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I could have sworn I saw it disappear on some non-missile gifts in trunk. Maybe the gift gods have all been hanging out with Xom.

So if my main goal is to take less dmg from arrows and spells, does AC help? does GDR help? does evade help? I know shields can block arrows... Evasion and SH both help a lot against ranged attacks and most projectile-type spells. GDR only helps against melee attacks. AC works against pretty much e...

How is Unarmed + Heavy Armour working for you? I've never tried that.

Xom's Questionable Usefullness: Chance to cause one random 'useful' spell. ⋅ Teleport self: Chance based upon ratio of explored tiles (more chance with high number of unexplored tiles) ⋅ Cause Fear: Chance based upon number of enemies (more chance with less enemies in LOS) &sdot...

As of recently, the {god gift} tag is not permanent. In fact, I think it goes away fairly quickly after being used by the player. Maybe being used by a monster can also remove the tag?

njvack wrote:
Amnesiac wrote:Btw, if I get abbysed from Pan and then return, where would I be returned to?

To the same level you left from. That red devil with a disto trident won't stop you from getting the Fiery Rune.

If this were NetHack, Pan Lords would be escorted by special guards that summon shaft traps.

Amnesiac wrote:Good AC is probably better than half-assed numbers if both AC and EV. It won't save you from a bolt of cold, though.

I'm pretty sure high AC does help save you from Bolts of Cold.

Having gotten the chance to play around with the new level 5 Force Lance, I kind of like it more. Getting decent knockback is a lot easier, so it makes a fun positional/anti-melee tool.

To take a bizarre tangent, how many new Skald spells work with UC? I assume Spectral Fists is out of the question, but does Infusion need a beatstick to work?

Crap, I forgot they had rPois. :-P Damage-wise, though, Sticky Flame happens at range, ignores AC, and hits every turn if it hits at least once. The bite and claw it uses in melee is reduced by GDR and then by AC twice, since it's two attacks. Even leather armor and 10 AC seriously cuts down the sca...

So, experience is slightly slowed down in every regard?

Should you start quaff IDing if you have already IDed Mutation and have a !curing and !restore abilities on hand?

It's often advisable to just avoid fighting mottled dragons unless you have a disable (Mephitic, Confuse, Paralysis), appropriate defenses (rF+, Conservation/no scrolls), or can kill it within a turn or two of it seeing you (Stabbing, Big Damn Conjurations). Similar tactics are often valuable when e...

I can't imagine finding enough early ?identify to scroll-ID all your potions in any reasonable timeframe. Do you just sit on tons of unidentified potions for a large portion of the game?

If you're playing trunk, the new Skald is really good and works well with the Draconian innate armour.

One thing I've found myself doing early game is not reading or quaffing anything until I have at least two of the same kind of consumable. Identifying something is only useful if you have extras left over to use, and since some of the nastier items (decay, mutation, etc.) tend to be rarer than early...

If you type 88224646, you gain an ability bound to 'b' that summons the Orb.

The implication is that she's mechanically an orc wizard who has been reflavored into a human. I'm not sure that's necessarily an insult, though, since the same description applies to the great Sigmund, Reaper of Adventurers.

A couple dozen, if Angband is anything to go by.

Would the wiki be considered... Ha(lf)As(ssed) information?

Volteccer_Jack wrote:
mixed-metaphor

So glad you said that because now all I have to do to make my point is quote Shakespeare:

"to take up arms against a sea of troubles"

Repel/Deflect Missiles is a better solution on most characters.

Now it does both, Staff of energy even when it was "no food costs for spells" wasn't used much, and staff of channeling was/is a pretty small gain and only used as a swap when needed, taking both the constant effect and the evocable one and putting them in one item made it closer to being...

Quaff before you engage. A temporary boost will usually make a huge difference over the course of the fight, but won't save you if you try to chug it a turn or two from death. Curses shouldn't be an issue here, since you have tons of Remove Curse. Edit: If you Brother a Troll, it will make things wo...

Monsters respawn slowly unless you took a ludicrously long time to get to Lair. Just Engorge yourself before you go and carry some raw chunks. You probably won't even have to eat the ration.

What tasonir said.
Don't forget you have potions of agility, speed and invisibility if you're worried about dying. Use one!

tasonir wrote:Summary: start with 4 base AC, increasing by .6 per player level.... better charms/necro.
Low hp - their niche is now low hp high ac.)

"Regeneration: The Species"

I'm eager to try it out.

What if you transition in softly via a Gladiator of Okawaru or Makhleb? It will play somewhat similarly to a Berserker, except that you can pick up spells.

If the weapons could also not have AC/EV >> HP and rEverything++, then that could work decently well. It would definitely make monster Tukima's Dance more interesting.

I'd be Gastronok, so I could be tough enough to tank the interview.

I can immediately discern whether something is fire or not. Nature is a much wobblier call. Is Ice Storm Nature? How about Summon Scorpions? The school could work, but I think its domain needs to be tightened and clarified a little.

"You criticize the crawler like a curmudgeon!"

What if dancing branded weapons gained an ability based on the brand of the weapon? (This would only apply to HoB and Monster Tukima's Dance) Holy = Holy aura Fire = Flame cloud trail Distortion = Blink Antimagic = Silence aura Speed = hasted Reaching = Constriction What if Hall of Blades were basi...

I think it would be great to split Haste into Haste Self and Haste Other and make Haste Self a level 7 Charms/Hexes spell.

"You crush the crocodile like a crouton!"

What's the unifying theme of Nature? I can't find one.

Repel/deflect missiles: I'm hoping to remove it. The effect will be moved to potion of agility: you get rmsl for a few turns after quaffing. My poor deep elf mages will get completely destroyed by centaurs/yaktaurs! The side effect would be to make the already quite powerfull mephitic cloud complet...

Yaktaur Sluice Digger (YaSD) The YaSD starts with a +0 shovel (M&F, 2h, 7 dam, 170% delay), a hat, a bread ration, and the Book of Digging (contains Dig). Sluice Digger Starting Skills: Mace and Flail: 2 Traps: 3 Spellcasting: 1 Earth Magic: 4 Yaktaur Abilities: Tough Skin 3 (+3 AC) Deformed Fas...

What if HoB were filled with skilled weapon users rather than animated weapons? It could have some ranged weapon users too, and maybe a loot pile at the back. Balanced carefully, it could be an optional level that is often but not always worthwhile and isn't horrifically tedious.

What's the point of the change? Is it just trying to make Zot traps scarier?

What's a vamp aptitude?

The problem isn't that it's too easy to pick up low-level spells of enemy schools. It's too easy to pick up low-level spells of *any* school. Find a book of Spatial Transocations on Lair:5? It's not unlikely that you can already cast Blink at 10% fail. Pick up a book of Air? With a tiny bit of XP in...

Careful with those acronyms:

GDA = Gold Dragon Armour
GDR = Guaranteed Damage Reduction

Should the wand depend on Evocations then? It seems like Evocations is gradually becoming more and more important.

I wouldn't mind seeing Mummies removed entirely. Their characteristic playstyles have been scumming and abusing Sif's mana channel, and everything else they can do can be done far better by other species. We even have Djinn in the works now, which are hungerless in a much more interesting and effect...

btw wand of hasting is actually a significantly more problematic thing for balance than the spell imo (and personally I find swiftness as a spell even more problematic than haste) I'm curious about that -- could you elaborate on why wands of hasting are more of a balance problem than the Haste spell?

I was exploring the Long Blades vs. Polearms question on a recent series of Djinn Fighters. Here are the highlights of both weapon classes: One Hand: Spear: 6/110% Falchion: 8/130% Trident: 9/130% (Demon Blade: 13/130%) (Demon Trident: 12/130%) Scimitar: 12/140% Double Sword: 15/150% Two Hand: Great...

It does bother me that most characters always can and should use Swiftness, Blink, Repel Missiles, Apportation, Regeneration, etc. with few trade-offs and very little XP cost. Crosstraining or any other artificial pigeonholing obviously isn't the way to solve it, but it would be nice if every non-Tr...

pickled_heretic wrote:It works very well with polearms too because you can use it in corridors

That sounds ludicrous. I need to start a MfSk now.

Should you not autoexplore even if you don't have apportation?

+1 Fighting -1 All Weapons +1 Unarmed -2 Bows, XBows, Slings, Throwing -2 Armour -2 Shields +2 Dodging +4 Stealth +0 Traps -2 Spellcasting -2 Conjuration +0 Summoning +0 Charms +1 Hexes +3 Translocations +1 Transmutations +0 Necromancy +0 Air Magic +1 Earth Magic -1 Fire Magic -1 Ice Magic -1 Poison...

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