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I'll probably drop this character (one way or another) by tournament, and focus on that for a little while. Thanks for the concept (til later) though. :) Well, this week's challenge ends today, anyway... as per casual league tradition, you're free to send in your characters late (as long as you sta...

Sif tbh. Sif ensures you will get the higher-level summoning spells in a timely fashion and aren't entirely in the hands of the RNG in this regard. Too bad you don't like Sif, eh? Based on my experience with Hep so far, Hep with a melee ancestor might be a good bet. You get a permanent tanky ally al...

I'm one of those rare breed of players who actually enjoys ghosts, and I also tend to play offline most of the time. Thing is, though, offline ghosts can be a little boring. I know exactly what ghosts can appear where (as long as my deaths are still fresh in my memory) and often, I just see the same...

I agree that you shouldn't - invisibility is already pretty decent just for regular usage. Use it against any real threats that don't see invisible. Ice beasts should be good enough for hydras since I'm pretty sure they'll just slow the cold-blooded hydras all the time.

A quick question in the meanwhile: the tournament for the upcoming version is apparently going to start soon. How will that affect your willingness to play in the Casual League? Like, will you continue to do the weekly challenges, or focus on the tournament? I'd be interested in knowing how much int...

I decided to do something unusual and play online for a change, and what do you know, my first attempt is a win! I was hoping to go for 15 runes, but only got 11 since I ran out of consumables in Dis. Still, I'm quite pleased. Xom was very generous this game: not only did he hook me up with a bunch ...

I'm not exactly sure, but I do remember that neutral monsters sometimes just want to head in a specific direction, and if you are in their way, they start attacking you. Then, if you get out of their way, they stop and go on their merry way. Possibly unless you attack them back.

Hi, I think this is a Tier 3 http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/pedritolo/morgue-pedritolo-20170518-175941.txt Eeh, so here's the thing... that's a Troll Necromancer. The challenge combo, however, is a Troll Earth Elementalist. Someone else has also expressed confusion about whether they have to ...

Hi, I think this is a Tier 3 http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/pedritolo/morgue-pedritolo-20170518-175941.txt Eeh, so here's the thing... that's a Troll Necromancer. The challenge combo, however, is a Troll Earth Elementalist. Someone else has also expressed confusion about whether they have to ...

Leszczynek scored a Tier 1 finish with a troll that got to Shoals before being killed by Polyphemus: http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Leszczynek/morgue-Leszczynek-20170517-142134.txt I've also got a character going. Since I'm not as hardcore as Leszczynek and didn't dare experiment with WJC for ...

Rast wrote:Thanks. ProzacElf and I and possible others are playing as awbwrobin.

Cool!

kuniqs wrote:Is Heroism allowed?

I'd say yes - it's the base magic skill that needs to stay above the others.

You can try again if you die, and any version is OK (well, I'd prefer if people played a relatively recent version, but since .17 isn't all that drastically different from trunk for the purposes of this combo, feel free to play it).

I thought the whole reason for the "giants" being renamed was simply that the prefix "giant" being used on so many monsters was just kinda boring?

Welcome to the first week of Casual League Gritty Reboot! I have just recently returned to Crawl and noticed that the Casual League series - which I liked a lot - has been abandoned. So now I'm hoping I can restart it! The Casual League is pretty simple. Each week, you'll receive a challenge, consis...

I'm really stressed out when I see suggestions like these that are being thanked by several people and I can't help but feel crippling anxiety as I ask myself "Surely the devs won't implement this change? Surely not? Right?". And I can never quite answer my own question because it is rare ...

I started writing a post about why I disagree, but by the time I typed out my response, I realized that it wouldn't make much of a difference to me if your change was implemented. Though for that matter, I don't really think it'd improve the game either. Just the fact that you can spread your skill ...

I've got a Nemelex deep elf going, I might finish it - but I'll definitely be late. Got Tier 1 so far, I believe.

My reaction to this proposal:

The RuneScape music in the background is too loud at times, and also, make sure you don't get copyrekt because of it.

Other than that, what Shard said.

Beogh The loveless cannot worship Beogh, but why not? There's still smiting and water-walking, and great flavor in being a hated, lone, and spiteful chosen one. Allow joining Beogh, but disable Orc conversion and Orc god gifts, and don't give the recall/gift/resurrect invocations. Or an even better...

Instead of giving maces and flails a property that is about to be introduced into the game through a brand anyways, why not have it give a small chance to daze the enemy by giving them a concussion upon a well-aimed blow, making them confused for 2-3 turns? I think that'd be a more interesting and n...

Actually, this sounds like a pretty cool idea.

Get rid of the piety cost for channeling, or make Sif smart enough to give actual spellbooks that work with the skills you have trained? You do realize channeling is supposed to have a cost so you have to think about when to use it instead of just spamming it willy-nilly? And Sif gifts already are ...

duvessa wrote:torpor snail is a bug yes

No, it is a mollusc.

I applaud interesting challenges like this, but after my first attempt I was kind of like "meeeh... I don't want to do this one again" and I was more busy trying out Caves of Qud this week anyways... so just a Tier 1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1672-g679cadd (webtiles) charac...

nago wrote:What else better could you have?

Felid claws, perhaps?

Aleksmastering wrote:I am lack on summons.

God: Trog [*****.]

Well, if you want to get the slime rune, you'll just have to kill the Royal Jelly in a craftier manner. Staying out in the open and meleeing it is not a good idea. The best way to deal with TRJ is usually to lure it into the narrow corridors leading towards the altar in the center, where you apply a...

I think this is a bad idea, it means that you are forced to kill TRJ to get the rune This is already the case for characters that can't cast Shatter (Shatter can take apart the unsoftened walls, right?). In fact, quite the opposite - Rast's proposal would sometimes allow people to get the rune with...

Doesn't seem very significant to me, stab damage is insane anyway, and this change wouldn't modify anyone's behavior (stabbers would still seek to stab sleeping snapping turtles, and actually, you are kind of wrong - the change would slightly incentivize confuse-stabbing instead, though not enough t...

This way, stairdancing is removed as an issue, and we will only have to deal with portaldancing! Just kidding... Actually, the idea is that normal stairs (and hatches, I guess) are replaced with portals (and "unstable portals", respectively) that work in an identical manner to stairs, exce...

Oh, I always thought ambient noise affecting stealth was one purpose of the mechanic. But of course, if the effect was tiny, it's better to not have it. the fallacy here is assuming that ambient noise has a purpose Well, I imagine the purpose is that if you do loud stuff in a loud branch, monsters ...

if you can get the rune through a series of blinks and apportations This is why apportation should be removed from the game. What's the point of having scary monsters if it is trivial to avoid them. I agree, it's kind of a shame. Personally, I prefer my proposal in the Pan/Hell merge thread (the ru...

as you aren't afflicted by a senseless need to kill things. I'd like to stress this in particular. I've had around 5-6 extended deaths so far, I think - all but 1-2 were caused exactly by this. Seriously, unless you are totally fine with losing your character, there is absolutely no need to tangle ...

Haste, controlled blink, passage of golubria are good spells to have for anyone and especially a squishy wizard going for 15 runes. True, though with 7 scrolls of blinking, among other things, CBlink is not urgent and can be left for later. You have the ability to one-shot almost all malmutators, s...

neil wrote:I think those holes were made by your stone of tremors.

Absolutely not - I have seen quite a few of these disconnected holes on Zot:5 (or maybe just in Zot in general), even in the versions where stone of tremors no longer even existed. Sometimes I think they were even filled with water.

Every summon has "not susceptible" for Inner Flame for reason. With many of them (e.g. Sticks to Snakes) it does work, but always based on the MR of the summon as they often resist. I don't mind that part, really, but it shouldn't say "not susceptible".

[list][*]Juggernaut. I have voiced my dislike of this monster's design before, so I will just remind you how easy it is to stop them from following you across stairs, or neuter them with level 1 summons. Restoring their old damage would not change their place on the list. Yeah, I think these were a...

PleasingFungus wrote:

Is that rabbit breadswinging?

If this is your decision-making process when you see Sigmund, then I would go ahead and say your strategy is suboptimal (for one, it is too inflexible). You are welcome to provide your general strategy and tell me where my strategy is suboptimal. Well, I wouldn't waste a teleport scroll, and especi...

VeryAngryFelid: Sigmund not leading to decisions sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Maybe I am too good player but it is the case for me. If I am not confused and I have a scroll of tele/blink, I read it. If I am not confused and I am not berserker, I retreat to the nearest stairs (no matter if upstai...

Are you sure, though? Are you counting the games that are so quickly over that you don't remember them (e.g. you splat three weaponless mages on D:1 before the fourth finds a weapon and makes it big)? I'm a bit skeptical about giant geckos getting the first place as well, but then again, you could m...

Plus they can throw their own shit! FR: Poop clock. Goes up steadily at a pace depending on your satiation level. If it goes too high, you need to poop (done automatically if you wait a few turns, leaves a few 'chunks of poop' on the ground after you're done, or a handful of stones if you're a garg...

Disclaimer: this is a radical change and I'm sure it will upset some players just by virtue of that if implemented. However, if anything, it is clear that Crawl devs aren't afraid of introducing radical changes. This might have a bigger scope than a lot of other 'radical changes', though. *** Crawl ...

What mechanic did you use to determine that a black bear is ever so slightly more dangerous than a starcursed mass, or that a hellephant is worse than a ghost crab (I specifically disagree with the latter, aside from unlucky early Abyss trips, where hellephants are really bad)? Aside from that, I di...

Just tried that and it works, but the UI says "not susceptible" for some reason...? Yes, this seems to be a bug - your allies are always "not susceptible" to Inner Flame even when they are. I discovered this when I was playing a puny felid whose only method of killing reasonably...

Alright, so... how about this? Everything stays as it is now, except that when you view your weapon in the inventory, you can see a list of how accurate your weapon is against all the unique monster types you see on the screen (assuming default stats on each monster). For example, the weapon display...

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Mutation_resistance

"Vampires don't function as undead in this aspect, and will mutate normally."

"Prior to 0.15, vampire mutation effects depended on their satiation level. "

Tier 3+. Pretty easy game, and Zin is a fun god, so I went for the extended trip. (Cut the vault maps out of the morgue below, but otherwise it's full.) Turns out this is my fastest 15-rune win yet. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1098-g36ee1bc (tiles) character file. 14202926 Marenglen the...

Yo, why the hell are people inventing arbitrary definitions for "pure caster" that serves as nothing but threadcrapping? I think that what OP means by "pure caster" is quite intuitive - a character that only relies on spells to kill enemies (not counting things like tabbing a gia...

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