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Just throwing in my 2 cents on a few things: Shields are terrible if you want to run a pure melee character, yes. Do we actually want that though? If not, we could just focus on making them better for hybrid melee characters. I've run a number of hybrid characters (usually melee/magic) and usually f...

This certainly seems thematic, though it might also feel rather redundant considering we see the vast majority of 'player-species monsters' in other locations.

Still, I think this could go somewhere interesting.

I like this idea a lot, though I dislike the idea of totally removing permanent mutations - though they'd probably become rarer to compensate.

New speaking weapon: The Mourning Star. Large M&F that utters a brief comment on monsters you've just killed. Examples: you kill a quokka - "How could you? It wasn't doing anything to you." you kill an orc - "I suspect we'll be seeing more of those." you kill a goldfish - &q...

*Seriously, Battletech armor is just absurd in how tough it is for its weight. That's made up for by the fact that Battletech weapons are absurd in how short their ranges are, and the fact that by the year 3000 we won't be able to build a giant robot that doesn't overheat in thirty minutes. Actuall...

My god, is that thing plated with Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor or something?! chobham ... point, it's not nearly tough enough to be Ferro-Carbide, let alone Lamellor. Might still be good ol' "Magic"* standard armor (Starslab 10 maybe?). *Seriously, Battletech armor is just absurd in how t...

No. They were removed in 0.12, though (along with Fulsome Distillation and Evaporate ). The only thing I'm going to miss about Evaporate is how much fun it was to throw around potions like molotovs. It was stupidly overpowered - a pair of spells that could let you throw miasma around, not to mentio...

TehDruid wrote:A brilliant idea I just had to make the ponderous brand more appealing

My god, is that thing plated with Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor or something?!

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New weapon: Naval Particle Projector Cannon (NPPC). Because there is no such thing as overkill.

Shields are... well, their usefulness varies. Which is a good thing mind you; there should be no perfect, optimal strategy for Crawl. And let's try to avoid making them hilariously complex; I'd say that if we want to make them better, we should just improve their stats . If that's even really needed...

Mine as well.

Slightly more on topic, how about a gigantic red exclamation point? (For bonus shout-out points, if you had sound on it'd sound like this.) </not so serious>

On a more serious note, how about a 'magic circle' of some sort around an alarm bell?

We need to include the Dynamite Tree somehow.

Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!!!

What the fuck.

... really? People are too damn lazy to peel a freaking banana now?

Age : 20 Sex : M Ethnicity : Caucasian Citizenship : United States Languages : English, a bit of German. Education : College Occupation : Student Operating System : Windows XP (out of lack of a sufficently good computer to run 7 without making it impossible to play games) DCSS Style : Tiles Offline...

Huzzah!

Here's hoping whatever changes are made reduce eyestrain as well!

Re-flavoring double swords as bastard swords would mean we have two longswords... the longsword we have in-game should actually be called an arming sword . Admittedly, double/triple swords are a bit silly, but why not? The only thing I have to say is that their current tile is a bit on the lackluste...

This actually sounds like a genuinely good idea, and as a bonus makes the Rod of Striking genuinely unique in effect. Admittedly, it'd probably need some balancing, but it certainly has potential.

I like!

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Another possibility: shift humans towards fighting and make high elves the 'jack of all trades' type. Popular culture seems to insist on humans being average, why not make them decidedly not?

Pretty much the best thing in crawl is a completely non-threatening swamp worm in Swamp fleeing when bashed to low health and then submerging (again). THIS is why I miss Reaching being able to hit submerged targets. In all honesty, I like the flavor, but it's such a pain gameplay-wise that I can't ...

I found this chemist's blog. The man behind it has a gift for dry humor and has managed to find some alarming things in the world of chemistry. An excerpt from one of his more famous entries from the section 'Things I Won't Work With', Sand Won't Save You This Time : "In a comment to my post on...

Why in the world can't the target be behind glass? That doesn't make logical sense.

I could see a shield being made out of Iron Dragon scales (or maybe even a single scale , depending on how big they are), but it'd probably be best as an unrandart. Not every dragon has to drop something enchantable, people. That said, shields do feel a little less useful than two-handed weapons at ...

If nothing else, that contrast change should be implemented ASAP. My god that is easier to read.

XuaXua wrote:Corrosive ammo?

The question in that case is whether or not the devs want us to have access to acid damage.

It would be work to implement, but it would open up possibilities beyond an ammo brand. I was thinking all it'd need would be three 'tracers' - one center tracer which shows the direction of the primary projectile, and two tracers at angles from it (which could adjust depending on the attack's cone...

Hmmm... one problem I'm seeing with 'shotgun' brands is how to handle targeting. We don't yet have any good way of targeting a cone effect.

Honing (arrow brand): Seeks out its target and avoids all others. Acts as a free portal projectile, and never misses. I had a similar idea, though it was more 'guided arrow' than 'portal projectile'. Basically gave anything in the way a REALLY high chance to dodge, and the target a much lower one. ...

Note that these ideas are nowhere near final, but the ones in bold I feel could be easily balanced. Ammo Exclusive: ⋅ Broadhead Arrows/Bolts : Do extra damage, but that damage is effected twice as much by AC (and possibly GDR). ⋅ Armor-penetrating Bolts/Javelins: Flat-out ignore...

I don't think so. Seems complicated and not really worth it. What's planned is dynamic configuration: detaching and attaching panels just by right clicking the tab icon. That would be especially nice for toggling the minimap on and off (btw, this is a request for a minimap tab icon). Specifying a m...

Unique: a worm that throws exploding sheep at you. Has dialog made up entirely of Worms quotes. -...except for an (e)ngrave command. engraving "Elbereth" on the ground causes all monsters in the vicinity to go berserk That would be funny as an Easter Egg vault. "You step onto an engra...

Something I was thinking about: Would it be possible to group menu bars together in Tiles? For example, having Magic and Abilities set up as a separate menu bar above the rest. It seems that with so many menu bars, being able to group them - especially if you play Crawl on a small laptop screen - wo...

If you're a follower of Xom, he may occasionally cause any sheep attacked with Sticky Flame to also have Inner Flame, turn friendly, and go berserk.

Because we should have a shoutout to Worms, that's why.

But will they react like sheep when exposed to Sticky Flame?

-Tele not only blocks your teleports, but hostile ones. It is NOT a horrible quality to have on an amulet or ring, so long as you get it off before using a teleport. Armor is another matter, however.

*Facepalm* And here I thought it only prevented your own. Still, its +1 EV and +1 AC feel almost like an afterthought, and its increased hunger rate feels a little micro-manage-y.

Don't have the file, but I got killed by a dart trap once. I'd managed to get out of my depth (I thought the food clock was MUCH more unforgiving than it is), got forced to retreat down a hallway that I'd never gone down, and triggered a dart trap which did just enough damage to kill me.

Cekugob predates stasis. And would be worse if it were stasis, honestly - at least right now it might be my rElec swap, but who wants to fight Nikola unhasted? True, but right now it feels like an inferior Broach of Shielding with a few extra resists. I feel stupid for asking, but does -Tele preven...

I just want to state here that my feeling is that, if not useful, unrandarts should be interesting . Now, with that out of the way... the straight-up bad: knife of Accuracy I agree with this; it has no brand, and aside from its stupidly-high accuracy it's basically floor trash. It's VERY underwhelmi...

Unless you're playing a Mf, for whom Water tends to make things much harder for everyone around them.

Choko-spiders. They look like chokos, but if you get close they attack!

This is TOTALLY not redundant!

I have to say, I'm loving the new tiles. MUCH nicer looking. Hats off to everyone who worked on those.

Speaking of latest versions, is there any way to download the latest trunk via SVN?

Even with those changes, I think we should at least tell the player roughly how effective they are with their current weapon. Magic numbers may be bad, but feedback is good.

Would dog spiders be redundant with wolf spiders?

Also, if we're including spider hybrids, may as well include a drider. Completeness and all that jazz.

pratamawirya wrote:Spider Felid would be the nightmare of all furries.

You'd be amazed what some furries can get into. Don't ask how I know, I wish I didn't.

I do wonder if the mating thing is just in bad taste, though if there's a general consensus that it's okay to include then why not.

dpeg wrote:I have no idea what 4chan is.

... really? That's a bit of a shock. And seriously, don't go there if you want to keep your sanity.

I've really wondered why the heck this isn't already there.

What I'd like to see is both minimum and current delay, as well as the skill needed to master it. Having to calculate your delay with a weapon feels a little ridiculous.

I could really see this showing up in the form of an unrand, but not as a general randart property. With the current state of things a Holy/Ice weapon could snap late-game weapon balance in half... though that's more the fact that almost everything late-game is weak to ice (or at least not resistant...

Hello everyone! Bit of a lurker here who decided to pop in.

Also, what's with the current development version being 0.12 on Mantis?

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