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Vanquished Creatures Khufu (Crypt:2) 2 dread liches 8 orbs of fire 2 ancient liches 3 juggernauts Mara (Snake:3) A pandemonium lord (Zig:5) 6 royal mummies 4 Killer Klowns (Zot:5) The ghost of Dameikh the Hoplite, a veteran FoFi of Nemelex Xobeh (Depths:4) Xtahua (Vaults:4) Vashnia (Snake:3) Marger...

It was time to try and win the new background, Cinder Acolyte. It took 6 tries with different species. Palentonga was the first to succeed. My goal was to win a CA without converting to another god. I hate to say it, but I don't really like the concept of CA (start with a god which is designed to be...

Code:: R - the ring of Life (right hand) {rElec rPois rC+ Will+ Dex+4} (You acquired it on level 3 of the Elven Halls)

I don't expect to remove that ring at any point... (playing a Palentonga Cinder Acolyte of Ignis).

You had 12 potions of mutation left. Why didn't you quaff some to get a nice set of good mutations?

Do shining eyes still have malmutate?

damerell wrote:What's the powerful magical force warping space?

IIRC it was the message given when you enter a level where teleport control does not work. And carrying the Orb made all levels prohibit teleport control.

Of course, teleport control was later removed from the game.

Nice one, although I do feel sorry for Trog. I also won a HaBe with 5 runes (the boring usual 5-rune set) in DCSS 0.14. (Stoat Soup copies the Gooncrawl-ism of giving OOFs a deterioration attack to replace malmutate) Hmm, so in a 3-rune game you probably won't face any malmutators? How do potions of...

Congrats! I wouldn't have expected to see a YAVP with version 0.10 :) That combination of 5 runes you got is quite unique I think.

Vanquished Creatures the Royal Jelly (Slime:5) Mennas (Crypt:3) 6 orbs of fire Mara (Depths:1) 8 ancient liches 2 juggernauts (Depths:5) 4 pandemonium lords Bai Suzhen (Swamp:4) 4 Killer Klowns The ghost of Gucom the Astral Aeon, a veteran AsFi of Cheibriados (Depths:4) Frederick (Vaults:3) A curse...

Finally I managed to win another game of Bloatcrawl, after splatting a couple of very promising characters. I won 9 games playing all special (=not available in DCSS) species and backgrounds once so now I'm on the second round, playing the ones I haven't won yet. Quill orcs "read scrolls and bo...

They have 40 Willpower, so hexing them should also be possible if you have some means for that available.

mopl wrote:Guess what ? I'm playing Op !!

Be sure to report how you splatted :)

Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++------- Melee: Staff | 47 | 103 | 277 | 300 | 543 | 265 | 720 | 288 | 21 || 2564 Quarterstaff | | | 200 | 92 | 285 ...

Woohoo, after 4 splats, I managed to win another Bloat game. This was a very fun character to play, a Bol Xi Death Bishop. Bol Xi are a very strange species. Their main gimmick is that their skill aptitudes as well as stats go though a random shuffle every once in a while as they gain experience (or...

I haven't seen a helmet or a hat yet, which is a bit weird. Sometimes it's like that, you can get to Zot and still miss some piece of aux armour... Is there anything I should search for before I tackle Spider and Swamp? I would do Orc and D:15 before going to rune branches (typically I do D:12, the...

Entry fee: +7 demon blade. Conveniently, Leech was lying unused in Shoals, so this was a free Trove. (This is Bloatcrawl and the character is a Bol Xi Death Bishop of Yredelemnul) a scroll of blinking the Collected Works on Envenoming and Good Luck: Olgreb's Toxic Radiance and Deflect Missiles 2 scr...

Shroud of Golubria (learned on Shoals:4): I do wonder if the Stoat Soup permabuffs are "too good", but also I tend to use them because I developed them. I'm pretty sure they're too good, but at least you don't have haste there :) Apportation (learned after Elf): it's Apportation, there's ...

Interesting. I use ranged weapons in most my games and there seems to be plenty of ammo in the game.

That spriggan felt super powerful, until I took on Cerebov... I probably had the tools to succeed but made some wrong decisions.

Mentioning GrSu brings back memories. The only character I've had killed during the Orb run, and on D:1 no less (Pan lord with Ice Storm).

Note that autotravel uses escape hatches as well to optimize the route (provided that you have used them before, which is why one should always use all hatches). Personally, I always use autotravel and then use Passwall and wands of digging when needed (when autotravel is interrupted). Of course, it...

Congrats! Did you use autotravel during the ascension ([ctrl-G] D0 to get the fastest route up)?

After splatting a SpBe with 6 runes in Pandemonium (Cerebov's level) I started an OgAK for 3 runes again. Somehow AKs are good for me and once again I succeeded with one. Despite the temptation for giant clubs I decided to go one-handed with a shield to get some more defences. On D:8 there was a Bai...

Entry fee: 15 potions of curing. I chanced it with my OgAK of Lugonu, as soon as I found 16 potions. a +1 arbalest of freezing You pick up Sif Muna's Incunabulum of Feathers and Venom and begin reading... You add the spell Lightning Bolt to your library. a wand of flame (14) a wand of polymorph (8) ...

I don't remember having this kind of problem with allies before, so I thought this might be a bug considering efreets in particular.

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The +17 plate armour of Hozargh {MP+9 Str+6 Stlth-}.

Well, that stealth malus totally ruins it :)

Was there any particular reason why you picked Vehumet out of the gods you had available by D:3?

Streak ended when my KoGl of Qaz (faded altar pick) was blasted by a friendly efreet (charmed with a wand) who was targetting a red ugly thing next to me...

Should allies use area attacks against enemies when this will cause friendly fire to hit you? I had a KoGl who charmed an efreet on D:9 and was a few turns later killed by the same efreet (still friendly). The efreet blasted a red ugly thing that was next to my character. Ended a streak and all...

Lo and behold, I managed to win the first Djinni I played. For background, I just picked the first one, i.e. fighter. A great combo! And I started a streak! Faded altars tempt me on non-spellcasters (Trog scares casters). This time I took the chance on D:1 and got Ash. This was also the first time w...

petercordia wrote:A spell which can travel through undead could be interesting

RIP bolt of draining. (Although I guess every hit cut the range as usual, so not exactly travelling through.)

Finally it was time for me to play and win a Palentonga. I am ashamed that it took me 9 games to win one (lost Gl, Fi, Mo, Hu, Ar, Wn, Br and De) before I succeeded with a Berserker. Especially the Gl should have succeeded (died on N:3 with the decaying rune collected). Finding a ?acquirement on D:3...

Interesting... I branded a broad axe in my current game (0.27), the result was freezing.

Press 't' and then again 't' to shout.

So much for the streak. I had a good opportunity to extend it but failed. The next character was a HuEn* of Ru who snatched the gossamer rune but died miserably on Shoals:1. I had a +11 hunting sling of venom which alone should have carried me further in the game. As usual, I went for maximal sacrif...

Vanquished Creatures 2 dread liches 2 ancient liches Mennas (Crypt:1) 2 juggernauts 2 orbs of fire (Zot:4) Sojobo (Vaults:5) A shard shrike (Zot:4) A Killer Klown (Zot:5) Frederick (Vaults:3) A pandemonium lord (D:7) Saint Roka (Depths:4) A golden dragon (shapeshifter) (Vaults:5) 6 caustic shrikes ...

Wow, I never thought I could streak more than 3 games, but now I succeeded to extend my streak to DrAK, TrAM, GhEn, GnWz. So Gnoll Hedge Wizard was up this time. Vehumet was on D:3 and that was an easy choice for a gnoll spell caster and 3 runes. I was happy to see that LCS was castable in the end g...

But, this topic does lead into what bothers me more: that is - turn count determining score by far more than anything else Discussion about score should probably be in a separate thread, but I'll just say that imo score in DCSS is irrelevant. If you want to compare games, you can use the # of runes...

I just wanted to bump this thread again, since I'm currently playing a Gnome Hedge Wizard of Vehumet. A Gnome can't even overtrain spellcasting for spell slots. On my way to the final spell gits, I missed out on 3 different spell offers which I would have taken if I'd had the spell slots. I've also ...

Vanquished Creatures 2 ancient liches Mennas (Vaults:2) An orb of fire (Zot:5) 4 Killer Klowns A curse toe (Zot:1) Frederick (Crypt:3) 13 golden dragons 3 bone dragons The ghost of Soammui the Slayer, an adept MiBe of Trog (Elf:2) A profane servitor (Crypt:3) 2 hellephants (Elf:2) 17 tentacled mons...

Next up for me was Ghoul Enchanter, and I managed to match my best streak of 3 in DCSS with this game. I also won my latest game of Bloatcrawl, so in that regard I've already made a personal record. First I found Zin and Gozag on D:3 and chose the latter immediately, since I thought it couldn't get ...

In most my games, I never use immolation (except the first scroll by read-IDing). But they are very useful in Ice Cave end vaults.
I guess I should use them more, for example in Orc.

DCSS 0.27 was released 3 days after my post...

(I still haven't updated since I have a game going on (I don't like to update an ongoing game)).

Next successful combo in my quest for winning all new species and backgrounds in Bloatcrawl was Angel Doctor. Angels can fly permanently, gain rPois and rElec as they gain levels, and can see invisible. Doctors are zealots of Elyvilon, beats me why they aren't called Healers, as they were in old DCS...

I assume the idea is to make phantoms actually matter, so that you can't just drag them upstairs and park them on a new level.

If they are too deadly now, some rebalancing might happen. (Personally, I can't comment on that, as I play the latest released version (26.1).)

Following my latest 11-runer, I found myself with the potential for a streak. I started a TrAM and grabbed just 3 runes to make the streak come true. Fedhas was on D:3. For a 3-rune game, the choice was easy to make. I really like the current Fedhas, ballistomycetes are great for a large part of the...

The probability for failing 8 times in a row was a whopping 0,0038%: Casting: Slow (safe; 1% risk of failure) Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells. Aiming: Slow (safe; 1% risk of failure) Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f - wolf spider zombie Aim: a wolf spider zom...

Here are some suggestions. I don't recommend CK for any species. From the species I left out Pa (haven't played it yet), Op (I'm so bad with it), Fe (acquired taste, try it out to see if you like it) and Gh (ran out of backgrounds). BaVM DDAr DEWz DgCj DsFE DrWr FoAK HaHu HuTm KoBr MfIE MuSu NaAM Og...

Ignite Poison was changed in 0.17, I don't think there's been changes after that? A broadsword is a double sword with a sensible name. (A claymore is a triple sword with a sensible name). I guess DCSS has lost some sensibility :) * Renamed items: - Cutlasses are now rapiers. - Bastard swords are now...

damerell wrote: Sticky Flame and OTR will basically murder everything for a very long time

Did you consider adding Ignite Poison to the mix? Loads of fun.

Btw, what's a broadsword in Crawl?

Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18 | 19-21 | 22-24 | 25-27 || total -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------++------- Melee: Spear | 105 | 167 | 475 | | | | | | || 747 Tailslap | 5 | 13 | 59 | 69 | 168 | 188 | 257 | 303 | 117...

As I broke my barely started Delver streak, it was time to play an 11-rune game. DrAK was up, as were my hopes, since draconians are always fun to play and I've had good luck with Abyssal Knights. Have hats been removed? I never found a single hat?! I got badly mutated in Slime and despite quaffing ...

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