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That's why I hate how acquirement is now... Yeah, I was prepared to rant a bit about how acquirement should be reformed. :-) But I guess that if I had got 2 great items, I would then be writing about how the randomness adds to the excitement, so I don't know... If someone came up with a way to make...

Thank you! Very helpful suggestions, but the RNG screwed me. Since I hadn't seen many wands or much jewelery yet, I didn't think I would get much useful from those. So, I went for one weapon (hoping for a nice bardiche), and one armor (hoping for a hat of intelligence, or perhaps boots of running, s...

I am playing a fairly standard Ice/Poison based Mf with a nice glaive and worshiping Vehumet in trunk. After clearing Orc and Lair, I have $2363 remaining. In the shops at the bottom, there are 2 scrolls of acquirement for $832 each. Should I buy them now, or later, or save it hoping for something e...

Well, this seems to be rather typical of my luck at the moment:

g + the +2 leather armour of Resilience {Str-4 Dex-4 Curse}

LOL!

Ok, that's great. That's a far better solution to the problem than my suggestion.

[Orc:4] the ring "Methil" {Ice +Rage +Lev rElec MR Stlth+} (643 gold) I decided this sort of fits in this thread - it's good in some ways, but overall somehow less than the sum of its parts. It would be for a Fire Elementalist played as a hybrid, so: Ice could be situational for resists; ...

Oh well,that's why I suggested cutting by 50%,not further... I can see why ammo is needed (hey, I'm using arrows on most things), but I usually find more bolts and arrows than I can carry. In another thread cerebovssquire talks about getting stacks of 500+ arrows by the end of Lair. The only time I'...

Ok, I will revive this thread with a question: Is it worth revising the formula for gifting used by Okawaru (and probably Trog, but I've less experience there)? A change I'd like to see is: if the gift is darts, arrows, needles, or bolts, then have a 50% chance of rolling again. While this could be ...

Cleaving is not realistic at all, obviously. If you want a "rationalisation" of the current ally mechanic, here is one: think of the action movies where an actor does something dangerous and all his friends (allies) somehow duck just at the right time. Gameplay-wise, the question is wheth...

Wow! Thanks for doing this! I really like it. I am apparently out of practice with melee characters but, still, in the brief moments before splatting I enjoyed this. It seems to be everything that a good addition should be: It happens transparently and within a few minutes it feels like a natural pa...

Well, continuing with the spoilers:
In my most recent game (5-rune splat in a Zig) I found a Kraken in the Abyss, and started to wonder...
I think that's the first Abyss vault that I've seen and it was great. :-)

Doubly so, because I had just gotten firestorm reliable.

Grinder spawns early with a wand of polymorph. :evil:

Of course, in a nice open level where he can just chase me around and zap away.

TehDruid wrote:
dassem wrote:your mage

See, that's the flaw in your plan.

I'd seen your .sig a lot of times, but never really read it until now. :lol:

Actually I wanted to have a go at answering this, since a blessed bag of holding is something I greatly miss from Nethack and -on many levels- I'd like, but would detract from the game. Firstly, it's tactical. There are lots of attacks in Crawl that can destroy items: Freezing; fire; harpies; and so...

Personally, I don't really mind either way. I must admit that the other thread title did make me laugh. A good question for the people who do care is: Why? Is it that they don't like it personally (e.g. religion), that it will trigger filters (e.g. at work/school), that they think it will lead to fl...

There is some good advice in this thread. If you follow it, you'll have a win fairly soon! :-) I think I agree that Deep Elves might not be the easiest species; I rarely play them. You should try others and see who fits your style. For example, I tend to play all my mages as hybrids, so a little mor...

use-id scrolls with popcorn visible Just so you know, now that fear auto-IDs there isn't any reason to do this. Conditional IDs are curse foo, remove curse, amnesia, and identify/enchant_armour/recharge as far as I remember (probably forgot one, barring edge cases like blink and tele both unknown w...

Well, thanks for such an entertaining thread, and I'm sorry it didn't work. It looks like the advice to try the single scrolls was the best idea, but that you just weren't lucky. It will be interesting if someone clarifies the MR stuff, as if the MR was low, then poly would have been a good option t...

Ah, I didn't know this, thanks!
I like STR as my inner munchkin wants to collect too much junk. (And lots of javelins can be heavy.)
Also, if worshiping Oka or Trog, I tend not to let throwing get too high with the hope of getting better gifts.

That's a giant crab problem. :-) I see 2 options: Your wand got you into this situation, so perhaps it can get you out. Or, use-ID your scrolls. I'd bet some of the bigger stacks are teleport, blink, fear, or even fog (+swiftness) might work. Although I think with the way your luck is going, you'll ...

The neqoxec gestures at you. Strange energies course through your body. You feel controlled. Just what I was lacking... This was the first major set of demons, summoned because I let the Elf vault get a bit unruly. Actually I already had rMut, but had use-identified an amulet of faith, so didn't wa...

Some nice ideas in this thread! My thought is that you want to give the player some tough choices. So, for fixed arts with a big drawback, you want players to really have to think: Can I live with this? I like games where I get an early item so awesome that I just have to throw out my whole plan and...

I had a couple of beers, so this is not an entirely serious suggestion, but: If this is a telekinetic god, wouldn’t he/she/it shun the use of physical objects? As well as not being burdened, perhaps you could gain piety by not wielding a weapon, not wearing jewelry, and most important by not wearing...

I nearly started a thread on this topic too. I have been trying a magic-based high-elf with long-blades and archery as support, picking Oka for the gifts. I tried this offline, during travel, and had fun; so I tried to repeat the success online. Offline the highlight was (IIRC) finding an amulet of ...

It was broken for me earlier.
Currently I get something about a key problem. I didn't bother updating the key as PuTTY spat out so many warnings I got nervous.

So, I'll be following this thread to see if anyone knows.

I think the niche is for people who can't summon demons (such as TSO worshipers) who cannot yet cast summon dragon. Based on my limited experience (actually with a friendly hydra polymorphed from an orc) they seem devastating against blade wielding enemies, but a bit squishy otherwise. Elf might be ...

To me, DS depend on which set of mutations you get. If you're going melee and armor and get the -STR mutations; or if you're going with Oka and get tons of puny demonic guardians, then yes. :-) However, a few good mutations, such as conservation, a resist, passive freeze and +30% HP make the late/po...

Title says it all. Every time I go onto a new level I get pages and pages of errors that take a long time to scroll through: feat tile idx (0/0) out of bounds: 1 ; floor tile idx (0/0) out of bounds: 1 ... This started yesterday with the update around lunchtime. :-( This seems to correspond to the t...

Pretty much. Lol! I had to look it up. Whenever anyone mentions the previous administration, I always find myself thinking about 1984, for some reason. :twisted: On topic, I've been in Tennessee for several years and this is the hottest by a long way. We don't often get over 100F, but we recently h...

Grimm wrote:Hey have you ever read 1982, Janine?

Isn't that, like, the prequel to 1984? :mrgreen:

Or dumb player? :-) I am playing a MiBe of Trog. In typical Crawl luck, that means that I find loads of artifacts that give me extra MP. :mrgreen: Fortunately, I have also found an amulet of Guardian spirit... So, that looks like I should get 26 extra HP at the moment. :-) However, it doesn't work l...

Well, I am sure that by any sensible definition, most religions are scams, but in some cases this seems to be a bit more obvious than usual. :evil:

The best summary is probably this: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-ep ... the-closet

About the biggest negative I've seen on a randart:

Code:: j - the -10 chain mail of Useiborph {rC+ MR SInv}

Nice idea! This is definitely helpful. After having seen this working for a while now, I just wanted to resurrect this thread to say how much I like it. A couple of the helpers are known for being very direct (that is a compliment!), so it's quite helpful to have an indication of whether a 3 word re...

I guess we've hijacked this a little into a "good fantasy books" thread, for which I apologize, but I am really enjoying! :evil: Now, if you want fantasy that reminds you (well, me anyway) of Crawl, then I have to recommend Steven Erikson. Most of my character names are based on his. :-) H...

B - the -6 robe of Stokhlaxo (worn) {rElec rF+ rN+ MR Int+3} (You found it on level 3 of the Swamp) Now the rng is just teasing . Interesting! :) From a balance perspective I like that a lot more than some of the just unambiguously great artifacts. For a somewhat squishy mage who is relying on EV o...

I'll also agree with the SoIaF recommendation for the books. I haven't seen the series yet and am waiting for the DVDs. However, I've got to say that I've been very disappointed with the last two books, where very little happens. IMO that's true of Martin's other stuff where a strong editor could tr...

Wow! That is impressive!
Like KoboldLord, I find it hard to imagine sitting down and playing for that long. And even if I did, on recent form, I would still only be about half way through my first successful game... ;-)

Well done.

Continuing the theme of redefining best/worst, here is my best artifact so far this game: B - the ring "Jiyk" (left hand) {rC+ Str+5 Int+3 Acc+5} Which gives me my first useful source of rC, on a draconian with a longbow and then dragon form, so I think the Str and Acc are more useful than...

"Suckers" ... Hmm, my first thought was: but I don't play Vampires. :oops: I want to say that the Dev team have done such a good job with the polearm reform. It is a pleasure to use the ranged option (tab usually works). A blessed trishula is a rather nice endgame weapon if your resists co...

Some nice ideas here! I thought I'd comment on a couple of things I like, thematically: The per-spell cap could work. Since controlling dragons might be tough, this seems logical enough to me, "You cannot control any more dragons." It also might provide some incentive to specialize as a su...

Well, firestorm is a very good substitute. :mrgreen: I have had a game where I didn't find dispel undead until far too late, so I had to quaff potions of brilliance or switch items to cast other suitably powerful spells from different schools. Also the first time I did the traditional switch to TSO ...

Did 0.11 just crash? Lost a promising OpFE... EDIT: Upon trying to start a new 0.11 game, it says: write error while saving: No space left on device Hit any key to exit... What's up with that? Pressing (P)lay now! again gives: /bin/crawl-git-launcher.sh: line 95: cannot create temp file for here do...

A 15 runer who had blitzed through every pan lord got a bit bogged down in a mid-ziggurat mummy level. I just managed to blink to the downstairs, recharged, and because that was the only fight I'd had to run away from in hours, I was pissed off. I decided that I could clear the level and examine the...

Mummy levels in Ziggurats are possibly the most challenging places in the whole game. I've cleared a few and lost a 15-runer who'd pretty much annihilated Tomb and every single Pan lord in another... In retrospect, when I did kill a large number of mummies, the drain on resources and sheer number of...

Blech! I just lost a promising mid-game Draconian with 201 HP to Khufu's Greater Mummies, so I'm not well disposed to torment right now. :mrgreen: Halving HP is fine. That's not the problem. Torment is threatening is when you get hit by it about four times in a row so that your 200+ HP character onl...

I'd definitely support some sort of change. You can read some comments about the Hell effect in this thread: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2377&p=35206&hilit=hell+effects+paralysis#p35206 To me, the annoying thing is the one-shot instadeath (in my example a level 27...

Well done! And thanks for the interesting read. Also well done for dodging out of the Mummy level. (Look for the high-level splats from me and Denniz if you are not sure that was the right move.) My favorite DS mutation combo was +30% HP and passive freeze. Most creatures would just stand nearby and...

Thanks MyOtheHedgeFox! :) Oh, and just in case it wasn't clear, I did mean to say that I include your suggestions in the ones I thought were good! And your latest wording is better too. English is a tricky language, even though it's my first. The biggest problem for me is apostrophes. If I start to ...

I like the ideas here and hope they do get implemented. Actually one thing that I think could have the potential to make Crawl more fun for customizers (or even allow mini-variants?) would be to have the ability to change unrandarts without having to recompile. MyOtheHedgeFox - I've got a couple of ...

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