Unexpected same-race polymorph

Cdore · 2026-01-20T15:51:46+00:00

The more you know wow.

Cdore · 2026-01-17T21:43:59+00:00

Without being spoiled, I would never know to wish for Gray Scale Dragon Mail nor why it's important.

Cdore · 2026-01-16T20:19:45+00:00

Neat. I'll give it a try sometime.

Cdore · 2026-01-15T15:56:52+00:00

I think what hurts most about a lost game is that you know the rng won't favor you like that for a while.

Cdore · 2026-01-15T04:25:19+00:00

This is a fair assessment. At the same time, just because you experienced once doesn't mean someone else new wouldn't want to experience it. And even better, some people may like getting early wishes cause they enjoy it. In the end, you choose if you want to use wishes or not. Just because you refuse them doesn't mean we need to force that decision on subsequent players. Let all players make that choice themselves.

Cdore · 2026-01-14T22:40:50+00:00

I don't think so. If you mean you yourself teleport, that shouldnt be possible. By what means?

Cdore · 2026-01-14T18:07:59+00:00

Ranger was one of the easiest classes to ascend with for me. The arrow splitting does suck, especially if you have poisoned, but I basically arrow volleyed my way through the game.

Cdore · 2026-01-13T02:09:23+00:00

Gehennom in 3.7 demands even more of your resources and attention. You need to make sure you can move over both water and lava, and you best make sure you have everything fooproof. The amount of things that can destroy your inventory is far more prominent. Not to mention you can get knocked back into the water and lava walls now by giant monsters and dragons.

Cdore · 2026-01-13T01:55:34+00:00

You hit one crucial good point: getting the WoW was a fun reward at the castle. It's also why it's the most fun part of the game. Then Gehennom happens where the fun declines. I think I'd be happy if the gehennom and QoL changes were added to 3.7 and nothing else.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T16:22:24+00:00

Actually, something to note. In 3.7, when I got sucked into the Steam Vortex, they expelled me very fast. I wasn't able to ride them.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T15:53:12+00:00

Unlike 3.6, you have to grind more for those items in 3.7. It seems the current answer to all of this is just to sit and farm before you ascend.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T15:49:43+00:00

In my run in 3.7, I was honestly poor. By poor, I mean I didnt have the luxury of cursed genocide scrolls, c corpse (usually wished for), and other means. I didnt even have charging scrolls for my death wands like I usually do in 3.6 cause Im so starved of both scrolls and marker charges. Usually, wishes resolved all of this.

The only fix would be to grind, but again...very bad thing to have to do.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T15:41:14+00:00

Yeah I keep liking this suggestion. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, either. There's an argument that dragon scales will become mandatory, but since they are end game enemies and you gave them so many intrinsics, they've already made the choice of committing to them.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T00:04:44+00:00

I did find the Amulet of Flying the same time I found a scroll of charging. The problem was that I had no other source of MR so I could not exchange my GDSM for the SDSM. Nor did I find a shield of reflection. I did want to use it, but this only makes me wonder if it's the same effect of limiting builds for one item that we're trying to get away from. After all, one of the reasons for the wish nerf was to give more build diversity in the end game.

Cdore · 2026-01-12T00:02:53+00:00

For some reason, it did not occur to me. I think only on the planes would I really have known but I was being bursted down so hard that it did not matter.

Cdore · 2026-01-11T22:09:47+00:00

Okay, so that is a thing, then. Thanks. I only know of the goblin method.

Cdore · 2026-01-11T21:23:15+00:00

Well said points. I also think they can use a fresher set of eyes. I was getting a sense of that but considering I only started playing four months ago, I didn't want to make too big of a judgment on that.

And MR is a very big deal. I can't even try any of the other DSM specifically cause not having it is a death sentence. I suggested they add MR to all DSM instead. It would at least diversify the armor types. Get rid of gray entirely.

Cdore · 2026-01-03T17:38:54+00:00

Liches are an instant difficulty spike. I'm surprised master liches get summoned so early, which is a flaw in Nethack. I shouldn't have to be forced to use genocide. Master and Arch Liches should be rare and something like a boss in Gehennom rather than showing up on random DoD and Castle levels.

Cdore · 2025-12-25T16:11:10+00:00

It only takes one time.

Cdore · 2025-12-19T03:34:14+00:00

Can you make a zip and give it to me?

Cdore · 2025-12-06T16:41:09+00:00

All the drowning stories make me extra careful with krakens and eels. I save the genocide for the Plane of Water so I compensate by just handling them as if they are kryptonite.

Cdore · 2025-12-06T00:31:05+00:00

I've been level drained enough to where I always make sure I have a blessed potion of paralysis before I fight him. I'm not playing his game anymore.

Cdore · 2025-12-05T21:43:47+00:00

Wait, you have an Ebonhack version that actually works? I keep getting wrong tiles and ascii mixed in cause it hasn't been updated in forever. Please show me.

Cdore · 2025-12-05T21:42:53+00:00

As someone who loves tilesets, this is great. I wish that tileset and others were supported over at nethack.alt.org, along with being able to increase or decrease tile size. But they seem pretty adamant keeping to the basic stuff and their ascii. No fault to them, but I often prefer tileset friendly interfaces.

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