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Killing them works wonders too... "Removing the monster from LOS" falls under the "Avoiding" category. I would strongly advise you to stop treating cosmetic differences as if they matter. It is only going to hold you back from playing the game well. Its been a long while since a...

How do I deal with Smiteing There are, in all of Crawl, exactly 3 ways to deal with orc priests: -Avoiding them -Having high HP -Being a Hill Orc and converting to Beogh the turn before you die You will notice that these are the exact same things that make a character strong generally: -Being able ...

A good question! Speaking hypothetically of course I would follow Vehumet or Sif Muna........No,Sif Muna for me! I would get arcane spell books and channeling.Food won't be a problem.I will just invade some Walmart and lock myself up there and unleash my fire and ice storms on the world,all the whi...

dck wrote:i've got the only three letters I need right here

Yeah but...you can't mail em without stamps.

damiac wrote:Makes sense. I guess if they wanted to raise corrosion's threat level even more, they could make it act like you had no clothing items on when your AC is dropped to 0 or below.

Sounds like overkill. Kind of is overkill atm imho.

And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion). I really enjoyed the Hyperion quadrilogy by Simmons. Other similarly astonishing scifi writers are Alastair Reynolds and the late Iain M. Banks. Iain Banks (is) was a great author, I've only got a couple of his books left to read. Never heard of Mr Reyn...

I never go dith now as I don't like being constantly frustrated and annoyed. Nice idea, poor execution imho.

duvessa wrote:
tedric wrote:I think I'd be surprised if food floor spawn rates were different branch-to-branch, other than the obvious like no food in Crypt.
food generates in crypt

I think the misconception is that people talk about crypt not having food when they mean not having corpses to eat.

Klown wrote:
TeshiAlair wrote:Just read the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, excited to pick up the next ones. That man is too talented for his own good.

I couldn't get into that book/series

Have you read Mistborn?

Yeah the mistborn series was quite entertaining.

Congrats

Your dump looks highly customized. Interesting scripts there.

Kramin42 wrote:Yes, deck of wonders is now deck of wonder why you chose Nemelex.

I never choose Nem, but I still use decks occasionally. I guess I won't so much now.

I was curious so I scroll IDed several decks of Wonder. (Had plenty of ID scrolls...) And discovered my Deck of Wonders is really a Deck of Battles in disguise??? (See attachment.)

Currently reading Robin Hobbes (Soldier's Son). And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion).

TeshiAlair wrote:
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R - the +4,+4 flail of the Coward {pain, Noisy +Blink +Inv rElec rPois rF+ Int+2

Sadly, I'm an Enchanter, and it is a flail. Still, that is just overflowing with stuff.

Makes you wish there was a way to recraft the base type of Randart weapons.

e1999 wrote:well silence is also a spell and an amazing spell at that.

I thought my point about scrolls also illustrated the problem with hoping for a specific spell book too...

Like many other people have said, just lure out enemies one at a time, and you can't really go wrong. Just remember to keep patient and it'll take a while, because zot:5 is chock full of baddies, but eventually you will have killed everything inside. You should only be fighting one thing at a time....

Kaeoschassis wrote:
Hopeless wrote:Imho playing stoned is about as smart as playing with only the Tab and o buttons and never using a consumable.

I kind of think you might be missing the point just a tiny bit.
Not that I partake, myself, but still...

No I got the point. I didn't think much of it.

Imho playing stoned is about as smart as playing with only the Tab and o buttons and never using a consumable.

And as a result I will say "Boo" to those who removed it. Most fun race of the bunch imho. Perhaps lacking in elegance and balance but it was a blast playing LOs of all backgrounds. I guess it is for the best since too much fun would be a bad thing to have in a stable build...

In general, just pick the same armour for a UC character that you'd use for the same character if you were using a weapon. Don't ever use buckler + UC (unless you are an octopode, since they work differently ... no don't ask me why). Shield or large shield + UC is ok, but takes a lot of xp. Why not...

what you want is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. every single monster in that book is some of the most random shit ever. I am guessing you never actually played the game? The book you might be referring to (depending on edition) is called The Monster Manual and while it isn't necessarily the most ba...

duvessa wrote:
scorpionwarrior wrote:Keeping 1 or 2 scrolls around for dragon armour is a good idea in most games
no, this is a terrible idea
+0 dragon armour is garbage

I agree but how come so many think it is a good idea?

Stuff about battletitan I especially like how after one swallowed character cuts their way out of the gizzard, the "muscles" somehow close the wound and the next swallowed character has to make the same amount of damage to get out. And these things were made with non-magical breeding? :P ...

what you want is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. every single monster in that book is some of the most random shit ever. I am guessing you never actually played the game? The book you might be referring to (depending on edition) is called The Monster Manual and while it isn't necessarily the most ba...

All edged weapons chop off Hydra heads. Which is a dangerous thing to do since they grow two more unless you can cauterize them at the same time (flaming brand).

Wasn't there a point during the transition from Pernband to Tome (Tales of Middle Earth) that there were a bunch of joke monsters including stuff from Monty Python?

what you want is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. every single monster in that book is some of the most random shit ever. I am guessing you never actually played the game? The book you might be referring to (depending on edition) is called The Monster Manual and while it isn't necessarily the most ba...

Just had a MuCK game: Message History The gnoll hits you with a glowing flail! Ouch! That really hurt! You die... "That's my toy, go get your own!" Xom revives you! The rat bites you. * * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * * Unknown command. You hit the gnoll but do no damage. The gnoll is heavil...

I'm loitering around the latest Linux trunk build because of a combo I won't be able to play anymore... Lava Orc Fighter of Qazlal. The reason? Making all the bad decisions (mostly standing in the middle of a room cleaving). Even though it's probably still a terrible idea to fight in open spaces, t...

so, most modern roguelikes have random items and random monster generation. However one thing that these games lack in terms of randomness is the type of monsters. So in my imaginary game, each run will have different sets of monsters which then is given random properties and random skills(like pan...

Also increasing LoS is bad in a lot of situations I'm finding it hard to think of situations where it would be good -You are invincible and want to kill more things. Faster. -You are crazy and think you are invincible and want to kill more things. Faster. -You are not invincible but you think you s...

I do love my Ice Beasts, but Summon Demon is a pretty amazing spell - demons last forever, are strong as hell (a Sun Demon will roll over most things in the game like it's nothing), it's level 5 single school and if a demon comes out hostile, well, Abjuration is a level 3 spell that handily appears...

Ghouls are a cool and unique race, and i dont think anything is wrong with them past the "wait for your food to rot & you need to eat all the time" - problem. I'm all for Demigod rework and a slight buff to Mummies Torment gets overused a lot. I do not think its a bad mechanic by itse...

So in other words, shields still suck? Shields aren't bad necessarily. They're just usually not as good as the gap between common 2-handers and common 1-handers. If you're using a good 1-hander anyway there's no reason to not pick up at least a buckler. Similarly, for Fo getting a shield is practic...

duvessa wrote:
tasonir wrote:http://www.wikihow.com/images/4/4d/How-to-Be-Funny---part-3-step-2.jpg
has that artist ever seen breasts in real life

I don't get it. How is that picture less realistic because of the chest area? I mean its a fucking cartoon...

So... normally we see a penalty when a sword, such as a Bastard Sword, is used in conjunction with a shield. Does this apply to Formicids or no? For example, a Formicid with a Lajatang. Shield? By "normally" do you mean "never, since there ceased to be hand and a half weapons almost ...

From what I've read, Gong is apparently terrible un-nerfed, so there shouldn't have been any rationale to nerfing it. Maybe they reduced the effect of its auto-gong or something? Automatic? I thought it just "gong"'d every time it blocked something successfully. I haven't used it since th...

Well, that reply explains why all unavoidable deaths can't be completely prevented. But that doesn't mean each individual case of unavoidable deaths can't be evaluated and prevented in some cases. For example, it used to be that you could get trampled over deep water the turn before your flight exp...

From the looks of the other thread, the our cruel, cruel, devteam is looking to axe yet another beloved staple of Crawl -- Nemelex Xobeh. Those of you who played retro Crawl this April surely noticed how much better the game used to be, and how badly rampant feature removal has hurt it. Instead of ...

Picking Xom is a lot less bad than training spell skills with no spells for the time it takes to get 6*, though. Picking Sif spellless is like playing godless, that's fine if you know that's what you want - but godless _and_ a massive incoming xp reduction is awful. I think of it more like not usin...

XuaXua wrote:From what I've read, Gong is apparently terrible un-nerfed, so there shouldn't have been any rationale to nerfing it.

Maybe they reduced the effect of its auto-gong or something?

tabstorm wrote:
rchandra wrote:Training spellcasting only for no benefit until 6* piety is a terrible terrible idea and you should be glad the game stops you from doing it.

The player already has to handicap themself by choosing Sif anyway.

I think that is what he is referring to.

If you're gonna standardize the naming scheme for those 4, why are the zealots not also similarly standardized? Why do they actually get life in their name. Without a description, "Death Knight" could apply to like 5 different Gods. Or doesn't even need to be God related, there's plenty o...

In a vacuum I'd support the Fighter -> Knight change since "fighter" is both vague and boring, but I think it would be awkward to have three classes named "-knight" and then a vanilla one. e: maybe something like "guard" would work, to emphasize the well-equipped aspec...

Also troll warpers are really quite good (Shield of Golubria, while not stellar defensively, is better than nothing when you need *something* and portal projectile with large rocks (and blowgun needles) is the bomb, blink lets you get out of trouble (or at least get some space so you can regen hps)...

Arrhythmia wrote:
Hopeless wrote:
twelwe wrote:HEY EVERYONE: YOUR`RE MOM!!!

We are Whose mom?

Jeez, you're a terrible mother, aren't you?

Indeed. It is good for my children that they don't exist.

I have noticed recently since playing trunk 15a.etc that Lair 8 contains nothing whatsoever of interest. Has this been done with the eye towards eliminating it entirely? No vault, no dangerous foes, no interesting items, just a slog of all the usual suspects is all I've found there. I am curious abo...

twelwe wrote:HEY EVERYONE: YOUR`RE MOM!!!

We are Whose mom?

Klown wrote:I want to know what various devs think.

Try asking them.

Obviously this is just a snippet, so you can't say it's an error, as it's probably defined elsewhere. A snippet for a loop where you don't declare and initialize the loop variables? Seems like a pretty bad snippet to me. No, he does not. Deletion happens only if success is false, and if success is ...

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