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Eh? AE has lots of direct damage spells: Magic Dart, Static Discharge and Fulminant Prism. It's not at all like VM, because few or no monsters resist electricity. I could have probably improved on the phrasing, but by 'direct' damage I mean without having to wait for things(like prism to explode or...

Would it be at all possible for hellcrawl to be a thing on CXC? I play it on CBRO, and it's really fun, but it would be nice to have it on a lower latency server as well. If not, would anyone know where I can contact the CXC admin? I can't seem to find his/her details anywhere. Also, I've been playi...

I've never seen this happen before, is this a new 0.20 trunk thing, and it's not even part of a vault seemingly? Almost makes me want to go with Lugonu on this DEFE, but I prefer the boring options.

Thank you for the answers guys, I've tried out ncurses with C++ already and it's pretty decent. I think I'll try something small in that and then try and branch and see how other languages operate.

I want to try my hand at making a roguelike game, I know a decent amount of C++, and from looking at crawl's github page it seems that most of it is coded in C++. Would this be the ideal language to make a RL in with minimal fuss, or are there better alternatives out there nowadays? I would preferab...

You can find descending stairs or a shaft and go there. It's risky and purely dependent on luck, but it is doable. And what about the characters who don't find those stairs? And if they do, what if there's something worse down there? What if the jackals have already whittled down the character's HP...

There's not much choice in that regard if they are the very first thing you encounter in d:1. Nothing will save a TeAE who miscasted 3 times against jackals on d:1, even in magical optimal play™ land. The early game is always a dice roll that is independent of player skill.

mikee wrote:Weren't knives base damage 3, which is the same as unskilled unarmed combat? This also leads into my main suggestion of: have you tried just punching things if you're out of mp? It's not like it does 0 damage.

Punching a pack of jackals, even 1v1, is not going to go well with mage defence.

A weapon should hopefully reduce the kiting a caster has to do at the start and make them a little more bearable to play than standard heavy melee, I'm on board with this. Casters are already restricted by MP, spell slots, encumbrance, failure rates, hunger etc, so a small early game buff would be p...

I would also second playing shorter sessions for crappy combos,for example: It took me 76 tries to win my first octopode, it would have been won on the 5th try or so were it not for the fact that I was playing tired in Zot:5. Also, try and figure out which situations that character is strong in and ...

Admittedly, I always forget about,and underuse, minor destruction. The only 2 active abilities that tend to stand out to me are minor and greater demon, the latter requires a big exp investment to get safely castable due to troll's all-around crappy aptitudes, so I tend to just stay at 4 invo foreve...

I've been doing a ton more chei games, and I have a question: I normally move diagonally in open areas to maximize the tiles seen, but is it worth the turns lost to move near walls so I don't get swarmed as a chei worshipper?

If you have TLA + Shield + Aux armour that's all the AC/EV/SH you'll need for 2 runes on a troll, you don't even need a god, that's how good Trolls are. They require a little more careful play than a heavy melee axe user, but not to the extent that something like octopode requires. Be more liberal w...

Okay, here a more substantive reply: Crawl is a game where you don't spend an extended amount of time reading text and changing 'him' to 'her' is unlikely to have even the most minuscule impact on anything at all. Will I care? No, but I dislike this trend where a few lines of code get changed ,espec...

Yeah, you're right, I should probably take it a little slower, and set smaller goals. Like, this MiBe was easily winnable but I kept trying to go too fast, even when I get my 1st rune in under 6k turns. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0-15-g7f486f2 (webtiles) character file. 92215 VajrapaniSR ...

I've been trying out a bunch of DD,Mi and Tr. With my best runs so far being a MiBe and TrMo^Chei. MiBe is probably winnable, but TrMo^chei falls apart in the lair branches. The defense is just too bad, and combined with slow speed basically wrecks me. DD is most definitely faster than both, but fin...

You can probably get it online about vaults/depths with a wizardry ring, if you're not completely rushing for it, go for it when you have excess exp and your offense/defense is good enough for the area you're in. Run away from hydras and/or try to trap them on the floor above, unless you're a chei t...

I'm not sure if 0.16 is better, as in theory, you could get a lot more AC with stoneskin + statue (remember the good old days of 40/40 defenses in Vaults with Chei using statue, stoneskin, and phase shift? good times), but you are unable to engage in Passage trickery in Zot which is worth a good fe...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.0-15-g7f486f2 (webtiles) character file. 1705049 Vajrapani the Sensei (level 27, 292/292 HPs) Began as an Octopode Fighter on June 22, 2017. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on June 25, 2017! The game lasted 04:48:00 (71519 turn...

Obviously there needs to be a very good and ballsy player at the wheel, but what are the specific non-player related factors for a melee character? Like is early altar + good weapon good enough, or do you need the RNG to be favouring you every step of the way to even approach 19k?

tabstorm wrote:Have him play GrBe. He just needs to learn when to press aa and ab.

Or maybe anything Mu, only button required is ctrl+q

Oh, okay. I thought something different had to be done, but the 'normal' crawl instructions can be followed. Thanks.

This is kind of embarassing, but I'm a very new linux user, and I do the majority of my crawl playing online, so I don't really have any clue on where to start on installing hellcrawl. I would normally also play it online, but the only servers are in america or australia which lead to massvie lag fo...

I also don't really like Seraph spawning, as I've lost a halfling who was roughly "minimum endgame power" who couldn't deal with that many summons and that many smites... Funnily enough, my halfling orbruns tend to pretty lethal as well. Glaciate panlord + 2 torment mobs, with no blink or...

Meaningless posturing with no actual substance behind it, like most GDD posts. Killing enemies is a no-brainer for character survival, should we remove everything that allows this dangerous, degenerate tactic?

What's the rationale behind this? They're both 1-handed long blades, so surely you would think they adhere to same restrictions regarding what you can and can't equip as a halfling, but demon blades are the only one out of the two swords that you can equip with a shield?

Oh, I see. Thanks for the help man, now I should be able to play games in the upcoming tournament with monster damage prompts:

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It works fine in trunk, but any 0.20 game doesn't have the monster damage displayed and constantly displays 'LUA error' anytime I take a turn a turn.
I play on the xtahua web server, if that's any help.

Just died in Zot:5 with a statue-form OpEE due to sloppy play. Fuck. Vajrapani the Sensei (L27 OpEE of Dithmenos), slain by an Orb Guardian on Zot:5 (hall_of_Zot) on 2017-05-24 21:31:15, with 652303 points after 78845 turns and 8:26:22 At least it's not a problem with octopodes themselves, and I can...

Ok, I got destroyed a by a Yaktaur bolt. Pretty stupid death but I guess I got overconfident since my summons were shredding through every single enemy and thought that I could at least melee a yaktaur captain without any resource use. RMsl is gone, and I needed exp on other skills so I couldn't use...

I found the grand grimoire on d:3, so I should be set for high-level summoning spells, so I guess I'll go for Hep. If this run fails, I'll try out Sif again and then perhaps Ashenzari.

Summoner is the only book start that I can stand playing, and playing melee octopode gives me a heart attack every fight, so OpSu is the combo I've decided upon to finally get an octopode win. However most of my experience outside of the standard Oka/Makhleb/Trog trinity has been with chei, and I do...

Beogh tends to gift your melee orcs ranged weapons,and upgrades their armour, at some point, so it's best to just gift your orcs the best polearm you have and not bother keeping the wizards and priests alive, they're pretty much completely worthless. He sometimes tends to upgrade the base weapon typ...

I don't like it, at least on paper anyway. Consider Minotaurs: they typically will only train a combination of fighting,armour,dodging and weapon skill throughout a game. Every single one of those aptitudes is +1 or higher. Minotaurs also have the added benefit of not being capped at 5/5/5 stats(or ...

All I see is a tiny help for characters who can already fight multiple opponents at a time I agree. I've only won with the older version of the god as a Ds with Powered-by-death. Other characters that didn't have such convenient regen in fights tended to feel pretty weak. Heavenly storm is decent, ...

Just came back to crawl after feeling burnt-out, and tried out the new Gnoll race. It's quite gimmicky but I actually really like the gimmick as opposed to species like octopode,felid,barachian etc. However it seems like there's a chance it may not make it into the stable release which would be a sh...

I want to meet these people who can literally play blindfolded and win. Unless they were physically blind and specially equipped with tech to begin with -- then it wouldn't be quite so ridiculous an expression. /language curmudgeon :evil: It's very simple to literally play blindfolded and win: play...

Do Depths 1-5 first, vaults:5 will be your last stop before Zot. Then, after that your plan for vaults:5 is this: 1. read magic mapping as your 1st turn 2. use capital-X and look around the map for nice quadrants to fight in. Ideally you want to fight in an enclosed area or corridor. If there's not ...

I would use the vampiric axe, because at that point you could literally play blindfolded and still win, but if you're going for 15-runes I would go Wyrmbane + shield/large shield since you can't vampiric heal off of any common monsters in hell and pan branches and it's not everyday that you get to u...

I've done a fair amount of shit talking on frogs and hated them pretty much from inception, but now they're actually not that bad to play now. But that's probably because a strong race with a few drawbacks,like slow and LOS+1, is more enjoyable to play than a weak race with a single gimmick.

It's surprising to see that the spooky skeleton species has a -3 necromancy aptitude. Anyway, the overall aptitude spread seems pretty flat, with the highest being +1, which doesn't really make for an exciting race(see:Barachians) even if they have a nice gimmick. Maybe have like Armour +3, shields ...

Invisibility is barely viable as it is, the most annoying monsters can see invisible so you might as well invest exp in something actually usable for 100% of fights, I would not consider it a 'good' spell let alone an 'amazing' spell.

UC's speciality is the synergy with transmutations and being a weapon that everyone has access to from turn 1, plus reaching it's min-delay at 27 skill.

I only play online so I'm not too sure, but those rc files are from a guy called HilariousDeathArtist, here's his github page https://github.com/HilariousDeathArtist/DCSSConfigFile

I've seen this sort of hard-number feedback in some people's games when spectating online, and would like to know what sort of rcfile settings they're using to get it. Probably a lot of lua. You mean the 'you take x damage' prompts? if so, the rcfile settings are: < function ready() AnnounceDamage(...

I've won a game with the council and it while it was fairly strong, it didn't have the pure power of other far stronger gods like Oka/Trog/Makhleb. I feel like it's in a decent position, and nerfs to it would make it undesirable to play. for example, from this game http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morg...

I like Ieoh Jian so far, but I have no idea where you would use his active abillities to any great effect. I tried using heaven on earth in the spider ending vault, which I can destroy pretty easily on most characters without tediously luring everything out one by one, but had to tele out as I was t...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-641-g673355a (webtiles) character file. 113416 Vajrapani the Brawler (level 16, -21/119 HPs) Began as an Octopode Fighter on Feb 12, 2017. Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh. Blown up by an orb spider (47 damage) ... with an orb of destruction ... on level 1 ...

Clearing dungeon,lair and orc is easy enough,at least for such a shitty race like octopode, but how do you handle anything beyond that if statue or dragon form don't generate? The enemy density gets wayy higher once you start rune branches + vaults so the unexpected damage spikes get more frequent a...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-633-gff4aa5c (webtiles) character file. 544267 Vajrapani the Phalangite (level 27, 0/233 HPs) Began as a Formicid Fighter on Feb 10, 2017. Was the Champion of Yredelemnul. Slain by a Killer Klown (5 damage) ... on level 5 of the Realm of Zot on Feb 12, 2017....

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