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Burn twice as bright. Burn half as long. Description Pakellas was once a minor god of invention. However, not so long ago, followers of Pakellas attempted a blasphemous experiment: tried to supercharge their god with faith. The result almost destroyed their god, transforming Pakellas into an explos...

I don't think poison needs buffing or poison resistance needs nerfing. Poison is highly capable of being dangerous without poison resistance, and still manages to play a role in combat even with poison resistance. True, the threat of poison tapers off as the game goes on, but that seems like a delib...

I'm going to side with the camp that opposes player ghosts. They just seem like a holdover from a time when the design philosophy of DCSS was less established, back when item destruction seemed like a good idea. I mean, if player ghosts didn't exist and someone suggested an idea for a unique that ha...

The obvious mythological creatures to fill the godless niche are fomorians, jotunn or titans. I guess "demigiants" would work if you wanted to keep the "Dg" thing going. Alternatively, if you want to make Crawl even zanier than it already is, making them aliens with no concept of...

I'm not really much of a Beogh player, but here's my provervial two pieces of gold. Flavour: Whilst I can see the whole "haha, evil Jesus" thing being... well... immature and silly, I think it's possible to still have that but not in a mean-spirited kind of way. Mythology, fantasy and RPGs...

I'm fairly sure Ballistomycetes were removed in 0.17, though maybe they're still in the game under a Fedhas Madash ability? I dunno. If not, the entry for Fedhas Madash needs updating. As does the entry for Giant Spore, regardless. Also the List of Plants too, I guess, whilst we're at it.

Wait. That's the part of formicid lore that confuses people. Let's recap. They're burrowing ant people (because, you know, that's the first animal you think of when you think of a digging animal; not moles or badgers or anything sensible like that, but ants) with a stasis effect applied to them beca...

I don't want to be the guy who says this in every DD thread, but their main gimmick is bad and we should all feel bad. I should probably post this in another thread but, seeing as though we're all hating on Deep Dwarves anyway, I thought I might as well propose my DD-fix. My view is that we already...

Re: Eurocentrism I think it's pretty clear that a lot of Crawl is based on Western Culture or, more specifically, Western Pop Culture. I mean, most examples of exoticism are either things Crawl cribbed from D&D, or stuff that's vaguely entered into the Western collective consciousness. Stuff li...

Whilst there are certain details about this proposal that might need to be worked on, I think the concept of it is a great one. A race designed to allow you to play a streamlined version of Crawl? There's definitely a certain appeal to it, so long as it doesn't make everything too streamlined.

Edited my orginal post. Decided to move away from anything resembling savescumming. The idea is neat, but doesn't really match with the design principles of Dungeon Crawl, so far as I understand them, anyway. That said, I am a little concerned that the alternate suggestions open up the door to a com...

I feared that this idea would be impossible to implement. I assume it's basically Undo and Redo that get in the way of everything. With Undo, I suppose you could change the nature of it slightly. Instead of recording and undoing a set amount of turns, it instead keeps a tally of how much damage each...

The Random Number God. Udums was once the god of cause and effect. But Udums grew tired of one thing leading to the other, with no room for randomness or chance. So Udums shattered causality into a thousand shards, each shard splintering a thousand more times; actuality giving way to possibility. U...

It's not even that defensive bonuses are necessarily bad, but your original concept seems to basically just mash up a bunch of defensive bonuses front other races. A defensive bonus that's more novel and feels different from a Gargoyle or Deep Dwarf would be fine. At first I wasn't sure what you've...

Anyway, even if a scroll-less species doesn't require a bonus as superficially exciting as 8 rings or 2-handers with shields, there's still a problem with the high innate defeses proposed by the OP: it's been done before. Multiple times. Deep Dwarves and Naga both have major downsides with great de...

In other words, DD is composed of two things: their healing/d-shaving mechanics, and everything else. We can isolate the latter as the basis for a new species, and the former is better removed or relegated to a God anyway. Wow. I've never really thought about it before but, now that you mention it,...

Why "spells are treated as being one level higher" rather than just giving them -Wiz? Mainly because I wanted the increase in difficulty of casting spells to rise exponentially with spell level. And the simplest way to do that was to tie it in with the pre-existing mechanics relating to s...

So, there's been several people saying that the idea of not being able to cast spells is too limiting from the perspective of enjoyability. I tend to agree with them. In fact, as I've said, it was one of my biggest concerns with this species. They are too niche. However, I also didn't want to abando...

@dpeg Cheers. I think I agree with you about the species being potentially uninteresting to players, in fact that's one of my biggest problems with them. That's probably the reason behind the overpoweredness you noticed. It didn't entirely stem from me trying to compensate for lack of spellcasting....

Oh, there are also a couple more ideas that I've been going back and forth on, unsure if they'll make the cut. Wand Recharging Basically, I've been contemplating the idea of giving iron dwarves the ability to recharge wands, just like deep dwarves. It seems like a good idea, considering how dependen...

These dwarves are said to have once mined so deep that they unearthed the Iron City of Dis. The legends say that they managed to escape from the demonic hordes, collapsing the mine after them, but their bodies were tainted with demonic iron magic. Over the next several generations, their bodies sta...

I tend to agree that a less fancy race suggestion for fiery dudes would be a bad idea. Sure, the idea of a new race that's similar to any number of pre-existing races appeals to me from the perspective of novelty. But it's really only the novelty of it that appeals to me. On the subject of novelty, ...

I like Pollen_Golem's idea of changing the way malmutators work. The contamination idea is one I've even considered suggesting before. It makes a lot of sense as it utilises a system that already exists. Even if contamination isn't a good way to go with it, for whatever reason, it could still involv...

@Wahaha That's basically pretty similar to ideas I've been dwelling on for a while. I like the idea of the difficulty of the Abyss increasing more gradually. It allows for a more interesting set-up in terms of depth mattering. For example, it allows for depth-of-banishment to be more callibrated to ...

Why god of gold and greed gives effects of a potions directly? This ability belongs in the arsenal of not-yet-existent Alchemy god. See, it's funny, ever since I first saw people complain about the potion thing not really fitting with the theme of a gold god, I thought that Gozag would work better ...

Hmm... I feel I have little to add other than seconding the views of others. This is an interesting idea. Though there'd probably need to be some divine ability to stop players from dying of their own poison. Possibly at the cost of piety, or just an ability that players may take for granted. Err......

I made my own interpretation with Paint. Can you recognize them all? :p http://imgur.com/hzBFUHX Lemme see... (spoilered because it's quite long) Veiled Lady... Lugonu Big Brute... Beogh Crying Child... Xom Bound Blonde... Ash Dark Thingy... Dith Armoured Guy... Okawaru Slime... Jiyva Throned Skeli...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1 (console) character file. 13015883 Bob the Skullcrusher (level 27, 216/243 (245) HPs) Began as a Minotaur Fighter on Apr 26, 2015. Was the Champion of Makhleb. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes! The game lasted 08:43:51 (124044 turns). Bob the Skullcrushe...

Banishment — should take severity/power of the banishment source into account: early banishment (distortion weapon on D:4) should send characters to Abyss:1, Elf:3 banishment to Abyss:3. Can either use absdepth of the banishment source, or player XL, or banisher HD, or perhaps another scale. [Ratio...

Unwanted Unrands Arbablade: An impracticle weapon for an improbable hero. When wielded normally it behaves as a great sword, but it can also fire bolts as an arbalest. Miror Shield: A large shield with a reflective surface. Has the reflection ego, but also causes Stlth-- due to it constantly reflec...

I'm always a sucker for portals that are a little gimmicky. I love wizlabs and have probably put an ungodly amount of time into trying to think up interesting ideas for late-game portals that make use of seldom-used mechanics. Now, if I were to implement an idea based around the rotunda concept, I'd...

Hmm... I've seen a lot of stuff relating to deep dwarves lately. I think a problem might be that, as crawl has changed, the whole "no natural healing" thing has gradually become a bit redundant for deep dwarves. One of the best solutions I've seen is to completely remove any form of healin...

In my mind, at least initially, Gilding was a multiple time deal that cost gold. However, I started to err on it being a big one-time thing, when I realised that the alternative might make it into a glorified version of enchanting equipment. I know that mechanically it would be quite different, but ...

Random Unwarranted Gozag Suggestions. Replace "Call Merchant" with "Stock Shuffle". Instead of creating a new shop, using Stock Shuffle will alter the inventory within a pre-existing shop. They'll still be the same type of item (weapons will change to other types of weapons, wand...

The game has only a couple places you can encounter angels: a rare floor type in Pandemonium, and an occasional floor in a Ziggurat. That's about it. There's also only a couple places you can encounter greater mummies, and that's more than enough of them already. I think the issue of developing thi...

...or maybe armour that lets you evoke a metal splinters-style attack?

I like the idea of iron dragon armour but, as you point out, ponderousness might not be the best thing for it. Here are some alternative suggestions: ⋅ As gold dragon armour but in place of resistances it grants rCorr, rRot or rMut. ⋅ As gold dragon armour but in place of resista...

Hmm... some more thoughts on how this could work. Let's say we go with the Temple/Cathedral theme. I picture a bunch of rooms connected by doors. No narrow passages/places to fight enemies one-on-one. Enemies would be found in clusters, but each individual cluster would be spread out. As for enemies...

I've thought this before. I'm sure many people have. The problem is that holy enemies aren't developed enough to have a dedicated branch. And people see little reason to develop them as a group, as they're so rare. Kind of a cyclical problem there. At first, I was frustrated with it. Then I realised...

In my opinion, the Crypt lacks options. Once you've cleared it out, there's nowhere to go but the Tomb. Compare this to the Lair (three branches coming off it), the Depths (lots of portals coming off it), or even the Vault (has the Crypt, its own rune, and the bottom level plays very differently to ...

So... with the long-anticipated addition of shadow and quicksilver dragon armours set for 0.16, I started thinking about hypothetical Iron Dragon armour, which led me to thinking about other types of metal-based dragons I wanted to see. Platinum Dragon Breath Attack: Same breath attacks as the Fire,...

I'm definitely in favour of reusing gimmicks. Most gimmicks seem interesting but as they're rare or only found in a select few branches, we seldom get to see the full range of tactical dilemmas that those gimmicks offer. With regards to adding in more monsters or taking them out, an important part o...

Pretty Plausible Portal Proposals Cloud Canyons Wide, winding passages made of cloud walls. What are cloud walls, you ask. Why, they are like ordinary rock walls. Except... you can't dig through them. Or shatter them. And lightning goes straight through them. Oh, and fire causes them to evapourate ...

Whilst giving them a straight rip of Makhleb's healing sounds pretty good, it also feels pretty cheap. However, giving them health for killing enemies does seem pretty straightforward. Perhaps give them innate vampiric abilities, or maybe let them heal "naturally" based on an XP-timer (1 H...

Gosh, it sems like crawl's difficulty is a hot issue. Personally, I think increases to difficulty should try to be implemented in a way that is as top down as possible. By which I mean, they should affect the better players more than they should affect the less experienced players. This is already i...

1. Make it a +3 cloak. 2. Give it the property Smelly: makes you smell like an animal. +Stealth in Lair, -Stealth everywhere else. Heh. My mind went to almost the exact same places as you, though in completely different ways. I also thought of just improving it slightly. Though, in my mind it would...

[PROPOSAL UPDATE... IN THEORY, ANYWAY. IN ACTUALITY IT'S JUST ME RAMBLING ON INDECISIVELY ABOUT OPTIONS.] Alright, so the way I see it, there are three directions this proposal can be taken in, each with possible variations. The Union of Stability The idea here is for there to be less chaos and shi...

Hmm... Aean... looking at it now, probably six abilities could be too much. I like the idea of each new ability coming with some kind of code of behaviour that the player was forced to stick to. For example, gaining resistance to confusion, for example, means you're not allowed to enslave or confuse...

I see what you mean XuaXua. The reasoning behind letting them be replaceable was that locking players into their choices felt like it'd push players towards a gameplan, trying to optimise their god's build right off the bat. That said, I didn't think of forcing them to only choose from the first opt...

Forgotten gods do not truly die. The Union is proof of this. A hundred gods who cling to the fraying edges of reality, pooling their powers to tempt new worshippers. Those brave or foolish enough to worship this mass of half-formed deities report hearing the voices of the gods that make up the Union...

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