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Spores are like Boggarts: Soon as I see them, they are the most dangerous thing in my mind, and I must kill them immediately.

What this means in practical terms is that you almost never miss. This easily cuts the number of turns it takes to kill most things in half, and is especially useful against anything with high AC or HP. It turns things that you would otherwise chip away at forever into something you can kill in a f...

He's right, though, tiles are generally looked down upon by a certain type of player. :p

But yeah! That was awesome. I was catching up on comics and was lolomgwtf when I saw that.

I get a headache every time this is brought up again. -_-

O_o Doesn't shatter only work against adjacent enemies?

He's a berserker, I don't think that's gonna be an issue. :p

Zicher wrote:A pretty lucky, but awesome early combo of an amulet of guardian spirit and a ring of magical power for a SpBe.

In the early game, this combination effectively doubles your HP.

Indeed, and when he's berserk he has even more IIRC.

tcjsavannah wrote:Better than voting Republican.

(I'm Snowball II and I endorse this message.)

I love you and your Simpson's reference.

DoomRL is better than it sounds. While simple, there's quite a bit of tactical depth. It's also easy to learn and makes its mechanics nice and transparent. I had a shot (!) at it and had great fun. Then I read about the upcoming tiles version. So will try again when it's out :) Likewise! I didn't e...

Yeah I figured he was joking, but it was in bad taste. Would've forgiven it if it had at least been funny.

That was quick, decisive, and awesome. Go Galahar.

Regardless, I fekkin' lol'd.

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I think the issue with 'good' gods is that they allow you to switch between them amicably and without wrath. None of the evils or neutrals allow this, so I figure they wanna keep this to a minimum.

I suppose those are good points. Though that's the first I've heard someone recommend that an unarmed troll use a shield, so I'm a little shocked there's nobody coming to counterpoint here.

galehar wrote:
szanth wrote:Generally I think stealth should increase EV.

EV needs to be nerfed, not buffed.

So nerf it. Giving stealth an EV bonus doesn't make EV itself more powerful.

"All the penalties"? Wearing a shield removes an offhand attack regardless of how high your skill is, doesn't it?

Generally I think stealth should increase EV. As it stands, it's pretty hit-or-miss and even training it is completely a shot in the dark; it'd give more of a reason to use stealth as opposed to relying on magical advantages, get that assassin class a leg-up on stalkers and enchanters. And it'd make...

I like it, but it should be based on free -player- turns, not free -game- turns. Difference being speed doesn't have an effect.

Trolls specifically just don't have any defensive skills they can train if they're going unarmed (Which they generally are; they're trolls with giant claws). So they use robes, because that's all they can use, and can't use shields. Is it so terrible to give them the option of having -something- to ...

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I'd be fine with a name-change. They aren't, after all, necessarily religious. Bladesinger and spellsword are good, but they insinuate that the person is using a bladed weapon. It'd be weird to be a bladesinger and use a flail.

Bluh, no, elementalists -are- still mages. They go under mages. The point is the simplify the process for new users. Many of the Zealots are still Warriors. But they are also Zealots. It's about breaking the choices down into logical groups that make the overall presentation clearer, and for me eli...

Bluh, no, elementalists -are- still mages. They go under mages. The point is the simplify the process for new users.

Indeed. Almost dying seems to be pretty hilarious.

Playing a TrCK and not expecting to win is actually a pretty freeing experience. Especially when Xom gives you mutations, and they're all good, and one of them is "You Regenerate". The TriCK is to still be happy and free when he takes them all away and sends demons after you. :p

They aren't a whole lot of work if they're videos. Just record yourself playing and verbalize what you're thinking.

"Day 238 - Jenkins was delicious."

Spriggan already has Sinv, so that's a moot point. And rElec is really only useful when you come across an enemy who shoots lightning at you a la Electric Eel or Nikola. And you should notice my post said -I- wouldn't wear it because of the increased hunger cost. I'm not saying others shouldn't, or ...

For a spriggan, I mean. The bonuses and AC are nice, but I wouldn't wear it just because of the increased hunger cost.

It seems odd that the potions' effects are considered mutations. It's not made clear in the potion's description that they are as such, and it can be disheartening to realize for the first time that in chugging a 'cure mutation' potion, you're losing your potion bonuses as well. Any specific reason ...

Gatekeeper - like vault guard, but when it is killed, it creates an opening in the fabric of space and a bunch of demons jump out. Reminds me of the Phase Beast (iirc) from Torchlight, where when you killed it it would open a portal you could go through and fight monsters well above your level and ...

... I guess? But by that same standard a regular-old cap or wizard's hat is even better than this thing.

I dunno. The root is that the aptitude should be the ability to gain greater proficiency in said skill. If there's a hidden aptitude, that's that much less transparency to the player, and more spoiler-leaning behavior in the game. On top of that, if an ogre is able to train to 27 with dodging with a...

Generally they come right next to you when you move away from them.

I mean, it -would- be good for a spriggan, if not for the fact that it speeds metabolism.

Yeah he comes back.

Sucks about the deterioration and screaming mutations, but other than that you're alright. Should've put more into dex rather than strength, but good otherwise.

Yeah that sounds worse. Least when relying on MR you can affect enemies into the late game so long as they have low MR; pretty much every monster late-game will have a high HD.

Which means what? It won't work on monsters with no MR because they're too powerful in general?

on the "free ride" business, making optimal play (grinding up fighting) tedious (by requiring them to go through the training minigame, whacking spammals and rats and whatnot) is bad design As for fixing the problem of grinding fighting, I see two ways to approach it: Fix fighting: The ea...

Guy kinda reminds me of something. Dunno what. Possibly MSPA character of some kind.

Yeah my first macro was out of necessity; victory dancing. Then I figured having a single key for casting my pellet spell would be convenient. And it was. =D

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Granted.

By the sounds of it I'd definitely still prefer Ninja Warrior, though.

In a perfect universe, we could give acvar unlimited resources with which to create his own wacky version of Crawl. I'd be curious to see if it'd be any fun.

Is it really that much better than anything + confuse?

When me and my friend play Borderlands, he uses a Brick character, so oftentimes there'll be funny moments of him in berserker rage mode after killing some guys, and he's just going around picking up ammo and money and other things while screaming his head off. I just imagine he's -really- excited a...

Martial arts as mostly just sport is a recent, I think. With guns, they're much less useful, and so have faded in many areas. Asian societies valued their MA and so set aside places of learning to preserve them. Europeans and others didn't have the foresight to do so. Many European MA were lost. Wr...

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