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edit: nevermind gray blends with the explored too much

B-b-b-but all those characters have way too high investment on spellcasting so they can't really be counted
I mean, with 12 spellcasting you use so much less food than with 5 it's just blatantly skewed.

Berder wrote: It's also bad to arbitrariliy penalize magic-centered characters, who are more interesting and diverse than simple melee bashers.

>It's also bad to arbitrarily penalize characters that blast through the game with overpowered ranged combat and solid escape options than simple melee bashers.

And here i was under the impression that magic is balanced around foodcost of the spells but hurr durr i can't speedrun blasting lvl 6 spells with 5 levels in spellcasting so MORE PERMAFOOD PLZ

However, I still think that the behavior I propose is better in a great majority of situations. If a player is advanced enough to grasp these fine details, he won't have a problem with deactivating auto pickup for that particular turn. In the rest of situations, the usability is improved, in my opi...

Give them Confusing Touch

Just remove Deep dwarves from Tournament play or something, but removing them from the whole game would just be idiotic; They are a unique race, and many people actually enjoy playing them as they are. (+ they are a gateway to many first wins/learning the game)

Mummies are OP anyways. Good to see some monsters make them less so.

Sounds extremely cool, and I'd love to see it added.

Goodplayers would probably always avoid it, but i don't see it as a problem since most uniques are that way anyways.

The joining fee is completely pointless and largely detrimental - it's perfectly realistic to run into a situation where you plan to join Gozag all along only to find out you can't. At best Gozag gives you a shot at getting additional bling for your atheist-ish character . That's pretty much it. So...

I would sometimes pick this armor just to make spider far less annoying, even if i lost some ac doing so.

Throwing (with maybe the exception of large rocks) isn't overpowered, and neither is shields. (especially on small species, which this change would affect dramatically) You would nerf both of them by a lot, with your reasoning being flavor? Also, it would just be another interface screw, and i doubt...

Seconded.

what if they started with an amulet of clarity?

Fortress, portals, randomly on the ground, etc. What I have in mind for a "fortress" branch would be something like four floors of bailey and gnoll-castle-ish layouts with a moat/cavern area around it, monsters a mix of what you expect in orcish mines and baileys, with stairs down going i...

mps wrote: Remove orc, make elf a dungeon branch.

But where does one get a plate and $ then

each lair branch should have a chance of spawning as a Abyssified/(or&)cryptified version of itself. like 1/4 or so of the tiles and monsters would be from those places, with the monster strength being adjusted accordingly so it isn't impossible to clear them. (no tier 1 demons for example) Eldr...

I like the idea of Monk being able to start with a low tier starting weapon. Seems like a good way to balance some of the Zealot background removals and it favours all temple gods equally unlike those backgrounds. Should be probably renamed to Priest though Priest implies that you're trying to spre...

Make mushrooms not able to Go up/down stairs.

Fast swapping is needed because one pip of resistance can cut damage by 50%. If it weren't possible to swap to your ring of fire when you see a fire giant, it would instead be optimal to retreat back to the stairs, go up, then swap to your ring of fire, then come back down to fight it. Talk about t...

Just make Swapping take 10 auts for all items.
It's boring, tedious, and yet optimal.
I have yet to come across a good reason why 1aut swapping should exist.

Torment doesn't exist, why is this a problem?
Shitton of things are unbalanced in the post-game, and trading most of you ac + other stuff for rTorment is a very interesting tradeoff (though most characters would never use it)

I don't see the overlap between these 2 backgrounds at all. Only thing they have in common is that they have a way to deal ranged damage, and both the damage type and the way they deal it is different. I Play my assassins as stealth stabbers that use their needles as a panic button/use them on tough...

xentronium wrote:
Sandman25 wrote:No, berserkitis is not fun for me, it leads to unavoidable deaths.

And teleportitis doesn't?

Less so than berserkitis, imo. I've had many characters survive with a cursed tele ring on for many floors; It still allows you to run away from fights.

mechanicalmaniac wrote: That's a lot of equipment juggling..

Yeah no.
What would be a lot of equipment juggling, is if it worked like normal amulets.

Should there only be one catholic church? Having two altars near each other clearly shows that this god has a strong following in the area, and enough supporters to require two churches. Which is why any god altar besides Jiyva in lair makes me laugh - this god is very popular with the frogs! But g...

Sleep/para needle assassin would be the same thing - those needles are extremely rare, at present, and unless that was changed, focusing on stealth/throwing to be a needle-based stabbing character would be a very bad idea. (But, again, one that's implied to be a good idea by assassin's starting ski...

jejorda2 wrote:Cloak of flash should randomly emit a flash of light that wakes up everything in LOS and has a chance to blind everything that was already awake.

yeah let's add more stuff that can instakill you based on randomness.

how about a new property, *slow (though it's probably a positive one)
works like torpor snails slow, on you and everything in your los.
or could be evoked for the effect on everything in your los.
can't be blocked by stasis, and the slow lingers after removing the artefact.

Sheep should stay just because of that Xom vault.

Komodo dragons have no reason to exist now that their gimmick has been removed.

More stuff = more choices = more fun. For spells I'll set aside the "learning cost". Assuming that some spells are better-designed than others, then with a fixed spellbook generation rate and fixed average book size adding more spells makes it less likely to get those well-designed spells...

duvessa wrote:
Sandman25 wrote:I don't think we should limit number of gimmicks. 60 good gimmicks is better than 20 good gimmicks.
I don't agree with this. Do you think Crawl would be better if it had, say, 100 more spells, even if they were as good as the existing ones?

I very much think so.
More stuff = more choices = more fun.

I think that abyss already has it's fill of gimmicky monsters, without even counting the fact that every monster can generate there (except pan and hell stuff i guess)
Having to examine every abomination for optimal play would just be really tedious.

I don't think anyone would ever play Ash after this.
Also i don't see how this would make curses interesting in any way. It would only make you not equip 95% of the stuff you find, cause they might be cursed, and you don't have enough ?identify and/or ?rc.

kuniqs wrote:I still think being able to deal 2d20 damage, 3 tiles away from you for 1 mp, minimal skill investment and a common item is a little ridiculous.

I think that this post is ridiculous.

It would be fine for it to give base 2 accuracy and that would increase the longer you have it on, to max 4-7? would reset back to 2 every time you remove it.

eharper256 wrote:The +4 Helm of the Knights of Nii:Evoked to cause terror and confusion (Nii!). Plants (Shrubberries) become friendly to you.

this would actually be a cool addition to some fixedart.

I LIKE THAT IDEA

Does it need to calculate all of your resistances and GDR etc?
Why not simply show monsters maxdamage to a no resistances 0 GDR character.
One value for ranged damage (spell, projectile, smite)
One value for melee.

I personally would be interested to see more optional extended (mostly because i find Zigs very unfun, haven't even beaten one fully yet), but i don't think it should be anywhere near top priority in the "to do"-list.

Losing characters to overuse of the teleport ring like you mention isn't really what the ring is about. The scrolls and wand+recharge make teleport from other sources plentiful and equally potentially fatal. I think the ring is more about having the ring identification game and access to remove cur...

What if it blocked smithing from sources outside the field? Or even those inside it?
Might be better suited for a god ability thought.
A god of time and space /translocations god.

Evocations should reduce rod hunger more than it currently does. spriggans need to be quite conservative of rod usage, even though they have one of the best apts for it. also compared to spells and their hunger (that can be reduced to 0 by 2 ways) you don't get your guaranteed spell from the rod and...

I do not get the point of this thread.
Yes, you can scum in both abyss and Pan, with both holding "some" risk, abyss being the less risky one.

I think it's 100% fine for unrands to not have flashy gimmicks. This And some of them have some rally nice flavor so it's always sad to see them removed. One of the things is enjoyed the most as a new player were the flavor text related to items/unrands and unique monsters. I will always much rathe...

Why exactly was the rune-lock even implemented? It's basically nothing but an annoyance to the few characters that are strong enough to go straight for vaults, skipping the annoyance that is the S branches (spider webs/deep&shallow water/snakes) And to other characters, it holds no meaning since...

Actually a time-bomb version would be really neat and interesting, although fairly similar to an alarm trap, Or perhaps the trap could summon one critter at a time at short intervals for a period of time, this would let you run away without requiring you fight everything, and allow some positioning...

Just like with shields, you should be allowed to train magic schools if you have a book in your inventory, which has spells from those schools in it.

Maybe there should be an god-ability that lets you negate the whole stat-shuffle at will, but it would reduce your piety gain. So either you let your stats shuffle or you may not be able to cure all the bad muts you get from jiyva and mutating monsters. I mean the stat-shuffle fits the flavor and al...

The way it is, an aptitude difference of 1 always means the same thing, in a certain sense. The way you suggest is just completely arbitrary. Yes, the percentage numbers are prettier, but that doesn't matter because they are not shown anywhere. But they are shown, inside the game, as numbers. And i...

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