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Kalma: That's a very defensive stance. Sif can stay an interesting god for unspoiled players despite changes! I think I'll suggest book lending (as opposed to gifting) for a minor 0.15 god change; it should start earlier, and the main parameter is delay for getting another lending option. This will...

I can't hold it in anymore. Here goes. /rant If you play in ASCII you won't be able to see whether an @ is wider than an O. And aside from that your average fighter or gladiator likely was not just pulled off a couch, they were working quite hard pumping stat points into strength and dexterity. Mag...

popsofctown wrote:So if you're wearing Leather Armor, a ring of Str could improve a conjurer's casting success rate?

If their strength is low enough, yes. Small species also get increased encumbrance penalties.

I don't think you're taking the base damage reduction of the old formula into account there. So seemingly speed isn't as good as it used to be on high base damage weapons, but is better than it used to be on low base damage weapons. As I understand it, the base damage reduction was 10%. 90% base da...

You could overlap the old and new curves, and use the value of whichever gives the highest number. Therefore the level 8 character can keep his 12 mp, instead of going down to 8, but the level 27 character can have 70 mp instead of 50. The only really big balance issue with this is from anything th...

TeshiAlair wrote:
Viashino_wizard wrote:Again: Mermaids are not actually Merfolk.

Every time I look at this thread it has reached a new level of crazy bananas.

Xom I love this game

The game literally considers Mermaids a separate species from Merfolk for anything that cares about genus.

That's because of your assumption that Mermaids are female Merfolk, which is not the case. The difference has been made more explicit in the recent commit to avoid the misconception in future. A recent patch did change how they're related for purposes of cannibalism and pacification, but only the b...

If mistaking Mermaids for female merfolk is really a problem, the easy solution would be to edit their descriptions to explicitly mention that they're a separate but related species.

Dole wrote:It is so clear that whoever wrote these descriptions is incapable of seeing... how hurtful these kinds of things are to a large portion of their fan base.

Heyooo

Here's another way of looking at the problem I have with keeping them as mermaids: * The only merfolk who can mesmerize are mermaids. * Mermaids are female merfolk. * Player merfolk can't mesmerize. * Thus, player merfolk aren't mermaids. * Thus, the player is male. There are ways to get around tha...

@dck, to the extent that mermaids enhance players' experiences of crawl, it's because they're an effectively-communicated monster with interesting traits. To you, this is true of mermaids; I, conversely, was very surprised when I found that they were fundamentally a different monster from generic m...

I should have said in my initial post that I am totally down to have Orc Knights be a caste of bloodthirsty female warriors. It's just that the tile looked like it had a pudgy belly hanging out, which implied the knight was out of shape and, as Hirsch I said, a pushover. No self-respecting warrior ...

I don't think you're taking the base damage reduction of the old formula into account there. So seemingly speed isn't as good as it used to be on high base damage weapons, but is better than it used to be on low base damage weapons. As I understand it, the base damage reduction was 10%. 90% base da...

You can't walk away anyway so it doesn't matter how bad you are at it.. It does, actually. Accentuating your weaknesses is very dangerous. It's why Ely, Mahkleb and Fedhas are all such strong gods: their abilities can be used to cover a lot of species/background weaknesses while being universally u...

Anyway, I thought it was pretty well agreed zot5 is the most dangerous part of the game. I would consider that "Post lair" In absolute terms, Zot: 5 is more dangerous. In terms of relative difficulty, early D is often more dangerous for a low level character with their starting gear and a...

damiac wrote:Wait, speed no longer reduces base damage? That's huge.

It also only reduces delay by 1/3 instead of cutting it in half. It's a net reduction in DPS by 1/6 (x1.5 instead of x1.8).

Feminist Frequency has a great video series called "Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games" that breaks down some of the common ways this manifests with respect to gender (first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q ). For future reference, citing Anita Sarkeesian is a great way to...

Thank goodness. Oki's gifts just get my hopes up, to dash them repeatedly. Oh, +infinity, +0 great sword of mediocrity eh oka? Another one for the trash heap... Oh, and thanks for the third branded buckler, it goes very well with my claymore... I think maybe Oki lets Xom pick the gifts.... Then you...

tedric wrote:I should have said in my initial post that I am totally down to have Orc Knights be a caste of bloodthirsty female warriors.

Some kind of "Orc Valkyrie" enemy would actually be pretty cool. Or incredibly stupid. Or both!?

@Damiac: i'm not only fine that you piggybacked onto this thread, i'm grateful for it. the guides posted and advice dispensed have given me a better idea of how to play transmuters, though i think i'm going to continue to play draconians for a while and see if i can't get things to work out. being ...

See the thing is, basically every combo is just as invincible once it reaches lair. What you are noticing is simply the fact that the game is very easy past the first few dungeon levels. Do you actually play this game past D10? I can get a lot of crappy characters to lair, then things get harder. Y...

Yes. The new bonuses are slightly smaller than the ones he gave for orcish equipment, but they don't have any restrictions.

Currently, Formicids can get wands of hasting when using a scroll of acquirement. While technically they can be used to haste allies, this is pretty edge use case for most characters. I suggest that Formicids not be able to get wands of haste from acquirement if they don't already have a reusable so...

the rF i remember turned out to be a -, but the mace is my only source of rPois for now so it's getting me through snake pits. I was told that you can only reduce a weapon to 50% of the base delay. How does it actually work? Am I just supposed to know the minimums for each of fists, short sword, lo...

There's not really a magic number for armor anymore. A decent rule of thumb is 'try to have at least as much Str as the armor's encumbrance,' but that's only a general guideline.

twelwe wrote:A level 9 physical damage spell would be too powerful to pass up.

So how do Shatter and Tornado fit into this argument

At anyskill level dagger is worst weapon. If we don't take account for addative brand. 1. no it's not. at 0 skill, clubs and many large weapons are worse against most enemies. daggers are usually better than short swords or cutlasses at 10 skill, at least if they are not +0. 2. well it turns out th...

Hirsch I wrote:but he helps you raise evo without it going to waste, therefore reducing the chance of getting big kobolds.

Why would you ever not train Evo on someone?

Nemelex still boosts your deck power, though, so there's that.

duvessa wrote:armour skill has no effect on the dodging penalty whatsoever, only AEVP (which *is* subtracted from your EV but is completely different from the dodging penalty)

Hm, my mistake then.

You'll want to pump up armor for a bit to benefit from that 14 base AC, which will also reduce the dodge penalty. You'll see pretty big returns on that front, since encumbrance is basically applied twice: once your base Evasion and and again to the bonus EV from the dodge skill.

spudwalt wrote:What happens if an ogre uses the ability to wear plate armor, but then inflicts penance? Does the plate armor suddenly fall off or burst?

Probably, that's what happens when someone mutates Horns/Antennae while wearing a helmet.

So you can raise your own corpse as a zombie, of course.

Xom finds this hilarious!

But... why? I don't understand. Crawl is gameplay, and Crawl gameplay is heavily balanced around permadeath. I mean, I love some sprites in tiles mode, and I appreciate the minimalism of console mode, but with gameplay and tension completely destroyed by removing permadeath, what's the point? Is it...

Viashino: Basically it is an old whim of mine, but it actually serves some useful purposes. For one, the number of gods is limited to 27. Next, we can nicely list the gods in ?/G and initials access god descriptions. And finally, even though nobody made use of it yet, I could imagine a Crawl-relate...

Lost lots hp (perm??) Unless you got a -N% HP mutation (which is curable with potion of Cure Mutation), you were probably rotted (which doesn't cancel from the mere passing of time, but is curable, not permanent) Not rotted, definitely mutated by the purple star things that kept spamming harmful on...

I've got an idea for using the cool racial tiles: have it so +0 through +1 weapons have the normal tile, +2 to +3 weapons have the orcish tile, +4 to +5 weapons have the dwarven tile, and +6 to +8 weapons have the elven tile. Instead of denoting "racial" status the tiles can denote "...

moocowmoocow wrote:
Hirsch I wrote:Ingvar.
I think he should sound norse.

Ingvar sounds cool... Two syllable beginning with ing makes me think of mining and smithing ingots in Ye Olde Ultima Online

Thirding Ingvar.

Rather than change the base type and make it inconsistent with other rods, why not just increase the damage the effect deals?

dpeg wrote:You all know that initials used by other gods are out of the question.

I didn't actually. Why is that?

Belos

get it like 'bellows'

Hirsch I wrote:I did not even know what was hitting me.

The answer to that would be "Everything."

Worship Fedhas and make a billion of them.

Hirsch I wrote:it teaches the value of not getting very attached to your characters.

Isn't that what we have Sigmund and Grinder for?

What if he gave you some way to upgrade magic and randart weapons by improving their base type? There's plenty of times you find a randart with great egos, but it's a trident or a longsword. Smithgod could let you reforge it into a demon trident or bastard sword, and maybe reforge it further into a ...

My gut instinct is that making Trog even better is probably not a good thing (miasma is crazy powerful). I don't really see why Burn Spellbook would need to be reworked in the first place; whether they're called tomes or spell books, they're still equally flammable.

duvessa wrote:tentacled monstrosities are far less dangerous than, say, spriggan druids

Q: What's more dangerous than an enemy that summons multiple hydras?

A: One that can also cast Might.

Arkhan wrote:Orb of Xot

see how many new people are really paying attention to the game

this needs to be a thing

It can be evoked to produce the effects of ?random.

Psiweapon wrote:What actually scared me away was a thorn lotus, got me to somewhere around 25% HP in three shots or so.

Thorn Lotuses are basically mobile Oklob plants that don't corrode your gear.

If Nicola doesn't have at least a 25% chance to spawn with this, I'm sad.

HotCrab wrote:I didn't realize that you ever needed more than 12 short blades skills, or that other innormation like that was even relevant.

Normally you wouldn't since all short blades have a delay of 1.2 or less, but cutlasses are special-cased to have a min delay of 0.5 instead of 0.6

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