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It does, and in fact damage is much more likely than abyssing.
However, the 9.9% of the time were you get abyssed is much more memorable than the 55.5% where a kobold just does some extra damage.

As far as gifting armour goes, I think it'd be OK simply because the only things gods gift right now are spells, weapons, and decks. Armour gifts won't step on anyone's toes.
For names, we have:
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open right now.
Rundival perhaps?

Create altar should be usable a limited amount of times per level, to stop players from making altars everywhere.
Also, you should be able to mark yourself or create a large amount of noise in order to call monsters to the altar and avoid having to walk over there to kite them back to the altar.

Here's an idea for a mutation.
Stiff Skin: +2 ac, -3 dex. It's got a bonus, but it also hits you with stat loss greater than the stat loss mutation, and it gives a lot less AC than thick black scales. (A second level would probably be +3 or 4 ac, -5 dex)

Here's an idea with ranged stabbing: the bonus damage is dependent on range.
If you shoot someone from melee range, it's equivalent to stabbing them with a dagger.
If you shoot someone from the edge of los, it's equivalent to stabbing them with a club.

"You have to think longer term with the god who LITERALLY LETS YOU TAKE BACK SKILL POINTS AND MOVE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE." Give me a break man. Ash makes choices LESS meaningful across the board. When skills don't cost XP, which one you raise doesn't matter. Did actually read my post? I was...

One thing: I feel that allies should also displace your clouds, as having half your zombies die by walking through your clouds really sucks.

I think MA would be very cool for stuff like looting Elf:3 and then teleporting away, and it'd be restricted by the fact that in order to get to the loot you have to somehow get around the contents of Elf:3 without getting killed.(Because if you were strong enough to fight them, then you'd just do t...

Even a god with absolutely no restrictions removes choices through the simple act of giving you useful powers. When you are worshiping Nemelex, all other choices become dramatically less meaningful because decks can literally win the entire game on their own. Why bother thinking about long-term str...

I really wish player poly worked like monster poly.
Just have monsters turn into a bat or something dumb and give them the fear status to make them run away.

regeneration is balanced around low duration, but as a level 3 spell it's quite quick to get to 1%, which would let it last for a very long time. Point. Forgot that not all buffs have equal duration. Idea amendment: Each time the effect happens, the chance of the buff failing is equal to spell fail...

1. I feel that essense is just overcomplicating things. Just make the god gain and loose piety very fast. 2.Buffing spell power/success wouldn't step on their toes any more than Ash's buffs to those. (Buffs to the spell skills rather, but essentially the same thing.) 3. I'm undecided about this. Whi...

Personally, I really liked the abstract worshipers thing, but that wasn't a buff as much as it was a change. Whatever happened to that anyway?

As far as the name goes, how about just "The Hollow" or "The Hunger"? Using a word emphasizes the difference from other gods (in that powers come from essence rather than piety), as well as making it really obvious what he wants you to go do. T is already taken, though H is stil...

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As far as the name goes, how about just "The Hollow" or "The Hunger"? Using a word emphasizes the difference from other gods (in that powers come from essence rather than piety), as well as making it really obvious what he wants you to go do.

Here's what I'd do. The buff's effectiveness is determined by raw spellpower. The buff will have a chance of failing every time it activates (so every turn for haste, every time it deflects a missile for deflect missiles) equal to your CURRENT spell failure, with a minimum of 1%. (So taking off your...

Intelligent flesh could just give more satiation than you'd get from unintelligent flesh, similar to how impure flesh gives less.

As far as names go, I'd suggest Nhuoll, and possibly change the fluff from gluttony to nothingness (as in he wants you to destroy everything, reducing it to nothingness) to explain why he rewards killing things that aren't alive. (Instead of eating consumables, just have their magic be consumed by t...

If you didn't understand my idea before, here is it in english: She and her minions spawn in a vault containing lots of food. She and her minions have the ability to eat food off the ground like old harpies. (They still don't get to steal food from your inventory.) Kill her to get her minions to sto...

sgrunt wrote:No mention of kobolds yet?

I am actually immensely curious as to how the guardian golem (which sponges damage for you even if you aren't hiding behind it) and the suicide kobold (which explodes in a humorous manner) were considered to be similar.

Their booty is food, and her scurvy dogs have the old floor eating behaviors enabled!
Kill the captain before it's all gone! The cowardly runts won't have the spine to eat after that!

Viashino_wizard wrote:
khalil wrote:It says that in the GDD You Must Read This Before Posting sticky.
Presumably he didn't read it.

You should probably check your ceiling too.

Just grimy ceiling tile,cobwebs, and the occasional bloodstain. I should probably get around to cleaning it someday.

It says that in the GDD You Must Read This Before Posting sticky.
Presumably he didn't read it.

Thanks for this thread Mankeli.
It's nice to know no matter how terrible my proposals are, there's someone out there who's proposals are even worse.
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Mankeli wrote:Thank you but what do you mean. Thanked accidentally, sory.

If a proposal in GDD is terrible enough, it gets moved to CYC.

First, invis is powerful and shouldn't be given out so freely.
Second, not only does giving them immunity to hunger step on mummies' toes, but they have better aptitudes mummies in everything other than fighting, fire magic, and crossbows.

I'd go for XL myself, as you'd have a better chance of getting something you can escape from.

In the end though it feels like another thing that's a greater challenge for close range characters since as you said, it's much easier to deal with for ranged characters. This is true of basically everything in Crawl. I find it hilarious that something designed to screw over ranged characters (mes...

I really like this god idea, as not only does it fill a niche no other god does, it does so with flavor. (Compared to the Okie or Sif approach, in which a defensive god would appreciate you wearing heavy armor and gift heavy armor.) Since the brand weapon mechanic already used by two gods, maybe gai...

Why would you buff tornado? Tornado does not need to be any more overpowered than it already is.

I tried coding that up, although it ended up falling apart when my computer crashed and I lost my code. I really wish I could have gotten it to work, as I really liked that idea. Here's the mantis link if you think you can get it working: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=6710

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May I ask what was behind the decision to make races act like difficulty levels?

I was talking about replacing species-difficulty with difficulty-difficulty. I think adding another difficulty system would muddle things and take out the sense of progression, but that is only my opinion. I figure if another difficulty feature were ever made, the "normal" would be crawl ...

Difficulty modes that just adjust numbers across the board typically result in wacky difficulty spikes, and break whatever balance there is. Although it would be interesting if you could adjust the RNG to be crueler or kinder, but I don't know that such a thing could be coded easily. A easy way for...

Because I enjoyed the progression of "I can't get to Lair with TrBe" -> "I can win with TrBe" -> "I can win with MuBe". Because while I wouldn't like my every game of Crawl to be as challenging as my mummy games, occasionally I enjoy rolling and winning one. I understa...

Sar wrote:You can dislike the way Crawl does difficulty levels all you want, but I think at this point changing that will make Crawl a different game. A worse one, in my opinion.

May I ask why? I'm genuinely curious.

Difficulty modes that just adjust numbers across the board typically result in wacky difficulty spikes, and break whatever balance there is. Although it would be interesting if you could adjust the RNG to be crueler or kinder, but I don't know that such a thing could be coded easily. A easy way for...

Generic: The sword somehow manages to reproduce the sound of an entire orchestra, despite it's lack of vocal cords. Crypt/tomb: The Sword's singing echos through the silent halls. The Sword attempts a funeral dirge. The Sword sings a jaunty little number about undead wizard-kings whose existence off...

Igxfl wrote:
khalil wrote:I just got the pun with their names. Gygax is probably rolling in his grave right now.

Wait, what's the pun? Am I missing something?

Dowan and Duvessa.
D&D.

The devs use races as difficulty instead, so if you want to play on impossible mode you have to be incapable of using weapons and armour, and if you want to ignore the hunger clock you have to play on difficult.

I'm pretty sure races are the way Crawl does difficulty levels, which I personally like. I also feel races are how Crawl does difficulty levels, and I think it is a terrible idea. You can get boring races that are the optimal choice, and you can get interesting races that suck in every way. If some...

Well yeah, but mummies don't have to be a necro based build, that was my point, they save that XP. Not that necromutation is the only, or best strategy for extended, but it's a nice thing to get without any XP investment. Instead they can spend that XP overcoming their bad apts. But Necro is the on...

Because they are a fun challenge? I am curious as to what your definition of fun is. But then some other race (probably Formicids) will be The Worst Race Ever, should we buff them too? Mummies are weak and awful, but mummies are very much winnable; I'd say the only issue with them is probably the f...

Problem is, I have no knowledge of lua. I was also considering a TSO thing, and decided not to do it specifically because I wasn't sure how to make them attack you for worshiping an evil god. If I figure out how to do it, rest assured any death knights that walk into a cathedral will regret it. That...

I'll be honest, I'm surprised by how many good ideas came out of this thread. Normally when I see "Put back in thing I liked that was removed because it gave people ebola", I assume it'll be almost as bad as one of my threads.

damiac wrote:They get many of the necromut benefits without necromut,

Yes, but by the time the necromut benefits are useful, any necro based build would be able to cast it anyway.

I think the idea is Jiyva is supposed to be a late game god. At low levels, you need to worry about slimes eating items, XP loss from slimes killing monsters, and getting useless mutations. At high levels there's junk all over the floor you couldn't care less about, the slimes don't make a differenc...

They are immune to torment spam, which is one of the more annoying endgame things.
Just a shame they suck at everything else.

The problem is something that is funny once becomes annoying the second time, and if something kills you in a Permadeath game it's probably not even funny the first time. I Wanna Be the Guy is a platformer filled with stuff like that vault, but it has save points every single screen so you don't los...

there are good players that like playing Mu, but normally everyone agrees it is the worst species, power-wise, of the game. and I'd be willing to bet that the statistics would support that, with Mu having the worst win ratio of any race. I'd also be willing to bet that the worst combo for them woul...

I am of the opinion that if some people like the race, it's better to either fix the race or leave it alone, because it makes them happy and doesn't have a negative effect on anyone else. Fortunately, no-one liked Dj, so that doesn't create much of a problem.

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