Brag: I finally beat Linley's Dungeon Crawl.

[pistolero]

You can save, but you can't restore - once you die, that's it. The saving's only there so you can sleep [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Jeff W, I hate you. I've been playing this for a few days and it's SOO addicting. I've only really been trying (and killing off mercilessly) human fighters. I imagine it only gets better (worse??) when you start playing around with other races/classes.

[Don West]

is there a command list anywhere? what about a detailed description of the races/classes?

[Jeff W]

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I imagine it only gets better (worse??) when you start playing around with other races/classes.

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Yeah, some races are so fundamentally different from the others that it completely changes the way you have to play the game. Examples:

Ghoul: Start out completely incompetent with no skills in useful weapons and only a death shroud(robe), their permanent hit points rot away for the entire game and you have to eat raw flesh to restore them, though eating raw flesh also heals you, and they have tons of useful immunities for the late game. One of my personal favorites, but I recommend you don't try them because they're very hard to get started.

Naga: Slow movement, very limited armour, very stealthy, Start with Poison Spit which rocks everything up until you get to poison resistant monsters--basically they're an assassin race, but their best class is Warper IMO, because starting with blink makes up for their inability to run away.

Spriggan: Very fast(they can run away from just about anything in the game), very stealthy, poor aptitude for attack magic, fighting(the skill--increases damage bonuses on weapons and hit points), but they are good with enchantments, transmuting, evocations(some Spriggan classes start with a rod of striking) and other subtle skills. They excel at sneakiness and hit&run tactics.

Troll: Brute fighters. Absolutely terrible at everything except they're excellent at Unarmed Combat and Fighting and pretty good with Maces. They have innate regeration that is much faster than the other races, but they have a much bigger appetite than other races. Luckily they can eat flesh even when they're not hungry or starving(this is a great ability that might not be obvious to newbies...but food powers useful things like berserk, invocations and spells so being able to eat until engorged is a big advantage).

I could go on, but I'll let you figure out the rest for yourself [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Jeff W]

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I assume there is no saving? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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You can save your game, but death is permanent(when you save, the program exits).

[Jeff W]

I won again.

[pistolero]

Okay, I've looked for a while now and I can't find exactly what "victory dancing" is. I know it's basically doing something over and over in a safe place to increase skills, but I'm not completely sure how skills are increased. Does it work with all skills? Can you increase your weapon skills by attacking the air? How do you increase things like stealth and armor?

[KUJustin]

Am I the only one who's too dense/ADD to play this?

I keep hitting the wrong button and it'll say "what do you want to drink/eat/pick-up?" and i try to get it to stop asking and it won't, rinse/repeat.

I have no idea how to execute a battle other than running at or away from something. I gotta go play Civ 4 now.

[Jeff W]

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Am I the only one who's too dense/ADD to play this?

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Once you learn the commands, it becomes a lot more fun. Well, at least I think so.

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I keep hitting the wrong button and it'll say "what do you want to drink/eat/pick-up?" and i try to get it to stop asking and it won't, rinse/repeat.

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Hit 'Esc'.

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I have no idea how to execute a battle other than running at or away from something. I gotta go play Civ 4 now.

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For some reason I just cannot get into the Civilization/Alpha Centauri series--too much micromanagement I reckon, but I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Master of Orion I, which is similar.

[fnord_too]

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For some reason I just cannot get into the Civilization/Alpha Centauri series--too much micromanagement I reckon, but I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Master of Orion I, which is similar.

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I bought and tried MOOIII, but it was just too painful (at least starting out). Maybe it just took a long time to evolve, then I would have realized all the non recoverable mistakes I made and had to start over, but I just got bored and hung it up.

[Jeff W]

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Okay, I've looked for a while now and I can't find exactly what "victory dancing" is. I know it's basically doing something over and over in a safe place to increase skills, but I'm not completely sure how skills are increased.

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It refers to any kind of repetitive activity that improves your chance of winning. One example is casting magic dart at a wall to improve spellcasting/conjurations. Another is lugging weapons to the Ecumenical Temple to sacrifice to Elyvilon for piety.

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Does it work with all skills? Can you increase your weapon skills by attacking the air? How do you increase things like stealth and armor?

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You have to kill stuff to increase fighting and weapon skills. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Stealth raises occasionally when you're wearing light armour and have experience in your pool. Same for armour(except for heavy armour, not light), and armour also raises when a monster hits you while you're wearing heavy armour. Both rise slowly, but you don't need high levels in those two skill anyway. After 15 Armour, returns diminish quickly and I got good benefit from just 9 Stealth.

Luckily, you don't have to do much "victory dancing" to win in Crawl--you can succeed by just playing naturally.