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If you fight hydrae in melee, all of the "guaranteed" flaming blades are long blades. ("All" meaning "three sources that I can think of" -- efreeti, Erica, and Cerebov.) The value of the above statement varies. Erica and efreeti (especially if you find a flask) can spaw...

The trigger is magical, or at least a sufficiently advanced technology. The alarm itself can be perfectly mundane as long as you don't think too hard about how the trigger sets it off.

Back to Nineteen Eighty-Four for a moment...there's more of a Crawl angle than you might think. Specifically, with Ashenzari. Ignorance is Strength -- Reskilling. You get the best benefit if you dump into a skill that you don't have, because of the point curves. Freedom is Slavery -- Your equipment ...

Deepak Choko, M.D., the love child of Elyvilon and Fedhas.

Well done.

Just remember for next time, Wayne is no longer with us. The name's Wiglaf now and Okawaru is the god to go with.

But you don't need to put in a description to point out that the hobbits are going to get et. The scenario itself suggests it pretty well already with no specific words whatsoever. Letting the player fill in the gaps makes some of the situations even more descriptive. There's not a whole lot of roo...

Confidence Interval wrote:This is starting to sound like Grand Theft Orbo.

You can start by adding a meter on the screen to show the tension level.

Boy, you all are really pushing for the DCSS: Text-Based Interactive Fiction fork, aren't you?

The following sequence from Colossal Cave suddenly makes sense.

> kill dragon
With what? Your bare hands?
> yes
Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, isn't it?)

The hero of Colossal Cave was clearly a Crawl monk with 27 UC.

Orcs don't follow inside portals iirc, also Inner Flame is a "hostile" action so that won't work :( The hostile part would be a problem, but will Beogh gift you some orcs if you spend long enough in a portal vault? Also there is a joke here I'm not getting :oops: Ah well. Worth a shot. (T...

Jabberwocky wrote:
Stormfox wrote:Put this one in before we remove staves as a weapon class as proposed in another thread.

You don't think a club is a blunt weapon?

At every pinata party I've seen, the whacking stick has much more in common with a staff than a club.

Jabberwocky wrote:
Roderic wrote:Every pack of orcs should appear with a giant eyeball to beat you unfairly

Idea: once you are paralyzed, the orcs become voluntarily blind and plays with you as a piñata

But only with blunt weapons.

Put this one in before we remove staves as a weapon class as proposed in another thread.

HOPr. Equip all of your followers with tridents and Inner Flame them. Attack a wizlab. Bonus points if it's Cigotuvi's Fleshworks.

Replathe thnake glyphth with thetath. They even look like thnake eyeth!

njvack wrote:Okawaru is probably a bunny, just to mess with you.

Nonsense, Okawaru is behind the bunny.

crate wrote:I don't think encouraging players to carry around bad potions because they worship Xom is a good idea.

Is drinking a bad potion to (mildly) amuse Xom no longer a thing, then?

That's why knives were removed from the game, before Elynae (CS) could make a mockery of the game by taking down a named Pan lord with a blessed +0 knife.

Not that we need any more low-level popcorn monsters, but a logical step down from a giant slug would be a banana slug, if we're going the route of that graphic.

Hmm. Good to know for now. Although I'm used to getting a big cloud of spawns, because the last couple of times I've tried to stab TRJ to death (and it's been a while, at least 0.9 if not earlier), I didn't do enough damage to finish him off with one hit.

BlackSheep wrote:Those poodles won't fondle themselves!

Rule 34 says that somewhere on the Internet, they will.

And, theoretically (with a dagger and enough Stabbing), you can one-shot TRJ. As long as you're playing 0.10, even if you don't, he won't regenerate, so you can run away for a few thousand turns and wait for him to fall back asleep so you can finish the job.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate if his hair stayed black and his skin turned green? We don't like him when he's angry, after all.

Or poisoned blades.

Why not +8,+8 since it's based on a Buddhist legend?

dassem wrote:Same game, Kirke picked this off the ground and started whacking me with it:
the +8,+7 falchion of Ointment (weapon)

... Should have been "Oinkment" really...
{antimagic, +Rage rF+ rC+ Stlth--}

No wonder the birds are angry.

Besides which, any wise Troggie treats 'aa' as if it doesn't exist anyhow and just uses him for his other attributes.

From my limited experience, I'd say it's not the hell effects themselves that make Gehenna miserable, though the air-drops are probably the nastiest of all the hells. Rather, it's having to deal with the hell effects while under attack from the (already yucky) native monsters. Summons help considera...

zrn wrote:
pratamawirya wrote:Also listening to a couple Touhou doujin music. :P

Recently I've gotten into touhou music again and I have to say it goes really great with crawl. Which is odd considering how different the gameplay is.

And a yaktaur pack in an open area isn't Bullet Hell?

New Kiku/Yred/Makhleb altar vault:

Code:: ##### @'_%# ##### <deity> whispers: "Come to the dark side, we have cookies!"

If cookies are a food item, then while they would stack, you'd have to pass a MR check to eat just one instead of consuming the whole stack at once. (MR for want of a "willpower" roll.)

If you haven't run into it yet, Mennas has his own invokable silence field, so the presence of the silent spectre was just the "screw you" taken Up to Eleven.

Age: 41 Sex: Male Citizenship: USA Languages spoken: 'Murrican, though I can speak English if I put my mind to it. Education: B.S. Family Status: Married, one daughter Occupation: Government IT Computer platform: Debian (work), Mac (home) DCSS versions played: Since 0.4 Play Crawl because: More fun...

HOHe is great for learning the mechanics. But it does ruin you for doing it with any other race, because you won't get the racial bonus against orcs. Those early priests and wizards are suddenly not the pushovers that they were.

Iron Shot would be great if you had Earth Magic. But you don't, and there's no sense training it now.

Airstrike is still useful for things that you have to hit NOW. It also gets a damage boost against flying monsters.

Otherwise, OOD + Foo Storm + Tornado should be pretty much all you need.

TehDruid wrote:
BlackSheep wrote:It raises the question, though, where does drained XP go?

Grumble, grumble...

Won't do. This would be a potential source of infinite money and therefore is in the same category as allowing shops to buy items.

...unless you're really, really bad at it.

So I round a corner and see, all in a line, a wandering mushroom, a green ugly thing, a yaktaur, a killer bee, Agnes, a necrophage, and a gnoll sergeant. (Console-only joke. Apologies to tiles players.) We've gone this long while operating under a code of conduct no stricter than Bill & Ted (&qu...

Permafly is cool until a titan Airstrikes you.

Boggarts are extreme outliers for the current polymorph mechanism because their HD value is all out of proportion to their ability to kill you. Perhaps in addition to the HD check, the native depth of the monster relative to the current dungeon depth needs to be checked. Anything more than, say, 3 l...

An X-ecutioner's axe, to be specific.

If you have no other good way to take down an unseen horror, polymorphing it is not likely to result in something harder to fight.

Again I cite disintegration wands: incredibly useful in certain niches.

Nope, you had RMsl up. @: repel missiles, incredibly resistant to hostile enchantments, stealthy Monsters take zero time to swap weapons. This is to prevent exploits involving continuously baiting the monster to swap weapons and not fight you. In general, if you need something dead NOW, kill it your...

The second band is for anyone old and bitter enough to use the term "whippersnapper".

It's "The Cursed Club of Venom".

Trog's issue is not with magic itself. He's fine with his followers using wands, rods, scrolls, and potions, which are all magical. And enchanted weapons and armour. His issue is with magic users, specifically those who learn spells or how to use them. So mummies being magical beings (if that's the ...

Correct. Since it's been a while since I've played an EE (and even when I did, I didn't often hit non-petrified monsters with LRD and almost never on purpose), I didn't realize that the targeting of non-brittle monsters had been removed from it. The point was that there are multiple solutions to kee...

I want to say that LRD can gibbify monsters, if its scratch damage to fleshy targets happens to kill it. And I also seem to recall that Petrify + LRD can scatter stones...which turn into chunks when the Petrify wears off. (And I may be heading for badforum. Time to roll another EE and actually try t...

or players that have decided to follow jiyva or tinker with too many mut potions Don't forget late-game Demonspawn. Yaktaurs with silver bolts get pretty scary. It has a narrow focus, but it's powerful and some of the vulnerable enemies are among the most dangerous of the game. Indeed. If silver am...

I had a centaur pincushion Sigmund to death for me once. To be fair, Sigmund was invisible.

Handwaving it here, but whacking insubstantial monsters with weapons is still directing kinetic energy through them, hence the damage.

nicolae wrote:One. (I'm a solipsist.)

One at a time, you mean. In all my years of Crawling, I've never found another live player in the dungeon. Lots of dead ones, but never a live one.

I raise a toast to all of my absent friends here.

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