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Been done in Bcadren for months (just added directly to library instead of the silliness).

I've proposed this sort of thing before. The usual arguments against are (1) too complicated, (2) not all effects that are good on enemies would be good on players; while others would be extremely niche (only good in one branch, etc.) or very overpowered (3) giving the player a lot of monster spells...

Werewolves come across here every now and then and I thought I'd do a take as a "god of beasts" which grants the worshiper "the blood of the beast". Mechanically the actual wolf form would be much like a Transmutation that uses Invocations instead of Transmutations, but this is ...

Oil Spray - Level 4 - Hexes/Poison/Conj - You spray out a cone of slippery sticky oil that gets everywhere. Does (small, spellpower-dependent) direct damage on contact with enemies and can blind and/or confuse enemies who don't have rPois. Additionally all corporeal enemies (Not ghosts, Ooze, etc.) ...

Statue Troll in Extended and no LRD or Shatter? Well, with 16 INT Shatter would not be much fun. Yea fair point. I have two statue troll wins (one offline, one on) the Online one was 46 Int from a combo of all choice points in the Int and a lot of +Int Artefacts (I could afford it because of Alchem...

Statue Troll in Extended and no LRD or Shatter?

If you want to talk about useless bolt spells, what about bolt of venom? On VM starts it's just not worth the extra investment after OTR. OTR is great crowd control, especially if you find Ignite Poison. Can clear out non-poison resistant things quickly Orcs, Elves, Spiders, Humans (Vaults Guards), ...

Seriously was the spawn rate of these things quadrupled recently? the hell...

No it makes sense. Demonspawn and Demigods switch names and no other changes. Demonspawn aren't allowed to worship gods because of their demonic ancestry (all gods hate them, instead of being too uppity to choose a god like the current Demigod flavor); but their demonic ancestry gives them fantastic...

Quick fix. Switch Demonspawn and Demigod's names...no other changes.

Level 28, Mystic. Rural Player and one of the higher level ones around here (hold some gyms for weeks)

Ability to Haste yourself on tap was indeed too powerful; but the beam-targeted version of haste was unique as the only charms spell that can be used to buff Summons and permanent allies and that niche is worth keeping filled.

That way players know they are stupid jokes of weapons that should only be used by (Cock)goblins.

[I do think this kind of thing could be fun and unique, might be a bit too risky to use.] Mox - Xom Spelled Backwards, Also in Alphabetical Order. Theme is that all effects are much more controlled and predictable and resistances are removed both from you and your opponents. Similar to Xom, no activ...

Tasonir it's really good in Tomb too, versus any summoner really, but it shines in tomb because of all the summoners (when the summons are first spawned they are all right next to the summoner, so you can hit that one monster a fuckton of times), better chance of one-hitting Greater Mummies than eve...

I've used both before and think they are fine, if a bit boring. Useful for low STR casters and/or Ru characters that sacced Durability anyways. I had an old suggestion to make the Salamander Hide a normal armour type instead of an unrand (since Salamanders are a real semi-common enemy now); increase...

I don't tend to agree with Minmay much, but objectively, depending on character it's generally Shock Serpents (mostly because of their "death curse" effect), anacondas (fast constriction) and/or sharp shooters I'm most worried about. I've even previously said that snake is more like Shoals...

redrafted, mostly just took out nagas and the poison interaction with a few other tweaks.

Brainstorm thought I had, basically. Not going to call it concrete at all, but Pakellas as the general god of "stored magic". Active Powers: ⋅ Prepare Spell - Piety, PermaMP (Temp) - You cast a spell ahead of time; costing twice the spell level in Piety and docking 1.5x the MP c...

As it currently is, if you don't have SInv and you pacify an invisible thing, even autoexplore can cause Penance due to bumping into the invisible thing and accidentally attacking them. It's awkward, but it's not hard to fix.

I've done new tomb without any real problems relatively early (4th rune). My tips: Use LRD to avoid the W:2 Ambush. Upon reaching W:3 make a fuckton of noise (Fire Storm, Gong, Noisy Weapon, Scroll of Noise) and fight until you start to get overwhelmed...then tele out...all the shit will be concentr...

I'd kinda agree with the post. Marking Blowgun kobolds more obviously would be pretty great. That said...This is basically Sonja, and you know that, but it's cool.

Not a concrete idea, brainstorming; also building off of someone else's older idea and one of my own (other gods that allow worship from few races that start with B, showing up instead of Beogh in Overview for those races)) with new notes from how fun the poison cloud breath mutation is. Baldroco: ...

I suggested this exact thing a long while back, it was turned down because (1) player ensnare would either be too powerful or very similar to having extra throwing nets. (2) Player Clinging would be too complicated. This proposal doesn't use (2), but (1) still stands and I think I agree with that re...

I'm not stuck on using Goblin, the core idea is a race that's core gimmick is great at learning everything (High Apts), but otherwise pitifully weak in many ways; but get extra god help to deal with this. I just used a weak enemy name as a placeholder. Weirdness/Mutations ⋅ No MR - You h...

I've been playing Bu Spellcasters, They have some serious food issues due to the spellcasting cap. Could we give them Gourmand or Carnivore (like the similarly flavoured Kobolds); this is for balance reasons this time, permafood as a hard ceiling preventing using spells higher than level 5 is a bit ...

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Yea, you're right.

I'm not making them completely immune to their own silence, because no scrolls is part of the balance here (it's meant to compliment Mu, which has the weakest of no potions). Gargoyle of the Undead? ...do what? Tengu of the Undead a little, but Gargoyle? It has very low STR and completely sucks at a...

I keep redrafting this and not making it, but I swear I will make it this time. Silent Spectre (Player Race) Short Description: Frail noncorporeal apparitions who live in an eternal aura of silence, with partial immunity to their unnatural quiet. Weirdness/Mutations: Undead. You are an undead spirit...

We were talking about the tactical idea of a super slow race that can't move while enemies are in LoS (same as Wandering Mushrooms) in the IRC channel...so I made a rough draft.

Arbolians

serious question: is there any situation in which you want to wear a ring of stealth (generic) over some other ring in your inventory? I can't think of many plausible scenarios. i think both stealth and loudness rings should be removed. I wore a ring of loudness long term as a Felid of Ashenzari on...

It has too many stones and not enough soup.

*rimshot*

This is a good and serious and plausible proposal. This but unironically. You know I pretty much agree, the multiple potions mostly only stand to take multiple turns to drink in a serious serious situation...and, you know, that one of them is useless to some characters (Might for "pure" c...

This is a redraft, in which I re-balance some of the old ideas in this concept. Stats: Starting Base Stats: Str 3 Int 8 Dex 12 Gains 1 Dex every 4 levels. Apts: SS: Fighting: -2*, Short: -1, Long: -2, Axes: -2, Maces: -2, Polearms: -2, Staves: -1, Slings: -1, Bows: -1, Xbows: -2, Throw: -2*, Armour...

This has been proposed and turned down so many times...it's usually called a "Slime Knight" and usually has the same stats as "Abyssal Knights" to start, so I applaud the unique name and unique start stats. BUT, I'm fairly sure "Jiyva Background" has been turned down en...

This is probably pointless...who would have the full set who isn't multi-zigging?

Not a complete idea at all, just a brainstorm of themed powers around amnesia. Instead of being for a particular clear purpose, it's just unrelated themed powers that could be used together (like Fedhas). ⋅ Sudden Onset Amnesia - Active Power - Causes target monster to forget some of its ...

Yay a buff to felids! (who would be using forms at like 3-6 STR).

...I was halfway through a game on it.

Haste (Spell) Removal hinged pretty heavily on it being a "no-brainer" that virtually every character wants; this in effect is only true when significantly into extended, when casting a level 6 spell in medium/heavy armour is fairly cheap. Diverting heavy experience into charms to be able ...

Sounds like a decently interesting and unique spell...unlike other level 5-6 targeted conjurations (Bolt of Fire, Bolt of Cold, Bolt of Draining, Bolt of Magma, Lightning Bolt and Bolt of Venom).

Papyrus, what's your favorite food?

Variations on a theme: Ring of the Colossus: STR +8, DEX -5, HP+15, immunity to constriction, you can throw large rocks Ring of the Spider: DEX +8, STR -5, you can shoot webs at the cost of breath (range: 4) Ring of the Conjuror: INT +8, HP -15, MP regen+++ This is much more reasonable than the ori...

I like the idea of a pacifist god, because it would be an interesting/unique challenge to just avoid shit completely...like that one guy that won at level 10 and didn't kill anything past snake: 2....(one of the games that Demonblade documented)...a god designed to make that a reasonable, rather tha...

Second, balance is not a big deal for proposals, but this god is staggeringly weak. You give up all non-Summoning spells and the ability to help your summons in melee (since you lose piety by doing so) in favor of almost nothing, since XP reduction is nigh-unto meaningless, abjuration hardly ever h...

Removing the temple is on the won't do, for some reason...(I know that list is from like 0.7, but it's worth pointing out).

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... ng:wont_do

I don't think MODERN Ely is that good. Pre-reform Ely was broken/borderline broken (back with lesser healing other was free), current Ely...times I've tried to use it, I found that Piety Gain was too slow to make good use of it.

and into wrote:Within walking distance of my house there is a...

Church, 2 cemeteries, 3 neighbors. A treefarm and a cattle ranch. I'm kinda rural.

However, I do agree that Crawl hands out too many consumables. The thing is that if you remove all consumables, then you also remove the decision of when to use them. When you have them, but they're more rare, then the game is harder while still having those choices. (Perhaps my own playing skill i...

Sprucery wrote:It would be interesting to see how many of those characters killed by pearl dragons were undead.

I had a felid death to one...had extra lives to fall back on thankfully though. 3 AC, stuck in cloud, constant cloud damage. AHHH...(it was a frail conjurer felid, not a transmuter felid).

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