cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/gaming/p/700316/dcss-at-last-pandemonium-runes-are-mine

(DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)

Morgue file for those who can read it

While winning in DCSS is fun, what I find even more enjoyable is to win in a sub-optimal (but fun) way. This run is a great example of what I mean:

• I have sacrificed my hand, my courage and my armor to get my deity's powers earlier. No shield, no armor, and I suffer a debuff every serious battle.

• I am a shapeshifter, in a form that can't use weapons and any armor. Except for my form's innate resistances, I have only a bit that I could get from my amulet and one ring (as you can only wear ring per hand).

• I am a spellcaster with 7 innate Intelligence. Yes, I sacrificed some of my brain matter too. Brain mattern't.

And I am a god-slaying tempest that no one can defeat. Even under heavy debuffs from my cowardice, I kill everything in one-three shots. With 74 evasion, nothing can hope to hit me. And I move to my next victim in a moment. How come?

Storm talisman. Make Shapeshifting a focus of your whole run and you can kill even the Pandemonium lords in three hits. Or die a miserable death to a spell you couldn't dodge.

This run had a good progression of talismans: first, Rimehorn that turns the early game into a peaceful walk; then, Serpent that's... kind of similar to Rimehorn honestly. Really strong, plenty defense, enjoy your strong midgame (though, to be fair, I did struggle with it a bit in Vaults). Now that Serpent can wear two helmets, it has some endgame potential too.

I admired this potential for a bit longer than I expected to... my two potential upgrades were Granite talisman that I'm not fond of and Riddle talisman. I tried to make the latter work but, no matter what, it gave me less defense than Serpent so I stuck with being a snake. To give myself some advantage for my slithering endgame I started training summoning magic. At first, it wasn't very impressive but once I got Mana Viper and Forest online, my XP investment started to pay off.

Then, right after getting the third rune and preparing myself for the final showdown at the Realm of Zot, I found it - Storm talisman! And you know the rest.

Can't wait to learn which of the Hell branches will kill this character!

Now you can install Bloatcrawl 2 on your smart TV. The vanilla game will also be available after the 0.34 release.

I was wondering if anyone uses or knows of functional 'Sound Packs' for DCSS.

This is the current Sound Configuration i am using from https://github.com/Autofire/BindTheEarth

However after, commenting out broken sound settings, and making sure sox (provides play command) is installed i noticed most of the sounds still won't play because, the names of the sound files, that i download from https://starmen.net/mother2/soundfx/ , don't match the sound names from the BindTheEarth settings.

so i manually renamed some of the soundsfiles to make them match, which sort of works. I just don't know which file is supposed to be which, but i guess, i wouldn't mind trying out some other Sound Packs if i can find them.

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

In case you haven't been to /r/dcss recently, the devs have announced that they are moving forward with a revived official forum, which this Lemmy post links directly to.

I've read through the Options Guide and I've created an .rc file based on that. This .rc file is obviously based on my preferences and needs.

Note that I've also copied some stuff from other people that I've found online.

Every command is commented so it's easy for you to see what it does.

Feel free to use, share and modify as needed!

Post all your macros in this thread. Please add a description of what the macro does.

I'm not sure which is the ideal pick when playing hunter. Seems like there are a few that are ok. But is there an ideal one?

I will post this find on Lemmy as well. It was lots of fun playing with this weapon. Sadly I died in Orcish though.

In this community we talk about all things Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Let's try and make this a great community. Everyone is welcome, let's spread some good vibes!

Is standard procedure to just drink Mutation every time? I got 5 before D14, drank 2 already.

With 3 remaining, I can't help but wonder what other great abilities I might develop... I struggled a bit going down, occasionally got pretty close to death, so I'm not sure how much I can risk as this point.

Will be going into Lair next.

Opinions? dump

Let’s start a thread and collect tips for all skill levels!