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I've had this happen in some recent games. The ctrl-p text is the exact same as *Tele: "You feel yanked towards a nearby monster!"
At least twice this was when descending stairs, which was pretty interesting and unexpected.

onomastikon wrote:Sorry, is there any way to reset the game to allow me to enter new names for my characters? Whenever I start the program, it already takes over the name of my last character and I can no longer enter a new one.

Try to put the cursor over "New game" and then press backspace.

I do have +-9 enchant armor scrolls lying around and I'm waiting for either a fire or a golden dragon to drop their scales. Where do you think I should go next ? Should I try vault 5 and pray everything goes right ? I'd try to clear Depths before V:5. There are fewer encounters there, and you might...

Sorcerous: why are you talking about a hybrid? The character on the link cannot cast any spell even in the chain mail. Well, @petercordia did mention the Hells and Necromutation, so I assumed extended (and the extra XP therein) is on the table. - Level 17.4 Invocations Uhm, what? I guess in bcrawl ...

If there are general principles, they probably revolve around giving your char the most rounded defensive stats while also not killing versatility. A hybrid needs a good balance for spells, so being hampered by ER-induced spell failures or basic attack cancels is not a good trade. For this particula...

Thanks. What are the chances of going through all the dungeon, lair, both lair branches, orc, elf, and most of vault without finding a single piece of headgear or boots? Is this some weird seed-dependent anamoly? Yes, just some strange random numbers strung together. :| You can also play through mo...

onomastikon wrote:Thanks!
Once I've completed the game (I can't load the char anymore) how do I generate a dump?

The chardump is automatically generated after the game is done.
Check the /morgue folder, there should be a .txt file with the character name and date in the file name.

First Okawaru win, and first troll win. Not much to say about this one, the fights were mostly straightforward. Got badly mutated in Slime and Zot, it got fairly bad in Z:5 with berserkitis and teleportitis 2. Okawaru was being the same notorious troll as ever ( dagger gifts, really?) with a few nic...

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That is just fine art, love it!

I have a question about proceeding further to the inner chamber. On the one side, there is a single-tile corridor which has at least 1 zot trap in it, I really can't walk that way and have no scrolls of blinking left. Is it ok to leave that one side alone? There is not much trouble if you leave it ...

I tend to put on a long compilation of metal, usually go for melodic sound. Fields of Nephilim, Memories of a time to come, stuff like that. @Siegurt it was only a matter of time for yakety_sax to appear in this thread, you should post a screenshot to go with it. Something like Xom summoning a Senti...

Thank you. Cleared zot 4 and now just hesitating before the final step, don't want to blow it. Almost died again, only 4 hp left - a toe of all things again! Is there any special thing I should be doing against this crazy kind of debilitating spells of its? Should I use my scroll of silence, try to...

I'm currently trying to take a rune from either Lair branch. The choices are Shoals and Snake pit. This is the chardump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.23.0 (tiles) character file. Game seed: 8333966925365197806 Rouren the Thaumaturge (Gnoll Conjurer) Turns: 19123, Time: 02:41:27 Health: 124/124...

I love it when Trog supports my overkill urges:

Code:: E - a +5 antimagic executioner's axe L - the +10 dark maul {crush} (Trog gifted it to you on level 15 of the Dungeon) It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.

While I can sympathise with your feelings on only seeing L and other cool features once in ten or so games, your post is a lot to work through. Yes, it does feel boring when you have to make your way through the same D:1-8 (or 11 at times) just to get a chance at being mauled by a hydra. It is frust...

Any tips then on where I should spend my scrolls of enchant weapon? Think long-term about what you want as your final weapon: two hander or one with a shield. Trog gifts weapons with some frequency, so you might get a +6 exec. axe or broad axe just by playing more. Or a +11 randart, the angry god i...

petercordia wrote:For a lot of the game I actually used large rocks as my 'cheap' ammo option (the thing to throw at enemies I don't really care about,) which was weird.

Weird flex, but still an awesome post.

Trog also gave me a triple sword, but it's only +1 and has "slicing" which I think is a kind of weak brand, no? Actually, on a weapon with a high base damage like that, vorpal is pretty decent. There is no way to stop the bonus damage. Still, the brands you want more are freeze and later ...

Can I ask: Does the chance to trigger vampiricism work (also) on the secondary cleave hits of the axe, giving me then 1d*damage healing from them too? Unless it has been changed, the brand works on secondary hits. One other thing I'm not sure of -- for playing a caster, I always choose INT when lev...

Statue form slows your NaTm down even more than usual, so your Slouch gets another boost. The durability is also great. On the other hand, Dragon form gives a massive amount of HP for your enemies to chew through - which tends to happen quickly. The AC and EV values are nothing particularly amazing,...

This is a strange question considering it's a gnoll: you can use any of the listed weapons to great effect. I'd go for a +9 dtrident (freeze), if the branding scroll is lucky.

This is really frustrating. In a current game the alter of the god I want to worship spawned behind crystal walls, so I can see it's there, but the rest of the walls are rock and there is no door and I don't have any wands of digging. Am I supposed to wait until I find such a wand, learn an appropr...

That branch order is more of a rough draft that you shouldn't strictly follow. My ordering tends to be D until I get MR+ (basilisks and such), L:1-6, then D down to 15, then O:1-2, and then a full Lair branch 1-4, then the other one. Once all that is done, E:1-3 and V:1-4. While the last level of a ...

Thank you very much, this is invaluable. May I also ask: - When people say "get X online", as in "get fireball online", does that mean: Get the appropriate skill (e.g. fire, conjuration, or also spellcasting??) to a level which gets ... what exactly? Full spellpower? Chance of m...

I haven't played much of any DE, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think the playstyle of the two would differ a good amount. My idea was to create a spellcaster that had decent room for error without relying on kiting and luring. The jump and web shooting both have uses for escaping and fighting. ...

Is that EV boost more significant than the gargoyle AC boost? All else being equal I'd usually want AC over EV, and a -20% species with gear restrictions and normal move speed wouldn't be too oppressive I suspect. The jump strikes me as stronger, unless it has an accuracy penalty like the Barachi. ...

It's not a bad concept. The EV bonus is really high, though. Having +9EV by the final level is massive. MR can also be a fixed +5, no need to complicate.

I like how much more intuitive the maths of that approach is, but the gain from each additional pip falls off much faster than the OPs proposal. I think part of the benefit of reworking resistance percentage like this is that you can make resistance scaling a little flatter, so resistances are less...

AFAIK the manual doubles the skill points you get from experience (raising your skill apt by +4 does this), but cross-training is based on experience points, not skill points. And this is the description of my "get skills quick" schemes getting murdered. I didn't know this stuff, just saw...

In terms of spells, I'd try to get Summoning up. Butterflies and Spire can do a lot for survival. Spellcasting is also low, you might want to put points into that one too. The manual is a lucky find, with the XP rate and aptitudes from Dg you need all the help you can get. Definitely train short bla...

The current situation is that the total resistance values for rF and rC +/++/+++ are 50%/67%/80%. Each pip provides a different amount of resistance than the pip before it; if it was multiplicatively consistent (halving damage at each step), it would be 50%/75%/88%, and if it was additively consist...

From a recent splat: the worst 30405 | Desolati | Identified the ring of Tomelu {*Tele rC- MR- MP+9 SInv} | (You found it in the Desolation of Salt) the best 33875 | Crypt:1 | Identified the +11 lajatang of the Ten Shrikes {flame, | rPois rN+ Int+4} (You found it on level 1 of the Crypt)

Reading about spell hunger it seems reduction of it is directly proportional to Int so maybe it would have been better putting points into Int this early instead of Str for future dragon armours (fire or cold). Is fire/ice dragon to heavy an armour target for a blaster caster, more suitable to hybr...

Good to see you're back. Currently on Gehenna:7. Last time I took Asmodeus I'm pretty sure I used Glaciate - Fire storm will damage him, but its not optimal due to the resistable portion of damage since he has Rf+++. I could forget Ignition and Apportation, Quaff brilliance and use Glaciate to kill ...

Just by looking through your action counts, the most used spells are flame tongue, bolt of draining, and throw flame. You barely used conjure flame and fireball, both of which are solid spells. Honestly, the more recommendable caster backgrounds to start with (at least to me) would be EE or Cj. The ...

New race: Down dwarf. ⋅ Cannot use upstairs and upwards hatches. ⋅ You are immune to hatches. ⋅ You cannot teleport (but can blink). ⋅ If you stand on a downwards stairs or a downwards hatch or branch entrance the first time, you get a special ability: &s...

Entry price was piety (*** with Ash) 7891 | Trove | Entered a treasure trove 7894 | Trove | Identified the cursed amulet of Autotheism {Regen+ Str+5 | Dex+5 Stlth-} 7894 | Trove | Identified the cursed amulet "Yrata" {Harm *Drain rElec rN+ | Str-3 Int+5} 7894 | Trove | Identified the curse...

Your mentioning servitor made me realise I have a bunch of summoning Scrolls. Its probably worth using one is it helps. Do I really get 2 actions? I'm not inclined to teleport because there's like a 10% chance I'll get killed, and u think staying put is less risky than that. I remember taking a goo...

Please correct me if this is wrong, but don't you generally get 2 turns before petrification sets in? You can Glaciate, then summon Servitor or Firestorm or Glaciate the other side.

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Hello Leo. VpEn Dith is great. You're a nightlord, trying to rack up kills silently like a shade, then gorging on blood when hurt and fighting like a troll. The multiple states give a sense of fading in and out gradually of the parched and gorged forms. It's immersive and OP. There are multiple ways...

XD XD XD The Lich King is just some guy; He's not a level boss; He's just some regular dude. If he's so scary, how comes he's not a level boss XD XD XD Ok, so yes, I could have been a lot more careful around 'regular person' but to tell you the truth I was just so aghast about losing to electricity...

Testing "Two State Vampires" [Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup] Malcolm Rose Published on Apr 23, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRRJAQI8Jo&list=WL&index=3&t=0s I hate this change, it ruins Vp. Maybe I joined DCSS just at the moment the zeal for pruning went from adaptive to pa...

Aiming: Orb of Destruction (safe; 1% risk of failure) Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - ancient lich Aim: an ancient lich ... The orb of destruction hits the ancient lich!!!! The ancient lich is almost destroyed. The ancient lich launches a ball of destructive magic. You hear a shou...

(Offline) The final .txt file should be under /morgue, with the character name and date in the file name. You can copy the entire thing, post it on pastebin.com (free service, no registration needed). Once that's done, you can just copy the link and post it in this thread. For example: https://paste...

Checking over my High score log I see that I had no scrolls of blinking and 3 scrolls of teleportation. I did not have Elyvilon by my side so I would not have been able to ask for divine protection (Invulnerability shield) whilst it was charging. I also had a sword of resist electricity but it does...

delarado wrote:Will the Zot trap disappear if I trigger it?

No, they're also permanent.
Faced with this choice, I'd take the Zot trap over the teleport trap. If things get really bad really quickly, read fog and run for it.

Airwolf wrote:What's the trap nearby? Is it teleport? (I'm not a tiles player, so I don't know the glyphs.)

Dispersal trap, randomly blinks all in range.

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<- This tile is a teleport trap.

From what I can see, none of the enemies can directly blast your char now: OOFs and the Sentinel are blocked by your summons (and I think OOF fire bolts don't have the range). I'd read another summoning scroll for safety, then go for teleport, and quaff healing. Back towards the walls. Maybe read fo...

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