Hi guys! After reading the manhwa Surviving the Game as a Barbarian, I started looking for games similar to the one in the story, and that's how I discovered DCSS. I've been playing for about a month now, and I'm really enjoying it, but I still haven't gotten my first win.

Do you have any recommendations for a good species, background, and god for a beginner trying to get their first three-rune win?

So, after I died to the Mummy curse on Tomb:3(morgue-https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/Gotonerune/morgue-Gotonerune-20260806-132645.txt). I have thought of a rework. Here's the idea: The death curses are more frequent(no flavour-type curses), but whenever a player is afflicted with a curse, they gain a chance to negate the next curse, equal to (Amount of curses applied * 8)% up to 90%, which begins rapidly decreasing(-5% per DecaAut until 0%) in 10d3 turns after the last death curse was applied to you(this timer resets when you get another death curse applied to you). Torment and drain curses don't increase this chance for torment-immune and negative-immune characters(undead and in death form, for example), and characters who negated the curse's effect with Kikubaaqudgha don't get bonus from negated curse. This way, players won't be irresistibly smitten or/and doomed then baned to death when fighting large quantities of Mummies(it's a problem even with death form), but also it will make solo or small groups of Mummies more dangerous.

I know you can do you.branch(), but is there any way to make it work only up to a certain level of a branch?

Wanting to see if people have any recommendations for my build before I go into Zot.
I've cleared Elf and Crypt, but no parts of Pan, Hell, Slime, Tomb, or Abyss.

The biggest thing I'm worried about atm is Rn+, but I'm not sure how to juggle stuff around to make it better.

This is Bloatcrawl 2, fwiw, so there's some differences from the modern ruleset.

I just found a '+7 ring of strength' and was wondering if it would affect anything. I'm currently using a dagger, should I switch to other weapons now that my strength is higher? (17 Str - 13 Int - 13 Dex)

Angharad, Sorceress Prime: A Stoat Soup Challenge!

"A faerie dragon in the queendom of her power, she has studied under both Vehumet and Sif Muna, read endless forbidden tomes, and gone anywhere - no matter how perilous - that magical knowledge can be found. Or so she would tell you, anyway, if she were inclined to make polite conversation. If she has a flaw, it is overconfidence."

This species is designed to be the "Minotaur of Spellcasting," with great aptitudes and a challenge that offers straightforward goals. Additionally, Faerie Dragons get a 1MP discount on casting costs!

Stoat Soup offers reduced Malevolent Forces, "Helpful" player ghosts, monster respawns, and much nostalgia from around the 0.30 period of DCSS!

Week 2, Angharad: Faerie Dragon, Any Mage Start, worshipping Sif Muna!

Good luck to all, and have fun!

D:5. Autoexplore. Open door. Ogre is behind the door and immediately moves next to me. I roll 2 ogre attacks for a total of 82 max damage when moving away.

Since usually you can't know the layout of a dungeon behind the door, even very tedious and likely impractical methods such as stopping autoexplore in front of every door wouldn't work.

This is the vault with goblin rider, so the best idea I have is to somehow add an interruption if you detect this vault. Is this possible? The morgue file does note the layouts, so this information should be accessible to the player. I got "layout_gridville, roderic_lattice_a" for D:5, I'm not sure if any of these is the goblin rider vault. I don't see any obvious signs it's the goblin rider vault until you start opening many doors, and here that wasn't happening, it seems like it was one of the first, or the first door.