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A WINNER IS YOU!

It is wise to assume that Agnes is going to be faster than you, for most values of "you". Both in movement and attack.

molari wrote:Floating islands, walls of fire, bizarre plants, anything a little more out there really

You get death cobs and Killer Klowns. It's a funhouse of doom.

Door vaults are karmic balance for all of the Zot traps you're not stumbling on because you can see them 5 grids away. And in some ways, they suck harder.

The normal D:1 can sometimes spawn enough monsters for most races to get to XL3. How is that much different?

At least you got the door closed so that he's not immediately blasting you. And you know which direction to run.

A summon can attack a monster only if it and its target are both visible to the player. As in literally visible, or within the player's LOS? If the former, then what's the solution for a summoner who can't see invisible against monsters with invisibility capability? Even if the summons themselves c...

Spriggan headbutt attacks should get a damage bonus against male humanoids (size medium or large only). Don't annoy someone whose head is level with your groin.

minmay wrote:couple days ago i had a dream my mother finally made it to the milkman conspiracy in psychonauts

"Made it" as in got to that point in the game, or "made it" as in showed up in the level? The latter sounds more nightmarish.

Most of the vaults that are seen the most often don't have monsters, namely the D:1 entry vaults. And of those that do, relatively few of them have the monsters in a position where they can attack you on entry.

Do toadstools still wither away on their own? If that happened and something woke the jellies, the whole loot stack could get munched before it was even seen.

In which case it's still a Jiyva altar vault with appropriate monsters.

Ereshkigal couldn't kill me when I popped out of the Abyss five tiles away from her at 20% of max health. And I'm in awfulplayers-for-life. I was more afraid of the reapers, especially the one that had banished me in the first place (bloody distortion scythe). Bodyguards, yes. Out-of-LOS summoning, ...

You may need to dig up an older version of Debian if you go that route. Depending on the hardware, you may not have drivers available in the installer for things like the hard drive. (Which can be worked around with putting the drivers on a USB stick, but it's something that we deal with sometimes a...

Owwwwwwww.

"Are you sure you want to win?" Y
(Well, what you want isn't under discussion here. I'm the game, and I'm in charge.)

Who says felids are useless?

Invisibility wouldn't have helped. Nikola can see invisible.

Invisibility while standing in a fog cloud doesn't help much either even if the monster can't see or sense invisible, since you create a visible disturbance. (Scrolls of fog work wonders against unseen horrors.)

Confidence Interval wrote:
danr wrote:I have this bizarre fantasy

Dude, you gotta work on your bizarre fantasies.

He has a toddler now. That changes one's aspirations a bit.

Amen on that, minmay. Coupled with the removal of detect curse scrolls, I'm no longer in a rush to try out glowing/runed/whatever equipment, and doing ^F on (foo && ego) waits until I have remove curse identified.

and the iron city of dis (chickened out without even exploring the first level fully). For future reference, exploring hell levels fully gets people killed. The idea is to find the shortest routes from the entry points to the down stairs, several times over if you have to retreat back to the Vestib...

Ice Beast before Ozo's. Ice beasts resist poison and deal respectable cold damage, which neutralizes the big threats in early Lair (spiny frogs and black mambas). And they're faster than your Naga, so they can intercept threats for you while you're backing off.

Also, note that allowing people to memorize spells at 0% success makes training some stuff less of a hassle and might save people an amnesia scroll. I think this is a good thing: having to memorize some dumb spell you're never going to cast just so you can train up a spell school is annoying. While...

For Mennas, if you use a dagger, you should be able to one-shot him with a successful stab. (I have, with Stabbing around where you have it.) Better to try it if you can get a good approach in...it will beat leaving him parked on the level and risk waking him up at a bad time. And if you mess up, at...

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Confidence Interval wrote:
pratamawirya wrote:A staircase climbing up another staircase... lol of course one of them was a mimic.

Are you certain they weren't both mimics?!

So that's where baby mimics come from.

Scratch this post.

The whole point of going SpEn^Kiku is to stab things with a pain-branded short blade. If you absolutely must have a sabre, hit the first two levels of Elf. But banish any thought of getting the Necronomicon over a pain brand. Go for the trove. You'll find more teleport scrolls, or a wand. Go for it ...

The devil is in de tails.

I used it exactly once, one time when I got the undead end vault in Swamp. I strung together a bunch of Projected Noise to draw the monsters out of the vault so that I'd have to make only one trip past the miasma. Worked for most of them, too...I only ended up fighting three or four inside the vault.

Does the ring of regen increase my hunger all the time? I was under the impression it was only while I'm actively regenerating HP that the hunger increased. You are correct. However, if you spend a lot of time injured, you're going to be spending a lot of time regenerating, so a lot of time under i...

If you think the food clock in this game is bad, the ID minigame is atrocious. Some classes exist solely for the purpose of playing this minigame (and some of those are prestige classes, even!).

Monsters know better than to quaff random potions that they pick up off the floor. Players would do well to follow that example. (A lesson I've only learned 15 years into playing this game.)

Poor man's Fire Storm. (A very poor man.) And unlike Conjure Flame, you can drop it right on a monster's head.

Seeing an orc wizard turn invisible and remembering where he was to pacify him...good move.

Blindly walking into him while he's still invisible and getting slapped with penance for attacking a neutral...not so good move.

(Ely penance is easy to pacify your way out of, though.)

...stupid monsters are trailing a fire elemental that I'm performing a fighting withdrawal from in a corridor.

ldierk wrote:Did I spot a Monkey Island reference?

No, just a red herring.

I was thinking about the difficulty of gaining Chei piety with a race that has intrinsic speed. Gaining from 0* would be harder than from 2* (where Chei is already slowing you down a bit). No piety, no abilities...and a god that's doing nothing for you (or nothing good) is worse than having no god a...

There's always the possibility of the ridiculously overelaborate ninja weapon. But that joke's already been done.

A FeMo of Chei would at least start with 2* piety when you took the god. Try FeFi or FeGl (if either of those is possible) for a true exercise in pain.

In the Grimm Dark future of humanity, there is only war?

I'm just trying to figure out how a big freakin' suit of crystal plate armour can make you stealthier.

Unless it's in the sense of "when was the last time you saw someone wearing armour that awesome? Never? That means you can't see it."

And cats that are quite happy to eat lots of things, even if it makes them ill.

No matter how easily you are pacifying your way through Spider, the ghost moths in the rune vault are more than able to kick your ass.

TwilightPhoenix wrote:maybe all projectiles could take time to reach their target too, similar to Orb of Destruction.

So Chei should grant Bullet Time?

In your init file:

autoinscribe = staff:!D

That will take care of staffs, quarterstaves, and all enhancers.

Right, when you're looking at an active lava flow, the dark patches stay very dark.

You do realize that Airstrike gets a damage bonus against flying monsters? That's where the abuse comes in.

I mean, unless you're a long blades user doing Pan before finding a decent long blade or something... If your primary means of damage is a long blade, and you don't have one better than Cerebov's sword, and you are still able to pry that sword from his cold, dead hands... you don't actually need th...

Grimm wrote:I'd rather see a Jim Jones unique.

He quaffs strong poison when you come into LOS?

Yes, but when you get flattened like that with a giant club, Xom can attach a rotor and an engine to you and turn you into a helicopter.

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