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Haha, I've tried starting a number of kenku air elementalists myself; never mind trying to set up quadzaps, I've found it difficult enough to set up situations where the bolts don't bounce and kill me. At least not without walking halfway across the dungeon and having all the monsters chasing me. :r...

If you worship Vehumet but currently have no skill in either Conjurations or Summoning, how is it decided which books he will give you first? Are racial aptitudes taken into account or is it determined randomly?

Throwing: turn it off immediately. Never get it, if possible. Unless you're relying on blowdarts, or throwing large rocks, it's a useless waste of xp. Worse, under Oka and Trog it nets you useless dart gifts. Throwing is just fine even if you're not using blowguns. Javelins are great throughout the...

While the player spell Sticky Flame has been nerfed, monsters can still cast it at range.

So, AFAIK, fire/frost branded melee weapons do +25% damage against non-resistant monsters, but still do the standard base damage for the weapon type against resistant monsters. Does this also apply to branded ammo and darts? - It seems like maybe branded ammo does entirely elemental damage, as even ...

Regardless of the weapon, you might miss it 10 times in a row and it hit you every time. Alternatively it might hit you with a giant spiked club and do no damage while an orc priest can hit you for 20 damage with a dagger. Essentially what I'm saying is that in Crawl, a lot of things that are determ...

I was wondering if it was possible to not use a ring of teleport control, ie do an uncontrolled blink/teleport while wearing it. Semi-controlled blink is a nice way to run away from something in an emergency, but if you use it all the time it can cause some nasty glow. But I don't want to take the r...

So, the key for a character dump is # - which is normally shift-3 - but my Apple keyboard does not have this key. The standard way to get # on a Mac is alt-3, which works in this post as you can see - but if I try this in Crawl I get the message "key_to_command():CMD_NO_CMD (965:114) wrong for ...

Just because you killed one ogre easily doesn't mean you will be able to kill the next one.

Haven't you heard of dough-jutsu, the ancient art of fighting with breadsticks?

Or its rival school, kung futon, that involves the use of cushions?

Could the Berserk spell be replaced by a Might spell (that works like the old Okawaru ability?) I guess this would overlap with the potion, but I think there's potential there.

The stair ambush changed hasn't been implemented. The YASD that initiated the discussion was actually wrong. I'm pretty sure that it is not possible to get killed on the turn you enter a level for the first time. Monsters are generated asleep, so the worst they can do is wake up and shout. I'm pret...

Will this mean we can choose to train a skill even if we currently have 0 in it? Probably not. You'll still have to victory dance the first level. That sounds like it could be hard to implement: how do you victory dance that first level if there is no more experience pool and all XP earned are goin...

Will this mean we can choose to train a skill even if we currently have 0 in it? If so, I assume all skills will be visible on the skill screen so we can see progress towards getting the first level in a skill. Maybe for spellcasting you should have to be at least carrying a spell book - this could ...

So, does this apply to attacks as well, or just movement?

If so, when there are 2 monsters next to you but one is orthogonal and one is diagonal, should we be fighting the orthogonal one first as it will be getting more blows due to not taking 1.4 times as long?

Actually, I thought the most dangerous thing about Sigmund was his wand of confusion/paralysis/draining etc..

How about a thread for asking simple questions that can be answered by yes/no or a single answer so we don't need to keep making new threads that only have 1-2 answers? I'll start it off: 1. Do armour/shield penalties affect chances of success with invocations and evocations? 2. How is hunger cost c...

If an elephant attacks you while you are climbing the stairs, it will trample you and push you away from the stairs and you will not be able to get up them. Then you will die. Or in this case, expend a huge amount of resources staying alive. Not sure if this also applies to going down stairs or usin...

Thanks for all the help with terminal applications. It seems I can now get the latest downloaded build working again, so that's OK, but it would still be nice to play online just in case I want to be in the tournaments etc. I found that iTerm had the same display issues as the default terminal app. ...

Actually, most of the spells that are currently only Charms could possibly be moved to Transmutations, as the important ones are ones that work on the target's body - eg Haste transmutes you into something that looks the same but moves faster, Berserker Rage transmutes you into something really stro...

jejorda2: I have tried akrasiac, but have not yet tried CDO. I am using terminal.app, and have tried both ssh and telnet, with the same results. I have found a way to make the terminal display in monochrome, which makes everything visible, but causes the alternative problem that monsters and terrain...

I have seen that thread, but that poster's question and the options referred to in the reply were specific to the tiles version.

I know where the options/init folders are when playing on the downloaded version, but have no idea how to access them when playing online.

Since I haven't been able to get the latest versions running on Mac OSX, I've been trying playing online instead. However, I'm having a problem with the way colours are displayed. Basically, anything that would be displayed as dark blue in the standard (offline) ascii version shows up as black on a ...

I am finding exactly the same thing (0.9 trunk will not open as it says it may be damaged or incomplete.) Deleting the Application Support folder does not make any difference.

I think a potential problem with restricting spell slots based on the number of schools is that it will hurt specialist spellcasters a lot more than hybrids: For example, a specialist spellcaster needs to use spells for killing AND defence/buffing, but might find themselves having to choose between ...

If it was given by Trog, it would say (god gift) after the name of the item instead of (you found it in the dungeon) - so this is just luck.

New weapon: Boomerang! - always has the returning brand, but can have other brands as well.

Deep Elf Healer seems pretty impossible to survive the first level; you have basically no way to kill anything, combined with a DE's lousy HP and Elyvilon's ability to pacify, which is almost guaranteed to fail.

I haven't played with fire magic much since the range of Sticky Flame was nerfed. So does Vehumet's Extend Range ability apply to Sticky Flame? If so, I can finally think of a reason to choose fire magic over ice magic for a HEWz - or any spellcaster that has no other preference for one element over...

Could there be an afternoonstar that is halfway between a morningstar and an eveningstar?

Presumably katanas were the main reason to choose long blades over other weapons - with them gone, is there any further reason to restrict long blades as a starting weapon choice? Fighters and gladiators can now get a falchion as a starting weapon; why not extend this to crusaders (and reavers if th...

There are a lot of gods that give piety for killing things, but at present only one that gives it for training skills. Has anyone already suggested making Okawaru piety be dependent on training combat skills? I quite like the idea of a warrior god who rewards becoming a more skillful fighter rather ...

ghend wrote:
That's a british/american thing? I thought it was a noun/verb thing. The more you know!

Unlike practice/practise and licence/license there is no verb "to defense"

Katak wrote:Halflings don't count as missiles.

Maybe this should be added to one of the "ogre suggestions" threads - the ability to pick up small monsters and throw them at other monsters.

I found HEWz to be one of the easier combos as a noob - definitely more early survivability than a DE due to the higher HP, and I found myself reaching the Lair somewhat regularly and even got my first rune with one.

An idea I was thinking about for Demigods, (which may have already been suggested and rejected elsewhere..) Remove Demigod as a distinct race: Instead, any race (possibly with the exception of Demonspawn,) on reaching the Temple, if they have never had a religion, can choose the path of 'Deification...

A simple way to nerf them would be to make Felids unable to go berserk, like undead.

I'm sure someone could think of a semi-plausible in-game reason for this (maybe cats think they're too cool to go berserk. :roll:

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Ok, if trying to keep them hungry wouldn't be fun, how about giving a combat bonus vs anything they could eat - ie anything that might leave a suitable corpse?

So, it may be that it is not possible to discuss ogres without the thread descending into trolling; if so, I apologise, and please lock it straight away. :roll: Anyway, it strikes me that ogres are big and have fast metabolism so they probably get hungry a lot: so how about giving them some unique a...

My HEWz used 2 scrolls of Torment to weaken the Lernaean Hydra before blasting it. I lost a lot of HP myself as well, but I had previously made sure there were no other monsters nearby, and also used potions of levitation and haste to make sure it could not catch up with me and get into melee range.

I think one of the problems with Earth Elementalists, and with Earth Magic generally is that there is no race that is particularly good for using it. The only races that get better than 0 aptitude are MD, DD, SE and Gh, and of these the dwarves and ghoul are all-round bad at magic, leaving only the ...

It is possible to get an estimate of the food cost for spells, eg choko, ration, honeycomb etc. But as far as I know, there is no similar estimate available for the food cost of using god abilites - it just says 'costs piety, hunger' Maybe it would make things more consistent if there was a similar ...

Reading this has made me think that "Zealot" might actually be a better name than "Priest" for the Hill Orc follower of Beogh background, as they are quite different from the Priest of Zin so having a different name would distinguish them. "Fanatic" could be used instea...

It seems pretty widely accepted that Mephitic Cloud is still overpowered, makes the early game too easy, and is due for further nerfing. Here are some suggestions that I think would reduce its potential for abuse while still leaving it powerful enough to be useful. Apologies if these have already be...

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