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The trap system overhaul in 0.23 has been criticized several times including by me in another recent topic . Now look what happened to Nebukadnezar who still tries to beat his own 15-rune streak record of 21 consecutive wins: 3609 | D:4 | You fall into a shaft and drop 3 floors! 3610 | D:7 | // 3 fl...

Oh...

I overlooked this:

Code:: i - a potion of invisibility

Thanks to Nebukadnezar who looked at the morgue file.

But I'm not sure if this will generally change my mind about the new trap system. I don't like it.

grinrain wrote:Suggest for next combination to try? or should I try and do better than a 3 rune win?

Which species, which background, which god, how many runes -
you'll have the most fun (and very likely do your best) when you pick what you like most!

ebering wrote:I can say this until I'm blue in the face.

I found a foto of you!

z - the +5 helmet of Daffodils (worn) {rC+ Slay+5} (You found it on level 10 of the Dungeon) Off topic: Miss Piggy from the Muppet Show once tried to recite the poem The Daffodils : The Daffodils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K2QsqED9S8 About Frank Oz (* 1944) who performs Miss Piggy: h...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Ways to avoid death?

Press Esc when you get the 'Please select your species' message.

Congrats! The game lasted 06:52:38 (15429 turns). WATT!? Incredible... Tomb:3 was extremely lucky experience: I teleported from the start, landed in los of golden rune, read ?tele again, apported it, and landed in los of stairs. This - and some other situations in your game - reminds me (again) of a...

I don't know if some of the "worst" spells are really so bad

... because...

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So that's the end of that one, and I can't for the life of me figure out what happened. [...] I was on the upstair with an "Almost dead" titan and a two headed ogre next to me. You don't have any idea? I have some. ⋅ Do you know that taking a stair takes more than one turn? lear...

That's like a centaur/stone giant killing himself by shooting/throwing a rock at you - only better.

22143 | Orc:1 | HP: 4/82 [poisoned by an orange demon] 22148 | Orc:1 | HP: 2/82 [poisoned by an orange demon] 22153 | Orc:1 | HP: 2/82 [poisoned by an orange demon] 22160 | Orc:1 | HP: 1/82 [poisoned by an orange demon] 22168 | Orc:1 | HP: 1/82 [poisoned by an orange demon] This looks like a very c...

M - 5 potions of haste
Q - 15 potions of heal wounds

m - Death's Door Chrm/Necr ########.. 2% 8 None

What skills should I choose next? - Level 24.5 Spellcasting - Level 19.0 Conjurations - Level 19.0 Fire Magic A while ago there were discussions in this forum if "spellcasting" (SPC) should be renamed as it misleads new players to overrate it. Note that spellpower is the most important th...

This is in fact a nasty swamp ending. I'd delay it and do spider first.

delarado wrote:Is there any way to avoid this?

There is only one solution if you don't want to be shafted. But it's very easy:

don't play crawl!

Things I learnt... [...] Lich form is great. I'm not going to stop using it permanently. The benefits in extended outweigh not being able to quaff. There is a quite experienced tavern member (starting with 'd'), usually calling necromutation the worst spell in the game. I wonder what he thinks when...

TheInsanity556 wrote: I honestly should have left the Zigg when [...]

If you look at Famous last words you'll find

"I'll just do one more zig floor" and
"I should have..."

right on the first page.

Don't be overconfident next time - and good luck.

Vanguardan wrote:I cleared D:1 which was pretty tame. I then went down the stairs to D:2 and immediately took 120 damage from that ring-of-humans V:5-esque vault. 10/10 would play again.

But you have to admit that the name Quickcrawl is totally right...

translocations need damage I'm not sure if we need damage for tLoc - but do you know that we already had a lev-9 tLoc spell which did a lot of damage? It was kind of a (small) black hole you could create. But for some reason, singularity , added in 0.16, was already removed in 0.17. Slightly off to...

New Crawl players will never get to experience...

... how easy it was in earlier versions to fight an illusion of my char, a clone woven by mara. The illusion clumsily hit me with a bread ration!

Today I experienced a new message when my char died:

Code:: You die...

No, this one is not the new message...

But afterwards, a window on CXC popped up:

Code:: Unfortunately, your game ended unexpectedly.

The last level of the vaults had one silver rune in each of the four parts, this was a bug in a trunk version. I don't know the version number - I think it was two or three years ago.

Finding four silver runes in Vaults:5.

But I do think making Abyss the sole option for farming is a bad idea. Well, there's another idea if you mean "more XP" with farming. You can do Zot 1-4 after you have collected three runes. This should be doable for most chars, especially if you have sources of invisibility (draconians c...

Roxanne is hanging out 4 tiles from the entrance of the swamp. Should I attempt it or is there other options. Roxanne can't see invisible and you have a potion of invisibility in your backpack. So you can fight her if you want to. In earlier versions of DCSS you received some penalty when you went ...

I don't like it when a ghost craP appears in shoals.
And after you have paralyzed it a thorn hunter appears.
And after you have started berserk vs thorn hunter the ghost craP comes back.

RIP DsTm

Enter dungeon:
Man with Harmonica (Ennio Morricone)

Faith, guardian spirit, and rage are just better than any of the other amulets by a huge margin. That's similar to hellmonk s advice in the learnDB : quick amulet guide: faith is really good, gourm is useless, [guardian spirit] is really good, inacc is worse than no amulet, rage is really good, reg...

Three things from my personal experience concerning questions above: ⋅ I don't dare to do snake/spider without rPois (tough players do, I know) ⋅ I don't dare to do ice caves without rC+ ⋅ duvessa's spell guide and tier lists are really good for looking things up - no m...

Oh, and btw, what is the code to put my morgue file directly in my post? I always seem to forget that. Just use code tags like this: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21.1-1-g345015f (webtiles) character file. TheMadToker the Frost Mage (DsIE) Turns: 30073, Time: 08:09:41 Health: 17/144 AC: 26 Str...

And let's celebrate 16.1 k turns with Offenbach's Can Can

Incredible score. Congrats! I had a short look at the above mentioned morgue file and it's interesting that Borgnjor's Clutch was used even more often than Unarmed Melee. Some numbers from "Action total": Borgnjor's Vile Clutch - 1237 Melee: Unarmed - 952 (+ Bite: 251) Passage of Golubria ...

What do you mean with "Let Felid wear boots"? Something like this?

A limerick with caster and faster - that reminds me of something...

One player just couldn't believe how 4thArra played so fast - and this limerick was my answer. :-)

Zap-zapper wrote:Why everything wants you dead?

Because they get XP for killing your char.

The book of minor magic contains a lot of beautiful spells Agreed. (And the book even had rMsl in earlier versions.) However, it lacks punching power. Agreed. It feels like a splendid book to find on D:1-11, if you already have another one, or if you are a fighter interested in hybridizing. Agreed....

Some more limericks are here: Divine Limericks.

Killing or even stabbing things in dragon form is still fun. I already made a post in this topic about an OpFi in dragon form , stabbing with '!!!!!' (72-143 damage). In a recent game, a green DrWn of Ely with already 25 UC in dragon form, I even got '!!!!!!' (144 - 287 damage): 58596 | Zot:1 | //Th...

Memorable moments: [...] Some game in #17-#19: Orbrun without the Orb. Chat noticed it first that I was standing on the Exit without the Orb. It was the BaFi ^ Oka game in which this happened. Here's some of the code: 109363 | Zot:5 | Gained mutation: You have sharp toenails. [potion of mutation] [...

Related post: An apple named KIKU

Siegurt wrote:[...] wait until an orb spider sends an orb at you, then use lesser beckoning to pull him in front of his own orb so he blows himself up [...]

Xom howls with laughter!

Some details of the above mentioned morgue file: 17029 | Pan | Noticed Mnoleg 17052 | Pan | Killed Mnoleg 17488 | Pan | Noticed Cerebov 17703 | Pan | Killed Cerebov 17817 | Pan | Noticed Wus Dat the pandemonium lord 17818 | Pan | Killed from afar by Wus Dat the pandemonium lord Yet another unfair de...

In CXC chat Charly told us that one of his recent chars got instant 200 damage by shatter. Well, that's especially painful when the actual HP were below 200. 711775 Charly the Portalist (level 25, -41/267 HPs) Began as a Centaur Transmuter on Oct 19, 2017. Was a High Priest of Cheibriados. Killed by...

Probably the first time I play with the Warlocks's Mirror which was introduced in 0.18.

18920 | Slime:3 | //The shining eye gazes at you. Your +3 warlock's mirror {reflect, !d} reflects the Malmutate! The shining eye twists and deforms.

Lesson: How to kill things in the dungeon. Today: sky beasts Turgon the Cleaver (Octopode Ice Elementalist) Turns: 3818, Time: 00:56:59 Health: 33/51 AC: 6 Str: 8 XL: 9 Next: 20% Magic: 0/12 EV: 14 Int: 18 God: Ashenzari [*.....] Gold: 153 SH: 0 Dex: 16 Spells: 4/12 levels left [...] I - Summon Ice...

It's unlikely to get a score like this in newer versions, right. We had a recent discussion if 0.16 or 0.17 was better for speedruns (as control teleport was available in 0.16) but probably 0.17 is the best version. A ring of teleportation saves a lot of turns if you can activate it. This was possib...

Congrats!

I saw the beginning but didn't know it would be a game like that...

One thing that really surprised me is

Code:: 10975 | Lair:8 | Killed a death yak 11097 | D:10 | Learned a level 6 spell: Deflect Missiles

122 turns from L:8 back to dungeon!

Starting a chaos knight and worshipping the unpredictable Xom is a special challenge. Recently I saw several CK games on CXC server, Yermak being one of the players. Usually the players keep Xom - I think just because that's the main idea of a chaos knight. One challenge is to get a chaos knight com...

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Evaporate I'd like to add that evaporate (combined with fulsome distillation which created potions) was removed in 0.12 probably because ⋅ the created potions were too strong (well, this could be fixed) ⋅ the player had to carry around...

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Yet another shaft death ended streak of Nebukadnezar

Bad luck or yet another shaft death?

New message on death

Re: Streak of 15-rune games

YAD - 200 damage - OUCH! That really hurt!

Re: I love it when...

Comboscores: Xom conduct for chaos knights