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Amnesiac wrote:Come back, when you have withdrawal symptoms

I guess it will be like this. However, here is a - maybe temporary - farewell for Sandman25.

Some questions about armour:

Will a banker be able to wear a cravat? If so, what's its base AC?
Does a banker have restrictions concerning armour? Can you imagine a banker at a counter who wears a plate armour?
And what about plate armour and cravat?

Code:: You feel strangely unstable.

35 steps to win the game?
Did you know there's a - maybe incomplete - guide to win the game in 3 steps? ;-)

Any constructive criticism or comments from what you guys can see other than the fact that i tried to walk through a hydra with a bladed weapon and then panicked and didnt consider my options? P - +7,+11 hand axe of the New World +7,+11 enchantment looks nice. However, base damage is an important p...

So I am planning to go through extended for the first time without using a melee brute of the Shining One (which I did twice). So I think that changes a lot. As you already did the extended with other chars you'll obviously know problems like torment, hellfire, mutations etc. A main difference is t...

What's annoying is people constantly complaining that stashing is hard or annoying. Well, stashing *is* annoying. Other annoying things in crawl and their solutions: ⋅ annoyed about bad mutations -> Zin ⋅ annoyed about item destruction -> Jiyva ⋅ annoyed about wanderin...

74794 | Vaults:5 | Got a twisted crystal plate armour {god gift} 74795 | Vaults:5 | Identified the -11 crystal plate armour of the Raven {Str+3 Dex+3 Int+3} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 5 of the Vaults) Mhmm, what about this: 75xxx | Temple | Smashed an iron altar of Okawaru with the -11 crys...

@ saveorange:

You gave a lot of help for players suffering from stupid deaths - unfortunately you failed to realize the ironic intention of the topic. Ok, I changed the topic slightly.

Each time your char dies you must start from the very beginning again. So why not introducing a god who'll help you in the next game depending on how you died? Arghh, god of noobs, will help you in the next game. The more stupid your death was the more help you'll get from him next time. However, th...

I voted for Get the orb (without clearing the whole level) after getting all runes . Having 15 runes means you're usually overpowered on Z:5. I only once had a problem in Z:5 after picking up the orb: cerebov and some other nasty foes arrived before I was able to take the stairs up to Z:4. Another q...

Did you ever consider to play online? You could look at other players' games (or vice versa) and chat with them.

However, be careful when you're out of food. Pan usually has enough food laying around. But sneaking and looking for food seems to be better now than casting fire storms.

Thanks for your answer, ontoclasm. As a matter of fact it's the colour why I never played felid, I really have problems to get to know where my cat actually is. I think it's a lot of work to invent and implement a new species - and only because of the tile a player doesn't play it... Well, I had a s...

The only way I can regenerate magic quickly is my last potion of magic. So - why don't you quaff it? Consumables exist for being consumed. I'm thinking I might just skip this fight... With firestorm and a potion of magic you might be able to kill cerebov. However, in the long run I'd look for other...

With fire storm, haste and cBlink you have three of the best spells available. DMsl and orb of destruction are nice too. Inspite of the unattractive mutations (which are not fatal) experienced players would go for 15 runes if they wanted to. I wanna just grab the Orb and get the hell out right? The ...

Playing a felid seems to be hard - not only because of intrinsic difficulties but also because a black cat on a dark floor is hard to see. Playing offline I can get other tiles (e.g. a white cat) with the '-' command. But this isn't implemented online afaik. Can I change the colour of a felid online...

It would be interesting to play a Yedi. ⋅ small species ⋅ low Str, high Int, high Dex ⋅ high MR ⋅ high perception (sInv) Alright, this looks similar to a spriggan... Some more ideas: ⋅ good aptitudes in charms, invocations, evocations ⋅ una...

Igxfl wrote: Magic Dart is infinitesimally tiny

This is not right for an entire crawl game, it's only valid in the first 5.391* 10^-44 seconds after you entered the dungeon.

We didn't calculate the height of the monsters; it's entirely possible they fit in exactly, making it impossible for anything to fly over it. I'm not sure about this. Already Siegurt mistrusted your theory. I think the conclusion goes the other way 'round' i.e. "If monsters took up the entire ...

If I am planning on eventually using basic charms or magic in the end game, should I always put my stats into int while leveling lets say for a minotaur or hill orc fighter? Will my strength be high enough or should I do some str to make sure I can use good armour and then int? Generally speaking, ...

ajon wrote: I used my scroll of acquirement for a weapon which thinking back was a bad move, I should have went for armour or better jewelry. This is well known as acquirement remorse syndrome. ajon might have written: I used my scroll of acquirement for armour which thinking back was a bad move, I...

I didn't even notice it was -2, damn draconians... When I tried gda on, at 21 skill it was pretty bad, so I wanted to train it to 27 and see, then enchant it if it's ok, if not, maybe enchant IDA. It's a strategical question if you read your enchant scrolls for items you are already wearing/wieldin...

sanka wrote:Has anybody managed to die from his own poison spit? Why it is even allowed to target yourself, and why there's no confirmation prompt?

You can adjust this in your rc-file.
allow_self_target = (yes | no | prompt)

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at lea...

There are three kinds of blinking: ⋅ random ⋅ semi-controlled - you may choose the direction ⋅ controlled - you may choose the exact place (unless it's a -cTele level) Control teleport + blink grants a semi-controlled blink. Controlled blink is the best spell, you may c...

Just remake your rcfile from scratch, copying pieces from 0.13 rcfiles. Ok, I did. It was some work: ⋅ started with standard 0.13 rc ⋅ added some parts from MarvinPA's rc ⋅ added cerebovssquire's list of uniques ⋅ added own lines from my 0.12 rc (getting ...

In trunk you don't need those includes, the default stuff is always included. Does your config change any colours after the includes? If so it probably clears and overwrites the defaults in the process. As I partially use your rc it's nice to get the answer from you. I did the following things: &sd...

bataille wrote:It was probably spriggan baker.

Baker man is baking bread
Sagabona kunjani wena
The night train is coming
Got to keep on running

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2648-g56e3d78 (webtiles) character file. I appreciate the removal of nausea (thanks, devs) and started with trunk version. In 0.12 the items in my inventory have been shown in different colours, e.g. yellow for potions of curing and heal wounds, white for ar...

Next I will farm some TSO piety in Hell. After that maybe slime (still have no preservation or resist corrosion) and the Pan runes. Although the slime pits are a lair branch I often go there after getting the pan runes. Careful without acid resistance in slime! It's doable but dangerous. I always h...

Alright, it's a *slight* buff for Chei worshippers and demigods. Thanks for your answers!

As I read Str and Dex will be more important for fighting (double value?) in 0.13 than they actually are.

This includes a slight buff for Chei worshippers and demigods, doesn't it?
Does it imply other important changes?

1) Enter dungeon.
2) Kill the first goblin you see and take his club.
3) Ascend with the orb.

My question is: When do you start training Charms? You started learning some of the useful low-level charms spells. I'd like to say something about haste which is a very desired spell: With Oka you will often buff your skills with heroism. But of course it's even better to improve the speed of your...

I just think these jewels, ring of sustenance and amulet of gourmand serve very little purpose as the game is pretty much full of food. Especially now when nausea is removed from the trunk version. This does constitute a caster nerf, though! There will be shouts of scream and anger :) No shout of s...

Secondly, just a question about waiting out Oka wrath I don't think this is necessary, it's unlikely that Oka's wrath will be a real danger to you. The only problems I can think about are ⋅ getting surrounded. As mentioned by 1010011010 any source of blinking will solve this problem. &sdo...

Long question, short answer. :-) ⋅ Personally I wouldn't wear the hat of pondering ⋅ ring of protection from magic might be better for you than ring of rF+ (consider being banished to the abyss) ⋅ I'd put spellcasting off and go for conjurations and fire magic ⋅&nb...

Why not just start as a fighter? Monsters are generally less dangerous at range. Because ranged combat is really powerful in crawl, and starting off with a ranged weapon is more convenient than trying to find one on the floor. Yes, and I'd like to add an example. Unarmed trolls start with strong cl...

So the question is for a caster build worshipping Sif Muna, which is generally better? Have a look at the top scores if you like. The top five scores are either Su or Wz/Ne branching into summonings. That's because summoning was heavily overpowered until 0.11. If you look at the following scores, m...

Veh or Sif? If you play a pure caster like DEFE, I'd say that ⋅ Sif is better . She provides channeling, which is indeed powerful with high invo skill. And you can be sure to finally get all the spells you want, including useful things like haste, cBlink, DMsl etc. ⋅ Veh is more ...

I'd like to add that a leather armour is not what you want for fighting. Any chance to wear a dragon armour? Butchering a mottled/fire dragon and getting an armour out of it would be fine.

Its like I am leveling my character incorrectly or using incorrect gear/spells. Launcher and shield don't work well together, that might be a reason why you don't feel fine. I'd take the buckler off. Skills, are they reasonably trained? I have switched over to demon blade once I found one, the bow ...

equip_unequip was the point I missed, now 'R' removes jewellry. Thanks!

Some time ago I read that MarvinPA's rc-file is quite popular and I copied it to my rc. Together with Elynae's list of uniques (e.g. more += Cerebov comes into view ) it's the basis for my personal rc which is very useful. There's one question though. Originally, 'P' means putting on jewellry and 'R...

For very many games I didn't consider worshipping Ash at all. Cursed items are usually bad ones, and voluntarily cursing items seemed bad/evil to me. After doing this step - worshipping Ash - I noticed she's really strong. So what about keeping the game mechanics and just changing the flavour? She's...

Therefore Ogre and Troll spellcasters are effectively prevented from using [a regular shield], unless they have some melee skill to go farm exp ... or if they worship a god who buffs their skills. Tr and Og spellcasters are physically strong and will usually go as hybrids. Concerning shield penalty...

Well, things like this happen. It's about the same as worshipping TSO and accidentally poison a foe.

This should be a minor problem, you're only under penance for a while. If you continue getting piety Sif should forgive you soon.

Keep Vehumet, increase fire magic and conjurations, go for firestorm and burn everything to ashes. That's it in brief.

Thanks a lot for all of your comments, I didn't expect that many answers! In my games I got to know many things you wrote, the two most interesting comments were the following: ⋅ Then you can notice that longbows have higher damage due to doubled launcher enchantment (that can be +9 as yo...

Sandman25 wrote:Have you read http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Ranged_combat ?

Thanks for asking, I did before I started the games. :-)

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God proposal: Arghh, god of noobs ;-)

Can I change colour or tile of a felid?

Colours in inventory (trunk)

Str and Dex in 0.13

Three steps to win the game

Question on MarvinPA's rc-file

Proposal: change of flavour when worshipping Ash