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I'd rather the "good fight" piety boost to be based only on the threat level of an enemy, so punching above your weight gives a bigger piety boost than letting a spider almost nibble you to death.

Bad mutations should be dangerous but not a reason to Ctrl-Q immediately. If I gain vestigal wings and pop out of my heavy armour in Zot, that's game over unless I have enough cure-mut available to remove it. I don't think giving big game-changing racial features as mutations is necessarily a good i...

One idea for some buffs is to have them reserve some of your max MP, but be permanent until you choose to end them (from 'a' menu i suppose). This might be worth looking at for some of the lighter buffs like shroud that don't contaminate you.

I've been playing a few AE's lately and I find it annoying and tedious to have to guess whether or not my Shock is going to double-zap a target. This extends to whatever other beams bounce, but I think the highlighting of targeted squares should show a different color (red?) for squares that are hit...

So, what if strategic effects are moved to a new "Runestone" consumable type which cannot be destroyed. So we have Runestones of Mutation/Decay/Acquirement/Enchant/Charging/Whatever. There is still a risk associated with un-ID'd stones, but they are safe to lug around. Otherwise, I'd rathe...

One of the ideas that was thrown about when this came up in the SA thread is similar to Lava Orc's heat-thing. Have build-up effects which can prevent item use like blurry-vision (as in, waste a turn to not consume the item) and step up to a 0% success chance when in a cloud. So, a puff of flame/fro...

An ability which sacrifices some of your health/piety to create a lost soul would be a pretty cool thing to have for Yred.

If you are going to do that I would suggest a {Heroic} tag for gear that causes the enchantment level to grow and shrink as you do things, as I imagine having disappearing armour would lead to a lot of tedious Ctrl-F when he strips you naked in safe circumstances.

I think fighters could stand to start with a beefier 1-hander for some of the types. If they are supposed to be the heavy-fighter types they could come with a Sabre/War Axe/Longsword/Trident/Flail to start.

If you didn't mind sucking a bit of the 'fun' out of ghosts you could have them take on a name/gear/appearance of a dead player but bring their skills/spells/behavior into line with the actual base class and level, so that you know that the "Mighty Ice Elementalist" is probably going to Fr...

"of Slicing/Crushing/Piercing/Chopping" are fine, but "of Stabbing" uses the exact same term as another dagger mechanic. "Foo of Piercing" works fine for the stabbing short-blades, and is the same term as the stabbing polearms.

That would 1. be redundant with the existing mesmerizing monsters, 2. never be any sort of threat. Also, the attack does require line of sight, just not line of fire. You're right, the effect requires line of sight but not line of fire. Giant eyeballs are not independently a threat anyway, but mesm...

Floating eyes appear very early in the game and have a paralysis attack which does not require line of sight. This is a pretty brutal effect for a dice-roll in the early game where they are common. I think it would be more fair, interesting, and make more sense thematically to give them the mesmeriz...

I'd like to -cTele and/or -Tele as a zone-effect coming off an entity like suppression and silence are. So we can have various different things like spacial vortices 'interfere' with translocations (-cTele) and special statues block translocations into their zone of influence, but can be destroyed o...

I agree, using the same term to mean something different in this way is pretty bad. Easy fix is to rename it "Foo of Piercing" I guess, but the Vorpal brand is pretty underwhelming overall and could use some attention. I'm not familiar with the damage formula but it seems like Freezing is ...

Can there be a "Really drink Potion of (Beneficial) Mutation while wearing your Amulet of Resist Mutation?" warning? It is a silly way to waste good potions, without being tactically challenging or anything.

It is not clear that a blink scroll is any different to Controlled Blink until you try to use one in -cTele, since you don't get a semi-controlled blink from a scroll, but you do from the spell.

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Re: Proposal: Rexa, the Gladiator God

Re: Bad Mutation Proposals

Re: Redesign other buffs to work more like Repel missiles

Improve Multizap Targetting

Re: Purge the devil: Remove item destruction

Re: Purge the devil: Remove item destruction

Re: Proposal: Spice up/update Yred's ally gift list

Re: Proposal: Okawaru Passive

Re: Let fighters start with a buckler

Re: Player Ghosts' Extended Descriptions

Re: "of stabbing" vorpal brand is a bit confusing for a newb

Re: Change Giant Eyeballs to Mesmerise

Change Giant Eyeballs to Mesmerise

Re: more organic replacement for -cTele levels

Re: "of stabbing" vorpal brand is a bit confusing for a newb

Re: Potion of beneficial mutation

Re: Proposal : warning when using blink scroll in -ctele