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it may be the first time I have ever heard of someone taking monk for the piety bonus :) ?? I thought this was pretty common practice for deities where getting that first "bump" of piety can either be pretty hard or very advantageous, and you were looking for a melee start anyway. Of cour...

I tell them: "Finally you're on the schedule! Let's get going!" The orc wields a drum. The orc wields a drum. The orc priest wields a guitar of electrocution. The orc priest wields a guitar of electrocution "Bass". a -- a +10dB microphone. You shout for rocking on! http://www.ro...

Agent Orange?

There were some loading issues that were resolved relatively recently; not sure if they're only in trunk. If that's the problem, you could try re-downloading the archive of stable and extracting it to a different path to see if it works OK there (assuming you're not using the installer version, whic...

If you wanted more rational randarts (and simultaneously reduce the incidence of "hey, this is exactly like a regular foo, except non-corrodable/enchantable") you'd need to make them less random. Right now, there is already a limited system of preventing certain "invalid" combina...

It's a trophy, not a weapon.

If you can kill Cerebov, you don't need his sword to kill (what, exactly??) Also - be aware that it's a greatsword base type, and thus 2-handed, so you're also giving up your shield of resistance to use it.

The loot dispensing seems reversed - you're giving star items in the version with dead defenders. If you just want to get across the point that you've got corpses and equipment strewn about from the finished game, specifically set the equipment (and make it average quality, so it's not really a bonu...

Now that you've already come half the way to equivalent levels in the relevant weapon skills... I'd say keep using the whip for now (since your bardiche will be super slow until you skill-up a bit) but save the scrolls for a theoretical future to-be-holy-wrathified bardiche. Most of your damage will...

Is it a taco?

Orc...orc...orc...orc...GOOSE!

The RPG use comes from sense 2, in that D&D used the term to describe things made by a "lost civilization" or otherwise unknown "higher power" provenance (i.e. you can't make one of these MacGuffins of your own, Munchkin!) The whole "fantabulous" connotation is pure...

have you tried Sil? I'm a bit put off by the lack of magic Well, it's a lot more heavily Tolkien flavored than vanilla Angband (that's rather the point of it), so the magic is more "inherent"; songs, however, are more or less what you'd think of as magic spells, and voice is approximately...

The whips and spears are for Elven parties.

Not to dissuade you from trying Angband again, but have you tried Sil? http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/ ⋅ No scumming - scumming pretty much eliminated by the depth forcing feature ⋅ Hunger more pertinent - check ⋅ Levels of difficulty - implemented via dif...

Of course, you can't enchant your prime needles to +7 anymore; not sure if this would cause supply problems later on in the game.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent changes to stacking/stashing? On the plus side for the player, you just got the bless/curse status of 3 weapons for free...

With that old of a machine, you might be more pressed to find an OS that Crawl will run under that works on the machine. As far as I know, at least for console the specs are pretty darn low, but the library dependencies mean that you need a relatively (compared to a 120Mhz machine) up to date enviro...

palin wrote:Be prepared to make some other kind of armour ponderous afterwards to be fully bound.

This doesn't apply to recent versions. Chei just makes you slower (based on piety) no matter what you're wearing.

Per the bots, your rF+++ didn't help you:

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=hellfire

Perhaps Azrael should have rHellfire though?

So...by huge screen, did you mean something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAIPUGO1iko

That might be interesting to watch on a wide screen.

RE: Mantis - I believe that the "approved" mechanism for Feature Requests is to add them to the dev wiki, and then get an interested dev to add it as a FR to Mantis.

Note that in the winning morgue, he vanquished both a deep troll skeleton (Elf:3) and a death yak zombie (Elf:3).

Yay for 15 runes! :-)

RE: Vehumet - the gift order is based on your skills, so summoners get the summoning books first, then conjurations, and conjurors vice versa. If you want something to do while your summons are slaughtering the dungeon, popular pastimes include * Channeling back your mana for more summons. * Casting...

First, you won't have that many randart books...

Unless you happen to worship Sif, in which case you'll be drowning in them.

You just want the rod of apportation to steal the Book from Trog's burning book vault :-P

Dunno...the divine might of Trog seems sufficient to destroy an artifact to me. (For comparison, witness Elyvilon's destruction of evil artifact weapons.) Not so sure about just your random mage de-memorizing, though. Though that would make them potentially less valuable than a comparable non-randar...

What if as part of character creation, you could simply choose where to allocate your stats, within certain limits? A counter argument would be that 1) players would then agonize over min-maxing for greatest benefit, and 2) you'd greatly slow down the character selection process. Personally, I thin...

The book used to be random, and then someone pointed out that it was "spoilerish" to know to exclude the area if you see the altar shape + book. Now it's the redundant book with only Apportation. I believe the name will vary, though. I don't know if random spellbooks are actually excluded ...

Rods work this way currently. For wands - scrolls of recharging are rare. Increased capacity is merely a convenience, whereas recharging a spent wand's charges actually restores its utility. It would always be suboptimal to use the scroll for increased capacity (unless wand capacities were changed t...

I think the reason is that it would take a lot of coding (not just the calculations, but the UI), there is no consensus on how to display the information (you can't just pop up an Excel sheet), and it potentially would need frequent updates (whenever something affecting weapon damage gets tweaked), ...

I believe the ones sgrunt made are just like randart books; they just contain random spells, sometimes with an element or spell level as a theme. So they're not really artifacts so much as just randomly-generated rods. Correct. They are actually randarts, though, so you couldn't enchant them further.

I would wholeheartedly support guaranteed cosmetic flags for some level of enchantments, but I might put the cutoff slightly higher, at +4/+5 range (as that when, to me, it subjectively becomes impressive.) For some reason it's always distressing to me when after the game ids my stack of possessions...

If you're messing about with it, one other minor quirk that I've been wondering about is the "rating %'" that gets applied to thanks. I'm not sure what value it adds, but for some reason the value was initially high (maybe 15-20%) and has apparently asymptotically converged on some limit n...

I just found an Ashenzari altar vault that reveals which Lair branches will show up. "You have a vision of the Shoals and Snake Pit!" I believe that's one of Grunt's vaults; it was only recently modified to be that explicit (previously it just showed representative critters/terrain, with ...

For giggles, Googling "arch wry scotsman confucius" gives the following site as its top hit:

http://www.andrewcusack.com/home/

Character dump or it didn't happen

Where did you get 1.2 skill points worth of spellcasting as a 3-rune berserker?

The artifact whip is better right now full stop, even against necro resistant enemies. It's got a higher +dam, and you've already got 12.5 Necro skill so the pain brand will actually do a fair bit of damage without further investment. If you're worrying about what to use post-endgame when pain loses...

Double Double Swords

Grats!

Ah - but if you make a recording of 4' 33"...and then intentionally don't play the recording...

...but I guess it just wouldn't be the same.

Advantages of the installer 1) It installs both Tiles and Console in one location 2) You can uninstall via Windows' uninstall mechanism 3) It makes the technical writer stuck with writing Windows SDK best practices happier 4) In some hypothetical future version of Windows (not 8), programs that crea...

That is indeed an awesome sword for a caster, with a nice chunk of your resistances, SInv, and evocable blink all rolled into a one-handed package (so you can still strap on a buckler later if you feel like it.) Just don't get sucked into thinking that it'll be an awesome melee weapon too, as it's n...

When can we start translating the in-game messages? Are there any particular reasons why the devs haven't put them up on Transifex yet? They're not abstracted out into files full of strings yet. A lot of the in-game messages are dynamically constructed in code, and will need to have a 'grammar engi...

Hey, it was bound to happen, either meow or later.

Just curious - any reason you haven't updated to 10.3, now that it's available?

Have fun when Xom decides that he'd like to see how well you'd do against your own club... Also - Ash doesn't grant stat bonuses; ash grants skill bonuses. Ogres of Ash can make a certain sense, because you have good spellcasting apts and can use Ash to ease the burden of low levels in whatever scho...

3) make Cure Poison an effect like See Invisible and Haste; cast it on yourself before you eat.

That would be resist poison, the spell that was removed.

http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=resist+poison

Interestingly, the current situation has *already* been "spiced up" quite a bit from prior versions, with the addition of increased demon spawning, Pan lords (both named and random), and the addition of -CTELE and low level glow from the orb. You do occasionally see people who die on the t...

Note that worker ants are already red in console.

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