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Commiserations. How did the bribing work? Apparently you still had a good number of mummies to fight...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:
Majang wrote:Why did you give him that name? It seems that Crawl wants to get away from real-people uniques nowadays.

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Cool. Learned something today.

Why did you give him that name? It seems that Crawl wants to get away from real-people uniques nowadays.

Enjoy the experience, and make it a YAVP!

Well, I came back with a potion of brilliance. Four shots of LDR, and an LCS for good measure took care of the Bone Dragon. Serves him right. And I dealt with Mara in the same way.

I've never had luck (or sufficient skill) with a Gozag character so far, but from what I understand, the Tomb, and in particular Greater Mummies, should be susceptible to bribing. That would be a strong point going for your character. Just make sure that you max out your rN before going in there. Yo...

I had four shots before BD was in melee range. I think I would have had mana for two more shots, but then I just started running, because I could see that these two more shots would not have been enough by far. And I would have hit myself in the process.

ZipZipskins wrote:Because uniques are more fun and impactful when they show up.

Yes. And they have a significantly limited impact if they don't show up.

IMHO attacks out of LoS are bad in most branches no matter if it is CBL or Fire Storm as it encourages standing on upstairs, making noise (both spells are extremely loud so you don't even need to do anything else) and spamming the spells indefinitely. Killing monsters out of LoS in areas without no...

That was one of the most difficult Swamp 4's in a while for me. The rune was also defended by a Bone Dragon, and my repeated LRD at 7# did nothing to its (still excellent) health. If an EE can't kill this thing this early in the game, who can? With my permanent gargoyle flight I was able to shake it...

You think it's a bug? Okay, I will report it.

Keep running away from Mara on Swamp 4 in my attempt to get the rune anyway. Now I encountered him far away from any stairs, so decided to teleport. Here's where I ended: ..≈≈≈≈≈≈..≈≈≈≈≈≈≈..≈..≈≈≈≈≈≈≈.≈≈≈.♣ ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈..≈≈≈≈≈≈....≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈♣ ≈.≈..≈≈≈≈♣♣♣♣≈.≈§..♣♣♣...≈≈≈≈≈§≈.♣♣ .≈≈.♣♣♣♣♣♣≈.♣♣.≈♣..≈♣...

From what I understand, the hells have been left alone for a pretty long time.

Shard1697 wrote:hey btw how has the amulet "vanished from the pages of history" while there remains this information about who it belonged to and how it was notoriously used

Do we really know? It seems that all we know about her his her gender.

Oooh, they are almost always negatively enchanted. At least those that I pick up.

You can "complete" it in a quite unsatisfying way, by picking up a cursed -3 short sword. That may extend your little mini-quest all the way down to D3 or D4, until you identify a scroll of remove curse. But I have to admit that it gives an even deeper feeling of satisfaction when you surv...

Thanks for clarifying this. Zu früh gefreut!

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Wouldn't be a problem, would it? The optimal player would just have paper and pencil with him at all times, and scribble notes of all things everywhere. Easy.

It is still possible that an ally just within LOS kills or damages a monster just without LOS. A better solution could be that monsters out of LOS cannot have any bad effect on the player.
Edit: Well, except silent spectres, and a few others I can't think of right now...

Guys, could you please write tl/dr version when you are done with investigations? I know what you are talking about but it's rather hard to follow even for those who are familiar with code IMHO. Thank you ;) Let me try to summarize what I understood so far: Indeed the power of Minor Destruction sca...

Corpses on the bottom of stacks are also annoying from the point of view of players who want to snack on corpses. Right now, when hungry, after each fight, I have to investigate each pile to see if there is something edible below. Maybe it is possible to treat corpses as not contributing to stacks, ...

mikee wrote:Close the door.

Right, that would have avoided that situation - stupid! But that leopard thingy that killed me did not come from behind that door.

When auto-traveling, all these low-level spawns provide welcome snacks for the traveller - popcorn! I'd hate to see that go,

Reminds me of something I read in Mr K's ancient DeFE diary, where he got killed in a Ziggurat by the damage mirror of an Unborn he fried with a fire storm off-screen. He never saw this feller. Good these things don't exist anymore, but there are still other monsters mirroring the damage you deal th...

Did it never happen to you that you started the game, opened the first door of the entry vault, and had three/four kobolds/goblins/rats/bats leer at you? I've played 5000+ games and I don't remember ever having this happen, no. Most arrival vaults don't even have doors, let alone doors that need to...

Hey, you have a book of Annihilations! Since auto-training is prodding you so very subtly, are you not tempted to learn a big nuke? Would be fun! You'd need more INT, though. Your skills are high enough already.

It would make the game less tabby and possibly shorter. That depends. Would it mean that stronger monsters are spawned instead of gnolls? Or would it mean that no monsters are spawned instead? If stronger monsters are spawned, it could lead to experience-balance problems, because there would sudden...

I think transparent walls are a good idea, all in all. But they would not help new players to make a better decision. Chances are that they would not know any of the monsters revealed in this way, because they have never been deep enough to encounter them before. If I see a blue troll for the first ...

Looks like you are still far away from Shatter. That would help a lot in V5.

At the moment you have pretty low INT and minimal STR, so that would hamper you a lot with a FDA. You'd need a lot of armour skill to compensate for the spell penalty.

In the very early game you have no control over how many monsters you need to fight. This is not true. Didi it never happen to you that you started the game, opened the first door of the entry vault, and had three/four kobolds/goblins/rats/bats leer at you? It sure does happen to me. What kind of c...

But Tm. Tl and hexes are almost ignored by autotraining, which is probably as you want it.
BTW, I think of autotraining as not switiching the training to 'manual', but still using the option to either switch off a skill, or focus it. With this conduct, you'd probably get quite close to what you want.

Since you are using spells of eight different spell schools, don't you think that a high spellcasting skill might actually be useful to you? Even for your best spells that experience isn't exactly wasted.

What exactly is wrong with mage backgrounds' early games in the first place? In the very early game you have no control over how many monsters you need to fight. There is no safe haven when MP runs out (no upstairs), so you are forced to deal with packs of two, three, four low-level monsters withou...

So when i'm talking about spamming Minor Destruction like a ranged attack, this is what I'm talking about: I belonged to those who discarded minor destruction before reading your post, but inspired by you I was playing a Makhleb fighter and using MD heavily, and boy were you right! This ability rea...

I understand: the compensation consists in having to sacrifice less other things to get to the (not quite so) full benefits.

If I understand it correctly (I usually don't), Ru's damage-dealing abilities (power leap and apocalypse) have their resulting damage at least partially depending on the experience level. I now wonder how this interacts with the experience sacrifice. This lets your XL max out at 25 instead of 27. Do...

To a Jiyva-follower absolutely nothing is useless, as it is still good to feed the jellies.

Makhleb is god of demons. That's exactly why it would make more sense for Mak to grant castable damnation than random conjurations. It's a strongly demon flavored/associated ability, only cast by demons and some worshipper-type enemy casters who also usually summon demons. That also means that this...

I would support this. The demonic guardian problem could be solved by removing it from the Ds-mutation list. Something like this doesn't really have the feel of a mutation anyway. It gives you on occasional summons, which makes about as much sense as having a mutation giving you an occasional conjur...

Not fully mine, I'm sure someone else suggested it already. Instead of having to manually change between launcher and melee weapon, let a character equip both at the same time. If you use the arrow keys you hit with your sword, if you use f you shoot an arrow. That would remove the delay from switc...

Would it be an option to make it just one guaranteed-destruction blast, probably Bolt of Magma, with extended range of 5? That would help in any situation.

I avoid all kinds of self-translocations in Zot. They usually get you into worse trouble than what you want to run away from.

I did it, minus the four hell branches, which I couldn't stand right now. Here is the final installment: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file. 6050472 Majang the Annihilator (level 27, 296/296 HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Conjurer on July 1, 2017. Was the Cham...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Can zigs still generate silent specters?

At least I did not encounter any this time. Was there a change in this respect?

Sprucery wrote:Omg never, ever use -6 boots...

Well, I'm going with VeryAngryFelids signature line: Overestimated: AC

But all in all, I agree with you.

Back from the Zig (and from Dinner). Now my character looks much different, although my AC could still be much better. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file. Majang the Annihilator (Demonspawn Conjurer) Turns: 162217, Time: 21:03:33 Health: 296/296 AC: 20 Str...

Yes, these boots are a bit of an embarrassment, I admit. Replacing them with my next-best pair (boots of the assassin - I really have not found anything better yet) gets my failure rates up big time, and improves my AC from 19 to 27. To get the failure rates down again, removing the fire dragon scal...

Well, now I'm done in Pandemonium. It was much harder than I remembered from other visits. One and a half years ago I did have a Ds on a successful 15-rune run, and that must have been quite similar. Here is another snapshot of my character. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) ch...

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