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If the color changed on every XL+ (and at every XL+ equiv when you're at XL27), it seems like it would encourage strategic but not super scummy play.

To my thinking, the simplest solution is to mark the now-empty square with a 1 turn duration "track" mark anytime a monster leaves sight.

Yeah, the problem is not that demigod makes no sense (strong dudes bashing things or being clever, rivals of the gods and not supplicants), it's that demigod as flavor is a bit of a mishmash of known/unknown: there's no high fantasy demigod archetype to refer to and specific examples or thoughts on ...

The Guardians are a powerful species of servile humanoids, tasked since their creation with safeguarding the treasures and wonders of other races. In the dungeon, they have are in the thrall of the Orb of Zot, and worship it to the exclusion of all else. They will use every means at their disposal ...

The Guardians are a powerful species of servile humanoids, tasked since their creation with safeguarding the treasures and wonders of other races. In the dungeon, they have are in the thrall of the Orb of Zot, and worship it to the exclusion of all else. They will use every means at their disposal ...

They could be renegade Orb Guardians who were exiled from the dungeon because they tried to steal the orb rather than defend it. Now they are trying to get back to the realm of Zot to complete the theft. I actually think this is kind of genius for flavor. They worship only the orb. They get stronge...

Anyone else want to weigh in?

Pariah might work well. The concept could be changed to something like: The Pariahs are an ancient race descended from the blessed cultists who followed divine Buorv the Mountainous. After committing a crime of chaos, Buorv was erased from reality by the other lords of order. As energy cannot be de...

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"_The hobgolin moves out of view."
Player stares

The creature was in view and moved out, but from what square?

Can we get a simple gold x or something to mark the space they occupied?

It's fun to try to find the precise meaning of fluff that would justify "big stats, no god". To me there appear to be three categories of possible fluff: Artificial Beings Disinterested/Ignorant Divinely punished/shielded Artificial Beings Golem / Flesh Golem Automata Idol Guardian Disinte...

How about: Cretin

After careful meditation on flavor, fluff and rebranding: rename Demigod to Innocent.

{Mod Note: Split off from GDD. This thread is for discussing other names for Demigod.}

Good post.

Is there dev opposition to renaming the current Demigod to Golem? Or at least to bikeshedding (in CYC?) the name for a race of diety-less constructs which won't generate the current set of Dg threads?

What if it confused/briefly disoriented/1 turn stunned enemies right next to you, at the cost of attracting enemies from farther away? That's the question, yes. I think and into has a good point about scroll of fear overlap, but it just felt like an opportunity to add an escape option with an inter...

Barring breaking mesmerize, scroll of noise is almost all downside. How about adding a chance of stunning/confusing/deafening/silencing living and demonic creatures currently within 1-2 tiles of the player? This would allow SoN to be an unreliable escape of last resort that would simultaneously make...

The name itself causes the confusion. I already made my case in the bikeshedding thread: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=13053

Everything I've put in this thread is liable to change when I actually make it. Basically though, I'm trying to go with three subthemes here. Corrosion, drowning, freedom of movement. I wonder if using corroded weapons/armour could be some kind of conduct. Probably be infringing on Ash's space thou...

Your latest list 0 Move and pick up in deep water * Anti-escape aura that grows with piety, Active pull-in power ** AoE corrosion damage *** Temp drowning brand on attacks, drowning kills can spawn friendly drowned souls **** Invoked status gives @ speed, EV, allows swapping places with enemies ****...

All these DG ideas to have more to do with the DEMIGOD flavor than with the godless conduct / HP+MP+Skills growth curve that define the race.

The primary problem with Demigods is that the racial flavor is weird and would benefit from a reskinning.

I think 'hellwrath', while a bit of a heady word, is appropriate. The Brimstone Fiend calls upon the endless wrath of Hell! I support the removal of the word "fire" from the non-fire-based "hellfire". As opposed to "torment", just plain "wrath" might work too...

reaver wrote:I'd probably push a patch if somebody made it and posted it on mantis, this seems like a good idea.

How would you handle something like a Fo in treeform during a Sprint?

GameType > Racial Mutation > Mutation > God? > Formchange > Status > Equipment ?

bisonbisonbison: The idea is more that gaining true power invariably requires sacrifice, and this god teaches you the secrets to streamline that process and get to power quickly -- you don't make the sacrifices to [foo], and [foo] doesn't care whether you make them or not. [foo] is more of a guide ...

I'm all for flavor, but I'm a little stuck on "the impersonal force of balance in the universe appreciates sacrifice so much that your loss of potions and a ring slot will help you blow shit up." I'm thinking more along: sacrifice, unleashing of energy, pulling back the veil. "Of all ...

I'd go with Rue.

Just Rue or Rueblahblah, but I think rue as regret just about sums up the functioning of this god.

I would rather see cursed items apply temporary mutations, where "cursed" just determines whether an item is bound to you or not.

The Broad Axe "Mumsy": +6,+4, rF+, Blurry Vision.

The Cloak of Gum: +1, rElec, Shoutitus

Monthbumping. Any updates on this? Would love to see it in trunk since we're doing godmonth anyhow.

it'd be less cognitive overhead if I could set the target number on the skill screen itself, and get a "MORE" prompt in the main game when said skill reached that point. Just add this to your rc-file: force_more_message += increases to You'll get a -more- whenever a skill reaches a new le...

This is a suggested addition to the interface of the skills menu. When I'm adjusting my skill focuses, I often have in mind goal numbers that, when reached, would necessitate another visit to the menu: "I'll focus M&F until 16," "I'll focus dodging until 22," etc. Running ove...

If you're looking at game starts, it's because of start-scumming / quitting if you don't like the first mutation set. It actually isn't: <ackack> !lg * recent !boring s=crace <Sequell> 530209 games for * (recent !boring): 53417x Demonspawn, 39165x Gargoyle, 39036x Minotaur, 34425x Deep Elf, 27133x ...

ackack wrote:
Klown wrote:according to a few agree'ers here agreeing it's subhuman apts are sluggishly boring

It's tough to explain why Ds is the most popular online race by a mile if this is the case.

If you're looking at game starts, it's because of start-scumming / quitting if you don't like the first mutation set.

I would just like to bikeshed: "Qazlal Stormbringer" is stronger than "Qazlal the Stormbringer" MOD EDIT: This thread will be for discussion of possible names for the god sgrunt is workshoping in this thread: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11773 If you ha...

Ucetis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucuetis

Would reforge work best as passive, progressive, permanent damage to opponent weapons? Like every attack has an X% chance of -1 to enemy weapon acc or dmg?

galehar wrote:yes it is

What if point of reference was not Map center but Minimap center? That is known.

For wrath ideas: afflicting player with temporary shoutitis?

Clearly "Dither". By the way, the simplest implementation of Shadowport I can think of is to make it akin to the current implementation of jump attack - from within a certain distance of the monster (perhaps piety-dependent), it moves you adjacent to that monster, making no noise of its o...

How about rSpells?

When spells are cast on me, I resist them. When magic fire hits me, I am effed.

Otherwise, my vote's for rHexes

"Hex resistance" would actually have clarified things a lot for me. Part of my brain still thinks "Magic resistance" would at least offer damage shaving against all schools. Also, for partial values on these many-point scales: ----- =---- +---- +=--- and so on With + green, = yel...

Here's a vote for changing destructive effects to statuses, giving total protection in inventory / chance of destruction on use.

"Your frozen fingers drop the potion. It shatters on the ground."
"The flames enveloping you ignite the scroll. It disintegrates in your hands."

galehar wrote:oh right, sorry
still, some sort of stepdown, I'll look into something more specific later.

Any function would probably apply well to all three cases (exit, down, rune), with downstairs the shortest to fire.

Slowly increasing the exit spawn chance based on explored tiles would help without introducing any ugly cap or breakpoint. Do you have a formula in mind? This sounds like a great idea. I was thinking of applying some sort of stepdown to ABYSSAL_RUNE_MAX_ROLL. But I calculated the chance of generati...

So:

AS-IS: Instant elemental damage + Variable DoT
DET-DOT: Instant elemental damage + Predictable DoT
STATUS: Instant elemental damage + equivalent of Catoblepas calcifying attacks?

I calculated the numbers for abyss exit appearances: Leve1 Odds Median 1st exit 90th percentile 95th 99th 1 1/7500 after ~5200 tiles ~17000 tiles ~22k ~35k 2 1/6250 ~4300 ~14000 ~19k ~29k 3 1/5000 ~3500 ~11500 ~15k ~23k 4 1/3750 ~2600 ~8700 ~11k ~17k 5 1/2500 ~1700 ~5700 ~7.5k ~11.5k I don't know ho...

Has anyone calculated the median time for exit portals appearing on A:1-5?

I'm just curious if there's any status update on this species getting a broader release?

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