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I'm not quite sure where would be a better place to put this questionairre, so I'll try this. Plus, if anyone else who has created a Roguelike wants to contribute, please feel free. :D *** Hello, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup developers; my name is Andrew Meronek and I am a student at Macomb Community Co...

Well, one way to reduce the "grindiness" of the problematic gods is to have the god gifts always be of a specific type, kind of like Ashenzari with the "slowing" item mechanic and TSO and his weapon boost.

IMHO, if you're going to add more summoning spells that give us more access to a greater variety of powerful monsters, those powerful summoning spells should become harder to find. Collecting all of the powerful summoning spells should be difficult, even with Sif Muna. Otherwise, that school could b...

Yeah, the orc army clears out open levels (IF you have a bunch of Warlords and Knights, the other orcs just die) but that's balanced by how mediocre it is in corridors, plus the uselessness in many branches. I used to play a lot of HoPr in 0.5 and while it's a fun class its in no way too strong, an...

The blessing idea does sound interesting. The ally resistance should ALSO vanish if the player loses the resistance, by whatever means. And I think that allies' movement and monsters' movement AI should be the same. There's no thematic reason why allies should suddenly be smarter. So, I don't think ...

Beogh's ally conversion seems to be too high. With a little bit of micromanagement to make sure my Orc allies get properly equipped, I can build some extremely powerful armies that sit around in the dungeon until I want them. I'm playing a game right now, and it's stupidly easy with an Orc Warlord,...

I've played Stone Soup for several years, and over the time I've noticed that there is a bit of "power creep" that is happening in development. For example, since the original Linley's Dungeon Crawl, just about every god has been made stronger and NONE of them have been made weaker. There ...

Halflings are not worse kobolds anymore. Stop playing 0.4.5. They got a significant buff in recent versions. Yeah, now they are a more boring and blander version of kobolds (fitting the same niches). The argument is not that halflings are bad (HaBe is one of the easiest 3 rune combos out there) but...

Is there an option to have auto-explore and auto-move avoid deep water whether or not the character can swim?

If you want to mix in some spellcasting, definitely go with no shield. Otherwise, I'd say it depends on what you pick up.

If races based on different aptitudes are desired more than races with unique gimmicks, why not create a race or two that uses the skill system uniquely? For example, a cursed race whose aptitudes are randomly rolled at creation. Or, a race whose aptitudes start a bit worse than human aptitudes but ...

Looks good to me.

More clarity for user interface = always good.

I'd also recommend Magic Dart if you don't have it. You didn't list any low-level conjurations beside sting, and Magic dart never misses.

I remember seeing a suggestion for golems that would have been sent into the dungeon by powerful wizards as a playable race. Which would also be coolly ironic, because all the characters are in a sense electronic golems anyway. At least, golems of specific flavors could be balanced. For example, a p...

Speaking of ranged weapons, how does having differing brands on the launcher and ammo work?

Yes, the Lair should be providing plenty of free food from butchered monsters. And the Hive shouldn't be too hard to clear out with very high necromancy skill. The first several bees might be able to sting you once, but after you start an animated zombie wave, which is poison immune, you should be f...

This idea isn't a bad one, but how would you balance it? Making an already stealthy halfling even more stealthy should require making something else worse.

That's what I do, too, and it seems to work fairly well against most monsters.

Because the butterflies have a good dodge rating, meaning that many monsters will get hung up swinging at them and missing instead of chasing you, you summon several of them at a time, and they are dirt cheap.

I most enjoy playing a random race. For specific ones that I find the most fun, these are typically races that are well-balanced and have some unusual mechanisms. This means that I do not necessarily enjoy playing the most powerful combinations like Mountain Dwarf berserkers or Deep Elf Conjurers. G...

Thanks, guys. That gives me some good information to work with. I've been concerned about my newly elevated orc knight walking around with a club and leather armor.

I'm playing a fairly decent Orc Beoghite Priest, and I've noticed that my Orc allies occasionally pick up weapons while in a fight to upgrade their equipment. But what is the rhyme and reason behind this? I've tried toting along some good armor and tried dropping it and maneuvering them to be standi...

No, it also happens with other large file downloads.

I have a dim memory of possibly similar problems being caused by a disagreement between the wireless modem speed and my laptop reception speed. Might this be the case? I did a quick google and didn't come up with anything definitive.

21.3 GB free disk space, no problem. Tried switching browsers that I downloaded with, no effect. I'm stumped and I'm bummed. I love this game and I want to get the current version on this computer. I suppose that my next try will be to try a different computer - that'll take some effort. But I don't...

You have a lot of unidentified items in your inventory. You should start identifying your stuff. Anyway, you can probably kill them. Zap Duvessa with the enslavement wand and make her kill her brother. Afterward, kill her when she calms down. I tried that once - and then couldn't get away from the ...

I've tried downloading both the tiled Windows .zip file and the installer, and I'm getting a corruption error about 1/3 of the way through unzipping the file, and the installer exits with a similar message.

What gives?

Only pick fights that you know that you can win. IMHO, you should leave them and come back later when you have some better offense.

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