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running out of potions because you used them all is not "playing an honorary mummy". It's great if this situation happens in game, and this includes being completely destroyed by confusion if you can't cure it. Play around confusion, or conserve your resources. If there really are too many...

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/xomscumming/morgue-xomscumming-20110905-165025.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.0-19-g77be2dd character file. 27000000 xomscumming the Slayer (level 27, -3/219 (243) HPs) Began as a Mummy Chaos Knight on Aug 31, 2011. Was a Follower of Lugonu. Killed from ...

make enemies killed by it die in jory-like blood explosions

I am not an active dev, so the following is just my opinion. Nothing authoritative. Healing on mutation is not going to work, since it means "find a shining eye and drag it around as a source of free healing". Healing plus the unique mutation mechanics also gets rid of a lot of the penalty...

nah, rename porcupines to hedgehogs and give them rolling instead. no need to change their colour, either.

All I will say about this is the current way monster HP is determined is a pain in the ass if you're trying to adjust enemy HP for balance purposes. When I used to do that, it was hard to fine tune things because of how complicated the system is. I think even the IRC bots have trouble, and work arou...

At least for gifting gods, sacrifices have a purpose even if you're at 200 piety, since they'll still go towards gift timeout. And if you count zin bribes as sacrificing gold, you won't technically go past 200 piety, but you'll "bank" any excess and gain it fairly quickly when you drop bel...

It causes the bad stuff that happens during the orb run. This does not stop when your character leaves the dungeon. It continues forever, or until you die. You can't get rid of it either. That's all it does. It's not even good for bragging rights, because anyone you could brag to would get killed by...

I think for a melee weapon, a stacking AC penalty would be better than a debuff that straight up halves the target's AC. I think it's weird if a melee brand just does it's main effect towards the beginning of a fight (you might want to switch to a different weapon once it does it's thing). I think t...

I think this guy has a wrong impression of tolkein, his his elves are absolute shitheads for the most part. Not evil, but they're always acting like jerks. For most fantasy games it's a lot simpler, it's just "copy whatever dungeons and dragons did". Or in the case of this iOS game, "...

This is a good idea for a thread. I think if lowering the weight of a layout is warranted, it could also be made so it can only generate once per game. This would be a good idea for things like the cross layout, which can produce fun gameplay but feels same-y if you get several of them. For cases li...

I also have doubts about ranged stabbing. I think if something is done it should involve throwing skill, because blowguns are already a sort of "ranged stabber weapon". In fact blowguns could be good enough here; you already mentioned giving blowguns a bonus vs unaware targets. A damage bo...

I don't really like the idea of giving the spell a chance to fail. Tying stuff to HD, monster size, etc, it's all very obscure and hard to communicate. So I'd just keep it as it is and make it work on every skeleton like it does now. Instead, I would weaken how strong skeletons can be. Put a cap on ...

I never felt like energy randomization fixed anything that needed fixing. I am aware of pillar dancing, but I remain unconvinced that it ever was, or currently is a problem. There are theoretical arguments as to why it's a problem, but I haven't seen practical examples of this being a problem in gam...

Kiku also used to be a somewhat stronger choice for that (guaranteed sublimation, and infinite supply of corpses if you want to use them instead of your HP). There were a couple games where that was a big factor in me choosing him, since I've always found sublimation more convenient than channeling....

My theory is that in Rogue, the amulet of yendor is on the 26th dungeon level, so in Crawl the entrance to zot was traditionally on level 27. And after that, the number got used for skill caps and stuff, because why not. This might be coincidence though, since the amulet can be found on any level fr...

Shooting fireballs at porcupines is faulty play. If you don't want to rest because you shot fireballs at porcupines, the solution is pretty simple. Don't shoot fireballs at porcupines. Memorizing spells does not make melee combat or bows impossible to use. And yeah this is important too. Keep magic...

I used to play dedicated conjurers a lot, and (unless you want to waste a lot of turns), IMO a major part of the strategy for those is finding a good way to restore your MP. There are two excellent guaranteed sources (veh and sif), some fairly common and reliable ones (staff channeling, sublimation)...

Solution: Add a "levitate other" spell and make the sewer siren cast it on "locked" players.

This is not a serious suggestion.

FWIW, we already have golden dragons which use randomly-alternating breath weapons, so that element of this unique wouldn't be particularly unique. It seems like the main thing this would add is another allusion to Greek mythology, which is fine, but not particularly exciting. I have no particular ...

MarvinPA wrote:I use equip_unequip and haven't ever had a problem with the idea of making it the default.

I think it would be a pretty good default. Generally anything option streamlines the interface like that should be default in my opinion.

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I agree, while I LOVE 0.14 and only play trunk, I gotta say, I have no idea what the hell is even in 0.13 any more. 0.14 really should be broken up. I'm not sure what "broken up" means exactly, but you might like to know that just because something is in trunk, it doesn't mean it's going ...

I haven't tested getting marked in v:5 now but I would believe that it's basically game over for many characters, yes. Maybe if scrolls of vulnerability were actually a thing that exists (by the way these are actually in theory a really cool item! Except they probably do too many different things, ...

I have not played the new layout, but it's a change I'm skeptical about. crate's post more or less reflects how I think about this change right now. To put it simply, I think without the outer corridors, the level will just be too hard now for most characters. I do not for a minute think v:5 was too...

For Chei wrath, I was thinking of also keeping the player slow. Too onerous? Personally, I don't think god wrath should be a "constant pentalty" like that. It's better to stick to the regular model of the god occasionally (and generally unpredictably) lashing out at you. The wrath should ...

Something I should also add, a lot of the lower weight vaults aren't as good as the higher weight ones, or don't fit in as well. Of course, not all content can be 100% equal, but I think there's a lot of stuff that can be removed. There's been a reluctance in the past, but that was when there was le...

I used to like how vaults had skewed weights, because in the past there wasn't nearly as much content. So, there was at least some justification for making certain layouts rarer, that way you could have a "standard" version of a branch end, and a "rare variant" for example. Now t...

Looks to me like the numbers are fine for 2 handers, but 1 handed weapons take a fairly big hit. The best 1handers (demon/holy) seem to need much more skill under the new formula to reach the same damage numbers. For me the main reason to use a demon whip/blade is the low skill investment needed, a ...

I'm posting this not as a criticism of the design of this god, but to outline what I think makes for good piety rules, and what makes for bad ones. The examples I use are mostly hypothetical, only slightly based on the current design of dith. I don't care much for piety rules involving killing thing...

I don't like the bad effects that chaos weapons can do (my main problem is with how enemies can go berserk), so I've rarely used them as a main weapon. They're more fun to use against undead and nonliving because they can't go berserk or be polymorphed. It's ok against demons too, because for some r...

Simple question: Is playing extended in order to be more powerful when going for the Orb a stupid idea ? In my opinion, yes. Zot:5 can be as hard, or harder than anything in the extended endgame, and it helps to be prepared. But risking your neck in pan or hell (or even worse, tomb) probably won't ...

Your starting equipment is enough to kill the first bosses.. the wands are useful against powerful melee threats and it can be a good idea to recharge them if you run out. The hardest fights tend to be against ranged enemies. The L-hydra tends to just be a big bag of xp and is a lucky encounter. If ...

I think noisy weapons should make extra noise on hitting things instead of being a passive effect. Applies to the singing sword and other artifacts with that property. Although I'd also prefer if the screaming triggered during melee instead of just when carrying it, I don't like it when weapons have...

Gaining levels should always be a bonus, not a penalty. They are goals for players to work towards, and rewards which keep them playing. The entire purpose of experience points is to represent progress. Your idea is fundamentally opposed to that notion.

What if monsters with the dig spell just cast it when in view of the player? The point of the spell on deep trolls was to use it to open/widen paths to the player, not to carve up the level as soon as they wake up. This is more of an AI thing, the dig spell didn't always behave this way (although, i...

Indeed, armour MR ego gives 30 MR (almost another pip in a five dots display) iirc, which would work well with XL bonuses to add up for another + when you put on a MR item that isn't a randart or MR ring. And randarts give 35+ at bare minimum, so putting on a MR item and not seeing any improvement ...

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What are shadow tiles? Can you shadowport to any on the level, or just ones that are in LOS? Does shadowport also apply to your "shadow action" helper? Is the helper the same type of "shadow tile" as appears around statues etc? It sounds more like this one would behave as a sort ...

It's bothered me for a while how the summon cap interacts with spells like this, which have a number of different monsters that can appear (some will always be better than others). Personally I think it's just bad design for a summon spell to randomly give you something much weaker or much more powe...

I like summons being abjured after the summoner dies. It's not a new idea but I'm glad someone had the guts to implement it, and it seems to work pretty well! I don't think summoners are too easy to fight. At least, lower level ones seem reasonable. Even at high levels, I think ancient liches are st...

My impression is that gargoyles are one of the stronger races, but not brokenly so. I do hear sometimes about people tabbing their way through vault:5 thanks to the huge AC, but I've done the same thing playing races that get an EV bonus. What bugs me about gargoyles is the whole theme is really con...

I would like to either remove demons from the abyss, or seriously down-weight them. The place feels overrun with 3's and 4's and I'd like to further distinguish it from other branches like Pan. There are some tentative plans to add other monsters to the abyss, like chimeras, so I don't think we'll ...

Well, closing things down isn't even on the table, so don't worry about that. I really doubt things will change from the status quo any time soon. The devteam does have a private mailing list, but it's only used for stuff that needs to stay private (eg discussions on handing out commit rights). Ever...

I've always thought something like this would be nice for offline crawl. Improve the "high scores" option in the main menu to include more detail, track certain conducts (base it on tournament banners), and so on. I wouldn't add "challenge modes" to Crawl though.

You should do another one where it's split up into weight classes (HD? spawn depth?), that way you won't deal with stuff like Nikola v Edmund. Also, uniques which spawn with bands should get some friends on their side, imo...

Be very careful when using examples of unavoidable death in crawl. It exists, but it takes an extremely good player to identify when that is the case, and when it was possible to escape. Generally when people claim a death was unavoidable, the replay will reveal that some tactical error (or more lik...

It could probably be a bit smarter with weapon skills [...]. It could also be more intelligent [...] What do you mean by that? There isn't any intelligence in the system. It increases the weight of training when you use a skill and that's it. I'm afraid trying to make the system smarter would make ...

For what it's worth, I'm in the "automatic training works pretty well and it's probably worth some efforts to make it work better" camp. My guess is that the majority of players would do well to think more about combat tactics and less about skill choices. Yeah. I've played with it as an ...

The way I see sprint, it's meant to be sillier than the regular game, and of course, faster paced. The explosive skill growth fits that quite nicely: instead of slowly building up a character, you just pick your skills and go crazy. The one map where this really fails is the arena of blood, because ...

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