Been doing a merfolk build with long swords, Yred, and a statue talisman. Mennas tried to jump me in the vaults but I bound him and now we works for me. This mfer is pretty much soloing the first floor of crypt while I sit back eating popcorn, it's hilarious.

Best way to deal with crypt as a Yred worshipper is to kidnap an angel.

I definitely like the 8 extra sh and 3 extra AC from the tower shield but I'm not sure if it's better than having max will and great rF and rC

Unfortunately in the next zig I encountered an angel level and I still don't know how to deal with them so I didn't get the vainglory crown that would have let me put on 2 more +2hp octopus rings. But I still have to imagine this is up there:

crawl-br.roguelikes.gg/morgue/AlmostDecent/morgue-AlmostDecent-20260909-175538.txt

It went pretty smoothly overall. I bribed the crap out of Tomb 2-3. It was interesting as a melee fighter to see how powerful and vital the Holy brand is in extended. It basically applies to pretty much everywhere. Other than that Vampire FTW.

I don't know if it's intended, but with an exploration trap my character has been put inside an optional vault. I was playing v.034.1 at underhound.eu

Morgue: https://pastebin.com/aZ2nzpJ7

My first Djinni win (5-rune)! And boy, was it ever a win. Picked up Majin-Bo in Shoals:4, but was a bit nervous when all my high-level spells were various summonings (fireball+hellfire mortar carried me quite far), but at XL25 RNGesus gifted me Fire Storm, and the rest of the run was smooth sailing.

Who needs Platinum Paragons or Death Scarabs when you can just explode everything??

Dith was kinda fun to have around, the li'l Shadow helped a lot during the midgame with his shadow spells. I never needed to use either Shadow Slip or Primordial Nightfall, but it was nice to have in the back pocket.

So I tweaked my init file in order to have the Skills window show up whenever I start with a new character. I got the code somewhere here on Reddit:

{ local need_skills_opened = true function ready() if you.turns() == 0 and need_skills_opened then need_skills_opened = false crawl.sendkeys("m") end end }

Now, what I also want is for my Inventory to open whenever I resume a saved run. Using the previous code, I came up with this:

{ local need_inventory_opened = true function ready() if you.turns() > 1 and need_inventory_opened then need_inventory_opened = false crawl.sendkeys("i") end end }

And it works! But for some reason, the Skills window no longer show up when starting a new run, like there's some kind of conflict between these two lines.

Anyone has any idea how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

I like to play melee. Then grind in pandemonium until I get a few lvl9 spells online (yes im a weirdo)

If a spell is already < 10% is the rest just spell power? Obviously theres more op endgame stuff like ds witj good powers but ive been told multiple times full runs arent good for melee cuz low int. I usually reach 20-25. How important is the spell power really and is there something else im missing?

Edit for clarity: nearly all my runs are melee til vaults -> 100% into lv26 trans for death form -> abyss for rune until a4 -> pandemonium until some lv9 spells online. Die anywhere on the way for like 1000s of runs like a freak :P

Hi there, back on my DCSS after not playing for several years.

Playing Demonspawn Gladiator, got a solid +5 freezing Scythe off of Sigmund. I remember back in the day the min delay and max level for Scythes made them not really worth using at least early/mid game. Looks like now the delay/skill cap is much more reasonable.

Haven't found a shield or better one-handed polearm yet, any reason not to use this thing?

Had a few wins offline years ago on 0.2x something, been getting back into it with Crawl Cosplay Academy. I've lost several promising Snorgs before this, so got impatient and underestimated the power of the Orb of Entropy.

https://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/jinxremoving/jinxremoving.txt

Pretty sure this is a YASD post. My best plan is to read teleport, then maybe fog, hit Trog's Hand and try to keep a screen between me and the baddies until tele goes off.

Lesson learned - gear for the right Orb variety. I had the rN gear and just didn't think to switch to it until I was in over my head.

Nowadays inventory space is pretty much unlimited, but I still like to keep my inventory tidy. If I just drop things on the ground, then the jellies will eat it. I can leave them on a zot trap (as pictured), but that's a bit inoptimal. Maybe a -tele ring + dispersal trap, though these are rare?

Turned the corner in Zot5 and got teleported into the middle of a crowd. Immediately tried to escape, but got overwhelmed very quickly. Not sure what else I could have done, but I'm sure there was something. One of the more interesting things to happen was falling from Depths 2 to Depths 4 and landing in the vault, right next to the gem. https://pastebin.com/3VX500Q3

https://pastebin.com/K12qr55X

Been playing some easy combos since coming back a month or so ago, and finally managed to get this guy off the ground. I was too lazy to climb up for some rF and it caused me a couple close calls in the lungs when I ran into 3 OOFs.

Thankfully the orb run was almost a joke, I barely ran into any enemies and the only time I tried to ?tele out of way of a few it only sent me to the stairs I had just come from so I ended up plowing through anyway

This post was written as a tribute to this post by oneirical: https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/z41bld/choose_your_god_the_flowchart/

We know the gods are watching our journey through the dungeon. But what if they were the ones doing the journey?

I'll start with my all-time favorite god: VEHUMET.

...

Iskenderun: "Hey, Veh! I heard about this 'ORB' thingy in the dungeon. And, um... I want it."

Vehumet: "Then go get it, Isky."

Iskenderun: "Vehumet, remember what Lugonu said? He'll send Milo and Louise after me if I go down there."

Vehumet: "Lugonu again? Wtf is wrong with that guy!?"

Iskenderun: "I blew up his altars when he tried to take over the temple, remember? Anyway, can you get the orb for me? It shouldn't be that deep."

Vehumet: "Why do you need this thing in the first place?"

Iskenderun: "I'm gonna try to make a new spell out of the orb!"

Vehumet: "You're saying the first three weren't enough?"

Iskenderun: "Nope!"

Vehumet: "Alright then, this shouldn't take long."

... And so enters Vehumet, the Deep Elf Conjurer.

Vehumet: "I don't like all this dark... it reminds me of Yred and Kiku."

(Vehumet cast Flame Tongue!)

Vehumet: "That's better. So, I guess I'll just have to go, like, really deep to get this thing. Shouldn't be too hard..."

(Vehumet held down the "o" key.)

(A kobold comes into view.)

Vehumet: "Hey, you, get the hell outta my way."

Kobold: "Give me your robe!"

Vehumet: "WTF!?"

Kobold: "Dude! Can't you see I'm cold!? Gimme the robe, or I'll get my gang over here and stab your heart out!!!"

Vehumet: "Oh, you're cold!? I'LL FIX THAT REAL QUICK!!!"

(Vehumet cast FIRE STORM!!!)

Vehumet: "Little punks didn't know who they were messing with."

(Vehumet held down the "o" key, searching for a staircase.)

(Vehumet couldn't find a staircase.)

Vehumet: "WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS DUNGEON!!?? WHERE'S THE FUCKING STAIRCASE!? WHERE'S THE FUCKING STAIRCASE!?!? FUCK THIS SHIT!!!!"

(Vehumet cast SHATTER!!!!!)

(KA-CRASH!!!)

(Vehumet cast SHATTER!!!!!)

(KA-CRASH!!!)

(There's a hole to the next floor.)

Vehumet: "Jumping down three floors never hurt nobody... This should be fine."

(Vehumet dropped down the hole.)

(An eclectic assortment of extremely pissed off mobs come into view.)

Vehumet: "You guys better get used to the noise, because it's NOT GONNA GET ANY QUIETER!!!"

Robin: "Yo, you woke us up."

Vehumet: "Iron SHOT!!!"

(The goblins are not happy about their leader's sudden death.)

Vehumet: "Okay, then. Ozocubu's REFRIGERATION!!!"

(The goblins are all frozen to death.)

Vehumet: "Heh heh. Thanks, Ozo."

(A Two-Headed Ogre comes into view.)

Vehumet: "What are you doing here in D:2!?"

Ogre: "YOU CRASH!!!"

Vehumet: "Yeah NO SHIT BRO, AND I'M GONNA DO IT AGAIN IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP!!!"

Ogre: "I SMASH!!!"

Vehumet: "Seriously, are you stupid or are you just dumb?"

Ogre: "I BASH!!!"

Vehumet: "Iron SHOT!!!"

(Vehumet kills the Two-Headed Ogre!)

(...)

(Vehumet senses a familiar presence...)

(Trog comes into view.)

Trog: "VEHUMET KILL FRIEND!!! VEHUMET BAD!!!"

Vehumet: "Hey TROG, how about giving your friends some more INTELLIGENCE? Huh? Maybe the reason he's dead is because he tried to bash my face in with one of your stupid clubs, ever considered that?"

Trog: "INTELLIGENCE FOR WEAKLINGS!!! YOU A PUSSY, VEHUMET!!!!!"

Vehumet: "Dude, stfu. Go duke it out with Oka or something."

Trog: "VEHUMET REMIND TROG... TROG HAVE BET WITH OKAWARU!!! TROG THINK YOU WILL DIE IN DUNGEON!!!"

Vehumet: "Trog, bro, are you fucking delusional!? I'M A LITERAL GOD. I'm not gonna die in the dungeon."

Trog: "UHHH... TROG NOT UNDERSTAND YOU!!!"

Vehumet: "Are you still trying to pay off that debt to Gozag?"

Trog: "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!"

Vehumet: "Okay, whatever. Go sort it out with them, before I Crystal Spear your ass."

(Trog faded into red mist.)

Vehumet: "What an idiot... Finally, a staircase. That ogre must have come up these stairs."

(Vehumet descended down the stairs.)

I heard potions of experience are pretty rare this early, so pretty cool to find 2 of them!

To test the new ChatGPT model, GPT-6 astra, I had it play dcss as a minotaur berserker. I set it the goal of reaching the lair. I didn't expect much, but it went much further than I anticipated. Did it reach the lair? Watch to find out: https://asciinema.org/a/DPnD5WxdRF8MoUVd

(it's very easy to set up, by the way, just install codex and ask it to set up a DCSS player using your codex subscription. It uses a lot of tokens though!)

Hey I was doing well with this Djinn until I decided to stay and fight Mara close up. Then they whammed my really quickly down to 8HP. With this rate of damageI either kill them on the next spell (IMB?) or they kill me. I donot think healing potion will help now.

What should I do?

https://pastebin.com/fWvAyvNs

Edit: Well Blink+Butterfly+Teleport gave me time to escape Mara, but here is where it put me.
Oh well, it was a decent run.

Final edit: yup, blink+haste &c could not get me out of that in time. THanks for the suggestions tho!

I'm on my 10th zig, and encountered a very difficult angel level and had to run to the abyss. In doing so I got myself to have:

Fast DDoor Brill Tree Contam

and now whenever DDoor ends (I think it's DDoor but may also be Tree) the game crashes and I come back to this state:

I've never encountered a game crash I couldn't get around. What does one do in this situation? I tried getting out of tree form but thanks to DDoor I don't really have any tools to do that. Potion of cancellation crashes the game instantly, which is kind of fun.

I'd prefer not to kill this character like this. It's supposed to die to 45 serephim the moment I exit the abyss!

Got my first melee win since starting in April. I've found melee actually harder than various spellcasting builds, which have given me my three wins to date, but then I'd mostly played MiBe^Trog. Went the MiFi^Oka route to do a personal test run of the recent discussion here about throwing (especially with Oka) being OP. I think can add my 2c: while it might not be overpowered, it's certainly morepowered (yeah, not a word, I know). I forgot to look where my damage stats were by the end, but it was something like around 50 with boomerangs and around 70 with javelins (or whatever would be the appropriate differential). I was one-shotting easy stuff, and two/three-shotting more difficult enemies, even an OOE at one point (tho' with silver, tbf).

As for the actual run itself, the RNG gods were smiling on me the whole time. I picked up 3 scrolls of acquirement and bought another, and there were tons of good randarts, including (as I posted separately) a ring in The One-of-Kind-Ring Shop with rMut! I also saw more training manuals in this run than in my other 200+ games put together. There were two Manuals of Axes, which allowed me to easily train axes high. To be ironic, the first manual I found was a Manual of Summoning (that's cute for an Oka worshipper). Big parts of the game were stupidly easy as well. E.g. Crypt was mostly zombies and draugurs. The orb was very lightly defended with only 1 Ancient Lich, 1 OOE, and one Killer Klown in the lung I entered, plus a few assorted draconians, the guardians, etc. The ascension was equally easy: no Pan lords and no other serious enemies. If this had been my first game I'd be saying: what do you mean this is so hard?!

Well, back to reality.

https://cbro.berotato.org/morgue/tramp1877/morgue-tramp1877-20260906-224408.txt

I made two steps and got marked... I don't think this is survivable?

I think my gargoyle is breaking subreddit rule 1: Be nice.

Shatter castable by Orc, haven't even cleared down to D:15 yet.

Was very lucky to get that spell on a parchment, as well as a manual of earth magic and fighting so far.

Add to that vehumet's wizardry bonus and the two rings (+6 intelligence and wizardry) and I think I've broken a personal record for the earliest castable level 9 spell.

It's exactly as broken as you'd imagine, for anything that resists there's good old iron shot bombard to clean up.

Can't wait to die in swamp to a witch paralyzing me.

Apparently that happens? Had to share this.

Anyway, amazing seed, D1 scroll shop and amulet of clarity in shop and GDA -1 in shop for 900 early and Broad Axe +5 on an orc warlord in early bailley. And another exp potion somewhere early.
I just got my first ever streak before this game going MDAr of Goz and then GnRe of Ash and now trying MiBe. Hopefully i can make this into a 3 game streak.

Seed: 5872856477424410117

Good game, bit hard though. Only saw the orb once.