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Hello, hello, hello everyone. And welcome back to another trek through the dungeon! After an almost 5-year hiatus I'm slowly-but-surely starting to come back :)!. Of course with 5 years in between there's a really good chance you have no idea who I am. I'm BountyHunterSAx. I've got a 600+ video yout...

Chain Lightning gains damage based on how close you are to your enemy. It bounes multiple times. If you are in melee it is truly the worst case scenario.

And I got one-shot by this when I didn't know better. Worse yet -- I'm pretty sure he was confused when he fired it

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-AHMAD

Totally random thought: What if Sif gave you a **** star ability to attempt to memorize a spell from a book you're carrying *INSTANTLY*. This would effectively allow you to treat any spell in any spellbook you're carrying as memorized with three major caveats: 1.) You need to leave that many spell l...

I tend to kill all the uniques I encounter, or avoid them (for safety!) until such time as I can go back and kill them later. I do this for three reasons: 1.) My character's kit is strong enough to do so. Why *NOT* kill Duvessa, Dowan, Yiuf, etc. etc. if you've got Mephitic Cloud or Berserk-Minotaur...

I've always found Vulnerable a *very* interesting tactical choice - safety now for the risk of suffering later, or power now for the same. Primary uses for me are to remove red/yellow contamination (1), and to prep an enemy for a hex-based stab (2). In both cases, the trade-off is "am I comofor...

This game uses permadeath in such a way as to make permadeath dealable and interesting. It's integrated into the game well enough that removing it drastically changes gameplay in much the same way that "cheating for resources" changes the gameplay of Starcraft Brood War. Surprise surprise,...

I could not agree with Psiweapon more. Just *thinking* about it makes me feel incredibly excited to try out. You could even scrap the invocations-to-pay aspect. Here, let me explain: Let us assume that you're offered a pair of sacrifices at regular intervals - something timed to work out about as fr...

Man, daydreaming about all the fun stuff you could do with an 'easy mode' is a lot of fun too. Imagine, for example, if when an orc priest kills you, the message that popped up was something like: "You were killed by an orc priest smite from afar (or whatever). Orc priests can deal massive dama...

Wizardry is useful in my mind for making my spells succeed, not for lessening the penalty i'd suffer if they'd die. If Sif Muna not only protected me from miscasts but also refunded my MP for miscasts, then I'd accept that this was truly quasi-wizardry. As it stands? No, if I'm at 40% fail, Sif does...

The funny thing about Crawl is stated rather clearly by the OP: There are many things in Crawl that casual/ordinary gamers would find to be very cool (races, gods, spells, etc), and thus Crawl is not far off from gaining more popularity by reaching for a wider audience, yet the devs intentionally o...

For those of you who are protesting that " it's *fun* for crawl to be hard, etc. I don't actually disagree. Clearly, part of what attracted us all to this sort of game was a desire for that level of challenge and a willingness to stomach defeat after defeat in pursuit of that victory. This isn'...

I agree. The only reason I use invocations is it involves the least change to the current system outlined by the OP. That, and invocations is the closest thing we have to "god-training" skill.

I wish I had the time and inclination to learn enough about Crawl coding and fork-design to create an Easy-Mode fork that could bring the winrate for players who commit 10-20 hours up to a solid 50+% on average. I mean, at this point, I've spent countless hours playing and winning this game. I've ex...

I once died on d1 in, like 22 turns with autoexplore.

I'm aware of this, as well as with the stepdown function. It's why I specifically referenced the diceroling system.

Seems to me that there will almost always be a good 20-40% of these conducts you can almost immediately know you don't care about for your 3-rune game. And since the rewards accrue immediately this would represent a *MASSIVE* power-spike the moment you hit the temple. Imagine, for arguments sake, pl...

Vehumet gives you mp back on kills, a bonus to range, a nice plethora of spells to use on a nice even ramp as you level up, and you're complaining that he doesn't givve you a 50% bonus to damage? Hell, I'd be okay with just straight up removing his wizardry-effect and giving nothing back in its plac...

Proposal: Remove Vehumet's wizardry-like effect for conj. Replace it with a passive that will "reroll 1's" in conjuration damage calculations. Or grant a passive 5% boost to spell power for conj. Or something akin to that. Proposal: Give Sif Muna the passive wizardry-like effect. BUT - ha...

Anyone remember the days of 0.9 crawl where the game was "too easy"? And the average winrate of your above average "~20 hours of playtime" player was so low that it approximated zero?

Gah, I miss those good old days. When the game was easier.

-AHMAD

I was about to answer your question with general advice on brand choice when I realized who you were and thus how much you already probably know. Let me take this moment to instead say that - on a fast speed weapon, just pick elec over draining. Loads and loads of zombies, mummies, and undead will b...

I am also against, which is unusual since I'm usually in favor of player-buffs ;). The reason being that poison is a specific kind of threat to many of my casters that is utterly negated by this patch change. That is: do i deem the threat of potential incoming monsters on this floor severe enough th...

When starting a non-berserker melee start, I typically just automatically go fighter. SO congrats for pointing out the obvious and making a good case for gladiator for me. I inevitably want a few points in throwing on characters capable of training it easily just to boost my capabilities. Gladiator ...

If this ever actually goes through, please increase the actual # of food units that you have at 'Hungry' significantly, to compensate for the time I might have spent carrying a chunk with me and not eating it. The way I see it, this is going to make eating similar to the activity of a vampire pre-&q...

It's not the fastest wins clock-time ever. Just on this server and several more have come since. I'm not the best runner or anything, but even I've managed a sub-two-hours speedrun. In case it helps - here's a link to the youtube playlist of my attempts at speedrunning. If you just want to see the s...

As an avid sif-player (despite the fact that Vehumet is often the better choice) I gotta say flash-of-inspiration would be a VERY welcome addition to her spell list.

-AHMAD

So, when I initially read this description it rubbed me the wrong way. Later on I found it incredibly offensive. Finally I decided I'd sleep on it rather than making a knee-jerk post. I am convinced this has to change and will outline my reasons. My issue is simply this: Of the same stock as angels ...

The difficulty you're citing is part of my problem with the new abyss changes and how they've made even Abyss:1 less survivable to a midgame character rather than moreso. Sometimes you really *can't* prevent being abyss'd especially post-lair. You can and should avoid Elf if you're terrified of the ...

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Me? I'm spoiled, I love wizards. Wizards "front-load" their hand in that they are very well suited to the very early game, reasonably good for the early game, and okay for the Lair. In other words - you get the utility with blink, magic dart, mephitic cloud, and conjure flame to survive lo...

Free advice? Ogres are quite a hard race to win with when you're not familiar with the game. With more than 20 wins under my belt, including Felids, Octopodes, Spriggans, Minotaurs, etc.; I *still* found my first Ogre win to be quite an entertaining challenge run. I wouldn't insist on making it your...

So...*TOTAL ASIDE* but then, this is Crazy Yiuf's Corner -- a good place for total asides. And since several people know about my channel from here thanks to my weekly crawl videos, I figured it was worth a mention. I've played a bit of Gnomoria, and I have to say already this game is growing on me....

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzpGavm3915KRCNs-_JA31gBJSs9wpOG So for those of you who don't know, I do a weekly video (occasionally missed, frequently more) of crawl for my youtube channel. My latest large project - though the subject of repeated interruptions for various *OTHER* progjects...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzpGavm3915TmY6ewQiimWrx4xlie8dg I've been running a Spriggan Stabber (rolled as Wz, because I prefer Wz to En for stabbing) for the last week or so, and recording my progress. As of today I got bored of doing the full extended endgame so I ascended with just 1...

I've got to disagree, respectfully, with the OP on this. At no point in playing the game did I ever *not* understand that bad aptitudes just meant it's harder to train this skill. It's entirely disjointed from whether said skill was good or important for my character.

-AHMAD

I put out a crawl vid every weekend for my channel http://www.youtube.com/user/BountyHunterSAx. . . and often more than that. At this point I'm up to 200+ vids including: 0.) SpWz: "Starting a Spriggan Wizard". My most popular (and a totally outdated!) video series. From before my 1st win:...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzpGavm39154_lRhWhoW5bi7pcAGt4NI Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.0 (tiles) character file. 850881 NomNomulous the Middleweight Champion (level 27, -22/391 (408) HPs) Began as a Purple Draconian Monk on June 10, 2013. Was the Champion of the Shining One. S...

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And the run is done! OpPA wizard style - a 30-video youtube series detailing OctoWich, and his/her/its trek to get a full 15 rune completion + Ziggurat. In all humility, it's actually a decent run, and now I get to update my signature again so I'm happy. The video-playlist link above is fully update...

What's *wrong* with a hexes/poison spell whose goal is to increase a creatures' vulnerability to poison? I'm thinking a nice 3x3 cloud of some kind. At 7-8mp, it's still a pricey-as-hell (and probably suboptimal) approach. But then, lots of spells are and that's okay. And if it's high level like tha...

Isnt inaccuracy a bad thing? And accuracy a good thing?

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I've known it, yes. But it wasn't till I looked it up that i realized that the gift timeout for ammo was like 5-10 turns; i'd always assumed it was closer to 40. Also, I really meant more the feel of it than anyting else. I'm getting a LOT more ammo in v0.13 than i did in v0.12; but then - feel is s...

Not sure if it's my imagination (unlikely), a bug (quite possible), or an intended change (i hope) ; but I think Okawaru just got a MAJOR buff, and amulet of faith a "stealth-nerf". I was running a v0.12 centaur hunter of Oka. Getting my arrow-gifts, doing my thing, etc. Hit about lvl14 be...

What I think could be interesting, in terms of making the food clock more dangerous, is having a generalist food god in the game who gives some attractive benefits for strict eating conducts/nutrition sacrifices. Not gonna lie to you, that could be fun for a while. You know, like the main dungeon w...

Ghetto Edit: Ah, just realized you'd asked when, not why - my mistake. I don't use inner-flame and so i can't help you.

Because attacking allies makes them hostile? It's not a charm, it's a hex. A hostile magical/psychological attack that requires the target to try to resist with their magical resistance before succumbing to the threat of immolation! In my experience, the only attack allies tend ot ignore are "b...

How OP/UP would a "Divine Challenge" ability be? :) I'm thinking akin to D&D where an enemy is now marked by you, and takes penalties toHit when attacking targets other than you (or worse, reprisal damage from your patron deity). Of course, if it includes you in the AoE/Blast attack th...

I think we should get rid of this spell "Fullsome Distillation" and "Evaporate". Evaporate's really powerful for level 2 spell and quite tedious to use. And Fullsome Distillation isn't really useful outside of Evaporate. Oh, maybe we should change spellcasting's listed aptitude s...

Are you familiar with the recent cTele ring nerfs? It no longer is permanently in effect, you have to activate it (at an evoke/food cost). So this would be a significant buff.

-AHMAD

Minus the drawing an outline to tell you where to shoot at (except, possibly, once every 5-6 turns or so) and the increased ev? IMO, the only reason invisibility on monsters is kinda 'meh' is that the monsters who use it tend to be pretty 'meh', especially at the point in the gmae you reach them. Pu...

Clearly, cerebov, you have never died to an unseen horror or ghost moth like I have.

-AHMAD

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