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Have you ever seen how many typos people make on non-tactile keyboards? If my finger (which is blocking my vision of the UI) hits the button just above my desired command, and I accidentally read the wrong scroll when I'm a turn away from death, the game is entirely unplayable. You'd need to add a s...

Something should certainly be buffed with it, or it removed...Maybe a small EV bonus in addition to .1 speed, but only when flying? Amulet of improved flight? Even just the speed bonus would probably make it usable in some cases, but I think a 2-3 EV bonus wouldn't be too strong.

I'd like to see an entry for flaming/freezing (either, just need one) GSC added to the list, because speed is lowering your damage per hit. Of course if you look at damage per time it's a huge increase ;) Maybe also a holy weapon vs a skeletal warrior or similiar-to-stone-giant demon. If I wasn't la...

Nagas make powerful hybrids with an excellent +20% hp, and 0 in all spell aptitudes, +3 poison, and a bonus +9 ac. But you have to deal with -40% movement speed, which isn't trivial. So be aware of the drawbacks if you go that way.

They should at least identify when picked up (or even when you move onto their tile) instead of having you press 'r' or 'M' first. The Trog piety bonus for burning an unidentified book isn't a mechanic worth saving - if anything, it's silly that you miss out on piety by accidentally pressing M with...

I realize reading a book is "free" but it still requires steps, picking up and likely dropping the book, and player time. Basically, it's tedious. Reducing tedium is a good thing, I thought :) I also think it's inconsistent with the way other already identified things work, even if those t...

haste won't cause mutations if you don't stay hasted 24/7. Basically, use it when you need it, and gray contamination is fine, just a warning. When you get it, try to avoid recasting haste, and let it go away. if you get to yellow glow, stop asap and let it go away, at that point you are at risk for...

In particular, brands like vamp will do a lot more than just increase damage - it will keep you at full HP in most fights! While your point is generally correct, I just wanted to point out that you happened to pick vampiric, which is about the only brand that does not increase damage at all :P (pro...

I've always loved the idea of DS, and played several, but haven't stuck with them long enough to actually win. Maybe what I was doing wrong was trying to win, rather than trying to lose! Grats on the win! edit: Just noticed a claws 3 mutation and no unarmed combat! awww. Probably much easier to stic...

the exact same thing could be said about finding a second ring of rF+ instead of an unided ring, or a second(third, fourth) wand of confusion vs a maybe-it's-a-heal-wounds-wand...There's no reason why books are a special case that I can see.

I've managed to do vault 8 starting at 23 and coming out 22, and it really frustrated me, but it doesn't ruin the character. You'd think killing all the dragons would get you more exp than the draining, but with low ev and no rN+, you can lose exp. But think about where you are in the game by that p...

If I have read a book of conjurations, and I'm all wizardly and such, and then I come across another conjurations book, why is it still unidentified? This behavior is inconsistent with most other items, scrolls, rings, wands...Books can't exactly have wierd random bonuses like armor/weapons...They c...

I love controlled blink, and without it you're significantly weakening Chei, who's already terribly weak by most standards. I would, however, be perfectly fine with it being possible to off by 1, if it was limited to lower spell powers. And once you raised translocations a few more levels, it functi...

Another possibility I thought of is this: If you know poisons, maybe you know toxins and chemicals in general. Maybe what the poison magic category needs is access to some healing or beneficial spells. I remember back in my CoH/CoV days, I was surprised at first that the poison powers for Mastermin...

when using . to launch throwing weapons I've noticed it will sometimes stop a tile before the target, and not connect with the monster.

Am I crazy? Is my throwing skill too low (I usually leave it around 5, throwing isn't my main offense), or is it something else?

By the small boost of stats, do you mean passively, or are you just talking about Vitalisation? Anything that costs piety can't be used constantly of course, although the cost is fairly low...

I apologize if I ever gave the claim that chei is the only choice ever for nagas, that's obviously not true :) Nice run, I see you've learned about my super secret tech spell (regeneration). It's why I'm not a huge fan of the good gods, I just like regeneration so much ;) certainly the healing two o...

Did you pick Chei (over, eg, Oka) for the challenge? Or did Chei actually have advantages over, eg, Fedhas? Slouch should be very useful too. [...] with good tactics, single melee monsters are no threat, I usually use one Slouch against dangerous packs before decimating them, and I am blocking a de...

am I the only person who never wears amulets of clarity? They really aren't needed assuming you have high MR. I'm fairly sure all sources of confusion are resistable, although I'm not positive about hell effects. But all the mob based ones are. The only loss of control effect you can't resist is eye...

I have generally always used large shields on my unarmed characters, although I go more heavily melee than casters, so I don't need exp for level 8-9 spells, just support magic. Also large races get large shields at level 15 - so on a sludge elf stopping at a regular shield might be better. I don't ...

next rune to go for would be vault, or possibly abyssal, but vault is the more standard one. You don't want to do abyss without an amulet of resist mutation, which I don't see you having, unless you stashed it somewhere. Vault is one of the few places where rN+++ is useful, so keep it for that level...

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Tired of tabbing things in a doorway, accidentally moving onto the doorway and now you're meleeing three things at once? Just put a one tile exclusion down! or hold shift when tabbing, which is autofight without moving. I thought I was so clever when I came up with the one tile exclusion in the doo...

I was light armor, but also a troll, and yes, I killed the catoblepas pretty easily. I think I had grown to fear them because of the L:8 vault where they appear with a ton of yaks and death yaks, and if you get frozen you have 3 death yaks killing you. By themselves they are in fact much easier than...

rebthor wrote:Hint: The answer is "no."

Correct. But now ask "is it worth getting a passive +15 to all stats by following Chei?" Yes

Yeah, I suppose I should choose survival over convenience, but I do tend to play convenience a lot

I'll train stealth on future nagas and give it a shot

not all that much difference between a muFi and MuBe, since you can't berserk, which is usually what makes berserkers better. Once you find a good god for the MuFi it'd probably be better

any mob as powerful as a death yak on lair:1 is not harmless. Of course, they are a lot better because there's only one of them, but still, it's rare enough to see them outside of vaults that I am fairly sure this is the first time I've ever seen one on D:1. Maybe I just need to play another 3000 ga...

In terms of the OOD generation timer. I recently generated a Catoblepas on Lair:1 when I had spent very few ~200-300 turns on that level. that level did have an ice cave, which probably took around 1000 turns, perhaps more, and may have set off the OOD timer? Is this intentional, a bug, or a figment...

Grats on your win! NaMo is one of my favorites, I wrote the guide :) lately I've been starting them as fighters so I start with a shield, but in general, always a fun combo. Just a minor correction, stashes off level can still be eaten by jellies, but jellies no longer respawn. So as long as you've ...

Since you're never casting, the heavier armor is better. The plate is better for now since you don't have the 24 str for crystal plate, and the +2 bonus is helpful. Once you get the CPA enchanted and have higher strength, switch to it. Train armor as high as possible. The only reason to not wear CPA...

yeah I think I also need to be a lot faster to use step from time; in general I'm just eager to conserve resources I shouldn't really be bothering to conserve so much. I'm a bit of a faster/risk-taking player when roguelikes are not designed to reward either of those things :) I think I underestimat...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0-32-gfa280cc character file. 279145 Tasonir the Brawler (level 20, -4/191 HPs) Began as a Troll Monk on May 12, 2012. Was a High Priest of Cheibriados. Slain by a merfolk impaler ... wielding a +2,+0 trident of pain (19 damage) ... on Level 5 of the Shoals on ...

I feel like I'm obligated to ask why a spriggan of Chei, but you already had 10 runes and a fairly low turn count so I assume you know enough about the game to realize it's a challenge build...Pretty impressive results even though you didn't quite go all the way. Nice rod collection too, I guess it'...

Congrats! Tomb is definitely one of the hardest branches, and probably one of the most tactical fights you'll find in the entire game. Beating it is always a lot of fun though, imho

Welcome to the all-runer club!

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0-32-gfa280cc character file. Tasonir the Brawler (Troll Monk) Turns: 31392, Time: 03:48:13 HP 163/163 AC 30 Str 37 XL: 17 Next: 77% MP 24/24 EV 13 Int 26 God: Cheibriados [*****.] Gold 1185 SH 49 Dex 26 Spells: 3 memorised, 19 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See ...

I would also prefer to be able to see monster damages and how long spells last. I agree they aren't really critical, and you can get a pretty good sense for it as it is, but having that information is useful. I'm more interested in seeing a report of how much damage I deal to monsters, personally :)...

sounded like an interesting run, did you convert to jivya? I guess it would have been way too early but when you mentioned the altar I thought you might have converted

You can exit at any level, but only when you get across the level to the other side. In other words, if things start going badly and you want to escape, you really need scrolls of blinking/Cblink to have a reasonably high chance of getting out without clearing a level. And it's possible that some, a...

agreed, superior humans aren't really superior enough, but really it wouldn't be hard to instead just make "superior minotaurs" and buff all their magic to +1, and add another +1 to all their already high physical, and give them more hp/magic, a stat point every 2 levels, etc etc etc. The ...

But then all my unarmed melee characters who enchant ranged ammo as a backup weapon will really have nothing to use enchant weapon scrolls on! Idea: scrolls enchant your hands at 1/2 the success rate of weaponry!

But the greatest option of all is simply to scream "SLIME FOR THE SLIME GOD" very loudly while playing in a public library. You'll have trouble meeting anyone's eyes for the next hour but it's definitely a recommended life experience. About the "players who enter ziggs already have no...

you're in the right section, although it's a very open ended question :) Minotaurs are probably the easiest standard race, and a good choice. Vampires make great stealth characters, but I'm not someone who plays stealth, so I'll avoid that. If you want an easier time early on, berserkers are general...

very, very nice gloves, and grats on the second win

so just to make sure I'm understanding it correcting, wearing a large shield with enough skill the only delay is a 50% chance of .1 turn? Fairly small penalty, even though that does represent a 10% decrease in unarmed damage. Why does unarmed get this and weaponry doesn't? And nothing will alter/rem...

Javelins have fairly high damage, and are generally excellent, they just aren't as good as large rocks, for the two races who can throw them. Large rocks are great. The spear I just have because it came pre-enchanted and it has a 0% mulch rate, really. I'm down to only 3 rocks so I needed a bit more...

TrMo of chei sounds pretty bad. If you're going to do it I suggest putting less xp into invocations (bend time is extremely good but works well even at low invo) and more into UC/dodging/fighting. It's a bit rough until you get a shield. And then the rest of the awesome items you want. Fortunately,...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.0-32-gfa280cc character file. 669 Tasonir the Caller (level 6, -2/25 HPs) Began as a Felid Wanderer on May 12, 2012. Was a Follower of Sif Muna. Slain by a sky beast (5 damage) ... on Level 7 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:49:06 (7118 turns). Tasonir the Ca...

NaMo and you have to name him tasonir. I find this hilarious and recommend it. If you're (ironjelly) done with previous characters, I'd recommend a DDBe. Really easy starting, as they have damage resistance and a wand of heal wounds. Recharge it liberally, you don't need the mana. I've been working...

If you don't mind boring scumming, farming abyss will get you the piety too.

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