I think we learned an important lesson today.

[rebthor]

Spriggans are fragile. Elephant slugs are not. So even though you can stab that sleeping elephant slug, it's probably not worth the risk.

[A spy]

Elephant slugs are also really slow and lack a ranged attack, so even if they do wake up a Spriggan can outrun them easily

[BlackSheep]

Assuming, of course, said spriggan survives the free hit it gets when it survives being stabbed.

[rebthor]

Assuming, of course, said spriggan survives the free hit it gets when it survives being stabbed.

Bingo.

[danr]

If you are in Pandemonium and you find a ziggurat, and then in the zig you get banished to the abyss, when you escape the abyss, you are returned to the dungeon.

This is significant because if you left a bunch of loot outside the zig entrance in Pan, it's ALL GONE!!!!

Mostly it was a bunch of potions and scrolls that I won't really miss, but still, that kinda burned. I can't help but feel that there was something I'll miss.

[Blade]

In Trunk, when you get banished to the abyss from a zig (or, in fact, almost anywhere), you return to the same point you left.

[Kerslake]

Enter a room in Pan that features four Balrogs? Guess whose cooking your ass tonight.

[Kerslake]

When the game gives you a Priest Convention in the Orcish Mines, just run.

[Amrod]

Don't ever underestimate Pikel, especially when he is wielding a whip of electrocution (hello 22 damage in your face)

[Grimm]

That's good advice for orcs too.

[Jabberwocky]

It's a good idea to not underestimate anything, especially uniques.

[Grimm]

If you use-ID a potion of experience, don't just keep hitting space or you'll get a bunch of levels in skills you don't want.

[atticus712]

Especially when your are worshipping Trog. You´ll lose piety through learning magic skills.

I want to add a similar note regarding the Sage card. If you draw Sage from a deck while draw-IDing it, stop killing if you are worshipper of Trog.
(Happened to me yesterday).

[Jabberwocky]

But why would you draw id a deck as a troglodyte? It's a good way to permanently screw your your char.

[TwilightPhoenix]

An Orb of Destruction can outrun semi-controlled blinking.

Maybe I should have tried banishing it...

[Grimm]

But why would you draw id a deck as a troglodyte? It's a good way to permanently screw your your char.

Ditto on this. ?ident reveals the top card now, always use them on decks. ALWAYS.

[Jabberwocky]

But why would you draw id a deck as a troglodyte? It's a good way to permanently screw your your char.

Ditto on this. ?ident reveals the top card now, always use them on decks. ALWAYS.

Agreed. ?identify is quite common and using a couple won't ruin your game, however even just one shuffle card can permanently harm your char.

[Grimm]

You can make it easier by ignoring plain decks. Only ornate and legendary will be worth anything to the debonair berserker-about-town.

[atticus712]

I had been extraordinarily lucky to get two experience cards on two decks before. So mayhaps I got somewhat greedy...
Shame on me, advice taken. Thank you very much.

[TwilightPhoenix]

One of the silliest mistakes I ever made was blind drawing a deck like that. "Oh, I know it's not generally recommended, but what are the odds that this deck will immediately give me Shuffle?" Guess what happened.


Also, to expand on my last lesson, I just now realized that I have a ghost in Vault 6 running around with a highly enchanted electric demon trident and is fully capable of casting Orb of Destruction and Ice Storm (well, my success was still at 50% for the latter, but the ghost won't care). I'm going to regret that death.

[Blade]

One of the silliest mistakes I ever made was blind drawing a deck like that. "Oh, I know it's not generally recommended, but what are the odds that this deck will immediately give me Shuffle?" Guess what happened.

You got a legendary xp card, right?

[Arkhan]

You can place things directly on top of the Orb in Orb Defense mode.

Also, those "grenades" you make can hurt your Oklobs.

(And not everything wants to aggro you on sight, despite how classic works. Their priority is the Orb, so they'll walk by you unless you're obstructing them.)

[Nasgard]

It doesn't matter how hard your new whip hits your enemies if the -Int on it makes you too stupid to breathe.

[cursednobleman]

Wolf spiders hit harder than elephants.

[Stormfox]

A pacified monster can still choose to beat the crap out of you if you start resting.

Bonus points if it's this particular monster with this particular weapon.

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 30898 | Spider:1 | Noticed Agnes
 30901 | Spider:1 | Pacified Agnes
 30901 | Spider:1 | Reached skill level 9 in Traps & Doors
 30907 | Spider:1 | HP: 4/101 [Agnes/lajatang of electrocution (24)]
 30909 | Spider:1 | Mangled by Agnes

[BlackSheep]

Yeah, you need to keep out of their way.

[Deimos]

Urug is actually quite scary now. Another DrFE bites the dust!

[Jabberwocky]

Urug is actually quite scary now. Another DrFE bites the dust!

How was he buffed?

[hxy]

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=co ... 9845af42bf

[Brysmar]

When in doubt, fear it the heck out!

Those scrolls of fears are amazing for early game.

[Grimm]

When you are desperately dodging past Cerebov to nab the rune then immediately tele out, make sure you've turned your bootlev off before you g r ?tele. After you breathe a sigh of pleased relief, you will immediately punch something.

[Arkhan]

Wearing the gong shield in Pan is both a good way to get exp and a good way to get killed.

[Jabberwocky]

The Shield of the Gong is a good way to get killed anywhere.

[TwilightPhoenix]

Not in Temple!

[Jabberwocky]

Not in Temple!

Okay, the Shield of the Gong is a good way to get killed everywhere but one place where you will probably only spend ~75 turns in the whole game.

[mageykun]

The Shield of the Gong is a good way to get killed anywhere.

Not in Temple!

You stumble on the uneven floor.
In your carelessness, you brush the wall with your shield.
_GONNNNG!
Masonry is shaken loose from the crumbling temple ceiling!
You are struck by falling debris!!!
You die...

[BlackSheep]

I was going to go with an altar tipping over and crushing you, but sure, debris works too.

[XuaXua]

Shield of Gong goes great with the Singing Sword.

[Grimm]

add gloves of drumming and you've got a combo

[pubby]

Using bend space to escape an corrupt-level (which was accidental due to hitting 'a' instead of 'z') will cause the demons to turn hostile and promptly kill you

[A spy]

When you absolutely do not want to use an ability by mistake, you can use =a to set it to an uppercase letter

[SinCosTan]

Food really starts to matter when you don't notice that your Fire Storm costs a ration.

[Stormfox]

Lightning breathers and casters are far better at bolt bouncing than you ever will be. And this is even with the cap on number of hits from a single bolt in recent versions.

[atticus712]

Don´t fight a dragon with a Zot trap being right behind you.
Don´t fight any monster with trampling attack with a Zot trap being right behind you.

[Southpaw]

Don´t fight a dragon with a Zot trap being right behind you.
Don´t fight any monster with trampling attack with a Zot trap being right behind you.

Don't try to fight anything with a zot trap right behind you

[TwilightPhoenix]

Don't try to fight anything with a zot trap in your line of sight

Fixed.

[Amrod]

18 Damage with a wand of Draining wielded by a random Orc on D:4?? Seriously??

[Kerslake]

One set of stairs leads to Francis, the second leads to a powerful Fire spewing ghost, and the third leads to a pack of ogres and you save it for later.

Remember which was which by the time you get back?

[chessplaya]

"Within the 'X' command, you can use '[' and ']' to switch levels -- to descend into a branch, put the cursor on its entry stair before using ']'."
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?t ... and_tricks
This should let you peek down staircases to see which were the most dangerous. Disclaimer: I actually haven't tried this--I just use exclusions for the staircases I don't want to go back down.

[BlackSheep]

The above works. You just have to remember that there's something dangerous to look for. Annotating the dangerous level with an exclamation point in the note will prompt you when you try to take stairs to that level.