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Unfortunately, I'm not much of an admin -- I was mostly given admin status so somebody would be able to keep the lights on, so to speak, and most of that page is stuff I'm not familiar with. Where would I go to find the wiki directories if I'm not the one who set it up?

I'm one of the admins for the wiki (the only active one at the moment) and we're having issues with nobody being able to log in. Anytime anybody tries, we get an error message that reads: There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against sessi...

Old post is old, but anyways... Heck yeah I listen to music! That's actually one of the perks of Dungeon Crawl, is that there's no sound to get in the way of other stuff. Most of what I listen to is video game-related (either soundtracks or remixes). I've worked on a bunch of mixtapes while sending ...

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I just downloaded 0.21 and noticed that the numpad keys seem to have been changed so they move you to the nearest wall instead of moving you one space like they have for forever. Is there somewhere I can change that back to moving one space at a time? I'd like to be able to move precisely, not be co...

Yeah, I love that vault!

Does anybody know what that vault is called in the game?

People have already bandied about ideas for both a tongue attack and a devour move, but I've heard the devs ultimately decided against making them. I still think they'd be cool to have, though.

Just wanted to pop in and say I'm really enjoying this god. I like using Troll Monks for it in particular (partially because it's a hilarious and somewhat terrifying mental image), thought I should probably try some other races to see how different playstyles affect things.

Do monsters take more damage from Slouch when your movement speed is reduced from effects like Ozocubu's Armor or Statue Form?

Give the player the ability to sacrifice any 'mastered' skill (any skill that trained up to the current skill cap) to increase the skill cap for all remaining skills by 2 Oooh. I like that idea. It'd be interesting to play a Cyno of Ru, since you'd have to decide between sacrificing skills for piet...

Having scythes in the game is kinda neat, but I will admit that I have never found one that I've been able to make use of. If they get removed, I suppose I'll just have to deal with it. Sigmund and reapers could always show up with halberds or something.

An escape hatch seems like an easy fix for that particular vault, though it might not be applicable for others. As it is, you'd have to either miscalculate your remaining resources fairly severely to get stranded there or just get screwed over by a shaft or an escape hatch or something (which is not...

I enjoy the current system of mutations -- some games I'll play mutation roulette, but other games I'll try to stay unmutated. Sure, some of the bad mutations are really nasty, but that's what makes it fun for me (and really what makes Roguelikes in general fun for me) -- you never know what kind of...

Probably because they're not proper nouns. You're not looking at *the* Stone Giant, you're looking at *a* stone giant. Meanwhile, Uniques (who are... well, unique) do start with capital letters, because there's only one Sigmund or Erolcha or Serpent of Hell or what have you.

I'm for shortening Pan and/or Hell but keeping them both available. I just recently got all four hell runes in one game, and I kinda want to try doing a 15-rune run at some point. Even if that takes me another six years or so to pull off, I'd want to have the option available. I'm not sure how much ...

Like Quazifuji said, purple is generally reserved for stuff with potential drawbacks, like scrolls of torment or potions of mutation or lignification. I could kinda see making random effects purple, but the wand of flame? In any case, you can always manually exclude wands of flame/randomness from yo...

I've been trying a FrIE and been having decent amounts of fun with it; haven't made it to the Lair yet (got to D:9 before my connection farted out and decided to post my thoughts thus far). EDIT: Died stupidly almost immediately after I started the run back up because I hopped toward a two-headed og...

^Exactly. I have enough problems with hoarding stuff -- I don't need to be carrying around a stack of stones to get things' attention with when throwing literally anything else at them will accomplish just what I want it to do. Pretty much the only time I'll ever use stones is if I'm actually using ...

I've thrown random items at wandering monsters in order to get their attention without shouting and potentially waking other stuff up. Obviously, I'll get their attention with an actual attack if I have one that reaches far enough, but sometimes all I've got is melee.

Just tried running a DrTm of Wudzu -- died in Lair:1 to a hydra that kept dodging my Ice Form attacks (I picked hands and feet for my slot sacrifices). I had fun with this -- having all your bramble abilities along with transformations (even Bat Form -- forgot I'd switched Blade Hands to a different...

I'd say it makes sense to have sources of SH that don't come from a physical shield (Qazlal, bony plates, amulets, etc.) stick around even if you're incapacitated, but I'll also understand if the devs don't feel that adding in fiddly little bits of code is worth the special-casing; it seems Dungeon ...

I like potions of mutation -- quaff-IDing one during the early game can add an element of surprise to a character ("I got fire breath and bony plates? Sweet!" or "Oh, great, I got shouting and teleportitis. Now what am I going to do?"). Later on, potions of mutation serve as a re...

I always use all staircases anyways, just to make sure I can autotravel to previous areas most efficiently. I'll also generally use "up" escape hatches unless there's something particularly nasty that I wanted to skip past on a floor (which there hardly ever is, since I regularly fling mys...

I've considered using Irradiate on a Transmuter to begin branching into Conjurations ('cause sometimes you don't find a Conjurations spellbook for a long time). Of course, I've never actually put that into practice, seeing as how hard Irradiate can be to find...

This would be nice.

I often hang onto Sting or Magic Dart after it stops being useful so I can use it to plink random monsters wandering by without necessarily alerting all their friends.

My experience with this is that it usually happens with less intelligent creatures. Smarter things like orcs I think tend to step around whatever's blocking their path.

I like player ghosts. It's neat (and sometimes kinda terrifying) to run into dead versions of your previous characters, though granted most of my experience is with local games, so I haven't seen many ghosts generated by other people on servers. The draconian drain-breath spam is kinda much, but at ...

Pretty sure it's only freezing-branded attacks (i.e. melee attacks) and freezing clouds and maybe Ozocubu's Refrigeration that slow down cold-blooded creatures. Just dealing cold damage isn't enough - it has to be one of those methods.

ajon wrote:No natural healing/regen - only heal like DD do

Ooh, that could be interesting (and terrifying)!

Seems to me like that action fits Xom perfectly. He's supposed to be a jerk who messes with you. But it's annoying when it's just an inventory and interface screw and not tele roulette or something. Again, that sounds right up Xom's alley, but I've never really tried playing a chaos knight. What ex...

That could be nice. Sometimes I want to look back and see which stat I got at a level up in the middle of a pitched battle or something.

Seems to me like that action fits Xom perfectly. He's supposed to be a jerk who messes with you.

Kismet wrote:I think the move in Crawl flavouring has been to de-gender stuff as much as possible. No reason why reality should interfere with that agenda.

De-gendering the gods is definitely a thing, but all the uniques still have genders, which would include Pyriformis if s/he ever got included in the game.

I'd use a -Tele artifact if there was enough other good stuff on it (like lots of resistances or evokable abilities -- those nifty boots mentioned earlier are something I'd wear). Of course, having other escape methods (like high movement speed or Passage of Golubria) would help in case of emergenci...

Did they remove the XP for clearing a fungal colony?

I like the idea of a stasis field monster spell a la Silence. (I'd also like a player version, if only so I could get those freaking crimson imps to HOLD STILL DAMMIT, but that's besides the point). We could also give him Dimension Anchor, if people think a stasis field is OP. As for the sex of Pyri...

I always figured the Abyssal stuff being non-living was because they're eldritch things from beyond time and space, so their biology isn't even recognizable as such.

But yeah, I'd say it makes sense to allow PArrow to affect demons/holy monsters.

I have to admit, I never use Sticks to Snakes. Apparently it's useful (?), but summoning stuff has never been my preferred playstyle, so I'd much rather just walk up and punch things than spend time footling around with arrows. As for Sandblast, I don't mind it as much; it's a low-level Earth Magic ...

jejorda2 wrote:Wow, i had no idea you could ever cast conjure flame on a tree. I thought it was for empty spaces only.

It is for empty spaces. The fire would occasionally spread to nearby trees, IIRC.

...vulnerability to Holy/Silver damage... Silver vulnerability makes sense, but why would they be weak to holy? They're not evil or unholy, just chaotic. Yeah, def not based on tension. Something more like how Trog checks if you are still fighting while in berserk and prolongs it. Doesn't Trog exte...

I could go for purple hellfire if people feel it needs further changing and it wouldn't look similar to any other effects. What color is IMB, again?

I don't think I've ever had this problem, though I guess I wouldn't be opposed to some sort of message when you're attacking with something you have no skill in. It'd probably have to be a one-time thing (kinda like when you try to hit something with a ranged weapon), or else it'll get really annoyi...

KoboldLord wrote:...poison has just as many or more good level 7+ spells than almost all of the other magic skills.

Um. What?
I don't think Poison magic has *any* spells above level 6. I think Poison Arrow is basically the best it gets (which isn't bad, but it's not going to help you kill demons or undead).

Spines are more useful against cold-resistant foes, at least. How much damage do each of the the mutations do?

I actually take most escape hatches up and quite a few down, just so I know I'll have the shortest possible route when autotraveling. Of course, I'll avoid taking escape hatches when there's something dangerous on the level I'm going to, like a unique or a rune vault. (I learned that lesson after I ...

Ooh, nice! That'll simplify things for me (since I usually bind a lot of my inventory to specific slots).

It's not all a penalty, though. You're still weakening the bone dragon considerably by lowering their AC (though I'm not sure that really works if we raise their EV at the same time. Not that we necessarily *have* to raise their EV -- how good is a "falling-apart-skeletal-remains-monster" ...

I do not like what happened to Beogh in trunk. You can only give items to each follower once over the game. If unarmed, unarmored orc joins you and promotes to Warlord you can give him a weapon or armor, but not both. And once you give him that armor you can not upgrade it in the future. If you cou...

Could you have two decks, one for offense and one for defense? Or would that be too overpowered?

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