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I'll go further: the message I've picked (from explicit statements by dpeg) is that most devs don't read the Tavern and those who do largely ignore what they see there. I therefore take this thread to be a form of trolling. I'm sorry, I can't tell if you're kidding. I think Grunt was making a joke,...

Just splatted my Qaz minotaur in Swamp, but mostly because I was bored (and did a poor job of managing a slime pack). A few things: 1) The new clouds are way better, thanks Grunt. 2) I think there needs to be a better mention of Qaz's pray-at-an-altar-for-protection power, since I felt like I wasn't...

So Scroll of Improved Haste, is what you're saying.

HenryFlower wrote:Not sure what I'm missing. Ran a SpHu up to Throwing 14 and was still doing absolute crap for damage?

Strength. You're missing strength.

I'll play this time too!

Such a good Smash Mouth set man.

I enjoyed playing around with this god and I think it has the potential to be really cool. But the current cloud spam really is quite distracting; in tiles, it adds a whole new level of busyness to maps, and I found myself overlooking monsters sometimes because they got lost among all the clouds. I'...

3) elementar evokers get power's cap around 12ish evo (I don't remember exact number). New rods probably improve up to 27, I don't know, but I don't believe evo has effect on wand power (I'm positive it hasn't at least for hw and haste) , and I if it has it's quite negligible - in other words, I wo...

I've also seen lots of people use menu colors to highlight specific wands and consumables in their inventory; maybe this would help you out? Otherwise, you can easily reorder your equipment via the (=)adjust (i)tems menu options. One thing I've seen many players do is assign the most commonly used i...

This seems like a good question to ask the next time we have a big survey . Personally, I came to Crawl shortly after I got bogged down in my second serious nethack game. I had been playing on the iPhone nethack and just got sick to death of the inventory management midgame; there is only so much ti...

It's not really worth factoring the XP loss into your decision, as it's so minor as to be negligible over the long haul of the game.

Oh, sure, I was planning on casting XXX vs. TRJ with brilliance pots and a handy sustab ring. Alas!

Yeah Tabstorm, you identified the two big strategic errors. I never even cast XXX, so it was a huge waste of spell levels, and while recall can be handy I could've gotten most of the same utility by just recasting summons. Mana vipers are actually pretty useful late into the game, since that antimag...

So I've been playing FeSu, because I was happy that Felids work on OS X again (a bug rendered them unplayable a few versions ago) and I still haven't played around much with new summons. A few notable points: A) This bro didn't find any rings or amulets for a ridiculously long time; I had HW and tel...

I don't think it's really fair to call it "whinging." Bloax and Bart have a reasonable point: the game's score is higher when you go faster, and it's possible to get really high scores with a variety of species/background/god combinations except when you choose to killdude with MP, which s...

Great, thanks! And congrats on the win! For the record, I think this character would've done fine in extended. Hell, with thief cloak, you weren't even going to be desperate for some way to protect against torment, as you could just bury yourself in a cloud whenever you needed. But that said, whenev...

What kind of spells does this bro have handy? If you don't have a better book than burglary, it's pretty academic until you do. I'd wear the +4 chain for now and banish anything that's going to use a fiery attack, because I imagine with 12 Str and 3 Armour that EVP is hurting. On a more strategic fr...

Thanks for the advice, I went slowly through the slime pits and managed to clear it out(though my eyes got a little blurry in the process). And luckily enough, found an amulet of rMut at the bottom. Unfortunately not a lot of experience to be found, so still feeling a bit weak(well under XL27). Now...

But don't games like ToME do this with their clients? It's not a feature I'm actually interested in having, I'm just curious. I'd also prefer something that doesn't "spit out a webpage;" it seems like a bit of screen space used for other scores in the high score menu could be used to give ...

nothing like a good descriptivist vs. prescriptivist debate to liven up a Friday afternoon.

Would it be possible to add the kind of online statistics we get at the CAO scoring pages to the offline client? The dream feature would be direct online communication between the offline client and the online scoring pages, unifying the statistics, but I imagine that's way harder. Instead, it would...

Transmuter is actually a strong background. I guess people get confused about how to train them, or do silly things like rush blade hands while skipping other spells which is just bad play. Really though, amongst the spells in starting books, they have one of the best level 2 and one of the best le...

I have a collection of screenshots, but this is the busiest and most fun.

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I particularly like how I'm on fire and frozen here. Sorry if it's a pain that it's uncropped.

Maybe I'm confused, but what does the slaying ring have to do with the choice of armour (and thus the AC/EV bonus) here?

1. First thing: Just stop. Catch the mind ranting that you shouldn't be in this situation—because you are. Give up the fight. You've lost the battle, but not the war. 2. Settle into the moment. You might feel your body ease down, yielding to gravity (wise move). Your shoulders and belly relax, your...

Cheibrodos: i mean we could get silly with something like "septic", where you have a portion of your health unable to regenerate Cheibrodos: and exp gets rid of it Cheibrodos: Kind of like a weak, semi-permanent flaying archaeo: I was literally just thinking about that Cheibrodos: But tha...

Hey, Thanks for your replies! I'll follow your advice next time I play. A few followup questions: 1) is the new high level ice cone spell as good as /better than firestorm for the endgame? 2) is DIthmengos considered to be a better god for stabbers than kiku or ashenzari, or or those still consider...

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=31145ef550df That'll teach me to just look at my offline 0.13 build for things like that. So, why not just add to the section of the skill help page that begins "How fast you train a skill is governed by the following factors:"? Say, som...

Well, in that case, the problem switches to how specific you want that help page to be. It hasn't seen a revision in awhile, I think; the mention of axes skill leveling when casting spells not being a "bug" suggests it hasn't been substantially rewritten since the switch from the XP pool, ...

I just knew there'd be some cheesy power caps and weird curves where you get diminishing returns on invocations skill. In that case, making that more transparent seems like a good thing.

As long as we're spitballing, why not make the demonic rune into a moving portal vault that's flavored as racing ahead of the player. It's the most important rune to the Lords of Pandemonium, and it lives in a pocket dimension that travels through Pan. It's announced when it shows up, spawning in th...

Ability descriptions can be found by hitting ? or ! to toggle descriptions mode in the (a)bilities menu. Most of these mention the relevant skill to train, and those that don't could easily be changed to do so; I doubt it would be controversial. Some abilities, like Berserk, get a really long descri...

Yeah, I suspect that anyone who can get to Vaults with a Naga of Chei could probably win with a MiBe without too much trouble. I'm not totally sure that this is true. On the one hand, lots of Crawl skills are totally transferable within the various axes of the species/background/god difficulty cont...

It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. This has always been my favorite part of Adventure. It's also exactly how SGrunt designs Crawl vaults to this day, only his cave systems are significa...

So, in addition to a fiddly stat rot/hunger minigame, two mechanics everybody loves, you also create a huge list of special cases for every monster you can eat, all of which come with a new set of possible mutations they can confer, as well as a big list of possible monster abilities and spells, man...

So yes in theory you can attack through summons with polearms. I find that in practice this doesn't do much, since most of the time "you can't reach far enough". At least in earlier versions (not sure with 0.14's summoning AI changes), even failing to strike an enemy would make your allie...

pretty sure the point of quick blades is the sharp end you stick in things.

Makes sense, dck. This scroll cancels all current magic enchantments and halves the resistance to further hostile enchantments for the reader and all beings within sight… It might be a little more sensible, maybe? I still think a brief flash, like whatever animation that "hits" enemies whe...

It's a little difficult, from messages alone, to grasp the range of vulnerability. Would it be too cumbersome for the scroll to have some kind of visual component that illustrates how monsters are being effected?

Use the ' key, which switches between weapons in the a and b slot in your item menu.

e: or whatever items that are in that slot, so you know, don't put bread on b.

Welp! I still wouldn't want to dive down into Zot with just two meat rations if I was planning on fire storming my way through it, but Magipi makes good points. In which case, my whole post can be summed up with "You can cast fire storm to win the game."

I think what you do now actually depends a lot on how you want to win the game. If you just want three runes, your big problem right now is food. Fire storm makes quick work out of most of the 3 rune game, but it makes you extremely hungry, especially when you have to rest to regen your MP. If you h...

I mean arrhy you'll excuse me for not giving CYC my A game on a Lamia/Vashnia fic

Okay! Here is my B- effort arcanist, but you can't work wonders in like 10 minutes of writing: Lamia slithered out of her barding gratefully, the cool rock of the Pits' walls soothing her sore muscles. How many orbs to kill a minotaur, these days? The Greater Naga Council had given her a respite fro...

Sometimes, the game doesn't offer an easy way forward. I imagine you'll find Vaults easier than Depths right now, though, and after Vaults:1-4, you can clear out the rest of Depths and Swamp without too much trouble. Find better armour and a helmet; there is no way the game has failed to spawn eithe...

Baconkid, you should really adapt some of your rad drawings into splash screens for the game.

Sometimes instead of a "thanks" button, I'd like a "I disagree with your position but totally respect it and also you're a pal for explaining it so thoroughly" button, but I guess the former will suffice.

Yes, well spotted, duvessa. Note that I was responding to dck, who called evokers "free powerful abilities with no drawbacks." I think the investment:effectiveness ratio between evokers and weapons are pretty comparable; you get quite effective damage in the range of 14-16 and extremely ef...

Just to get it out of the way, there's always option 4: remove item destruction.

dck can't you say virtually the same thing about weapons? You need to train a pretty big amount of evocations to make them worth a damn and recharge quickly enough to use routinely, a pretty reasonable drawback IMO. I am constantly surprised by how common they are, though. I love it, and don't get m...

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