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Thanks! Oh, I was around for the troll and dragon armour change. I have yet to try new/revamped species, so I'll make a point of that. I really like that player ghost change. Not only that they're locked away, but that there's some nice loot in there with them. Also, I really like that blowguns are ...

I used to play and post a fair bit, stopped around the 0.19 version, I think. Gotten the itch again, so dusted off the old Tavern account and here I am. It's gratifying to see a lot of the usual names around, as well as new people. Still getting used to the changes in the current version, but for th...

The simple mechanics and one time abilities makes me think of an item that sacrifices the god slot rather than a full god. Call it the Amulet of the Heretic or something. See this old proposal for inspiration. Regarding the proposed abilities, it feels that if the god is always available, there will...

I have a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think DCSS would benefit a lot from making an extra effort when about to remove something and instead focus on reworking, even if the rework involves a complete mechanical U-turn. Possibly you're not aware, but gammafunk introduced Basajaunak as a replace...

Keep in mind that for basically every other videogame under the sun, the expectations required for discussing the game and having your opinion taken seriously is " you have played the game and want to talk about it ". I mean if you just want to discuss the game, sure. If you want to influ...

I like the proposal, except perhaps for the interaction with Fedhas that just complicates things. An even more modest first step is to straightaway incorporate briar patch and summon vines as poison magic spells (you can do anything with flavour lol), and worry about retheming poison magic to nature...

I disagree about spectral weapon though, I enjoy the thematic idea of throwing your own weapon, it's very crouching tiger/hidden dragon. Just to clarify, in case I wasn't clear. I'm proposing Project weapon to not unequip the weapon in your hand. The "spirit", if you will, still flies tow...

Good changes IMO. Personally I was more interested in the weapon collection aspect, but in practice it is indeed the movement while attacking aspect that proved popular. Some comments: * Lunge was always problematic because of kiting. It's just something you'll have to live with, I think. Other than...

RC file option seems best for this. Like character_tile= something. Not really workable though if you want to customize all the other stuff. Or maybe just an option which if enabled will allow appearance customization during character creation.

It is true than on an extended fight, it's likely you will use whirlwind more often than the other two, but I believe there is always a place for the three of them. Lunge in particular doesn't require as fast move speed as you might think, because it's possible to position yourself in such a way th...

Those tiles look cool 8-) I was surprised to see Afterimage pop up again in my game. If you want to keep it, I would suggest making it a little more obvious when it happens. Usually I notice it only after the "Your afterimage dissipates" message pops up (and leaves me wondering what just h...

FYI, recent changes have nerfed UC pretty hard (council weapons not attacking + project weapon's piety cost). There doesn't seem any reason now to use UC over a weapon. On the bright side, cross training means it's not that hard to transition to non-UC. Also, did something happen to Lunge? I can't s...

Strength will probably need some tuning, but you already know that. I'm close to wrapping up a DsMo run and had incredible luck with early drops which may have colored my perspective a bit, but the god feels really strong at all points of the game so far. Negatives, I haven't found project weapon p...

Yup, tournament time right now. Hopefully your branch will be hosted online somewhere, but if not I'll compile and test myself.

I guess the intention here is to prevent casting level 9 spells like Dragoncall at 50% failure rate because old Sif used to give you 100% miscast protection. That got removed? That's very disappointing. Still there, but the miscast protection scales with piety (always was the case I think?) so what...

...unlucky for it to get a double move on you, ... Was it random energy? Stairs take longer than a turn. I think it's 1.5, though Sprucery said it's 1.3 or 1.4. I think it won't always result in a double move for an adjacent enemy, but I'm also a little unclear on how monster delay works. I assume ...

Ettins hit very hard. 2x attack per round, up to 45 damage each without taking weapon damage into account. AC 11 isn't going to stand up particularly well vs ettins. Looking at the morgue, I think you were just unlucky. Unlucky to have an ettin near the stairs where you came up, unlucky for it to ge...

Dg is thought of as the species with godless conduct, but it's equally valid to think of it as a religion that gives you bonus stats and hp/mp, at the cost of slower xp and skill growth, and it's a religion that only accepts humans. Seen this way, Dg is a species/god combo that combines a featureles...

Does this argument also apply to maces and flails, or is the difference between maces, flails, and Maces & Flails enough distinction? IMO it has less of the ambiguity that Quazifuji identifies because people almost always say "M&F" when they mean the skill. Of course personally I ...

Thanks. Well, there' so much stuff there, so much more than my search engine skim turned up, that i kind of feel both sorry and embarassed for opening the thread. As archaeo said, don't worry about it. Happens to everyone. Anyway, think of it as raw material for your shinier, more exciting god idea...

Introducing changes (big or small) is the purpose of this thread; Criticism is welcome, but ideas would be even more so :cry: Once there was a proposal for a god that gives brand "upgrades", e.g. flaming weapon inflicts immolation, venom -> curare, draining -> reaping and so on. It was a ...

minstrel: I agree with your post. There are 2 ways to take ranged, either as primary attack without ammo scarcity (in the same design space as melee weapons, and is the status quo) or as secondary attack with ammo scarcity (in the same design space as wands). It is quite possible that NEITHER path l...

This has already been covered: reduce damage at longer range, but keep the short range damage high enough to make swapping out unnecessary. I didn't like that idea originally because it seemed to incentivize tracking your exact distance to the monster. But if it's a binary deal like 70% of damage a...

I find the monster panel very useful. It's a lot easier to parse for me than the dungeon screen, so it's usually the first thing (and very often the only thing) that I look at. Especially useful for a quick "is there a threat here" evaluation. As I don't have an encyclopaedic knowledge of ...

Why can't ranged be simply infinite and weak? Games usually balance melee's disadvantage of needing to be adjacent by making it monstrously powerful compared to ranged. Crawl keeps them about equally powerful. But polearm damage got nerfed when they all got reaching, so the idea is understood, but ...

CypherZel wrote:Is there a TL;DR?

Sure. Remove player ghosts

Lasty: seems like a big improvement over status quo, at least

I'm still doubtful whether it really is a distinct playstyle from conjurations though. Still feels like conjurations, but better. Maybe if you tighten the strategic aspect by reducing ammo... but then it would start to impinge on wands.

duvessa wrote:Giving out special stuff for completing multiple ziggurats is pretty much rewarding grinding.

How about extra runes that you don't need to win?

I am missing an option: "Casting the spell causes MP loss while the effect is active. (MP depletion)." That's 2, with the tweak to avoid "I take 2 steps then rest until full reset". You can't actually do that right now with Infusion, since Infusion has both a duration and MP dep...

Minor point - introducing a new weapon type just for UX improvement sounds really weird. I think you can get pretty much the same effect by replacing basic damage spells by a Magic Dart/Magic Bolt that is uncapped. Personally I think automagic is already fine for the interface if it's changed to an ...

Mu cannot quaff also. I wonder why people try to remove everything they have problems winning, does it make you feel better? I am playing MuVM of Vehumet at the moment, it is unique type of glass cannon. Well, not even cannon, just glass, as I almost died to wyvern zombie and survived just because ...

On reflection, I'm a little worried about crosstraining with Unarmed. At higher skill levels Unarmed becomes much stronger than virtually any weapon, which means mid-to-late-game IJC worshippers will typically want to get rid of their weapons as quickly as possible (and you'll generally want to avo...

IMO Mu should just be removed as a player race. No food makes them even less distinctive. The undead resistances and vulnerabilities are already duplicated in the 2 other undead species. Their other features (potionless, rF-, and bad apts) just make them terrible. And oh they get a necro enhancer, b...

Finally completed a game, albeit with a strong combo (OgBe). I barely even used BiA. As others have said, the game felt like a normal crawl game after a certain point. It's hard to see how this can be fixed though since Abyss exists and theoretically anyone can scum for XP there even if Depths/Vault...

How about the spell that impacts only an attack/spellcasting after cast? E.G. Fiery Infusion (Charm, Level 3) Duration: ~100 turns Effect: After cast this spell, your next X(increased with spellpower, 1~5) attacks deal 30% more fire damage. I think Infusion-style drawback is actually meaningful. Im...

Vamp doesn't do more damage, but it makes it very hard to die. Vamp and antimagic are good defensive brands.

- Some charms only give the buff upon killing (non-popcorn hostiles) with said damage. Ooh, killing hostiles gives a chance to drop power-ups 'Drop' implies you have to move to pick it up. I said 'give', meaning the buff is immediately awarded for achieving the kill with the specific spell. Sorry, ...

Psieye wrote:- Some charms only give the buff upon killing (non-popcorn hostiles) with said damage.

Ooh, killing hostiles gives a chance to drop power-ups

Is there anything wrong with purely strategic spells, in the manner of r/dmsl? I feel like a spell that gave rf+ and rc+ wouldn't be broken as a level 5/6 charms spell (in fact it would probably be underpowered). I can even imagine the strategic question of 'should I train the charms to learn this ...

The problem is that, in your current proposal, these are tied together. That means there are two possibilities: either the player isregularly given many dancing weapons, which is very overpowered even if it does also make full use of the collection and weapon swap mechanics, or dancing weapons are ...

I like some aspects of the revised proposal :) But now I'm going to put my critical hat on :twisted: A weapon collection supported by non-annoying Tukima's seems like a promising concept. But make no mistake, this is pretty strong. Allies in crawl are pretty good generally, dancing weapons are fast ...

PF addressed this issue before: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21177&p=287664 So mostly, it's a desire not to have to differentiate Hep allies by player race. In any case, since this seems to be mostly a flavour issue... It would be possible to change the flavour away fr...

Welcome to the Tavern, OP. For points 1&2, pressing 'i' then the weapon letter tells you the weapon base damage. Unfortunately the connection between base damage and actual damage is not obvious, but generally higher base damage deals more actual damage. The other number you want is the base del...

Has there been any thought about splitting CYC up? Because right now it's half random bullshit, and half ideas that are not fleshed out enough for GDD (and more the former of late). I definitely think there should be a space for the latter as well. Yes Needs someone to take up the baton though :(

Alternative proposal: sandblast and s2s don't use ammo, lower damage/duration to compensate

This rebuttal by J.E. Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment) is worth reading, IMO. http://twofoldsilence.diogenes-lamp.info/2011/01/actually-some-developers-should-read.html The tl;dr is, I guess, "if you care about how your creations are received by actual consumers, you should". It is known t...

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-reasons-creators-should-never.html An old post, but still good. TL;DR summary 1. "anonymity plus audience makes assholes" - people on Tavern will post stuff they won't say in real life (well, hopefully not) 2. signal-to-noise ratio isn't great 3...

I'm fine with making further ammo quantity changes, but it'd be helpful to get some feedback from ranged-primary runs. I think you're overestimating how often ammo mulches in crawl. Stone mulch rate is 1/8 and needle mulch rate is 1/12, so those are equivalent uses to approximately 18.75 stones and...

Turn nets into a scroll. Scroll of hold monster or whatever.

I think many DCSS players don't realize how good our dev situation is compared to many other rougelikes. I was looking at Angband variants the other day, and man it's just a desolate landscape of abandoned forks. The problem IMO is that many forks are one-man operations, and when that one guy tires ...

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