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I like this idea. Right now it seems a bit of a no-brainer to simply go for the biggest, baddest weapon on a melee fighter. It would be nice if size is factored in too. It would make sense for example, that it would take less strength for an ogre to wield a great mace than it is for, say, a deep elf...

The book in the Trog book burning vaults is always a randart book with Apportation as its only spell. It use to be a random book. I think Apportation is the only way to get the book. Some dev has a twisted sense of humor :lol: Also, one of the major things the skald revamp is going to do is give th...

Apportation is pretty specialized, but it's not 100% useless in the early game. -rescue a spellbook from being destroyed by Trog -snatch loot from near an oklob when you're not tough enough to take it on -ditto for various statues -ditto for loot near electric eels, if you're not up to tangling wit...

Then why start with it memorized? Skalds start without memorized spells after all.

When or how do people use Apportation on their early game Warpers? I've read that Apportation is useful for things like ninja'ing runes/the Orb, but I can't figure out a good use for it in the early game. Maybe to pick up darts after you throw them, ok, but autoexplore does that easily enough with l...

How about if the Noble starts with a weak permanent ally instead of better items? Call it a bodyguard or armsman or something. Maybe give the player a choice of several low level monsters (like a weak version of the Mercenary card). Since the ally is weak, it will probably die off soon, so it's stri...

It's a FDA, on a character that can't wear any other kind of armour. Of course its useful! You even have a rC+ ring to counter its one negative. Sure you'll want non artifact dragon armour eventually, but for now this will serve. Probably should train up some Armour skill.

You probably can stop training Short Blades. 19 is way past min delay. Instead, train up Evo or Slings to improve your ranged, or perhaps stealth if you want to go for stabber instead. Btw, I think the 0, 6 sabre is better than the short sword you're wielding now. Also why are you wearing ring of ic...

... when I find Oklobs in a forest, and I have lightning bolt/fireball available. Spell or wand, it's all good!

(Does burning down crawl forests make me a bad person?)

Um, read the title of the thread again. EVP penalty

I think an easier claim to make is "ranged combat is underrepresented". I agree! But I don't think the answer is to create more AM backgrounds. How about modifying existing backgrounds to give them a ranged option? For example, Warpers have really nice synergy with ranged (Portal Projecti...

aegis wrote:I just found a room full of snakes. With a human skeleton and whip. I see what you did there.

No hat? There ought to be a hat.

Ha, your Oka gifts kind of suck. But your floor pickups are actually pretty good. You have a great sword of elec and rF+ plate that are useful now and could possibly last until endgame if you enchant them up. You can probably stand to wait a little longer for something better to turn up, but if noth...

I had a character recently that found TWO rings of slaying (+6,+4 and +5,+5) on I think D5 and D6. It was ridiculous. I was killing stuff by throwing darts and stones. So of course I died a few levels later since I insisted on hitting stuff with a whip (to get the most out of the slaying bonus) inst...

crate wrote:well you were fighting the single most dangerous enemy in the game so....

I guess I didn't realize that because the only other time I've faced her was with a CPM-wearing MiFi :oops:

No worries. Just proves that great minds think alike

An EV of 46 (flying Tengu + Heroism + potion of agility) doesn't stop this from happening: DracheReborn the Necromancer (level 18, -3/113 HPs) Began as a Tengu Gladiator on May 30, 2013. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Slain by Lamia ... wielding a +2,+2 glaive of venom (42 damage) ... on Level 3 of t...

Couple of things to add: Have you used TSO's holy brand ability yet? If not, then bring your exec axe to a TSO altar to bless. Exec axe of holy wrath will be a very strong weapon in extended. Are you saving up your scroll of acquirement for something? Most of your equipment is pretty good already, b...

I'm not exactly a good player, so take this advice for what's it worth. Have you given up on casting spells? Wearing CPM and carrying a shield is killing your spell success rates. If you want to continue casting spells, first step is probably to ditch the shield or raise your Shield skill to 15. On ...

MfIE is also pretty overrated in my experience. It's certainly not bad at all (it is an IE), but it's not really better than several other IE races. It's certainly worse than DrIE, probably marginally better than HuIE. As a pretty poor player who tries to hybridize MfIE's early (i.e. skill Polearms...

@prozacelf, hey that sounds very similar to my idea (posted in the previous page) My idea is a bit out of the left field, but I was just thinking about how closely related poisons are to medicines/drugs, i.e. most pharmaceuticals have active ingredients that are toxic at higher concentrations. So ho...

Help! So my MiBe was just rampaging along, then I tried to sacrifice a corpse lying on top of Elyvion's altar... in a brain-addled moment, I somehow pressed Y instead of N when the screen asked "Do you want to join this religion?" :( I"ve just finished Lair and am now doing Orc. My ma...

I think the idea is to allow Felids to stab. Felids actually have good aptitudes for a stabber build, except they can't wield a dagger. If their claws can stab (or they otherwise get a stabbing exception) then this would be viable. It's not like Felids are overpowered anyway. And thematically, big c...

For a spell idea: "Olgreb's Anesthetic". This spell causes your living body to become numb, losing your sense of pain and responsiveness. Unfortunately, it has some nasty effects on your brain. This means: - Torment/pain immunity - Better than DD damage shaving - int/dex temporarily reduc...

My idea is a bit out of the left field, but I was just thinking about how closely related poisons are to medicines/drugs, i.e. most pharmaceuticals have active ingredients that are toxic at higher concentrations. So how about a high level Poison spell that gives the caster a buff in exchange for sel...

- I really like the combo: Large shields/Cheibriados along with leveling Strength each level. I know shields aren't mainstream but I really find them noob friendly. This is interesting. I've always gone for a GSC with my Ogres, which provides great damage output but has cost me quite a few early de...

YASD now... due to stupidly going after the slime rune when I already had 3 runes. What's worse, I died to a giant eyeball basically. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-499-g2da1268 (console) character file. 414147 DracheReborn the Minotaur Blade (level 23, -11/221 HPs) Began as a Minotaur Ber...

So an update... after clearing Lair, I finally unwielded my distortion shortsword, and somewhat disappointingly, it just hit me for a little damage. I've been mentally preparing for a long trek through Abyss :lol: The irony of it is, I feel like wielding it back on, since the other short blades I've...

Apropos blinking and teleporting: good luck with berserking. You can't reliably berserk when you have to run around to catch blinked monsters, it will be over and you will be slowed and exhausted. Ouch. Didn't think of that. Oh well, I usually over-rely on berserk anyway (and die for it), maybe thi...

I'm still fairly new at crawl so any and all advice welcome. I've actually won a 15 runer with a MiFi back in 0.10, but have not won another game since, so it was probably a fluke :oops: I don't have access to the dump right now, but as near as I recall, my character (axe wielding MiBe) is XL3 on D2...

Ok, I'm still pretty much a noob, so take this for what's it worth. I think Okawaru's gift giving mechanic can be improved by not having gifts pop out of thin air. Instead, you get a notification like "Okawaru has found favour with you! Press p to ask for a divine gift." The advantage of t...

I'm just trying to find a way to consume some of the decks that just sit around and are drawn on for the sake of drawing a card (and as an aside, thematically define how other "decks" get created). Can't spare decks just be sacrificed for piety? Maybe piety gain from sacrificing decks sho...

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