Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Not sure how this is calculated but it threw me off for a second :)

After having not played for about 10 years, I went and did a few runs of my old reliable, gargoyle fighter, with a couple runs going to 5 runes before my discipline failed them. What are some fun new combos to try out? I used to enjoy high elves sword&sorcery but I see that this race is gone, anything that would fill that kind of fantasy?

Of course, I'm playing a race that can't wear them. 🙂

Recently gave Hill Orcs more of a chance and realized, they're quite cool. Any others I should be looking at?

Probably since 0.30, the imp summoned by "Call Imp" now has a spear to poke enemies from behind you. The imp also doesn't blink around anymore.

Personal highlights:

Many monsters (boulder beetles, two-headed ogres, various orcs…) do less damage.

Been surprised by how hard these hit many times. 🙃

Bumping a foe while holding a ranged weapon now automatically shoots instead of asking if you want to hit the foe over the head with your bow.

Makes playing purely-ranged characters a lot less annoying.

When worshipping at a faded altar, the player is given a preview of three gods the altar might belong to.

So far, it felt 'optimal' to always gamble and just throw away a character when you get a bad god. Now it feels a lot more like an actual decision.

They can fly, but they'd rather not do it over land. Apparently.

Noticed on Trunk that Sandblast doesn't need stones anymore and figured I should do a serious run with a GrEE. Of course, now the game gives me lots of stones...