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VeryAngryFelid: how many (new) players play versions where you need to choose which meat to eat ? ;) Good question, I took it from http://crawl.akrasiac.org/docs/options_guide.txt which is for current version. My point is devs should not be afraid to change defaults or even remove deprecated options.

I'm sure there is an option to disable self-targeting in the options file though, why not just use that? The option should have meaningful default i.e. "no" instead of "prompt". We should stop trying to keep defaults from ancient versions when people used wands on self to identi...

chequers wrote:It sounds like waiting until you were at 100% hp wouldn't have changed anything?

Right, in this particular case I would still have to burn the blinking scroll. Yet in other cases (when there are less monsters after shafting/teleportation) resting first might help.

Traps are stupid. Just yesterday I killed a monster on O:2 and decided to butch its corpse while waiting for regen (was at 90% HP, 70 HP as TeCj), teleportation trap landed me in the middle of main vault with 4 orc sorcerers, 3 orc high priests, 4 orc priests etc. Of course I had to use my only scro...

It is intentional choice between extra attack (MP on block) and extra defence (using regular shield instead of buckler). Warlock's mirror provides similar choice trading physical defence for magical one. It is not an item which is used by every character no matter what.

Svendre Primary target for the item is pure spellcasters. Also I would not call hybrids characters who use large shield because their only spells in 3 rune game are Animate skeleton and Blink because large shhield stops higher level spells. Hybrids must kill things with spells and it is almost impos...

I didn't know Clar is still a random ego.

I am not sure malmutate makes oof less dangerous. Devs can change monster speed easily and they accounted for malmutate when choosing speed for oof. Malmutate makes "take it slowly and carefully" strategy nonviable vs oof.

I'd stop training Axes for now, your defenses are quite low for this stage. Basically I would drop that hat and started training dodging. MiBe can have high EV even in GDS.

Its seems quite difficult to find a caster that would use this as a large shield. The only races I could see using it are large races like ogre's and trolls that also want to cast spells in a 3 rune game. Exactly. I suspect tasonir above wants to use the item on UC Tr of Chei in 15 runes game but t...

Congrats and thanks for the idea, looks like a fun game!

I don't get it. If levels are cleared, mark does absolutely nothing (probably except giving you some easy XP for 1-2 monsters which somehow avoided you while you were clearing the level). If levels are not cleared, it means that character is too weak to clear levels (ignoring speedruns here). So we ...

Turukano wrote:
VeryAngryFelid wrote:Ways to avoid death?

Press Esc when you get the 'Please select your species' message.

Why so hard? I just play other games with load function

I couldn't pick them up. Everything mulched would mean it is unplayable without Oka and Shoals.

For the record I had Shoals, Oka, could use all throwables and still ran out of non-stones in Zot 5. It is working as intended I guess, otherwise throwing would be even more OP.

chequers I took a look at the latest commit of the PR and I am not sure it is a good idea to combine +MP on block with spirit shield, that is too close to HP on block. Let players decide if they want to combine this item with spirit shield or not. Edit. Also I am not sure why devs believe it will be...

Why do you use ring "Opnerchiwn" {rF- MR+ Str+4 Int+7} instead of ring "Haderiog" {MR+ Str+4}?

Shtopit wrote:Why use a fire weapon, though? For a troll of Trog, wouldn't BIA or rage + a giant mace be better options?

BiA are not free, it is easy to run out of BiA if you use it for every hydra. Rage + weak weapon is a gamble, by berserking you lose ability to use scrolls/potions.

chequers wrote:I closed the PR as I was unable to think up good lore. "Alchemist's Stone" is no good as that references a real-world legend, which crawl is trying to move away from.

Good lore? It could be as simple as "buckler of magic" previously used by a famous magician.

When species can throw large rocks, it is much easier for ammo conservation because it takes less attacks to kill the most dangerous monsters while vs not so dangerous stones are ok.

Notable moments: it took about 50 attacks to kill Enchantress (I ran out of large rocks), Zot 5 with its Mark traps made me run out of everything except stones (I didn't have any haste potions in inventory so relied on slow teleportation for survival, both chambers were blocked by teleportation/dist...

This is a lot less true than it used to be. First... they're only missing body armour for a slot that could be branded MR. They can use MR hats, rings and cloaks, which is the majority of MR sources. So I don't think they have particularly low MR in Lair (and what checks MR in Lair? Basilisks, whic...

You have to remember that new players rarely make it *to* the lair, their entire game experience is D:1-7 or so, getting to the temple is a milestone, getting into the lair is pretty much the graduation from "novice" to "inexperienced player" Good thing trolls are really really ...

Don't fight the whole pack in a corridor, retreat from first monster in the pack, kill it (works in open too), create a skeleton, lure another monster from the same pack, kill it, create another skeleton and so on. The spell really shines in Lair when a single hydra skeleton can kill a whole pack of...

Actually I was talking about weapons and comparing Tr to Mi/HO. Oka's gifts are guaranteed to be wearable so there is no difference in disappoinments for those species about armour gifts. For Tr every weapon gift is a disappoinment with 100% chance, for other species who don't use UC and have good w...

You can see I had 2 spark wasps, spriggan and yaktaur in view when died, that's at least 3 different packs and it was typical on that level. I actually cleared about 80% of the level including its centre and still died. Yes, wand of enslaving was probably the best option, I almost never use it. Digg...

At this point it is up to you, there is no single optimal path. You can branch into other magic schools, you can become a hybrid, you can be a stabber with shield, you can be a stabber with 2h long blade for conventional melee etc. Edit. Personally I would train at least some M&F for +1 whip of ...

Re: being disappointed in Oka gifts... that's inevitable. The game gives everyone but gnolls lots of nice stuff they can't use. I don't think it's much of a downside to any race. There is still important difference. As Tr you will be disappointed by the fact of receiving a gift, especially if you u...

Decks are too slow at this stage, I didn't have any problems with 3-4 monsters no matter the type but they kept coming in much higher numbers. Eventually I was tired of teleportation.

If weapon swapping is bad and brands are too powerful, we can nerf them directly like the more XP you get wielding some weapon, the more damage the weapon deals with its brand. It can be interesting to win the game with whip of electro which you find on D:2. Some characters swap weapons too often (c...

Thank you for detailed answer, TheMeInTeam! Yes, probably Mephitic Cloud was somewhere in a shop, I didn't bother to check any books hence my suggestion in GDD. Both Confuse and destruction deck don't work vs packs, I tried, probably deal 4 would be useful but again I was too greedy/lazy/stupid and ...

I'd avoid him, he can confuse you despite extra MR.

Edit. Don't forget you have a breath attack, it is powerful and fun.

IMHO Vehumet is the best if you want to play a primary caster.

Eyesburn wrote:
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+1 animal skin "Quarahod" {Str+5}

Okawaru gift

I like the name, it is really close to "Fast walker" (skarahod) in Russian.

IMB is main spell in Lair so you should work on it. I believe it is optimal to play as glass cannon until that spell is online. You can try killing Terence, just don't let him get adjacent and then you can retreat upstairs if needed. For reference: Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 | 13-15 | 16-18...

4. Move pain from the best magic school to the worst magic school (Translocations?). I think it is good to have a few brands which break some rules as long as the brands are fun (chaos, distortion, lots of unrandars).

I like the idea, but it would hide all of the book name flavor from shops :-( Maybe we could have it both?: a - Book of Air: Shock, Swiftness, Static Discharge, Airstrike, Lightning Bolt b - Book of Battle (unknown): Infusion, Shroud of Golubria, Song of Slaying, Spectral Weapon, Regeneration That ...

It's funny that I noticed the acquirement in death morgue only. Says how often I looked at my options

Magipi wrote:The character died because that was an evil vault and Sandman/VAF decided to clear it using only a level 3 spell and nothing else. That is a bit strange.

Not strange really. My latest nick is "TooLazyToThink" in some games

Also let's not forget about UC, weapon aptitudes and god gifts. Mi can use +9 flail of electro on D:9 and then easily switch to +11 broadaxe of speed which Trog/Okawaru gifts on L:3 while as Tr new players will be disappointed every time they receive a weapon gift or find a good weapon on the floor....

svendre,
For me Blink Frogs are among the most dangerous monsters of Lair, their "path blocker" role is really small.

Rast wrote:Yeah, a broad axe.

If you provide a .lst file I'm sure we can find all sort of better items. The one that sticks out is large shields. Were none generated?

I checked lst file, just plain +0 broad axes and +0 large shields (file exceeds max size of a message).

I am playing another OgHu game and I don't see any difference from old game, stones still kill Elephants if you are patient. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23.1 (tiles) character file. Game seed: 14974286598587604281 OgHu the Warrior (Ogre Hunter) Turns: 24852, Time: 01:05:52 Health: 153/153 AC:...

Thank you for great answer, svendre! Yes, you are right, I should have gone into other magic schools, stabbing stopped working at this point, even with silence and invisibility. These days I play only fun (Ds and sometimes Dr) or easy characters and since I had already won DsEn I had no choice but t...

It is not an exact answer to your question but you can try "force_more_message += resists".

I think the point of this monster is that it is supposed to hamper you tactically rather than being a direct threat. For example: you're trying to get away from an ogre and then an imp blinks in front of your escape route causing you to get sandwiched between a monster you can't easily kill and one...

sardonica wrote:teaching the player that running away is a viable option, without actually splatting them, seems like it's worth a monster

A slow monster like old worm or water-based electric eel teach that much better.

lure and 1v1 every monster. Impossible, the monsters come in packs and are fast or have blink close. I tried :( And while I am killing them to survive other monsters with normal speed get adjacent too. My stealth barely did anything at this point, too many monsters on the level and they are packed....

Sorcerous wrote:That option already exists, it's the !-switch.

I am not sure what you mean. When I press ! I still need to press a letter of a book to see its spells and then Esc to return to previous screen, then press another letter and Esc again and so on. It's written in OP.

Rast wrote:Why would you ever want it to display the names of spells you already know?

To let new players learn frequency of spells. Similar how it is done for barding even if playing species which cannot use them.

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