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If damage varies insignificantly by weapon type why are there so many types of weapons? You coul really prune things down and the only thing you would lose would be the illusion of choice.

One of the design goals of crawl is to obfuscate information to prevent this sort of analysis. You are meant to make decisions through intuition rather than reasoning.

I don't know if I agree on you 100%. It seems to me that OPs proposal is long not because it is complicated but because it is extremely detailed. You could probably summarize the idea in a few sentences. Actually to quote jabberwock: "The core of the concept is a static virtual deck, and the ab...

I really like this idea. Granted I'm a new player, just got my first 3 rune win with a Gargoyle Fighter of Okawaru. Nemelex seems pretty complicated to me and I've always avoided using him because of this. A more simplified structure (such as this one) while still keeping the gambling feel seems pre...

You wanna know the crazy part... I've never seen this 'hellraiser' movie. I just found this weird puzzle box in the attic. I can't quite seem to figure out how it opens. I'll let you know when I get it.

Here's an idea for an item that would probably be more malicious than beneficial, but could open up the door to some tactical decision making. The item is a cursed puzzle box - by solving and opening this accursed item (simply by pressing the 'v' key) you will be whisked off to the abyss to be tortu...

Instead of slowing your speed when walking with slow allies you could keep your original speed, but sometimes wait, as in spend a turn resting instead of moving, to let them catch up.

What if curses were only removed when you pick up a rune and got more dangerous the more you have

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Why not have them last for an unlimited duration until you switch weapons? Or if you want to be weird have the necromancy brand also curse your weapon when you cast it.

many mechanics in crawl are complex and poorly communicated.

What about the name Stalker Vine? Vine Stalker sounds like someone who stalks vines rather than a vine which stalks.

A more radical idea would be giving the player a full heal and MP after resting 20 turns or so, but no regeneration otherwise. However, this would break a lot of things so consider it only as food for thought.

I'll have to try these. They seem quite helpful!

Wouldn't this let you pop around a corner any full heal in one turn?

IMO resting is annoying because it is interrupted by filling mp... then getting hungry... then HP is full and you're ready to go. It takes a lot of fives.

A calculator and the wiki open: that's the real way to crawl

What if it completely stopped regen but dealt no damage.

I think I've actually thought of a solution for this whole issue. Just update the wiki to say that fighting increases your max HP by about 2.2% per skill level. This should allow people who want to know the rough effect of the skill to find this information without having to jump through the obvious...

I understand that you want to have complete information about everything that has or could happen, but the difference in outcomes between the "optimized" version where you look through every number and calculate every advantage and squeeze the most statistical benefit out of every point o...

There are also people who, lacking good arguments, insult the person they were speaking to. I just want to say that I do enjoy crawl, and I appreciate all of the work the devteam does for it, despite slightly disagreeing with some of the design philosophy that informs the mechanics.

If you think you need to know these equations (hint: you don't), then you'd better be prepared to deal with complex integer arithmetic. DCSS calculates everything important using integers -- "2.2" isn't a thing. First you say you don't need a spreadsheet to do the math, its a linear 2.2% ...

((XP level × Fighting) / 8) x Species Modifier has to be the most complicated way of saying 2.2% per skill level ever. No wonder people have such a hard time judging the effect, even after looking at the wiki. I understand that flooding players with numbers can lead to confusion, but obfuscating the...

Why not have fighting give you a 2% boost to max HP per skill level. It could say this in the description. Then everyone would know exactly what it does and the formula is easy enough that you wouldn't need an excel sheet to get to the bottom of it. The description could also say "and at your c...

Yeah I guess its all right, I pretty much forgot about the attack bonuses.

I think one of the problems with the black box mentality is that it is difficult to make an informed decision if you cannot judge the effect that your choices make.

Currently the fighting skill mainly adds hit points. Why not rename it toughness or something similar to reduce new player confusion?

What if this were a whip ability? It would be clear which monsters could disarm, wouldn't be too common, and makes flavor sense. Also it wouldn't make sense if it activated with much frequency, because it could obviously become annoying if it happened too often, but I think it would be interesting i...

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Re: Display player damage

Re: Gauranteed Damage Reduction Documentation

Re: Proposal - New Nemelex

Re: Proposal - New Nemelex

Re: Cursed Puzzle Box Item

Cursed Puzzle Box Item

Re: Walking at the pace of your minions shouldn't screw you

Re: Mummy Death Curse Rework

Re: Blink Other Close/Reverse Force Lance

Re: Removal of low level branding spells.

Re: Things in Crawl that are confusing

Re: Vine Stalkers.

Re: Healing from resting

Re: Christmas present for dpeg

Re: Christmas present for dpeg

Re: Make hexes show failure chance

Re: Poison effect

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Re: Rename Fighting

Re: Detailed description for Fighting skill

Rename Fighting

Re: Disarm