Search • The Tavern

That was part of what I was thinking of in my suggestion. If you managed to somehow pick up a branded one early to replace the starter it'd carry you well for a ways. I have to agree with this. I picked a vampiric trident from Terence on D:2 or D:3 (can't remember which is right) and I got it up to...

Lol! This reminds me of my most recent Gastronok related death. It was on D:8 :( God damn airstrike. Now that I mentioned Airstrike, don't you ever be flying when you fight anything that can cast it. I almost lost an awesome character with boots of lev + amulet of ctrl flight due to having it active...

I don't listen to music while crawling but If I did this is a good example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmpWsM2ZFU

Savatage FTW. :mrgreen:

Lajatangs are very very cool weapons, and require far less skill investment than an executioner's axe or triple sword or GSC to get to min delay, while doing 16 base dmg, which is nothing to sneeze at. They also have slightly better accuracy than aforementioned weapons. :P Unless we're talking about...

XuaXua wrote:If that first post doesn't have like, 30 thanks by the end of the day, I'm hunting you all down.

<- Giving in to peer pressure <- :roll:

If you lose your fifth attempt to play an Earth elementalist and chose to play a wizard instead, you will find 103 stones on D1. I'm playing an Earth Elementalist and have never picked up a single stone. Should I? Accidentally thanked you. :P In answer to your question, you can (w)ield stones in yo...

What's the needed skill to get a quickblade to minimum delay? (I suspect 8)

Next time you get a (+0 +8) Ring Of Slaying on D:1, you WILL get cocky, trust me.

Running around the Abyss with boots of levitation and an amulet of controlled flight is just priceless. I've only managed to enjoy it once. But the mutations are very annoying. Oh well. I'll be playing Zin in the future I guess.

(I know it's an article about dwarves but the whole discussion started by quoting some things mentioned here, that's why I keep replying to this topic) First of all, unfun and unlucky deaths will happen even without crippling mutations causing them. That means, I have no idea how skilled you are in ...

Just happened at WebTiles, lol. I lost my most promising melee mummy of Okawaru that was wielding a demon trident of electrocution to Margery and her fire spells because I got reckless and went in with the x in fire resistance. It's only natural that you died by that dragon since you still got the ...

i - Hardened Choko Gagball +2 {worn} Head Gear AC: 0 It prevents spellcasting (in a very elegant way). It prevents eating and drinking (look above). It protects you from unholy pain and torment (it's not that you don't feel it, more like not being able to scream in agony). It is red. (No shit!?) Lo...

JollyPong wrote:Though it was fun, I don't want to do it again

Wow this score is pretty amazing for a first win. Kudos to you for a fast and brutal win. 8-)

EDIT: God damn, look at these mutations. :shock:

@File200 First of all, I don't think you read more than up to the point where I started mentioning hooves and berserkitis, where you dismissed the post entirely and no matter what you say, the impression won't change. I didn't say exhaustion/hunger cost of berserking should get removed with this abi...

After all this talk about the button of destruction, I started experimenting with it and now I can't stop using it. :twisted: It works wonder on troll characters, but really, it just makes the early game so much faster on melee heavy characters (and so much more dangerous! :mrgreen: ). Most surprisi...

Serne wrote:Space Bar works for-more- in Firefox...

Gawd daaamn, I didn't know this. Thanks! Not that I'm probably going to use it, but hey.

Minotaurs already make good Berserkers, they don't really need any nudging in that direction, and they already have a labyrinth-themed mapping ability. I'm against the extra mapping too, but, I'm going to go ahead and say: "I'd much rather play a KoBe, HOBe, TrBe or OgBe than a minotaur"....

That's exactly what I meant too (well, I'd say berserkers and "other melee" could have physical ranged options... crossbows/slings/bows/throwing). Are you really saying a pure mage is more flexible than a hybrid? It's in the name that a hybrid combines the two character types meaning more...

It is likewise counterintuitive that pure casters can flounce around with berserk 3 and no care in the world, absolutely safe from ever actually triggering it. This. As far as I'm concerned, berseritis procures from hitting stuff, which I don't think makes sense. I see it more like "anger mana...

@cerebovssquire When I say hybrids I mean Fighter-Mage. When I say "other melee" I mean all melee that uses Inv and Evo ONLY or does pure melee. Of course everything is situational, but it's a common belief that magic is pretty OP in contrast to other options. Because it provides flexibili...

...Although I have to say, bees living in a room with doors doesn't make sense.

I like the Mini Hives better although they are harder to survive if there's no nearby corridor (and you're weak, of course).

It does get dangerous when you open one of these rooms and wake up the denizens, If you are not prepared. If you have good stealth you may get away with closing the door and running away placing an exception on the room. But I've had such rooms opened afterwards, probably by wondering humanoids. :( ...

To inform people that want to play Be, in case you have been sticking with 0.9, now there's another reason to play 0.10! Taken from crawl_changelog.txt in trunk build 1594: (the file is located in you crawl folder, in the sub-folder docs , just in case) Make Berserkers start with a slightly more spe...

ilpalazzo wrote:potion of superglue (=permanent silence)

This cracked me up, I have to say. :lol:

I, too, think that these tiny, cute additions go a long way towards making a game feel more "right".

minmay wrote:
TehDruid wrote:Pure Casters > Hybrids > Berserkers > Other Melee Builds

This is simply wrong.

It's just my opinion, to which I'm sure many are opposed while some may consider it to be sane as a statement. To each their own.

What's wrong with kobolds getting a mace, anyway? They have a 0 apt in it which is just fine, and building up to a demon whip is probably just as good as going short to long blades, if not better. Nothing is wrong, you can always play m&f, especially if you get an early whip of venom/lightning....

@cerebovssquire I wasn't aware that berserk grants an extra d10 damage in addition to the haste effect and the bonus STR... This changes things. First of all, when I suggested having -1 or -2 starting weapons for zerkers, I assumed they would be allowed the weapon choice. That's why I thought to eve...

In trunk hill orcs are well suited to being casters, they get human level MP and int, and their magical apts are decent. The problem was not that they are weak as casters - it's that they are not different enough from humans. First of all, HOs have Beogh and the followers which is a very unique way...

c) Bolas. A throwing weapon to held enemies as the net does. The difference is that these ones can reach longer distances with accuracy than nets and they can be used by tiny individuals such as halflings or spriggans. It would work to creatures with legs, though. And if you entangle a minotaur wit...

Ah... The MDFi. A staple in every newbie crawler's repertoire. Played them a lot, yet I've never ascended with one. Only recently got my first win with a HoFi of Oki -> Jiyva. And yes, I don't think you HAVE to play Beogh to be an awesome HO, and also, it's quite different from a minotaur (due to th...

Frankly the weapon of choice for berserkers scene doesn't make sense, as it is. Trolls and Ogres get a favored choice , for no apparent reason (I suspect it's because of their overall glass cannon situation). Kobolds get M&F. This one I really don't get. I mean, short blades aren't a weapon fit ...

@SchwaWarrior I sympathize with you man. I always get pissed when I find a great item (especially rings of slaying, which I find to be extremely rare) and then die to (un)avoidable situations. Sometimes it's just the dungeon layout pushing you deeper because of big threats on certain levels (my new ...

I have subscribed to the trunk feed and put it on my links bar on Firefox so I can check If there's a new version easily every day. :D I especially liked 0.9 and now 0.10. I think O.10 is awesome with the further changes to the skill system. I only had two crashes so far with 0.10: The lightning wea...

Damn you Zzz! First you tell me you found out about DC:SS from Desktop Dungeons (like I did), now you post about this game and I just ran into it in Kong, lol. Are we the same person or something? :P Well, after a very brief playthrough (about 10 mins or so) I have to say that, going from DC:SS to t...

For me Spriggans and Felids are at the top because they're pretty "noob-friendly", then mummies just because they don't need any food. But mummies are a pain in the ass to get going. You need some great luck with experience cards to get your skills to decent levels so you don't get your as...

: Crap Gloves.png (3.01 KiB) Viewed 28225 times

These gloves make the game look half-lost alright.

Now now, they could be far worse. I know. Still that AC is abysmal.

1. Don't underestimate spiny frogs, even if you've killed a ton already. 2. Mara is ridiculously dangerous I HATE THOSE THINGS. Spiny Frogs. I hate them. I thought Black Mambas were bad at first but really, not even close. I had a bout against Mara once, and she was a riddle to take down, but even ...

Gz on your win!

We're on the same wavelength: I've been thinking about a Crawl comic strip. WATCH THIS SPACE. That would actually be very cool. See, I've been a huge fan of http://www.explosm.net/comics and http://questionablecontent.net/ which are both entertaining, in somewhat different ways, I guess. I'd love t...

Since I like forums being peaceful, I won't get into more arguing about this thing... If you didn't get what I've said up till my last post, that's too bad for you. And If you feel that I'm giving you grief in any way, please ignore me, ProZocK. That goes for anyone else too. This isn't RL, you don'...

In case you're trolling, I'm not amused.

In case you don't, I'm sorry that you can't interpret text... Learn to read.

The steel javelins have base damage of 10 + 30% = (13) and a mulch rate of 1/10 of 10% = (1%) While large rocks have base damage of 20 and a mulch rate of 4% I'd go with steel javelins... though as an added note; large rocks when mulched, shatter into a number of tiny stones that retain their previ...

Hey I made something that's been floating in my mind the last week. Hope you like it.

: Ozo Back.png (66.29 KiB) Viewed 12425 times

Well, even stairs are cheap (are intelligent monsters incapable of following you when they saw you using them?) but it's there to keep the game balanced I assume. :lol:

But-but this is Crazy Yiuf's Corner... I thought it was within the spirit. :\ Don't worry about it. :) Honestly every post I have ever seen from Minmay has irked me somehow; my advice is take what he says with a grain of salt. The only place I remember hearing "Troll Toll" is the game Des...

minmay wrote:That is a Swamp ending. Not a Lair ending.

Well, I can safely assume he meant Swamp since it's a branch of Lair, he must have mistyped it (cause as you stated, there's no simulacra end in Lair:8)

...I'm not saying the game needs AI adjustments, as I'm enjoying it very much the way it is. But. One way I'd think of the door "abuse" (if you will) being medicated is if the monster on the one side of the door rolled a STR-dependent check against the character who is on the other side of...

As you can guess from my forum name, I kind of have a thing for druids. One would assume I'd only play Fedhas or something. However, I hadn't tried Fedhas till yesterday. I have to warn you, I hesitated to use the Flood/Drought randomly as well as Reproduction (especially this one because I was afra...

minmay wrote:i know what you're quoting but it has nothing to do with crawl so i won't give you the pleasure of quoting more from the same source

But-but this is Crazy Yiuf's Corner... I thought it was within the spirit. :\

Search found 1776 matches