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Easiest zig:
- Firestorm+sublimation+kiku bodies
- almost anyone with cloak of fog

Silliest zig:
- tornado+shatter+cblink+makleb: cblink in bads, cast tornado, cast shattersss, go next floor

I'd like brand spells a lot more if instead they applied a buff to the caster, and would then override whatever brand is on the wielded weapon.

It's been a while since i checked it out but i seem to remember that the damage reduction from armor is rolled between 0 and ac. So if your armor gave 20% gdr and you rolled a 0 on your ac check and the enemy rolled 60 damage, that works. For reference, I've been 2 shot by a lich with iron shot whil...

Maxwell's is so unique it's pretty fun to try to make it work. I normally wouldn't wear it unless I had running/lots of nets/haste_wand, and/or tele_wand (with -tele use it to teleport the bad guy when it's time to escape). In this case though like the previous poster said, you can casually walk awa...

If DeadMonsterHD<=PlayerNecromancySkill then success else fail;

That weapon name. I fu ur ph... I wonder what the ph stands for. Poop hole? That would be a bit at odds with the reverse swastika of peace. Unless the weapon really was a love stick. Hummmmm mindelay on a love stick...

This game so crazy.

Er, how exactly is blink allies encircling a counter to ranged characters? Killing the guardian serpent is a lot faster if you are ranged... ...I appreciate that surround blink is supposed to be a counter to ranged characters... That was my (possibly mistaken) understanding of why that skill exists...

The things I dislike in snake are the surround blink spell since it doesn't seem to have any counterplay at all (blocking line of sight, high MR, I'm not aware of anything except don't be in line of sight of the guardians), and mana vipers don't do anything to characters that rely heavily on magic (...

Keep the wand in inventory and before going down to next floor drop unwanted wands and other unwanted crap somewhere.

Isn't the benefit of energy randomization that it makes it possible to escape from adjacent enemies and get to some stairs without using consumables/spells/evokes, even if it takes a while and some hits need to be taken?

Demigods are my race with the most games and most wins, and demigod wanderers are my most played combo and most won combo. The lower skill aptitudes are made up by higher stats, conjurer is the easiest and most straightforward caster game (shoot hard things poke easy things with weapon thats good at...

There's a bunch of tricks in crawl. For stabbers who wanna get the royal jelly, you can enslave an eyeball and have it paralyze the royal for multiple free stabs, you can also use multiple scrolls of vulnerability and then use wands of polymorph or paralyze, and then there's other things depending o...

It simply seems that you're diversifying your skill training too early. Try to get all your starting book spells online before training other skills and see what happens. It may also be a good idea to only train summoning to get your lv4 spells online and not the secondary schools depending on your ...

During tournaments I generally dont do slime, but if I do, I dive to slime 6, clear slime 6, get boss, rune, loot, get out. I never kill the slime unique in tournaments. Outside of tournaments I clear vaults/snake/slime completely on all characters since they are my favorite crawl puzzles to solve w...

Summary: Imagine, for just a moment, a world in which you can interact with the contents of your ass. The proposal: a new ability called "Stass", available in the ability menu. I propose the key combination "a-z". After pressing the key combination, you are greeted with the messa...

You may want to try something like crate crawl, where you make a non tacked attempt to get to the Vaults and escape the dungeon, or Crawl Light, which has a shorter game and other changes but has been dead for around a year. Thanks for the serious reply but I can't play without the recent improveme...

Indeed, and if this proposal comes through, you could have an even better taste of my poetry.

"Death only made me tastier."

Would the proposed meat ration act as strong poison and thus achieve the same in-game effect as a player ghost, i.e. have a good chance of killing you? Of course not, that would be such a rotten legacy! Actually, ghouls could leave a permanently rotting meat ration, that would be great! And sprigga...

So, I've figured out the part of the game I prefer, and it's the part after lair/orc but before depths. For me that includes vaults slime and 1-2 lair branches. Before that I've played that part something like 600 times, and after that I find it less exciting, it kinda all melds together. I've curre...

Maybe a simpler solution would be to lower the drop rate of elemental evokers to similar level as rods... The solution should follow from trying to fix the problem, though. So what is the problem? Is it bad interaction with current inventory interface? If so there would be more than one way to addr...

Maybe a simpler solution would be to lower the drop rate of elemental evokers to similar level as rods. Looking back at my last 4 wins, on dungeon exit in their carried inventories, one had 1 rod and 3 evokers, one had 3 rods and 13 evokers, one had no rods and 6 evokers, and another had 1 rod and 7...

I don't like those merging proposals in general. The inventory limit is meaningful. If you want to carry one stone of tremor, but not six, then what's a reasonable number for you? I don't think this decision should be sacrificed to convenience. (This is a case where the interface limitation has act...

Somehow in my current game I found 6 stones of tremor. This is rather unusual, but it has multiple issues: 1- When I'm faced with a challenging situation, I usually have all 6 ready, and evoking all 6 consecutively tends to deal with the situation extremely effectively. 2- It's annoying as balls to ...

When I'm playing a normal non tournament game, I auto explore most of the floors I visit and check most of the items without a care about turn count. So when I press "o" and I get the message "Partly explored, can't reach some items.", I then press "shift-x" to find the...

So, I found the rod of summon shadow creatures for the first time and as expected it's really strong. I also just found the book of summon shadow creatures, and I'm wondering if I can get 4 summons out of each at same time since the name of the rod spell is a bit different then the book spell. Also,...

Does it even need a fail rate outside of a +9 +9 maxed weapon? Without it, you'll actually have to make decisions 'super trog artifact vs. super enchanted morningstar.' I usually end up wasting them on my default weapon to help through early game, because I know I'm getting a non-enchantable artifa...

Confidence Interval wrote:
dpeg wrote:my grey beard jamming the keys

You too? Man, I hate it when that happens.

Having long beautiful sexy hair only has advantages except when it gets stuck between buttcheeks. Taking a shower and pulling out out is an awkward feeling.

...with the old siren behavior you didn't have a choice (if you can't attack at range 2, you're stuck with no options for killing it)... I think the small misunderstanding in this thread about last week's sirens isnt that melee characters would actually not have any way to get rid of them, but rath...

If you search this board you'll find this subject comes up every 2-3 months. Last time I remember the game was changed so sticky flame now has a lower effect on scrolls then sleeping in a raging volcano. Rejoice.

As a quick tie in to the other thread about melee being disadvantaged, I just want to note that most uniques offer little challenge to ranged/casters while a large number should really be avoided as melee if the goal is to maximize the chance to win. Real world numbers, my last 4 wins: 1: firestorme...

For those not using IRC (like me) the quickest way I found to check out ghosts that worry me is go to:
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/playe ... rname.html

where playername is the ghost's name in lowercase, and click in recent games the one that matches the ghost.

durable summon = permanent allies = mercenaries/deathgod allies/orcgod allies SAR proposal = worthless sissies can't erase 30MP worth of summons per turn I completely agree btw. Summoning is significantly less powerful then it was 1-2 years ago, and all the new summons are pretty cool (i even saw a ...

I was just reminded that plagued shamblers melee attacks make potions unusable and they emit a cloud of miasma on death. When fought in the open it's possible to outrun the miasma but in corridors it doesnt seem possible to outrun the miasma.

I completely agree with both saying that wizard's tab spell is very important. I also use it constantly and like suggested I find polearms to be ideal with minor magic because of conjure flame and imps. But even then slow is very rarely used and minor magic could stand to be made more fun and exciti...

So, my latest demigod wanderer got a minor magic book start, and it reminded me why I don't play wizards anymore. It's not the lack of utility and power, it's that if no other books are found, clearing d1-d10+lair+orc with minor magic is slow and boring. I saw a new exploit weakness wand, which shoo...

Just dropping by to add support to the motion, as I also find that crawl is the most interesting puzzle game to try to solve, especially when trying to play as melee. Playing a caster, learning fireball/bolts/clouds tend to solve almost all puzzles without effort or though, playing ranged tabbing so...

Agreed, it's awkward, but only other way I can think of to make them somewhat balanced would be to have that simplified ability sheet from my previous post and have spell costs be different then for everyone else depending on spell levels (lv1 spell=1EP, lv2 spell=3EP, lv3 spell=6EP, ...).

tedric wrote:I like to think that this means CYC is the new GDD.

Proposal: use the previous tile at top of thread for new orc called "Tank Top Orc" and give it mesmerize.

Also accuracy on weapons is super useful for magic blasters with low fighting/weapon skill to clear the wimps without using mana.

I'm not sure if this is actually a good summary of the issues with djinn, but my understanding was that: 1: their gimmicks combined with certain gods made for very easy games 2: otherwise their early game was usually significantly harder then other races and their late game usually significantly eas...

Hi, just posting to notify I'm reporting this thread for a sticky. It would be a great reference to have more easily available. Hopefully this thread gets stickied and this post gets deleted since it's not useful.

dpeg wrote:Which item would you choose if forced to win a game of Crawl at gunpoint?

I think I would go centaur conjurer of kiku with a cape of fog.

And you?

So, this week-end I was stuck in a boring place with a notebook that had ToME on it. I decided to continue the game I was playing when I last played a while ago. I played just one zone of 3 floors, and it gave me a huge chuckle as it was the first time I tried it, it was called something like sludge...

Anything that can make auto-exploring shoals less weird is something I like.

In my current game DEFE I am using -1 gloves with +3 int +5acc sInv. We call these concepts tradeoffs and the consideration that goes into using such an item can be called an interesting decision I believe the point being made is that for every one such decision that is interesting there are at lea...

A little trick is that if you're playing a blaster and have battlesphere, it is immune to banish, so if you position it between you and the banishing enemy you can shoot it with no chance of getting banished. In fact battlesphere seems to be immune to all status effects, but I'm not sure about blink...

TOME4 has way too much item management, items disappear if not dropped in vaults, there is no control-f to find items, items have stats on them that need to be juggled frequently for high difficulty play, saving and loading is slow and happens constantly, and tracking items have incredibly unbelieva...

So, I'm feeling jealous. Today yiuf gets to peak but not me. Stupid life. I need to worship a different god.

Stone Soup: Pizza Tornado Branch 0.1.0 ( 20131813 ) Game has a release on the 18th day of the 13th month (or 13th day of 18th month?). Also that release was on the 10th day of the 9th month, therefore... Sometimes I really wonder who twelwe is in real life ...the only possibility is he's from the f...

I remember when I played Ogres for a while the shield situation was a bit grating as a caster. Manageable, but grating. Maybe Ogres and troll could be able to wield bucklers, but only get something silly like 2 block from it, that way they would have the same easy way to start training shields (wiel...

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