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Merge Charms and Evocations.

How about instead of using up hp/mp make wands use up additional charges per level of mutation (as if still unidentified)?

Why not meld amulet of gourmand and amulet of regen into "amulet of hypermetabolism"? ^^

Reduce Lair to five levels and all other branches to three without readjusting monster XPs, item drops etc.

Damn game takes too long anyway.

I expected to see the "being able to look at the stats of ghosts" argument popping up, but honestly I looked up the morgue of an encountered ghost exactly one time in over 3 years of crawling so I dismissed it as trivial when I made the suggestion and I apologize. If this is a thing I'd su...

After some years of crawling my morgue folder contains several thousand files which I find more and more time consuming to copy over to a new version of crawl just to be able to look at characters in the highscore list for comparing them for different stats, equipment, spells or plain nostalgic reas...

I beg to differ, for one the existing command shift+d (drop all items of a stack) serves no purpose anymore, and second: you have to use the autopickup menu in every single new game to define the items you don't want to autopickup anymore AND you have to acces this menue quite a few times until all ...

Maybe I'm overlooking some details but now that item destruction and item weight are no longer an issue, wouldn't it be reasonable to just replace the shift+d command with the one i proposed?

In every game there comes a point where I don't want to auto-pick up certain items anymore, for example wands of flame/frost because they don't do enough damage or wands of enslavement/confusion which become near useless because of rising monster MR. Another case would be scrolls of enchant weapon i...

I could see putting Hell and Pan in rotation and cutting the generic Demonic Rune in both cases, leaving the game with 10 Runes, but I'd hate to see either be removed completely. Put Demonic Rune into Elven Halls and randomly pick three runes from Hells & Pan for a total of 10 runes. Maybe tell...

Dungeon: currently 15 levels, could be reduced to 12 with little impact Lair: Already pretty samey due to the monster set, it is also by far the longest remaining non-extended branch at 8 levels, making it dull as dishwater. I would reduce it to 3, or at most 4, levels. Orcish Mines: Also has fairl...

@Devteam: and while you're at it: shorten the whole damn game by about 50% level-wise, re-calibrate exp & floor drops. Almost all of the "tediousness" discussed in other threads originates from the game just taking too long, grinding level after level after level.

Robotron: We could but I say that free amnesia is a lot more interesting. Either way, you can experiment with spells, and quickly adapt. With amnesia, however, there are more choices. Choices are good. dpeg: your notion is that by cutting down the number of spell choices the game would be more inte...

I never understood, why rods (apart from rod of striking) have to be wielded to be evokable, unlike wands. Maybe I would use them more often if this was changed.

Nice idea indeed! This reminds me of those old action roguelikes Telengard and Sword of Fargoal, where you would also miss a turn after a certain amount of time has passed without keystrokes.

To keep things super simple: why not just double the number of spell slots for followers of Sif?

Patashu wrote:Hi, the download link you provide for win32-tiles crashes.
It gets as far as 'Loading maps...' and then kaboom, it's gone.
Happens consistently to me and my friend, so should be reproducible. Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit is my OS.

Same here on WinXP SP3.

Just wondering if it's possible to encounter Orbs of Fire in Abyss in latest trunk?

O.k., then how about turning this thread into a brainstoming on about how to bring back a non-boring Lamia?

As far as lair branches go, i personally would like to see a branch-specific unique in every one of them. Just for flavour (and a vampire in Snake doesn't make that much sense).

Christ, you can't remove anything without tavern complaining about it. Lamia was a slow ass blinkless version of Jory (who is already one of the most boring uniques ever) with pointless nonsensical stuff like corpse eating piled on top. God, you guys probably would have complained about losing Duan...

Just give her a spell slot for blink close or a second haste slot and a slightly raised chance of spawning with Lightning Scales barding.

*oops* ninja'ed by wheals.

Leafsnail, I proposed a loss of up to 50%...so you might on average lose 25%. (10 card deck +10 card deck = deck with 10 to 20 cards, averaging 15 cards).

Joining decks via the aforementioned "merge deck"/"merge two" mechanism or whatever you may call it effectively frees inventory slots, thus allowing more pickups. There certainly should be some kind of penalty. Losing one card surely seems not severe enough. Trading inventory slo...

Just bring back my sexy naga dominatrix! :mrgreen:

I always found Lamia to be a very imaginative and appropriate unique for Snake Pit. The idea of a ferocious female serpent heroine clad in magic armour and weaving mighty spells at her mesmerized victim...wow, very fitting indeed! What exactly was the reasoning behind removing this unique? Spider's ...

In my opinion the multitudes of decks cluttering the inventory is a major annoyance when playing Nemelex , so I'd like to readdress a possible "merge decks" ability which has been discussed before. Merge decks *****: comes with a hefty piety cost and allows combining decks of the same kind...

Losing your Level 27 Troll to hunger in the midst of a prolonged fight because you somehow ignored the big red "starving" warning while happily tabbing away, thinking "I'll FEAST on their corpses!" can really make you feel like a royal dumbass (and quite right so!). :lol:

After more than a year of near constant crawling, it finally happened: I came to the point, where more and more of my deceased characters fail to enter my personal highscore table even after collecting some runes, because of the minimum score being too high. At the moment it's at about 190.000, whic...

Finding that timed bazaar portal while carrying 82 gold pieces...

According to the Learndb Giant Eyeballs don't respect magic resistance, so what are the estimated chances they'll paralyze you? Is it a flat chance (for example 25% chance per turn spent in their vincinity) or is it modified by any factors?

@Sprucery: While having some source of flight available ist always handy, it's in no way mandatory in the labyrinth, since those mentioned loot vaults surrounded by moats are really quite rare. Wasting time and turns/food in the labyrinth to go out and actively search these is not a good idea imho. ...

Hello, fellow crawlers, long time lurker here. I love Crawl but always found the standard game taking quite a bit too long. The game seems to "drag" in later stages, and I found myself prone to quitting/premature ascending because of declining interest or deaths born out of tedium because ...

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Re: Make charms reserve life.

Re: HP-powered wands

Re: Problem with "gourm

Re: Changes to make Crawl harder

Re: Auto-purge morgue of chars files not in highscore list

Auto-purge morgue of chars files not in highscore list

Re: Include a "drop and never pick up again" command

Re: Include a "drop and never pick up again" command

Include a "drop and never pick up again" command

Re: Remove extended?

Re: Tedium and the Illusion of Lethality

Re: Cut Lair to 4 levels, make a new Lair-difficulty branch

Re: Sif Muna revamp

Re: Rods: do you use them?

Re: Realtime Mode!

Re: Sif Muna revamp

Re: The Crawl Light thread

Re: Surviving the new abyss

Re: Please bring back Lamia

Re: Please bring back Lamia

Re: Please bring back Lamia

Re: Please bring back Lamia

Re: Nemelex reform

Re: Nemelex reform

Re: Please bring back Lamia

Please bring back Lamia

Re: Nemelex reform

Re: I think we learned an important lesson today.

minimum score to enter your personal high score table

Re: I don't love it when...

Giant eyeballs

Re: Am I missing something here? (Labrinyth

Option for adjustable dungeon complexity/gamelength