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If you feel like you need some conjuration spells, then simply go for it. With Vehumet you receive a wizardry bonus to Conj spells (cutting their failure chance by 1/3), so you can get, for example, IMB castable reliably by Conj 7 or the like. If you want some ice conjurations, you're even better - ...

The other question is whether the species' scope is too narrow (always stealth/dodging/stabbing). If this race appears too one-sided, the aptituded in Stealth, Dodging, Stabbing and Armour can be changed of course. With a different reasoning, the apts could be: Stealth: 0 - nothing distingushes the...

Trolls attack three times at once - one bite, two claws. So probably the 12hp attack was simply the last one that killed you.

Hi all, after a brief spell of playing Mortal Kombat games, there was an idea of a new race possibly usable in DCSS - the Tarkata (sg. and adj. Tarkatan). Originally in MK, these were brutal and savage warriors employed by the evil emperor Shao Kahn. They are humanoid, save for two distinctive featu...

eharper256 wrote:
Zicher wrote:It seems quite funny to me that Warmaster Okawaru would give a wizard hat as his first gift

Nothing saying you can't be a war-wizard.

I'm probably meant to be - I received level 1 in Spellcasting about 50 turns later :-D

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It seems quite funny to me that Warmaster Okawaru would give a wizard hat as his first gift

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But by all means a nice one:

J - the +0 wizard hat "Kuunuox" (worn) {god gift, +Rage rElec rPois Str+2}

Doubly so nice, as I'm a Minotaur any my headgear is very limited

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A wand of fire can destroy both Sigmund and Grinder in five charges total.

In labs, it pays even more to know where you can expect the minotaur to spawn. Pay attention to the wall around you - they change from rock to stone to metal the closer you are. If you are in a metal-wall area, be careful - the minotaur can be found behind every corner.

Okay, some specific questions... - For this magic "Glow" concept, the game instructions say that vampires never get mutations at; Thirsty, Very Thirsty, Near Bloodless, and Bloodless. Is this correct concerning magic Glow? I've been confused, had energy discharges, and such from it. At th...

was trog changed? gift wise? I had 12 skill in M&F and the very first gift i got was a Broad Axe, followed by a demon trident. i had no other skill in any weapon... Trog, Oka and weapon acquirements are the same. The chance for a weapon which trains a particular skill is (1 + weapon skill) / (8...

Phew - that was a game! The new skill system is just awesome - it allows you to train skills with actually using them. This allows you to focus on whatever skills you'll need next, and training Fighting without actually fighting is _very_ helpful. Well, this game begun as a standard well-running SpV...

Well, this game is going extremely fine. I have a fully set-up Poison Arrow Gatling Gun - DMsl, Haste and PA all at Excellent and hunferless. I conquered all of the standard branches except for Vaults:8, Crypt and Slime. I literally blazed through bottom Dungeon and Elf as last. I'm very careful wit...

If you play a Draconian, monsters will spawn with weapons of dragon-slaying roughly a hundred times more often (and many floors earlier) than when you're any other race. (Why yes, I DID recently lose a Draconian character on D:1 to a monster with a dragon-slaying weapon. Why do you ask?) Did they h...

OK - I added a "Gods" sheet into the document, and the epythets and welcome quotes that I remember. There's also a column for the prayers, but I'm not getting a shot at these

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Grimm wrote:Let's not use pop music lyrics ...

Sure. The Manowar lyrics were just used for inspiration.

asdu wrote:Congratulations x2

Thanks, but if (by the "x2") you mean the next drink, there are two chances - one being a birth in the family and the other being a death in the family.
Both of these will come soon. and both will deserve a drink.
Still, thanks

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speciesxx wrote:If you go Okawaru.... in 10 gifts, i got 8 shields :S

Don't you ever dare to to improve Thorwing too much.
You will drown in darts gifts.

If you ever have a great early find and share it in this topic, you'll suffer a YASD.
No exceptions.

Yep ! I though about it some days ago. For the long description of an altar a prayer or hymn to each god is displayed. They should be of different styles rather than joke-adaptations of the Christian prayer, mostly based on ancient religions. Awesome idea! Perhaps, the good gods (TSO, Zin and Ely) ...

Thanks, Happy Corner. It was by far the most epic run I've ever done. In fact, this was one of those games after which you want to grab a glass of good whiskey and just remain silent and enjoy the achievement you just made. In my case, the whiskey was 12-years Tullamore Dew, kept for special occasio...

*Zicher wakes up his neighbours in laughter

You do not happen to be Crazy Yiuf himself, do you? :lol:

Demon blade "Leech" +13 +4 (runed demon blade) demon_blade (vampiricism) It affects your evasion (-1) It affects your strength (-1) It affects your intelligence (-1) It affects your dexterity (-1) It partially protects you from negative energy. It has a curse placed upon it. It may recurs...

Makes me wonder if we can make a prayer to every Crawl god :). First try: Our Trog, who art on D:2, Hallowed be Thy rage, Thy corpses come, Thy berserk be in stable, As it is in trunk. Give us today our +7,+11 katana of electrocution, And forgive us our spellcasting, As we forgive our orc wizards. A...

Confidence Interval wrote:
Zicher wrote:... Our Nemelex, who art in Code ... ?

Hallowed be thy decks...

Hmmm ...

... thy decks come,
thy cards be drawn in 0.8,
as they are in trunk ...

Bim wrote:I sacrificed my worldly possessions to Nemelex and all I got was this lousy plain deck of destruction.

... Our Nemelex, who art in Code ... ?

@hxy: Note that the !lg command (and others, entered via ##crawl) only display games on CAO and CDO servers. Thus, they're of little worth for offline players.

"telnet termcast.develz.org (and then select the letter for FooTV). do not use SSH." - you have to use PuTTY (if in Windows) to connect to the FooTV server. In PuTTY then enter Hostname: termcast.develz.org, Connection Type: Telnet, port: 23 (this should be automatically filled with select...

galehar wrote:
Zicher wrote:This got a bit off-topic. Quite a large bit.

This is Crazy Yiuf's Corner. Who cares about topics?

Well, if you put it this way ...

This got a bit off-topic. Quite a large bit.

You can use this address for a web-based connection: http://webchat.freenode.net/#
I believe you'll be able to figure it out

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Congrats on your first win! Keep up the good work!

And don't scoff at only three runes - every single win is a great feat

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Thanks, Hydralisk. It was frustrating, yet still entertaining to play as well

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njvack wrote:
joellercoaster wrote:If it helps your state of mind at all, it's still definitely the easiest rune other than Snake and Swamp!

If you're fast and can levitate (and preferably blink), I vote Abyss for easiest rune.

... and if you have patience. Lots of patience.

Grimm wrote:Nice.

"Art" in the fifth line should be "are". "Art" is the second person singular.

thou art
they are

Yep, you're right. Live and learn

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If you only had Tomb and part of Zot 5 left to do, did you consider converting to Zin to get your mutations removed? He's probably not as good as TSO for tomb, but you were powerful enough that you probably didn't need a god anyway by then. I have to admit, that this option never came into my mind ...

And 15 rune wins with no spells are strictly for Crawl masters, I'd say. Not true. I certainly am no master, in fact, I fulfill the awful players definition (enter "awful players" to see those criteria) - and still I got lucky enough to get a pure-melee all-runer. See the link in my previ...

One of the classic pure melee builds is a strong-species (MD or Mi) fighter/gladiator of Okawaru with a late-game switch to TSO. I'd prefer Minotaurs, due to their aptitude in Long Blades - when blessed, these get most of a buff in addition to the holy wrath. Try to train Shields along the way. Oka'...

Our RNGod, who art in Code, Hallowed be Thy maps, Thy artifacts come, Thy dice be rolled in Vaults, As they art in Shoals. Give us this day our Poison Arrow, And forgive us our YASDs, As we forgive our developers, And lead us not into the Abyss, But deliver us from Sigmund, For thine is the Rogueli...

I play on anything that can run PuTTY

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It's always a moment of warmth for me to see other players carry the PAGG torch right to the Orb and back.
Huge congrats on your first win, and even bigger for that being a SpVM of Vehumet

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Jk wrote:Note that toggling to non-identified was added in 0.8 (development version). Just added this info to wiki.

Ah, that's why I never noticed

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Yeah, this one seems to kill each Crawl player exactly once (my own rite of slime passage (no pun intended) was fairly recent). Big slimes are scary, but hey, at least they can be coaxed into separating again eventually! Once you know to respect the snotballs, they're a good source of XP :D How do ...

And, if you're missing the BoS, decent AC (20+,easily conceivable with fighter-types by that point), a shield and a flaming weapon work wonders against hydrae. They can be hard, but not that hard :). To sum it up, by the time you meet a hydra, you have a very good chance to have some equipment to de...

Shade wrote:You just really want a level 4+ 'blast' spell.

IMB usually does the trick well enough. Icicle is probably even better.

Even better, that's enough plants to get Fighting started.

If you want to play it safe, you'd better avoid mutations. Sure, you may gain regeneration or teleport control, but OTOH teleportitis or berserkitis, which can be really really crippling. This doesn't prevent many players from playing the mutation roulettem,mostly with Alter Self. If you want fun ti...

A pretty lucky, but awesome early combo of an amulet of guardian spirit and a ring of magical power for a SpBe.

In the early game, this combination effectively doubles your HP.

The weapon upgrade point is perfectly valid for Orc, but, as i usually do Lair first, I tend to have a really decent weapon before Hive. Also, food is rarely a problem ever since you find your first bee room. Your mileage may vary, and perhaps it does. Or I just lucked out with those katana gifts ar...

minmay wrote:Boris can't appear in Pandemonium.

Seriously? What a shame, he'd fit there well.
Does this count for other uniques as well, save for the special Pan Lords? Can't recall ever seeing one there.

Megabass wrote:(Formula compliments of Zicher from another topic.)

Formula compliments of The Marvelous LearnDB

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