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Ended up finding lots of good gear, managing to boost my int up to 30+ which made getting spells online a lot easier. I decided to go with summoning, which turned out to be the correct choice. Shadow Creatures helped supplement my offense until I was able to get Servitor + Iron Shot online, which wa...

I don't actually have access to lightning bolt, though. I've got Conjure Ball Lightning, but with no rElec that's kind of risky to use.

Just reached Depths, prepping for Vaults:5. Enchanter is the last class I haven't won with yet. If I win this character, I'll have finally completed !greaterplayer, I'd rather not lose this character because I don't think I could stand playing through the early game again. Nothing makes my eyes roll...

Auxiliary armor is not a no-brainer. It balances races and mutations. Ah yes, just the other day I had to choose between wearing a hat or not on my troll. If I wore the hat I got +2 AC and see invisible, but if I did that then I wouldn't be able to see that sexy bald head on the tile graphic. I spe...

Magic rods were cool, they were unique magical artifacts that gave you access to cool new spells and drew from their own pool of regenerating power. They were fun - I enjoyed them. But most of them got completely axed and the few that remained became limited-use wands Magic rods have been removed c...

CanOfWorms wrote:actually i have a character using both a dire flail of pain and a lajatang of speed because of crosstraining bonuses

Let's remove crosstraining bonuses

lethediver wrote:What you certainly cannot have is a game that is both full of interesting features, and strategically interesting. If you are playing to win, and you want to derive enjoyment from a game primarily from playing to win - then the simpler the ruleset, the better. See Go, Chess.

I disagree. See DOTA.

I agree with you sage1234, I don't really like the direction this game is heading either, and as time goes on I find myself drawn more and more to previous verisons of Crawl. It seems the majority of the community, or at least the vocal online portion of it, is happy with the way the game is progres...

Auxiliary armor adds nothing interesting to the game and presents no interesting decisions. If you find a pair of boots on the ground, there is no reason to not wear them. Furthermore, enchantments are also a big problem. Now that you don't have to enchant hides anymore and curses can't be broken wi...

Alternative proposal: Remove food

Just won a three rune DrAs of Wudzu. The bonus AC, Spiny 3, clarity and retaliatory headbutt were nice, but it felt like that's all there was to the god. I tried using the snaplasher vines and they tore through popcorn enemies, but they just died extremely quickly as soon as they got in range of any...

If we plan on making non-magical status effects resisted by MR, I propose we also change MR to SR, "status resistance", for clarity. There is nothing magical about being bitten by a tarantula or stung by a hornet.

Also, guarantee a D:4 temple as well. The point is to test the god, not play half the game godless.

n1000 wrote:
the Griggy thread wrote:Fedhas' sibling shares the god's affinity for flora but relishes the pestilential spread of brambles rather than the maintenance of the natural order.

Ah, well I feel like that should have been mentioned in the header post here.

I'm seeing a huge theme overlap here with Fedhas, they both do different things but the theme is just too similar in my opinion. We're going to have two different gods of plants now? I'm also not convinced that what this god offers is even good, like in what world is a 5% chance to not take damage f...

Just won a BaFE today, the whole game felt like I was playing a human spellcaster that can't wear armor and has crap defense but a billion health. Felt like a pretty easy game overall, I don't really feel like they are lacking as far as power, but they don't really feel all that unique. That being s...

The one that always gets me is that the orb of destruction is so immensely destructive that it will obliterate massive stone giants and send blood and chunks flying several meters every direction, and is strong enough to disintegrate stone walls, but a tiny wooden buckler will stop it dead.

duvessa wrote:you should never flush condoms, they clog pipes really easily. put them in the garbage instead

Well OK but I think it's harder to flush a garbage bag

duvessa wrote:formicid monsters shouldn't exist and neither should monster stasis

Why and why?

I'd just like an alternative to Lair.

If you enjoy fun I would recommend using it

I mean, among other things, I just wanna be able to drink from tarantulas/orb spiders, so that if I get spider I don't have to leave partway through to go bottle some monsters so that I can regenerate health Vampires are actually kind of fun to play up until you hit the lair branches, at which poin...

Because if you can cast neromut than you can cast ddoor except ddoor is way better than anything necromut gives you and you can't cast them at the same time. Can't you just end the form and then cast? Any situation where you would be unable to end lichform is also a situation where you wouldn't be ...

dpeg wrote:If a feature never kills anybody (assuming good play), then it didn't really exist.

I mean if you take that logic and apply it to some of the people here then there basically isn't a game after the first dungeon floor

Ettins should be the exact same but instead of sheep they use hill giants

It's my idea of fun, though. Remembering safe ground is bullshit, dumb, and should be changed, but the core of it, forcing the player to find the upstairs on a level he's unprepared for, is a lot of fun. Weighing the pros/cons and making the decision to shaft yourself out of a bad situation on Fo a...

Being forcibly placed out-of-position into an unexplored floor full of out of depth monsters (comparative to your level) and being forced to travel back up three staircases, probably triggering timed portals on the way, all because "well you didn't passively detect that shaft trap", is not...

Can we actually remove shafts though

Because it's fun to use even if it's bad in 95% of situations

In my experiences before they were made more common, I typically only found one or two, at most.

What? This was moved out of GDD? This feature doesn't actually exist outside of RC (and the rc edit doesn't actually do what I'm suggesting). I'm asking for an in-game interface tweak that just lets you check items on the unidentified item list screen Also RC doesn't handle exceptions. For example, ...

There are certain items that are set to not be picked up by default that I usually always want to pick up (such as immolation), and certain items that are set to be picked up by default that I usually never want to pick up (such as potions of flight). It would be very convenient if it was possible t...

arandomperson12 wrote:What if one of them spawned on top of a zot trap and paralyzed you?

Monsters don't trigger traps when generated on top of one.

It actually stays useful until the end of lair (and sometimes swamp, when it generates) as a "wand of kill things standing in water" - namely, eels. After that you can just turn it off on the auto pickup menu.

The game already teases you by destroying nearby walls. I wont be satisfied until every tile in the dungeon is an empty void
Think about how fun it would be to fall from D:1 all the way to Zot:5

Haelyn wrote:I'm 70% certain this is a stupid idea but maybe there should be a Slay(speciesgroup) brand.

If you go back in time and play ancient versions of Crawl you can enjoy beating down scrubs with your +1, +2 dwarven spiked flail of orc slaying.

Make shatter destroy floor tiles, leaving a permanent shaft trap in its place that has a 100% chance to suck in anything that walks over it. This can happen under any normal floor tile including the tile the player or enemy is standing on.

MainiacJoe wrote:In trunk allies are shown as green circles, change that to a dashed circle?

We could also do both the white summon dot and a dashed circle.

Medusa had wings, and snakes as hair. Poison? Multiple attacks? Flight? In general, her portraits were used to cause fear in the enemies. Add a fear effect, so that you can't get closer and axe her while she's petrifying you? Make the aura disappear when she's blind or cannot see the player or is h...

dowan wrote:Well... they would be absurdly good if they could rest to heal but kept their damage shaving.

They're already absurdly good, if they could regenerate health they would be straight up broken.

Shard1697 wrote:
Laraso wrote:I think sticky flame is more interesting than bolts of acid.
Why?

Because the idea of igniting something and watching them burn to a crisp is cooler than just simply doing some flat damage like every other breath attack?

Rast wrote:Name: Medusa
Instead of petrifying aura, give her the petrify spell and blink

Wouldn't that basically just make her a basilisk that knows blink

Rather than transforming mottled into yellows and removing yellows, wouldn't it make more sense to just remove mottled and keep yellow? I would be more inclined to find a way to make sticky flamerelevant instead. I think sticky flame is more interesting than bolts of acid.

What's wrong with having a second negative amulet?

Couldn't you fix this by simply making it so that labyrinth minotaurs can't pick up scrolls/wands of teleportation? This would be completely invisible to the player so it wouldn't be spoilery.

It can often be annoying, especially with longer-lasting summons such as Makhleb demons that will often participate in multiple fights, to have your ally spontaneously disappear while blocking an enemy / chokepoint. It would be a good idea to show when a summon is close to despawning. When there are...

My first idea was bad, I'll admit. I think this one is better though.

Reduce amulet of harm's damage taken increase to 15%. Remove the damage bonus and remove the unequip penalty. Make it always spawn cursed. Now it's a counterpart to the amulet of inaccuracy.

I have no idea why you think having an amulet that destroys a few curing potions every time you take it off would be a good idea in any way whatsoever. Losing a single potion of curing is way less annoying than losing all your skill levels early on. You're probably right about not having a strategi...

genericpseudonym wrote:Since the spectres already have a silence aura, though, it doesn't do too much to them

That's the entire point of my post

Just minor rot, like maybe 4 - 5 HP. Obviously this would involve removing the drain-on-removal aspect of it. This would still discourage amulet swapping, but would be much less annoying since you could fix it by quaffing one of your 30 potions of curing, rather than dealing with the very heavy drai...

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