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Original thread here: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=244598 So after some years, someone on the internet made a comment about how black belts were bad in FF1, and so I had to start up another run. I did two runs in one, where I first beat the whole game with just a solo black belt, ...

For major releases (0.X) it's twice a year, but there's also minor versions: 0.21.1, etc. With those, stable is probably updated closer to every 1-2 months. But yeah, it's infrequent compared to trunk.

Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with listing it's mindelay as "This weapon's minimum attack delay (1.65) is reached at skill level 27." but hey, I am not in charge

Regeneration is no longer a spell, in one of the biggest player nerfs of all time (not kidding!)

I assume this is cheating... The question is, can you do at least 230 melee damage ? I knew about GMOS but this... Means you did at least 188 damage in one hit of melee. !lg elliptic ogsk 2 -tv:<T78000:>T78100 | !lg Nomi opmo 1 -tv:<T141620:>T141634 | !lm loguno 88 -tv:<T134600:>T134656 | !lm mopl ...

To answer the unasked question, the setting you should use is

auto_butcher = hungry

This will only butcher when you are hungry, then you'll eat it, and keep going. Just press o, everything's done for you!

If you're a troll I recommend: auto_butcher = full

There should probably be some mention of "multi-turn actions" (like wearing armour) which are one keypress, but take up multiple turns in your turncount for scoring purposes. Had to do a double take, because this one is already in there! Last sentence of the first paragraph in the regener...

petercordia: I'll simply the guide by just saying that fractional auts are randomly rounded, maybe with some note about possible mishandling, but I'll assume that's generally correct. I certainly haven't audited crawl code extensively, so I'll just have to trust those who wrote it! As for whether sh...

So questions come up a lot about time in crawl, and as far as I can tell, there isn't really a guide which explains how the time system works, so I figured I'd take a stab at writing one. Consider this a draft, I'm looking for corrections/omissions, so please tell me if I get anything wrong. Also I'...

Ah my apologies but I have already filled the slots. I'd be happy to invite you to the .26 team...try to respond to your PM's sooner

As with nearly every tournament, I run a semi-casual, semi-serious clan which just reinvites the people from the last team. But sometimes people aren't around 6 months later, and so ~2 spots open up. We have 2 open spots again, and they're open to more or less anyone who wants to join. I do apprecia...

Yeah, seeded runs are definitely exploitable, but I still think there's some interesting scenarios presented. I didn't intentionally abuse the seed, but just from naturally dying a few times, you learn where major threats are (a hornet on D:6 who was in a checker board pattern so you always came int...

Full morgue: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Tasonir/morgue-Tasonir-20200611-000559.txt Seeded DCSS version 0.25-b1-23-ge2ad7d5 (webtiles) character file. Game seed: 6082020, levelgen mode: deterministic 16635520 Tasonir the Middleweight Champion (level 27, 194/199 HPs) Began as a Barachi Gladiato...

From their message history: The sea snake bites you. The water nymph points at you and mumbles some strange words. The water swirls and strikes you! The merfolk hits you from afar with a +1 vorpal trident! The merfolk hits you from afar with a +0 trident! The snapping turtle completely misses you. T...

plz no. Bites don't cleave. If dragon's too weak give it Archmagi and extra hp. Dragon form already has +50% hp, the most of any form spell. I do think the spell is overall too weak, but adding even more hp on top of +50% would be a bit silly. Personally I'd give it more ac, and some SH (Deflecting...

Usefulness of posting in this subform aside (wink wink), I usually cleared Tomb with Statue form. This was pretty easy before the removal of stairs, but the lack of stairdancing now makes it significantly harder to do this. Nowadays I generally recommend having 3-4 scrolls of blinking, or else you m...

For one single little anecdote: I've been playing on and off for a long time, and this thread was the first time I realized that weapon delay is just the number of ten-aut-units it takes to use the weapon. (God, I hope this is actually correct.) I'd always thought "oh, 0.6 is just some unitles...

If you want to melee stuff (or have to) I recommend a weapon - and certainly not dragon form. Dragon form is best for 1v1 combat, it is dangerous against multiple opponents because your defenses are crap. I'll go one step further and recommend not using dragon form for crowds, 1v1, or any reason at...

If there's enough agreement that replacing it with nothing is better, then I'd be fine with that. I do think it'd be nice to keep some form of a head-growing mechanic, but I wouldn't say it's absolutely required.

Interesting DG build, although it may be a bit off topic here. Getting level 9 spells going with 16 int is technically possible, but yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. You'd probably want at least 10 more int to make it feasible.

+8 strength is great and all, but when you're at 49 strength (before the ring), I'm not sure that +8 is really necessary. Wouldn't wearing the +6 evasion ring be worth more? To be fair, "optimizing" your rings when you're already post 15 runes and doing zigs is kind of unnecessary as a who...

+1 for ticks. They're fairly commonly used in games, especially various "incrementals" which have a minimum time defined (like kittensgame uses .2 seconds for their tick, or 5 ticks per second). Or old school muds which had fairly long ticks, often around 1 minute, which was when the playe...

So the hydra head chopping mechanic has been generally unpopular for a while, but removing it leaves hydras somewhat uninteresting, so I think it would be best to replace it with something else. Proposal: Hydra heads cannot be removed. Hydras gain an extra head if they land a hit on the player which...

Chei's boosts all scale well into the extended game, since it's generally just more damage, more defenses, more spellcasting. All of which are needed in extended. Having a full LOS ability that nukes swarms of monsters as well as an escape ability that can often just remove most of the crowd of mons...

There's a maximum size that it extends to, and there's always a rim around the edges that lets you walk around the entire floor. I'm less certain about what happens if you intentionally stayed as close to the middle as possible and never moved to the edge, but I assume that it'd probably push you ou...

Maybe I'm giving myself too much credit, but it feels like that thread went about how I'd expect the change to have gone. The rim is basically the only way to really break up packs on V:5, which is supposed to be the optimal strategy in dcss, and something that is encouraged as good play (vs being c...

the outer ring around the level (which should be removed). An interesting suggestion, although I'm fine with the outer ring. The level can be broken into 3 regions: center, any quadrant, and the outer ring. The center is the most dangerous (initially), followed by a quadrant, and the outer ring is ...

I'm not entirely sure I want to get into some of the back and forth here, but here's the rough general skill training guidelines I generally use: 1) Start with your main offensive skill. I tend to prefer melee, so this is usually unarmed/weapon skill. It can also be your main magic school or ranged ...

Were you actually using the +fly ring? Otherwise, the 5th pip of MR is entirely too much MR, and you could have gone with anything else. You didn't seem to have many rings in inventory, but if you ever found something like a +2-3 prot/evasion ring that's more useful than MR+++++.

The quicksilver dragon scales of Cloud Cover {+Blink rC++ MR+ Regen+ Dex-5} Is an amazing armor. If you get offered and accept sac artifice, then you end up with: The quicksilver dragon scales of Cloud Cover {rC++ MR+ Regen+ Dex-5} This is also amazing armor. I don't see any problem here. Losing dex...

As a spriggan with MR++++, you probably don't need the MR ring (technically with MR+++ some dangerous things like liches might have a single digit chance to still get you, but you're basically immune to most things. A few more level ups and you'll be immune to liches too). I'd put on the EV/stealth ...

So yeah this is a super old thread, but I think it's worthwhile to mention this part: I argued with the Catacomb Kids developers about marketing their game as a roguelike. It's just a dungeon-themed action platformer, therefore lacking the two most defining attributes of roguelikes: turn-basedness &...

You can earn points while still dying, depending on what you do. If you get runes, that's worth some points, and killing ghosts is worth points for the team score (I'm not sure if it gives individual points?). You don't lose any points for dying, aside from breaking streaks, if you're on one. See th...

We have succeeded in basic bookkeeping and now have a valid team of 6 people! Go us! Our page is here: https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.24/clans/tasonir.html I currently have the most points, but I expect you all to push me down to 6th place by the time this is over! :P I also won my first game...

I'm now seeing reptisaurus in the clan, but not delarado/sunspire. It doesn't matter what server you play on, and all games played during the ~16 days will count, so don't worry about when you play them or if you've already started a game. You don't have to quit anything already going. Make sure the...

I'll add all three of you, I am assuming your names are the same on the forum as in the tournament, if anyone's is different let me know. My rc file is now this: # TEAMNAME The tournament starts when? # TEAMMEMBERS mopl glosham sunspire delarado Reptisaurus You should see yourself show up the next t...

Usually I try to set up the ol' team before the tournament starts, but being somewhat disorganized this time around I've messaged the old team and only had half of them respond, so there's 3 slots open for anyone who somehow both 1) wants to be on a team, and 2) somehow isn't, despite the tournament...

If the slow movement/ledas abilities can't be made to work, an alternative option would be to have some form of a "pin" ability. A monster that is pinned can take all actions except movement, so they'd be unable to get closer to you. If they have any ranged abilities, they'd continue to us...

There are multiple strategies for Ziggs, and I'm not going to try to be super complete here, but the most common strategy is usually necromutation and level 9 aoe spells. Firestorm and Tornado (both, not just one) being the general standard. This might be slightly harder to do on a gnoll since you c...

I'd certainly be up for playing these, but I probably won't commit the time to actually implementing them. If I did want to take that plunge, I'd go after my own proposal (with some updates I assume). But the chances that I ever implement them myself are pretty low. Keep going on your own thing

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23.2-40-g277498a (webtiles) character file. Game seed: 8441183716870637499 58478 Tasonir the Grappler (level 14, -2/98 HPs) Began as an Octopode Fighter on Sept 24, 2019. Was an Initiate of Gozag. Killed from afar by an orc sorcerer (24 damage) ... with a bolt of ...

Just wanted to mention that the trident is in fact incredible for the early game, but it would fall off against well armored late game foes. This would only matter if you're going to use a lot of melee, though, if you just use melee for weak/medium threats and continue to be a wizard for the true th...

Reading this again I think my favorite part was the highly effective moderation where Arrhythmia posted "berder, you are sincerely [MOD EDIT: removed insult], my man" and then the edit reason is listed as "Reason: Removed "retarded"".

Thanks for protecting us from that!

I'm kind of torn as to whether allowing 100% immunity to elements is overpowered or a newbie trap. While it might be nice to be basically immune to orbs of fire (sure the mutations will smite you, but smite is a tiny fraction of an unresisted orb of fire's fire attacks), I think the correct choice i...

On the question of Chei in extended, I think this character would have had a relatively easy time. The primary threat is torment imho (damnation is worth mentioning as well but I'm more afraid of torments), and so I tend to do extended only when I have some form of torment resistance. For me this is...

I've always been too afraid that I'll use death's door in the wrong circumstances so I basically never used it at all. Revivification is a total get out of jail free card, though. Are you about to die? Poof, full life. It's like being a felid except you aren't teleported.

Regeneration over time mechanics are a basic flaw in crawl . [...] What you really need is structured levels without backtracking and with a clear concept of progression. Then you can attach regeneration to some kind of dungeon feature. This is slightly veering off topic, but the card-based rogueli...

While throwing arrows might seem more effective from a theme/flavor standpoint, I don't think they are mechanically any stronger than throwing rations, so you're probably pretty safe there. As for the self-deprecating titles, all the titles on the image seem to be pretty positive? No one's called th...

The usual acronyms are YASD and YAVP, so I'm not sure what YAPD stands for?

YASD - Yet another stupid death
YAVP - Yet another victory post

I'd argue that the regen property on the CPA is not very weak, and is in fact significant. However, being stuck at only +1 is still more significant, and if you could get the plain CPA enchanted, it's still better. I'm not sure exactly at what enchantment level I'd start to favor the plain CPA, but ...

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