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A GnBe is pretty frustrating. You get all those book with great spells you could use for free but you can't. Compared to a HuBe, you have much lower skills. (When going for the first rune, a HuBe would probably have 20 weapon skill, a GnBe will have 10.) This means lower AC, lower EV, less HP, also ...

I am necroing this thread because I DID IT! Recently I've been clearing up my unfinished games on all servers, all versions, there are at least a dozen and few of them are old. This FeBe was one of those, I started it a year and 2 days ago. As it was, it had 2 runes, Vaults 1-4, Depths and Elf clear...

From LearnDB: Enhancer staves (fire, cold, air, earth, death) have (2*evoc + magic skill)/30 chance of getting random2(1.25*(magic skill + evoc/2)) extra damage that ignores AC (except earth), but checks the appropriate resistance. This means that against monsters with no rF, it does a huge damage. ...

A staff of fire is a good melee weapon. If you train like 10 staves and 10 evo skills, you can kill almost all monsters except those who have rF+. A shortbow, on the other hand, is an early game weapon, it is really crappy at this stage. About GDR: forget GDR. I would stop training fire, conj and sp...

PseudoLoneWolf wrote:Personally, I'm a fan of "Lumberjack".

"I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars"???

What does faith do under Vehumet? Faster spell gifts?

I believe that would encourage those things being addressed more quickly Historically, the only time this worked was with Tornado. There are far more times where the "temporary" change that was intended to force further changes was just...kept without making further changes. Deflect Missi...

I think the game would be much more interesting if you got ID scrolls say about as often as you get ?acquirement (or maybe !mutation), this would force you to quaff/read/wear ID a much more significant chunk of the time, which I think is more interesting than (...) I just don't get it. If you find ...

You are training Stealth?!
What the heck.

If you are talking about only the early game, then yes, more focused skilling is better. Next time. OP is in the Lair right now and has already wasted 11-20 skill levels worth of XP spread over a couple skills. There is no such thing as "X skill levels worth of XP". The cost of skill level...

Think about it this way, you can train up your armor and shields and sword and spells to be a jack of most trades, and you'll lose every time to a straight 1v1 slugfest against a character that put all their available XP into armor and axes, or to one that sunk all their xp into Fire Magic and can ...

Almost no character will want to spread their experience around that many spell schools, as well as Armor, Dodging, Shields, and Weapon. It's just too thin, you can feasibly max all of these in a 15-rune marathon game but you'll never survive long enough to get there unless you specialize early and...

Thanks for the advice! I followed it, and managed to win (getting closer to winning all gnolls).

End dump:
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/m ... 172547.txt

I have an unusual transmuter going on, I use weapons instead of UC (but it's a gnoll, so no problem). Beastly appendage and snakes are still good from the starting book. In Elf I found this: The +0 pair of boots of the Beggar {rF+ Regen+ Str+4 Slay-3} Is it good or bad? The alternative is a +2 plain...

melee noise (...)equal to damage dealt divided by 4 and rounded down, with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 12 So if you are hitting an orc in plate mail that makes less noise than hitting an orc with no mail, am I right? I love it that crawl code is full of these terrible design blunders, and Minmay/...

Nebukadnezar wrote:Check for cloak of inv. (or: any item with inv)

TSO.

duvessa wrote:It's better than rejecting sacrifices but not particularly great imo

For the sake of those readers who don't speak greatplayerspeech fluently, I provide a translation: "not particularly great" means "it's awful, don't ever do it, you'll make your life miserable".

Sprucery wrote:I decided to go from 3 to 15 runes one by one. Exemptions: a new species, background or god always justifies a 3-rune win, as does being on a streak.

Now THAT is weird

14 runes? Why not 15? Do you hate Tomb so much?

It would lead to much more micromanagement, which is not desirable. I have no idea how you came to this conclusion. In my opinion, the exact opposite is true. Consider this: I am fighting with allies at a door. When an enemy stands in the door, 2 or 3 of us can attack it, and the other enemies behi...

Do we really want all good Crawl players to have a perfect 100% winrate? Because this seems to be OP's goal This is exactly what happened when the fighter background was given a potion of might to start with. Before that, the players' winrate with fighters was around 2%, then it became 100%. Amazing!

That name.txt file is reserved for the last save. When the game is over, you get a new morgue file, in this case:
https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/kono ... 182307.txt

Gratz on the win!

Wow, good job.

Just proceed carefully in Zot:5, it would be a pity to lose now.

More consumables on start for all backgrounds = easier game = boredom This is not a very good idea imo, DCSS should be moving towards adding more difficulty than away from it. Indeed, there are a lot of players who think that Crawl is too easy. I would say probably 20, maybe 30. Also, there are a f...

It is very easy to get into big trouble in the Abyss, especially on Abyss:4.

I really think you should win a game first instead of going into extended like this.

konokrad666 wrote: i have 1 haste potion, don't think it will be of any use at Tomb.

Now wait a minute. I guess you should check what haste does before saying stuff like that. Weird.

With no haste, no might, no heal and no cblink, Tomb is going to be very tough. VERY tough.

ebering wrote:Well it didn't last in trunk but I wrote Pieces from Xom's Chessboard.

A useless item is the WORST? Try again please

konokrad666 wrote:Got to Lom Lobom realm (...)
Hope Silence + Berserk will get me 14th rune.

Silence what? The wizards in the level? You cannot silence demons (including Lom Lobon).
Berserking is a bad idea too, Lom can blink.
I would go haste, might, 2 angels and fight.

Siegurt wrote:In the upper left of my browsers there's three things:
User Control Panel • FAQ • Search

Wow. I haven't noticed those either in all those years. Amazing.

Search button is in the upper left, the option for searching "titles only" is about halfway down the search form. To clarify this: to reach this "search form" you should search for something, then above the search results there is a misleadingly titled "Return to advanced s...

You have a lot of Axes skill and a great broad axe, but instead you are using a trident? That is hard to understand. (Plus that trident is pretty bad) I am also not a fan of using a large shield on a spellcaster. It kills your spell success. Even though it is a bit hard to guess what you want with y...

I would have thought that it's hard to feel overconfident facing 4 caustic shrikes with no rCorr.

you mainly farm Pandemonium to prepare your character for a 15 rune run, and the fact that you might run into a special rune level while farming, before you're ready, could kill that run completely. But previously, it was still possible to pull off risky farming and to maybe give up 1 or 2 runes wh...

I never had a character with nightstalker, and I certainly never used the Darkness spell. Why is that supposed to be that good? (I can see some edge case uses, like on the orb run, but otherwise I have no idea.)

njvack wrote:I'd enchant the dwhip now, gaining guaranteed power now is generally better than maybe gaining more power later.

Additionally, I'm not sure that an eveningstar is better than a demon whip.

ended up taking a d3 chei at the suggestion of one of my spectators. It's hard to guess whether the spectator was joking or trolling or talking seriously. Felids have one big advantage (speed), but who needs that, let's go Chei instead! Bizarre. With spectators like that, who needs enemies? Congrat...

petercordia wrote:I just bought the scroll of acquirement, and acquired a buckler of resistance . Ah well....

In your latest dump, you have rC-, no rF, and only an unbranded shield. A buckler of resistance seems to be one of the best results.

I've heard multiple people clamor for a caster combo as strong and straightforward as MiBe (yes, that specific combo), and that already exists, it's DDEE of Makhleb. Insanely powerful combo that my cat could play. But no-one wants to play it, including my cat, because strength isn't the issue. I'd ...

Not sure if rElec is ever worth EV-5, SH-1? Only if you are currently fighting a monster with strong electric attacks. Swap to the ring when you need it, leave the good rings on when you don't. I only want to add that swapping rings takes only 1 turn. (0.5 turn to take one off, another 0.5 to put t...

It seems that this stuff is not about hybridization, it's about nerfing summoners. I am a bit confused.

rPois is definitely not better than +2 AC in Lair. I am sure you know how poisonous damage from Spiny Frogs and Black Mambas works and how high normal damage they deal so I am really surprised you are saying it. A fun game: let's try to predict the answer of Minmay / Duvessa! I'll start: obviously ...

An improved version of the Scales of the Dragon King:

Code:: +10 gold dragon scales of Supple Strength {rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ MR+ Int+4 Dex+7}

how about only counting the first game played for each species/background? I can't believe that you guys are actually seriously discussing this idea. The bar is pretty high for the "worst idea ever" title, but this certainly qualifies as a candidate. An average player probably loses 20-so...

As far as I know, those scoring pages were pretty much abandoned by the dev team in favor of the new ones: https://scoreboard.crawl.develz.org

The only slight disadvantage of the new scoreboard is that is's not working at all

Are you sure that you wanted to post it here? Not on some DnD forum or something?

Crawl has no classes of the sort you are speaking of. Only backgrounds (which are sort of a starting package).

"Young Dog"? Sounds good

Day 11-14: Chilling, spectating, splatting some DEHu In the first half of the second week I played remarkably less. My main project was to try and win DEHu, Nemelex's choice, but did not succeed. It's not a bad combo. My only win from these days was a GnFi : wanted something good & straightforw...

Day 7-10: Gelatinous prophet Let's try a minotaur again. This time I stated with a MiAK (of Lugonu). This is a straightforward game plan, I banish monsters I don't want to fight, and if I cannot (too high MR) I corrupt the level and go away. Again, things went smoothly until I decided to go to the ...

I disagree about gnolls. Gnolls are exremely strong in the early game due to really high starting skills. Then this advantage starts to shrink fast, and in the middle-game (when you go for the first runes) gnolls are really weak. They become okay-ish in the late game but to become very strong you sh...

Day 4-6: All the runes I splatted a few gargoyles then I got one going. Picked up TSO on D:3 (!). I met Nessos in Lair, took his longbow, and that became my main weapon (eventually blessed by TSO just before I went to extended). The run was pretty smooth, without many problems. I left the Tomb for ...

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