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Because their effect is the same, regarding movement. They make you move faster. That's a seriously circular argument "Faster movement is the same as haste because haste makes you move faster" is as weak as it gets. Game-wise "moving faster" is an *effect of being hasted* not th...

Ok I'm sorry I thought it was obvious that "Imo formicid should not be fast because they can't be hasted". In case you missed it, humans and spriggans can be hasted and slowed. You still haven't answered the question of "Why does one imply the other" Why does "can't be hast...

Consistency yes, flavour not. Like I said, I don't care what the Switfness description is, I care about the effect. It is the gameplay that suffers currently. What aspect of gameplay is deteriorated? Do you feel that "you move faster" and "haste" are not sufficiently different f...

Still not sure: is the racial experience modifier (e.g. - 1 for DE) a factor only for gaining character levels (1-27) or does this factor into all experience gained, by that I mean affecting the rate at which skill levels are raised? Up until recently I assumed the former, thus believing that for 3...

Imo the reason for a species like this to exist is described in what Implojin wrote earlier: The idea was to force interesting play by limiting players' ability to press 'undo' (with translocations, or by walking away) after making poor engagement decisions. Swiftness clearly should not be allowed ...

Is getting out of zot:5 in a 3-rune orb run still the unfair garbage that made me quit in .21 or was it nerfed I'm not sure what you mean.. Controlled teleport/blink and PoG still don't work with the orb, and uncontrolled teleports are still delayed, if that's what you mean. (I don't find that that...

I assume "character build" includes race+background+weapon choice (where available?) and "remembered" stuff includes inital skill focus choices and skill targets? Really you can actually write this into your .rc file already with some effort (you can use LUA to determine what bui...

So for V:5 initial rush, the things you need to do are: 1. Control the number of things attacking you at a time, this involves things like enslavement and paralysis, as well as limiting the number of ways people can approach you, the two-square wide corridors that you were in are decent, if not idea...

The format isn't documented anywhere except the source. See hiscores.cc. Here's a quick overview of the fields you didn't guess. lv: version of this logfile record. 0.1 is the only value in use. vsav / vsavrc: Version tags associated with your save file. Only useful for debugging. absdepth: "a...

I'm posting here, not to Mantis, because I can't quite decide if I'm missing something obvious and this is not an infelicity. It seems to me that the relative cost displayed for a skill that has been crosstrained is misleading. For example, start a HuGl and go flail. Use wizard mode to raise M&...

I appreciate the tips here! I just wanted to followup to say I now have my first win! http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/PhantomBowie/morgue-PhantomBowie-20190902-201223.txt Congrats! As a follow-up I notice from your morgue you used a demon whip for a while then ditched it. For future informat...

A great mace is a pretty small upgrade from an eveningstar, and a shield is a big upgrade from no-shield, Also you can enchant that eveningstar up, which you can't do with the great mace. Also you've got a good sling to use one-handed for ranged attacks. Also you're at 14.2 shields and it only takes...

Pteriforever wrote:
Hmm, these must be two of a set

Man it's been so long since i saw both to-hit and damage enchantment numbers that it looks weird to me

duvessa wrote:Making scarves enchantable just makes them even more like cloaks, that's not good.

Hm, would hats be better if they were unenchantable too? Should there be more types of unenchantable equipment (Animal skins come to mind)?

So I very rarely feel like a scarf is an attractive option. Some of the enchantments are interesting/useful, but presently all the scarves provide either limited-use abilities (cloud immunity is only very rarely impactful) or abilities that are duplicated (Resistances are all over the place, spirit ...

Even IMB is usually more practical for multi-hits than dazzling spray, in situations where you can't make good use of prism like corridors/odd terrain. I spam searing ray the most in the early goings as Cj though. Dazzling spray is a viable stabbing tool and it's odd to have it in the Cj playbook, ...

Not sure why you tried Dazzling Spray. Just fireball her from afar. Also, you can use the various things Siegurt listed above. Dazzling Spray is an enchanter spell. It has conjuration school tacked on, but conjurer types have very little use for it. Well, it's actually not a terrible damage spell i...

FWIW: 1. Dazzling spray doesn't have a great chance of working (less than a decent-skill confuse) 2. If it *does* work, it doesn't really "disable" the creature, it leaves them 'dazzled' which means that they "can't see you" similar to you being invisible, in particular this mean...

It's me again. Been in a weird mood lately, and yesterday I decided to pick up the game again for a bit. Decided to say hi. Nice to see this place is still here. I don't know if I'll stick around or keep playing much, it'd be cool to finally win Crawl after all these years though. Truth be told, ba...

How about a helm that gives blurry vision, and ranged weapon slaying (maybe replace gloves of archery with it) +3 Helm of binocular {archery, blurry vision:1} "This helm has clear glass that covers your eyes, letting you see with greater clarity at a distance, at the expense of making reading t...

Hey Guys, I died in Zot 5. Thought I'd go in and clear it before trying out Hell/Pan but something new happened (haven't played in a few years). Once I entered the left lung, I kept getting teleported around the whole place whenever a monster stepped into a trap? Why am I getting move around when t...

it's mostly a go-to for stabbers against a wide swath of randomly super-high MR or magic-immune monsters. Then the spell is already ruined, because monster HD closely corresponds to monster MR. There really aren't many monsters with low HD but high MR, and vice versa That's actually not true, there...

There's also no reason it can't scale effectiveness with spellpower *and also* target HD, I mean it's bad that HD is opaque and also meaningful in some circumstances, but that's true regardless of whether CT exists or not. Whether it targets HD or MR is separate from whether it should scale with spe...

It'd be more surprising if any two people agreed on everything lol. Animate skeleton is nice and can mostly carry lair/orc/D:15. The skeletons hit other monsters pretty hard and this scales decently until you enter areas like spider (can't raise many enemies) or elf (skeletons do no damage for most...

I'd point out that you could rebrand the quick blade if you don't want to use pain, I mean pain is *really really* good, but a qblade of elec would be pretty good too, and not require necromancy. (elec is about equal to pain brand and 11 necromancy skill) Here's the list of things that are immune to...

Code:: An iron imp comes into view. It is wielding the +2 Maxwell's thermic engine {flame, freeze}.

I would further advise "don't kill things you don't need to kill" if you can outrun it or ignore it safely, definitely do so. Always keep moving and never try to hole up and rest unless you've recently teleported and haven't seen anything. A source of regeneration to heal you while you are...

In my opinion, a spell which does the same thing as peace of equipment is not fun. It's obnoxious to use. Even if it was a permacharm, it still wouldn't be fun. The transmutations all give you stuff which you can't get any other way, limit your options, and change the gameplay experience a lot. Of ...

Hard to say what anyone finds "interesting". It's possible that for a very experienced player, the decision may be easy in many cases, and thus not interesting. I can only say that it's a meaningful decision and it's pretty fundamental to how spells work. So the definition I use for 'inte...

Note the level 1 spells are only usefull in the midgame because they're cheap to cast. Being able to cast 10 sandblasts instead of 2 LRDs can make all the difference when you've been careless. If the balance was changed so that you only got 6 sandblasts for the price of 2 LRDs, it wouldn't help nea...

Flame Tongue, pain, magic dart, all the damage level 1's are quite fine at 1mp. If you're looking to balance low level spells it would be better to just bump the animate skeletons of the magic world up to level 2. Probably all non-damage level 1 spells, summon small mammal is the only one that migh...

Indeed, this situation creates an interesting decision: to kill the monster as fast as possible, or to kill it in the most MP-efficient way possible. If you don't want to manage MP optimally: well, don't. Crawl is generous enough that you can play sub-optimally in one aspect and still end up comple...

Even if a lvl 2 spell is not double the power of lvl 1 spell, you might still want to use it because it provides more damage per turn, more range, whatever. Indeed, this situation creates an interesting decision: to kill the monster as fast as possible, or to kill it in the most MP-efficient way po...

This is again backwards reasoning. The spell is called "confusing touch". If it was meant for short-blade specialists, why wasn't it called "confusing hit" and why did it only trigger on unarmed attacks (prior to 0.23)? I highly doubt that whoever introduced this spell was think...

So there's a problem with 1MP spells, let's see if I can describe it in a way that makes sense: 1 MP spells are such a smaller percentage that it's hard to balance the difference in power between them and the other spell levels. For example, 1MP spells are half the cost of 2MP spells, this means you...

CT confuse doesn't last very long, so it would be hard to do much with it using chei other than interrupting monsters with abilities. But you can also accomplish this by killing them. CT is one of the few ways stabbers can still stab enemies in extended, though it wouldn't hurt to balance this spel...

Confusing touch is currently one of the more overpowered spells in the game, it takes almost nothing to get it going, and it debilitates stuff without a MR check. It's somewhat *better* if your stabby, or use axes or polearms, or are worshipping wujian, but with even just a plain old fast-ish attack...

So I have this character which just feels too strong. It's not really interesting to play. The only reason he's been >60% hp was due to torment. Tormenters die with 2-3 LRDs. He's a mage, but most of the time he can just bash stuff to death with a stick. There are 4 powerful bags of tricks he never...

Regarding spell schools, I'd prefer the opposite: remove all elemental schools and group spells by function (leaving only conjurations for damage, charms for buffs, hexes for debuffs, summoning for ally creation, translocations for movement). I think this goes too far. The many flavors of elemental...

Orb of destruction is a spell that does damage and only checks AC, not resistances or MR. Right now, earth damage spells and "pure" conjurations both tend to do this whereas other damage schools do not, so it makes sense to move orb to earth magic if you're going to cut conjurations as a ...

Truthfully, under status quo, I don't see the wisdom in Demigods' existing at all. They just reward unfun behavior, because gods are fun. I imagine nearly all players agree. FWIW I disagree, There's been a non-insignificant number of pro-demigod voices in the past, so I suspect the "nearly all...

You can also take chunks off auto-pickup from the \ menu

There are a few classes of monsters where distraction stabs are all you're likely to get. OOF immediately comes to mind, but stuff like ancient liches, some fiends/pan lords/hell lords, and some uniques come to mind. Some of that stuff is magic immune outright and rPois/immune with enough HD that C...

Speed is less important on distraction stabs (because a single stab usually makes something un-distracted) but since distraction stabs suck anyway, you shouldn't be optimizing for the 'what to use for distraction stabs' cases Speed is still better for distraction stabbing anyway, because distractio...

Using player data and death rates is superior method of evaluating difficulty, assuming we're evaluating difficulty for human beings. You do run into a noise factor with literally impossible positions, however, due to RNG or bad design [....] Same goes for "true" RNG deaths in crawl - tho...

FWIW "Size changing abilities" of varying sorts have been suggested in the past, here are some examples: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9230 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9149 Both of those are mutations, because if size changes change you...

At one point, I did some code-digging, and came up with that, while daggers *do* do twice the damage that other short blades do, there's a cap to the bonus damage from stabbing. That hits around 10 average between stealth and short blades skill for daggers, and 20 for other short blades. (Maybe that...

make it the Amulet of Anatomical Improbability, which has only the effect of letting the wearer wear two amulets, one of which is this amulet have Xom gift it every once in a while Nah, this way you have the disadvantage of giving up a ring slot. MM Ah, the solution is to have it take both a ring *...

That's a pretty basic error, but it seems to me the thing to do would've been to delete it rather than elaborate on it and get into a chain of responses to it (including a defense of the original comment!). I will decline to comment on your general posture in this response. That presumes the commen...

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