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Why does autopickup for {many characters - can't say I've surveyed which ones) pick up curare-tipped needles? For example, I'm currently playing a Kobold of Trog who's never used a blowpipe but autopickedup some needles. I've noticed this before, and often enough to make me suppose it's a feature ra...

Human chunks are contaminated anyhow, and if you're a Zin follower, remember that cannibalism is a no-no. Learn Fulsome and brew them up into confusion potions. Fulsome Distillation is Necromancy, also prohibited by Zin. Unless I've missed some change. Yeah, you want to watch that. Last thing you w...

That very technique is recommended in Crawl Your Way To The Top: The DCSS Method For Success In The Workplace . Wise to avoid the chunks: some white collar workers leave poisonous corpses. I haven't come across that one, thanks. There are some great related reads out there. I recommend: Beogh's Way...

So, building on my Crawl experience: if I am challenged by such a bigger dog in a workplace environment, should I invoke Trog and go berserk? Yes, but make sure you pull him into a corner so that nobody else is around when you do it. You need to make sure you don't get interrupted when you're butch...

Grimm wrote:
Confidence Interval wrote:There's always a bigger dog. One can strive either to emulate or surpass him, or to give up.

So, building on my Crawl experience: if I am challenged by such a bigger dog in a workplace environment, should I invoke Trog and go berserk?

Grimm wrote:Name of Tom.

How about "Mr Jinks"?

You see a dead bird {felid gift}.

I think we need a felid god.

The game reveals flaws in your character, draws your attention to them, and in so doing gives you the opportunity to work on correcting them. It then rewards successful inner work with victory in the game. Can you give an example of how you have been able to correct your character flaws following y...

Going back to the quantum mechanical roguelike concept, I did an unhealthy amount of thinking about this over the weekend, and it would put an interesting viewpoint (almost wrote "spin" there, but that's one of your attributes as a subatomic particle ;) ) on some traditional roguelike mec...

Stormfox wrote:
Confidence Interval wrote:Lolfelids:

I iz in your realm of zot
stealin ur orb

Lolfelids need to worship Xom.

i can haz mutashunz?

Lolfelids:

I iz in your realm of zot
stealin ur orb

- All canines should instantly berserk when a felid comes in sight of them. - All felids should instantly berserk when a rat comes into view. - Potions of milk should be available. - Collars should be worn instead of amulets. When they're cursed they have bells attached, ruining your stealth. - For...

The streaking thing is a mystery to me - I don't know how people can avoid nasty RNG outcomes so reliably. This has led to me to two reflections on my play. In relation to game theory, I unintentionally apply both minimax and maximin strategies to constrain my own success: Minimax: although I'm (ver...

I think we should begin a cult of Yiuf, warrior-hermit and leader of the Stochastic Warriors.

I have certainly sacrificed (myself) to him on occasion...

You offer a prayer to Yiuf.
Yiuf's attitude towards you is indeterminate.

eharper256 wrote:
Confidence Interval wrote:(Getting increasingly off-topic here but what else does Crazy Yiuf stand for?)

Hammers, naturally...

Actually, now I think about it, Crazy Yiuf is the archetypal Stochastic Warrior.

I know mainly because I'm currently reading (and recommend) this:
http://www.americanprometheus.org/

(Getting increasingly off-topic here but what else does Crazy Yiuf stand for?)

Sad because he wasn't taking an order for a Halfling Crusader? Or sad because a Halfling Crusader was a bad choice for that situation?

No, it was J Edgar Hoover who got him first...

Sell TSO, buy ZIN!

And put a hold on Ashenzari!

(A hold - because he's shackled! Geddit?!)

I think you're being a little unfair to Oppenheimer, there...

There could be some great uniques: You enter The Shoals. You are on a beach. Einstein comes into view. Einstein screams, "The Old One does not play dice!" You hit Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is moderately wounded. Oppenheimer goes atomic on you! Feynman comes into view. He is wielding an orci...

what I meant by quantum roguelike was: a procedurally generated permadeath game set in a quantum subworld. You are a particle or quark or heretofore unobserved quantum lifeform adventuring in a world that adheres to laws other than Newtonian. In ascii graphics. Could be hot. (With apologies to all ...

You hit the giant cockroach.
The giant cockroach is heavily wounded.
The giant cockroach bites you.
You hit the giant cockroach.
The giant cockroach enters a state of quantum uncertainty!
You see here a giant cockroach in an indeterminate state.

"Welcome, Werner the Heisenberg Uncertainty Fighter.
Will you be the one to retrieve the fabulous Higgs boson from the depths?"

Grimm wrote:Before he opens the box of beasts, the beasts are both alive and dead.

Like Schrödinger's felid?

Grimm wrote:AK is fine but Chaos Knight should be changed to Stochastic Warrior.

I like Stochastic Warrior

Or how about a Normally Distributed Knight, armed (after Mieville) with a possible sword?

To put it another way, I've never beaten a chess grandmaster, but I still enjoy playing the game. I'm with you. But you probably don't log onto grandmaster-heavy online forums where it's all, "I beat this guy the other day starting with only two pawns and a king." I mean, after a while yo...

Sometimes I read posts on here that say something like "I suck at this game. It took me over 100 attempts to make it to Zot." Or "I suck at this game. I've only over completed it three times, and only once with more then three runes." Or "I suck at this game. It wasn't til m...

OK, I guess this reveals my ignorance of what attribute scores actually do: is this worth using, i.e. do the attribute bonuses offset the -2?

The cursed -2 leather armour of Hoqoz {Str+5 Dex+5}

If it makes any difference, I'm playing a L10 Kobold Berserker. Any advice?

Both. What determines which it is? Is there a rule, or does it just depend on who implemented the randomization? The main difference between 1d18 and 3d6 relates to tolerance for extreme values. (Admittedly they're not too extreme here: the difference between, e.g., 100d10 and 1d1000 would be much ...

So the Crawl RNG is, for a 3d6 throw, "throwing" three "six sided dice", and not generating a number at random from the range 3-18? Both are possible. random2(n) returns a number between 0 and n - 1. We can use (random2(16) + 3) or roll_dice(3, 6). We can also use random2avg(6, ...

that might not be possible cos the set of equipment that you're using also contribute a significant bit to your damage-dealing abilities, as well as how much you can dodge or absorb damage It will of course also depend on whether you're an experienced and thoughtful player of the game [like many pe...

That's interesting... People might start taking notes with various classes about what level they are when they feel confident taking on certain common things, and see how it varies. Like (this is purely an imaginary list): SENe: Orc 3, Gnoll 4 (Vampiric Draining), Ogre 6, Hydra 12 (Agony)... and so...

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Is this worth wearing?

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