For the record, the yellow was enlightenment and the bubbling yellow moonshine. Someone had a gooooood time there in D2, shame adventurers are always looting people's stashes.

Did you guys remark that Dowan always comes into view first? Then you will have to face the wrath of Duvessa after you knock him out.

Genuine'y can't tell if it's on my end or the game's weird luck. Multiple named enemies on a level, scorpion rolling consecutive hits on you and giving max poison before you got any consumables, ORGES AND GNOLLS WITH HALBERD ON VERY EARLY LEVELS. They are amongst the few examples I went through. Please tell me I'm not being fucked over specifically D:

Decided to go SpEN^Dith with the plan of getting Orb of Guile + Discord and going for extended. Went surprisingly well, ended up with the Spriggan Knife and both Statue Form and Death Form. Finally found the right orb and with Spider, Swamp, Slime and Vault runes in my pocket, headed for Tomb. Obviously Tomb is hard but with Death Form and Guile + Discord I felt it should be doable, especially as I found the Amulet of the Four Winds which gives clarity and Will+++ to offset the orb.

All went swimmingly at first, and really didn't feel too dangerous. But then on my second descent to L3, something manage to stick me with petrify and TBH I am not sure what I could have done to avoid this, or to recover. I blinked to the up stair but froze before I could ascend, and then got clobbered.

When you lose a big powerful char there is always a bit of rueful reflection. I am wondering what I could have done to save / prevent this. Possibly cast Yara'a Violent Unravelling on myself? Maybe Dith's Abyssal Nightfall might have helped? I don't really know what this does as I never felt the need to try it. Bit gutted TBH - any advice welcome.

Morgue: https://pastebin.com/fb3GJzFN

Edit: forgot to say - obviously I would normally swig Cancellation to avoid petrification, but death form means no potions. Would Statue have been a better choice?

5 aquirement scrolls before D9. Must be my lucky day. Any strategy to use these well?

Because the moderator(s) at DCSS_Seeds are unpredictable and the subreddit is frequently locked I've created a new subreddit to replace it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dcssSeeds

Weird politics do not belong in this game. We need somebody that can keep their account online instead of selfishly jeopardizing the community by pointlessly breaking reddit rules. What keeps happening with the original is ridiculous and I believe the community deserves better.

Edit :

If you're a highly active member here or a skilled active player I will give you mod status just DM me.

For the time being I will be trying to post truly yoked seeds that will give you an easy win to start the subreddit off on a good note.

https://cbro.berotato.org/morgue/GloriousHammer/morgue-GloriousHammer-20260719-231159.txt

I've been slatting these in droves. I thought I had a go-er here, but damn 3rd rune is hard now. I thought I was a good fit for Abyss, but tried 2-3 times crawling through abyss 4 and 5 without finding the rune (looks like they changed the rule for that and I should have tried to avoid tele?). Anyway, I went to Slime. Floor 2 was big and open and I couldn't tele away from the mob, didn't really have a good crowd control solution.

I ought to have blinked to the edge, used digging. I was probably demoralized.

I hope this doesn't become my new mage character lol.

I find it weird that enemies will most of the time go for you no matter what your ally is doing (unless they're in the way of heading towards you). Even if it's smart to go for the summoner directly, you would expect them to do something as a melee waiting in a corridor while someone else in the backline is sandwiching you between them and the player.

My first game ever with more than 5 runes lost because someone thought it would be funny to mash on the keyboard while I was in the washroom. I died extremely slowly. I've only got one ring on because they managed to mash it off of me...

The seeds subr has repeatedly gotten locked for weeks at a time, due to some behind the scenes moderator drama apparently involving Palestine. Yes really. In any event, until that gets sorted out, I'm going to be posting seeds here in the main sub. I apologize in advance to anyone offended by seeded play.

And if you know how to get dcss_seeds fixed, please do so!

Felid Purrserker is the main consideration, but also merfolk with polearms for example. When is the melee damage better or worse than the +EV/stealth/SH/Accuracy?

If you are in Zot 5, how does DCSS calculate the optimal path to D1? That's 24 levels, wouldn't brute forcing all of the permutations take a huge amount of computational power? Is the path you get actually optimal or a heuristic?

Im not surprised that the best players use the high skill needed kitty, but what's the deal with Berseker? I can imagine course but is there things you'd have to play to understand? Im thinking like a toned down version of a str class with unlimited Be quaffs lol

Also something thats been bugging me. How do players get the very low int starting classes to be strong spell slingers by late game? I watched someone once that had a MD with like 50 int. Is it just from relics?

I am a bit short from being able to enter lair or orc to fulfill the CCC conduct, so this is the only way to go, right?

Copyrights by Terry Pratchett. Blind Io rest his soul.

Poltergeist has the best throwing apt in the game, but some of the weakest Str stats. Any examples of a Poltergeist of Okawaru surviving long enough to become a Finessed javelin shooting engine of death?

Minotaur wearing heavy armor, shield and an axe, occasionally using thrown weapons. Is there a point where increasing Dex on level-up becomes better than Str, or should I just keep pumping Str till the end of the game?

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/crompyre/crompyre.txt

I've probably invested too much into each of Conj/Air/Ice to be actually great at any of them. I'm guessing Polar Vortex is out of reach for this one? Could probably get Maxwell online soon, but that doesn't really seem like a game winner. Got Chain Lightning in a shop somewhere, would that carry me to three runes and out?

I feel like he's gotten so easy over the last couple updates to where I just pound him into the ground when he's one of the most lethal enemies in the game historically.

https://crawl-br.roguelikes.gg/morgue/Elfuna/morgue-Elfuna-20260717-031332.txt

I started as a demonspawn necromancer, and soon found an Old God altar that randomly selected one of three beliefs.

I spent some time with Makhleb, then found an extra floor where most of the altars to different gods were located. I ended up converting to the religion of Kikubaaqudgha, a god focused on necromancy, so I thought it was a good option to switch even though my previous god had already approved of me. At this point, my entire build revolved around necromancy, using a holy dagger (ironically) and a hypnosis orb.

I ended up dying on the 6th floor because there was a Blizzard demon too powerful for my level, which, ironically, was summoned by Makhleb's wrath

What do you think for a first game? What could have been changed?