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No, I mean it seems that bottle blood and drain corpse actually destroy corpses including skeletons. My entire dungeon has no remaining corpses or skeletons on the floor. I should have payed attention and left some over I guess. Oh well, one learns.

I was surprised when I searched for skeletons to animate. I drew a blank. Do Bottle Blood or Drain Corpse destroy skeletons? It seems odd and it's also not mentioned in the ability description.

I'd love to have Appropriation!

You've convinced me to buy the book. Let's see how this goes. Do you typicall drag your skeleton crew around with you, or park them somewhere?

Bit of a funny character. Vampires have very high Hexes aptitude, so I figured AM might work. And actually Corona + Javelins kill stuff fairly reliably. Found an early Ring of Invisibility, so trained Evo to 50% fail, then started on stealth and short blades. Got a +2 dagger (venom). So far so good....

Ah, of course, Mara is a demon! In that case my Silence was just a self-inflicted handicap. I'm glad he decided to just keep walking towards me...

Vine Stalkers are great fun. No device heal is an interesting dynamic in the early game, although it seems to lose its relevance later. Air Elementalist feels like a solid book start. The weakest spell is Flight I guess, but even that can come in handy in Shoals or wherever. Setting up opportunities...

Thanks for the advice. I went with the demon blade of draining and a long sword of holy wrath for backup. Eventually I managed to aquire a bastard sword, then everything was easy. I stuck with shield, rather than 2-hand. My defences were 'pretty solid' in the end, with buffs and blow gun nearly 100 ...

I first tested with a fixed random evil god and a limited amount of penance. It was relatively straightforward to get through 50 Makhleb penance even starting right at the beginning of the game. Then I moved on to random evil gods basically taking turns, with something like 5-15 penance at a time, b...

Thanks for the comments. I've given the whole idea some thought. The original proposal is obviously rejected. (Too strong against normal monsters, but still in danger from Wrath.) A lot of the species setup were too closely inspired by the angel monster. If it could be balanced somehow, would a spec...

I rolled a random character and ended up with a HEWr. Found an early altar of Dith and decided to go 'stealthy'. Early on the Wr start felt a bit weak, but Shroud and TeleOther are pretty strong. Cleared L7, Orc and D14 and Snake2. I'm doing alright in Snake, but feeling a bit fragile, so will proba...

Original suggestion below. Hi, Here is a proposal for a new species currently called Angel. The basic idea is a holy being that has a stronger involvement with religion (well, penance) than other species. Playable build can hopefully be found here: https://gitorious.org/crawl/4hooves2appenda...

Having the item slot that's most annoying to change (due to the fact that you have to choose which to take off) as the tactical one seems like a bad idea to me. I'm not so sure how to fix that though. The main ideas I've had are - Move the broadly tactical effects (like resistances) to the amulet s...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.1 (tiles) character file. Faustus the Martial Artist (DsNe) Turns: 23612, Time: 07:05:00 HP 101/101 AC 20 Str 12 XL: 13 Next: 69% MP 23/23 EV 9 Int 19 God: Kikubaaqudgha [*****.] Gold 687 SH 0 Dex 13 Spells: 6 memorised, 6 levels left rFire . . . SeeInvis . - U...

Magipi wrote:Is there any reason for not telling your character species? Is this some guessing challenge?

I was trying to keep it general, but I am playing Ds.

You don't really need that much Int to cast most Necro spells except maybe for Necronomicon ones (but if you go Kiku you probably want pain weapon). So you can split it between Int and Dex, doesn't matter that much. So you don't recommend Str then? My character started with 8, which won't let me we...

XL18+ has a decent chance of killing stuff in the Abyss I'd say, or at least getting out alive. Not all enemies are very dangerous. Minor Abominations are mostly harmless for example. At XL12, I would definitely avoid fighting as much as possible. Going diagonal until you find a portal is your best ...

As the topic name suggests. When starting out as a Necromancer what do you guys do? I memorised Animate Skeleton. Is it useful? Mostly I kill stuff with Pain, which is pretty powerful. I tend to have three or so skeletons with me, but in reality they don't do very much. Easy opponents die to Pain, d...

And it's over! After Cocytus:7 the rest of Hell was pretty straightforward. Used Imprison during the Ereshkigal fight to block the door to the other demons. Tomb was a pain, but with patient Vitalisation, stair dancing and luring it was OK. No uniques I think. Found a pretty nice +12 Frost Dragon Ar...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0 (tiles) character file. P the Invulnerable (Minotaur Berserker) Turns: 206941, Time: 1, 23:28:03 HP 159/244 (245) AC 41 Str 37 XL: 27 MP 15/15 EV 35 Int 13 God: Zin [******] Gold 5433 SH 59 Dex 27 Spells: 4 memorised, 18 levels left rFire + + + SeeInvis + a -...

Slow healing is a pain, but there's nothing I can do. Using Zin to cure now is a big risk, because if I then get a really bad mutation I'm screwed. At max piety, Zin gives you 100% mutation resistance. That's true, but outside the Abyss retaining 100% piety doesn't really work. While doing hell and...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0 (tiles) character file. P the Invulnerable (Minotaur Berserker) Turns: 192113, Time: 1, 20:28:43 HP 245/245 AC 41 Str 34 XL: 27 MP 15/15 EV 32 Int 5 God: Zin [******] Gold 4681 SH 56 Dex 19 Spells: 3 memorised, 20 levels left rFire + + + SeeInvis + a - +8,+7 ...

Oh, I meant that the morningstar has a better chance to hit. However, I just checked and the morningstar is -2(+7) while the eveningstar is -1(+6), so I guess it's neither here nor there.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0 (tiles) character file. P the Invulnerable (Minotaur Berserker) Turns: 148342, Time: 1, 12:07:49 HP 257/257 (273) AC 40 Str 29 XL: 27 MP 14/14 EV 24 Int 5 God: Zin [******] Gold 3774 SH 54 Dex 19 Spells: 3 memorised, 20 levels left rFire + + + SeeInvis + a - ...

It turns out that Zin is really great to switch to from Trog. I immediately donated half my gold after converting. Before my first Trog punishment came I was already at piety [****..] I think. If Trog sends a wave of nasties Recitation is very good at dealing with them. In fact I feel that ability s...

I might have gone for a different god if I had realised that Zin doesn't like my Demon Whip. Sad story! Couldn't you swap to TSO, bless it into a sacred scourge then swap back to Zin (or optionally don't swap back)? But don't forget to CureAllMuts first. Then its back to grinding piety in abyss for...

Hello, My MiBe has been doing fairly well I feel. I couldn't find any rMut and after a bad encounter with an orb of fire I decided to give Zin a shot rather than waste the character away in the orb chamber. To get Zin piety up I decided to farm the Abyss. It worked out pretty well, now exalted, stil...

Some interesting discussion. Under what circumstances might one decide to go with crossbows then? It seems to be only at high str, low skill and probably if one has a good crossbow to boot. For reference I'm currently playing a Formicid AK and have 0 points in ranged skills. I plan to end up using a...

Hi, What is the main stat you guys pick for characters who melee with heavy armor? My instinct says str, but is that correct? And if so, when do I stop? I can see Int being useful to pick up some hybrid spell casting powers. Is there ever any point in getting Dex? Also, apologies if that information...

Which brand would consider the best for a longbow? I feel that the elemental damage brands (fire, frost, etc.) are not great because they can be made with arrows. On the other hand I can't decide whether I like velocity or speed better. Penetration seems powerful, but situational. In a lot of cases ...

That was really useful! Maybe you should write a detailed ranged combat guide...

Thanks for the many responses! In case anyone is interested, here is a character dump. I guess the messages were: heavier armour is OK, but probably need some training, don't worry too much about spells (for now), maybe I've overtrained bows, probably shouldn't neglect evocation. Dungeon Crawl Stone...

Hi, I've just started playing DCSS and it has been a bit tricky to find out how some of the mechanics work. The wiki appears to be a source of questionable accuracy, so I thought I'd try my luck here. CeHu is my first character that made it to a branch. I've cleared the lair and I'm debating whether...

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Re: CIP: VpAM of Kiku, buy Animate Skeleton?

Re: CIP: VpAM of Kiku, buy Animate Skeleton?

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YASD: VpAM of Kiku, Stabbomancer.

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YAVP: VSAE of Oka, 3 Runes

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YAVP: HEWr of Dith, 4 Runes

Species: Angel (holy, perma-penance, playable)

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CiP: DsNe of Kiku, ~Lair

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How do you play a Necromancer start?

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Re: CiP: MiBe of Zin extended. 7 runes and counting.

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YAVP: MiBe of Zin, 15 runes, first win!

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Stats picks for heavy armor melee character

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CeHu basics