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Instead of 'make TILES=y' you can just type 'make'.

Tiktacy wrote:
dck wrote:Static discharge is great and should be used.
Cj book is much worse than AE.

I disagree with this, very much so actually.

It's the presence of Swiftness. If you just want to hurl destruction at monsters, the Cj book is great.

Hurkyl wrote:Does standing on water reduce a monster's EV? Or maybe I just got unlucky the first couple auts of the fight.

Standing in water causes you to fumble attacks if you're not flying/levitating, comfortable in water or very big. Ghosts levitate so water shouldn't affect them.

It does, but the ice cave and volcano have relatively long timers.

Fi starting weapons aren't something you'll want to stick with for a long time so I don't see why making it +1 and enchantable further would be OP in any way. Agreed. The key is to last until they find something better, in what is usually the hardest part of the game. They should get something to m...

That's 'F*'. And now that it's been pointed out that awkwardly thrown nets can still entangle monsters with sufficient Throwing skill, it'll be patched away in 3...2...

Was there a guardian serpent in the room? They recently gained an ability to call in enemies from elsewhere on the floor.

Okawaru[3] cracks me up every time.

I guess if you're playing console and have never seen a picture of a trident it could be confusing.

I'm not sure how exactly wanderer stat generation works. I assume since the background is randomized that it gets a pool of stat points to assign randomly. Say it has 5 points left to assign... the code will pick a stat at random, and then check whether that stat is over 17. If the stat is under 17,...

I think they have to guess at your location like other ranged attacks.

xxx wrote:Heroism to run away

<insert Brave Sir Robin joke here>

I don't know what you meant by that exactly, but you had 8 scrolls of teleportation you could have used to escape instead.

duvessa wrote:Oh, I wasn't referring to the warning idea, just making eating interruptible.

Yeah, I got that. I disagree with the reason he gave, but hey. A warning will be easier to implement once I finally have free time again.

As I said, I don't see how you could have used Agony properly and not found it useful.

A recent change moved Vaults back into the Dungeon and put a rune lock on it, so hopefully in the future you'll have more to do before hitting Depths.

It seems simpler to have an evocable that either provides a damage shaving effect or blocks a flat amount of damage before expiring, then requires xp to recharge like the new elemental items.

No, it was requested at one point back when they added an interrupt for donning/doffing armor, but never implemented. I imagine a patch that lets you stop eating, or at least warns about eating around monsters, would be accepted. If by "would be accepted" you mean "was already explic...

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BlackSheep wrote:Short swords will remove hydra heads as well.

Is there an easy way to determine which weapon adds head and which not?

I think if it's an edged weapon and not a dagger or quick blade, it removes heads.

And you have the implication backwards. My experiences told me that I understand how vulnerable various enemies are to MR spells. I played the game, and learned from doing, just like you want me to . I learned that casting Agony on stone giants with low power is just as stupid to even think about a...

Short swords will remove hydra heads as well.

Hurkyl wrote:Why would I waste my time checking that yet another MR-based spell is just as effective as all of the other ones?

Because you're not omniscient?

No, it was requested at one point back when they added an interrupt for donning/doffing armor, but never implemented. I imagine a patch that lets you stop eating, or at least warns about eating around monsters, would be accepted.

Why is the assumption that the spells you cited work the way you guessed they did any more valid than the assumption that they don't? Casting Agony once on a high HP target and seeing its HP cut in half is a pretty good indication that the spell is worthwhile. It would very quickly become apparent t...

This is one reason most crawl advice is based around using things and seeing how they work instead of postulating about them.

Vague character descriptions like "maxed out" and "hardy" make specific advice difficult. Post a character dump between [code] tags if you want advice specific to your character. That said, the four Hells are different from the rest of the dungeon. They are 7 levels each, and goi...

I hope you meant you're looking for the stairs up.

Just keep gaining piety by killing and by sacrificing orc corpses.

Was it the enchantment level that killed it or one of the chaos effects?

Might stacks just fine with heroism, as they do completely different things.

It's Haste and Finesse that don't "stack" insofar as you'll get the benefits of Finesse when attacking, and the benefits of Haste when doing everything else.

Standing around watching your imp fight the orc priest instead of stepping back and dropping mephitic cloud on your imp... that might've been a mistake.

Demons are not especially vulnerable to silver. That's "chaotic" monsters. (See silver bot entry for details.) The brand of the ammo takes precedence over the brand of the launcher, so you could easily use your silver ammo with any launcher. Launchers of velocity increase damage by 20% wit...

I think it's a??a, as the first ? just brings up the list of abilities. Alternately, a?!a.

(This info is provided on screen at the bottom of the abilities menu.)

While you still have stat points remaining to assign:
Pick a stat at random.
If that stat is greater than 17, there's a 50% chance to choose again, otherwise:
Increase the randomly chosen stat by one.
Decrease the stat points remaining by one.

He also favors the antimagic brand, which is nice on a character that is forbidden from casting spells.

Or just make the potion work through the amulet.

Ash doesn't need a buff.

You left out the "why"

An elven buckler would weigh less.

Every little bit helps

Fighting used to be more expensive to raise, and Stealth less expensive. When this hidden cost was removed to make all skills the same, Fighting aptitudes we decreased across the board and Stealth aptitudes increased. Edit: Oops, that was spellcasting, not fighting. Either way, stealth averages out ...

Design in almost any arena is a very cyclical process. Please don't get discouraged by feedback, but rather, as you just did, incorporate it into your design.

There are protections against all of those things except hellfire and smiting, though, in the form of resistances and AC.

Maybe we don't need yet another spell you use at the start of every (tough) fight.

Probably because most of the time you're following Nemelex when using decks and getting a piety boost alongside your Evocations boost to card power.

What kind of armor and weapon were you using?

There's also walking.

There are other escape methods besides teleportation.

The discussion is about Chei and the haste effect. Learning the spell has nothing to do with anything.

That explains a lot.

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