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TeshiAlair wrote:I personally think it would be interesting to have a species get increased LOS and stealth at various points, as a different way of conveying a creature on the prowl.

Wouldn't increased LOS hurt stealth?

Orb of Destruction ---> Incest.

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Siegurt wrote:Indeed, this proposes a no-risk, highly tedious activity, for immense power benefit. This is the very definition of "scumming" and thereby falls completely counter to DCSS game philosophy

varkarrus wrote:SO. I had this idea for my own roguelike,

Well, I rolled a random character and got an Ogre Necromancer. I was expecting this character to die fairly fast, but surprisingly this combination is actually extremely powerful, and I've had almost no troubles at any point in this game. However, I'm a bit confused as to what I should do next... 1)...

That's a bit like asking how the shields can block other sources of physical impact without breaking - clubs, giant clubs, warhammers, battleaxes etc. The last time I checked clubs, giant clubs, and battleaxes are incapable of destroying walls or blowing stone giants into blood and fleshy chunks al...

Sar wrote:You can't actually blow up stone walls with it, only rock and doors (not sure about crystal though, I think you can't).

But the orbs can disintegrate doors and rock walls and yet my wooden dinner plate can take a hit from an orb like it's nothing?

(Also, I said stone giant, not stone wall.)

So Orbs of Destruction are powerful enough to destroy walls and explodimicate stone giants into a bajillion gory chunks of flesh. Why is it then that you can completely negate the destructive power of an Orb of Destruction with a puny little wooden buckler?

I would go with evo, personally.

Why did nobody ask OP what crawl version he was playing? Because before 0.15 throwing anything but large rocks and needles was really not worth using. Laraso, try 0.15. I enjoyed throwing on both my kobolds in this tourney. Killing oof with tomahawks before it approaches is overpowered. This was in...

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Yeah, Mummies are supposed to be completely 100% immune to poison. Either you misunderstood something that happened or it's a bug.

Um, yeah... That's a dead spriggan you've got right there if you don't immediately teleport back out of it.

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^ Word. OP, if you are wearing very heavy armor (like plate or chain or heavier, + barding) then that might be what is making your average throwing damage a lot more "swingy," as you can get a long delay added at random. That plus a miss or two could suddenly make your throwing suck enoug...

Why would you do that? There is already way more food in the dungeon than you will ever actually need. I just recently played a DDHe who was blowing through permafood every other second as I spammed Elyvilon healing, and when I ascended with the orb I was still holding onto over twenty rations... No...

ackack wrote:Training Throwing to 27 sounds comically bad to me.

It was actually level 22 with a boost from Okawaru's Heroism.

Or rather, is picking throwing with any species who can't throw large rocks a mistake? Because I chose throwing on my Centaur to try it out as they have good aptitudes for it in addition to being a Centaur, but it's painful to use. With 27 throwing skill, I have to throw on average four or five toma...

Respectfully, no, it is not. The ideal weapon is a spear or trident. OK, if we're talking about normal weapons, yes perhaps a spear would be better early in the game so you can make the most out of conjured flame. But a dagger of distortion is not a normal weapon, and in this case it is way more po...

Is being able to summon many different allies very different from summoning just one type of ally? In practice, you'd only use your top summon in tough fights anyway, and for easy fights its whatever (use melee or or use lesser summons, does it matter that much?) With respect to summon support, Tro...

I think it was more like 0.11 that Veh still had summoning support. But even then, Sif was the summoning god of choice, for all the reasons you mentioned. Veh's only advantage probably was the more predictable gifting of books, but when that went there probably wasn't enough reason to keep summonin...

The problem here is that duvessa's post was not lacking in content, especially not his second post. damiac's post, on the other hand, was completely devoid of any content, and was nothing but sarcastic remarks towards duvessa. I always carry a bolt wand, a dig(or disintegrate)wand, heal/haste/tele ...

There's an easy way to get people to stop arguing against content-free posts: stop making content-free posts, and stop defending content-free posts. The problem here is that duvessa's post was not lacking in content, especially not his second post. damiac's post, on the other hand, was completely d...

That's about as useful as saying "The best way to win the game is to always take the action that has the lowest odds of making you lose the game". OK, we can close the forum down now, nobody can top that advice, it's 100% true and applicable to all situations. Oh, also, if you want to mak...

As an alternate solution I propose that the bots that repeat milestones are made exclusive with queryable bots; e.g: cheibriados and Sequell are used for all queries, henzell/gretell/lantell etc. are only used for milestones for their respective servers. That way you can ignore milestone bots you a...

I think the differences between the colors are largely irrelevant for a transmuter.

Lately I try to have only 1 haste/agility/might/brilliance/resistance/fog/fear without conservation, can have more with conservation, these items are too valuable to be destroyed. I like to keep two, for the very reason that you mention makes you only want to bring one. If the item gets destroyed a...

If you're a conjuerer and you want a summon to follow you around and support you, get spellforged servitor, because that's like the entire point of the spellforged servitor. I haven't played summoners much since they got changed, but the few times I did try them I mainly used the golem as a sort of ...

Klown wrote:I don't use wands of flame, frost, confusion, random effects, and such.

Those are the specific items that I believe should be used most liberally, because if you don't you end up never using them and then you turn them off in autopickup after your stash gets filled up with like 30 of them.

Stealth isn't useless.

dck wrote:things with sticky flame are game-enders to me, particularly elves.

I think we should remove rings of fire protection and amulets of conservation, and introduce a new amulet of resist napalm.

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Hah! I actually wouldn't mind a DOOM cacodemon being the default tile, because DOOM is cool. I just have to ask though, why is the image named "Tomato"?

I remember back in 0.7 (I think?), Vehumet actually used to be a god of summoning. He has since decided that summons are for chumps, and only specializes in conjurations now. Since that change, I've always viewed Sif Muna as -the- summoner god. Channeling in-combat works very well when you have meat...

I believe that falls into a different sort of platitude: "A man who has himself for a doctor has a fool for a patient." (Same thing for lawyers: "A man who has himself for a Lawyer has a fool for a client.") So are you saying that if you are a woman then it's okay to perform bra...

Also I do think SOMETHING should protect against MP Draining, because Ghost moths are game enders. Normally I would look at this kind of thread and think it was a joke, but with you being you I can't tell if you're joking or if you're actually serious. Do you really think an enemy that you only see...

Gozag is largely uninteresting to me, and far too "gimmicky" for my tastes. Personally I think I might find the god more appealing if a few of my ideas were included, because I don't find the current "branch-bribe" and store creation mechanics to be very fun.

OK damiac, sometimes I really feel like you're trying to argue with people just for the sake of arguing and nothing more. Nobody, absolutely nobody said that you need to train melee on conjurers just to kill ghost moths. Yes, you need to specialize in the early game or you will spread your xp too th...

Rogue Shooter: The FPS Roguelike "First-person shooters and roguelikes have finally tied the knot!" Looks like a DOOM/DN3D-esque corridor shooter with character progression and inventory management. I fail to see how this classifies as a roguelike unless people actually consider random ge...

dck wrote:IT'S ROGUE FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Rouge is the one word that I can never seem to spell correctly.

To be honest, I don't even consider "roguelike" to be a genre at all. Long Live the Queen is a pretty nifty game, honestly. There are quite a few similar games in existence, too, although I'm not sure I'd bundle them separately from other manager sims even though they have a common subjec...

If "random" is all it takes to be a roguelike, then would you consider a game like Warframe to be roguelike as well? Because I certainly don't. I don't know, I've never played Warframe. Does it have permadeath and does the game refresh with an entirely different set of enemies and levels ...

When you say "like a roguelike" I generally assume that means "It possesses the key features that set roguelikes apart from the majority of other games". For me that basically means: - Random environment generation + Permadeath: Most games ask you to complete a challenge or seri...

Oh, I assumed the ghost moth would try to avoid the flame if possible like most monsters. And when I said "completely devoid of any chokepoints", it was a slight exaggeration, there are chokepoints but they are very scarce and all floors of spider are generally either wide open or comprise...

Permanent death, randomly spawning enemies and bosses and randomly chosen stages. Seems reasonably roguelike-ish to me. Also if being able to get items from your previous playthroughs is unacceptable then you'd have to disqualify Nethack. If "random" is all it takes to be a roguelike, the...

or putting up a single conjured flame. Those all take just a few MP and swing the battle in your favor. I'm not trying to disagree with you, but I don't understand; how can one single cloud of flame in a branch that is completely devoid of any chokepoints swing the battle in your favor? It seems to...

I don't quite understand, what do you mean "assign a macro to ===gretel"?

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

There is a game called Risk of Rain that advertises itself as possessing "roguelike elements", noting "permanent death" as the main similarity. Things like that really irritate me, because saying that game is similar to roguelike is like saying the firefight mode from Halo was al...

wheals wrote:I would thank but how could I ruin that perfect 500 number

Don't worry, someone else already ruined it for you, so it's safe to thank now.

Viashino_wizard wrote:Better idea: automatically delete any thread bcadren makes.

That's kind of harsh, even if you do think he's annoying.

You should probably make a stash, it's generally a very very really truly absolutely terrible idea to be walking around while overloaded. You're not going to find yourself in a situation where you need to blow through 16 potions of curing in one go, and it's certainly not safe to be walking around w...

nicolae wrote:Good gods don't turn holy beings friendly anymore.

Was this recent? I ran into a Daeva in the abyss while worshiping Elyvilon about a month ago, and it was friendly.

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