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Can't you also cast sticky flame on trees

Removing the XP loss from drain would be a nice side effect of this, encouraging a lot of newer players to use a brand/spell they would otherwise avoid.

Idea- replace fish with Deep Ones, that spawn when you walk next to water/in water, but will follow you on land. This will actually make water more of the zoning obstacle it is meant to be. We had monster octopodes fulfilling this role for a short time and then they got removed again. I'm not reall...

Cursed equipment breaks on equip. This would be pretty cool in general. It's functionally the same as not generating that equipment in the first place, isn't it? Not necessarily. An orc warlord with a cursed -2 bardiche would be only slightly less effective at smacking you around than a warlord wit...

What I think I would prefer would be to make Warper a ranged start. It's in a kind of weird place as "gladiator with tloc spells, I guess?" and apport/blink/pproj in their starting book all have obvious ranged uses. Warper as a ranged start makes so much sense that I don't know how it has...

I think Inner Flame would be a lot less awkward to use if it just semi-bypassed MR like ?immolation does, and maybe had a long duration also like ?immo. Currently, you may need multiple casts of IF to get past the MR check, and then you still need to kill the monster before it gets into melee range ...

Patashu wrote:This could have surprising consequences (for example, dipping through an unexplored floor with nasties still around, because it saves some tiles).

That can already happen with the current algorithm, with the right circumstances. In fact, I died to it once.

and into wrote:Or just have the piety get quickly diminishing returns for high levels of training that taper off to a maximum. Probably you shouldn't be able to start off with more than ** or so piety this way.

Ah, a bit like converting between good gods then? That would be fair.

What about someone who converts to Sif Muna late in the game, already having a lot of spell skills? This sounds like it could result in being showered with quite a lot of books instantly, unless you scale differently for prior skill training.

I like most of the current holy enemies. I also felt that Silver Stars would have worked had their damage just been nerfed though, so take that with a grain of salt. EDIT: Also, I feel a small holy should be added so cherubs have something to buff. Perhaps priests or something? Holy Pan used to hav...

What if temperature was straightforwardly based on HP%, instead of tension and time? It's weird and not-good that it currently goes up constantly the longer you're in any monster's sight. I'm imagining it as being fixed to HP; e.g. 50% HP always meaning 50% temp.

Midpoint wrote:Flavor mods seem interesting, but let us keep a second small species!

What about Spriggan then? It's not like those are going away any time soon.

How would this affect mutation roulette? Does the current state of random mutation give you 50% good or 50% bad, or is a random mutation taken from all possibilities? Currently I feel like roulette gives me good mutations significantly more often than bad ones. Would this nerf roulette? (yes, I am a...

For a player who is casting Corpse Rot often, throwing corpses (or quivering them to be thrown later) is something that they will want to do often. Since corpses don't currently show up under the firing or quivering menus, this becomes an interface hassle as it means looking up the corpse's inventor...

Is the damage from /disint actually worth using? I've never used it for that past Lair or so, because it's usually too hard to get past the MR check.

Actually, I really like the sound of the weapon branding idea, especially now that the low-level branding spells have been removed. (see http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=641c57ee1a96169a7364f108604eb7169934e826 ) In this way, rings of fire/ice become damage-boosting rings for mele...

Tiktacy wrote:Make it be able to eat people. No, seriously, make it eat people.

Every crawl race other than Spriggan and Mummy already does this. (unless they worship Zin)

headcrab0803 wrote:doesnt inner flaming friendlies make them hostile or does that only work for players

Currently no monsters cast inner flame at all.

On a related note, can we remove sickness melee from other monsters too? Purple ugly things and ghouls have this too, and there sickness still accomplishes nothing. For purple very ugly things and ghouls you're even likely to quaff curing anyways because they also cause rot status. Ancient zymes in ...

The name "Welhas" sounds too much like Fedhas to me, so I took a stab at inventing some other W names. (warning: might be bad, i'm honestly not sure)

Wagyantsu
Wroxsent
Washorn
Whintavias
Wymbelteras

Since this is size-based, it means Centaur and Naga also do not get stealth penalties. Of these four, it doesn't matter in practice for Ce/Og/Tr, since those three have terrible stealth anyways. Probably 0 stealth since they typically favor wearing heavy armour. Na is the only one with good stealth,...

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. Why would that be a problem, really? There are already monsters of playable races that have monster-only spe...

What if a transmuter unique was a unique shapeshifter? He/she could shift to new forms that try to exploit holes in your resistances. If you lack rPois, spiderform. If you lack rC, iceform. Etc. This unique might need a tiered list for the case of where you are lacking multiple resistances, or might...

Unless it changed I had always felt like monster abjuration worked like player abjuration ... using Summon Dragon (the old spell, with the enormous duration) in tomb didn't lead to them getting abjured immediately. Using shorter duration summons did. I would still support a change to the monster ab...

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Re: Trees

Re: Draining monsters should be temporary

Re: Removal: Fish ponds

Re: What is the viability of a no-reading race?

Re: Replace inner flame in AM book with pproj

Re: Replace inner flame in AM book with pproj

Re: Allow autotravel to consider other floors

Re: Proposal: Sif Muna rewards prior knowledge

Re: Proposal: Sif Muna rewards prior knowledge

Re: Discussion of Holy Enemies

Re: Remove/Reform Lava Orcs

Re: Remove Halfling; Integrate into Kobold

Re: Bad Mutation Proposals

FR: Mark corpses throwable if you have Corpse Rot memorized

Re: Consolidate Digging and Disintegration

Re: rings of fire/ice

Re: Species: Yeti

Re: Suggestion for new unique: O'Malley

Re: Komodo dragons are pretty annoying

Re: Tloc God

Re: Stealth penalty for Og/Tr in shallow water

Re: Species Proposal - Giant Orange Brain

Re: Unique: Alford

Re: Monster abjuration