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Xom doesn't like speedrunners and he certainly doesn't like to be entertained as some have suggested, what he likes is that one plays like a normal person and ignores his existence until he acts.
Not that I see any reason one would compare a joke death in D: 1 for laughs to a guy speedrunning.

In practice xom getting bored doesn't change jack tbh.

... on Level 1 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:05:27 (3299 turns)

Because Sp are fast even when slowed and can use the 50% hp.

Since this is the advice section I'd like to mention berserk is even more beneficial to Sp than it is to most other races (and it already is very beneficial to most other races).

The numberic data relevant to a given system may add further detail to what is already known, but they in no way do they constitute the base of the knowledge that is formed by observing said system in its natural environment. For perspective I think it's good to remember we're not actually talking a...

It is when staying alive depends on getting out the crumbling tunnel before the walls cave in on you, and not calculating the exact force with which they'll crush you bloody if you don't.
that's a nice way to get back on track now ain't it

One thing I believe doesn't work with his flavor is that when tied to a god these gold drops are indistinguishable from piety, but then gold as a resource isn't a very well defined thing to begin with.

Indeed that's why when engineers or scientists have to work with π they use the full value only.

Besides DCSS of course. Bit of an assumption there. Anyway there were no "old school" qualities that made games good back then and shit now. Awful games tend to ignore making their core mechanics and the pivotal points of the game actually enjoyable or presume that makeup in other areas w...

(and they will be immediately destroyed by their old neutral buddies)

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yw

Fun is prohibited.

always thought the internet would be a lot better if I could punch people through it

so make your own boots damnit
boots that don't make you bite like some baby vine

Patashu wrote:Another idea: Highlight the tiles that the searing ray will hit if you wait (.)

But the beam's tracer already shows that.
The problem is one has to know what movement preferences monsters in crawl have to actually aim it properly.

Helmet egos tend to do basically nothing, with the exception of Int. Adding another property that does basically nothing for literally every race except mummies doesn't sound great. Cloaks have a pretty good selection in my opinion; if you add supercloaks of +6 AC or +3 AC/EV then that pretty much l...

Well both weapons are going to have ridiculous damage regardless of brand so the brand that adds something other than damage to the table seems like the most interes oh my god are those boots of negative slaying BLASPHEMOUS

Makhleb the Destroyer is a fearsome deity of bloodshed and mortification of the flesh.
Vine Stalkers are not bloodless.

Give me a troll and a few good hours.

There tends to be some benefit to keeping your stealth a bit better than unstealthy but I wouldn't get a lot more unless I had other, more significant reasons.

Well if you didn't kill the unrandlords guarding the pan runes (and got said runes) they can appear during the orbrun and that's about the whole degree of influence you have on the stuff the orb spawns. Well chei aside but I like not counting chei.

k i wont

Monsters already have agony btw. It even has the extra power and everything.
Not sure if rN makes you immune.

AI improved as in when the first hobgoblin spots you he rushes downstairs to call all of the orb guardians

Code:: ### #@# ### There is a staircase leading out of the dungeon here.

And AK/CK/Fo removed.

In practice making speed a factor in spawn rates would not only be pretty arbitrary and weird but also no really achieve much, simply the layout of the dungeon being alterable and the player often being able to afford staying hasted literally since he grabs the orb are big factors; then there's also...

the yoke of moderation keeps us from progress
perhaps this whole democracy experiment should be put an end to

idk I got caught in a net in the nest of spiders and spiders previously wandering in the neighboring area immediately charged at me, hard to assume there's nothing fancy going on there. Anyway, much like enemy blood scent I always liked how it isn't completely spelled for you while remaining visible...

To me spiders nearby noticing you when you get entangled always was about as apparent as shouting monsters waking up things in the neighborhood.

and a great one at that

I don't think it does, there are two readily apparent results from training a weapon skill and those are damage dealt and swinging speed. The swinging speed is literally displayed in the game screen and overall weapon performance is very simply judged by hitting things that are relevant to your dept...

What exactly is bad about telling new players to care about the results their skill investment yields and not the numbers on the skill screen?

Of course when people talk about banishing trj they mean with disto weapons.
Could with vulnerability I guess.

Pretty much anything that annoys you and can be of relative danger up until you hit depths has MR low enough you can banish it just dandy. Vault guards in all kinds are a notable example, but there's more stuff. Obviously earlier than that a ton of things that are annoying and or dangerous can be ba...

Well he has big "intended flavor"-gameplay coherence problems, what flavor he has contradicts itself, his abilities don't convey their cost nor what they actually do very well, his most important ability is like a xom buff button and overall his impact on a character that worships him is r...

It' not really that huge, and as explained in the rest of the omitted post the technicalities of why you deal more damage are as self-evident as they are unimportant and placing unnecessary detail on them only further distracts the player from the important fact "you're dealing more damage"...

3) Weapon skills' primary benefit is reducing the delay on a weapon. This is wrong, the primary benefit is dealing more damage in the same window of time. You'll likely want a sane swinging time regardless of your effective damage if you're not really judging your fights with all the care in the wo...

Normally characters want a number of things that are attainable from skill training. You train a given skill until you have enough of what it provides relative to your depth and then switch to whatever gives you the best returns for your skill buck. So say you're that DEFE and are in D: 3 and just g...

Nothing. You're a deep dwarf so let's not kid ourselves pretending you have any sort of experience constraints keeping you from also getting yourself a well-rounded character even if you do want to lean heavy on the offensive magic side. And having means to kill things without magic removes pretty m...

monsters wish they could just cast dck like that

fucking nerds

say wouldn't you agree defense lines are mostly there just to prevent death?
and if you did then wouldn't that mean hp is a pretty important defense line?

So can I ask why the race with no health is supposed to fill the niche of "ultimate defensive race" at all?

Yes and then the player decides to cross to another island on shoals with seemingly nothing around because hey if the mechanic of swimming in deep water exists I guess he's supposed to use it and krakens harpies and impalers appear when he's, from a perfectly reasonable perspective, just making use ...

it hit him too but you don't see him complain
dragon had to die somehow

That's a load of it, yes you won't hit a lot in melee if you're standing in shallow water and aren't bigger than a human, but that doesn't mean you cannot swing at things, defend yourself with things that aren't melee and use consumables, god abilities and magic to escape the situation should you re...

And you can't waste a turn nor the consumable like that as it has been said before.

yes well let's not go overboard now

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