0000 Re-retier some DS muts, add two new mutations: Foul Stench and Ignite Blood Ignite Blood confers immunity to flame clouds and causes any blood spilled in the player's sight to ...

Cowardly and armoured makes me think of turtles. Maybe an anthromorphic turtle race with slow movement 1, but an ability to hide in their shell and increase their AC like the snails in lair can do. This way they are cowardly and can hide from enemies, but aren't another fast race like Spriggans and...

Mara So, just because we have Xtahua, we should remove all fire dragons from the game? It's a monster suggestion, not a unique, as far as I understand. Only part I don't get is why should orcs be treated like that. What if you're playing a HOFE or other caster? Your doppelganger having the stats of...

The rF+ rC+ rPois on randart gold dragon armours is actually just the rF+ rC+ rPois they have naturally; the only actual randart properties on that GDA are +Lev MR SInv, so it's not that much better than a regular gold dragon armour, and possibly worse if you have a lot of enchant armour scrolls. I...

I gave it a try tonight... Very hard. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Are you supposed to build your defences in the orb chamber? Where do the mobs spawn? My guess would be the stairs that lead out of the dungeon. Sometimes the mosters are very random and can even carry very good gear. In one game, my fir...

The setting sounds like a sweet deal, anyway, good luck with life after marriage!

May you always find the patience to tackle any problems you encounter without freaking out on each other. :lol:

So I was playing a character earlier with a whip, 2 Unarmed skill, no shield, and Horns 3, Claws 1, and Talons 1. But my Unarmed wasn't gaining any experience! I even saw my aux. attacks triggering but no good. Running today's version of Trunk. Lulz, accidentally thanked you. Anyway, If you're runn...

Ah... Xom. First he gives my mummy Venom Mage a staff of channeling, then a staff of wizardry. He animated my staff of wizardry 3 times in Lai, I spent a lot of teleport scrolls running away from it. -_-

Congratulations on your first Crawl victory! Mine was relatively recently too, with a HOFi of Okawaru-Jiyva. I don't know how enchanting chance of success works, but it seems that it gets a lot worse the more enchanted the item is. I've been trying to get a +8+8 quickblade on my most recent good gam...

Ummm.. I was running around on D:1 yesterday and I was tabbing a bat, then I noticed it was named "mountain bat". Never saw one again.

I find that leaving my game that's been going well to go cook something to eat then coming back to the game often leads to YASD. :lol:

The terminology you're looking for is monospaced versus proportional. TrueType and OpenType are font file formats. For roguelikes and anything else that uses text on a fixed grid, monospaced fonts are the way to go. Thx for the correction, I guess that's what the "Mono" means in "Ver...

Oh god, about a week ago I had a good BlDrTm of Chei going and lost it. I can feel the pain. He had Dragon Form learned but couldn't cast it safely. :P Yeah the rune vault in Shoals can be a really nasty surprise. The worst thing is you can't take the monsters to a long corridor, so you have to figh...

Grimm wrote:You start life by crawling and you end Crawl by dying.

You just blew my mind! :shock:

A little tip, If you go into the Abyss, always summon a bunch of slimes at different spots, especially when you fight Skeletal Warriors that drops lots of items. Most of the times they keep you fed, even more so with a slow metabolism. :) However, having an amulet of resist mutation is highly recomm...

I'd think Trog is definitely supportive of Sadism his whole thing is to kill/maim/injure as much as you can. It's a different thing being violent and another being sadistic. :!: @Xuaxua Um. Why in god's name weren't you using that mada-fuckin-awesome quickblade when you died? O.o I think it out-dps...

Hey man, listen, don't let it get you down. I've lost many characters with insanely nice gear... A nice example would be my most recent DSMo. Had a +2 +7 ring of slaying in the early dungeon, another randart ring with +4acc +3 dmg and some other stuff and a robe with +4 dmg. He was hitting very hard...

But honestly, Pain is a GREAT brand and you'd think Trog would be supportive of it, so it really surprises me that having to train spellcasting to 1 (and get penalized), locate and memorize a level one spell just to train necromancy (thanks Ash for animate skeleton!) and get penalized, and then be ...

Currently playing in 0.10: HOFi of Okawaru/TSO -> Been playing Hill Orcs a lot lately and with the recent buffs they had in trunk and the removal of Mountain Dwarves, I'm going to play them even more. MuFi of Okawaru -> They don't live long enough, unfortunately. DSMo of Jiyva -> My body is my weapo...

I hereby request a vault sporting some kind of bubbling cauldron tile. What's Stone Soup without it??? :lol:

If you're playing Tiles, there's a magic file that can change the appearance of the game a bit, and most importantly, allow you to run it on fullscreen/any windowed resolution you want. Go to your crawl folder, find the sub-folder named "settings" and open the file "tiles_options.txt&...

Trolls aren't much of a problem since they quickly get over 20 STR This may be part of the problem. You seem to think that strength has a large impact on damage output - it doesn't. 20 strength gives about 12% more melee damage than 1 strength...barely noticeable. In practice, when I run a troll he...

-4 pair of gloves? Aren't they useless? :P I saw this epic crystal plate in a post of yours in best/worst artifacts. It just doesn't get any better... Well, it could use some +rF +rC of course. :P I know what you're saying about stopping... After my first win I've been slowly drifting away from the ...

Tartakower's guide is nice. Heh.
The stat part is quite true. Having a character with 3-5 intellect is a recipe for disaster. Although it rarely occurs that I reach such low numbers on stats, it is mostly embarrassing when you die from stat drop.

Serne wrote:First ascension all runer... dayum. That might be over achieving just a little.

I second the emotion. Great score, too!

Nice resists!

You should have found some artifact boots and gloves too.

Meh.

Galefury wrote:
XuaXua wrote:I have been seeing fewer and fewer hat drops from Gastronok lately.

There was a bug that removed Gastronok's hat. It was very recently fixed.

I've been playing trunk and I've never seen it drop from Gastronok lately. I thought it had a high drop chance. :roll:

Added from another thread: PORTAL FINDER: To locate portals you discovered earlier (troves, ziggurats), use 'Ctrl+o'. hxy gets credit; thank hxy here . CTRL+o is the Dungeon Overview function, not only does it list Ziggurats & Troves and their costs, but it also tells you on which floor you hav...

Borodin wrote:Do shops ever restock, and if so, after what period of time?

They do NOT restock. EVER.

And apparently, selling a bunch of apples and rations roughly worth 300 gold is enough for the merchant to live their entire life off.

Um...obsidian axe, Shield of the Gong, and Maxwell's all equipped at once?? Xom thinks this is hilarious! Winning. +Respect. God damn, I want to try this combo. Let me tell you, going into the Vestibule of Hell with the Shield of the Gong on is NOT A GOOD IDEA. I got swarmed by a bazillion hell bea...

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