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DD is most definitely faster than both, but finding an early makhleb altar is such a pain. Most of the time I've discovered lair before makhleb. [...] I suspect I'll have to switch to DD if I want that 19k turncount. In my opinion you want to take too many steps at once. Your fastest (online) 15-ru...

Ok, it's "titanic". But 87 damage!! Each slime adds 22 to max damage. Titanic has 5 slimes merged, so the max is 110. Don't worry, d3k0, some months ago a very experienced player lost a char in the slime pits in a single turn to a titanic creature. He was surprised as well as he didn't kn...

duvessa wrote:On most levels, the game tries to generate 3d10 monsters.
[...]
Otherwise [the game] generates 3+3d11 items.

I've played this game for so many years and there's still a lot I can learn about it. I didn't know how monster/item generation worked. Thanks!

First of all: a) octopodes are an interesting species b) running around with 1 AC hurts, octopodes have a low winrate There have been some discussions in this forum, e.g. ⋅ Berder's melee octopode formula (Jan 2015) ⋅ How to win a melee octopode on a streak? (Feb 2016) Although...

I seriously wonder why I hear so little about how astonishingly bad nagas are. I'll give you one reason. !gamesby Turgon Na Turgon (Na) has played 5 games, between 2012-03-14 [...] and 2014-01-06 [..], won 0, high score 24212 [...] Although I always thought they were an interesting species (rPois, ...

is early altar + good weapon good enough [...] ?" Charly once said that these two things are very important. Indeed, they are basic necessities. or do you need the RNG to be favouring you every step of the way to even approach 19k? Here again a well-known quotation: "you need luck in ever...

That's from CXC chat today with some interesting thoughts about 0.20: ******* Turgon: Nevertheless 0.20 is a step to make extended harder Turgon: Consider your berserkitis which caused you some trouble 4thArraOfDagon: yea 4thArraOfDagon: the truth is 4thArraOfDagon: nothing is unapproachable 4thArra...

Dad, here's a weird looking man!
Is a scythe dangerous?

Dad, what does confused mean?

I guess it's a cursed sling, so he couldn't take it off and put on a regular weapon even if he had one. Well, this was the point of the topic. Joseph is dangerous when he shoots with his sling. But for hand-to-hand combat he will usually switch to his weapon - but he couldn't do it this time! Slain...

I started this topic two weeks ago, and I'm *very* surprised that there were so many answers. It was interesting to read gammafunks post when he reported tournament results : Statistics and Final Thoughts [...] One statistic was significantly higher this tournament than we expected: the win rate. Wi...

I didn't find the new player species gnoll (formerly known as bultungin) in the wiki. ******* Edit: Oh, I just saw this species in trunk but they have been disabled for 0.20. Gnolls, the new species that senses items and have a short attention span, have been disabled for the next release. This was ...

My whole point for this small topic is nothing much, but unarmed should be able to take advantage of offensive egos if need be [...] Well, there are kind of brands for unarmed fighters when you learn transmutations: ⋅ venom (spider form) ⋅ freezing (ice form) ⋅ claws +...

Majang wrote:You don't belong here without any rC.

I agree as well. I always considered rC+ to be mandatory in the ice caves.

tasonir wrote:Not to mention he was in tree form, with bonus AC and health [...]

Right. When I suddenly saw joseph I quaffed unid' potions, hoping to get heal wounds, and one of the potions was lignification. And then joseph came and started hitting me with his sling. Strange game ending!

Although I started playing 0.19 again after the tourney was over I have to admit that it was interesting to have a new challenge in tomb.

Joseph killed my octopode with a hunting sling. 599 Turgon the Sneak (level 7, -5/46 HPs) Began as an Octopode Wanderer on June 8, 2017. Was an Initiate of Ashenzari. Slain by Joseph ... wielding a cursed -1 hunting sling (8 damage) ... on level 7 of the Dungeon. The game lasted 00:26:27 (2158 turns...

Doesnt wrote:
Code:
t - Shout! [...] _Attack! Psyche hits herself but does no damage.

That's fun as well. How did she do this?

Queen Cassie wrote:Replace everything with bats.

I'd bat that this is a bat idea. You'd batter go to your bat and sleep.

My recent char saw a hippogriff on D:3 ?!? I don't remember anything similar in any of my games, and I started webtiles with version 0.9. Removing the yellow wands has also meant that when you're silenced, you're more often just stuck. I agree. No wand of telep when you are silenced is a problem. Ta...

That's a lot of feedback, thanks to all of you for your answers! There are three categories of criticism I made above: ⋅ Facts that made the game harder for a weak species: removal of rMsl spell ( ouch! ), removal of dig ability of wand disint, removal of yellow wands, orb status in zot. &...

Alright, let's talk about the 0.20 problems from a point of an octopode player who wants to get 15 runes. Some things have been mentioned above: ⋅ Removal of wands of ⋅ hasting (most important) ⋅ teleportation ⋅ healing (imo not that important - you usually fi...

Thanks for starting the 0.20 tourney...

... but I'm out.

I continue with 0.19.

Magipi wrote:You forgot about shadow traps. They completely ruin 0.16

I agree that shadow traps were a serious mistake as well.

I'm interested in your experience. You die... You die... You die... Could you elaborate a bit about what is more difficult? I.e. specific changes and consequences? There are many things which want me to play 0.19 again. (After my char was killed with an orc's wand of acid, I'm actually not in the m...

Topic says all, doesn't it?

And I have played this game for many years.

And well, this belongs to GDD but it would probably be moved here.

My OpFi of Ash, starting in the 0.20 tourney, already has 3 runes, still looking for statue form (-> "I don't love it when..."). However, he does his job in dragon form at the moment - and stabbing in dragon form is funny. 28667 | Depths:4 | //The helpless golden dragon fails to defend its...

Does time pass on dungeon floors other than the one currently visited by the character? This depends on how fast you are playing. When your speed gets close to speed of light - e.g. when you tab through the game - we must consider relativistic effects. In this case, your time passes faster. For det...

advil wrote:The bart/4tharraofdagon case you've noticed is something entirely different -- those players have accounts (on different servers) under both capitalizations.

Oh, I didn't know this.

Thanks for your answer.

It does appear that the case-preserving in the tournament scripts is behaving oddly (& not consistently), but this is harmless and won't affect anything. I agree that it probably won't affect the tourney scores . But I suppose it will affect the all time highscores . Did you check the combo hig...

In the 0.20 tourney I started with my usual nickname Turgon , always written with upper case letter 'T'. I'm surprised that the scoring tables use a lower case letter 't', mistakenly writing turgon http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.20/players/turgon.html http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.20/clans/tu...

The initial idea was the question if I should activate dForm for saving turns :-)

In the meantime my char found regeneration spell and the problem is solved anyway.

However, thanks for your answers.

Well, it's a 0.19 game.

Does dragon form provide regeneration? If so, how much? There are different pieces of information: Dragon Form is a level 7 Transmutations spell [...] Pros: [...] Regeneration wiki/Dragon_form On the other hand, wiki/regeneration rate doesn't tell anything, neither do learnDB#regeneration or learnDB...

I found these mutation pages from 0.14:

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Good_mutations
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Bad_mutations
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Jiyva_mutations

Btw, demonspawn mutations are up to date (0.19)

Zargon wrote:Not in the game
Avada Kedavra (the death curse)

You never played with Xom, did you?

In the last week I wasn't able to read that

MainiacJoe wrote:the security certificate for crawl.develz.org has expired

because the security certificate for crawl.develz.org has expired.

Sadly, he did not have rCorr and got melted by a caustic shrike My condolences. In your first post I found the following: g - 5 potions of resistance Did you have potions left when you were attacked by the caustic shrike? Potions of resistance grant rCorr as well (that was new in version 0.15 or so...

I don't make a new thread, I just add this game. My DsCK was fighting an orc wizard on D:6 and found himself in the abyss next turn. What?? Orc wizards can banish? Of course they can't. It was somebody else. 1582 | D:5 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 28/52 MP: 7/7 1904 | D:6 | XOM: medium Tloc miscast 190...

Killed by friendly fire...

"Friendly fire is an attack by a military force on non-enemy, own, allied or neutral, forces while attempting to attack the enemy, either by misidentifying the target as hostile, or due to errors or inaccuracy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire

Yet Another Xom Death Speedrunning is one challenge in crawl, playing a chaos knight (and keeping Xom) is another. Combining both, speedrunning with a CK of Xom, is something I did in some of my games. Of course, it would be more interesting if my boss wouldn't enjoy killing my chars... The followi...

I'd like to add a link to a slightly related topic/poll from March 2015: Which Weapon Type is Best?

I personally voted for polearms.

Sapher is actually streaking trolls, and in his recent TrSk game I saw the following:

Code:: z - amulet "Feybry" {Reflect rPois rF+ rC+ MR+ SH+3}

Ouch.

Remove torment Am I right that you asked to remove torment because you had problems to deal with it? In this case I'd like to mention again an old (2011!) but still useful post of evilmike where you can get some help. (Please don't discuss these tips here as we are in the Game Design Discussion for...

This was my best character by far, I was just destroying everything. Got cocky and thought I could handle and ancient lich. My condolences. Two comments: ⋅ Although the top killer statistic doesn't show it overconfidence has always been the #1 killer by far. ⋅ There are several ...

[Remove torment because] 2. It forces player to pick TSO or makh if he wants to go extended because other gods provide no means to sustain torment damage in fight Let's ask the statistics if there were any 15-runers without TSO or Makhleb... !lg * won urune=15 s=god 12506 games for * (won urune=15)...

Don't forget this epic bug:

Code:: cursed ring "Diygosh" {Str+2 Int+3 Slay+150}

https://loom.shalott.org/learndb.html#epic_bugs

[...] D:4 *cumul* 4000 turn wolf spider [...] unfair. (All of them definitely *can* happen) Mhmm, play a bit faster to avoid out of depths monsters? Like Sapher in this game 4453 | Shoals:5 | Got a barnacled rune of Zot or Charly here ? 4627 | Swamp:5 | Got a decaying rune of Zot

ThreeInvisibleDucks wrote:In my experience, BH wipes out everything quickly enough that [an octopode] can even disregard defenses.

The ettin hits you with a giant club!!!! (2x)

ThreeInvisibleDucks wrote:What other effect would post-27 skills have?

If N was the new skill maximum quite a lot players would push their skills to N (or die before they reach N because of bad skilling strategy).

ThreeInvisibleDucks wrote:Great:
Blade Hands (Tmut 5)

I don't think so.

With (often) 1 AC Blade Hands is a dubious choice. It greatly increases your damage output but doesn't help your defense at all.

Every tMut spell which buffs octopodes' AC (ice form, statue, even dragon form) is better.

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YAD - this hunting sling was too strong

0.20 is so hard that crawl is no fun any longer

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Re: 0.20 Tournament: upper/lower case letter

Re: 0.20 Tournament: upper/lower case letter

0.20 Tournament: upper/lower case letter [solved]

Re: Regeneration in dragon form

Regeneration in dragon form

YAXD - same procedure as last year, Xom?

Re: Tweak early out-of-depth mob spawn