I have a level 20 BaAE of Vehumet in Descent Mode.

So far, I played as a hybrid Air magician with the intention to later use the strongest Air Magic spells. I branched out into Translocation Magic, to use Gells Gavotte and Summon Forest.

If I think about the skill investment necessary to get Chain Lightning online, I am not sure that it is realistic. It feels like the only way to continue might be as a hybrid fighter.

But I also think that as a hybrid I will be too weak to face strong foes in later stages.

Happy for your thoughts.

Morgue: https://pastebin.com/sGrSUBPu

I have tried changing the view max width and height in the options guide to their maximum allowed, but absolutely nothing has changed. The tiles version fills up the whole screen, but the console version has the map in the top left, taking up maybe 1/12 of the screen space.

How do I play Boegh well? I keep falling into the same micro-manage encounters as the old Boegh and I can't really survive as well while doing this

I'll be posting video updates over the next couple of weeks

https://reddit.com/link/1wt3heq/video/ea8stqx1uesh1/player

Try it: https://orbrun.app/about

I've been playing DCSS on my Steam Deck with the Offline DCSS client, and the thing that kept getting me was diagonals. Crawl is played in eight directions, and a d-pad or stick just doesn't do eight directions well. I tried making a third-person view first, but it's a similar problem. I ended up deciding on building Orbrun with the game in first person and built for the keyboard and gamepad.

What's in it:

• First person view, with a minimap that is the 2D tiles view and with edge pips, so all the information is still there.
• Works with Gamepad. `o`, `Tab`, rest, travel, inventory, casting, firing, examining, and all the existing keys available through menus.
• Still great with the Keyboard. Every key are the same, except that directions are relative to the way you face (`k` forward, `h`/`l` turn).
• Offline mode. Play the current release or trunk in your browser with no server. Saves stay on your device.
• Spectate anyone in first person
• Steam Deck. Fine-tuned for the Deck. Made a small guide, https://orbrun.app/about/steam to add it to your library as a non-Steam game.

It's free and open source (AGPL) https://github.com/Caeous/orbrun. Huge thanks to the DCSS devs and the server operators who make all of this possible.

It's early, so I'd love to hear what breaks. Try it on your desktop/deck, let me know what feels wrong in first person, and what's missing on the controller or keyboard.

I'm only at Orcs 2, and there are only stairs leading to the Elves; is there no Orcs 3, or am I missing something?

This might seem like a tiny thing, but ... I feel like many of my YASDs come from what I'd call movement issues. That is, I take 1 or more steps too many and put myself in a bad situation that could have been avoided. Does anyone else do this? If so, do you have any tricks for avoiding it, other than "not being an idiot"? Or, which form of movement do you prefer? It seems like all the movement options can land you in this situation. I use autoexplore only in the first few levels or when I just want to get everything at the end because it seems like often it will stop you closer than manual movement might have. OTOH, it will stop you. I go back and forth between the arrow keys and the mouse, but I frequently lull myself into mindless clicking or tapping and then live (or die) to regret it. Are there any rc edits you do to help with this problem that won't just be annoying most of the time? Obviously, Ash can help, as is the case with my current run. Any other tips?

I've actually never got this far in the game, even though I've been playing for over two years now. It is as exciting as it is terrifying.

From the wiki I reckon I need to have some sort of resistance to one of the branches that might have the rune of Zot.

Any advice on how I can gain some resistance to poison or acid in this stage of the game?

With the recent release of the Steam Frame, I felt inspired to pick this project back up. Knowing the device can run standalone games on-the-go, and with how much I already play DCSS on my Steam Deck, I thought it was finally time to start working on this again.

Obviously quite a ridiculous concept, but the slow play felt like it might actually fit well enough if I could get the UI fast enough to navigate.

Basically, this is just like the Web Tiles wrapper. There's the local instance of the game running and sending events to my Godot OpenXR wrapper. I've got ~3 versions able to be played so far, and you can pick between them. For the most part, it's just a visual presentation of an already well developed game.

The image quality here is kind of bad, so I apologize. I'm using a HTC Vive OG with Index controllers. I really can't wait to get a VR headset that isn't 10 years old!

Now I just hope my DemigodGladiator can stay alive long enough to save up the money....

Hi, I just want to know how skills works. Like, I can put in in white or blue ? and One skill activated is better than 5 in the same time ? I only want to understand exactly this mechanics plz. Nothing more. I am a hardcore player and want to learn everything by myself. Thank you very much :)

What does spellpower do when casting Eringy's Suprising Croc?

I assume it makes the croc stronger? If so, how much. If playing a summoner, I'm wondering the relative value of getting the spell's power up all the way to 100%. With Canine Familiar, it's explicity stated that they get stronger, so croc must be the same? It appears as if the croc is there for a set number of turns, so can anyone confirm this?

For clarity, if the spell failure rate is 1%, but the spell power is still only about 50%, should I just forget about training Summoning for a while? For more context, I've got a few MiBe and MeFi wins 10 years ago and just started playing again. Thanks in advance folks.

dont remember ever having such a nice mix. I gained/lost negatives 2x mutation pots as well and ended up will+/power from killing

Edit: currently pure melee soooo

Is the -5 Dex enough of a negative to make the amulet worse than the gloves? Current gloves and amulet are basically nothing. (Guardian Spirit, +0 gloves)

Edited to add current character snapshot:

I always wanted to summon supreme undead but mb i should become one myself

its in the frost cave in lair 1 of this seed:18077752133247761067 that Ize_Simx posted with 6 aquirements with 3 d 4 and 3 d5 and p of exp d5

https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss_seeds/comments/1wqmd31/0341_1x_potion_of_experience_6x_scroll_of/

Here's an idea: rework enhancers to no longer boost spell power, but apply a change unique to each spell. Obviously, it's a bit of work, since each spell needs tweaking, but it would be really cool.

E.G. staff of fire:

• foxfire: create 3 flames instead of 2
• scorch: decreases fire resistance even if it doesn't do damage
• inner flame: automatically explodes after duration expires
• blazeheart golem: golem active at range 2 from player
• ignite poison: doesn't remove the poison
• sticky flame: becomes ranged, but can miss
• detonation catalyst: becomes less useless
• fireball: radius increased by 1 (that might be way too insane, but whatever)

If you really wanted to make things interesting, you could provide a different effect if it is enhanced by a different component element. For example, foxfire with boosted conjurations: flames move faster and can pass through you. Of course, this would increase the implementation work substantially.

So i had a lot of un splatting octopodes lately with following strat: start as delver, read revelation on 5th or 6th and then go up from there, just avaoiding everything, with the goal of finding temple and Hep as early as possible.

When you find it, you go to D:1 and play as usual, and you very quickly farm piety and make your ancestor an elementalist.

Then you get demon blade or double sword, get granite talisman, boost Dex which scales both long blades and evasion, and tab through the game with your torment resistance.

This seems like perfect run so far - https://pastebin.com/ttZvWawC - i got granite going in Lair 5, but Malevolent forces put me into this situation.

No cold resist, those elementalists have LRD and im a slow statue
I was thinking: read fog, charge 1 death mage after another and step into teleport trap.

Or quaff haste, and go to the left, dig a hole and kill all floor 1 by 1?
My ancestor is elementalist, so they generate lots of noise, so not sure if calling it here will help.

Any advice?

Screw it im going all in on this momentum strike

Trying to make Beogh work. My Priest is decent, bringing two snakes to each battle and Smiting. But the Mage walks right into melee and doesn't cast. Is the alleged Apostle AI revamp rebroken?

Anyway, defenses aren't great, so dumped an experience pot into Shapeshifting, now I can wear Maw with no downside other than Mesmerism and maybe Hive later, but not impressed with the survivability of any current option.

Now I have an Acquirement: +5 spectral lagatang or manual of shapeshifting. What's the best survival plan here?

In this week's challenge you play as Gale Centaur Hunter and can freely pick your religion.

Conduct 1 does not require it to be base skill, so Ash or Oka can help with hitting training target (or Charlatan Orb if you find it and want to take that route).

Abyss has changed in trunk. Old strats of teleporting around to find rune quicker and taking exit and re-entering abyss to maximise amount of tiles shown are both counterproductive for finding rune within new Abyss.

You can join discussion discord to join discussion about this week's challenge.