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The reason I personally prefer hunters is just because hydras need rocks. There are other cases where rocks are a great solution, early orc warriors, etc. Berserk works for most of them but a stray priest when you're slowed or a hydra with now 12 heads means I want my rocks! You can find rocks if yo...

Feel free to list them in combination with race, although I'm more focused on the background and how it sets you up to -start- the game, rather than later on. Backgrounds don't matter much in the long run. Basically there's been a lot of discussion about fighter being weak in game design, and a fair...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0-10-ge961620 (webtiles) character file. tasonir the Grappler (Troll Hunter) Turns: 16267, Time: 01:42:11 HP 111/111 AC 11 Str 23 XL: 12 Next: 80% MP 16/16 EV 8 Int 11 God: Okawaru [*****.] Gold 1090 SH 37 Dex 10 Spells: 3 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : . ...

A brave new world and 1984 are both masterpieces on the same subject: the enslavement of humanity. One does it through thought control and oppression, the other through pleasure. I'd say Huxley is a bit closer to what is actually going on; but both are excellent books. I "read" both for a ...

My point is that fighter isn't that bad . It is a good choice if you want to play a non-Trog non-Yred non-Lugonu character who kills things primarily with melee weapons. (Gladiator is probably still better, but that doesn't mean fighter is bad.) Here are a list of backgrounds that I would consider ...

I'd propose something like this: + Shields have a lower but still significant penalty than bucklers against multiple attacks. Their formula to block ranged attacks is improved. They do not block but reduce damage from rays, fireballs, and perhaps other currently-unshieldable ranged attacks (not tor...

But what about the +3 pair of gauntlets of War (worn) {Acc+5 Dam+5}? I tried calculating whether she can claw faces off more thoroughly with or without them... and somewhere between calculating adjusted evasion penalty and adjusted shield penalty my brain started to rot away like a ghoul brain. I'm...

It's been a week and as this forum's resident Chei worshipper, I demand updates!!! I personally love statue form - of course controlled blink is needed, but you already have it, so I'd take the defenses. But if dragon form is working for you, go ahead and keep it. I generally go for "impossible...

I like the idea of noisy axes, it would draw in more monsters for you to cleave. I could see the AC penalty, but -5ac in plate seems a bit extreme, I'd lower it to 1-2 points...I'd rather see a noise penalty or EV, though. That could just be my preference for heavy armor on melee talking.

I generally solved the problem on my nagas of chei by going heavy armor and shields - both of which are terrible for spellcasting. I focused much more on physical skills first, and then only after lair, did I start raising armor/shield enough to negate penalties and start training magic after that. ...

merged slimes are absolutely killer, and what's worse, they don't give you any real benefit for killing them, vs seperate ones. You just have to know how to keep them from joining, and have a way to get away instantly if they do end up merged and next to you. For bonus points, follow Chei and try fi...

regardless of which god is better, trog's wrath is much, much deadlier, and he's primarily avoided for that reason in any game you plan on abandoning him. His summons against you are all berserked, and will probably rip you apart unless you are very powerful, or cheating (hover over lava, entomb you...

Have to give you credit for going unarmed combat on a race with +4 polearms

Also staying steam armor and not picking up spells is interesting, any reason you gave up the usual low level utility spells like swiftness, regen, blink, etc?

There's not space for another background, there are 27 of them in 0.12 :p What was added? or did we go from 28 to 27, but you consider 27 still enough/too many? I am of course horribly biased, but I like my idea for a new class quite a bit ;) https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=70782#p7...

I find large shields quite useful, but they are very narrowly applicable to most builds. You really want to be a large race, so that you only have to get 15 shields, and probably be using unarmed. I suppose you could use demon 1h's, or be non-melee also. But Nagas and trolls....that's about it. I su...

While there isn't anything terribly wrong with that last postt it may be the first time I have ever heard of someone taking monk for the piety bonus

I am exceptionally paranoid about rot and will use potions to cure even 1 point of it if I have curing, or wait for 3 and use heal wounds. Obviously not all characters have a stash of potions...but always keep curing around and remove the rot condition as soon as it shows up, and you should avoid ge...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.2-40-g36e0077 character file. 14060772 Tasonir the Archmage (level 27, 197/197 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Fire Elementalist on July 16, 2012. Was the Champion of Vehumet. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Aug 4, 2012! The game lasted 1day 01:10:12 (113562 ...

it can be a bit rough to start, but with constriction in .10 it's really not at all a tough combo. It does have a slightly more tricky ruleset for armor, though. It's possible to simply stay light armor if you're experienced and want faster spell support, but I think that switching to heavy armor ar...

It's basically like the blademaster from warcraft 3. A fighter based on speed and cunning - one of their skills is windwalk [the blademaster from war3, not the class proposal] - moving so fast they become invisible. Invisibility could work for this class, but it's too high level really. I can see an...

I'd like to see a speed/air hybrid type class. Possible spells: core: Swiftness Phase Shift airstrike Possibles: haste (too strong, but thematic) blink warp weapon (too lucy?) see invisible insulation The class should probably start with a whip for the high attack speed, and it's a not too powerful ...

I don't think a summoning limit would be overly complicated. You could reuse spell slots. If you have 40 total spell slots, you can have 40 levels of summons, ie, summon dragon is a level 9 spell, so you could have 4 of them. You'd have 4 left over, summon an ice beast. Or 10 ice beasts and no drago...

O Level 27 Fighting O Level 27 Maces & Flails O Level 27 Staves O Level 27 Throwing O Level 27 Armour O Level 27 Dodging O Level 27 Stealth O Level 27 Stabbing O Level 27 Shields O Level 27 Traps & Doors O Level 27 Unarmed Combat O Level 27 Spellcasting O Level 27 Conjurations O Level 27 Ch...

As stated the only real hard part is pre-statue form. Once you can repeatedly cast statue form, you have the defenses that normal races enjoy and still get the massive ring collection. It's fairly similiar to how I played my melee nagas, statue form/stoneskin and regen being the main spells there wh...

if I DDBe w/ slings, my ability to kill stuff before it gets into melee range nosedives when I start seeing warlords and ettins. I enjoy how the constraints force me to alter my playstyle, but I don't find it easy. I've played a fair amount of DDBe's, finally getting my first win with them...I didn...

Level 17 armor was definitely a surprise. At that level I probably would go for heavier armor, although I wonder why you'd put it that high if you weren't planning on heavy armor to begin with. That's a lot more experience than I'd commit to armor unless I was certain I was going heavy armor. Now th...

a weapon that heals you to full every time you swing it against 85% of the monsters you run into down there. It's actually a weapon that heals you to "full" 80% of the time you swing it (and hit) against 85% of the monsters. It does not heal on each hit. This is in no way a claim that it'...

fannar has a 1/3 chance of replacing his normal staff/ring of ice with a staff of cold instead. Silly counsellor

with vampiric that's fairly unsustainable. It could be sustained through a lot of a 3 rune game with gourmand, but yes it requires additional setup and it's probably a terrible idea ;) Like I said above, only the best/second best 2h'ed weapons or demon weapons are really worth vampiric in the long ...

I haven't checked your replay or anything, so I can't say just how bad those pan lords were, but I've had similiar encounters with pan lord levels, including one which distortion brand'ed me into a pack of monsters, see here: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5145 (5th post) Y...

if you're using a crystal ball of energy (and you should) then an amulet of clarity is a must have. Other than that the only other (not randart) amulet worth using is an amulet of resist mutation, and you won't need that if you get necromutation (optional but powerful). I am assuming you can get a c...

doesn't have to be non-weapon, just a weapon switch would be fine. You lose .5 turns, but that's not too terrible.

I thought there was a cap on the amount vamp could heal? Or am I mistaken? it's 1dDamage dealt? if you stab for 100 damage, could you theoretically get +100 hp healed?

croc deaths are definitely a case of playing too fast. They aren't that deadly, but they do get a speedboost in water, which can result in them getting an alarming amount of turns when you take a step in shallow water and take extra time while they take less time to chomp you to bits. Play Cheibriad...

It has mostly all been said before, but 1) don't ever abandon trog unless you've won before, ans 2) weapon size is more important than brand. Vampitic is amazing for DD's, but it has to be a good base type. I've lost one using a falchion (or similiar, it was a few months ago) because it was vamp eve...

It's a very nice robe, its just that most characters need resistances more...once you have the shield of resistance, a robe of resistances isn't as critical. I do find it funny you also wore the octo rings...your ac/ev/sh and stats were very high with all of that gear ;-)

hmm do deep dwarves cast damage mirror when outside of your LOS? According to the wiki and as far as I can tell from the code, they can, which is why I didn't want to risk it. Maybe I should a test in wizard mode some time. Yes they can. This didn't stop me from successfully clearing Deep Dwarf lev...

playing on webtiles, so it will be up to whoever manages the webtiles server to update it, I can't do that.

I think a demon whip is 12 skill for min delay? and 6 short blades wouldn't be min delay on a dagger, you'd need 10. I assume the knife is now a dagger, even though it retained the knife name - I could be wrong. I imagine you weren't meleeing too much so it didn't matter, but I probably would have f...

I might raise charms a bit more heavily than you suggested, just because I love regeneration, and that should get it to a pretty decent spellpower. It's already fairly good, just needs a bit more to be strong. But in general the skill suggestions you made are the ones I would pick

Steam dragon armor is good, it's just that mottled dragon armor is slightly better. The +2 ac is nice and you can just invest in a few levels of armor to more or less remove the spellcasting penalty. I think it's 9 armor skill to have no penalty, but even just 4-5 is great. And the armor has a high ...

A toenail golem, a white imp, 3 ufetubi, a midge, a red devil, a hellwing, a sixfirhy, a neqoxec, an orange demon, a smoke demon, a ynoxinul, 2 ice devils, a blue devil, an iron devil, an Executioner, 2 Green Deaths, a blizzard demon, a balrug, 2 cacodemons, 5 pandemonium lords and 2 small abominat...

Ninja the runes, it's safer. Killing pan lords is really only an if you want to sort of thing. Zig can be hard to get out of, but it is much easier to bail with c blink. Just be extra careful.

ah well that would explain why mummies are so difficult - they're shut out of the best school of magic!

they also occasionally take way more firepower to take down than you'd expect. My current DEFE generally kills most medium threats in two fireballs...I had one shapeshifter who I'd fireball, he shifted, I fireballed, he shifted, etc. Took 5-6 fireballs to kill him. While that's a random chance and y...

Ah thanks I forgot you can shield and staff...I could use the extra slot :-)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.2-40-g36e0077 character file. Tasonir the Sorcerer (Deep Elf Fire Elementalist) Turns: 78705, Time: 13:17:01 HP 158/158 AC 12 Str 8 XL: 27 MP 50/50 EV 25 Int 36 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 3482 SH 0 Dex 15 Spells: 16 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : + + + See...

Yeah, the heaviness of armor on melee nagas is interesting...light armor is good right at the start, but you want to get up to plate fairly soon (around temple), but then you want to downgrade to a -3 ev dragon armor to be able to cast later on. Of course, many people have taken issue with that advi...

ah right, I always forget mummies can't regen

The only undead I've played much of is ghouls, who can learn it I believe. Ah well...stoneform at least!

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