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If you know this stuff already, feel free to skip it. The real bonus is that a class starting with a god will, with a few exceptions, be better able to make use of their skills. Should you not start with a god, you can pick one up later on, provided you survive long enough. Classes, mind you, are often just a pile of starting skills, hit dice/MP dice (not sure about this) and sometimes a starting god. There are, I believe, 25 races and 28 classes, so I'll summarize a little. Just have fun.Īnd now for the major infodump: Classes and races. Don't get overly concerned about practicality, as I won't survive anyway. So I'll let you, and whoever else is inclined to post, decide what I play and, should I have any questions (and I will), how I play said character. This may lead to a bit of an infodump at the start, but bear with me (only not literally. In any case, no experience with the game will be necessary to understand what you see. I'm not funny, but I never let that stop me. This will consist of info on the game/what's going on, and poor attempts at humour. Second, there will be writing in between screenshots. So, if a character dies, I'll just start up a new one. I have not beaten this game after two months, and do not expect to do so particularly soon. As usual, read the spoiler, or don't, depending on how much you care.įirstly, the LP will be continuous through multiple playthroughs. Apart from that, you can expect a couple things. Now, what can you expect from this LP? Poor quality, this being me.

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Of course, their code may be a pain to work with, and if you annoy them (by doing the wrong things, or converting) they will punish you, often very severely. With enough piety, they give you abilities and, depending on the god, gifts. Each has things that please and displease them, and if you act accordingly, you gain piety. Skills affect a bunch of things, and are trained through practice. Each race has aptitudes - skills they are good, or poor at - and often XP penalties for daring to be something other than a human or orc (or possibly a couple other races, such as kobolds). Less emphasis on class, though there are many - your character is defined more by their skills, race and choice of deity. In Crawl, you use whatever you find that happens to be useful in that particular situation, and many things have drawbacks - overall, the game is very well balanced. For instance, in NetHack, you will be using, barring extraordinary circumstances, an amulet of reflection and probably grey dragon scale mail. While this is the case, I'm lazy and use the Wiki anyway. The goal is that, unlike other Roguelikes, it should be playable without the aid of a guide or Wiki. It also provides a tutorial, a manual, and so on. if something kills you, it'll probably be something you at least half-expected: A strong monster or a potion of poison at an early level, rather than the necklace you put on just happening to be an amulet of strangulation. Or don't, if you don't care/know the game already.Ĭrawl seems easier, at first glance. Now, how is Crawl unique among Roguelikes? Read on. I'm probably not doing a good job of advertising the genre here, so trust me when I say it's better than it sounds Your item selection, stats, gear, monsters you run into and so forth will be at least somewhat different every time, which makes the game addictive rather than repetetive and tiresome. Dungeons are randomly generated every time, with only a few things you can count on. Randomness: A good deal of what keeps the game entertaining. In Crawl, you want the Orb of Zot, for some reason that's never explained. Why? Well, in NetHack (the most famous Roguelike), you want to get this amulet for your god. Lack of plot: With a few exceptions (ADOM comes to mind), a Roguelike consists of the following: Go down into a randomly generated dungeon, go down to the last floor, and either kill the boss or, more commonly, grab an item and escape. Oh, and if you die, the game erases your save file. And yes, you will often die in horrible, random, arbitrary ways - once again, not as bad in Crawl as in other games, though that's not to say it's any easier. Things can kill you if you're not careful, even things you wouldn't normally consider dangerous.

Everything is a legitimate threat, to an extent, and this only abates slightly at higher levels. But basically, expect lots of tactical options and such, though Crawl has less of those than other games of its kind.ĭifficulty? Well, the game is not fair. Roguelikes have, most commonly, depth - you can do lots of things in them, though the level of detail varies from game to game - difficulty, no plot, and randomness. A Roguelike is a type of RPG, named after the first of its kind, Rogue.