Boy, this game can be rough

[themadtoker]

Guess how this scenario played out? On D2 even.

Ouch.

Oh and hello all Long time crawl addict, first time posting.

[Grimm]

You were asking for it.

[Klown]

Gargoyle looks awesome, & green adder.

Try getting in 1-tile hallways/corridors if you see lots of bad guys, and take them down one by one. Sigmund would scythe you though, so if you couldn't handle that, maybe run like the wind to D3.

[Confidence Interval]

You were asking for it.

I have to ask: how did you get in the middle of all of them? Were you running from Terry and friends and ran into Siggy and co., or vice versa, or what?

[starless]

You are not the only one:

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Slain by Ijyb
             ... wielding a +2,+9 club

[themadtoker]

Not even running, just wandering around minding my business, had a single adder on my tail and was going to go in to a corridoor, then sigmund comes in from the east with his goblin pals and terence from the north with his newts and quokka. They just sort of converged on me.

Needless to say, I was spanked thouroughly

[Confidence Interval]

A sound spanking from time to time is not such a bad thing. Depends on who's delivering it, though.

[Gunthar]

If you are still living try a blink or a teleport scroll if you have one.

[themadtoker]

If you are still living try a blink or a teleport scroll if you have one.

That gargoyle ruffian is long since dead but yeah, I had crap in my inventory anyway, I wasn't even on D2 all that long before they slammed me. Pretty sure I've started and lost at least 4 other characters since that post... I'm not very good Think the farthest I've gotten is D9, but I always use completely random characters, I figure doing so would give me some experience but this game still kicks my butt. Think I'm actually coming up on my 100th game played.

[Klown]

Play Minotaur Berserkers!

[stickyfingers]

In my current game a fight with a greater naga on Snake:4 left me berserk with about 40% hp... would be cool, if not for the fact that it managed to cast teleport on me on one of his last actions. I thought that's not a problem, since the level was 3/4 explored. I thought wrong, because it sent me into that little unexplored territory, specifically 2 tiles from Lamia, just a moment before berserk running out. Fortunately I didn't pass out, as that would be sure death, and a couple of brothers managed to avert the threat, but for the moment I was certain I won't survive that.

[Grimm]

It's narrow escapes like that that really make Crawl fun.

[Frelus]

Hmm, thinking about it, I never passed out because of raging when following Trog.
And I played a fair share of Berserkers.

[ontoclasm]

Trog prevents you from passing out after berserking, with a chance based on piety -- when he does this, you get a message like "Trog's vigor flows through your veins!"

[BlackSheep]

There's also only a 10% chance of passing out after berserking (less than that if you have berserkitis), so even without Trog your chances of not fainting are good. If your rage ends with nothing in sight, it's likely you wouldn't even notice passing out, too.

[Tarp]

Troll Berserkers are harder to die with.
For a while.

[Sandman25]

In my current game a fight with a greater naga on Snake:4 left me berserk with about 40% hp... would be cool, if not for the fact that it managed to cast teleport on me on one of his last actions. I thought that's not a problem, since the level was 3/4 explored. I thought wrong, because it sent me into that little unexplored territory, specifically 2 tiles from Lamia, just a moment before berserk running out. Fortunately I didn't pass out, as that would be sure death, and a couple of brothers managed to avert the threat, but for the moment I was certain I won't survive that.

Spam Trog's Hand in Snake (and Elven Halls later), it greatly increases MR. It does not have good synergy with Berserking but it can be fun to use Trog's Hand, call some BiA and then Berserk.