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You could probably survive any of the two. Your low MR would be really annoying in both of these (Banishment for Elf, Mark for Vaults) so take your pick. Also you haven't done Crypt ! Do Crypt ! Edit : on second thoughts I would advise you to do vaults first, and maybe skip Elf:3 entirely since you ...

I may have misread bit I think nobody mentioned this : do not enter Vaults:5. When you clear Vaults:4, go to the Depths. Vaults:5 is brutal.

Discuss. First of all, this is not a constructive OP at all. Since you feel this is a discussion that must happen, then you probably already have an opinion on the subject and some arguments for/against it. How about sharing them? Now for the matter at hand, Hells are an optional part of the game, ...

You don't carry around six different shields, so you wouldn't carry around six different books. This argument doesn't work : the reason you don't carry six different shields is that all shields are similar and it is usually easy to say that a given shield is strictly superior to all shields you hav...

Question: Ice Cave in Orc, how difficult will this be for me with only rC+? It's a risk. I usually go for it, even without rC, but it is dangerous and I am kinda reckless. Be prepared to bail if you see strong demons or ice dragons or a frost giant and you don't feel confident in your ability to ki...

I'd probably wear the MR one to avoid getting teleported into the rune vault on Snake:4. It won't make a big difference though, because your MR is still pretty bad.

Code:: the +1 cloak of the Game of Life {rF- rC++ MR+++}

Thanks Oka (and John Conway), but I already had MR+++++ BEFORE you gifted me this !!! This game is really getting ridiculous...

Code:: the ring "Wag Aza" (left hand) {+Blink MR++ Slay+6}

Same place, same character. Now I am feeling the terrible pressure not to succumb to pulsions of recklessness !!

Code:: the amulet of Niomay (around neck) {Faith rElec MR+ Str+7 Stlth-}

Found this ridiculous amulet in the Desolation of Salt on a FoFi^Okawaru.

Backgrounds being a starting package is another strike against having the piety bonus on Mo, since it does literally nothing at the start. Huh that's a really good point. So it's a gimmick that does nothing for most of early Dungeon, then does a little something that quickly becomes irrelevant... I...

monk is like a much worse gladiator that gets a bonus upon worshipping a god; the former part is not interesting so why dedicate a background to it? Because a background in DCSS is supposed to be a starting package that gradually loses its impact on the game, while species choice is supposed to hav...

Yeah I know. Like I said, I could (should) have switched to training dodge pretty fast. >.< I wasn't expecting it to be so easy to cast blink, considering I was wearing storm dragon scales and using a shield--I had expected to need to train it a lot. I guess it didn't occur to me to think about dod...

In general, when I read these wacky proposals, I always first consider the $100 note on the sidewalk issue: if this strategy is so great, why doesn't anyone use them? Usually, the answer is that the strategy is not good. That's not a fair comparison : to get the 100$ note you just have to bend down...

Hi Barry ! Happy crawling !

The thing is a consistent system is more efficient than an inconsistent one. Having a targeter that always points to the same spot is better than a targeter that always targets the same spots except in some edge cases where it targets somewhere else.

While I agree with the thread title, you are also deliberately making the issue seem bigger than it is : A black ring that can make its wearer one with the shadows. It creates a dark umbra that surrounds the wearer and increases stealth greatly, and reduces the accuracy of all those within it. [snip...

But, if you'd like to define some fun flavour nonsense yourself, you can use a macro that expands to the : command (make a note). The note will end up in your morgue file as well, so everyone will know you were styling on that orb of fire. Or if you don't want the message to clutter your notes, you...

I don't have a problem with everything being allied against you (they're all under the spell of Zot to protect the Orb or whatever) but what always bugged me is no-one is hostile to other adventurers trying to get the Orb like Dowan and Duvessa or Donald

Another possibility would be to highlight the summoner and its summons when positioning the cursor on them while in eXamine mode.

I'm not too sure how the command '0' works, but I think that quik's macro would keep channelling if a monster comes into view, which might be dangerous. Or does '0' stop firing if a monster enters LOS?

Sorry my phrasing was ambiguous, I meant that Achilles' invulnerability does not derive from any intrinsic divine ancestry, but came from external factors. Like Heracles, he is a demigod and that makes him mightier than regular humans, but he doesn't have any "divine abilities" (apart from...

It's hard to let go the idea that Demigods are *supposed* to have divine-origin abilities that separate them from mortals. Ancient: Achilles' invulnerability, Hercules' strength. My understanding was that Crawl demigods were actually based on greek mythology demigods, who were similar to other huma...

Maybe the spell power should be displayed as a percentage? That means hiding the spell's power cap, but this number is not very useful anyway (please correct me if I'm wrong). Do you mean a percentage relative to the spell power cap ? I may be wrong but I think this would be misleading : as an unin...

Better luck next time ! ^^ As for god choices, you can never go too wrong if you pick Ru, Gozag (not on a Tr though), Makhleb, Yred or Kiku (not an exhaustive list). I have no opinion on Ash as I never play him. Also, Chei can be a lot of fun on a Tr ^^

It is, look at this post : https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25127&p=326294#p326294 . Copy the code into your rcfile and macro a key to ===launch_auto_channel and it will use the staff until your MP is full or a monster comes into view or you find yourself in a cloud. P.S. ...

Code:: +9 plate armour of Integrity {+Fly rElec rC+ MR+}

I don't have a good idea for an alternative yet. I'll have to think on it, but yeah, I'm open to ideas. Something that makes sense as a race that would be jealous of the gods, steal of the gods, could work too... it doesn't have to be an innate awakening style, like Demigod fantasy is. That was the...

I think that Dg is fine as "species that can't worship gods but has high HP, MP and stats", it's interesting gameplay and the flavor doesn't really matter. My problem with the species is that it's actually not doing what it promises : it has no gods and high stats, but it doesn't have high...

Hi, I am trying to do a bit of rcfile magic, and would like to update my auto_butcher settings while autoexplore is running. What I gather is happening : When I press 'o', autoexplore takes the wheel and the ready() function is only called at the end of exploration, not during it. What I could do ab...

I don't think I made my point clear, or you didn't get my point. As I said, for a newbie, MiBe teaches them basic crawl combat (I detailed the various things in my previous post.) This species, on the other hand, doesn't have anything of the kind. If positioning doesn't matter, and MP doesn't matte...

You can still argue that they go too far in that direction, but imho an easy caster is fine and while powerful, I wouldn't say they're too powerful. They might become a favorite for streaking, though, with that starting +6 ac. This. That the species is super strong on D:1 is not necessarily unaccep...

Shtopit wrote:Unhand longbow, mistype or stroke of genius?

Damn even my phone is mocking me for that !
*unrand

My DrTm finds the unhand longbow Zephyr on Snake:4. The catch ? DrTm^Ru !!

Code:: You can't wield that without your missing limb.

Spyridon the Minotor wrote:I'm guessing hubris is the biggest killer in the dungeon.

This

Beastly Man-pendage - You grow a pair.

Black Demon wrote:Started a new one with Okawaru, I'm using an amulet of faith but I can't reach the last piety level, I have *****.

You don't need the last piety level. Oka + amulet of faith means you can and should use Heroism in every non-trivial fight and Finesse in every slightly scary fight.

Dang it

The documentation for the flash_screen_message says that "Any message that contains a regex specified here will flash the screen yellow". Is it possible to change the colour of the flash and if not can Lua be used to trigger a flash with an arbitrary colour ? My use case is that I want the...

Black Demon wrote:Okawaru: useful gifts

Lol

One thing you could do (if you don't mind the tedium of summoning) is forget Infusion, Song of Slaying and Tukima's Dance (rather bad spells) and get Simulacrum (which is extremely strong). Generally all summoning spells are very strong (except maybe Guardian Golem) but rather tedious to use. If you...

Adding randomness seems counter to the point of the species; if adding randomness really is the best solution then this species is almost useless Do you think Ds is almost useless because its mutations are random? The point of the OP was to have spell unlocks be deterministic instead of random : Th...

It is quite a few keypresses to play troll. Why not have them auto eat chunks by default? I assume you can do this in your preferences (such as on rest/ explore), but it would be a quality of life improvement for the newbies who are probably on information overload anyways. I have the following cod...

Xom roars with laughter !

Code:: You slash Pikel! You kill Pikel! _Your Necromancy skill gained 5 levels and is now at level 5!

What's the record for most skill levels gained in a kill I wonder ?

Here's my participation, best I could do so far. I started off ignoring the Book of Minor Magic and managed to find Sticky Flame and Fireball. In the end a basilisk petrified me and a fire crab and a lava snake did me in, at the end of Lair. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-358-g7563fe7 (web...

Hi, I'd like to know if it was possible to build crawl from source simultaneously for tiles and console in a single command. The result would be two executables, console and tiles. I run linux and am currently just running "make TILES=y".

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23390 This is what I am talking about, specifically : I also find it jarring when Crawl takes a name from mythology and only the name. Artistic license is fine - Crawl's minotaurs and rakshasas diverge pretty heavily from their sources but the...

A while ago there were big discussions about why Crawl shouldn't reference things from the real world, yet the robe of Night's description mentions a Hindu goddess when Crawl has a perfectly good god of darkness. A long black robe made of strange glossy material. It shrouds its wearer in darkness, r...

Also checking EV before SH would mean the reflection ego (or amulet) would trigger less.

In a labyrinth on an Oka melee Troll :

Code:: i - the +7 gold dragon scales "Xiexat" (worn) {+Fly rPois rF+ rC+ Regen+ Int+3 Dex-3}

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