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Skills multiply base damage, but don't multiply enchantments or slaying bonus. Therefore, base damage is more important than enchantment level. This usually means you should switch to the higher tier weapon as soon as you have it and have enough skill to use it at a reasonable delay. The only time y...

If you're asking whether you should sometimes use a better weapon untrained than a worse weapon which you have training for, I'd say the answer is usually no. They're generally (except for short blades) going to have a delay of more than 1.0 turns, and since most enemies have 1.0 as their attack del...

It let me leave answers blank when I filled it out.

When I said genre, I didn't mean to imply theme/flavour. It doesn't really matter to me whether it's in a dungeon or space or whatever. I meant genre as in FPS, JRPG, etc. To me that simplifies the question to "What genre best describes the game?" It's clear that "roguelike" best...

I wish the word would be used as a genre instead of as a descriptor for anything hard with maybe permadeath and maybe procedural generation. It's at the point where Company X says "Hey, we're making a roguelike," and they've basically said nothing about the game. Is the game in the same ge...

I wonder if the demigod bonuses just aren't obvious or clear enough. It's obviously not the problem for those posting here, who know how the stats work, but when it comes to counting games played/won, it might explain why Dg is low on the list. I wonder how many players notice the stats or the effec...

Checking downstairs is riskier, because you're going to an unexplored level. The first time you enter a new level you get to act first, but not on subsequent entrances, so you're costing yourself that benefit as well. It's much better to take unexplored up staircases after getting to the next level ...

I will not proclaim to be any sort of expert on stabbers (I've hardly ever played them), but if you want late game killing ability, you might find it easier to just pick Nem and use evocations instead of training Conj. I have a SpAr win that was basically meleeing stuff with an unbranded quick blade...

The spell schools are the biggest impact. Spellcasting and Int are also involved, and heavy armour has a big effect. For heavy armour characters, just take off your armour, memorize the spell, then put your armour back on. (It'll still be 100% fail, but now you can train the spell school.) If taking...

You can inscribe an item to have Crawl remind you not to attack with it. Press { to inscribe, pick the staff of wizardry, and inscribe it with "!a" (without the quotes, of course). Then if you try to attack with it, the game will remind you it's equipped and ask if you really want to. Anot...

Is this in trunk? It seems like it could be related to wheals' comment on this.

6) If you see an altar of Elyvilon, TSO or Zin, you can worship them for free, because if you abandon them, their wrath never kicks in unless you worship one of the evil gods, of which Jiyva is not one. Even if you don't train invo at all, or decide to use their abilities at all, they have a chance...

LearnDB has the following entries on penance, which mostly covers what you're after: 1. With every god (not just yours), you have a penance number, which can be increased for long-term punishment. For every 1% of an XL you gain, there's a 10% chance of any particular god angry at you attempting divi...

I played Nethack ages ago, but I'm not sure I can say it got me into the genre. I quit when, if I recall correctly, a trap (or something) polymorphed me into a kitten, and then a pack of wolves showed up. Dredmor is really what got me solidly into the genre, and I graduated from that to ToME. Last s...

There's an upcoming game called Crypt of the NecroDancer which is basically built around this idea... DDR-pad compatible lol.

Just to point this out (since op didn't know what god to pick, they may not know why Oka is the top suggestion), the reason Okawaru is considered a good pick is because you can make heavy use of Heroism. It's +5 to all your combat skills, which is excellent for unarmed combat, because you get delay ...

Also if mutations were easily curable, mutation roulette would probably become viable or even optimal depending on just how common we're talking.

Hopeless wrote:
crate wrote:Lava orcs were in .14 trunk.
They are not in .14 stable.

In that case I am wondering why I was unable to download the .14 trunk version. :/

When a version is made stable, trunk's version number gets bumped up one. What was 0.14 trunk is now 0.15 trunk.

I agree with Knight: great theme, would rather not have to dare it. Heck, I had boots of flying and no rPois on my current DDFi, and I still would've rather wandered into Swamp lol. Shoals was tearing me up a bit. But I'm probably just still bad at DD. I feel like the only really threatening foes on...

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Code:: You finish putting on the +3 cloak "Khagriwk" {+Fly rF+ MR++ Dam+4}.

Don't do Tomb with a DD of Trog. I'm actually reasonably sure it can be done, but it's so bloody tedious. It's bad when losing a character feels like a relief.

Middle-click to copy does appear to work in PuTTY on Windows. Be careful not to right-click, it seems to send a bunch of keystrokes to the server (I think it's just whatever you had highlighted, presumably to make a shortcut for resending console commands). Alternatively right-click the title bar an...

Judging from the map in the morgue file (which appears to be unexplored in every direction), and from the fact that very few turns on D:9 are recorded in the morgue (only 11, though clearly more were spent there), it looks like OP encountered this shortly or immediately after heading down the stairs...

The existing formula gives stats+14 at 160 piety, while your formula gives stats+15 at 160 piety. Otherwise the two are the same. Hence the "Fudging this slightly to agree with ****** piety" comment. They presumably want to give the 15th and final stat point when you hit ****** piety, whic...

The spell blink. You wouldn't even have needed to train translocations; I just checked in wizard mode and with your stats and skills, along with that ring of wizardry, it would already have been at 5% fail rate. Random blink isn't quite as nice as the scroll, of course, but it's still very handy and...

Grats on the win! Best thing to do is just remove the list of vanquished creatures. It's not terribly informative, in part because it's so long, and in part because a lot of the significant creatures are listed in the Notes section of your morgue (for example, the seven orbs of fire that Zot:5 greet...

Vamp axes are pretty great, though I'd hesitate to say OP. (For example, not so great at all in extended.) Certainly though, a vamp battleaxe played a large part in getting my DsWr to victory. Having it on a DD, of course, is even nicer. You do have to be very careful with certain enemies, though. I...

Here's mine:

You hear an explosion!

Immediately thereafter the IRC bots informed me that I had killed a DECj ghost, despite having not actually encountered it. (My best guess is that it blew itself up fighting something I'd pacified with Ely.)

Because that M&F is basically only good for hydra... you need it for nothing else (and don't really need it for hydra either). That XP could have gone into Fighting, Armour or Dodging and any of that would have been more valuable than M&F, which you may never even use again. Even some Traps ...

Depends. a DEFE of Vehumet will love it. For melee dude who just wants buff spells it's bad. (Especially since many buff spells only scale duration with spellpower.) It means you'll need to dump more XP into spell schools to get the same success rates you'd otherwise have had. I'm not sure exactly h...

Another thing that should work: I just checked on wizmode, and if you're an axe wielder, then you can use Ctrl+Dir to attack, and even if there is nothing in the square you target, your cleave will still hit six of the other seven squares around you. So in a completely open space, an axe wielder can...

You could try an IE and hybridize to polearms (Mf), long blades (HE), anything (Hu) and so forth rather than staying pure caster. There are a couple MfIE threads on front page of The Tavern atm you can look at. You could try a DrMo or DrTm, both of which will almost certainly hybridize into magic la...

In your inventory look at the weapon you're interested in, and the game will tell you its delay as a %. For example, that hand axe has a delay of 130%. Generally we leave off the last digit and call that a delay of 13. That means it takes 13 aut (or 1.3 turns) to swing the axe with no Axes skill. A ...

In general, you probably shouldn't quaff un-ID'd potions, and shouldn't quaff !mutation once you know what it is. There are exceptions (fatally poisoned and hoping to find !curing is the standard one), but usually you should just wait until you've got ID scrolls. If it's just that you really enjoy t...

According to the eenie-meenie-miney-moe method, it should be Gr.

Okay, I wrote that poorly. It needed a hyphen.

Don't read unidentified scrolls in an attempt to ID them whilst standing next to your BiA-summoned berzerking ogre, lest they turn out to be immolation and you become the target of said ogre's rage.

No penance, just the summoned ally turned hostile.

On a related note, don't read ID scrolls while standing next to your brothers in arms. They're not very understanding about that.

Staff of Earth has a (2*Evoc + Earth)/30 chance of dealing an extra random2(1.25*(Evoc/2 + Earth)) damage. With 27 Earth and around 5-6 Evo, that gives about 1d37-1 bonus damage per attack, if I've got that right.

UC needs to get to 22 on this character. UC reduces unarmed attack delay by 0.1 every 5.4 skill. Because they're with Oka, having 22 UC will give them 0.6 attack speed without heroism and 0.5 attack speed with heroism. I'd do that before Shields (either relying on heroism to boost Shields to 15 in a...

Start a new game (you don't want to wizmode your current character and invalidate it). If you were playing online, I'd just download the offline client for this (get the same version). Once in the game type & to get the wizmode menu. I think the first time you do this you get the warning that it...

At 0 polearms skill, a trident (9 dmg, 13 delay) does almost as much damage per turn as a scythe (14 dmg, 20 delay), and that's ignoring the trident's better accuracy. At 16 polearms skill (min. delay for trident) the trident is doing ~15 dmg/turn (if it hits) while the scythe is doing 10. You'd hav...

Grats on your first win.

You have to expect one or another thing to be missing like that, it's not super uncommon. In the 3-rune game I just finished I found four amulets all game: faith, rage, inacc, and conservation (and I already had the cloak!). It just goes that way sometimes.

You should feel free to use Heroism much more often when you do play Oka. It's really low cost, so you don't have to worry about that, and +5 skill on everything means you don't need as much in each individual skill, freeing up a lot of XP for other things. It's similar to Ash's skill benefits in th...

It appears to be, yes.

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Nah, it's fine, just wasn't sure how the system worked. Cheers.

Interesting, that does make sense. It looks like that bug report is for 0.10. Should I somehow update it or post a new one, since this happened in 0.12?

If you blunder into a zot trap, and it turns you into a bat, move away from the trap before waiting for the transformation to wear off, else you will trigger it a second time. x_x

(I got lucky. Some fire miscast effect and I had rF+++.)

They're completely fooled by invisibility, typically, but not if they see you when you turn invisible. This is good enough if you're just trying to sneak past them or pick up some loot in their line of sight. You could also try to hit them with an aoe attack that would let you attack from outside lo...

And what did you think of the dragon pool lair ending? No matter how much I test vaults I still get surprised by how they play in the flow of a game. I always get excited and then realize I'm about to get killed because I'm used to goofing around in them in wizmode. I generally recognize it and ski...

If you edit the dump_order option in your init.txt or rcfile to include vaults in the list, your dump will include the list of vaults you've seen, but only after you've either won or lost. Here's my dump_order as an example: dump_order = header,hiscore,stats,misc,mutations,skills,spells,inventory du...

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