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⋅ Banishers could trigger a (toggle-able) warning when they enter LOS, just like distortion weapons do -- "[Foo] comes into view. It has the power to cast you into the chaotic realm of the Abyss." ⋅ The first time a character enters Abyss, it could trigger a longer mes...

Good write-up of your character's demise, Zargon. There might have been better armor available, but that's not what really killed this character. A berserk enemy is an emergency. I've lost more characters in Zot to berserk from moths of wrath (berserk orb guardians are ridiculous, berserk draconian ...

I play pretty mixed. Probably more than 50 percent of my dudes (but not a ton more than 50 percent) wear the heaviest armor they can find and are only starting to get spells online just before the Vaults (unless Trog), so I went with the first option. In large part that's just because melee is more ...

Why not just have the moderators like, use the imperative when speaking? The problem isn't that their posts on the rules are vague or difficult to find, it's that their posts on the rules are nonexistant and inconsistent. I don't see how adding some special colour-coding will help with this shit. &...

I realize my post was in GDD, while duvessa's was in CYC, however I wasn't under the impression that the rules of conduct were different in the two forums, but rather that the GDD forum has a much stricter standard of relevance. It's not that I think duvessa's snarking shouldn't be allowed, or mine...

I'd say time dilation would be a level 9 spell (being more powerful than disjunction) except for the wrathlike consequences. Having it be level 8 with consequences might be better considering level 9 is a lot of investment for a spell that isn't primary damage. The same approach might work for Null...

Pardon the double post, but it is also worth mentioning (or, rather, emphasizing) that there are multiple moderators and we do have different sensibilities and styles. Even in cases where the moderation is fair, it might be "uneven," in the sense that some set of problematic posts get deal...

Well I responded to the reports mentioned in the OP, and I did so before checking this thread, if that matters to anyone. Facts as I see them: 3. The moderation dynamic that protects this speech can only be accounted for by social relationships, not any concept of fair play or objective assessment o...

I'm hoping that a lot of the code is already there and you could re-purpose god-wrath, but I don't know how the code is organized so maybe not. I mean even if it was, it would still be a project, but I think the spell (and the paradox effects) could be lots of fun. I mean how else are you going to e...

level 8 tloc Time Dilation Your mastery of translocational energies allows you to hem and clip the fabric of space-time. For a very brief window of auts (relative to an outside observer), your actions take no time at all relative to enemies on the same floor, which is as far as the singularity exten...

Really as far as boring jewelry goes, ring of sustain abilities has to take the cake.

I quite like stealth rings already, however, more to the point, I don't think increasing their effect would actually make them more appealing to those who do not find them appealing already.

Edit. As suggested I am adding here that I fight 200% HP monsters. I suspect this is why you are having food (and probably other) problems. Thrice-tougher fights means a lot more running around and a more resting after fights—there are much fewer "popcorn" enemies—and during all those tur...

I have created a new patch implementing Siegurt's proposal. All god healing including Trog/Ely/Ru has been removed. Sandman's latest suggestion is not included for now. All god healing is now removed, active and passive. This includes Ely, TSO, Makh, Jiyva, Ru and Trog. The other god abilities and ...

I used the ability up to 8 times in a 3 rune game. This looks like a fun game, but you basically used Lacertillian's ability to easily swap gods plus transfer knowledge to start as a berserker and then switch to doing a bunch of spell casting later on. That's a very niche case involving a (currentl...

[lengthy, overwritten post about keeping things civil]

Great idea. Because the needle still has to hit before the roll that concerns the displayed percentage, we should be deliberate with the wording.

"XX% upon hit" should be clear enough, and still very concise, I think.

Ah ok, that makes sense. As usual, fsim is not very helpful when it isn't used correctly (pretty sure I didn't generate a eudemon blade of holy wrath , specifically). :oops: Do note the one good thing in the fsim I ran, which is that Hell Sentinel is a good enemy to test out, as it is the worst matc...

That's more than enough slaying to make the quick blade the best weapon this character is going to get.

With only 10 slaying, a +9 eudemon blade only slightly outshines an unbranded +9 quick blade against a hell sentinel (25 AC). It is the difference between 12.8 vs. 12.1 AED.

Abyssal knight is fun. As you find heavier armors, wear the armor that gives the best AC, at least in the early going. Start off training your weapon (polearms probably the best for MiAK), but I like to pause the weapon training and put all my experience into invocations once I am at ** but feel tha...

I am pretty sure the fact that there isn't a species with +2 UC apt has nothing to do with balance concerns. +2 UC apt would not be overpowered, and in fact a species with +2 UC and no claws would be much worse for UC than either ghouls or trolls. Basically, as I see it, the species that like UC hav...

I like it, and I do think most of the DD and vampire attributes would work way better if retooled as a god. I agree with some up-thread posters that device recharging seems out of place. One idea: The god would be more widely applicable, and also differentiated from the vampiric brand, if instead of...

Or are we expected to learn from deaths this late in the game? Yes! I guess you are right. Otherwise we would have some early unique with unknown spells. I like the idea of an early-ish unique generating with random lower level spells, or something. Maybe this could be a way to make Jessica more in...

This came up in a DCA thread: I still have no idea if ALich can paralyze player, for example. It says something like "You resist with almost no effort" but it can be slow/confuse/paralysis/banishment etc. I would suggest that the game displays the name of the effect you just resisted. Some...

Well, but hunger costs and miscasts aren't similar enough in how they effect your character. Hunger puts the breaks on casting spells successfully, miscasts puts the breaks on trying to cast spells with a low failure rate too often. Unless we added a very small amount of glow for successful spellca...

Since you have such good HP, I train fighting earlier/higher than on most species. Otherwise the strategy and tactics that apply for pretty much any species also apply for Og/Tr, however you may have to be more scrupulous about good tactics during early game for Og, and post-Lair for both Og and Tr ...

Yeah, especially with that ring, I would have gone ice dragon armor. Rather than saving up gold and blowing all of it on a randart that has a pretty good chance of sucking badly. And I say this as a player who often gambles on antique randarts even when it probably isn't a good idea.

I think it is well worth trying. A few points: * How will spriggans fit into this (and to a lesser extent, high hunger species like Troll and Centaur)? Hunger management is definitely a distinguishing factor in playing a Spriggan caster currently. Are there ways to maintain their distinctness? This...

This is possibly a radical proposal (maybe?) but I think the game would be improved by it. While it probably makes things less likely, I think that removing hunger from spell casting could be the occasion for a few serious changes. 1.) Casting spells does not incur any hunger cost. 2.) Even "mi...

Whenever I feel that the Tavern is full of reactionaries upset by the smallest changes, I read the comments to the development live blog updates, and I feel better about the community here.

A different suggestion: The staff of energy simply boosts MP regen rate passively while you wield it. This can be connected to evocations training, or not. In any case, it shouldn't have any hunger cost. Benefits: No need to hit vvvvvvvvv, cuts out one hidden evocations formula that might (arguably)...

Also, the slightly rarer cases where you kill the adder, and the poison brings you down to 1 health and keeps you there as you five it off, only for a hobgoblin to come round the corner and kill you with a thrown stone, would be basically just as annoying.

Unless you guaranteed hits after some specific break point (which I think would be problematic for other reasons), the same thing the OP describes can happen to enemies with much lower EV. I agree that the EV display might be misleading for certain enemies, though. Perhaps the ------ +++++++ system ...

But the fundamental idea is that hostile enchantments can put you in dangerous positions even on a high-level minotaur with 30 AC and 20 EV and 200+ HP, and this is definitely a good feature in the game. The question is, exactly which types of hostile enchantments are appropriate, and where, and I ...

I think channeling can be changed so as to require no hunger, but instead cause (or have a chance to cause) a small amount of glow. But first, the amount of glow you have and when it becomes dangerous should be better communicated—I think that's a good idea in general, separate from any changes to c...

My thoughts are: - You can't go very wrong by taking "obvious" choices. In the end it seems that you might be just several points below optimal AC/EV. - You want to use an armour with encumbrance lower or equal to your strength even if you do not train dodging. - If your armour is very he...

Berder wrote:A 90 foot pine tree fell on my house a couple years ago.

In all seriousness, tho: Was everyone ok? That sounds insane.

The evidence is mounting. I might have to change my opinions on aggressive deforestation techniques.

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Sandman25 wrote:Yes, we know. Hence CYC

I'm 99% sure I didn't post this thread to CYC.

Yes, it was posted to GDD. I didn't post a note about the move because I figured you had meant to post in CYC—my bad.

Anyway:

Mod note: Moved to CYC.

Well, it's cool if you are interested in a more detailed description of how treerex personally approached the matter, but it isn't like there is a mystery here, is all I'm saying. Kobolds and Felids (as of whenever that change was made) can use wands, like all other characters. They can buff with co...

In the year 2000....

Octopodes will be renamed "Mountain Dwarves," with no other changes, just to troll.

Sandman25 wrote:How did you deal with spiny frogs/mambas as KoBe or FeTm of Nem?

Really?

You can evoke ratskin and, for a period of time, noxious clouds will be generated randomly in tiles adjacent to you. Frequency of the clouds, how long the clouds last, duration of the cloud-generation period, and the chance to induce confusion can all scale up with evocations (perhaps should poison ...

Yeah if you are in statue form most of the time then the alchie hat is probably not majorly hurting you, but even with high AC, five more AC is nothing to sneeze at, particularly five AC that doesn't time out or that you don't sometimes forget to cast. The hat isn't helping as much as it might seem ...

That troll's got some crazy stuff. For this character, if there is a +1 or +2 hat available somewhere, I would be wearing that over the hat of the alchemist, honestly. You'll actually get someone better returns on some more levels of spell casting, since it is so low-level (low levels are cheap) com...

If i understand it correctly dragon form melds all your equipment other than rings & amulets, while statue let's you keep all items as an octopode, rings & amulets, hat, buckler(if u use one(?)), which means more resistances. Also, doesn't dragon form take away a lot of your EV because you ...

I can only really speak to the TV series, but Dany seems pretty competent, and truly invested in ending the slave trade (as she quite deliberately chose to delay her birthright quest to make sure that's happened). She's made plenty of mistakes and been naive in lots of ways, of course, but given the...

Maybe I'm misremembering from Season 1—it has been a while, forgive me—but weren't there majorly strong suggestions of rape/abuse at the hands of her brother? (I seem to recall a particular scene in which D's brother raped her, but maybe it was just implied. He was super creepy and abusive though, s...

Dany is leading a slave revolt. One that she hopes will catapult her into power across the sea, true. But at this point she has shown that she truly abhors slavery and wants to eliminate it, and is willing to delay, and even jeopardize, her longer term plans and her personal interests in order to do...

Also, when someone says "X is really easy" and then says "I never actually do X" then it's pretty reasonable to say "How can you claim it's easy if you never do it?" That is fine, and it isn't what I am objecting to. Posting player stats as a refutation to advice or op...

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