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Sar wrote:Because they would be interesting and exciting for 1% of the characters and in the early game only. After that they'd be "Oh, a shop, cool, wait... damn".

I dunno man a chance to find branded Large Rocks is pretty rad.

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I believe it is extremely important to know that rElec decreases damage to 33% while rF++ changes damage from 50% to 33%. How is this extremely important to know? With the information the game provides you know that when you put on rElec, this is the most resistant as you will ever become against e...

In fact, despite often finding hides later I usually feel like it is a waste to use ?EA on them unless the rest of my kit is fully enchanted. (With the rare exception of gda, pda, and a few others.) FDA are frequently good to enchant because of their good AC/encumbrance ratio, their availability in...

I used to save ?EA for a dragon armor, but then I started using them in the early game (focusing on gloves, boots and hats/helmets since they're the slots that you're least likely to replace in the near future) and saw an immediate improvement in my characters' survival rate.

mikee wrote:when did tavern turn into high school

"I-it's not like I like you or anything, duvessa-senpai...!"

You seem to think that wearing heavy armor means you shouldn't care about EV. This is only true very early on where enemies are mostly melee and do low enough damage that heavy armor has a good chance to completely negate most of their attacks. You should really try training Dodging on heavily armor...

Not saying it's the best god to win a naga with, just that if someone wants to play a Chei character, the Naga has synergy with him. It's already balanced against being slow. Other species aren't, and they get broken by the snail god. That's kind of like saying formicids have synergy with Chei beca...

Yeah, I think just removing rotten chunks of flesh entirely would be good. Saprovore isn't particularly important (and is almost exclusively on very strong species anyway). If having the warning for saprovores, simulacrum and sublimation of blood is desirable, then just print a warning while the ch...

Not saying it's the best god to win a naga with, just that if someone wants to play a Chei character, the Naga has synergy with him. It's already balanced against being slow. Other species aren't, and they get broken by the snail god. That's kind of like saying formicids have synergy with Chei beca...

Wow, I really didn't think the idea of not insulting people was seen as so crazy and wrong. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with saying "This is really bad advice". As opposed to "This guy is too dumb to give advice". If everyone thinks I'm wrong, then why don't you change th...

Code:: the Gloves of Fashionability {Dex +2}

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Shield penalties are in fact lower for unarmed than they are for weapons. For example, the penalty for using a shield with a battle axe is that you cannot in fact wield the battleaxe at all. That's quite harsh, and will result in you hitting things with your 3 base damage, untrained punching. More ...

Considering dck is a former dev a former what Weren't you a developer at one point? Or am I mistaken about that. Tavern bullying(by those who can't comprehend a strategy outside of hastespam) is the #1 reason someone leaves the game. And since they're the victims, they're most likely genius program...

Feel free to make it a Green Brain so nobody is tempted to make it too much like monster orange brains out of symmetry. There are good reasons we have player hill orcs and monster mine orcs. I think it's a good idea to separate the species from monster orange brains, if only for player clarity. Oth...

Food rot is nice to know about when you're a ghoul. Theoretically it's also good to know if you want to drop your chunks as soon as they rot for some reason.

damiac wrote:"You aren't qualified to give advice".

Considering dck is a former dev, you'll have a pretty hard time finding someone better qualified to evaluate a person's understanding of crawl.

Proposal: Jessica isn't bad, she's just drawn that way.

Sar wrote:Statue Form boosts your non-UC melee damage by 50%, and also slows your attacks (and all other actions) by 50%.

Exactly. It boosts melee damage regardless of your weapon (or lack thereof).

Oddly enough Jiyva doesn't provide acid Just to nitpick: Jiyva can give you the Acidic Bite mutation. ...doh. I was thining about acidic flesh the kind of thing slimes have. Would that be a good mutation? Acidic flesh (acid splash damage to everything that hits you). It's an idea. Jiyva's item prot...

I think it is cool that transmutation has some stuff going on that is not just about forms. Would it be a good thing if a non-UC-using character had absolutely no reason to get transmutation spells? I don't think so. Well, I think if this is a goal (I agree this is a good thing) the best way to do ...

bcadren wrote:Oddly enough Jiyva doesn't provide acid

Just to nitpick: Jiyva can give you the Acidic Bite mutation.

I've probably got the same vault in my current game: ############### #~~~~~~~~~~~D:# #~############# #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ############### The book is an unknown manual, the liquid is lava and walls are stone. Character in question is a HoGl, so no permanent flight. So far i've left the quicksilver drago...

Swamp worms, fish, etc. are completely incapable of attacking someone who isn't adjacent to their body of water. Submerging exists so they aren't completely helpless against someone using polearms, ranged weapons, or spells. Too bad they totally are Well that's the function it's supposed to serve. ...

Seconded. Spines relies on you being hit to do anything, and its damage gets reduced based on your armor's encumbrance rating. Which means that Spines' damage is inversely proportional to how useful it would actually be for your character. That's just silly. I support this proposal but this particu...

Swamp worms, fish, etc. are completely incapable of attacking someone who isn't adjacent to their body of water. Submerging exists so they aren't completely helpless against someone using polearms, ranged weapons, or spells. The only exception are electric eels, and as far as I know they actually ca...

Seconded. Spines relies on you being hit to do anything, and its damage gets reduced based on your armor's encumbrance rating. Which means that Spines' damage is inversely proportional to how useful it would actually be for your character. That's just silly.

No, things are deliberately replaced with weaker things all the time. Look at Skald, for example. That's not the case here, though. Ice Storm wasn't replaced with Glaciate to make the level 9 Ice Spell less powerful, it was to make it more distinct from Firestorm. Since Ice Storm was already consid...

Wow is it Fanfiction Friday already

duvessa wrote:Same reason those other species were removed: they were useless to have in the game.

I'm aware of that. I'm asking what specifically made them useless to have in the game.

Glaciate is brand new and there haven't been any balance passes over it yet, so if you think it needs a buff make a thread and make your case for it. I don't think anybody meant that it should necessarily be buffed, just that it is much weaker than ice storm was. Seeing as Glaciate is supposed to b...

johlstei wrote:sludge elves

Why did Sludge Elves get the boot anyway? Did they overlap too much with Mf as "Species that's good with transmutations" or did the devs just want less elves?

Baldu3 wrote:Also, I got 2 packs for a total of 9 summons out of 2 uses of my rod a couple minutes ago. How is the limit calculated for this spell, is it by number of summonings instead of number of creatures?

Yes, each batch of summoned monsters count as 1 summon towards the cap.

So basically it's Xom but less interesting and more tedious?

Yes, and that's what Tenaya was pointing out. Auxiliary attacks are good for melee in general, but Tasonir was implying that they somehow give transmuters an incentive to go melee (as if they didn't have one already), which would imply that auxiliary attacks are good for UC specifically. Well they ...

TeshiAlair wrote:Isn't there a spell now that induces moshing?

You mean Discord?

fr: ability to purchase a Dwarven Mount and ride around the dungeon on his shoulders.

The only time I have ever noticed GDR is when I am comparing draconian or naga defenses to other characters. Since they get so much scales AC naturally, their AC actually behaves a bit differently from what you expect. It's usually still not noticeable unless you are actually specifically looking f...

Are you recasting Searing Ray every turn? You're supposed to use S or . for subsequent turns, casting the spell a second time just resets the build up.

The only game-relevant thing Scrolls of Random Uselessness can do is a max power Summon Butterflies.

This is why I always try to find and carry around a Phial of Floods.

Why not just make the upgrade for M&F something like stunning (chance to delay next turn by a few auts) instead of shafting? The connection between blunt weapons and shafting isn't that strong in the first place (to me personally, at least). Though I do like the flow of Active > Passive > Super ...

Sandman25 wrote:
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amulet of Lady Luck {rMut rElec rF++ rN+ Str+4}

Spectated a player with that who won 15 runes game. Nice name.

On today's episode of Appropriatly Named Randarts

I've always found Vulnerable a *very* interesting tactical choice - safety now for the risk of suffering later, or power now for the same. Primary uses for me are to remove red/yellow contamination (1), and to prep an enemy for a hex-based stab (2). In both cases, the trade-off is "am I comofo...

I just saw someone win their first game with this monster:

Code:: the +2, +13 executioner's axe "Vaemo" (weapon) {speed, rC+ rN+ Dex+1 SInv}

Thematically this seems a lot like Nemelex, but without the playing card theme.

Phasing sounds like an interesting brand. I don't think it needs to be connected to tloc, though. A brand that bypasses AC instead of adding damage sounds pretty cool.

For Agnes specifically, I think she could be guaranteed to drop a medium/large amount of gold. Her description and dialogue both reference the fact she's carrying a bunch around, but right now it apparently evaporates when you kill her.

I had an idea for a god based on the concept of certain directions being 'good'/'lucky' while others are 'bad'/'unlucky.' I want to make sure the idea is more fully fleshed out and actually any good before I make a proposal in GDD, since I've never done one before. The basic is that the god shows it...

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