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Web is good. And if a city is defended by a bunch of worms on the ground, there's no reason it shouldn't be conquered by bunch of magical flying units. Unless the worms are armed with shotguns.

Hey, I tried Crawl (on the telnet server), it's pretty cool! Except I keep hitting 'l' to look around, and it moves me. I suppose I could remap the keys, but I haven't even looked for help other than ?? yet. What's a good 1st character to try? I did a Demigod Crusader and forgot to watch my HP. Now I'm trying a Draconian Chaos Knight.

[B0rsuk]

vfb said:
Web is good. And if a city is defended by a bunch of worms on the ground, there's no reason it shouldn't be conquered by bunch of magical flying units. Unless the worms are armed with shotguns.

Yes, web is nice. But conquering a city without harming its defenders ?

Hey, I tried Crawl (on the telnet server), it's pretty cool! Except I keep hitting 'l' to look around, and it moves me. I suppose I could remap the keys, but I haven't even looked for help other than ?? yet. What's a good 1st character to try? I did a Demigod Crusader and forgot to watch my HP. Now I'm trying a Draconian Chaos Knight.

1. You look around with 'x' (examine). While doing so, you can press '?' to view monster description.

Some of easiest characters are:
Troll berserker (and berserkers in general). Trolls have stupidly high regeneration rate, great hp, and fight very well unarmed. You shouldn't run into trouble too fast. Just watch for orc wizards, priests, warriors (purple, green, yellow). They hit hard.
If you DO run into trouble, press 'a' and berserk.
Crawl rewards specialist classes at the moment. For fighter types, try dwarves, minotaurs, orcs, trolls. Demigods have all skills slightly below average, which means they are much worse at many skills than those specialists. Caution - ogres are hard to play.
Fighter is armour-based, Gladiator is more about dodging.
Assassin can be also nice starting class, just don't train Darts too hard. It doesn't pay off. Poisoned needles should be saved for tougher enemies.
Gods good for fighters: Okawaru, Yredelemnul, Xom, Makhleb...

[Torin]

True True that its an exploit about the sprites but you actually kill the defenders to get the city.

*Life has much goodies, Just cause, altar of battle, buffs, healing!!!!!, Torin , but its weak in summons, you have to wait till arch angel.
*blue i think its the best, counter magic, phantasmal warriors, damage spells, spell blast, improved dispelling, and the best critter around, the sky drake, also the fun steal global that i dont remember the name now.
*black is cool, you get the cheapest summons, drain life+black sleep combo to get units as undead, wrack battle enchantment, werewolfs, and the cool zombie mastery plus cool special heros.
*green has early summons, web, call lightning, earth lore, change terrain & transmute and later town portal to teleport troops around.
*fire has the best battle damage with many types of. and also some overland violence with volcanos and earthquakes. I can think of chaos channels + the overland enchantment that boost chaos units.

My goal was almost always a balanced wizard with all the colors so i can to spell trade and get every goodie, with charismatic to aid diplomacy.
Also famous + warlord to boost troops & heroes and get the more heroes and mercs.

pitty you cannot get life & death at the same time, i tried that getting death and drained life from an arch angel (a life spellcaster) but what i got is an undead arch angel with 40 points of death spells.