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Another 15 rune win! Admittedly, when I thought that my OgWr was overpowered, I hadn't yet realized I'd be playing this character soon after. I was doing random combos and after a few failed attempts, I finally got this Ghoul Enchanter. I didn't know what I'd do with him, I just figured I'd drift al...

Found a rather interesting trove today. The price was a +6 demon whip (I only found the base weapon in Pandemonium, in Cerebov's realm, luckily there was an exit portal I could take to conveniently fetch the contents of the trove). Basically, there was a wand of disintegration (already identified) a...

ThreeInvisibleDucks wrote: EE has Stoneskin, even AC+2 helps a lot,

Not anymore.

Yeah... about the tournament, I'd say that we should keep the Casual League going. Then again, I'm biased since I don't care much for the tournament but am interested in partaking more in the Casual League.

And done! Tier 3. This was fun. It wasn't always smooth sailing, I had a couple close calls in the Depths (spriggan berserkers plus air mages), Zot:5 (two storm dragons back-to-back zapping me with no rElec on me, and also an orb of fire attacking me with several other critters when I was on half HP...

Fannar isn't that dangerous if you have cold resist, in my experience. Especially with a berserker. Berserk or a single bro-in-arms would probably be enough, summon two if you wanna be really safe. It's incredible how much stronger monsters a berserking Trog-lodyte with a couple BiAs can defeat.

Thanks all! Regarding blowguns: I actually did want to use them quite a lot after I got one on the early dungeon floors. But when I decided I wanted to go for Ashenzari, I figured I probably shouldn't rely on a weapon I have to swap in and out - thus I ditched my blowgun and decided to just keep to ...

Cool! Alright, Tier 2 on another attempt: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-a0-1788-g92de1ac (tiles) character file. Marenglen the Apostle (Hill Orc Venom Mage) Turns: 39334, Time: 01:48:57 Health: 131/158 AC: 30 Str: 17 XL: 17 Next: 2% Magic: 31/31 EV: 13 Int: 10 God: Beogh [*****.] Gold: 1123 ...

Do I have to play this online? I mean, here is a Tier 1 on webtiles, but I'm pretty sure I died because all the lag and jumpiness of online play was making me sick of playing. I'll try again offline if that's OK. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.18-b1-18-g7758cf2 (webtiles) character file. 52152 M...

Okay, I really didn't expect to earn not just a third win, but also a 15-rune win so soon after my second, but... it happened! I'm pretty excited, although I must say, I have a lot of luck to thank for this win. I got a ton of incredible items that worked together perfectly to make my character nigh...

I decided to take Lasty's advice and so far, aside from a very near-death experience with Gloorx Vloq (all the other pan lords were cake) I'm cruisin' through the game and at 11 runes. Wow. This weapon certainly is good, so thanks for pointing out just how good Speed is. (Edit: Oh yeah, and chucking...

This one required a +4 demon blade, I found a +7 randart blade lying around. It was with the same ogre that got the nice armor I posted in the Best/Worst Artifacts thread. The loot was this: the cursed +2 giant spiked club of the Madman {flame, rF+} the cursed +5 giant spiked club "Reusos"...

Just clearing Lair with my Ogre Warper when suddenly, I find two acquirement scrolls on the floor. I spend the first on armour and... 23634 | Lair:6 | Identified the cursed +3 shadow dragon armour of Demmaz Met {-Cast rF+++ rC+ Regen+ Stlth++++} (You acquired it on level 6 of the Lair of Beasts) No ...

Congrats! Huh, interesting to see that you could cast Haste and the like in GDA, I guess Subdued Magic helped quite a bit? Pretty nice GDA too for that matter.

There's not only a wand of hasting but Haste spell too. You would usually just find that. Especially with Sif Muna, of all gods. Well, yeah, but I kinda didn't want to invest even further into Charms, with its -1 aptitude, and having a lot of other stuff I wanted to train. Honestly, CBlink mostly f...

Yeah, I did rely pretty heavily on channeling as well. I managed chunks quite fine but still used a lot of food. A hybrid would probably have a lot less food problems, I imagine (and would be a lot better with Vehumet), as would a pure caster that played a more annoyingly optimal playstyle, but I di...

Wow. Warning: long story inbound. Read it if you are interested in hearing about other players' experiences, but I'm gonna ramble on for a while, so fair warning. If you want, skip to the end where I do have some questions to ask. What can I say - this was the most exciting and thrilling game of Cra...

A victory with your strategy doesn't prove that your suggestions are good any more than a victory with a Felid proves that Felid is the best race.

duvessa wrote:ok fine you win. for crawl 0.19 we're writing erotic my little pony fanfiction for all spellbook descriptions

I'd prefer Harry Potter femslash myself, but I'll compromise.

ZipZipskins wrote:See, my win percentage is 98% because I only play offline except for like three online games, so you know, prove me wrong

If you have only played three online games then your win percentage cannot be 98%. QED.

8-)

At the end of the day, this suggestion, like all the uproar about caustic shrikes, just boils down to "I want to make the game easier because screw real challenges". Sixfirhies in Orc are fine. Caustic shrikes are fine. Especially since the areas they appear in are not usually that challen...

Wait a moment. Branded ammo no longer exists? Or Oka just doesn't gift them anymore? Actually, I don't know where I can look to follow minor changes like this. I've found this changelog but either I'm inattentive or I see nothing there to this effect in the recent entries.

Sar wrote:So it's much worse than a scroll of blinking that you can find in early Dungeon?

Not if you've run out of those already...

duvessa wrote:The point is to improve the flavour. Sometimes that means removing adjectives and bad jokes.

I do not think this change improved the flavor - quite the opposite.

Yeah, I loved reading the spellbook descriptions and see absolutely no point in this.

I had another Crawl dream recently - I somehow got into the Abyss and had to escape from it, but I was experiencing the whole thing from a first person perspective and it was kind of like Minecraft, even my surroundings kinda resembled the Nether. There were lots of arched portals around but I could...

Ilsuiw: Illl-sew-eve
Xtahua - Sta-hue-ah
neqoxec - Neck-o-sack

duvessa wrote:beogh shouldn't object to butchering orc corpses in the first place. hasn't he seen the lord of the rings movies

The Lord of the Rings is filthy anti-Orcish Western propaganda that serves only to demonize the Orcish people, no good orc should pay any heed to it.

...When Sif Muna decides to troll me. Okay, a tome about ice and air sounds cool, it's kind of what I wanted on that character... and it's one thing that the book itself turned out to be useless for my purposes... but hey Sif, where's the ice? And where's the air? http://i.imgur.com/OC3apf4.png

Swapping rings already has a strategic choice behind it: reserving inventory space for everything you might want to swap in. Between protection from fire, cold and positive energy (up to 2x), along with something giving rPois and rElec, that's quite a lot of slots (plus the rings you might want to w...

Thank you for your replies! No, I haven't slain TRJ yet. Probably will try with the next character that gets far enough to have a chance. And yeah, I've discovered the possibility of modifying rc files online now - the option has always been right there in front of me but I've missed it for some rea...

Whoo! I didn't expect to actually win this game so soon after I started it, but I guess no-lifing it constantly for the last few weeks bore fruit. I've been trying out various combos - I had success in particular with HoFE and OgWi characters, an OgWi reaching the Orb of Zot actually, but then that ...

In my last dream, I was doing sexual acts with someone, but she had a piety counter, like most Crawl gods do. It would go up slowly, but when she wasn't pleased, it would go down quite rapidly, and I remember being quite frustrated in my dream because it constantly fluctuated between 2 and 3 stars a...

I have an insane DsAK running right now who just found a trove at around Dungeon:12, give or take 1. The trove cost 4 scrolls of blinking, which is quite steep in my opinion, but I already had 6, and saw one more on the level, so I decided to YOLO it simply because it's my first trove. Here are the ...

Xion350 wrote:Someone got stuck.

Oh wow, that's hilarious. Reminds me of certain ADOM experiences.

I was reading this thread about a character that starved to death due to not paying attention. While, of course, you cannot prevent every such death, I think in this case it would be justifiable to do something to help avoid accidental starvation - there is a lot to pay attention to on the Crawl scr...

Thank you both. Yes, that artifact ring is awesome and solves the rF problem. It also solves the rPois problem I had early on - which is why I didn't want to switch to a swamp dragon armor, combined with the fact that it's heavier and would probably impact my spellcasting chances a lot. I do have sw...

I disagree. It's nice to have a couple starts where a player can start toying around with a god straight away, and I just dislike the idea of homogenizing all the gods by putting everyone in the temple. The way Lugonu works is just perfect IMO. Maybe make Lugonu altars a bit more common in the Abyss...

Thank you to Edgefigaro for helping in the last OgWi thread of mine! That character is long since history, and after a couple promising failures I managed to achieve some success as another OgWi: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.1 (tiles) character file. Marenglen the Bludgeoner (Ogre Wizard) T...

I very explicitly disagree with this. Is it something that can be even abused? Every round of forgetting and then relearning RMsl costs a scroll of amnesia or a book. In exchange, you get a few free turns of RMsl before it goes down. I think that's a perfectly fair exchange. If there was a spell tha...

I see. Thank you, that sounds good.

Alright, so I'm pretty sure this is the character of mine that got the furthest so far. Possibly with the exception of one Centaur Hunter, which died to a hydra. I'd rather not lose him carelessly in the near future so I'm looking for some advice, mostly regarding how I could improve this character....

This is something I'm really paranoid about - given the occasional power outages around here, as well as the ever-present possibility for a crash, I want to know: does DCSS have some inbuilt backup system that allows me to continue with minimal loss of progress in case of a crash? Losing a character...

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