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We should rename gold to AUC (arbitrary units of currency).

Volteccer_Jack wrote:Not to mention I think it is incredibly awful that Lair is mandatory.

An ability to circumvent the lock is being developed. It just won't be a shaft on D:14 like it briefly was.

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BlackSheep wrote:You are warned several turns beforehand that the volcano is about to erupt.
To be fair, it is very common to be engulfed in flame the same turn you enter the volcano.

This has never, ever happened to me. I've always had a bunch of turns before even smelling sulfur.

You are warned several turns beforehand that the volcano is about to erupt.

Sandman25 wrote:Watching piety/gift changes adds fun. I am not sure why but freed slave attacked Maurice. Is it normal???

Freed slaves will happily attack things hostile to you if they happen to bump into them. Depending on the environment, this can be exploited in fun ways.

One thing is worse: dying.

One thing I like about formicids-- you can use teleport traps to ditch monsters from the start.

If you want to be able to keep up with the daily updates to the code base, follow the instructions here for setting up msysgit. If you don't care about staying current or don't want to mess with git, you can grab tarballs of the code base from the game download page . Setting it up as a project in V...

Staves, rods, wands, and other evocable items can be used just fine by Trog worshipers. Enhancer staves are limited in their potential since training the associated magic skill needed to increase their damage will displease Trog, but you can still use them for, say, resistances. Keep an eye out for ...

The primary driver of acquirement has been: can the item be used. Even if it can only be used suboptimally, those wands can still be used.

skyspire wrote:My other gear is all mundane unbranded though. I'm level 18 but still have to swap weapons for rPois, which is annoying.

All together now...

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Just to play devil's advocate, having a theatrical effect makes affixing a brand to a weapon a "big deal." The new scrolls are a lot easier to use, though, so changing a weapon's brand can happen a lot more often, and naturally this is less special, so the big explosions should probably go.

Please don't turn this into a Chei-wars thread. If you want to debate the merits of the god or discuss ways to improve Chei, start a new thread.

BlackSheep wrote:Formicids can also speed up by using spider form.

I just noticed that a Formicid in spider form wearing a ring of poison resistance still has poison vulnerability. Should they get double the penalty like that?

Formicids can also speed up by using spider form.

spudwalt wrote:Do spells like Passage of Golubria or Phase Shift work for Formicids, or does their stasis block them, too?

Phase Shift and Passage of Golubria both work for formicids.

Get rid of chunk eating and instead, all characters must fashion pants out of meat.
Discuss.

rebthor wrote:So yeah, my bad that I made the game harder for myself by going into the branches prior to clearing all the way down to D:14.

So you're saying you ran into some troublesome enemies, explored elsewhere for a while, and found some consumables that might help?

Presumably the difference is that you could go back and do Lair branches if one or more nasty uniques blocked progress in D. I'm pretty unswayed by this argument, though. Very few uniques present an insurmountable obstacle, and those that really are unbeatable can be avoided. A higher value may need...

rebthor wrote:And yet I was surprised to see that unlike grey draconians, they take penalties to melee in water and can't go into deep water.

I'd say they should be able to for the sake of consistency, but people are already complaining about them being overpowered.

dpeg wrote:BlackSheep: Regeneration spell would defeat the point. The wand is a limited tool, the spell an infinite one.

Perhaps a name change for the wand would be in order, then.

Would it open up the regeneration spell as a source of regen for DD too? Or would the wand's effect be treated separately, as Trog's Hand is?

Exploding spores only confuse things that breathe.

Correct, it's a straight 2 * EP^2 / 3 penalty.

Oh yeah, curse skulls are bad news.

It depends on the server. Go here and look in the right column for the server you use. It should have a "Morgues" link below it that will let you get to your morgue folder.

Hello? Stuff is constantly rotting and you're always getting hungry. Obviously the concentration of all these magical items is drawing away energy from the living occupants of the dungeon. (This also explains why nearly everything is hostile to you. They're hungry!)

If I had to guess, the HOBe had a really big weapon and was rushing to min. delay.

What was the point of this discussion again? The impact of the rune lock, wasn't it?

That's a good outcome for you. A quarterstaff of freezing is a much more reliable weapon than one of chaos. Don't go into the mines yet. Keep to the main dungeon until you find a staircase to the Lair of Beasts. You'll usually find that easier than the mines. Bonus: your freezing staff will slow dow...

add to that: piety decay

I feel as if there is one thing that I and others have mentioned that seems to be consistently ignored and that is if you make D:15-D:20 harder, then people will generally do the lair branches first regardless of a lock on the stairs. They may do the branches first, but you'd have to make D:15-20 p...

Enemies don't have MP. Antimagic inflicts a negative status on monsters that has a chance to cause them to lose a turn when they try to cast a spell. (Chance and duration based on damage dealt)

Sometimes no action is better than half measures.

...and heavy weapons? And any type of launcher?

and into wrote:Yeah, with auto-explore and autopickup on you basically end up stepping on every item automatically, anyway, with very little tedium.

Only if there's more than one item in a stack. Autoexplore recognizes single item stacks and only walks to them if they're marked for autopickup.

Mass confusion is also good for a hexer. I don't think the power cap is any higher than Confuse, but it can be easier to reach since mass enchantment spells get a power boost. (Plus you're casting one spell for everything in LOS)

dck wrote:Dispelling bolts don't cancel flight immediately, do vuln scrolls?

I think if flight would be dispelled, instead its duration is set to one turn.

It'll be a stealth renaissance!

You had the right idea trying to disable him so you could get away. It looks like you tried a little too late, though.

It lasts until he offers the next one, which happens when you accrue enough piety by killing things. I wouldn't bother with sting, as battlesphere and searing ray can handle things like goliath beetles, and they're too slow to pose any kind of threat. (Sting would do nothing to a zombie or skeleton,...

Swap in the control tele ring when you need it. (You need to eVoke it to get the cTele effect.) Stick to conjurations for now. Vehumet is going to steadily offer you new ones. Try to stick to one or two elements, and don't jump on every spell you're offered. If it doesn't do something better than yo...

Use [code] tags around your character dump. It makes it much more readable.

If the name is in blue, it's either gloves with a simple enchantment (+str or +dex) or cursed. When you play a small or large species, you're going to see a lot of things you can't use. It's best to pretend such things don't exist.

The best way to keep fed is to eat. As your only source of food is permafood, you don't need to wait until hungry to eat, so you can eat your way up to Very Full without wasting any food. Train spellcasting to reduce the hunger costs of your spells. Vehumet will gift you extra spells, and the extra ...

I find that between haste, swiftness, and digging out direct routes to the stairs, I usually get off the floor (and most floors, in fact) before anything spawns.

Sure Blade, Invisibility, Tukima's Dance, Spectral Weapon, Leda's Liquefaction, Fulminant Prism, Silence, and Darkness are all hexes that don't target enemies.

It could also be Hexes/Summoning since its effect is on the monsters attacking you.
(I only say this because I think there are too many charms)

Usually when you cast animate skeleton on a corpse, you have chunks in inventory as a result. But when this spell is being cast in lich form all the chunks are on the ground. I can't reproduce this. With or without sublimation or simulacrum memorized, I pick up chunks after casting animate skeleton...

I started a new game (HuHu) to try out the lock, but I don't think it'll be very representative. Lair on 8 and lots of lucky drops, including a potion of experience.

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