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I would probably play zot defense once in a while if it didn't crash for me much of the time

Well, IIRC orcs also get like 20 ammo or something when you give them a ranged weapon, but that doesn't last long.

In my experience, beogh usually ends up gifting ranged weaponry eventually, and either way them being able to actually use ranged weapons depends on beogh gifting them ammo. So, my priority list is this: 1. 1H polearm* 2. shield 3. ranged weapon 4. anything else * I think it's debatable whether or n...

actionable advice: give all warrior orcs polearms, only train a small amount of orcs at a time, preferably give orcs spears or tridents because they attack faster with them and beogh can gift them shields because those are one-handed

pretty rare for monsters picking up things to make a difference

sometimes it can make them less dangerous, even(because they can pick up slower weapons)

from back in 0.16, on SA: It was nice to get randomly teleported into this rune vault, but... I can't dig or read tele, and more and more monsters keep coming... https://i.gyazo.com/bdf77987179450a8f4555ba33c38f28a.png https://i.gyazo.com/7929a0b514bff59a655f7ddc52baaf33.png https://i.gyazo.com/4105...

Thing #4 is that draconians shouldn't have "surprise conducts" when they mature that take out their colour's advantage. I don't know if TSO was like that with poison, but Dithmenos is like that with red draconians. I was going to mention this as one of the restrictions, because it's by fa...

"resists with a struggle", "resists with an effort", or "just barely resists" would all be an improvement.

amaril wrote:If spirit shield were removed as an amulet, spirit shield + mp regen could be a powerful early passive.

Or if it wasn't removed as an amulet! Trog berserk still exists despite berserk amulet existing.

Sticks to snakes is really good, though. If you don't use it as Tm you're handicapping yourself for no reason

It would certainly make it more fun. I don't see why stat items shouldn't be more valuable for a species with low stats.

The latter would definitely be worse because it would create a breakpoint to hit.

does the ground gives way still have the thing where for a while it's good to use your bare fists to punch things unconscious and then throw a rock at them while they're down to kill them, because fists let you do more 'damage' than weapons for a while because you have two of them but it's non-letha...

Elec is at least as good in terms of damage as flaming/freezing, even on normal speed weapons. It's just that it gets way better than those brands on fast weak weapons. It's never bad.

at the very least +1 and +2 rings are extremely lame and should not exist

FTL is the best Star Trek game despite not actually being Star Trek

My feeling is that gnolls of all kinds are too weak by the time you enter orc, and normal orcs as part of stronger orc bands are a bit dubious. If you enter orc as soon as it shows up the only monsters which are generally dangerous there at all are knights, warlords, high priests, sorcerers(the last...

oh yeah dungeonmans is good

Sil is good as hell

So is Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood, and Tangledeep

It does raise a question about "illuminating" making enemies easier to hit when certain enemies glow or burn, and when light of areas isn't otherwise a gameplay mechanic you have any context for

Perhaps corona should be flavored a bit differently.

Turn-based system is essentially flawed, because we live in continuous and interdependent universe. Why does that mean it's flawed? Games are abstractions. The only good thing about swapping turns is that such system is easily maintained by human. And easily understandable and trackable by humans. ...

Seems like it overlaps a whole lot with transmutation casters, except you only use one form and your aptitudes change. I doubt it would be worth it to split your XP between two different offensive skills to the degree where it would be viable to really play like a dedicated spellcaster and then also...

I don't really understand why disallow stat boosting. Players usually don't wear +str/+dex/+int rings unless they are unrands with other effects, which are rare, and Chei is totally irredeemable without stat boosts. And it's not like Chei would be overpowered with Gnolls with stat boosts, or like yo...

That seems bad.

Most people who play this game kill everything and do not run away from enemies until they are already at like 10% HP

public PSA: lerny cannot see invis

Well, yeah, but just about everything is subjective. I mean, there's plenty of people out there who think singleplayer games should not care about balance at all. Plenty of people who think mountain dwarves or stalkers were the best parts of crawl, or that removal of haste spell ruined the game. Som...

I do not believe that "DD is unfun" is a non-starter, and I don't think time and effort should be spent trying to fix them.

Another way to tackle that issue is to remove them because the gameplay experiment of "what if you were strong but had no regen" just turned out to be really unfun in crawl

Are you saying it's good for a player to want to x->v every ghost and check the relevant morgue, because it's different from what they do normally?

I once got a wanderer start with two books that both had 2 random spells, and they each contained exactly the same spells(beastly appendage, spider form). I wonder what the odds of that happening are.

Was draconian ghost breath fixed? It's been a while since I saw people talk about it and I don't remember.

People wasting one potion petition in one game isn't a major issue that requires a confirmation, IMHO. I agree, but I also think it would be nice the description mentioned that you cannot cancel out of the potion selection menu, which is a very minor change. Speaking for myself, I was expecting to ...

hey btw how has the amulet "vanished from the pages of history" while there remains this information about who it belonged to and how it was notoriously used Do we really know? It seems that all we know about her his her gender. Well, it doesn't say Borgnjor vanished from the pages of his...

hey btw how has the amulet "vanished from the pages of history" while there remains this information about who it belonged to and how it was notoriously used

she should've come up with some more spells if she didn't want her stuff to get forgotten

Unfortunately autoexplore will also butcher corpses automatically if you have that feature on, preventing you from animating them, which means either not autoexploring or not auto butchering if you want to get the most out of animate dead.

Weapons, unlike other items, have extra utility from being on the a and b keys because pressing ' switches to a if you don't have it equipped and to b if you do, but you can start with armor, books, etc. set to a or b as wanderer instead of weapons(so you spend a bit of time at the start of many wan...

Corpses are already on the bottom, the problem is that corpses dropping makes what would otherwise be individual items you could immediately see into stacks that you need to take time to walk over and check. What would be a dagger becomes a dagger *plus something else unknown*, except unlike in the ...

Please at least mention this in the ability's description. As someone who doesn't usually use gozag, seeing the text "Gozag offers you a free set of potion effects!" makes me wanna check what they are, which isn't listed in the abilities list... and then once I press a, I realize I've just...

It makes visually identifying items after a battle much much less annoying, for one, because you don't have to walk over and examine every tile a monster died on and dropped a corpse along with its weapon because it makes it show up as "there's something underneath this weapon" which could...

Presumably it would cost piety. I will note that Beogh already gives fairly cheap smiting which ignores EV and AC just like damnation and is quite powerful with invo training. Not much can stand up to a player who remembers to use powers by the end of lair even discounting that anyhow. What enemy ca...

Makhleb is god of demons. That's exactly why it would make more sense for Mak to grant castable damnation than random conjurations. It's a strongly demon flavored/associated ability, only cast by demons and some worshipper-type enemy casters who also usually summon demons. That also means that this...

It's clunky enough to read in that order that I would prefer it to not be that way.
I can't say I have any problems skimming lists of spells currently.

How is it easier to read? I feel like it takes longer to parse "X Call" than "Summon X". More syllables doesn't mean it takes longer to read, just to say, and "X Call" doesn't naturally connect to the idea of summoning something in my mind. There's an idea created by ye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMODweN8lQ

as far as I'm concerned guy and dude are gender neutral terms, as per the way they were used my entire childhood and highschool

WRT resists, I would rather that they scaled 33%-66%-100% to be more consistent and easily understandable from pip to pip, or 30%-60%-90% if immunity should not be possible.

Aside from that I don't have strong feelings about them. I think they're never required, but that's fine.

I get my information from the learndb because it's usually much more accurate and helpful than the wiki.

In an ideal world all information would be contained in the game and you wouldn't need to look it up anywhere.

Nah, it sucks for any kinda character. I don't want more food. I almost never buy food from normal shops on any kind of character and when I do it's generally just on a random whim because I'm not buying anything else

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