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I didn't really think when I bashed that Black Mamba with that morningstar; I was in a panic or something.

I thought maybe the vampiric effect could help me. Damn, my head really wasn't working right at that time. :oops:

@JeffQyzt:
He didn't expect to be strong-poisoned.

Also, poison resistance doesn't remove the poison already in your system.

F**k, he died. I underestimated Black Mamba. :( Oh well, I'll just have to try again. :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5043-gaacbab8 character file. 20181 Tidak the Martial Artist (level 12, -2/93 HPs) Began as a Mummy Monk on Mar 14, 2011. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Slain by a black ...

Lantier wrote: And leave some of your food outside of Shoals!

True!

Damn, dude. You do have a thing for playing difficult combos, don't you? :lol: Well, yeah. :) Also, I think a part of me feels that I should make an atonement or something for abusing Tornado in my 1st win. :oops: Keep up the great work! May the RNGs shower you with lots of +4 Rods of Destruction! ...

Out of sheer stubbornness, I decided to try a Mummy Monk (after reading that this combo is such a mismatch). :oops: Tidak means "no" in English. :) He's doing rather well, since I was expecting it to be much harder. Sling + poisoned bullets helped him kill Orc Warriors and Yaks. An early L...

An idea I had, sentient, talking creatures should chat with each other, saying generic lines if you can hear them but they can't see you, stuff like "I hear Sigmund has a new scythe!" or "Did you hear that goblin chick from the 7th floor got knocked up?" Yes, please. Best pet: H...

B) There are Blademasters and Master Archers (or whatever those bastard archers are called) in Elf. They're dangerous and you can't disable them with Silence.

Seriously, I would not expect to find a single unlockable stuff in Crawl. That sounds like something which would suit AAA games more (or flash games).

Mimics aren't bad. They're monsters which fool the player by appearances and descriptions; the basic premise is good.

Then trivially modify the flavor of the spell so that it concentrates already-existing stale dungeon air instead of creating it out of nothing. Flavor should not override gameplay concerns.

This will get us into bigger trouble sooner or later.

Potion of Digestion: Temporarily makes you easily able to digest anything, and gives you high resistance to consumed poison. Potion of Appetite: For a fairly decent amount of time, greatly decreases your metabolism. Potion of Ugly: Makes you look like either a Goblin, Hobgoblin, Demon, etc... based...

I opened up Zot, and it dumped me into a room with four draconians, two dragons and a monstrosity... AND NO EXIT BACK TO THE DUNGEON. WTH?

YACD - Yet Another Cheated Death

Thanks guys.

MuFi is, without doubt, tough. But it also teaches us how to play better (by disallowing us to take advantage of any potions).

Seriously man, it's really macho.

Let me just say this: Tornado is the ultimate spell for ordinary, sloppy players who make a lot of mistakes and get killed a lot. Use Tornado, and suddenly you don't make any mistakes no more!

:lol:

mageykun wrote:D14 was wide open, covered in electric Eels, and had Nikola and Roxane guarding the down stairs.

Now that's funny. :lol:

Jenx wrote:

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Overkill much, Crawl?

And yes, that character did die, surprisingly.

The hell's that? ROFL

Heroism + pure fighter = not so good.

Heroism + hybrid fighter-mage = very nice (because it allows you to safely invest your EXP on magic skills).

Hot dang.

Congrats, man.

Damn, that's one scary Spriggan you got there.

You died because of zero INT. It's called stat death. When any of your attributes (STR, INT, DEX) gets decreased to zero or less, you will die just like when your HP hits zero.

EDIT: But I don't get the "unknown source" part.

And here comes the morgue file. :) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5043-gaacbab8 character file. 1229789 Sudah Mati the Spry (level 27, 214/214 (218) HPs) Began as a Mummy Fighter on Mar 5, 2011. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes (of 3 types) on Mar 13, 201...

Sudah Mati means "already dead" in English. And yeah, my 3rd win MOTHERFKKKER!!! Ooo yeah! And this time I pulled off a rather strange combo, Mummy Fighter . And he went hybrid, becoming a fighter-mage (just like my 2nd win). :D 8-) Some highlights: 1. MuFi is damn cool, and damn macho. He...

Get rid of Fireball and learn Iron Shot, because you need a powerful spell which can hurt anything. (Especially if you want to clear Orc Mines, since you might encounter Orc High Priests which are very resistant to fire.)

Yeah, you really should learn Abjuration.

Wow, that's new to me. So... as far as I know, Ash can still be useful for you, even though you're monstrous. The game calculates piety gain by how many body slots you have. So even if you can only wear cloak for some reason, you can still get maximum piety from your armor (that is by cursing your c...

I don't think Demonspawn can gain more than one monstrous body part. Are you sure both of the hooves and the claws are demonic and not ordinary mutations?

Pick Ash.

Don't let any of the sparks from your axes land on your bandages - since you don't breathe, it's really hard to blow them out again. Man you're serious? :o MuFi is really damn cool, me thinks. I don't know why exactly. :D You don't get to quaff potions, so yeah it's rough. If I see a Wand of Healin...

Yo. Right now I'm playing this Mummy Fighter. That's right, MuFi. :) He's doing rather well, probably thanks to the RNG for not screwing him up. :) He's a hybrid fighter-mage. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0-a0-5043-gaacbab8 character file. Sudah Mati the Severer (Mummy Fighter) Turns: 170932...

The RNGs also blessed Vehmy Jr with a Wand of Healing on D2 and sold 4 unID'd robes and an unID'd cloak for a mere $100. Got a +1 robe, +2 robe, +2 rN robe, +1 Cloak of Conserv, and a +1 Robe of the Archmag out of the deal! Whoot!

Dang man, now that's some real deal!

Yeah, I suppose we can do nitpicking and some other things all day long. We can just focus on what we think is wrong with the other guy, just for the hell of it. But we can do better. So let's say that Fighting is "broken". Now compare Fighting with Foxfire Card from Legendary Deck of Summ...

Broken means it breaks the game so that it's no fun anymore. Fighting being superior doesn't break the game. Seriously, do you really think the game isn't fun because you feel you have to spend EXP on Fighting or else Hellfire might end your quest too early? But, on the other hand, killing a bunch o...

Daydreamer wrote:LOL! Sorry, sorry! Not the nicest response but 'killed by a door' is funny. Umm, from where we're sitting at least. Are door mimics 0.8? I've never seen one.

Yes they are. You can find funny mimics in 0.8, such as stair mimics and shop mimics. And even trap mimics.

ROFLMAO this is just hilarious! :lol:

But don't give up!

My point is: the real problem is something else that for some reason is related to Fighting skill. Getting rid of Fighting skill doesn't solve the real problem. Unlike Selective Amnesia, Fighting skill serves a real purpose that isn't served by any other means: it's a skill that increases the amount...

Now that's some analogy, hahaha. The problem with Selective Amnesia is simple: it does not need to exist. The problem with Fighting is much more complex, and actually relates to something completely different: it encourages victory dancing. Fighting as itself isn't a problem. But then one way or ano...

I just don't get this kind of thinking. You think that some skill is much more useful than the others, then you want to reduce it's usefulness or even get rid of it completely?

How does that improve the gameplay?

Funny thing about dpeg's proposal is that well-rounded races like Human will get some kind of advantage. Is a human supposed to be more "fit" than an... ogre, for example, after a session of physical exercise? And that proposal does not solve the problem of victory dancing, at all. (I'm no...

Carnivore 1 is just great.

@acvar: You put it wrong. It's not VD that you want to get rid of. It's training a skill by doing something that doesn't really have anything to do with the character. (Such as a spellcaster slashing a bunch of rats over and over again, while in real combats the spellcaster will hardly use any weapo...

Oh, so that's what "I'm on your side" means! :lol:

Yred should raise you from the dead as a zombie if you die while worshiping him above a certain piety level and are not already undead. Also this should grant you piety. Hey, that's a cool idea, man. :) But I don't know if it should grant piety. Maybe it should drain a big amount of your piety inst...

Because I can't edit my previous post....

pratamawirya wrote:1. The monsters sent out are neutral or even friendly, because they are happy that the player opens a gate for them to escape from the Abyss.

Except the ones who got banished by the player, which will be hostile.

I'll elaborate some more on Army of Abyss. 1. The monsters sent out are neutral or even friendly, because they are happy that the player opens a gate for them to escape from the Abyss. 2. To prevent the player from using the gate as a "piety farm" (by banishing monsters that come out of it...

Here's an idea for a new ability. Army of Abyss 1. Open a dimensional gate where monsters are sent out from Abyss. 2. Does not cost piety. 3. The monsters sent out are usually neutral, but with higher piety the player may get friendly ones. 4. Monsters banished by the player may get sent out, but th...

And so I have been thinking about Lugonu. The "Bend Space" ability should be changed so that it: 1. blinks the player and every monster in the player's LOS, 2. doesn't do any damage (because just blinking every monster in LOS is powerful enough). The Banish ability should be changed so tha...

BTW, "Corruption seals all exits" isn't too thematic. Why shouldn't Lugonu allow the player to get away from the corruption nuke? What business does Lugonu have with locking the player in the horror of corruption? I think a better approach is to make corruption mess with the items on the c...

(can't edit my previous post) Or the player can still follow another god after abandoning Lugonu, but it'll be much harder than after he abandons another god. So it can be like, "You kneel at the altar of Sif Muna. Sif Muna might accept you as a follower, but you have to do this and that first....

I really like the idea that Lugonu turns into the antagonistic god, the god who is hated by the rest of the pantheon. This means Lugonu should: 1. Be the strongest god (or one of the strongest), giving the player very powerful (borderline broken) abilities, 2. Make the player suffer a one-god fate t...

gb wrote:next time make sure you learn abjuration

Next time make sure you follow this guy's advice.

(My 2nd win made me learn how good Abjuration is. So damn good.

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