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Alternately, all stabs are taken with the slotless knife you butcher with, and scale only on your SB/Stealth skills, not weapon stats.

duvessa wrote:could have the game stab with the stabbiest weapon in your inventory, regardless of wielded weapon

This sounds pretty convenient.

I'd say if you have a short blade in the a) or b) slot, and you aren't wielding a short blade, guaranteed stabs are taken with your short blade instead.

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Formicids get much less out of the translocations school than most races because of their permanent stasis. If they had an exceptionally high tloc aptitude, it could be worth training lots of tloc on some Formicid characters anyway, and they'd play very differently from most tloc characters. Telepor...

Sometimes I miss transmuter evaporation grenades. These could be almost as fun. I know -- Fulsome + Evaporate as a combo had problems of course, but Evaporate could still be great, especially if good potions rather than bad could be thrown for more powerful offensive effects. I think an evokeable w...

I know.

It reminds me of this old guide.
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/ARCHIVED_CapnCrunch's_Mummy_Wizard_guide

I'm totally doing this in a slightly out of date version, though.

Bat Bomb (Summoning/Hexes/Fire 5)

Summons an inner flamed bat. Exception to "summons can't have inner flame".

Is it really a "bad UI" problem, though? It seems like the answer to "It's hard to tell weapons apart" is to have fewer indistinguishable weapons, not to crowd the UI with more numbers. You're right, but to have weapons distinguishable in practice, even only a few, we need to cu...

Sorry, but have you people all gone crazy? Surely the way to solve the issue of "too much popcorn" is not to incorporate the problem into other design thus guaranteeing that the problem will never actually be addressed. Ashenzari was built around curse scrolls, which were later removed ex...

tasonir wrote:Bonus trivia: Unequipping a weapon to put on another weapon takes 5 auts, but w- (wield nothing) only takes 3 auts! Outrace your foes every time!

Cheibriados forgives your accidental hurry, just this once.

It's important to differentiate this from both Snakebite and the Dagger of Chilly Death. Random ideas: +6 rapier "Fang of Corruption" {Rot, rRot} When this weapon deals damage, it deals an equal amount of rotting damage (MaxHP damage). +2 dagger "Fang of Corruption" {Drain, rRot,...

Rast wrote:
bcadren wrote:Let's not make Yred and Kiku any more similar...

Let's combine them into one.

Step 1: Remove Yred.

Step 2: Change Kiku's name to "Kikuredemnul".

Your problems are shared by a dozen players or so, which is probably 0.01 percent of the player pool. Anything to make the game harder would be a kick in the balls for the huge majority of players. Most ideas in this thread are TERRIBLE. Oddly enough, I don't think making the game harder would hurt...

Trog is the best god for players who hate magic, just as Chei is the best god for players who hate luring.

Blobbo wrote:There's a difference between "good for winrate" and "smooth to play".

Very true. Discussions about Species/Background/God quality in the Tavern usually drift towards pro-tier winrate maximization when ease of play is what most players probably care about.

Creates a room separated by water or lava, with varying number of entrances. Can result in sealed off items or ranged fights over the moat. NAME: moat_split_room TAGS: no_pool_fixup DEPTH: D, Vaults, Depths NSUBST: A = 1 : +/. KFEAT: A = x / . / G / + KFEAT: O : w / l MAP xxxxAxxxx x.......x A.........

Buffing is suboptimal already. You should just train a weapon off the floor from D:1 instead.

Wow, it seems like the MP limit matters and needs to be supplemented with melee to avoid massive tedium. Huh.

It's like if Trog were an item. It'd be cool to try out.

Yeah, except for Necromutation, there's no reason undead couldn't use all the existing high-level Necromancy spells.

The variety of skills seems like its just put in there to balance out the potentially massive damage. Weakening them a bit and dropping either Staves or Evoc might be good. I liked the idea of adding a weak, common tier of magic staves as an alternative to the melee proposal. It'd be floor loot depe...

Because using a skill 0 weapon becomes useless mid-lair. Why would these level 0 spells be less useless? The proposal says "The idea is it will deal damage that's a bit less than melee weapons or unarmed damage." well i assume his formulas were just examples, and he didn't actually mean t...

There is a particular playstyle, or narrow set of playstyles, which is considered optimal. An optimal choice is any choice that moves the character towards the optimal playstyle. Note that using the optimal playstyle is not the same as maximizing winrate; there exist choices outside of the optimal p...

To solve the last-hitting problem, make the hand a glove.

As long as you wear it, corpses turn to gold, but removing it destroys all your money.

Oh, right, I guess it's actually the non-degenerate version of "-1 skill while wielded". That's kind of cool.

Ultra-random damage may be the holiest cow in Crawl.

What if Orbs came in Fire and Ice versions, but neither had a resistance pip of the opposite element?

Blobbo wrote:Special ability granted: "Quibble about details" - causes damage to opponent depending on how inconsistently designed they are: for example, OOD monsters take extra damage. Instantly kills stupid monsters like death cobs and curse toes.

They should have this in Nethack.

I didn't mention 3 of those 4 gods because it was obvious for everyone IMHO. As about Kiku I agree with you, I don't spam corpse delivery unless I really need it because it takes away 50% XP. The more often you use corpse delivery, the weaker you become and the more often you need corpse delivery. ...

It should be blindingly, falling-anvil obvious that the proposed spells used by a magic-oriented character would be more effective than skill 0 weapon tabbing. For example, at 10 skill in whatever magic school, the spell would deal 13 damage at .8 delay. To compete at melee skill 0, you'd need somet...

I don't think that gimmick is big enough for two races, unless you wanted to give DD healing again.

We might have to rename them in that case.
How about we call them Mountain Dwarves?

From a great post in the Crown of Eternal Torment thread: The hardcore players (not just the devs) are in a kind of loop where they found a few playstyles that win, and became comfortable with them. Eventually, the game gets stale, and needs to be updated. Some things are immediately identified as b...

The critical factor here is spell/weapon, not melee/ranged. Basic attack spells are a great idea, imho. It's not as good as a weapon, but it keeps everything from being a de facto weapon background. It seems like a minor design problem that almost all characters should pick up and train a melee weap...

I've typically been one to explore all of every level. In an effort to reduce boredom and stupid mistakes, I just tried out faster type of playstyle, where I explored very little of each level unless looking for altars or stairs. I got deep into Lair this way before being killed by a molten gargoyle...

Sphara wrote:There should have been 4 of them and preferably wearing hats too.

Unique proposal: The Droogs

I tab as much as possible when I use polearms, but often I avoid them because they can be a bit finnicky when vv is called for.

There's still room to give Long Blades a special gimmick. Of course, any such gimmick has to: 1] Not require e(v)ocation or excessive micromanagement 2] Have a meaningful tactical effect I present the Gouge effect: Damage dealt by Long Blades scales up based on portion of target HP missing, being un...

Why is the Midgame Boring? Because you are playing it with OP (for you) characters. How Can it be Fixed? There are 2 ways: 1) Play less powerful characters 2) Play my version of crawl where you can customize HP/XP. The better you become the more often you will get into "I feel bored" situ...

In the long run, you see luck dependence matter more with item drops than with the success rates of individual attacks. Conjurer and Enchanter can hold out longer with their starting equipment than most other backgrounds, even without god help. They're some of the least luck-dependent classes. If, o...

This is a really hard one for me. I keep splatting. I think it's the combination of the sort of unfocused Assassin start with the Formicid lack of panic buttons.

Yeah, get your mind out of the gutter, Pollen.

I don't know if it works, but you don't need to. OOD should be enough to win, and Veh's wrath is more likely to kill you than a lack of Firestorm. The best build now is probably to train defenses a lot and get a decent low-investment weapon to mindelay if you haven't already. If you find the books f...

We could at least have a two-handed dual shield artefact.

If you're doing more than minimal magic, consider Ash for the skill boosts.

I played a great MuFi once -- the character was an exceptional stiff.

Only if the sword and shield are permacursed so that they can never be removed.

Don't forget shoutitis.

Can you find a dagger before you find a hobgoblin?

Pollen_Golem wrote:Can't you kill The Royal Jelly while following Jiyva, renounce religion the moment you're happy with your stats/mutations, and destroy Jiyva while escaping wrath?

I thought Jiyva sticks around long enough to wrath you, but I could be wrong.

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