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I have been trying to implement this, but I was told I should probably get some feedback before trying to go through with it so here I am: The Problem with DD My main problem with DD, is that on paper, they have this cool gameplay gimmick about turning HP in a strategic resource rather than a tactic...

I am not sure it is needed tbh. new players play at their own pace. Veterans play for score. If some guy wants to play slow and scummy for fun, is it really something that needs to be punished? Its not like it will reward you in terms of score, and most people would just bore themselves into killing...

Crimson Imps were not just popcorn, they were annoying popcorn. Their blink also made them not a threat at all since they constantly give you free opportunities to disengage. Basically, it was a grueling task to deal with them with characters that couldn't reliably out-DPS their regen. Especially fo...

IMO the funny thing about Corona is that you get it on the background that gets the weapon class that has the least problems with accuracy. If enchanters started with a flail it would be invaluable. But yeah, any accuracy enhancer seems unnecessary on a class that starts with Short Blades and bonus ...

Frankly, there's more potential in moving beyond "weapon classes" as traditionally conceived in crawl (basically a parallel of the weapon proficiency concept of AD&D, surprisingly poorly executed). It's the same as the old six flavors of bolt spell situation. In the misguided pursuit ...

Aaand closed. Have to say I disagree with the response (you can't just gloss over the fact that shields are a thing, specially for Tr and Og) and that it doesn't really seem consistent with Crawls own philosophy You said yourself earlier in the thread that your goal wasn't to make big sticks optima...

Aaand closed.

Have to say I disagree with the response (you can't just gloss over the fact that shields are a thing, specially for Tr and Og) and that it doesn't really seem consistent with Crawls own philosophy

If you want a species where using giant clubs is optimal you have to nerf throwing. Giant clubs are already the best melee option for ogres but melee still just sucks for them compared to throwing. It doesn't need to be the best option for the race (I still think UC would remain better for trolls b...

Self Necrobump.

We still don't have a race that can have big club funtimes

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+1 to giving manuals the spellbook treatment. Benefits everyone. Some games have inventory management be a big deal, crawl is already not one of them.

Thanks a lot for this! Most fun I have had with Crawl in a long time.

Hoping it won't be the last!

I think it would be cool to maybe have a sort of "shop" system. Instead of recruiting orcs around the dungeon, you have an "orc champion shop" you can browse. Each orc comes with personalized equipment and a piety price. They cant get other equipment and they wont drop it if they...

Under the right circumstances, Ru worshippers can force Liches to touch themselves while they watch

On another note, I really would like to be able to worship Beogh with any race. I don't see any mechanics that would make it not work, just flavour. And that is easy to change the flavor to fit (you are the champion of the Orc cause, you don't need to be an actual Orc - Beogh is pragmatic like that....

Deflect Missiles is the most obvious example. Literally no MP problem - but it takes some XP investment. Good enough?

MP is mostly a time-critical limitation and a sustained engagement limitation. Buffs and utility spells can an should be mostly used outside or before combat, and don't need to be cast many times, so MP cost is not very important. When I say increase the level, I don't do say it for the MP, I say it...

If you increase the level of the spell, this only turns the spell off for a larger fraction of characters. My point is that I think the problem with it is that it should be a boon for players that actually invest in translocations rather than just something any character can choose to memorize at a...

I feel identification is a hard thing to get right. If its too easy might as well not have it, if its so hard its a pain in the ass its going to actually make the game less fun and more spoiler-dependent. There is a good balance somewhere, but its pretty hard to get right. I feel similarly about mos...

I definitely feel apportation is too cheap (you barely need to invest into translocations to use it). I don't dislike it though. Being able to pull stuff from LoS is really useful and a nice benefit for investing in an utility school. But I feel it could be a bit more expensive. Maybe, to compensate...

A smooth 27 dungeon floor ride without shard shrikes and juggernauts wrecking your face.

No Spider Nest. Spider nest without entropy weavers

People upset about Dwarves

It would still make sense to identify artefact equipment even with curses remove due to the potential negative characteristics

For regular branded equipment, yeah, it would become meaningless unless you created a new type of curse

I guess the problem with this is that it removes the risk/reward element for non-artifact weapons. But honestly, that risk reward element barely exists right now anyway. Either bring it back with a rework to curses, or remove it outright

I think this is part of how much the identification minigame has been stripped down. But yeah, what was the last time an item being cursed was any hassle to you, and you didn't immediately take it off upon reading a scroll of remove curse? (and if you were running low on those you could just use ide...

Having thought about it I do think there are some specific backgrounds that could use some starting consumable, to try and make them have a bit more parity with other backgrounds and also make them more fun while also teaching consumable usage. I don't think every background needs it, and there are ...

HANFGEIST wrote:I enjoy this kind of trap generally, but a timer going off for a Pyramid or Sewers upon landing in the new level is a bit of a bummer.

Even worse is getting shafted as you are trying to make your wake to one of these portals

I think the idea of shafting is cool, but I wish there were other ways for it to happen that don't involve stepping on a square. Say, there was a kind of earth themed enemy that can do it to you, he could open up a temporal line of shafts, you can dodge them like you can dodge spider orbs, but if ca...

Do we really want all good Crawl players to have a perfect 100% winrate? Because this seems to be OP's goal This is exactly what happened when the fighter background was given a potion of might to start with. Before that, the players' winrate with fighters was around 2%, then it became 100%. Amazin...

Streaking is cool because it actually takes a bit of effort for good players to get to Lair and faceroll from there (though I must say Crawl has gotten a lot harder from that point compared to what it was a long time ago). If you give extra tools so that streaking is easy even with hard combos it is...

That would sort of undo the whole "unedible corpse" thing that we got when poisonous corpses got removed. Their gourmand is already good enough anyway. If you want to encourage blowguns a bit more, a bit of throwing will do. Making them a bit better at poison magic could be nice, not reall...

Maybe, make items drop on whatever tile they drop, but make them move and eventually reach the nearest shore at 1.0 aut. Just them teleporting would look weird. Will still be weird for scrolls to survive lava but hey. they magic Will be a nice contrast to the days they would burn up because an orc w...

Make it a very strong effect but make it last like 5 turns? This does not solve the problem. A character with, say, a 50% fail rate in their armour will still benefit from taking off their armour to recast it. Or maye. If it fails upon deflect, add a chance of miscast (like actual minor magic miscas...

Yeah, alternatively, I guess thosw skills could increase the cap instead?

While I don't agree that kolbolds are exactly worse deep elves, I don't think they are designed very well. The biggest handicap they have is not being able to use "large weapons", limiting their shield/weapon choices. I don't feel like there is any concession big enough to warrant that pe...

Just the facing aspect of the proposal creates a massive headache. People like to play this on terminals, keep in mind. Changing the bindings for turning would also be quite tedious. Alternatively, you could simply create a system where taking a directional action, and the taking an action in the op...

Carrying books around for the sole purpose of burning them

walk up to their enemies to stab them... (and deal with the consequences if they fail) This is not a viable character build, even with nightstalker. The mechanics of stealth actively work against this. You can sleepstab many things though. And its so cheap for Kobolds it leaves lots of left over XP...

Giving other weapons good aptitudes risks turning them into noobtraps. Imagine them giving +1 to Axes - someone might look at the aptitude table and think that Axes are good on Trolls, but in fact they are a terrible choice. Claws are superior to every 1H Axes and also every 2H Axes. I think its im...

I do think that with Trolls UC will always be the best choice - only M&F would be able to compete. Giving other weapons good aptitudes risks turning them into noobtraps. Imagine them giving +1 to Axes - someone might look at the aptitude table and think that Axes are good on Trolls, but in fact ...

I replied to you on the reddit but you didn't seem to get it there I thought you might want to read it again here so ill say it here not only would +2 apt make 0 sense on a troll (all around low apts is part of their thing and using clubs isn't) but it would also completely defy the design goal (ga...

We have two big races. One of the biggest traits these size has is that they can wield large weapons and throw large rocks. I understand the reason why Ogres currently have -1 Aptitude for M&F, and I do agree there are more ways to play it now. Investing towards M&F all game long also makes ...

I like the Darkness idea. Would emphasize them as physical/non-disabling stabbers that mostly walk up to their enemies to stab them... (and deal with the consequences if they fail), as opposed to Hexers like Vampires or Spriggans. I would add a bit more throwing skill for Needles (I mean, its not li...

I personally like Kobolds. Short Blades are good enough early on (often branded), you can get them in a good state almost instantly letting you invest on other things, you can move away from them later on if you feel like it. Weapon restrictions is the biggest difference between small and medium spe...

Honestly, I think that having a god tied so closely evocables will always be problematic. Evocables are meant to be limited resources, if you have a god that makes them more powerful and less limited that is likely to cause problems. Any change you make to this items will affect the god too, which m...

Im no crawl elitist. Not even a good player I like new species as long as they are cool thematically and in terms of mechanics. I love Octopodes, I love Gnolls, I love Formicids, I love Barachi. Not because of their difficulty or lack of thereof but because they truly feel like something special. Ev...

I'm going to try a Deep Dwarf.

WJC doesn't seem to care about mana so using a pure melee background without any other way to heal other that DD's innate might just work using +3 Evo so I don't run out of MP.

Lets see how it goes

VeryAngryFelid wrote:No surprise here, Sharpshooters are special anti-EV monsters with their PP attacks.

Yep, I feel this is more of a Spriggan Necromancer problem than it is a Necromancer problem

Honestly, aside from making a hard-mode dungeon (which of course, is not easy) would be to create some sort of mutator system (which would not be easy either, but hey) Of course, you can do self imposed challenges, but who cares about them outside tournaments if the game does not recognize them in s...

no easy swapping no easy luring don't expect to start as Tm and join Chei to have easy time cannot spam items in fight you cannot start as Be or with Oka and later easily switch to TSO or Zin you cannot play mutation lottery trying to get Robust only buckler is wearable God abilities cost double pi...

I agree this should be done.

I mean, it should still be Orcs ofc. But I could see Orcs accepting a member of a different race as messiah as long as he was just as good at cleaving through stuff as their regular orc messiah

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