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No cool story for this character, he had a tough early game but the boots of running acquired on D:6 have carried him. I have a few non-trivial choices for his development. The game should be winnable no matter what i opt for but it'd be nice to know what's optimal. I got that nice Moon Troll Leathe...

For the past couple of years i haven't played much Crawl and even when i occasionally tried, pretty much all i achieved was early game deaths. However, i got pretty excited about felid buffs: the race has always been my pet favourite but didn't particularly excel at anything besides summoning (unles...

I haven't done as much with frenzy/paralysis personally, but as far as I know needle paralysis is the only way to incapacitate high level demons, and it works on literally every monster in the game. Higher HD have a better chance to resist, so if you're going needle stabber you want very high throw...

Thanks for your kind replies. Sure, i knew blowguns were very good and used them with any non-felid character. The LP one also did a lot of work with one. But a single needle bringing an orc warrior down to 35% from full HP just shifted my expectations. Maybe it's just the lack of recent practice, w...

The biannual let's play is back once again, reaching the new levels of terribleness. This time around i'm bringing some gameplay from July 2014 and trying to announce the significant changes made into the game back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBnMPnk8PA The future of this project is unclea...

Believe it or not, this project is actually back! And, apparently, i'm announcing every single episode of it. The second one was recorded long time ago, but wasn't uploaded because... reasons and excuses. But now it's out, "please enjoy it if you can" ©: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb64...

treerex5 wrote:
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-9-9 ring of Painful Death {Dam-20, Int-5, Str-5, Dex-5}

The first one is awesome, the second one doesn't deserve mention/

The second one would've been worth mentioning as the worst ring ever if it could actually generate in the game. That poster was just exaggerating.

battaile wrote:Description from the options guide:
"Stop when visiting a stack of items previously unknown to the player, even if the stack contains nothing eligible for auto pickup."

Sounds like default behavior of the autoexploration algorithm to me.

Maverick535 wrote:Anyways, a waste of an identify scroll.

While that was a severely disappointing artifact, the identify scroll wasn't wasted at all. It has just saved you from putting this amulet on and likely getting mutated.

Mislead is quite confusing on its own, but if you add your illusion spamming butterflies (like you never did) to the mix, you're guaranteed to see your worst nightmare. And, i believe, Misled status isn't healed by !curing in recent versions of Crawl unlike it used to be. So, it's a lot more annoyin...

If this happens, press "." once (or do something else like drink a potion, make sure the enemy gets a turn) and try temporal distortion again. Sometimes they just don't want to move towards you, and giving them a turn to do exactly this usually makes them walk towards you after using temp...

That's wrong ;) Chei is my favorite god but I don't play it often because it is OP . Ha! I had the same feeling after winning my first game with Chei. It was a Naga Transmuter in 0.10, so the most OP part of the build was probably constriction (which used to annihilate dudes and players these days,...

I generally don't like posting YASDs here because of the "yet another" part of them: almost all ways to die are already well-known, outside of the funniest ones like confused Psyche polymorphing Gastronok into a golden dragon . But this character was extremely promising, and i actually lea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FceKlVbL2wY
(this song needs Crawl-related lyrics badly)

Apparently, unlike Temporal Distortion, Step from Time is not an instant ability. Monsters might get lucky, end up being near you after you step from time and get off a killing blow on you. It took me a lot of games with Chei to discover that though.

That was a good attempt at itemless trolling, i wasn't able to get this far with it and quickly found having normal speed to be a huge limitation to survivability. In long-term perspective, TrMo doesn't look like a good starting combo for this challenge, i'd suggest either TrFi for a shield or even ...

What is up Tavern, how is it crawling? I'm ZoFy aka YukkuriChei on YouTube, and welcome to my official thread! Earlier i was making videos with my most interesting crawling experiences being shown, but got to the conclusion that such videos are pretty difficult to produce. First of all, those intere...

You can just play a DD of Makhleb/Ely->TSO to throw the resting phase away from the game. Trog might work as well, since he gifts vampiric weapon relatively often, but that's not guaranteed, and both dealing with his wrath and doing extended with him isn't really optimal.

This thread inspired me to try MuIE of Sif out, and that's the first ice mage i'm enjoying. Being able to channel mana, stand in freezing clouds and cast refrigeration freely is a pretty unique experience, and i found having terrible aptitudes to be a fair price for it. Freezing Cloud is just too go...

I don't know why i hadn't received any obligatory "oh, you're gonna die so soon" comments, but the owner of that fantastic ring YASD'd on pan lord Zig:22. I hope this makes somebody happy

Code:: x - the ring "Vaell" (right hand) {rElec rPois rF++ rC+ MR++ SInv} (You found it in a treasure trove)

Goodbye, ring swapping!

delarado wrote:CIP->YAVP:DEFE#15141

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Congratulations, by the way.

I played a pure crossbow KoHu of Oka (https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=8078&p=109609#p109609) and I found it very powerful even without any slaying bonuses. OoF died to 3-4 silver bolts, draconians were fun with Finesse and penetrating bolts. But sometimes it can be bori...

You get 3+trowing+blowgun enchantment to beat the mosters HD(or something like that). Blowguns shoot needles. For needles other than poison and curare: You have a flat 2% chance of affecting monsters with HD14 or less. In all other cases, or if this 2% chance fails, you will only affect a monster i...

Sounds dumb, pun intended. Shouldn't you be more able to explain to smart allies that you messed up, it won't happen again? Apparently, in Crawl you need to be god-intelligent to get such a thought. And not even all gods can forgive a worshiper breaking their conducts on an accident. Animals, on th...

Well sure attacking faster is better. But the difference between .87 attack delay and .7 attack delay is about 25%. You can get a lot of str (at the cost of spellpower or EV--but remember dex does help xbow speed some) and get 25% more damage. But you're not looking at this in context. For bows goi...

I remember that you need 1 str for 3 points of enchantment on bows or something like that, but what str do you need for crossbows? 0 well you probably want >0 str for other reasons str helps improve their speed but it's not really a big deal, it doesn't affect xbow damage at all. This is why it's a...

Code:: # New vorpalise is terrifying. autoinscribe += scroll of vorpalise weapon:!r

I wonder how much time it would take for some player to worsen his end-game weapon brand by reading an unIDed scroll of vorpalise (or an IDed one by accident).

I analyzed the weapon acquirement code of version 0.12.1 and found several discrepancies between it and the explanation provided by Siegurt. So, let me make some corrections and recalculate the result. 1. The choice between weapon skills is described correctly, but there's a side note: throwing ...

Only options I can see are to try to enslave some draconians to fight for you (ideally you'll enslave summoning ones) or to try to clear out the chamber right at the entrance then either bat form and suicide to the orb or make some noise, bat form, lure occupants out, then suicide to the orb. If yo...

Edit. Just checked source code. No, shield does not affect stealth. Wiki is 100% correct (except it does not list stealth factors for fungus (30)/tree(27)/jelly(21)/wisp(21)/porcupine(12)/bat(17 for non-vampire) Wow. Just wow. This made so little sense to me that i downloaded the 0.12 source and ch...

Well, it's possible to play a stabber in ring mail, -2 EVP is not a big deal in 0.12 (-24 stealth, that's slightly above 1 skill level of Stealth for bloodless Vp who has the best possible stealth factor 21). He also has an artefact with Stlth++ and uses Oka's heroism for melee - he used a sabre/sh...

I just don't get how do you manage to play a stabber wearing ring mail and a shield, lacking hexes and having only 2.2 short blades skill at XL:14... Of course, you do have javelins, needles and evocables, the ability to fly away from most of enemies and probably lots of patience to help you out, bu...

So, i've got this idea of this challenge from Ahmad (aka BountyHunterSAx) who, in turn, read it somewhere on the Tavern. And the idea is to do as well as possible with a character who doesn't pick up items. I tried playing SpEn under such conditions multiple times before, and while the early game wa...

Can scrolls of acquirement be renamed to scrolls of disappointment via init.txt/.rc file?

Leave shields on the ground Aren't trolls are the best shield users in the game (barring maybe naga mages)? Their claws stills hurt with a shield equipped, their size makes it easier to negate the penalties and their other defences are bad for the big part of the game. and don't bother with armour ...

Oops. Late night and my inability to understand the language made me think you had survived some other situation before and got into more severe trouble at the moment of posting. I'm glad about you making it through (wish i could see that) and my plan being at least somewhat appropriate... cause it ...

Your description is still not exhaustive. You'd better post a char dump in order to get better advice. Anyways, i'm not an expert player and i would never even try to dive so deep into a Zig as a pure stabber, so you're probably far better at playing this char anyways... But in your situatio...

Lugonu's pretty good in all-rune games. Her Corruption can help you with getting most of the runes by either killing everyone inside the rune vault, or functioning as a strong version of Shatter (you'd better be spoiled and know where the rune is though). She doesn't give you holy brand, and Enter t...

Song of slaying- Only one suggestion. Make it last about twice as long or keep the accrued slaying bonuses when renewed. It should at least be able to last a mid to long duration battle- losing the bonus during a fight where it would otherwise fill it's niche effectively is lame and would not be un...

I'd personally choose the demon whip cause it has the same min.delay as short sword, does a lot more damage, allows wearing a shield; and i can't stand summoners.

One meat ration might be just enough permafood for a kobold to carry around throughout the most of a 3-rune game, but not for a desperate teleroulette in Zot:5 and an orb run with a couple self-banishments. Don't be an idiot and starve on the ascension.

Just name three aspects of Crawl you find the most boring.The term "boring" is highly overused in the Tavern and also pretty subjective, so it'd probably be interesting to gather opinions, whine about stuff and in the end make THE ULTIMATE CHART OF BOREDOM AND DISCOURAGEMENT. (inb4 "n...

By training a useless weapon skill you're also reducing the probability of Okawaru gifting you a good weapon.

If you're gonna train yout Throwing skill for needles, consider using throwing nets as well. Yes, their accuracy is reduced for small races, but catching troublesome mid-lategame uniques in them is quite possible, and you can help yourself with Portal Projectile. Keep in mind that not every dude is ...

I was going to gather 15 runes with a boring djinni worpshiping Oka->TSO and wearing GDA, but on the final floor of Crypt the mighty God of Taking It Easy told me what he thought about my armour choice and gifted me a PDA of dieselness. 125689 | Crypt:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Crypt 125898 | Crypt:...

rchandra wrote:if you're going to use bardiche over lava, why not do it where you can't be attacked from instead of where you can?

Autofight script thought that stepping into 1-tile range of anacondas is a nice idea, and i never got a chance to move afterwards.

Are you really really sure it was the 'tab' command you repeated? Yeeeap, i was clearly looking at my keyboard when doing that. Guess you told him. No, my adviser wasn't Magipi, and i don't want anyone to blame that person anyways, cause he just wanted me to press ~ (which is, as i heard, not too s...

Well, this is certainly wierd. Another idea: is it possible you were already below the "low hp" limit at the beginning of the repeat attack? And perhaps autofight only stops when you cross it? That'd have been too insane. I started the tab chain at rather high health (essence), at least 8...

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