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Thanks for the advice. I'm still going to go with short blades, though, as stabbing is so much fun. I also have a ring of invisibility, which has stayed cursed on my finger ever since I got my first scroll of curse jewellery. I realize that I can't stab everything and I have some offensive spells (S...

I also feel that in modern Crawl, practically all of my characters' deaths could have been avoided. I'm not entirely sure about the early days of Crawl. The early game felt harder in Linley's Dungeon Crawl 3.20/3.30/3.40 :) Personally, with an XL 1 character, I'll rather take a risk than flee in a d...

I have an XL 20 VpVM of Ash, who has so far been stabbing things with a +6 dagger of flame. It's obviously great for stabbing (!!!!!-stabs) but I'm in trouble with large skeletons etc. if I can't stab them. So I'm considering upgrading the weapon to get some more non-stabbing damage. No quick blades...

Now, this amulet changes my idea though. It says it's a "finger necklace" so does this mean the rings actually do go on the characters fingers? If so, why can't most characters wear 10? (Other than the fact that it would be game breaking) The usual roguelike explanation is that the magica...

Losing a beginning character on D:1 does not hurt me a bit. I expect Crawl to be cruel, and the fear of dying should be present from the start. In my opinion, nothing in the current situation with regard to the danger level of D:1 should be changed. The game does not have to guarantee that every cha...

I never bothered with the old Nemelex, as sacrificing stuff with the portable altar was too tedious. But the current Nemelex is very interesting and fun to play. Personally, I don't even mind the sacrificing part. Just my two cents.

I play really short sessions, from 5 minutes to 1 - 2 hours. I also play really slowly: My last 3-runer was Turns: 234739, Time: 2, 00:25:44. So losing an advanced character really hurts. I deal with the loss by starting a new character immediately.

Sure. What I meant was that I'm used to dropping, for example, rings or potions of flight at the Lab entrance, to get inventory space for Lab loot. If that kind of vaults are possible, I'm taking flight with me in the Lab.

Just to rub some friendly salt in your wounds: There was no need for you to go to Elf:3 at all. Next time, go to Vaults instead.

OK, so flight is something you want to take with you into the Labyrinth. That's news to me. Now I wonder how that bonus loot gets placed in the Lab. Is there a bigger chance to find such bonus loot the longer you wander in the Lab?

MrPlanck wrote:Invis and also repel/deflect missile can help

Also, cloud spells and summonings.

BlackSheep wrote:If that's what it's more about then I'd rather talk about D:1 gnoll packs than poison.

FTFY

DracheReborn wrote:Is there a cap to the size that this species can grow?

Noisewar wrote:Every 6 levels, they will be given the option to shed their skin and grow one size, up to Large.

explore_wall_bias works in a similar way and gives a higher weight to cells adjacent to walls. What kind of values are usable for this? The Options Guide says Adjusts how much autoexplore favours attempting to discover room perimeters and corners. At higher values, autoexplore will more heavily fav...

Grimm wrote:this is so racist

Exactly. I give all races equal chances to succeed. I play with one race and different backgrounds until I get a character to at least mid-game before splatting. Then I proceed to the next race. They all deserve a chance!

Can you explain how to do it right? Or is the goal of "it's not the game, it's you" posts such as yours (which I see over and over in these forums when searching through it trying to figure out how not to die) not to help the person you're talking to but to defend the game's wonderfulness...

All mummies get a lot easier when you find any usable item with rF+.

If you are taking more damage than potions of Heal Wounds heal, you're doing something wrong. Either you have developed your character poorly, you're in the wrong place, fighting wrong battles or something else.

Yeah. So the "with ease" does not mean that you can't be killed by making a bad decision

You will most probably find (many) more summoning spells beyond your starting book. It may take some (or a lot of) time and you may not find some particular spell at all. There's also the acquirement possibility.

Yeah, good riddance to the original effect of amnesia scrolls.

damiac wrote: But it is wanderers we're talking about here.

This. Just let them be as they are, please.

Now I'm beginning to feel that this thread should have never been Born.

*nods* The one big no-brainer right now is the lack of a food clock. There is no reason not to just hit 5 after every fight. Sure, it'll mess up your score but that's really the only downside. Well, I think you should hit 5 after every fight with every character anyway, if you're not at full HP/MP....

Yeah, we're all slaves to quantum physics.

There is no need to go Jiyva. Stay with Trog.

I enslaved some of Pikel's slaves who promptly killed their former master. As free slaves they were still friendly towards me afterwards. Apparently they didn't mind being slaves to me. I'm not complaining, but maybe they should have turned hostile though? (Or maybe Pikel was just much more cruel a ...

I played a MuBe for fun, which it was. I was a bit disappointed, though, that I could not go berserk even when the deity description screen clearly stated "You can go berserk at will". IMHO for mummies, the first ability of Trog should just be removed from the ability screen. Any comments ...

Yes, I had already identified a ring of positive energy. After this event I had two rings of positive energy. I'll report it.

Found some unidentified rings in a Labyrinth ('statues and remains of a dwarven and an elven hero' type ending). One of the rings turned out to be a ring of positive energy (identified with a scroll). I had already identified that ring type and even had one in my inventory. This is probably a bug (p...

Yeah, this. Again, it's strange because there's no hint that the artefact still has unknown properties, except that it'll still show up in your ?ID menu. Hmm? I seem to remember seeing "it may still have some hidden properties" or something like that in the item description. Or have I bee...

I've followed the guideline "first Lair, then Orc" for most of my Crawl career. It seems to work all of the time. Lair:8 may be an exception, depending on the vault you get and your character.

battaile wrote:Offline doesn't count.

Damn, too bad you didn't tell me that back in 1998 when I started Crawling. The time I've wasted...

I did wonder why there are spaces completely blocked by trees. Thanks for the tip, now I have to find some means to change the scenery. (Also have to find a way for my DgAM to kill those dire elephants, Hexes get resisted and blink-shooting with a +3, +4 bow of flaming just didn't seem to cut it. I ...

I was a bit surpised to see statues coming to life in one of the Lair:8 end vaults (dire elephants, no less). Are there other places or situations in Crawl where statues can come to life? Are 'regular' statues no more mere dungeon decorations? Will there be statue traps à la Nethack in Crawl? Should...

My GrSu killed Mennas with about 4 castings of Haunt (with high power) and took zero damage himself. Maybe I was just lucky though.

OK, so this one hurts. I managed to get my GrSu Ice-stormed to death with the Orb on D:1! It was all my fault and there are several points that underline the stupidity of this death: 1) I forgot to switch my rF+ rC+ amulet back on after meeting a mutator 2) I had potions of resistance, should've qua...

Nethack has containers, so having stacks of cursed, uncursed and blessed scrolls and potions is ok there. I don't think we want to have containers in Crawl.

wheals wrote:(In trunk,) Ziggurats no longer generate in D and one is guaranteed in Depths. So it's still possible to get to see one without going to Pan and without confusing people new to the game.

I assume Ziggurats can still be generated in D with Trowel cards?

The exception is of course having drawn Sage from a deck. But that's a special case anyway.

Yes, Poisonous Cloud is great in all of the Dungeon (in the Elven Halls too, if you choose to go there; it's also useful in the Vaults). The problem is that it's a 3-school spell and thus requires a considerable training investment.

The simplest solution in my opinion would be just to raise the level. I'd say 7 or 8 with a gut feeling for 8 (9 would probably be overkill). Siegurt's idea about the effect of spell power seems quite interesting, too. Perhaps these solutions should be combined. This would also make the role of staf...

FWIW, I totally agree with galehar.

2. If you do not have scroll of fog/blink, how do you suppose to survive? I know you may have a chance with hex spells / wands, since their MR is low. Of course sometimes I do not have any such resources this early. This depends on the situation. You just have to stop and think about all the resour...

Code:: The red draconian annihilator gestures at you while chanting. Your +1 shield of reflection reflects the crystal spear! The crystal spear hits the red draconian annihilator. You kill the red draconian annihilator!

I wondered about the same thing. I checked the manual, and it says:
"+ Books

(Depending on your settings, books may also be shown as : symbols.)"

I guess the settings don't affect the symbol in all places (shop description, inventory).

So I guess one could potentially be paralysed multiple times in a row this way. Or does the time spent while paralysed count towards climbing the stairs? Now that I think of it, of course it's clear that using stairs takes multiple turns from the way that monsters can move in or whack at you meanwhi...

duvessa wrote:
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r - the +1,+4 morningstar "Dragonslayer" {slay orc, rC+}

The perfect weapon for killing those pesky multi-headed orcish ice dragons!

Hey, the first win is always something special, congratulations!

Is it the intended behaviour that after you've pressed "<" to go upstairs, a monster can paralyze you and thus prevent the movement? So after pressing "<" this happens: The sphinx casts a spell. You suddenly lose the ability to move! The sphinx mumbles some strange words. You res...

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