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njvack wrote:i think my head just exploded

You trying to be Kurt Cobain too?

It's not broken, but once you've got 7 or 8 stars in a couple of religions you can put workable combo's together, as long as you do it on the way in to the fight rather than waiting till things have already gone south.

twelwe wrote:no, i spelled it wrong when i made the account

Just tell people the second one's Germanic, we'll make it a thing, like röck döts.

Do I really need to explain why having chance completely override player skill is counterproductive to the purpose of a game which is explicitly meant to reward skilful play? Not at all, it's a valid point. Can we broaden the issue to early-game difficulty in general though? If we were going to bro...

duvessa wrote:what the fuck its been like 6 years and i just realized that the cross on the okawaru altar tile is actually a sword

I still see Elephants heads on the Elyvilon alter.

Speaking of the devil: Sigmund comes into view. He is wielding a scythe. Sigmund shouts! Sigmund points at you and mumbles some strange words. The puff of flame hits you! You see here 19 stones. Sigmund points at you and mumbles some strange words. The magic dart hits you! Sigmund gestures at you wh...

cerebovssquire wrote:That should be your plan for most characters when you first meet Sigmund and Grinder if you want to win.

Yeah I guess that was a bad example - I can probably lower the bar to include Ijyb in this case though!

The OP reads as though he has found a problem which needs redesign or justification. Also the Wand of Healing abuse is why I used to read that Deep Dwarves make good Ely choices. Let's say consideration rather than redesign/justify, I mean a few games in and the hunger from it does still seem bruta...

Trying Merfolk Healer just now - not got a very satisfactory plan for Sigmund or Grinder but there's always running and praying - and in this case prayer might just work...

Firion wrote:
wizzzargh wrote:Hasted ...of Cheibriados

Something isn't adding up here.

There's a new faith level now where you tell god what to do not vice-versa (and later on get to summon it for help when outnumbered).

It's a logical conclusion, not an unfounded opinion. If you want to dispute it, then dispute it on grounds of logic or earn my contempt. Your premises include the arbitrary value "bad", therefore your opinion remains perfectly valid and you are completely entitled to both hold and state it.

The thing here is you don't actually need much xp with elyvilon, because you have elyvilon. Pacification is a very xp-efficient offense, I'm starting to get that from a more successful run, getting Inv up and running makes all the difference. Not yet got Greater Heal yet, but also not at the stage ...

Nice, I didn't realise you could use wands for the same effect.

Okay, I don't play Elyvilon followers/Healers much, but at the same time one of the great things about crawl is how many weird and wonderful possibilities it contains, so along with Vampire Monks of Mahkleb I'm finding High Elf Fighters of Elyvilon cropping up in my rotation a fair bit these days. S...

Permadeath is something of a difficult adjustment for me lol, I just died with a character I really liked, a perfectly preventable death I might add, and it sucks! I'm so used to being able to reload and try again... Actually this brings up an important question, I hate losing characters probably b...

To me the big issue isn't "is it fair/does it make sense?", the issue is, if you are going to have it as a mechanic how dow you teach it to the player. I've noticed it a buch of times and attibuted it to a bunch of different things, all of them wrong. The other problem is that according to...

Siegurt wrote:Yes it does.

Oh. Dammit.

energy randomization What now??? >>>Google. This explains a lot. It does seem to me that randomizing monsters ability to keep up with you is an odd design desicion in a game that claims not to be about luck, not to depend on understanding the maths/spoilers in general (lol), and where one of the ma...

Cross training doesn't stack with species aptitude though does it?

Perhaps with a secondary icon (like on summons etc) incase you have two matching items.

My very first crawl game. I had no clue that felids are a challenge race so I ventured forth with my felid necromancer. I encounter a rat which I valiantly triumphed. Second monster was a goblin, he had a +2+2 shortsword of electorcution... I came across a hobgoblin on D1 yesterday who had picked u...

I have used that spell a lot. Just haven't been playing starting as a Summoner that much. And do remember that even a hostile scorpion can stand in a way of something that can banish you or hit you with an iron shot while it may be almost completely unable to harm you. Cool, I think I have some hal...

Leafsnail wrote:Wouldn't a mummified version of race X just be "Race X, only worse"?

To the extact same extent that a mummy is a human, only worse: yes.
If this seemed to be an issue it could be solved.

For a more in depth answer:
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Mummies#Difficulty_of_Play

In most cases, when having even moderately high spellpower, the solution for hostile scorpions is to summon more scorpions. Speaking as someone who rarely plays summoners (and dies fast when they do), and tends to forget to use their summoning spells when playing a wizard, that advice sounds a litt...

My mentality is definately survival far and away above score, and I've never been seriously bitten in the ass by piety decay either, although I guess that's slightly veiled and you never know exactly how much you have. Maybe I'm hoarding bread too much...
Thanks guy's.

you should specifically put it on to rest, because the turns you save by resting less are dramatically more important than any nutrition concerns (and you don't wear it at other times because regen ring actually does very little for you in combat compared to other options) Really, I didn't think wa...

1stly Regen items state that they increases your metabolism "while doing so." This means your metabolism only goes up while your health is actually increasing right? Apparent no brainers aside, should I take off a ring of regen while resting or does the metabolic increase just balance out ...

And really, would most species+undead combinations bring anything new and interesting to the table? The way I'd propose handling aptitudes would be that physical skills, weapons and spell casting would be modified from the base species by same difference as that between a human and mummy/vampire (w...

My argument isn't meant to be a logical one, I'm stating my opinon on a subject of personal taste. Swearing at people whose identity you don't know is also considered bad form in some parts too. When we're talking about a game that has wizards and magic swords in it you might take sensitive ears in ...

diviton wrote:I think poison is fine and you've all gone soft.

What I'm saying in a nutshell.

You do not get to argue realism when it comes to game design. Ever. 1) You ain't the boss of me. 2) My point was about the feel of the game, rather than realism or unrealism. I'm playing this game because I like the feeling of being up against remorseless enemies in a harsh, unforgiving environment...

The game already has three non-human undead races: mummy, ghoul, and vampire. What I was trying to come up with was a way to allow Felid Mummies, Halfling Vampires and so on: to me being a mummy or vampire makes more sense as a condition than it does as a species - but players should definately be ...

Don't forget the halbard to go with that D1 Gnoll. I love poison, preferably in the form of finding a nice big stack of curare needles, but yeah adders are among the worst of the things you'll meet on D2 and they don't sleep on the job all the time like that lazy Sigmund chap. That said being poison...

Ragequit. Yes, but then after that you'd know not to mess about with jewllery without the appropriate scrolls. Hell a few games ago I ID'd an Amulet of Innacuracy I'd had round my chump neck since D1, I can't remember what level I was on when I found out. I was really hoping that would reveal as an...

Without discounting it as another way to get the same result, I'd already considered the idea of Mummification being offered on joining one of the two necromantic religions. The problem with that being the only way to become a mummy (Necromutation aside, which is something I've never had a Necromanc...

Hi folks, some ideas I've had about undead characters: It's always slightly bothered me that you could only play human Vampires/Mummies in a world filled with such a (delightfully) whacky selection of sentient species (I mean mummy Felids - that's a thing here, surely they'd do that in Zotistan too?...

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