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I tried a few stabby VpAs before deciding that both stealth and stabbing were not helping me enough. In order to go that route, you need to invest quite a large amount in stealth and a modest amount in both throwing (for status needles) and stabbing. I knew I wanted to use necromancy, and I also wan...

I finally found the missing demonic rune after killing about 15 pandemonium lords. After that, Cerebov and Lob Lobom and Gloorx Vloq all went down relatively easy -- though I used a few healing charges, and potions of might, resistance, and agility when fighting Cerebov. It made the nukes less painf...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1438-g85f6d87 (tiles) character file. 5881660 Abatross Often the Intangible (level 27, 249/249 HPs) Began as a Vampire Assassin on Dec 28, 2012. Was the Champion of Kikubaaqudgha. Escaped with the Orb ... and 11 runes on Jan 10, 2013! The game lasted 11:24:0...

I don't often get evocation all that high, but every time I put a few levels into it, it seems worth it. The amount of improvement in wand power is pretty good by itself: confuse, paralyze and enslave are pretty strong effects when you can use them reliably in heavy armor with no food cost and for o...

rebthor wrote:You shouldn't have moved into the water. Besides slowing you, it gave the hydra your exact location.

He was also flying -- that should prevent water from giving him away.

I was about to post the same thing as BlackSheep, give or take. Instead, I'll just agree with him.

Yeah it's fun to have to read the source to check that the loot in the vault is indeed not worth getting banished for. Arguably true for any of the magic traps, or any vault with foreseeable peril. I wouldn't advocate for a banish trap -- that's something that seems overly punitive, and also abusab...

How about a flag in init that does !a when you're bare-handed and your unarmed skill is 0?

Posted this in the other traps thread, but I should have posted it here: The Zot trap does a wide variety of interesting and painful things, but some of the things it does could make good traps in and of themselves. The first one that comes to mind would be a contamination trap (or mutation trap or ...

The Zot trap does a wide variety of interesting and painful things, but some of the things it does could make good traps in and of themselves. The first one that comes to mind would be a contamination trap (or mutation trap or temporary mutation trap?). It would make carrying scrolls of vulnerabilit...

My successfully OpWz (https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6528&p=87412) trained both Dodging and Fighting a fair amount in the early game after getting the spells in the starting book online. I had dodging/fighting/conjuration all training until I found another book, and got...

I meant experience-intensive in that if one invests in one of the other weapon skills, one can potentially stop at around level 12-14 and be quite effective with the one-handed versions of those weapons, and thereby complement something else that's experience-heavy (like conjurations). Bows, slings,...

If you can get a decent branded fast weapon (elec, poison, draining), you can kill almost everything with that and 0 skill, and use arrows only for truly dangerous things, like your dire elephants. Once you've gotten as deep as Lair in the dungeon, the dungeon should be spawning a ton of centaurs --...

Another way to pick up yellow/red glow is Zot traps. If you or anyone else in LOS steps on one, you can receive heavy glow. I got red glow off a Zot trap once, read a scroll of vulnerability, and still had red glow afterward. I got pretty badly mutated that time . . .

I did have a run-in with Hellion Island at one point, and avoided it (aside from apporting a book from it). I hadn't realized that was a rune vault. I haven't run into any of the more elaborate Pandemonium vaults, so I probably just haven't hit any other rune vaults yet. Good thing that rune keeps s...

Yeah, I'm not itching to get out or anything, I was just surprised, since the first time I sent a character to Pandemonium, he picked up the Demonic rune on the first floor he visited. I just sort of assumed that every random Pan Lord in something resembling a vault would have one, and that it would...

This is my first relatively successful vampire assassin of Kiku. The key to getting him successful was to ignore stealth and stabbing almost completely, and to just get short blades working and then some dodging. Once he had ****** piety, he got a quickblade from his second acquirement scroll and br...

My 4th win, coming hot on the heels of my 3rd win. It's not quite a streak, since I buried two abyss knights before I randomly picked Centaur as a race and decided to try Arcane Marksman. This is my first Centaur win, my first Arcane Marksman win (though I would have been better off in almost every ...

Sorry, but tell that to other sucessfull games developers that use this spell Lots of successful games developers use rocket launchers. Why doesn't crawl have rocket launchers. Lots of successful games developers use cart racing, 3d models, or fake guitars. Why doesn't crawl have cart racing, 3d mo...

Funny and strategical situations would arise What you're proposing would mostly result in the same thing as existing spells (Haste, Slow and MB reduce the number of turns enemies take relative to you, Death's Door lets you take a bunch of turns without caring what the enemies do). In order to diffe...

So, I found a new way make a mistake that ends my game: I accidentally picked up the orb as I was clearing Zot, and I was forced to ascend. This is my third successful ascension. This game included the following first for me: * Using Bolt of Cold * Using Controlled Blink extensively * Never hasting ...

At this point I've gotten all the vaults working in a recent build of Crawl, and I have them working to my satisfaction. Re: the broken armor vault, I've added the uncursed flag. I see it as being good that the armor is not better than plate armor w/ an ego. Plate armor with an ego is very good, and...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1315-g441e2e6 (tiles) character file. Wizopus the Sorcerer (Octopode Wizard) Turns: 132895, Time: 08:01:34 HP 198/217 AC 10 Str 12 XL: 27 MP 30/49 EV 41 Int 37 God: Ashenzari [******] Gold 901 SH 29 Dex 23 Spells: 16 memorised, 1 level left Res.Fire : + . . ...

I'm quite pleased with my current OpWz. I've splatted a ton of them before starting to get the hang of playing such a low-defense caster. Wizopus's early game went as expected: didn't find much of note, killed Grinder with imp swarm, got to the temple and picked up Ashenzari (after seeing her work w...

If you eat brown chunks when you're first at Hungry, nausea will wear off before you get past Very Hungry unless you're doing a lot of hunger-inducing spellcasting. If you aren't sure which spells use hunger, press ! from the list of your spells to see the amount of hunger casting them will cause. I...

I was recently working on a fedhas altar vault in which vision is obscured by thick mist, except for a small problem: there is no thick mist. Thin mist and rain clouds don't obscure vision (and rain cloud cause deep water really quickly); smoke blocks vision but doesn't work for a Fedhas flavor; glo...

I don't like Breathe: it strikes me as an ability that says "this god allows you to reject his gifts and renounce his mission for a while". As other people point out, losing potions is a big problem, as is being subject to dispel undead. Perhaps you could turn into some other form of undea...

Your lizard vault is, to be blunt, HORRIBLY unbalanced. D4 Golden Dragon. A GOLDEN DRAGON ON D4. Something you normally don't see outside of Vaults:$ and Zot for good reason, on a floor wherein your biggest worries are still orc priests. I don't even know how you're supposed to kill one at that dep...

Just found old_forge. I see where you're drawing a comparison, but you might as well say we don't need any Vehumet altar vaults because one already exists. They're different in appearance and in scope, they contain different items, and they have a different purpose. The only real shared element is t...

If start-scumming is a problem, perhaps the idea which was floated earlier of allowing players to instead use a menu to customize their race, using some sort of point system. It would require a lot of additional interface, and I'm not sure how easy that is to work into Crawl, but it could provide a ...

Hey claws, thanks for taking the time to look over the vaults and give feedback. You're absolutely right that I haven't yet loaded them all up in Crawl to test yet; I had hoped that I could present them here as a first draft, with the goal of getting to sorts of critical review you provided. I can s...

The "stair-hug" advice is not always the best advice. On your first visit to a floor, you are guaranteed to get the first action, meaning that if you walk downstairs into a nasty crowd, you have a chance to escape (going upstairs, blinking, activating Repel Missiles, whatever). If you cont...

Thanks for the ideas, claws! I'll use those thoughts to guide my ideas. Here are a few that I've whipped up so far. Feedback is very welcome. # corrupted god altars with Abyss creatures wandering around # and a few dispersion kobolds to keep things interesting NAME: lasty_lugonu_altar temple_overflo...

Unseen horrors are like bats in that they only sometimes end a turn next to you unless you move in the right pattern. As such, they rarely follow when you go up stairs, and if they do, they probably won't follow when you go back down. They're very easy to shake with stairs.

Species could start with a modified version of the Evolving mutation which gives good/bad mutations in pairs and which is less likely to remove itself. The specialized form of Evolving could give mutations which change skill aptitudes.

I'm pretty sure Wz should learn call imp as soon as you hit xl2. Agreed. Call Imp can help you win or escape almost any situation you run into between L2 and L10, and the opportunity cost of getting it is what? Getting Repel Missiles, which is way more situational and harder to cast? Skipping all l...

the good ones are all too rare to depend on

Well, unless you pick Trog or Okawaru, both of whom are great for assassins. If you aren't picking one of those two, you're probably picking Kiku, Fedhas, or Makhleb, all of whom give you alternative ways to kill problematic baddies.

While preservation is good for preserving potion/scroll consumables, it's perfectly possible to get by with only wand consumables. Other cloak egos could be more important than preserving scroll/potion consumables, such as invisibility (good against Draconians in Zot), MR (good against confusion/ban...

I'm surprised needles haven't come up here. Needles are very effective against early game threats like Orc Warriors even w/o training throwing, and after training throwing they can allow stabs against most opponents. The only catch is that needlestabbing requires a source of debilitating needles, wh...

Hey all,

I'm planning to put together some new vaults over the next couple weeks, but I'm not sure where new vaults are most needed. Anyone have any suggestions for areas that need more vaults or types of vaults that are most needed?

minmay wrote:It is possible I will begin training it again in 2013.

What happens to T&D in 2013?

Charms are just really good. Perhaps it would make sense to add some contamination whenever any charm is cast, so that stacking charms (especially powerful ones) is harder, and charms are less spamable.

Barbed whips are realistic against fleshy, unarmored targets, but that's a probably not enough, really. That said, non-demon whips aren't actually viable weapons unless they have a magical brand*, and I imagine a magical flaming or electric whip might be a perfectly reasonable combat choice, realist...

Flight + Static Discharge is all right.

How about a "broken bones" or "concussion" malus for M&F? On each hit there would be a chance (or guarantee) of a penalty being applied (to accuracy, to attack speed, to move speed, to AC, to EV, or randomly assigned between those five). The penalty would be cumulative with r...

Unless there's been a change, I'm fairly certain that you get full experience whenever you deal the lethal blow to a monster, regardless of how whether your summons have dealt damage to that monster or not. You only lose a portion of the experience if the summoned monsters deal the fatal blow, and i...

My one DE who had Shatter castable spammed it throughout the Hells, using it to clear the way and also to kill everything. I actually forgot that it does less damage to flying creatures, because only the strongest flying creatures would survive it anyway, and then they would go down to a LCS or Ice ...

I agree with crate. When I've gotten an early Jivya, the amount and quality of loot I got was not noticeably affected, and my characters tended to do very well.

10 Spellcasting is way more than a wizard typically needs at this point -- Spellcasting is usually a very inefficient way to add power to spells, and power is going to be more important than more spells or more spell points at this point. That's probably not enough conjurations for maxed Magic Dart,...

Jiyva also restores hp/mana every time a jelly eats something if your piety is high (and it usually is). The only meaningful downside to Jiyva (aside from the undead rot thing) is that you can't really stash stuff -- otherwise, it's pretty much all bonuses, and significant ones at that.

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