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I started trying Gargoyle EE recently. In the offense department they are blast! But in defense are quite lacking. So what i'm doing wrong? I tried to invest in dodging but -2 apt makes it useless. I tried to invest in fighting but HP gain just isn't enough. When I should stop training Spellcasting ...

So, I created my Kobold Artificer and went for an adventure. Literally second monster that was waiting me was a sleeping ooze. I decided to gamble and zapped it with wand of RNG. It reformed as boggart! Continued zapping with RNG(nothing to loose) and chipped most of it's health. Finished off with a...

mps wrote:Q: Does Lugonu blink/self-banish work in tree form?

Yes for both.

How's shadowform as a panic button? How reliable on getting you out of sticky situations?

Liking this concept. Few notes though: 1) Lack of flavor. I think God of smith , crafts or both is appropriate. Anvil-shaped altars and all that. 2) Lack of active tactical abilities I would propose "Disarm" of sorts. Teleports weapon and armor of chosen target to the tile you standing on....

Congrats! About V:5: my current FoVM just had one of the easiest V:5 ever. I took a hatch down and landed in the outer rim with no monsters in sight. Clearing from there was very smooth. Of course I was lucky. But I'm also very concerned about Zot with a Fo (and the possible ascension). Thanks! Wow...

I'm all for this idea because of 1). I mostly play melee/ranged characters and feel a bit envious that mage characters have that nifty spells screen with arbitrary "Power", "Range" etc. bars. I sometimes can't even fathom which weapon my character is better using. Creating simila...

Sorry for your loss. Nice chain mail though!

Concrete wrote: the +6 chain mail of the Doge (worn) {Str+3 Slay+3}

Went YOLO with distortion an FoAKing won
Thanks for the advice.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.0 (tiles) character file. 1561348 Jozzar the Invulnerable (level 27, 238/238 HPs) Began as a Formicid Abyssal Knight on Mar 19, 2015. Was the Champion of Lugonu. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Mar 21, 2015! The game lasted 09:01:22 (96816 turns). Jozza...

I think just go with the distortion one. Its god "loyal" and it can get rid of enemies. If not that go for the electrocution. Deal with the Vault with stairhopping. Vault sentinels lock stairs! I could stuck in V5 and then i'm probably dead. With a formicid, I would not go to V:5, at leas...

Sorry for a horrible pun. Couldn't resist :) Anyway, I have this formicid abyssal knight here: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.0 (tiles) character file. Jozzar the Impregnable (Formicid Abyssal Knight) Turns: 73205, Time: 06:54:25 Health: 227/227 AC: 47 Str: 25 XL: 27 Magic: 38/38 EV: 8 Int: 1...

My formicid abyssal knight totally loves it! He already can-t teleport, so it's sometimes useful to quaff it in secure kill-hole against hard-hitting melee characters (I'm looking at you Wiglaf). At least in early-mid game. Also: http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/i-am-groot-1.png

Do this quiz and divide result by 1,6:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight

Better yet a unique "Ash" with his trusty Boom-rod. If you are other than human - he gains + Att against you.

So, I just started playing centaur Xomite and after dispatching a welcome cometee and gaining a level, decided to unleash my unresolved anger issues upon an innocent bush. I suppose Xom likes bushes more than centaurs.

or, whoever hid the orb, should have just collapsed the whole dungeon on top of it.

Thanks for the 0.15! It's so much better! Loving every new change! Keep a good work, Devs!

Pfft. Gargoyle is not even a race. Am I racist now?

Well this was the actual tile they were supposed to be using until someone never stopped using trolls with downscaled mimic mouths for heads. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63152810/n/crawl/wtfplant3x.png Why the HELL we are not using this tile? It's so much better than current fully acidic gr...

Is Asterion is a king of Yasd? I once met him in Spider and he tangled himself in webs and shortly died there, due to severe blunt trauma

Thanks! I figured out that strategy in my next Ogre ballista win!

Sprucery wrote:
Curio wrote:I rarely used his abilities at all.

I wouldn't have trained throwing or shields that high (unless going for the title) because of Heroism, but obviously this worked for you

Eh, I like golden tile of a maxed skill.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.0 (tiles) character file. 1903457 Guts the Ogreish Ballista (level 27, 315/323 HPs) Began as an Ogre Hunter on Sept 15, 2014. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Sept 18, 2014! The game lasted 11:03:53 (107089 turns). Guts the O...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.0 (tiles) character file. 2043544 Colin the Conqueror (level 27, 212/273 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Monk on Sept 9, 2014. Was the Champion of Qazlal. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Sept 12, 2014! The game lasted 09:52:47 (95900 turns). Colin the Conquero...

Homunculus

Personally im strongly against variable max hp. Crawl is already random in too many aspects. For example, once i was playing melee bruiser and killed quokka in 1 hit. Some turns later I meet another quokka and not only i couldn't kill it fast enough - it chewed off 2/3 of my HP. Feels absurd. Same m...

To those who doesn't like the theme: I was hesitant to add the last motto (removed now) and added it more like a gag. My mistake. It has nothing to do with Warhammer40k and if someone at least bothered reading a post, would have noticed a pic at the bottom. I had in mind god in par with Kali (inb4: ...

dck wrote:Makhleb the Destroyer is a fearsome deity of bloodshed and mortification of the flesh.
Vine Stalkers are not bloodless.

I mentioned Makhleb. And it's not like we don't have 2 death gods, and every other god demands sacrifices and killing.

"Let the world drown in blood", "Blood must flow" Concept Sanguine The Blooded* are the evil deity of glorification of bloodshed. It cares little about lives of worshipers or death of their enemies. It knows that blood must be spilled at all costs. Followers expected to spill th...

Bloax wrote:yes i imagine everyone that writes like this as angry, angry bodybuilders, bro

Ftfy.

twelwe wrote:Teleglitch HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY TQWLELWE!

but graphics? my eyes! MY EYES!

Also Desktop Dungeons creator took inspiration from our beloved DCSS.

Semi-serious proposal that I had in mind for awhile. Xom being god of chaos should love it when player uses chaos brand. But right now its optimal play to ditch starting weapon of CK (also its optimal play to not worship Xom at all but i digress). What if using Chaos branded weapon had a major posit...

I agree with the topic. Xom is the only God that makes starting as a monk pointless (and even a "bad" decision since you start out with less equipment). Xom seems like he ought to be interested in luring the aspiring Monk away from the other gods with shiny trinkets. So I think the first ...

Do not see anything wrong with this.

Spelunky Multi-player is another topic entirely! Both modes just amazing. In adventure (best played 2) I can pick up my friend and throw him at the bat, spider or in the, otherwise inaccessible, place. Even when you die - you still useful in ghost form defusing traps or fetching valuables. Deathmatc...

Thanks for the trunk updates on the main page, Grunt! I'm always waiting to see new changes!
Keep 'em coming!

F[***] you spiral temple vault I wonder if we finally get a species starting with "Fu". I'm convinced its Chaos Knights will become very popular and the corresponding combo score will be sought-after. Fungi species. And chaotic mental mushroom have all the right in the world to be called ...

Halflings are fine

What I meant is that pain is a very good brand and Necro is a very good and versatile skill. Getting 10~ Necro for pain won't make your character worse, if you can do that. What obstructed you to answer just like that? Curio, please calm down. I think there is a disconnect on game philosophy here, ...

Sar wrote:
Curio wrote:What about the horror? Im too dumb to understand anything other than simple words. Counsel me would you?

what

i dont understand what your remark about pain brand meant. Explain it to me like for a dumb person. Because it seems, from your viewpoint, I am.

but that doesnt mean that liches(or simulacrums) should one-shot you You're right. It just means you should go play a different game, one that has design goals you agree with. Show me where it stated in design goals that something should one-shot your character and then tell me what should or shoul...

Regarding the As background, it's not really a stealth background, even though the class descriptions says "Assassins are all about stealth" - though you do start with XP in stealth, I think this is a little misleading, because as has been discussed in this thread, you are not really goin...

Oh, yes, pure stabber is not possible unless you are Sp or Vp. I am not sure why you are talking about Fighting, its primary bonus is to increase HP which is useful for any character. Stabber of Oka can win with 3 levels in Short Blades and 0 in magic IMHO while Tr will have very hard time playing ...

Sar wrote:
Curio wrote:For pain i need Necromancy skill

The horror.

The sarcasm!

Sar wrote:
Curio wrote:electrocution too noisy

Elec proccing doesn't do any additional noise.

I wish your previous quotation was as informative, instead of being plain mocking. How you became counselor again?

@Sandman25 Misunderstood log. But then again 1) spriggan 2)17 Hexes Not so pure to me, because thats enchanter. And if you start as assasin and end up like enchanter anyway if you want to win... why theres assasins? Welcome to Crawl, where no matter what your defenses are, that alich can still blast...

Dagger of venom sucks too. Have you been checking all branded shortblades? What you really want is electrocution or pain. For pain i need Necromancy skill to be effective and electrocution too noisy, isn't it? 1. So you want to just never get detected? How would this be balanced? How would anything...

The assassin thingy is blowgun and needles, no? If anything dangerous wakes up, you confuse or paralyze it, then stab it. If i dont have confuse or paralise needles? What about undead and resistant monsters? I believe smoke helps vs ranged monsters and Shadow Form helps to ninja runes. Also http://...

...even with this new dithmenos god. I have this guy, that currently limping on both legs because stealth just does not cut it right now. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0 (tiles) character file. Silent the Imperceptible (Halfling Assassin) Turns: 38882, Time: 03:41:50 HP 110/110 AC 18 Str 11 ...

Olaf! Duvessa missed this one

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