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As a pure caster Djinn Conjurer ^ Makhleb, I spotted the Orange Crystal Plate Armour in a shop. I've been optimising for Int, so I think I can't realistically use it this run, which is a pity because all my spells are at <1% fail rate (and I can't race for higher level spells because I'm a Djinn). A...

I really like this proposal.

I really enjoy sleep stabbing stuff, but in the late game sleep stabs are often unwise because you can end up in the middle of a pack of chasing monsters. With this proposal you could escape from those situations more easily, provided you invest enough into stealth.

This isn't quite on topic, but since they were mentioned: The change that Draconians can't wear any armour seems absurd to me. That is such a harsh handicap, and why? At least they should be able to wear dragon armour. Pretty much most draconian games are a rush to find a transmuation spell or spla...

Steam Dragon form is actually quite desirable, because of the implied evocable fog (steam) It would max out at the armour bonus of a XL3 draconian (+5) so it could possibly be ok balance-wise Interactions between armour and forms like the OP suggests would be cool (but only if they can't be gamed to...

I'd have gone with the crystal plate. It's amazing in the late game if you dump all your enchant armour scrolls on it, and a staves FoFi shouldn't have any trouble surviving the early game. Also you can expect to find a couple (~3) lajatangs every 3rune game.

My first game with the new Ash: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.27-a0-543-gd81048afd2 (webtiles) character file. petercordia2 the Caller (Ogre Summoner) Turns: 18100, Time: 01:03:44 Health: 98/98 AC: 6 Str: 14 XL: 10 Next: 7% Magic: 5/18 EV: 13 Int: 19 God: Ashenzari [*.....] Gold: 322 SH: 9 Dex:...

Seems Ash in version 0.27-a0-463 is most useful for combat mages. Gaining bonuses to magic skills isn't really valuable unless the character has high Int, and a pure mage is probably better off going Sif Muna for Channel and guaranteed access to high-level spells. Combat mages have the high Int nee...

Berserkitis is a very scary mutation. If you'd like to try out how a species with berserkitis plays, I'd recommend trying a few games with djinn on the bcrawl branch (available on eg underhound.eu:8080). I haven't been brave enough to try a melee djinn yet. I think the proposed change would make Min...

I don't think there's an issue with Dex rings being better than EV rings in the late game. It fits the pattern of crawl. Strength is also better than Slaying in the late game, but worse in the early game. As for the complaints that a felid now feels untouchable; I'd say the same thing about most cha...

I never really skip, but sometimes I back out. I recently had a character come within a hairs breadth of dying because he was completely ill-equipped to deal with the cave's simulacra. Luckily he survived because the simulacra can't follow you out the exit. Personally I get killed most in fire caves.

Based on comparing Strat with booing, it was one of
* Dissolution
* Ignacio
* Khufu
But that wasn't actually very easy to figure out, because I had to go through Strat's whole list.

I also enjoyed playing with you

I just lost my Naga in the Zot vault :( TBF I could have played more patiently. All my paths were blocked by permanent traps, and at some point I decided to just teleport myself. I thought I'd cleared out most of the baddies, but apparently I hadn't. A downside of having so much stealth. I got repea...

pearl dragon armour is very good if you're going into extended and not going for super heavy or super light armour (ie crystal plate, gold dragon, swamp dragon, robes of archmagi). But yes you have to get it up to +7 for it to actually give better AC than comparable armours, and the resistance is mo...

I rather like the dispersal traps, and I don't really mind the traps in Zot. Unavoidable Zot traps which can randomly give you Zin-bypassing mutations (but 90% of the time do nothing) should just be removed from the game though. As for the Tomb traps, there might exist people who enjoy Tomb in its c...

I rather like the bcrawl djinn, and the bcrawl skeleton could easily replace one of the heavy armour tabbers currently in the game

I don't have any experience with the removed djinn. I believe the bcrawl djinn is very different from it.

I've recently cleared Tomb. The first time since a long time, because I wanted a 15 rune victory. It just seems rather extreme. Lots of net traps which can't be destroyed. I played a Formicid^Zin. The net traps aren't destroyed when triggered, couldn't be destroyed with Sanctuary, and weren't destro...

distortion is amazing on Palentongas, and a Palentonga with an axe can make extremely good use of Uska. But I've found that playing a Palentonga with a mace makes me play safer, which leads to better results in the long run. One of you might appreciate the sheer recklessness of this decision: in an ...

Andrew, I don't know. I'd guess you're right in your suspicion though. I got my first win this tournament. Playing a Formecid Wanderer of Zin (Zin all the way), killing everything like I usually do, I got 15 runes. Tomb was a nightmare, I could have easily died there and I spend all the resources I ...

You enter the Zot trap. The power of Zot is invoked against you! You are heavily infused with residual magic. _Zin is not enthusiastic about the mutagenic glow surrounding you. d - 747 bolts (gained 1) _There is Zot trap here. Your body shudders with the violent release of wild energies! The magica...

Nameless horrors have "Abjure monster", and all summoners can cast that spell at a reduced frequency, but it never really feels like a summoner has much to fear from them. If anything you need a few more summons than you're used to, but it's easily workable. (As it should be as long as sum...

Blink, Swiftness, conjure flame, mephitic cloud, beckoning, passwall, PoG, lightning spire, the dancing weapon spell, frozen rampards, shadow creatures / mana vipers, raise dead...

Some things get harder, some things get easier. Big thing for me was the removal of mp channelling. But throwing has been even more busted ever since they reworked javelins and darts. It might be worth playing a "weak" character, just so it'll force you to play more carefully. Sometimes it...

After a lot of attempts I didn't really get attached to, I've finally got a DDEE to Ely, and I even found some fire dragon scales along the way. Let's hope I don't throw it away like I did with my poison draconian warper. I was planning to go passwall stabbing, but it seems brute-force LRD is more e...

For me it depends on whether I'm playing an int-focused gnoll or a strength-focused gnoll. A stength-focused gnoll picks up whatever spells provide best utility, but doesn't compromise on melee offence or defenses do do so, and doesn't use a staff (only because it's not worth the bother). In contras...

I don't think distortion can teleport you anymore. It can probably still blink you in a gauntlet, gauntlets don't block blinks. Looking at your character I'd be tempted to switch to he CPA, and turn the character into melee with LRD support. Whilst wearing that thing you have as much strength as int...

did you manage to get away?

In the end I died whilst diving the abyss. The abyss rune vaults were too tough for my XL20 character. Which reminds me, I'd gained too much experience. I think my approach to the depths was sound - lots of magic mapping combined with a bit of sneaking and abuse of soon-to-be obsolete blink scrolls....

Sorry to hear that. MuAM sounds like a tough background. If I might ask some advice, I'm aiming for a low-XL win with this character https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/petercordia.txt petercordia the Fighter (Palentonga Fighter) Turns: 32159, Time: 02:10:26 Health: 143/157 AC: 24 Str: 21...

Could we maybe just give the AM 1000 arrows?
I agree AM is currently a miserable experience. You're practically forced to go Oka / TSO, which doesn't help with replay value either.

I tried to finish my game before everyone finished theirs, but then I died in the stupidest way immaginable. I'd finished the game up to Zot:4, with 3 runes, then decided to "do V:5 to make the zot end vault easier". And then on V:5 I decided to stick around when I had an opportunity to st...

I appear not to show up in the clan. Any idea why? I have # TEAMCAPTAIN moanerette in my 0.26 rc file edit because it fixed itself. possibly it was to do with capitalisation. I've started a Nemex Choice BaAE. It's going good so far. I've joined Ash and completed a Gauntlet (with one very scary mome...

And I have my first death :( https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/morgue-petercordia-20210108-232239.txt One of the first times I've died in a bailey, and it felt fair. Berserk wore of too soon, I didn't use enough consumables whist trying to recover, and my tactics and timing were slightl...

I could join.
Does joining mean anything extra beyond putting # TEAMCAPTAIN nameofcaptain in the rc file?

Last tournament I played 3 games (https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.2 ... ordia.html). Don't know whether I'll play any more this tournament.

I never find MP a real issue before Pan/Hell because of stairdancing. Crawl is "easy" enough that many different strategies can win, so long as you're patient enough to employ the right tactics. If you like training some weapon skill & hexes early, good for you. I don't really like low...

Pure summoners can actually be quite fun. But only if I force myself not to think about the XP penalty. At the end of a pure summoner game you can kill literally everything with Dragon's Call / Summon Horrible Thinks / Mana vipers etc. It's about as OP as Ice / Fire / Earth / Air magic. I'd still tr...

I finished Lair and managed to look into 1 shop in Orc, and then I died the final time. I was a bit sloppy in Lair:6, and there wasn't even any good loot there. Died twice in the water in the middle, both times due to bad blinks IIRC. I got into a bit of trouble in a fire cave, but I did get a bunch...

Playing with a Palentonga, I'd like TAB to attempt the quivered action (rolling charge) and only attack an adjacent enemy if there are no valid targets for rolling charge. Currently with the option autofight_throw = true, I'll autoattack an adjacent enemy if there is one and attempt to rolling charg...

I agree, these hidden strategic costs are annoying.

If summoning spells are too powerful, increase their spell level (and nerf Dragon's Call). If invokable summons are too powerful, increase their piety cost. If evokable summons are too powerful, nerf the evokables.

Get rid of ally based XP drain.

I think in bcrawl you can't get Jiv piety without killing things. Plus, Ash wrath makes running away from things impossible. I don't actually have any experience with it because Ash wrath has always sounded too scary to me, but I'm pretty sure it would kill me. I'm planning to learn Invisibility. Th...

So, I'm only able to attempt the pacifist run because bcrawl Felids gain xp from seeing enemies. xp is 50% reduced, and in compensation they can wear scarfs, have -30% hp (instead of -40%) and have a few aptitudes improved. It's not a pure pacifist run. After all, my kitten needs to eat, and some mo...

autoretreat would be really nice.

You do have to take into account where the monsters are imo, since the closes stair is sometimes behind a monster.

character dump: https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/morgue-petercordia-20210101-130058.txt This character was a lot of fun. It's surprising how easily high-level spells can still be cast despite having wild magic 3, disrupted magic 1 I had a little trouble with electricity-resistant enemi...

If Frozen Ramparts needed further nerfs, it could be made into ice/earth. Would make the spell significantly harder to cast and to get to high spell power. And it would be nice (thematically) to have an earth/ice spell.

I'd also go for willpower and Int. Technically Dex will be better than Int or willpower for most of your encounters, but I wouldn't want to swap rings all the time, and Dex is never extremely important. There are situations where extra willpower (up to ++++) is really important, and for those target...

The current behaviour at 10 invocations (filling a large area with acid clouds) would feel great if it was a reward for training a skill up to 27. I have no idea how strong this thing gets at higher evocations. It might be an idea to increase the area effected similarly to Quazlal's Disaster Area It...

Entry: a +8 demon sword

contents: some weapons. (I have not identified them, nor do the details matter to the character, because I'm relying on my claws)

The reason it's frustrating is that Uska followers have no good way to deal the the TRJ spawn because it doesn't give piety. You can do things that would work on any other floor, and die. You have to suddenly play carefully and stay close to the stairs and lure when I haven't had to do any of that a...

Aaaaand... I'm dead For some reason I though using Uska's ultimate ability on TRJ wouldn't cause him to spill all his no-piety spawn. I was wrong. I should have left when I'd realised, maybe come back later. It's not that I couldn't take out M:$, it's just so frustrating. I took an unnecessary risk ...

I'm having a lot of fun with this character, congratulations to whoever designed the Palentonga I've gone round the dungeon (rolling-)charging at anything in sight, with tab and p, and I've only had to retreat a few times because my health got below 50%. Twice I've had to teleport, once I've used a ...

You were right. I had a macro on p equal to "===doStep"
I have no idea why. That doesn't look like something I'd type.

Having cleared that macro, everything works great.

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