Comp 175

[debo]

Competition 175 is up. It's a PosChengband 3.4.5 roll-your-own-magic-user. The competition was motivated by this thread.

GLHF!

[ranger jeff]

any advice on class-race-personality combos that don't suck?

[wobbly]

Depends on what you're after. A centaur ranger with trump or sorcery for the 2nd realm is pretty powerful if you can stand the xp penalty.

[debo]

any advice on class-race-personality combos that don't suck?

Human mage. Take ordinary, patient, or lucky personality, and then do Armageddon/Sorcery. As your CL30 perk, take Subtle Casting.

Alternately, taking Life as your secondary realm can help a lot.

[wobbly]

If you're taking life you're probably better off on a priest. Say life/armegeddon/patient.

[Jungle_Boy]

The whole point of the competition is to try them all and then report which ones are the sucky ones so the devs know not to add those to vanilla :-)

[debo]

If you're taking life you're probably better off on a priest. Say life/armegeddon/patient.

No eat magic

[wobbly]

No eat magic

True I guess. Though there's always the option of pointing wands at your enemy rather than sticking them in your mouth.

[murphy]

I havent been able to figure out what the message means "You've stumbed onto something interesting" ?

[HugoVirtuoso]

I havent been able to figure out what the message means "You've stumbed onto something interesting" ?

^ That means you're about to encounter a wilderness room / vault or a random dungeon entrance (in water/lava)

[debo]

^ That means you're about to encounter a wilderness room / vault or a random dungeon entrance (in water/lava)

I think it also does this when you find a quest entrance (outside of town.)

[debo]

Congrats to hjklyubn for taking the comp in style, and to clouded for a very close second place win. Kudos also to Thraalbeast, krazyhades, and wobbly for rounding out the top 5.