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Yeah biggest mistake was blinking to stairs, because that caused the poor Palentonga to get surrounded. At that point it was game over.
Should have quaffed invisibility and started blasting enslavement wand at nearest cob instead, as Nebu suggested.
Hopefully will remember this next time!

Thanks for the ideas. Seems like they don't see invisible, which i forgot. I considered tremorstones, but HP was already around 20% at that point and was afraid of blasts. Also couple strategic mistakes: i should probably have trained tloc instead of necro, which would have allowed blinking around w...

Got shafted from Zot:3 to 4, but no problem, did read ?mapping and was close to upstairs. There was a single draconian at sight and HP was full or close. Started walking towards the stairs, but surprise! There was 5 death cobs in the staircase room. Blinked to stairs and hoped not all of them would ...

bel wrote:That's too complicated. And what if I don't want to take either spell on offer? It's rather strange to make a god gift worse than nothing. Even Ru allows one to reject all sacrifices.

Good point, there should be 3 options
A) Memorize spell X
B) Memorize spell Y
C) Reject gifts

What about this: Vehumet gifts you two spells instead of one, but you have to choose which one to take. They appear as reclaim gift abilities, so you can check which books you have available. The timer to receive next gift does not start until you have reclaimed previous one. Optionally the algorith...

If the uplifted wall will disappear after X auts, it's not too OP.
Deprecate: Using air magic, flying, weapons of elec and air evocables instead of digging (Cellus prefers that you keep your feet on the ground).
+Passive AC boost to balance the loss.

Because the aptitides aren't a main point of this species, i recommend more flat aptitudes (removing the -1 and +1 here and there). +1 Fighting +1 Short Blades +1 Long Blades +1 Axes +1 Maces +1 Polearms +1 Staves +1 Unarmed Combat -1 Bows -1 Crossbows -1 Slings -1 Throwing 0 Armour +2 Dodging 0 Shi...

Ogres can hold adagger with thumb and index finger like a needle and poke enemies with it, it makes sense

Dwarves, elves and orcs are exploited way too much, people start to be sick of them.
Minotaurs aren't very original either, but at least they're not part of the usual cliche trio.

Worth the wait!
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13027

Hellmonk wrote:1. It is a deliberate parody of Judaism and Christianity.

Religions definitely deserve to be laughed at.
Forum feature request: Negative thanks.

Beogh. Recall followers. Conjure flame. Throw chunks into flames. Enjoy the barbecue with your orc pals. Have a good time and drink some potions.

Congrats for succeeding with non-standard Octopode

SPC gives all spell schools 1/4 boost compared to that school. XP put to spellcasting should be at least XP put to spell schools / 4, otherwise it would have been cheaper to train SPC instead. You trained exactly 4 spell schools, so this is easy: You should have trained SPC to at least same level as...

My first Beogh win, i was surprised how effective followers are. Based on other peoples posts and my Yred experiences, i was expecting them to die a lot. What they did of course, but less than expected. But i was able to maintain a bunch of at least 4-5 warlords through most of the post-lair game, w...

Idea was to only partially compensate for loss of scrolls, mostly for the strategic ones (and no compensation for tactical scrolls).

Here's my suggestion for a blind species. The idea is to have severe drawbacks, but also powerful abilities to cover them up. Flavor is something that lives deep underground and thus has evolved to be almost blind. Extremely bad vision - Unable to read scrolls or books. Unable to study magic or begi...

Well the cost could be X MP per turn, instead of one.

I'd say it should always be on without degradation after casting (until toggled off or MP runs out), but consume 1 MP per turn in addition to casting cost.
That would make it more powerful and more costy, meaning you would cast it only when needed.

IMHO haste spell is fine otherwise, but it should really be at least level 7 spell.

IMHO favored spells will make Veh more boring, not less. It will be optimal to choose the spell(s) you spam most, and spam it even more. I support the idea of having more than one spell available for memorizing. It would not be a huge buff to even have all gifts permanently available (because Veh do...

Of recent games, I've enjoyed Dark Souls series, XCOM: Enemy Unkown, Wasteland 2, Divinity: Original Sin.
DOS especially was a nice surpise. I wasn't expecting much, but the turn-based combat is fun, mostly because of elemental interactions.

I haven't tried, but i assume slow and/or gravitas should combo nicely with inner flame.

This is slightly off-topic, but one nice thing about GDA is that it gives you two extra inventory slots compared to rF plate, or three extra slots compared to CPA (because you don't have to carry resistance rings). So you could carry an extra evocable items instead, for example. Also you don't have...

This is slightly off-topic, but one nice thing about GDA is that it gives you two extra inventory slots compared to rF plate, or three extra slots compared to CPA (because you don't have to carry resistance rings). So you could carry an extra evocable items instead, for example. Also you don't have ...

IMHO there's definitely more than enough dragon armours in the game at the moment, we don't need another one for just flavor reasons. CPA is a nice diversion from that, it would be sad to see it being re-flavored as "just another dragon armour". I don't mind if iron dragon armour was added...

First i'd like to thank the devs for these recently added options: rest_wait_both = false If rest_wait_both is set to true then resting will only stop when both HP and MP are fully restored, not when either one of them is restored. rest_wait_percent = 100 When resting, if your HP or MP is below this...

Since poison magic doesn't have enough high level and irresistible damage doing spells, i suggest that following revamp is done: - Rename poison magic as poisson magic, and re-flavour it as magic of fish, with a slight side flavour of baguettes, wine, harmonicas and unreliable vehicles. Also, all sp...

Lajatang of speed.

Outside artifacts, I'd vote for lajatang of speed mentioned in the first reply. Speed is the best general purpose brand (because it's not affected by resistances), and lajatang is highest base damage weapon you can get with speed brand, so it will work even vs high AC targets. It's usable by any spe...

Based on the feedback i see problems in my original proposal. What about a much simpler change: Increase time required to travel stairs by 10 auts (1 turn) or more. Time required for monsters could be same, or shorter (to amplify the effect). This would keep mechanics as now, but make stairdancing m...

The percentages are rough, they could and should be fine-tuned like all the other details to make it work.

Stairdancing is way too powerful: You can almost always retreat upstairs (possible several times) and then go down another staircase to control which enemies you have to fight. I believe everyone does this, and it's especially powerful during normal 3-rune games. So I propose following nerf to stair...

Looks like i have the same problem.
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/hannobal.html
http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/hannobal/

xentronium wrote:
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A - the amulet of Ogimumoz (around neck) {Clar +Inv rF++ rC+ Slay+3}

Now that's a nice amulet

the +14 crystal plate armour "Neill" (worn) {rC+ Str+2 SInv}
(You took it off a deep elf high priest on level 3 of the Elven Halls)

My MiDk was very happy to have cleared Elf:3.

Disclaimer: Despite this suggestion, I still blame only my stupidity for this particular death. I recall seeing a thread earlier about removing drowning, there the idea was to make it like shallow water, but just worse. For example twice the penalties of shallow water for small/medium creatures and ...

Yes more thinking and less action next time... As a positive side, it's good people find it worth remembering

You may wonder how a character with boots of flying can drown. Especially if the character is standing on solid ground. Well that's exactly what happened... I'm sort of embarrassed. http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/hannobal/morgue-hannobal-20160309-151340.txt Wear which item? (? for menu, Esc to...

I don't have much problem with D:1 deaths - at that point you have invested only couple of minutes to the game, if you die, it's not a big investment you lose.
Just start another character.

General ranged-vs-melee discussion seems to to have been split to another topic:
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19067

kuniqs wrote:Evocables recharging faster lategame is 'cause you're killing lots of stuff fast at high levels. Attribute loss has the same problem, ziggurat raiders for example recover attributes almost instantly.

So it's fixed amount of XP?
Feels like about 10k.

Elemental evocables: they recharge based on XP gained, that is clear to me. But is this fixed amount of XP or based on player level? Is the recharge time same for lamp/vial/stone? What is the exact amount of XP? And does evo skill have any effect on recharge times like with rods? I've noticed that t...

By the way my motivation for this proposal was that if you worship ammo-gifting god and have trained throwing and carry a blowgun, you will be gifted: Javelins of: Penetration Poison Returning Silver Steel Needles of: Poison Sleeping Slowing Confusion Paralysis Frenzy Curare Tomahawks of: Dispersal ...

I'd like two new options, autoexplore_hp_limit and autoexplore_mp_limit - both would accept percentage from 0 to 100. If HP/MP would be below limit while autoexplore key is hit, autoexplore would rest until limit is reached and then autoexplore (if resting is not interrupted). Default could be 0 (=c...

Remove steel ammunition - it's just slightly better plain ammunition that takes an inventory slot.
This will be slight throwing/xbows nerf, but just a very slight and thus doesn't require any balancing actions.

Feature-request: autowait_clouds = true/false option, which would change autowait (5) behavior so that it will wait for clouds from spells to disappear. Why? With freezing cloud, player is often blocked by clouds they have created. Then player has to wait with "." turn by turn for clouds t...

Hahaha Mole People sounds great

Why flavor it as a dwarf?
I'd like to see something less of a standard fantasy gliche just for flavor reasons (no elves, dwarves, orcs, etc).
Something more along the lines of a vine stalker.

I like the mechanics and concept though!

Shift-tab doesn't work in webtiles with most browsers. But yeah you can assign that macro to some other key.

I also agree shafts are fun and i'd miss them if they were removed. Getting shafted is usually not that bad if you have scroll of magic mapping (so you can find staircase up fast). Also, sometimes you can use them to your tactical advantage if you discover them without falling. You can lure monsters...

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