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I can almost write a macro to add this for you, but I can't figure out how to get crawl.sendkeys() to actually do a ctrl+c after the confirmation prompt. Can anyone tell me how to get crawl.sendkeys() to send ctrl+letter input? Or failing that, is there a way I could just call CMD_CLEAR_MAP directly...

Well, for one thing, many of the most dangerous threats in hell aren't resistible anyways. You can't stop hell effect paralysis. You can't resist hellfire. You can't (fully) resist torment (assuming you're alive). You can't completely avoid getting dumped into dangerous situations. etc. Your most va...

I think crate's pretty much got it. I'd append you probably want rF++(+) in Geh. The fire blasts seem more spammy than the other hells (that is- Geh seems to favor direct blasts more than the other Hells, where the effects are mixed up more). This could be a biased rng just giving me a false impress...

...that is now our official smiley for "ranged is overpowered".

I think it's a bit sad that hardly anyone would use the singing sword past the midgame. I have sworn an oath that as soon as I get a game where the Singing Sword actually generates, I'm going to use it for the rest of the game. I don't care how bad it breaks my current build or plans. =_= How about...

I looked up the likelihood of fear working on the high MR of the hydra, and according to the wiki it would have been practically zilch chance. Fear had a small chance of working, if it affected enough of the right things. You just have to win a tough MR roll, or few. Tele had effectively zero chanc...

...I'm sorry, I don't really see any options that will keep you alive at this point. I think you came to us too late. You won't last long enough to tele. Even if you haste up without getting mauled, you won't be able to outrun it with those mushrooms in the way. You can't possibly kill everything in...

Also, you can open your scores file in a text editor, and use copy paste to merge multiple score lists. ...assuming you have more than one list with entries you care about. If you don't, you just have to move the file.

Stone is a special case. It's the only missile that can be either thrown or launched. The idea is to make it work like an "inverted brand" when launched, dealing 2/3 damage compared to bullets. Would that mean a stone does less damage when slung than when thrown, or do I have it backwards...

Crawl rule34. In the interests of science, I must inform you this does not qualify as brainstorming. Because it already exists. Seriously, took me about a minute to find. Two to find an unambiguous example. ...let's avoid links and discussion though. Keep the board clean. I mean, kids play this gam...

For a Transmuter, it kind of depends on what forms you're using. Many meld the shield, so it's something of a waste (notably, blade hands is not shield compatible). Statue form gets to keep 'em though. ...but yeah, 5 levels to get a buckler usable for non-form defense and/or resistances isn't that b...

You're missing the point, I think. Normal weapons are reliable . You will pretty much always be able to find your chosen weapon of all but the rarest base types, you will always be able to bless/corrupt it, and you will always be able to enchant it. You can decide on turn 1 what your endgame weapon ...

It's not so much a matter of no brainers as it is one as trade offs. On the downside, artefacts cannot be enchanted up. So in the long run, any artefact below +9,+9 is inferior to what a normal weapon can reach. You also cannot chose your brand (either using enchant <foo> spells and + vorpal, or TSO...

The # comments out a line. Anything with one in front does nothing.

What file won't it let you save changes to? In any event what you want to do is open init.txt in your settings folder, and add the line runrest_stop_message = Your transformation is almost over. If it won't let you save changes, try right clicking on the file, opening properties, and making sure the...

1) can you target yourself with one? The effect is the same as firing a dart at yourself. 2) can you or an enemy be blinked into lava/deep water? Blinks aren't supposed to be directly fatal, although rapidly expiring levitation can mess this up over water, I think. There should totally be an option...

My prose was unclear. I meant to communicate this: "I can't think of how it would hurt, and it would help by reducing door dancing". It would make door dancing less effective, yes. The question is whether it needs to be. Several people (myself included) seem to be of the opinion that the ...

Webs should be flammable. I brought this up a while back and got yelled at because the reasoning is web silk is not flammable; real life webs burn because they're so thin, they can't do anything else. ...considering the apparent size of most of the explosions and bolts in the game, I'd say the assu...

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Evocable invisibility turns out to not be useless! All you need to do is play a kobold. Your absurd diet allows you to laugh at the ridiculous success rate early on, and just spam it till it works- food costs be damned. I don't think you quite understand how this works. ...you're skipping the step ...

Evocable invisibility turns out to not be useless! All you need to do is play a kobold. Your absurd diet allows you to laugh at the ridiculous success rate early on, and just spam it till it works- food costs be damned. Luckily you have good evocation apps too, so you're not going to be stuck the ou...

Char dumps are made in game by hitting #. This makes a text file of the dump in your morgues folder. Copy the text inside, and paste between code tags. [code][/code] Really, the best way to deal with Mennas is to be a heavy armour melee character. Casters are really best off avoiding him. Keeping ou...

I think we've already had the conversation that apportion does not equal wholesale telekinesis. It does one very specific thing, not a range of things. This is the reason apportion and portal projectile are not the same spell. At the very least an interaction with doors remotely would need to be sep...

Oh, you mean you want character sheets to fill out. I used to just use backs of envelopes for my nethack characters (finally- a use for all that spam they shove in college mailboxes) but it wouldn't be much harder to make a printable template to fill out if that's what you want (I'd start with the t...

Bees are already fairly dangerous and hard to hit in the early game. Hitting them at range- either to chip away at their hp once or twice before they reach melee, or even better, to poison them, is a very common tactic. I mean, bees (and ogres) are pretty much the reason you end up carrying a blowgu...

Blade wrote:tl;dr: Gameplay trumps realism, and melee isn't realistic either, so can we please agree that this thread was a bad idea and stop discussing it now

Yes.

Well, I suppose you could print out keybind.txt for a concise commands cheat sheet. Copy / paste to a word processor with columns and you could even fit in on a single page. You might want to reformat it into something nicer though. Display the vi keys in a grid, remove all the cmds and _'s, etc. Yo...

Heavy armour skills builds look something like this- weapon -> min delay. pump fighting and armour. Evasion optional, if you have good dex and/or cheap apps for it. Shields optional, stop training when the penalties go away . Likely some evocations (you'll often want a ring of lev for swamp/shoals. ...

Well, yeah. But whenever possible, I prefer some kind of justifiable in-universe lore to a simple "because that's how it was decided the game mechanics work". It's a lot more satisfying, and potentially useful to think about. A sense of how things work in-universe can be used to set up a m...

(Caution: I am now officially making things up. Specifically, transmutations lore). Why's a spider formed dragon still hurt by dragon slaying? Because deep down, he's still a dragon. In his heart. His soul. The cores of his being. That's beyond the scope of transmutation. Instead of changing the exp...

hyperevilminmikeelynaelliptic Elynae and elliptic have playstyles that are about as different as two very good players can possibly have. So no, they are very much not the same person. :p This does not strike me as outside the realm of possibility for a time traveling robot from the future running ...

why Hint: Maybe because it was the best choice in my eyes, given the information I had. ;) You mean you didn't read our big mess of options? For shame! But yeah. Hydra are fast enough that moving away at normal speed doesn't get you anything. You basically let him attack you for free. :p So there w...

Cthulhu actually does not want everyone dead. If everyone was dead there wouldn't be any snacks for it. The eternal problem of immortal murder-gods everywhere. Once you finally cut lose and murder everyone, there's no one left to murder. Well, unless you're the kind of murder-god who has the abilit...

"Making things up" and "making things up with a malicious intent" are two different things too (or rather, one can also just make stuff up when one doesn't know better). Aw hush. I don't need you pointing out my inaccuracies in my bemoaning mm cruelly slandering my inaccuracies....

"Make things ups?" mm, that's just hurtful . :P I mean, there's honest ignorance and misconception, and then there's maliciously leading people astray. :p I'll admit I'm not always right, but it's hardly deliberate, and I'm more than willing to cop to it when someone points out I've made a...

You're very close to being dead, but since he's doing no damage, you might make it. Read tele, quaff haste, and run away while waiting for the tele to kick in. Maybe throw in a heroism for more AC if you get a turn for it. You want to escape, not go for the kill. The hydra is a much better position ...

I'm willing to excuse any small inaccuracies as a DM doing it wrong, but yeah. Player: I fall on my sword. DM: Why would you want to do that? Player: Because this is going to take forever! I'd rather die. DM: ...you're not dead yet. Player: what? DM: You survive impaling yourself with your sword! Pl...

Player: Shit. DM: Okay, you failed your MR check. A tear in the fabric of reality opens, and you are swallowed alive, screaming. DM: You have been banished to the abyss. Player: Dang. Game over? DM: No, you're still alive. You have to try and find a portal back to the prime material plane before so...

...I feel the sudden urge to narrate every game ever in this style. Or at very least, the YASDs. DM: A kobold appears, wielding a glowing short sword. Player: Why's it glowing? DM: I'm not telling you. The kobold notices you, and shouts! Player: Fine, I attack before it can summon any help. DM: You ...

That kind of detailed warning sounds right up Ash's alley.

Guys, it really doesn't matter what the penalty is. As soon as a player becomes spoiled to that fact that it's not optimal to fire adjacent, they're going to adjust behavior. And as several people have explained quite clearly, kiting is a more attractive option than swapping. And we really don't nee...

Actually, I was wondering if it would be appropriate to tone done the gifts. Oka/Trog buries you in ammo- and if a much greater percent of that ammo is now useful, we could probably do with less. Possibly merits some testing in trunk. Also- how do these changes affect ammo using monsters? The +3 is ...

I'd say your third choice option is neater and more sensible than the status quo. Go for it. Well we're on the subject, you know what might be nice? If there was a line we could drop in the config to hide/remove the tutorials and hints from the menu. It's not like you ever use them after a certain p...

You want a roguelike where you play as the god?

I've totally got this covered. :lol:

I'm interested in trying this kind of character, but I have a question: how many needles of paralysis/sleeping would you want to have before you start enchanting them? If you're playing trunk, none. As of today, ammo enchantment is no more, and all ammo now mulches as if it were +3 . So you can use...

sanka wrote:being immune to ranged attack does not ruin any of their unique features.

No, it just upgrades them from an quirky annoyance to a potential major threat if they're blocking your way and lack clarity.

So you're saying HOPr isn't orc Jesus, it's orc Hitler.. Well, that's a fine line. Heck, the old testament literally has passages detailing how to exterminate the unbelievers already occupying the promised land. And for all the good values most religions espouse, governments that learn heavily on l...

Try alt + enter. That toggles rpgmaker games from windowed to full-screen for me at least (if you've got a mac, or a different keyboard layout, the shortcut could conceivably be different).

Orb of destruction. Inner flame.

...isn't it wonderful how many ways we have to literally make things explode? :lol:

It's okay. Trying to justify political humor that depends on one party not being chaotic and contradictory is rather impossible regardless of your state of wakefulness, alertness, and/or soberness/drunkenness. Although if we were going to fool around with gods' political leanings... (let's ignore fo...

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