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How much does a speed brand reduce damage by? Is it literally 1/2?

Bots don't say precisely, as far as I can tell. (though it could just be me being blind...) :geek:

Confidence Interval wrote:(Getting increasingly off-topic here but what else does Crazy Yiuf stand for?)

Hammers, naturally...

Holy crap! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjimm/Eucliwood-Mace.jpg This is even more amazing considering I just learnt Olgreb's Toxic Radiance with this character (my first long surviving Necromancer), and was angsting about continually poisoning myself with it. Now I can use it without fe...

Hmm, I did kind of expect to see a chunk of 'moody' type and masochistic buddhist responses, but its nice I'm not the only one who draws upon literary/entertainment sources. The dudes with somewhat functional/cool names (like "King Arthur" or something) usually don't Don't forget, King Art...

Didn't see this one asked anywhere and I was interested in a random etymology study. ;) This thought came after I've seen a couple of first time new name characters survive in wacky fashions, only to see a certain name die time after time. Which led me to the paranoid delusion of wondering whether t...

Gotta get the Accuracy/Damage bonus. Oh yeah, sorry, it was a -1, +1 staff. Not exactly inspiring, but I've seen worse. Obviously I dropped it since this was on an Ashenzari Vampire character using Short Blades (and I already have rF+++, two things with MR, and I've cleared Orc, so that + Mutagenic...

New update; just cleared Vault 8. I was surprised by the big ring of Vault Guardians, but defeated them handily in just three stairdances. I think picking up the +15 Fixedart shield Bullseye from a Bazaar really helped. The main problem was actually having to ensure Deflect Missiles and Regen were u...

Not exactly a terrible nor amazing artefact, but... certainly nonsensical:

Ah! I get it, Dragons are Orcs in costumes celebrating chinese festivals!!

Personally, I go with the idea of Mario World like 'Checkpoints', using the following rules: ⋅ No checkpoints prior to Temple being found. The difficulty of the start is sacred; and if you can't even make it even that far, chances are this character might well be a bust anyway. This takes...

Hmm, that explains why the map seemed so big, then... Its a new map entirely! I remember thinking, 'so this really wraps around?' the first time I survived awhile in the abyss.

I think I have Ash to partly thank for my non-artifact gear; all that stuff I might normally pass by being auto-id'ed is really helpful. I've seen some bloody terrible items with this character as well, like the -5 Shield of Fun and Games I posted somewhere in another topic. She seems to have extrem...

Whee. Shinobu got her first Rune today (from Snake), which incidently is also my first rune ever. Sure Blade helps alot, and found a book with Haste in, as well as two randarts with Stealth++ so even with 14 Stealth hardly anything seems to notice me; I have a vast number of creatures opened like pi...

Just found an inaccessible Jiyva shrine on D1 behind glass walls with lots of high level slimes in the room. Weird.

+ Heroism is worth using. +5 to all your skills, seeing as how you had no magic. Result: Faster attacks, no penalty from your shield. + You had spit poison too! I would have used that at every oppertunity since you've no thrown weapons there. + Personally, even with a Low INT, I would have victory d...

-4 Scale Mail of the Seven Moons (-2 str -2 int) Heh, whoever said Okie didn't have a sense of humour? Why even bother moving it into your stash? Just chuck it away, its the game testing whether you can keep a straight face. In fact, if a monster foolishly tries to grab it, all the better for you. ...

Just learning still, having some real problems with inventory management. Do any bags exist in game? Also if I find a book and have NOT memorized all the spells is it OK to drop the book? Will I still have access to those spells for memorization later on? Are there any containers in game that let m...

Yeah, as Rapigel says, training a D&D type Cleric (heavy armour hitty smacky mace dude on the side of god) out of a Zin Priest start is pretty decent. Moving onto huge armour and Maces when possible is good (I always end up with a whip though for some reason, LOL). As a bonus, the distinct lack ...

So Haste would allow my attack speed to go faster than 'Blindingly Fast' with the Quick Blade (3 delay is it?)? I see your point for using both; I'm still at the stage where Pois is useful; I'll use Sniper until it gets less useful then drop it in the L2 Stash. Finally, whilst I'm here: I heard Kata...

So, the game suddenly gave me two awesome x-bow's this level (Lair 7): The fixedart "Sniper" {+10, +0, Pois} The randart "Wyrd" {+5, +6, speed, MR} Which is best? I'm thinking the randart is best due to the speed brand, MR, and balanced stats, but, typically, this is the first Fi...

Yes, everyone else has got the primary advice right. Crawl is different to most other CRPGs; it can and will kill you mercilessly. Ironically, Crawl is the game that most makes me remember my Sun Tzu: >> He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. >> If ignorant both of yo...

Sooo... how the frack do I reach this Vehumet Altar. Burn your way in. Fireball, lightning bolt... second or third-level wand of fire or a wand of lightning... Sigh, yeah, I thought that might be a case. I have no such wands yet; this is on D2 and I'm a summoner. This will delay my Vehumet piety ga...

Sooo... how the frack do I reach this Vehumet Altar: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjimm/Alice-is-screwed.jpg Blink won't allow me in (wasted my scroll of blink); searched for ages to near starving (wasting a bread ration). I'm a low level Summoner in this game, and I actually wanted Vehu...

The dungeon is serious business.

There is no room for fun and games here. :lol:

Ok, thanks, will correct these issues later (not much time tonight).

You have generic altar in place of Zin's. You have Zin's altar in place of Elyvi l on's It's typed Beogh, Jiyva, Fedhas Madash. Worshiper have 1 p in it. And that's I just read God column. Also, TSO no longer gives you piety for destroying evil items. Thankyou for comments, alterations made. Except...

Honestly, the first thing that catches my eyes is the tiles got mangled. Dunno if you re-sized them, or what, but they're ugly. Also, TSO no longer gives you piety for destroying evil items. Nah, I noticed that too and don't really understand it either; not a problem in the original document but fo...

Didn't know where to put this, so I assumed here. Please move if wrong and apologies. Was bored, so I made a big summary table of the gods to go with my Blog post on Crawl, and thought some might find it useful, so I'd post it here as well. Check it out: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjim...

But what about you? What do you play when you want to cast spells as your bread and butter, but don't want your build to decide too much what those will be up front? I don't think any magic class really shoehorns you; and it shouldn't, else you'd be massively disadvantaged by Random Book Spawns, es...

I was talking about the irony, actually. It's a dog eat cat world out there, apparently.

Nice. I started a Felid Transmuter myself and they do indeed work very well, though for some reason I chose to worship Kiku and then got final deathed by a pair of Hydras on Lair 3; as I also had no fire spells for the situation.

LOL at your first death to a Hound.

A stack of 12 +3 Silver Javelins on D1. Unfortunately they were on a 5 STR Deep Elf Necromancer and hence basically used his entire weight limit single handedly. Still awesome though.

Also seen Steam Dragon Armour, but not Gold. Oh, and two Cursed Rings of Wizardry once, literally next to each other.

Seeing as how I'm a big story development lover; I never really expected to like DCSS, but hey, I'm proven happily wrong. Oddly enough, I first got into the genre with DS Roguelikes (Shiren the Wanderer and Izuna: The Unemployed Ninja) and decided that occassionally, infuriating difficulty could mak...

I think, now Orc 4 is guaranteed to have a mall. In last win-game there was 3 Necronomicons. Good that i requested branding instead of book from Kiku. Also, nice Elvis-like doll you have there eharper256 =) Ah, so its a guaranteed spawn to have an Orc Shopping Centre? Hmm... Perhaps I fail at the i...

Ok, thanks.

Good to know Quick Blade won't remove Hydra Heads!

Another thing... what Necromancy is off-limits for undead characters? Is it worth branching into it if stuff like Necromutation doesn't work?

Thanks for your comments minmay. 1. Yeah, Spellcasting was only just switched off so I could dance Charms up, but you're right, probably shouldn't have done that. 2. As you can tell, I've been confused a bit on how to focus since the RNG god has favoured me a bit in several categories for a change. ...

Ah, okay, showing my n00bness to DCSS. I got pretty excited when I saw it in the shop and went LULWUT.

I'm fairly new at this (only about 40 YASD's so far :twisted: ), but quite surprised on how well this build turned out since I've basically devolved into creating Anime characters and seeing what happens. This character is Shinobu Oshino , the overpowered Little Girl Vampire from Bakemonogatari. (W...

Orcs are capitalist shop-a-holics. :o http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjimm/CrawlSS-orcshops.jpg Hence, it will now be a rule in any of my games that all shops will be the Orc Mines only. (Seriously; I have 7 shops there- last game had 3!) Speaking of which: http://img.photobucket.com/album...

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