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It looks really nice in ascii, reminds me of Brogue

archaeo wrote:Actually I'm unironically on Team DracoOmega, fr: bring back Forest branch.

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Remember you'd be getting new tougher monsters to kill in place of the popcorn, which would be worth a LOT more than popcorn. My last game where I died shortly after orc, I compiled some monster XP (some of the weaker ones obviously spawned in D, not Orc but oh well) 264 orcs giving 3 xp each 792 24...

These both sound like great ideas to me, I especially like the Harvest God proposal. Does the Harvest god cull/sow summons? It probably should- Fiends could still be dangerous summons but Ufetubi being culled immediately on arrival would be fantastic. What about friendly things like player summons? ...

I thought fighting Lom Lobon in a corridor was a keen way to stop Tornado from blowing me about... Instead, I got wrenched right through the walls and over some deep water that was behind the wall. Then, rather than read a scroll of blinking to avoid my buggy death, I stupidly tried moving to land m...

Dang, I really liked the hammer tiles...

"Dick to Snake"

I'm profoundly disappointed this wasn't an innovative concept to expand the scope of Beastly Appendage

I found Summon Forest to be a pretty good support spell for hybrids even past the Lair branches. I recall a snaplasher vine grabbing an ancient lich and murdering without much help from me, though I believe constricted enemies have lower evasion and are thus much easier to kill. I also liked using i...

fr: make them invisible

You have 2 potions of Resistance, which could be enough assuming Z:5 isn't too heavy on the Orbs of Fire and you just clear one lung You may just have to bite the bullet and use the resistance buckler... Buckler of the Castellan is amazing, sure, but you don't NEED +5 slaying, whereas you might NEED...

I just wanted to bump this thread with the idea that maybe some of these weird levels could work in Dungeon too A quiet, foggy level where any noise will bring monsters rushing up to you, levels where the walls are all doors or grates, levels flooded by water or liquefaction save for a few 'safe' sq...

I guess this kinda exists already in the form of the Briar Patches or whatever that Thorn Hunters create

If you do not learn to master your fear, your fear will become your master

Alternatively, reframe your conceptualization of the phrase and view it as meaning 'Spider who stomps' rather than 'one who stomps upon spiders'

Did I come across as though I supported luring? That wasn't my intention at all... I think the new PBD is a great mutation and I don't necessarily want it nerfed, I just think that it's more 'deserving' of being a final mutation than the lameness of Black mark and Passive Freeze. I don't know what t...

Hexes are great as a support school for many characters, and are much more exciting than Charms

Anecdotal evidence isn't worth much but for what it's worth, my last 6 wins have all had Powered by Death. Maybe that's more a testament to my playing style than actual overpoweredness, but currently it seems like this mutation is massively superior to anything else Demonspawn get.

I am 100% serious when I say this still sounds like a more interesting and fun race to play than Felid

Used it 4 times before lair, but I'm not sure why we're limiting it to 'before lair.' If you had a weak character, teleport other would be pretty good for getting rid of Lair baddies that you don't want to fight. Also good against low MR orcs- it's a lot easier to get the Orc 4 shops at a low level ...

Powered By Death is really amazingly good, and completely changes what your character is capable of in terms of not having to rest and being able to chew through hordes of enemies without resting, with healing that can easily be similar to chugging !curing every single turn. It greatly rewards killi...

There should be different versions of everything that randomly show up Dire makes them have more HD and and trample Vampiric gives them the vampire set of abilities (vampiric melee, invisibility, confuse) and makes them undead Sorcerous gives them a random spellbook based on HD and of course they sh...

If anything I'd say it's these amigo banditos who are the real troublemakers

I think I saw Minmay on VICE once

Xom should take action on all players, whether they worship Xom or not That way it will be totally clear that crawl has random elements and those random elements are often not to the player's advantage, which will in turn allow crawl players to realize their suffering was never really from the chaos...

Elec is better than poison for actual tabtabtab fighting with weapon skill, but even with a 0-skill poison weapon you can kill normally untouchable things with patience and running away. I like doing this to Orc Warlords and Knights when I have a weak character trying to get the Orc shops early, and...

Perhaps if depth=time elapsed, with 1500 turns being the equivalent of the current difficulty increase of going down 1 level. Branches could work similarly, simply getting more and more fiendish as you continue to explore them. For example, Deep Orc would be choked with Warlords, Stone Giants, Sorce...

I do this sometimes and think this approach is a reliable way to make crawl more intense. I still make stupid mistakes though, so while I'd dive for 'fun' I think even accounting for boredom it's still probably safer to explore everything.

I think the clear choice is to ditch Conjure Flame and Sticky Flame

You're right about the demonic areas, but Jiyva has uses in Tomb because you CAN slimify mummies. Of course you won't have enough piety to slimify ALL the mummies, but if you're forced to stairdance multiple Greater Mummies/Mummy Priests, being able to Slimify some of them quickly is very good.

The Abyss is pretty safe as an AK, since you can always Depart the Abyss the moment things look ugly

Xbows sometimes show up midgame in Orc or Snake but that's a bit late to be picking a weapon. All characters I've tried starting with Xbows have had to give it up in favor of a tasty branded melee weapon or randart except for one who went with Okawaru and was gifted ammo and an Arbalest in Lair. I r...

Will *twister make an exciting comeback as a damage trigger instead of an evokable property!?!? On a more serious note, I think a lot of miscast effects have potential as * properties- random blinking, cloud placement, and so on. Always cool to see randarts do things that affect player decisions and...

Though I'm not sure this could stand alone as a complete god, those Door-Abilities would be a great powerset to include with the random gods (if they ever get implemented)

I don't really care for the active abilities since they're kinda boring and seem to overlap with Ashenzari's skillboosting, but I really like the idea of empowering weaker foes. Could be done as an effect that has a HD(or MR?) dependent chance to permanently buff enemies that enter your LOS (maybe E...

RIP FOREST
it was just too good for this sinful, ungrateful, tasteless playerbase ;_;7

being able to constantly blink enemies away while shooting them with a ranged weapon (without having to use up dispersal ammo) would be OP. Yeah, I can't imagine what crawl would be like if there was some way to stay out of range of your enemies forever while hitting them from afar that would just ...

Some people don't understand that if you're playing a blaster mage, or a weak character, or even a weak blaster mage, food really becomes a concern through lair and lair branches and you need every chunk you can get and preferably rpois to eat poisoned chunks. Food only seems irrelevant if your onl...

So, being able to carry 18 chunks of meat around has made food even more irrelevant except for some pretty niche cases. However, I'm also extremely averse to the starvation deaths that might crop up in chunkless crawl, since they aren't really something you can react to beyond hoping the RNG will pl...

I would boost Yrednoodle up to A or even S tier for the early game. I'm not even considering any abilities beyond Animate Dead, it's just that Zombies are really good at providing almost 100% reliable escapes in resource poor environs, scale in power as you kill tougher things, and and unlike the co...

I think you may have taken the wrong idea away from my mention of the 2 allies and 1 player v 1 corridor'd enemy proposed scenario. Namely, I think ally behavior will remain stupid in order to PREVENT this scenario and so avoid increasing the already very high value of allies. There are tactics that...

The primary function that I would use this for is luring enemies through corridors/doors so they not only have to fight me, but also the 2 zombies standing next to/behind me without the pain of zombies stepping in front of me into the enemy filled corridor to die one at a time. While this would be m...

I once died to a Dire Elephant by pillar dancing it so long that I starved to death because "Surely Energy Randomization is a more optimal escape option than scrolls of blinking!" Like 4+ version ago I was once trampled over deep water in the Abyss by a Bone Dragon while my Tornado was exp...

This idea is so good it could be the entire magic system for a game.

I don't think it has the remotest possibility of getting into Crawl, but by golly I would be ALL the wizards in a game that had this as its magic system.

"Oh, yes." Cerebov said diabolically, stroking his serpentine blade with consensual intimacy. "You Crawlers are certainly welcome to Shatter my private treasure hoard... but first you must taste my throbbing Fire Storm!"

Perhaps Xom already does this, it's just that our feeble mortal mind can't comprehend the vast and perfect order to Xom's actions.

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"Rape as Backstory. It is extremely common in bad fanfiction."

No matter how you feel about TvTropes, sometimes it's dead on.

Early in the game is when new items are most likely to boost your power. I would use acquirement as soon as I found it.

Remove EV penalty and Stoneskin synergy, rename to "Statuesque Form"

I think Enslavement is the real problem spell that doesn't really fit in AM. Inner Flame+ Portal Projectile would have more tactical decisions to make about who to target and when to set off the firebomb, whereas Inner Flame+Enslave can usually be used just as a (t)ell attack and walk away, since it...

Problematic in that if you only got the heat aura when heavily damaged, nobody would use it because a bit of passive damage doesn't make up for being nearly dead, but if you had the heat aura at full health you could play "Kite the monsters" very effectively. And you wouldn't be able to re...

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