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It fits with Chei stopping only the Haste part of Berserk, but Chei's the god of time, not the god of movement. Chei doesn't give you penance for training weapon skills or more Slouch damage for wielding a scythe, and he gives less piety for killing nagas than humans even though they have the same ...

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4) Bend Time is the ability I don't care for personally. Not saying it's bad or anything, just that something stronger/cooler could take it's spot. Plus the ** piety has no new abilities, perfect for a stronger ability. Bend time is overwhelmingly the strongest Chei ability. Being able to reliably ...

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In fact it is very easy for autoexplore to take you directly into a flame cloud in this vault.

implies that Swamp, Snake, Shoals, Spider are in the same category as D14-D22. Well that's because they are . Hopefully if the rune lock stays then d:14-22 will be made a lot harder; currently I'd never want to continue playing after getting the rune, for the same reason I wouldn't care to do Lair ...

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On the topic of melee, while playing FE/EE I usually stick with staves that enhance my magic skills and end up putting lots of points into Staves and Dodging. Is 15 or 20 enough for end game? I mostly play gargoyles these days. There's actually an easy way to find exactly how much you should train ...

FE: Flame tongue most things until you get sticky flame, using throw flame if you need longer range and conjure flame to hold monsters back or kill mindless ones outright. Once you get sticky flame kill just about everything with that. Get fireball because you will still want to kill things at range...

My opposition to Gr is that the species is redundant with tengu, or at least, redundant with what tengu is trying to be. Both have good defenses but poor HP (yes, one is focused more on AC and one on EV, but that really doesn't change the principle very much) and their aptitude sets are nearly indis...

I suspect that if there is a developer response to this, it will be to disable teleporting on vaults:5

_i - 2 scrolls labeled FUK DA SAC Welcome to Fag Cum's Jewellery Boutique! What would you like to do? <magistern> Y - the ring "Cock" {MUT rN+ Str+1} q - the amulet of Fuck {+Rage rF- rN+ Str+2 SInv} bh the Sinner (L17 HODK), worshipper of Yredelemnul, blasted by an Ice Fiend (bolt of col...

If a mutation is considered bad then it should just be put in the "bad mutation" category instead of being a special case for the potion.

It's like having a dual-core processor and twice as much RAM. The giant spiked club daemon is really demanding and a standard ogre can't run two at once without having to use stomach swap space (which is impractically slow).

The staff is also probably slower.

There is no way to put this gently. When a quote ends up in badforum or badsa or badreddit or badwiki it's because it made someone think "haha what an idiot." If a quote stays there, it's because it's made several other people think that, too.

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I won't comment on anything else here, but asymmetrical LOS actually is a horrible idea. It encourages watching beam animations to determine where monsters are.

Are you sure about DDDK(Drain life is not enough) The wand makes it trivial to get to a Makhleb altar and Yred wrath is only bad if you are a mummy (confusion). In fact Yred abilities are good enough to go a pretty long time without using the wand at all, if you want. DDCK The wand makes it trivial...

Oh, another thing: while DD is considered easy mode, this is of course only true with the appropriate combo. You can play more challenging DDs and I think that's fine. There is ONE background (AK) for which DD is not either the strongest species or extremely close. "You can play more challengi...

DD should start without the wand or any potions IMO. Also, DD shouldn't exist. But at the very least it shouldn't start with items that make the overwhelmingly most important part of the game completely trivial.

Sandman25 wrote:My melee characters start having problems after Lair when Yaktaurs/Cyclops appear.

If you're having trouble with a speed 7 monster then chei might actually be the problem...

Wahaha wrote:Not using autoexplore is optimal (hunger cost, piety decay, better positioning) and sometimes tedious. Therefore we should remove the benefits of not using using autoexplore.

This is absolutely true.

Oops I tested it with the scroll, that was stupid of me

The "halls rune" has nothing to do with the real argument which is all spellbook backgrounds are great because they start with guaranteed spellbooks and on top of that the books are crazy good. I don't see what you mean that magic users are reliant on exp but other guys aren't. Melee and ...

Cutting two of Fi/Gl/As, or at least one, has come up pretty frequently. I support it. Ds, Dg and Dr Well Dr really is basically just "human but stronger" so it seems pretty reasonable to get rid of it. Of course, unlike with Fi/Gl, I doubt the current devteam ever would. But Naga have fla...

You get a margin of like 5 aut at most and if your last action took more than 10 aut then you may not get any action at all. So what you are proposing is to give the player a chance of instantly dying every time they fly over water/lava in ANY branch (since all of them can generate wand-using monst...

What if we made new fixedart wands, 1 recharge scroll per charge, with vulnerability/antimagic/dispelling/whatever, fire storm, and other powerful effects? Well, none of those are nearly as good as one charge of healing/hasting most of the time, let alone the several that you get from one rechargin...

Turns out that the game became much easier over the years What are you basing this claim on? (Just asking out of curiosity, I don't expect to be able to change your opinion or anything.) I love the constant posts that go "Well, I did the rune-lock and, while it was difficult and presented some...

Dispelling bolts don't cancel flight immediately, do vuln scrolls? You get a margin of like 5 aut at most and if your last action took more than 10 aut then you may not get any action at all. So what you are proposing is to give the player a chance of instantly dying every time they fly over water/...

no stupid you won because of the moon troll leather armour

It absorbs matter from the air and makes poison out of that. Try wielding a venom weapon in a vacuum, it won't drip.

Alternatively you can just prohibit monsters from grabbing items from the floor. If some monster/item combinations are fun you can just let these monsters spawn with respective items. I like the fact that even "popcorn" enemies can sometimes become dangerous if they pick up the right (err...

Mangling (I think it's called "squelching" in Angband jargon) is dubious. While the issue is real, I am not sure an additional command is a good solution. Sar's idea has a lot of potential. I guess the reason why this was never championed is realism: feels strange to see an intelligent mo...

Well yeah, why the fuck would I give the coke machine 20 bucks if a drink only costs $1.50?

There are already over 10 monster books with animate dead, can't you just use one of those monsters? If you know them offhand as you apparently purport, why not list them or suggest one of them as an animal themed monster to use in lair? Unborn, deep dwarf death knight, lich, ancient lich, vampire ...

There are already over 10 monster books with animate dead, can't you just use one of those monsters?

My experience with new vaults is that it feels the same as the main dungeon; same monsters, similar layouts. (Vault wardens etc are harmless if you are paying any attention at all so they may as well not exist imo). Of course this is still a big improvement over old vaults because old vaults exclusi...

Statues can never be stabbed. This is unique to them.

skjarl wrote:I guess if they are physically stronger it might make sense. F=ma after all. But based purely on HD? Seems like a poor mechanic. Base it on physical strength and skill like it is with the character imo.

Monsters have neither strength nor skills.

dck pulled that out of his ass. Almost every monster in the game uses HD to determine its missile damage. Only monsters with the "master archer" flag (deep elf master archers, merfolk javelineers, and, uh, statues) also get their damage added to ranged attacks. The base damage of ammunitio...

Clearing Zot:5 is so universally considered a crazy stupid thing to do that it's often used as a joke in IRC, like wielding a bread ration in front of Mara or abandoning Trog for Chei. If you genuinely think apporting the orb to the stairs is a good idea then there's a serious problem with your appr...

Usually when you cast animate skeleton on a corpse, you have chunks in inventory as a result. But when this spell is being cast in lich form all the chunks are on the ground. Perhaps auto-pickup doesn't recognize them as a worthy item. This situation forces character to spend one extra turn to pick...

I got this: Platinum's ghost stares at you. You feel cold. It is HOSk ghost. What does "You feel cold" mean? Is it "Cantrip"? But I cannot find it in wiki This is just a misleading speech line, it does nothing whatsoever. Unlike a cantrip, it doesn't take any time for the monste...

Could we get a Wordpress post for this change? It seems worthy.

They are weighted towards elemental skills you have, just not really by very much: static int _vehumet_weighting(spell_type spell) { int bias = 100 + elemental_preference(spell, 10); bias = min(max(bias, 10), 190); return bias; } int elemental_preference(spell_type spell, int scale) { skill_set skil...

I believe apportation works on the Orb of Zot because it is an item.

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