(CiP) Harold the Gladiator Ghoul


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Lair Larrikin

Posts: 15

Joined: Wednesday, 22nd March 2017, 13:49

Post Saturday, 6th January 2018, 16:38

(CiP) Harold the Gladiator Ghoul

After messing around with a Ghoul Monk, I decided to make a more serious attempt with a Ghoul Gladiator. (He should really be named Harold II, but I didn't type in the Roman numeral while generating the character.)

The first floor was simple. Eating meat dealt with any minor damage Harold took, and he even found an Okawaru altar!. Okawaru is still the standard non-Trog melee god, right?

Harold II identified Potions of Lignification and Potions of Curing. Unfortunately, there was no Remove Curse scroll for testing out the two rings.

UPDATE: Harold II cleared the 2nd floor, which had more open spaces than he would have liked. He isn't a Summoner! :P Melee characters want claustrophobic corridors.

He found a Book of Cantrips, which I'm not sure what to do with. Harold II wouldn't burn it like a Trog follower, but at the same time, are these spells worth skill point investment?

I don't want to make him chug random potions for fear of Degeneration or a bad mutation.




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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file.

Harold the Ruffian (Ghoul Gladiator)                Turns: 1892, Time: 00:11:35

Health: 36/36      AC:  4    Str: 17    XL:     4   Next: 2%
Magic:  3/3        EV: 11    Int:  3    God:    Okawaru [......]
Gold:   68         SH:  4    Dex: 11    Spells: 3/3 levels left

rFire    . . .     SeeInvis .     - Unarmed
rCold    + . .     Gourm    .   k - +1 buckler
rNeg     + + +     Faith    .   a - +0 leather armour
rPois    8         Spirit   .   b - +0 helmet
rElec    .         Reflect  .   (no cloak)
rCorr    .         Harm     .   (no gloves)
MR       .....                  (no boots)
Stlth    +.........             (no amulet)
Regen    0.2/turn               (no ring)
MPRegen  0.1/turn               (no ring)

@: rotting
A: rotting body, claws 1, carnivore 3, cold resistance 1, negative energy
resistance 3, inhibited regeneration, torment resistance, unbreathing
a: Renounce Religion


You are on level 2 of the Dungeon.
You worship Okawaru.
Okawaru is noncommittal.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and seen 2 of its levels.

You have collected 68 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Missiles
 c - 3 throwing nets (quivered)
Armour
 a - a +0 leather armour (worn)
 b - a +0 helmet (worn)
 k - a +1 buckler (worn)
Jewellery
 e - a scratched silver ring
 m - a marble ring
Wands
 t - a wand of polymorph (?/24)
Scrolls
 g - 3 scrolls of teleportation
Potions
 f - 2 red potions
 i - a potion of lignification
 j - 3 potions of curing
 n - 2 potions of ambrosia
 r - a smoky brown potion
 s - 2 orange potions
Books
 u - a book of Cantrips   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Confusing Touch              Hexes                         1
    b - Animate Skeleton             Necromancy                    1
    c - Summon Small Mammal          Summoning                     1
    d - Apportation                  Translocation                 1
Comestibles
 d - a meat ration
 h - 6 chunks of flesh
 o - a royal jelly


   Skills:
 - Level 2.1 Fighting
 - Level 1.7 Throwing
 - Level 1.0 Armour
 - Level 2.6 Dodging
 * Level 5.0 Unarmed Combat


You have 3 spell levels left.
You don't know any spells.

Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Branches:
Dungeon (2/15)           

Altars:
Okawaru


Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations

Your body is rotting away.
You thrive on raw meat.
You are immune to poison.
You have sharp fingernails.
You are carnivorous and can eat meat at any time.
Your flesh is cold resistant. (rC+)
You are immune to negative energy. (rN+++)
You do not regenerate when monsters are visible.
You are immune to unholy pain and torment.
You can survive without breathing.

Abyss Ambulator

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Post Saturday, 6th January 2018, 19:20

Re: (CiP) Harold the Gladiator Ghoul

Ghouls can't mutate, so potions of mutation give stat rot instead. Those and degeneration aren't too bad except Ghouls' Int sucks...

Unarmed, Fighting, and Armour are your core skills. Okawaru is great for Ghouls. Keep upgrading to heavier armour as you find it.

Bucklers are generally considered bad on melee characters because you loose the off-hand attack for a pretty minor increase in defense. I like shields generally, and with just leather armour it might be a decent idea to keep the buckler.

Eventually train some Dodging, but your Dex is going to suck, so don't spend too much XP here. Eventually train one of Evocations or a ranged weapon. Ignore spells because you Int and apts suck, and you want to be in heavy armour.

For Okawaru, train Invocations to 2 when you get * piety and then 6–10 when you get *****. (I like 10 for 1% fail on Finesse and long duration on both Heroism and Finesse, but it's overkill.). Use Heroism at the beginning of every non-trivial fight: the piety cost is minimal. Use Finesse + Heroism at the beginning of every tough fight: the piety cost of Finesse is large enough that you can't use it all the time.

Chop up every corpse. (There's an init file option to autobutcher.) Eat chunks between fights when low on HP. (Don't eat in battle: it doesn't heal fast enough there.)

Stats are Ghouls' only real weakness. Very late: stat 0 sucks. Carry Int+ ring or amulet in Abyss, Zot, Tomb, Pan, & Hells if your Int is low, which it almost surely will be. See goes for Dex, but that should be higher. Try to kill fast or block line of sight to malmutators, but be aware that those corrupting orb things in Abyss and demonspawn corruptors in Pan don't need LOS.

Lair Larrikin

Posts: 15

Joined: Wednesday, 22nd March 2017, 13:49

Post Saturday, 6th January 2018, 20:58

Re: (CiP) Harold the Gladiator Ghoul

Harold shambled through floors 3-5. He found a much-needed ring mail and +2 helmet. A Scarf of Resistance was pretty nice too, but that was toward the end of this play session, so it hasn't seen much use yet. Really, I'm beginning to think I should have started as a Fighter instead of a Gladiator. Don't they get heavy armor from the start?

I put my points into Dexterity. Isn't that the way it usually goes for melee types? Or has Strength become more useful in this version?

Okawaru's Heroism helped for fights where I autoexplored into what turned out to be a group of enemies. Gnolls gave Harold a hard time on D:3 or so. Potions and Teleport scrolls helped him survive.

I hear that many players have problems with training Throwing because Okawaru keeps giving them Javelins or something like that instead of new melee weapons. Then again, Harold doesn't have any Evocations items except for the Polymorph wand. And that sounds a little risky.

Playing in short sessions seems to be the way to go for roguelikes. Usually when I die, it's because I play for too long and stop paying close attention.

  Code:
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1 (tiles) character file.

Harold the Ruffian (Ghoul Gladiator)                Turns: 5299, Time: 00:25:10

Health: 56/56      AC:  8    Str: 21    XL:     7   Next: 14%
Magic:  7/7        EV: 11    Int:  3    God:    Okawaru [*.....]
Gold:   209        SH:  4    Dex: 12    Spells: 6/6 levels left

rFire    + . .     SeeInvis .     - Unarmed
rCold    + + +     Gourm    .   k - +1 buckler
rNeg     + + +     Faith    .   f - +0 ring mail
rPois    8         Spirit   .   h - +2 helmet
rElec    .         Reflect  .   v - scarf {rC+ rF+}
rCorr    .         Harm     .   (no gloves)
MR       .....                  (no boots)
Stlth    +.........             (no amulet)
Regen    0.2/turn               m - ring of protection from cold
MPRegen  0.1/turn               e - +3 ring of strength

@: rotting
A: rotting body, claws 1, carnivore 3, cold resistance 1, negative energy
resistance 3, inhibited regeneration, torment resistance, unbreathing
a: Heroism, Renounce Religion


You are on level 6 of the Dungeon.
You worship Okawaru.
Okawaru is aware of your devotion.
You are not hungry.

You have visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and seen 6 of its levels.

You have collected 209 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Missiles
 c - a throwing net (quivered)
Armour
 a - a +0 leather armour
 f - a +0 ring mail (worn)
 h - a +2 helmet (worn)
 k - a +1 buckler (worn)
 v - a scarf of resistance (worn)
Jewellery
 e - a +3 ring of strength (right claw)
 m - a ring of protection from cold (left claw)
Wands
 t - a wand of polymorph (?/24) {recharged}
Scrolls
 g - 2 scrolls of teleportation
 l - a scroll of magic mapping
 p - a scroll of enchant armour
 w - 3 scrolls of identify
 x - 3 scrolls of remove curse
 B - 2 scrolls of fog
Potions
 b - a potion of flight
 i - a potion of lignification
 j - 4 potions of curing
 n - 2 potions of ambrosia
 r - 2 potions of agility
 z - a potion of brilliance
 A - a potion of haste
Books
 s - a book of Necromancy   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Pain                         Necromancy                    1
    b - Animate Skeleton             Necromancy                    1
    c - Vampiric Draining            Necromancy                    3
    d - Regeneration                 Charms/Necromancy             3
    e - Animate Dead                 Necromancy                    4
    f - Control Undead               Necromancy                    4
 u - a book of Cantrips   
   
    Spells                             Type                      Level
    a - Confusing Touch              Hexes                         1
    b - Animate Skeleton             Necromancy                    1
    c - Summon Small Mammal          Summoning                     1
    d - Apportation                  Translocation                 1
Comestibles
 d - 2 meat rations
 o - 2 royal jellies


   Skills:
 + Level 2.4 Fighting
 - Level 1.7 Throwing
 + Level 1.9 Armour
 - Level 2.6 Dodging
 * Level 7.8 Unarmed Combat
 - Level 2.0 Invocations


You have 6 spell levels left.
You don't know any spells.

Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations

Lair Larrikin

Posts: 15

Joined: Wednesday, 22nd March 2017, 13:49

Post Sunday, 7th January 2018, 00:54

Re: (CiP) Harold the Gladiator Ghoul

Sadly, Harold II died to a two-headed ogre. I thought I could take it on with Heroism and a Haste potion, but this is what you get when you think that Okawaru is "Trog lite". Should have teleported away with my scroll. Next time, I'll probably use a sturdier melee race than a Ghoul.

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