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Building on Jeremiah's idea, what if all buff spells worked like this... Any spell marked as a buff does not cost MP to cast, and were always 100% successful when cast. Casting the spell would give you a permanent status which would only stop when the spell was cast again. To replace the normal MP c...

I just can figure the Berserker out. In the later game you die so easy its crasy. Multiple times I have had characters with over 100 or 200 hit points and they die from one attack. Everything seams good, your tacking little hits and at almost max life, then death in one turn. I wish there was a way...

I think you might be confusing mountain dwarves with Kenku. Kenku (A copyrighted bird folk from D&D) was changed to Tengu (A bird like creature from Japanese mythology) to avoid potential issues. At least that's what the wiki says, that change was before my time so I may be mistaken.

Can Ru offer you sac hand (or another big sacrifice) if your piety is at a point where some of the piety gained would be wasted? Like would he give it to you if you already close to 6 stars . If he can, how much piety does sac hand give, and when does it become a completely bad idea to take it? Com...

Can Ru offer you sac hand (or another big sacrifice) if your piety is at a point where some of the piety gained would be wasted? Like would he give it to you if you already close to 6 stars . If he can, how much piety does sac hand give, and when does it become a completely bad idea to take it?

If you're playing a transmuter and you find an early helm and boots what do you do? Is losing the 1 AC worth having beastly appendage usable. If you keep one slot open which one is a better choice?

1. Just make all enemies faster than the average player. 2. That would just force you to retreat, stair dance and rest more often. Just stop spawning helpless and easy monsters. 3. I could see this being fun if luring, especially between floors, wasn't so easy, But as things stand now it would be te...

I use my mouse to cast, but "I have a bad habit" was hyperbole I've done it like once before now and a few times this game because I left blink near charm spells in my spell bar. I was hitting all my buffs and then accidentally clicked blink. It feels like I do it a lot because the few tim...

I have a nasty habit of accidentally casting the basic blink spell when I don't mean to. I don't think I've died because of it yet but have had a few close calls. Is there someway to set it so I get a y/n prompt when I cast blink? I'm playing downloaded tiles if that matters.

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Your XL 13 Gr with Zot 5 defenses got me thinking... Why is it relatively easy to get 15 runes as DEBe without leaving Trog? Why can't we have MiFE/TrSu join Vehumet/Sif Muna and kill most things with spells? Or can we? I think it's because Trog both enhances what you are already doing and compensa...

Sweet, thanks guys

Can anything in your current game have an effect on what you get when you use scrolls of brand weapon? According to the wiki, gods will prevent you from getting brands they disapprove of, but it's the wiki so...

Summons are always good on any character, and they can be particularly helpful on short blade users because of the low tier stabs they set up. Even just using mammals or imps has a small but noticeable impact. Also, there are two good spells that use hexes, summon mana viper and spectral weapon (whi...

What if you remove deaths door and instead give her something along the lines of guardian golem. This summon would make Nergalle 100% invulnerable until destroyed. You could take this one of two way. Either have the summon be really frail but Nergalle can resummon it fairly frequently, or make the s...

I'm playing a vine stalker enchanter of Makhleb, currently in shoals. I have three weapon choices a +0 dagger of electrocution, a +0 cutlass of speed, and a +4 cutlass of draining. I also have 2 enchant scrolls. Which if any of these weapons would you invest in? Because of VS bite I would think spee...

Thanks a lot!

How much noise does hellfire create? Specifically the hellfire charged bolts you fire out of the unrand crossbow. It seems to attract everything around but its hard to tell.

You mean like when people make poison arrow fields to use ignite poison on? I understand that, but remember it would cost around 5 mana to raise a single weapon from the floor, and it would be destroyed afterwards, meaning that you would have to farm for a lot of weapons to actually turn this into ...

Allow for targeting melee weapons on the floor, raising them for the duration and destroying it afterwards. This should never happen. If you can target random weapons on the ground it becomes an optimal strategy to either carry around a bunch of random weapons to drop and use, or set up killing fie...

... You run the risk of having a new enemy show up and catch you with your pants down. More frail characters can potentially be killed with one hit, or at least it seemed that way I never actually tried it. Regardless of whether the change to corrosion made the situation worse or not doesn't really...

I found a randart amulet with inaccuracy and rC++. Just wondering how bad inaccuracy is, and when, if ever, it is worth wearing.

While the recent change from permanent to temporary corrosion was overall great, there is one thing I feel it ruined. That is the Oklob plant. I find that now I can fight the plant over a long period of time, taking pot shots at it from the edge of its LOS, and running when it hits me. I can repeat ...

What about replacing paralysis with stun. Make it more likely to effect you but have it only last 1-2 turns. This would be less likely to outright kill you but could still have a large impact on combat.

Is it possible to see what was in a shop after your character has died? My last character found an antique shop with a randart pearl dragon armor but I died before I could buy it. Its properties where hidden and I'm curious as to what they were.

Would it be possible to implement a dismiss ability for permeate ally gods? Using the ability would either temporarily remove allies from the game until you recall them, or send them to a preset location. This would prevent situations like this, and improve the interface, removing situations where y...

After playing a few felids and octopodes I liked there limited gear, but found that they both played similarly(Good stabbers or casters but frail with little armor making melee limited). I thought it would be nice to have a very limited gear species more apt to mixing it up in melee. My thought even...

duvessa wrote:How is that difference anything other than one of convenience?

Its risky using rings for long flights without land in-between . I don't think that comes up often enough or is relevant enough when it does to warrants having the two mechanics but its there.

Thanks, thats what I figured but wanted to double check. I probably wouldn't have got the amulet either way but was curious.

Lord of the rings - Have you read past Tom Bombadil or can you literally not read it? Once you get past him things get better, and once you get through the fellowship it really starts to pick up. It took me years and like a dozen attempts to get through Tom fucking Bombadil but it was well worth it...

So I just found an artifact amulet in a shop, Its description reads {Ward rN+ Str+3}. Will this give me 2 levels of rN or is it showing the rN ward always has?

I've only played a black drac like once or twice so take my opinion with that in mind. I found his breath attack to be frustrating because of how unreliable it was, but fun because of how random it was. To explain further, because I think my last statement made exactly no sense, the thing I like abo...

As long as your inventory has a space limit stashing items in some form will be part of crawl. Stashing creates tedium, whether you pile your stuff in one place or leave it strewn about the dungeon you have to run to get it. Stashing is also fairly spoilery. Where is it safe to leave gear? will mons...

I've never liked Orbs of fire. Having one of the game biggest late game threats be so heavily reliant on fire alone always seemed odd. Plus the flavor of them having malmute is off. And they look like orbs of destruction and ball lighting, the first time I encountered one I thought a draconian scorc...

I'm in the same boat as Damiac, I had no idea HP could vary. For an unspoiled player figuring out how much damage you are doing between different weapons is one of the hardest things to really get a handle on. Having a variable that is completely hidden and can vary largely seems to make it far more...

Abyss is god awful plus the added dollop of awful tacked on because kobolds can randomly send me there. Shoals are pretty painful too. Unless I have perma-fly/swim then its one of my favorites. Tomb could use some improvement but is alright. The rest of the game is good.

Just lost an incredibly promising Hobbit to the nest. Granted it had nothing to do with spiders and everything to do with Kirke and the fact that she can summon Sphinxes now.

Ring of Air - Air Enhancer. EV + 5, rElec, Permaflight, AC - 10. 'You feel attuned to the air.' I feel like this one has a little to much going on for a normal ring but would make a cool unrand Ring of Earth - Earth Enhancer. AC + 10, rElec-, EV - 5. Forbids flight. 'You feel attuned to the earth.'...

This sounds really cool, i'd love to see this be made.

Have you ever heard of the Lost Kingdoms series or the Baten Kaitos series. Both are card based RPGs, and while both are more action based they could be a good source of inspiration.

I'm playing a Felid Berserkers and found an amulet of the gourmand. I don't have another amulet yet and was wondering if gourmand does anything for my cat.

sanka wrote:If the weapon is identified, it is usually displayed in the text message. Then you can easily set up a *more* prompt. No checking is needed.

Very true, I have a bad habit of ignoring the text box and didn't think of setting a prompt.

force players to obsessively count melee hits and then still get banished anyway. Thats a good point, if the amount of distortion you receive was fixed as I proposed it would be optimal to keep track of every hit. The amount you receive should be variable to prevent this. Something close to 3-7 wou...

Currently distortion weapons are one of the closest things crawl has to one hit kills. An unassuming kobold can fatally banish, or teleport a promising character and there is very little the player can do about it. To mitigate this I propose that distortion weapons have their effect build up in a si...

Permanent invis seems like it would be to powerful, and not change the way you play all that much. What if instead, you would become invisible after resting, then you'd have a set number of moves before becoming visible, or each move has a % chance to turn you visible. Although with no hunger clock ...

Thanks for the advice guys.

I'm playing a Halfling hunter with a sling, worshiping Oka. I was lucky enough to find a plain longsword and the Sword of Jihad by floor 5 so long blades are definitely calling my name. Given Halfling's aptitudes what would be the best way to train, go strait into long blades, or train short blades ...

Pain does that with Necro (being very rare unless you are of Kiku nonewithstanding). Doing it with Earth (as the only elemental school that doesn't have one [though Flaming/Freezing/Elec just use the dam type and not boosted by the spell school]) and Translocations instead too weird. Earth magic do...

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Fireballs deal the same damage no matter what part of the 3x3 square hits, correct? The center isn't more powerful or anything.

If elven armour were to disappear would there be a chance of seeing a light, magical, or well crafted Ego that lessens an armour's encumbrance rating or spell casting penalty?

Maybe combine Elf/Dwarf into Master work which has less encumbrance and resists corrosion.

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