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*strolls casually back into the forum* > Tomb difficulty thread > pissing contest about level 9 spells *sips tea* I missed this place Also, abstractly, is it against the design principles of crawl to not have all branches realistically doable by all builds? Should 15 runers be made harder than they ...

Remove all summons that summon multiple of a monster that is capable of doing damage. Make it so you can have only X summons active at once, or possibly just one summon + a utility summon such as guardian golem. (Rebrand them as "familiars" or something idc) Make every monster interesting ...

- LRD doesn't destroy walls

I've been away for months and THIS is what I come back to?

*pours one out for LRD* RIP most fun spell in the game.

Wait was this a joke? Cause this is pretty legit

I haven't played WJC in a while, did they ever bring back unlimited untargeted walljumps?

mibe420 wrote:Corona

mibe420 wrote:Dazzling Spray

*ponder*

I would change it to a one turn constrict/damage burst, and then ongoing randomly distract/slow/confusing, the idea being that they are grabbed and then trying to avoid the sea of hands. It should never be that you can just wait it out and watch the whole room die. This should synergize well with bo...

Yeah I'm of the opinion that player disto could use a nerf

While I disagree with the OP, there might be ways to make the brand more interesting/feel less unfair. What if, on each hit, you got a stack of translocational energy. 0-2: blink or damage. 3-4 stacks: blink, tele, -player tele, or medium damage. 5+ stacks: blink, -player tele, high damage, or banish.

Why are ghosts worse than OOD monsters or early level uniques?

Why not have it only happen in Shadow Form? Or make the smoke one-way (probably OP).

Yeah if I hadn't panicked I would have swapped out my ring of evasion (which I remembered to do for previous orbs)

aaaand died on Z5 due to a bad teleport followed by a second bad teleport

I managed to crush V5 and do pretty well in the Abyss, so I'm at 4 runes. I've never done the hells, and I loathe Slime, so I think I'm going to just Zot and hopefully win.

I'm kinda nervous because I don't have much rF but we'll see

I figured might as well work my good dodging apt, felt like a waste of exp to put too much into armor.

First time I've ever tab killed Saint Roka which was exciting. The only threatening things that have happened in a long time were a dream sheep + barbs situation and an entropy weaver that I didn't notice + petrification, but I manage to tele out both times. Excited to see how I manage to screw this...

what if it was an ability where the clouds start spawning vortices for a short time

Qaz destroying his allies is literally one of the most stupid things in this entire game.

God proposals are one of the most common it feels like, so I thought it would be useful to discuss what features are things that are lacking from our current pantheon, and what are unnecessary (inb4 "remove gods") Current coverage: Skill buffs Stat buffs Conjuration replacements Permanent ...

I don't quite get the transparent walls part of step from reality. It seems like you're trying to preserve scrying, but I don't think you'd use it like scrying -- it's too expensive to use as anything other than an emergency ability, and being able to move while scrying is pretty useful. It's a buf...

I'm not seeing it in the changelogs, but I swear they used to have faster regeneration at XL 1

I would certainly appreciate these boosts to Chei, but I don't really think that he needs them. Chei is a weak god from the perspective of those who can only imagine themselves playing "optimally". There are other players, and they evaluate Chei quite differently. He's in a weird place: h...

I very much enjoy both gods, but Ash is fiddly and a blocker for curse reform, and Chei is considered by many to be pretty bad. Both are focused around passive empowering, and I think thematically it could work quite well. The TL:DR is that a lot of Ash's passives are merged into Chei, and he increa...

Have stab damage scale stronger with Dex. This way, stabbers can chose between leveling int (for more reliable stab spells) or dex (for more potent stabs)

Be is a start without shield and low Int aimed for heavy armour, fi/gl/mo are totally different. You mentioned faded altar and I want to tell that I will never use it because I hate some gods but I don't suggest to remove it because I realize it is fun for many players and I can just ignore it. Jus...

The only good gods for a zealot background are gods that you can't get in temple, and possibly Veh because bookless magic start is Kinda Neat.

and xom because weapon of chaos start is fun as heck. Hell, remove Xom, have chaos knight start with a cursed chaos branded weapon.

I am generally hella in favor of keeping things that are raw fun in the game (I will faded altar every time, and I was crushed when the Council changed into it's wildly less fun incarnation) My point by including that as a pro is to not be 100% down on trog- i play a LOT of Be because it is satisfyi...

Pros of Be as a background: 1. Fun 2. Easy 3. Newbie friendly Cons: 1. Overpowered, and doesn't teach newbies how to handle early D which is an important thing to learn- the newbie-friendliness is a trap, not a feature. 2. Unnecessary unless you reaaaally hate waiting for altars 2.5 Similarly, would...

Aside: for the love of god remove Be. Most degenerate background in the game, utterly pointless and uninteresting.

This is definitely the most interesting Zealot as unlike Be it actually has interesting implications. The only reason the other two zealots are interesting is that 1. Lucy is nontrivial to workship otherwise. 2. the branded weapon for CK. Be is just "let's make a Gladiator worship Trog at level...

DCSS is literally the only old-school roguelike I've ever enjoyed.

As far as newer ones, Crypt of the Necrodancer is fun, Caves of Qud is nice if tiring, and Tangledeep is possibly my favorite game currently, it's so damn good.

Got splatted in Abyss

Boxed in next to a Bone Dragon by those multiplying assholes

the tl:dr is: is there anything actually better than a +6 ring of slaying for an MiBe? Namely, a ring combination that gives me rE, rP, rC, rN++, Stlth+, Ev+2, Dex+8 EDIT: Might as well ask: would a shield of resistance + demon trident of (presumably) speed be better than the polearms I have? Dungeo...

Caustic Shrike completely ruined my last game. I was tabbing through depths 4 when all of a sudden I got obliterated.

MAD props for the JJ2 music section, I love the hell out of that game...I should do an LP of it, it's been years.

what if deep elf but smol

Werewolf has come up a few times, and I personally think the only way to make it work is having it as an involuntary mutation, X turns in combat or taking X damage or something along those lines.

I'd lower SB or Dodging over stealth.

IMO the interesting distinguishing facets of Mf are the high UC, high dodging, low armor, and low conjurations, and these drastic factors would all be preserved.

Merfolk are one of the most pigeonholed races in this game, with quite a few +- 3 aptitudes. While it is interesting to have a specialized race, I think a bit less extreme would make them more interesting. Polearms: +4 -> +3 While Polearms apt is one of Mf's defining features, +4 is insane. Unless y...

Ash is bonkers cool. The literal only issue is the cursing thing. That's replaced with binding. *shrugggggggg*

I find ghosts really fun, yet fully agree they are TERRIBLE designs.

I think a genericized option would be nice: have a template for each skill, make a ghost based on the player's highest skill, scale it's stats/spellset based on DL.

I am like the biggest python fanboy ever, but one thing to keep in mind is that if you want a console version, C++'s curses functionality imo is better than Python's.

I'm honestly not sure what's better, the plus EV ring or the plus dex ring Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-122-g43b3ea6 (console) character file. DoubleByte the Fencer (Demonspawn Berserker) Turns: 16815, Time: 00:39:35 Health: 101/101 AC: 17 Str: 17 XL: 13 Next: 92% Magic: 13/13 EV: 13 Int...

@Leszczynek It was more intended as obstacles, and hell rats can be pretty nasty in bulk even in Lair.

Rings, late game armour, good aux armor early, solid wand. It wouldn't be that impressive on average, but for D2 it's pretty damn good. iirc I just cleared 1-15, going to go to either Orc or Lair next. I have an elec great sword and a flaming great sword so I'm pretty solid as far as that goes. I al...

Aside from being Monstrous, I can't recall getting this much luck in a game in a loooong time Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-113-g6841d05 (console) character file. DoubleByte the Slasher (Demonspawn Berserker) Turns: 1415, Time: 00:02:54 Health: 35/35 AC: 10 Str: 17 XL: 4 Next: 54% Magic: ...

A rodent of unusual size that has become leader of a pack of rats that cling to his body, tied by the tails. His bite can poison, rot, and slow, he is poison immune and has massive MR, can belch clouds of poisonous gas, and allied rats detach themselves from the cluster as you fight (similar to the ...

Be kinda cool to have an unrandart Magebane that's an antimagic axe that also heals your MP but has -cast

Other idea: make labyrinths mini-zigs Have them be 3 floors, each 1/4th the size of a regular labyrinth. In each, you fight the minotaur- first time at 1/3 health, second time at 2/3 health, third time at full. Each time, once you defeat it, it disappears to the next floor and an escape hatch/one wa...

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