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I like the idea of giving ghosts some god related abilities, but it should be treated with caution. For example, beogh ghosts could be given smite as one of their spells, but it would be a real nightmare if high piety makhleb ghosts were all given greater demon. Your ideas are pretty interesting, th...

I am always glad to see a branch get shortened here or there, and it's good that the trend is continuing (elf got 2 levels cut a little while ago, and no one shed any tears over that). Reducing level size is also a good idea... crawl's levels are bigger than they need to be a lot of the time. What I...

Yikes, that's the 2nd zig death recently from paralysys. Just a day or two ago MarvinPA lost a character fairly deep in a zig from crystal ball paralysis. I'm a bit paranoid about paralysis myself and try not to settle for anything lower than "extraordinarily resistant", I'll even go as fa...

It's a dual school level 9 spell. Those are the most powerful spells in the game, and you need to have the requisite skills near the maximum level before you can reliably cast them. Get air, conj and spellcasting to around 20 and you should be able to cast it. If the success rate is at "bad&quo...

I had a long post written up but I clicked the wrong button and lost everything I typed, so I'll just summarize: Play a centaur. I managed to streak unintentionally on a CeNe recently, and the only real bit of luck I had was finding a pain weapon. CeVm is probably also very good because you can kite...

I find throw icicle also tends to miss more. I think it's a slightly better spell than IMB though, and it really should be (IMB is pure conj, which makes it easier to cast at high power for more characters).

I'm not a big fan of paralysis. The fact that it is often (way to suddenly) fatal is bad, but what I mainly dislike about it is that it's unfun and uninteresting tactically. What I'm about to write here isn't specifically a 0.8 issue but this is the best place to post it. To show why paralysis is fl...

It only protects against spells like confuse, paralyse, banish, etc. All spells that give you some sort of negative status. It does not do anything to protect you against damage spells.

I have noticed the same thing as you. I played a NaWz of sif and wore an amulet of faith most of the game, which meant I got a ton of spellbooks. Early on, most of them were spells I could actually use, in schools I had a lot of skill in. It seems skills do get taken into account.

In my opinion, it would be hard to make kiting centaurs fun. If centaurs and yaktaurs kited, melee-oriented characters might need to be buffed. It would be easy to let them shoot arrows at you when adjacent. And it I hope it wouldn't be too hard to make them approach more intelligently by keeping a...

I like drowning deaths on the basis of them being hilarious.

I play a lot of casters, so I use macros a lot. F1 F2 and F3 are all macroed to za. zb. and zc. respectively. Usually I only need those three, but I'll add more if I need them. I also have a macro for autofight that I use a lot. Sometimes I will macro spells that I cast frequently, eg rMsl and swift...

danr wrote:
Ghoul Monk - Use that unarmed aptitude! Go Trog for similar reasons to Kobold

Ghouls can't berserk. Going with trog as a ghoul/mummy is basically a joke combo - people do it because it's one of the worst mismatches possible. The only real benefit you get out of this is brothers in arms.

I'll share the only interesting thing that ever happened to me in the abyss. Once upon a time I had 14 runes and was wandering the abyss looking for that 15th. Now, I hate looking for the abyssal rune, so I'll do anything I can to cut corners. This usually means finding a place to hide, putting on s...

As far as I know, you can't. Usually the glow isn't worth worrying about though. Note that even if it takes you into yellow, your chances of being mutated are slim if you stop blinking as soon as it goes yellow.

I've only played a 0.8 a bit offline since the split, since I'm mainly a 0.7.1 player. But I do have a few thoughts on this. The split was a long time coming, and the school seems to have been divided the best way possible - crusaders and enchanters keep their playstyles more or less. Of the two sch...

If early game survival is a problem, starting with a stack of 10 or so darts would be enough to make things significantly easier. No need for consumables. Being able to soften up hobgoblins/kobolds from a distance is enough to let you survive most encounters with them, and they are the the most dang...

about the passive vs active abilities controversy: why not use it to differentiate weapons so they actually play differently? ⋅ Maces & Flails: no perks (boost damage to compensate) A flat damage boost is a bit uninteresting. How about some sort of AC-bypassing feature? Historically, ...

There are a bunch of reasons why it is a bad idea, and I could name them if anyone is interested. Suffice to say galehar and jpeg are correct in saying it will cause more problems than it would solve. I'm all ears. :) The best way I can illustrate a few of the problems by coming up with a few simpl...

The squarelos branch was nice while it lasted, but I guess it didn't have enough support to become official. I liked it, though (played offline, didn't mind the aesthetic issues). The current way crawl does things is a little weird, but it's not terrible. The game is playable, and once you figure ou...

who else gets to use miasma whenever they want? any transmuter who scumm mummy curses? These two abuses need to be fixed! I don't like the whole trick with mummy curses (it's just weird, and tedious to set up), but I think the vampire + sublimation one has a nice synergy to it. The whole VpTm build...

I recently won a vptm, though it wasn't really a tm at all (I cast spider form what once). Basically, I went kikubaaqudgha and (quite cheesily) used sublimation of blood on my blood potions to make decay potions, which I then evaporated at everything scary-looking. Eventually I abandoned unarmed co...

They need to burn. Burn, I say! :twisted: I've no idea why they're still in the game myself. The old argument ("We have to have some useless scrolls to balance out the good ones") doesn't hold water (after all we're blithely adding scrolls all the time), especially now there's a curse jew...

I get this all the time. Either I get bored of a character and start playing carelessly, hoping to die in combat (did this with a level 15 GhMo of yred yesterday), or I just quit. I've done this with a few characters relatively close to winning, and once I even did it in the middle of a winning stre...

How slow is a spriggan after berserk runs out? Do they slow down to a mere Speed 1? Or do they actually get slow? Speed (delay, actually) 1 is actually the fastest speed you can achieve (higher numbers = slower). Although in practice, its rare for anything to be this fast. 10 is normal speed. Sprig...

Well, I didn't run into Sigmund this time, but as a DeWi I'm finding that burying enemies under packs of ravening wolves is remarkably effective. Alas, my elemental affinities are terrible, so the elementals aren't very reliable as yet. Wizards actually are one of the classes that make sigmund and ...

It's pretty normal to suck at this game when you are starting off, even if it's not your first roguelike. Oh, and your record for dying early isn't anything terrible. Most players - even the better ones - tend to lose most of their games early. One of the things you really need to do in crawl is pla...

Right now blank scrolls add nothing to the game. They are one (of a few) items that could be removed with no loss to the game whatsoever. Actually, in this case removing them would be more of a gain than anything. I agree with everyone who says they ought to be removed.

I like uniques that put up interesting fights. Basically, this means that they have a unique spell or ability that nothing else in the game has (except for maybe the player), or they have a mundane ability that's used in an interesting way (eg saint roka only smites, but uses it way more than anythi...

I used to play like that, but I've been killed from full HP before (twice, one of them was on CAO I think), and in other games I've been hit for like 80-90 damage even with 40+ EV and dmsl on (and only survived thanks to those few extra hp from fighting). It's pretty rare to die like that, but I lik...

dpeg: only heal when you're moving? you mean only heal when standing still? sounds good to me, though Sorry, yes. Not healing when moving. It is a very simple solution but it will cause more aggravation than you may expect at first. Yeah that sounds like it could be a real burden... HP regeneration...

The answer to this question partially depends on what race you are playing. Especially squishy races (elves, spriggans) should try to get at least 5 points of fighting, preferably more. And it's a good idea to start training it as soon as you can, because it's easier to get levels in it early on. Th...

So, any ideas? How can the need to tediously regain HP by pillar dancing be reduced? Or is this a necessary part of the game? Pillar dance until you have enough HP to survive a hit, and then run to the nearest stair. If the monster is still next to you, use the weapon swap command (they will take a...

I actually complained about this before . Just wanted to hear other peoples' experiences with baileys. I've certainly encountered this sort of thing with +stat potions. I like baileys, but the loot in some of them can be obscene (or was, I haven't found any huge piles in a while now). The problem i...

I'm just nit picking here, but this is one of those things that has always bugged me a little. This is almost so small (heh) of an issue it's not even worth posting, but whatever. Crawl has an unusual proliferation of monsters with "giant" prefixed to their names. I pulled this list from t...

evilmike, for what it's worth, the biggest feature of manuals is they let you dump exp into a skill before you hit the cap in ziggurat-like situations Yeah I know, that's practically all I've ever used them for. "Oh look, I have 20k exp, I guess I might as well use this manual of slings...&quo...

Decrease the chance of finding a cursed butchery weapon on D:1. I think the portal vault timers are still a bit too agressive. ... As far as missing them entirely, a prominent message when you enter the level would be nice to alert you that a sewer, spider's nest, bailey, etc is on the level. We do...

I've used it a few times in the midgame, when I'm too weak (or too unprepared) to handle a misfired Greater Servant, and none of the powerful monsters have resists yet. Even then, the ability hardly gets any use since it's usually not much better than a wand of fire or cold. It's cool when you get o...

What about doing something with manuals? These are an already existing alternative to victory dancing. Most skills can be victory danced. All manuals really do is save time by letting you dump exp into a skill. The only exceptions are skills that are hard to train, eg fighting. These are well within...

I've done will with vehumet, playing those sorts of characters. Sif muna is a bit better in the long run if you want versatility, but vehumet guarantees you'll have access to fire/ice storm fairly early, and gives you a wizardry bonus. As a deep elf, you should be able to cast one of those spells be...

I've thought about this some more, and I've got a more radical suggestion: The only reason spellcasters need to train Fighting is because of the hp bonus, right? So get rid of that! The basic idea of the Fighting skill is that in the late game, the melee fighter will have significantly more HP, but...

For example re stealth. I have it at level 14, and that makes me "extraordinarily stealthy". Can I improve on that much more? I'm turning it off now. You can improve on that actually. The highest level of stealth that the game reports is "uncannily stealthy", and below that is &...

Hmm. Well, I'm just running around in swamp, and a +8,+9 quick blade of stabbing seems to kill things PDQ. Quick blades also benefit very little from the vorpal brand. It's not a bad weapon by any means, but it's only a little bit better than a normal quick blade. With weapon brands, you basically ...

I just got a dagger of stabbing, which seems to be the vorpal brand for daggers. Is there a special bonus for stabbing with these, or is it just the standard +12.5% on average to damage? That's all you get from it. Meaning, instead of doing 4 damage, it does 4.5. Not a very good brand on daggers. I...

danr wrote:I just got a dagger of stabbing, which seems to be the vorpal brand for daggers. Is there a special bonus for stabbing with these, or is it just the standard +12.5% on average to damage?

That's all you get from it. Meaning, instead of doing 4 damage, it does 4.5. Not a very good brand on daggers.

I am going to say it. The whole food system is BS. Either you use food as a way to push people deeper into the dungeon in which case you get rid of the ability to eat chunks, or you get rid of food all together. This is just a bad holdover from nethack. The food mechanic is a bad mechanic. It was b...

I prefer tiles, but I also like playing online. Thus, if I'm playing offline I'll use tiles, but otherwise it's ascii. In the past, I prefered ascii in every case because of crawl's monster list feature (which tiles used to lack). I still think the ascii one is a bit better, but the one in the tiles...

Why do we need 15 runes? Mainly for scoring reasons. Consider this: if the game only had 14 runes, would the scoring formula remain the same? If so, previous versions (which had 15 runes) would yield higher scores for allrune wins, for the most part. This wouldn't be such a problem if the scoring f...

-Searching for the abyssal rune. The abyss itself isn't so bad, but finding the rune is entirely a matter of luck or tedium, for any character powerful enough to actually want to look for it. There are ideas about making it better, but they don't address how the abyss is entirely monotonous, and how...

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