Comp 200 (!)

[debo]

Comp 200 is up. It's a high-elf mage with quite a few nasty birth-options set.

GLHF

(Thanks to bron for the idea for this.)

[Nick]

200 factorial! you have been doing this for a while.

[Philip]

Which sneaky bastard decided that I would get a Word of Recall scroll that I wouldn't be able to sell?

[Derakon]

Which sneaky bastard decided that I would get a Word of Recall scroll that I wouldn't be able to sell?

Take heart, the scroll still has a use: you can throw it at a monster to wake it up! ...assuming you manage to hit it, that is.

[Pete Mack]

Really horrid birth options.

[debo]

Really horrid birth options.

I've heard on good authority that roguelikes are supposed to be nasty.

[Pete Mack]

You succeeded-a job well done. Could have done a little better by just going downstairs on the first turn.

I've heard on good authority that roguelikes are supposed to be nasty.

[PowerWyrm]

Really horrid birth options.

Not really... monsters still behave stupidly

[debo]

Not really... monsters still behave stupidly

I would have flipped that one too but I wasn't sure if it was broken or not

[Derakon]

I would have flipped that one too but I wasn't sure if it was broken or not

I don't know what it does currently, but back when it was working as designed, any monster with a heal or teleport spell was basically unkillable.

[Azuria]

Now I understand why spells were illegible back in 3.whatever...
Was playing ranger before this, keep trying to cast detect stairs and hitting stinking cloud instead

[PowerWyrm]

I would have flipped that one too but I wasn't sure if it was broken or not

This means that the Tarrasque will breathe disenchantement exclusively when a character has both fire and cold immunities. Basically monsters will cheat, knowing what a character resists and what spells are useless to cast.

[Derakon]

This means that the Tarrasque will breathe disenchantement exclusively when a character has both fire and cold immunities. Basically monsters will cheat, knowing what a character resists and what spells are useless to cast.

Not quite. There used to be three "monster intelligence" options -- monsters learn, monsters cheat, and monsters are smart. The "cheat" one is as you describe. The "learn" one is basically similar, except the monster has to try an attack once before it discovers that the attack doesn't work. So the Tarrasque would breathe fire/cold precisely once each before sticking to disenchantment in your example.

Smart monsters is different, though, in that it biases what spells monsters cast based on the monster's situation. In particular it prioritizes escape and recovery spells when the monster is low on health, which is why I said it makes uniques with those spells basically unkillable. I don't know what effect it has on the monster's choice of damage spells though.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I've been playing the nightlies for so long now, it has been awhile since playing regular 4.0.5.

I miss rune-id and id on walkover. But, I love being able to detect doors and traps from a distance (which I find very important for Mage tactics) and having the trap detection line.

[debo]

Congratulations to PowerWyrm for the impressive 1st place run, and to Ingwe and tkm2d for their 2nd and 3rd place finishes.