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Here's one for you guys-- what's better for stealth, a cloak of darkness or an elven cloak, assuming you can evoke the cloak of darkness?

Invisibility has become kind of confusing. Does it help me stab?

My spear-using Demon is still doing pretty well, XL13. I think it's basically my game to lose, at this point. Not sure whether to attempt clearing Dungeon, Lair, or Swamp first. It seems like Spider has been generated too, I'll tactfully avoid that branch after being killed on the stairs last game.

This was a serious proposal... *shrug*

The trick is not to eat them raw.

Wow, OK. That's actually pretty excellent for a spellcaster. Maybe I shouldn't have rushed to Okawaru's alter, haha. This Demonspawn is basically doing the best out of all of them, just being a spearmaster. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-921-g3f17ee7 (tiles) character file. Britnee the Spe...

Argh, but now I've found staves of wizardry and conjuration, too.... maybe I could still spellcast with this mutation?

My latest Venom Mage: "You feel your magical essence form a protective shroud around your flesh." Welp, going melee. Which ranged launcher should I go for? Slings, bows, crossbows... throwing? Obviously I'll go Oka. I've found some slings, and I have an elven buckler... http://www.bagofgam...

Honestly, I liked it much better when the aptitudes were displayed as percentage-like values rather than positive and negative numbers. I'm not suggesting we go back to that; just an observation.

Huh, I didn't know that.

I'm not suggesting removing the negatives and making them more powerful.

I'm suggesting changing their base experience threshhold so that we see those negatives as zeros.

Certain species, like Demigod, Demonspawn, and others have negative aptitudes in things that they simply must level to survive. I really think this send the wrong message to new players, and was one of the things that greatly confused me when I first started playing. Can't we change the master exper...

@galehar Have I been playing it wrong or something? Most of the time the horrible aptitudes of a mino in spellcasting, combined with the asf of plate mail made it impossible for me to cast anything. I could have a DeCj hold a weapon, but staves of conj or whatever seem more productive. Your Mino mi...

Enjoy it while it lasts! The RNG blessed you, don't feel guilty.

Suggestions: "Being hungry helps you choke down the raw flesh." "Hunger makes the raw flesh palatable." "Hunger makes the raw flesh edible." Honestly, the first time I played Crawl I was convinced that there was a way to prepare monster flesh to make it taste better. I ...

My strategy almost worked, I had a great Venom Mage that switched to earth and conjurations, I had Stone Arrow online and was ready to switch to LRD and Iron Shot. I stupidly went toe-to-toe with St Roka at XL12 and YASD. Heres a question: What do I use as a stealthy upgrade to Stone Arrow? I want a...

I tried Berserker of Trog. It was okay, not particularly better than Venom Mage. That one, I was planning on going spears, and then I became monstrous... -_- I had to switch to unarmed. Current plan of attack: DsVM, make your skills lean and go conjurations+earth+stealth. Worship Vehumet (or Sif or ...

Demonspawn are quite challenging indeed. I think I had less trouble with my mummy. It's hard to stay ahead of the power curve and survive. With the Venom Mage, I simply had nowhere else to go than D... Spider was incredibly deadly to my character (even with rPois) and Shoals was very dangerous as we...

Nice. I like to listen to OCRemixes of games with similar themes, like FF remixes.

There's also the issue of rewarding the player for doing an action that is correct. As it is, every time a player eats a white chunk, they see that message, and they feel a little bad. It's a weird sort of negative enforcement. I've been playing roguelikes for over ten years and I still feel "a...

Worth noting that the flavor message can help you tell if your Gourmand amulet has kicked in or not and how far along it is. It's not a major deal, but it's nice to know that the chunks I'm eating aren't doing any good at the moment rather than get a "You eat a chunk", which tells me noth...

I've got a Demonspawn Venom Mage doing quite well right now. Basically a fire elementalist of Sif Muna right now. I'm at Lair and Spider and Shoals are available, though... hard branches. EDIT: Died in the dungeon to Norris. :-( Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-921-g3f17ee7 (tiles) character...

Hey guys, King's Ascent is up on Kong now! We have a trailer and post-mortem now too. My team worked for a whole year on this game, we're proud of it. King's Ascent is a platformer where you drop bricks on a pursuing monster. It has a very detailed story with voice acting, and some pretty cool graph...

One minor thing that bugs me about Crawl and other roguelikes is "The raw flesh tastes terrible!" message. There's nothing bad about eating raw flesh in the game, in fact you basically have to do it. Why constantly generate a message that makes you feel like you're doing something wrong? W...

Berserking, esp. with Axes (cleave is awesome for crowds), high AC, and an antimagic weapon, stacks up pretty well against spellcasting. Ds only have average HP (and below average weapon apts), which makes it a bit harder, but still Berserkers are decidedly easy-mode, at least for 3-runing.Just got...

Argh, my Venom Mage died too! I got past temple but I couldn't kill imps and wights and stuff. I had Makhleb but it took too long to get destruction up, I never got to two stars before I got killed on D8. So many open levels on this run... argh, haha. I've never ascended a berserker of Trog, I can't...

Try DsFi, they are easier IMHO. I have played Ds just once and it got 15 runes so I stopped playing Ds to have 100% win rate for the race :) Hahaha! DsFighter? That's an interesting choice. I went full spellcaster because they've been feeling fragile. I have a XL4 Ds Venom Mage right now, because m...

Second character! Sigmund wielding a holy wrath scythe on D2! OMG why! I survived him and escaped, though. Time to sneak onto floor 3.

Argh! Doubleteamed by Orc wizards! YASD!

I forgot how hard it was to win with Demonspawn. Ow, my pride... Third character...

Ahoy there all! Rosstin here! I wanted to get back into Crawl, so I decided to try ascending a race I'd never won before. So far I've won with a Merfolk, Minotaur, Deep Dwarf, and (almost) a Mummy. I rolled a random and got Demonspawn! So, here goes, going to try and ascend one. Any advice about how...

Xom's Questionable Usefullness: Chance to cause one random 'useful' spell. ⋅ Teleport self: Chance based upon ratio of explored tiles (more chance with high number of unexplored tiles) ⋅ Cause Fear: Chance based upon number of enemies (more chance with less enemies in LOS) &sdot...

Wheat bagel.

I went to get a Nova Lox bagel at the Bagel Factory because of this thread, but they RAN OUT OF LOX.

I'm going to get a Nova Lox bagel tomorrow morning, and photograph it, just for you.

ALSO play Rogue Legacy.

ALSO I'm starting a project to genderflip all the NES game protagonists.

We have this thing called Bagel Factory which makes a pretty great Nova Lox Bagel.

I really like this proposal.

+1 TC

Siegurt wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Minute_Hero

This looks neat... you can play it on XBLA? Maybe I'll give it a shot.

So the 15-rune game is, at least to me, not fun. It takes too long, and involves too many tests of mental endurance. But the postgame areas are individually cool (even Tomb and the Hells), and I like to visit them. Don't get me started on Ziggurats. How do people deal with it? Lately I've realised ...

Temporal Blink (lvl 8 Translocation) - beam-targeted, MR resistable; target creature disappears in cloud of translocation gas and reappears on the same tile or on the nearest unoccupied tile in X turns (X dependant on spellpower), while away, the creature cannot do anythink and all effect affecting...

I don't think I'll ever go for all 15-runes. Sometimes it's fun to go for a unusual rune, such as one of the hell runes. The hells are actually kind of fun. But yeah... 15-runes? No way. I think that's okay, though. It's sort of weird balance-wise but it doesn't ruin the game. Do you get some kind o...

We need an Elephant race.

I adore Labyrinths. I usually find them at this fascinating point where my character would just barely be able to kill a minotaur, and only with careful planning. I love the way they shift and change, and the little change in gameplay, anticipation. They're just great, I love them.

Demon Binding (Level 9 Hexes): All demons in LOS must roll against your spellpower, those that fail are enslaved as the spell/wand.

Wrest Control (Level 7 Hexes): All summons in LOS roll against your spellpower. If they fail, you gain control of them.

Tukima's Ballroom Blitz (Level 8 Hexes): All weapons within LOS (including weapons wielded by enemies) animate and become dancing weapons for a set period of time. Weapons that leave your LOS fall to the ground, duration and max number of weapons determined by spellpower. Fist of Fury (Level 6 Trans...

I just thought it could be fun to do lightheartedly. I'm fine with doing it at Crazy Yiuf's, it's no big to me.

I was thinking it would be fun to have a thread of crazy new spell ideas, ranging from sane and well thought-out to hilariously stupid. In the same way some of our bad ideas ended up being pretty good, maybe some insane spell concepts might turn out to be workable. Venom Trail (Poison L3): Clouds of...

Amnesiac wrote:Capping dmg by str?.. So the most melee dmg that DEWz will be able to deal in the entire game will be 4?

Wouldn't that sort of make sense?

I feel like melee is becoming more diverse than magic, with weapons getting differentiation, evocations being a more valid secondary means of attack, etc. At least it feels like there is some progress there. Despite the improvements to melee and some pretty essential initial spells, magic is pretty...

I'm not sure about Gargoyles, but if you cast Lee's Rapid Deconstruction on Crawl ITSELF, you get this:

I've won entire games with my sewing skill alone.

Once you craft the Orb Cozy it's basically over.

I wasn't being mocking, it's not a bad idea and it makes sense.

XuaXua wrote:No butcher; Just let it eat corpses / drink blood outright.

Hahaha.

Just tweak Statue Form's effect on Gargoyles so that it gives a more reasonable boost to the relevant stats?

My issue is that almost everything in the universe is already "nature".

In Crawl, the only things that aren't nature are... demons... and the undead I guess. And even those are debatable.

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