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You were lucky. Most of the times I find an ice cave the loot is just lame, maybe having a few weapons of freezing which my character doesn't need because he's either a spellcaster or has a better weapon already.

Well, good old Trog is kind of....special, It's from all the knocks on the head, you understand. So don't be surprised if he sometimes decides you should be using axes when you're a swordsman. Just keep going, he's gonna get the idea eventually.

Hmm well ok, when thinking it over I suspect some spells might fit the character. However in that case I don't think a dwarf is a good choice, even with high INT their spellcasting skills suck. And I just find elves way too squishy to be fighters...hm...Human, perhaps?

Man I hate that vault with deep water or lava around an altar. I think the game actually checks what your character is so it generates the most useful altar for your character in there just to spite you.

Goddamit, I want to make an Air Elementalist so badly, but they all die too damn fast. Also what does this mean? - Kenku are incredibly powerful. HP from Fighting skill should change to depend on species HP; kenku are supposed to be fragile, but right now they aren't because they get so much Fightin...

I just have to ask - what's the deal with all the +Rage amulets?

You can never have enough evasion. Ever! Also, seeing this and the FeBe thread, it makes me wonder - the two characters can more or less do the same thing - berserk, regenerate and summon powerful allies. But i've been wondering - which one would people recommend? Trog's brothers in arms or Makhleb'...

Guess I might as well use this thread as general Wizard advice. My DEWz is doing fine, managed to get to the temple, worship Vehumet and a bit before that found a Book of Power. I already learned Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, which other spells should I learn? I'm thinking of getting Poison Cloud when ...

Well of course it has Magic Dart, no point in mentioning it. And I know Slow was in the old books too - it was just as useless back then. In most cases I either killed anything that would require a slow spell, or I ran away as soon as I saw it and didn't need it slowed down. My main problem with thi...

Ok so I update to latest trunk (I try to download em every few days or so) and I start a DEWi....and the game doesn't ask me for a choice of books. Ok. I open up my starting book and... Blink Call Imp Repel Missiles Slow Conjure Flame Mephitic Cloud What the fuck am I looking at here? Call Imp? Slow...

Use Shift+X, go to the square you want and press "e" to put an exclusion. Pressing it again removes all but the single tile you targeted and pressing it again removes the exclusion all together.

Press d, then the number of items you want to drop, then the letter.

I'll let you decide on that

My goddamn nerves, apparently. Or how much bullshit crawl players are willing to take. Regular imps are almost impossible to kill for most early game characters, giving them more HP, stronger weapon and the ability to make you useless for a few turns is just plain cheating. And meeting the guy at le...

Sorry if you disagree, but fuck Grinder, and fuck whoever thought it's a good idea to stick a monster with paralysis and a Pain weapon in the early dungeon. I have now lost FIVE characters (some of them pretty promising too) to this asshole just this evening. You can't run away from him, since he ju...

He's mostly a short stories author, but I'd read Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Rats in the Walls aaaand since I havent' been able to get my hands on them, but I've heard they are good - The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At the Moutains of Madness. Also this th...

On that (completely unrelated note), do you know what Crawl needs? More Lovecraftian horrors. Yeah we have ugly things and tentacled monsters and stuff, but nothing really big and ugly and mind-shattering.

Well, now when I think about it, a Warper would probably work a bit better. You can still concentrate on smacking stuff in melee, but you have a reliable (sort of) way of getting into trouble. Also, I'm actually more interested in Chei for his abilities, in this case, not the stat boost. Although th...

+2 splint mail of poison resistance on D2!

I've played transmuters of Chei, that's not what I'm asking about here. Melee or not, Transmuters are still casters and they have access to Evaporate and Sticks to Snakes and all kinds of other stuff. I'm talking pure melee here. Hm I guess I'll just stick with Okawaru. Been wanting to try out his n...

I'd go with either Trog or Makhleb, really, since both give you even more allies to fight for you. Which one you want is really up to you. One has berserk and gifts, the other has greater demons and healing when you kill things.

Sorry to double post, but I just decided to switch to latest trunk build (I was using a few versions older) and hot damn, my MDFi can start with a Falchion? Awesome!

Since I started the one about chei spellcasters, might as well start this one too. I've been thinking about a MDFi of Chei, but I'm not sure if making a melee fighter even slower is a good idea. Has anyone tried such a combination and how did it work out?

Well, new and more mature John (Also more Human now too) has gotten his hands on a Book of the Clouds, so I guess now the race against the RNG is on once again in hopes of being able to do The Windy Thing! Wish me luck!

Bones are so not a good idea. Graves though, those sure are. Really, it feels kind of lame when I run into a ghost but never actually get to see the body. Making a marker somewhere, or having a skeleton of the species the character was near the ghost would be cool.

As the person affected by this, I vote yes. Also.. I think the biggest problem is how do you define an instant death monster? Six-headed hydra on level 2 of the Lair right next to the stairs is an instant death monster. Yeah I was an AE, but there is no way aside from sheer absurd luck that you can ...

mageykun wrote:
Jenx wrote:Worst part of all? Now he'll never get to do the Windy Thing. :/

Well, he had to die first, right?

You know, you do have a point there.

Well technically I could have taken one of other stairs downwards, but I guess it's just down to the RNG screwing with me.

RAAAGHSDAHGODDAMMITFUCK! I just knew the game is going to screw me over with this guy. He was doing way too well. I went down some stairs and bam - next to a hydra. One hit and I'm dead. I had such awesome luck too. Book of Sky, Staff of Air from a scroll of aquirement, armor and hat of magic resist...

Ah yeah, it was on the opposite wall of the temple. Also the temple itself is one I don't think I've seen before, with a giant pool in the middle, surrounded by glass, and lots of angry sea monsters.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7757/temples.jpg What the fuck, how do I go in there? I searched for something like 100~200 turns and I haven't found a door yet. What, do I just hope I run into a scroll of blinking and until then I'm just screwed and should go without a god? I'm sorry, but who t...

This particular AE I'm playing right now is actually going with Nemelex for...well just because. Honestly, I am getting a bit sick of Vehumet and Sif Muna, since all my mages end up with either one of those anyway. As for Airstrike - well, it's gonna suck not having it, but with my luck I'll probabl...

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I forgot a question - is Static Discharge even worth learning?

I tried spriggans too, but their aptitudes don't really seem to suit it. -3 Conjurations, -1 Air Magic...

Could always go with the Planescape option and instead of "Avatar" call it "Proxy".

Ok, been trying to take off an Air Elementalist a few times in the last couple of days, and it really isn't going as good as I thought. Had one up to exp level 10, he had poison cloud and other fun stuff (including a whip of electrocution), but he died due to bad luck. One problem I seem to have is ...

The zap hits the hobgoblin.The hobgoblin appears unharmed0
The zap hits the hobgoblin.The hobgoblin appears unharmed.
The zap hits the hobgoblin.The hobgoblin is lightly wounded

Just because you can chain up a trizap with Shock doesn't actually mean it's gonna do shit to the monster you hit.

I decided to make a test character in Wizard mode to see how far I need to train my Air Elementalist so he'll be able to cast tornado. The test character is a level 20 High Elf, has 27 Int, ring of Wizardry, Conjurations at 17, Air Magic 18...and Tornado is only at Bad. What the hell? If I ever surv...

I've gotten to -2 before and I think one character got a -3 once too! I always took off the heavy armor then, because I really don't think the enemies need more help with hitting me.

This is just absurd. My level 3 Kobold just got decimated by Ijyb and his +5, +12 club. Seriously, what the fuck?!

Well, eventually - yes. I am going to use up all enchant weapon scrolls I find on the GSC anyways, but my question is of more immediate concern - A few more points of damage or +5 AC?

Yeah I know there's the spreadsheet, but this is not about damage. I have a Troll Paladin. Do I stick with the Giant Spiked Club I have or do I switch over to the Great Mace of protection I found? It's damage is lower than the GSC, but that +5 AC sure helps when all you can wear is robes and cloaks....

Apart from that - I agree that gladiators should wear lightest armour there. Come to think of it - most of them wore only loincloth and some wraps on the limbs. Well yeah. Think about it, watching Pro wrestling would be pretty damn boring if everyone was covered head to toe with protective clothing...

While he didn't last long, a spellcasting mummy can work really well with Che as well. Once you stack enough ponderous gear your stats will become pretty good (which is important since mummy stats kind of suck) and Slouch is pretty sweet. Of course then you also have to deal with the problem every C...

Man, Cranium Rats are one of the most messed up things in Planescape (and considering the setting, that's saying a lot). It's a cute idea though, but I think making them just a simple unique kind of diminishes the value, since their main thing is that the more they are the smarter they get. I think ...

Actually I think with Che Stasis is one of the worst things you can use, exactly because you can't haste, and have to rely on blinking and teleporting to get away from danger.

I've been considering that combo as well since all my ranged users always end up with slings due to the shield+sling combo and I've been meaning to give crossbows a try. So aside from Str, should I bother putting any points into dexterity at all or just keep pumping str? (And I'm still not sure - do...

I really don't feel like reading trough that entire thread - what page does the victory run start at?

I'd go for a halfling hunter of okawaru (or trog, you decide) for a good sling + tons of ammo.

Awesome, gotta bookmark this and check it out from time to time.

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