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I just don't get the idea, how could someone consider the fact, that monster who "senses" invisible isn't affected by blinding and is better at detecting stealth, as being non-obvious. My thoughts were "Oh, that's a hound. It's probably great at detecting things. Oh, it can sense invi...

Somehow, I keep getting the idea, that Crawl players hate flavour and everything related to it.

I wouldn't go as far, as to say that Shields are weak in extended. From my experience, one-handed weapon gives you enough offensive power to fight anything, while wearing a shield improves your defences quite a bit, and also serves as an additional possible slot for an artifact/good brand. Also, as ...

I really like how reaching works right now (well, except for lags). Only thing I ever want to change is to remove "you couldn't reach far enough". Polearms is like a weapon of choice for Spectral Weapon users or summoners. Also, iirc, centaurs tend to move close to you, when attacked with ...

All of them are goddesses.

Ha-ha. Well, it was at least my 500th attempt (with ~450 of them being Demonspawns). I never thought about going for only three runes - all or nothing. Usually nothing.

Imo, Song of Slaying is a very strong spell, the only problem I see with it is the placement in a starter spellbook. I used this spell quite a few times in Hells and Pan and it works wonders. +7 slaying is nothing to sneeze at. I still kinda don't get the point of reworking Skalds. While the Idea wa...

Well, it was tough, by I had extremely lucky start. Thanks to all people on ##crawl for their support, I'm not sure I would manage it without them!

http://kr.dobrazupa.org/morgue/trunk/ep ... 192829.txt

Game doesn't shy to express its hate for you. Hound, centaur and orc pack with priest and mage - all on the same D3.

Klown wrote:Stable release has the Hill Orc.

And that is enough.

And of course it must be an orc.

nicolae wrote:Not all gods like the same kind of stuff to die.

Well, I know that. I mean this particular god there.

I have a question. Is it really necessary to list every type of enemies god appreciate you to kill? Why not shorten it to something like: "Your god likes when stuff dies"?

the question is whether polearms gain enough to endure them They do. Please, don't change anything in a current reaching, it's perfectly fine as it is. I use polearms in 90% of my runs and the only time when I could complain about reaching system was when server lag caused my TAB to randomly waste ...

pubby wrote:This needs a bigger downside so that the decision is interesting. For instance, losing movement speed. Also, I don't know if/how EV is tied to character size, but it really should be for this species.

Increased size is a big downside in most cases.

Dunno about how balanced this idea is, but I sure it's very interesting. I was very amused when I got my hands on gauntlets of cold resistance.

It's somewhat interesting mathematically, but how would you justify a percentage-based creature existing in a fantasy world that at least tries to be convincing?. For example, something along the lines: "Avatars, champions of the Balance. Mysterious beings rumored to protect the Universe's bal...

It could be purely percentage-based specie. One that has 100% HP, deals x% damage with attack, has y% chance to dodge, diminishes incoming attacks with z% AC and so on. Roughly, it'll make giant bat and unseen horror almost equal threats for such character, will remove "popcorn" enemies fr...

There were interesting ideas about free movement action on attack, cumulatively increasing damage against one target and big attack/damage bonus when you initiate fight (step to enemy first). Those three can affect fighting style pretty much.

Well, that was a part of larger suggestion - to make mutations much more game-changing. It meant to be one of numerous ways Demonspawns could evolve. But I agree it'll not fit too good on current Demonspawn.

I suggested this before. I think antennae doesn't fit very well into "monstrous" facet too. I also think it might be interesting to rebalance Monstrous to prohibit all armor entirely, but to compensate it with wings, tail, scales and teeth. I also think, that talons could be buffed, but no...

You do understand, that their original name was "Dwants", don't you?

PS I'll wait patiently for Lava Orcs being renamed into anything other than Orcs. Even Lava Smurfs will do better.

+50 str is approximately 200% more damage. Like from 10 to 30. Taken from formulas? Maybe I went overboard with that, but it's still way to little for a Berserk's penalty. What about instead of becoming large, its something like "your body is warped with muscles. -3 dex, +5 strength, can use 2...

As it now, your character will become weaker when he hits "Monstrous" state. Larger size means you'll get an EV penalty (and probably armor choice penalty too), Berserker's restrictions without actual berserk are awful and STR gain won't make it better even if it'll be something like +50. ...

I wonder, when someone will suggest dwarfin' elf?

As far as I can see it now, this crystal please-anything-but-dwarf will pick Chei and then just TAB everything. I mean, "twice as slow" Chei piety gain with a slow character is "helluva fast".
Too OP, RIOT fix it plz.

Don't want to create a whole new topic for a small suggestion, so I'll post it here: What about lowering level when demonspawns guarantied to get all their mutations just a tiny tiny bit? A little, to level 6 for example. Or 7. Or 20. Or at least 23, 'cause I hate not getting any mutations for 5+ le...

2) can be redundant if you already have a branded bow/longbow/crossbow 3) changing the quiver takes time (both game time and player time), making playing ranged character more boring then it should be. 2) Isn't brand effects stack? I died plenty of times to flaming poison arrows. 3) IIRC it doesn't...

So, if I had all my characters dead somewhere near Lair and than successfully done a full-run for the first time, this spell will be totally useless. Seems like a bad idea to me. It'll also make too much difference in webtile and client versions of game.

And of course it must be a dwarf.

Well, this one seems to be more interesting, than other semi-Nemelexes. Very interesting idea IMO.

What about removing chances completely and make spell choose the summon by spellpower only? Or chances could stay, but be reworked to something like this: power cap 200 while power is between 0 and 66 chance to get a hound = 1 - 1.5*power chance to get a wolf = 1.5*power while power is between 66 an...

Klown wrote:Frostmourne hungers.

Yep, make it a sword and name it Frostmourne. It'll be 20% cooler this way.

IMO you are suggesting one more Nemelex Xobeh but now with wands. I mean, at the moment Nemelex is our Evocation god. Yes, he's card themed, but no one has this much profit from training Evo, as followers of Xobeh. Also, the way of getting piety you are suggesting is very similar too. And for what I...

dpeg Actually, I was going to ask to go further and allowing Shining One switch at Elyvilon's max piety but without keeping any of it. Like she puts a good word for you, and SO agrees to test you out (thus piety loss), allowing you to worship him usual way and finally wield Holy Wrath weapon yourse...

dpeg wrote:The acolyte of Elyvilon

I'm so begging you to allow Demonspawns to worship Elyvilon after completing this quest. So much flavour.

3rd person action, please! And dramatic player's ghosts appearance!

This is more like flavour proposal because I don't sure if it wouldn't break game balance, but I got this idea from a message about briefly glowing hands, displayed by mentioned scrolls. What if reading scrolls of Enchant Weapon will give character Claws mutation? For example, one level of this muta...

For example, there is various "eye" monsters. Or ghost moths.

Autofight uses the r key to center the cursor when firing or reaching. If some of the keys sent (such as the preceding f or v) somehow get lost, this would lead to trying to read a scroll, corresponding to one of the inventory letters hjkl (the vi keys used for moving the cursor to the target). So ...

You probably hit the '`' button, which repeats your previous command, rather than the tab button. nope It is completely impossible for autofight to do anything like that. It only moves you toward enemies or attacks them in melee. wheals's explanation looks plausible to me. Impossible or not, it did...

I've got a problem in CLAN 0.13 webtiles version - sometimes, when I use auto-fight, my character instead of simple attacking foes tries to reed scrolls and use them on enemies. Bad thing, he usually does it successfully. Worst thing, the scroll usually is Blink Scroll. I wasted 3 BS this way, used ...

Make the short wait command wait 10 aut, but have it in increments of 1 aut rather than 10 aut. If something interesting happens during that time, interrupt waiting. I will define “something interesting” as follows: (a) a monster comes into view , or (b) a monster moves into melee range, or (c) som...

That's patently false. Read it again. Oh my god! You just opened my eyes! There is almost no limits for my gratitude! It's almost like saving the world! There is a cake on your shelf - take it, you deserve it! a monster moves into melee range This is what I'm talking about. Movement control is main...

galehar wrote:Having 2 different wait commands with a slight difference would be terrible. If you read the proposal carefully (especially the interrupt conditions) you'll see that there is no need to keep a standard 10 aut wait.

I have read it. The problem is that it doesn't considers anything other than melee.

Here is a more polished proposal that would address the OP's concerns. I like that proposal. Though I would prefer developers not to change of current wait command but to add a new command, that waits until any event on screen (moving, hitting, farting - anything) or even waits for an aut. The reas...

dck wrote:How can you not remember trolls.

With trolls you need to "C"hop as often as "Tab". And they tend to die much earlier with such advanced tactics.

But it's new so it must be nerfed! Well, Gargoyle Fighter was my first character, that get up to Shoals rune just by hitting "O" and "Tab". Died in Spider Nest due to too much of "O" and "Tab" on Orb spiders. Except them, the only specie I remember, that pwne...

There is automatic mode for flavor purposes, you know.

Reading Noise could have some effects, like causing minor torment-like damage due to the sound , possibly killing bats in the process. ftfy Expanding idea of waking whole level, scroll could produce sound for a few turns, dragging every monster on a level like Mark effect, but not to player - to th...

I don't see any reason why wielding a shield should be forced for skill training. There were quite a lot of intentional steps in the direction of simplifying training system while allowing more control over it, like the removal of victory dancing, the introduction of manual training, the removal of ...

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