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Sounds like you are making cheibriados a race.

Holy's not even particularly valuable in a 3 rune game. Very little in the dungeon, lair, the lair branches, slime, vaults, depths, and zot respect it.

You'd much rather have anti-magic or vampirc. Also farming TSO piety before extended is like pulling teeth.

I don't think its a part of the game that needs made easier, but things could definitely be made more clear. This is a huge decision making point, and unless you know more then you should about the game, more then the game tells you, then you are doing it with imperfect information and though trial ...

Not directly related to delver, but this background does make me wish sif muna would give a random basic starting spell book at 1*. Having a third "break into spellcasting" god would greatly improve the lives of our delving deep elf and felid friends.

The idea that you need to put experience into it's skill to make use of something is one of the biggest traps in DCSS, even with low intelligence and no spell training a naked character with time for a few attempts could get an item off a teleport trap with apportation. Potions of brilliance and rin...

You feed scrolls and books to the hat, as it consumes magical lore it becomes more powerful, giving larger bonuses and eventually casting spells on it's own.

If you're a berserker and Trog finds out you're dating a magic hat you get kicked out of the basement and have to find an apartment to live in.

Yah, you can get banished just fine with mr +++, the gear is fine, in particular the slay means that if you're actually hitting the lich with that damage it becomes dubious value to take it off. Very unfortunate with the enchant armor scroll rng but that's life.

The proper fix is probably to make confusing touch check MR and scale with spellpower. Then you go though, and you give a number to some of these early-mid game, low-mid hd magic immune monsters that stabbers are relying on confusing touch to deal with. I might even go with some blanket, stupid rule...

Slow isn't exactly amazing, but it's silly to rate as the worst level 2.

You can't just say that without offering a lamb to the slaughter. What, in your opinion, is the level 2 spell worse then slow?

svendre wrote:Kind of funny we see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but I consider animate skeleton pretty crappy but CT very powerful.

Oh well that makes everything clear, we're talking about different video games.

Riposte isn't worth saving, merge blades already having a big stabbing weapon is fun. Then you can go balance hexs without ruining a core crawl playstyle.

Flame Tongue, pain, magic dart, all the damage level 1's are quite fine at 1mp. If you're looking to balance low level spells it would be better to just bump the animate skeletons of the magic world up to level 2. Probably all non-damage level 1 spells, summon small mammal is the only one that might...

The Reason to keep confusing touch: It's a balanced way for stabbers to confuse not top-end Hit Dice MR - Immune monsters, a subset of monsters that has no right to be as populated or as totally hexproof as they are. The Reason to get rid of or rework confusing touch - monster HD is never shown to t...

I really like confusing touches ability to confuse certain "MR: Immune" monsters, because i think the number of monsters with "MR: Immune" is way way too high. The idea of removing or "nerfing" a spell that can confuse a high MR monster for a few turns because it is too...

God forbid any hex do anything past lair

What kind of hooligan would run up and slap a panlord anyway? No decent self respecting off screen fire storming theoretically optimal player that's for sure. Slapping a pan lord to make them dizzy, who thinks of this stuff?

I've done Trog -> TSO a few times. Earning the experience need to end the the wrath in abyss seems to me to be the best place to do it. Trog has one of the meaner wraths, with the multi turn "pass out" in particular making it dangerous to take to high level areas, but if you're tough enoug...

Goblins have -2 to all aptitudes, including hp exp and mp, and are also small size with appropriate weapons restrictions. The gods Okawaru,Trog, and Gozag will not accept them.

Goblins advantage are that they are awarded times two to all scoring at the end of the game.

Necromutation removes the food clock, allowing for millions of turns to meticulously reveal each unseen tile of a floor in a theoretically optimal, perfectly safe manner.

I definitely think Stochastic fits DCSS much better, same game interferes too much with the procedural generation and introduces things like knowing you're going to see a certain unique later because you saw an initial version of it, so you do things to prepare for the fight you know you will encoun...

With Chei, or really most gods with piety abilities, the only thing that's going to get faith off my neck is a very powerful artifact (something much better then the brooch of Shielding, either heavy slaying or amulet of the four winds levels of powerful rare resistances). Also the reason to not swa...

I've been playing almost exclusively mummy these last few months and feel the complete opposite about fire resistance. Starting with rf- feels really terrible, but as soon as you have one reliable source of rf+ it's not bad at all. Fire resistant gear is common enough that compensating for it in the...

I'm kind of a fan of what is done now, taking it on a race by race basis, with some set in stone, some chosen and some random. However, i think that maybe too many races are random, and random stat gain could be adjusted with a change to some races. For example i think full random perfectly fits dem...

I would be against any change that makes polearms less busted because axes are nearly always the wins most choice outside of 0 skill weapon use. I don't want another long blades situation where all it does is punish already weaker races cursed with aptitudes not suited for axe wielding by giving the...

Can a game have a mode where you play without random but with manual stat gain? so you can actually choose what stat you can gain? This game actually does have that mode! I get annoyed by them sometimes too, but not all races have random stat gains, here are the ones without them Always Strength - ...

"Hits that take 25% or more of your maximum HP will generate friendly, high-end jellies, similar to the effect of the royal jelly. Symbol of Torment doesn't count. (Passive)" I just wanted to ask/talk about the specific interaction between Jyva's protector jellies and torment. Why is this ...

But I don't agree that, assuming its mechanics are clearly conveyed, corr should affect ac, sh, and ev equally. Characters that are built differently should have to evaluate threats differently. I kind of agree with this, but , even taking this stance, things are clearly heavily imbalanced right no...

duvessa wrote:rPois has a 2/3 chance of preventing the paralysis or slowing.

So it's an MR check that also checks poison resistance?

You are allowed to keep it in the game, but only if you put how absurd the mechanic is in the 'v' description.

If you stand and swing at nothing with an axe, will the cleaving catch it if it's in any of the tiles around you or just the one you swing at?

My personal weakness is Felid, i'd have every race marked off if not for those damn cats. The only race that cannot make use of the insanely broken axe weapon, only race that cannot make use of the insanely broken (f)ire command , extremely low hp and ac, your best bet is to try to get good enough a...

The thing that makes it hard for me to see is the shared colors, the orange satyrs and gold armored merfolk as well as some of the giants that appear are a little too close to the bright tan beach, and some merfolk swimming sprites have a light blue tail that blends into shallow water abit too well.

The game already has mechanics that encourage hybridization, like the way the more experience you put into your primary skills the less cost it is equivalently to level points into others. And the fact that most races have skills that are very cheap to delve into (like MfSu with the big shiny +4 and...

If you just can't stop tabstorming, try this one in the init file to stop your tabbing when you get low on hp, the 80 stands for 80% of your max hp, adjust to your taste. autofight_stop = 80 That one did wonders for me, it's not good play at all to rely on it, but sometimes having the game take tab ...

I feel like zdzichorowerzysta is setting up elaborate deathtraps for his characters, asking the forum to save his character from said death trap, taking all of the solutions given, then setting up new elaborate deathtraps with none of those options available.

I might not be the target audience for a "beginner" mage race, but as someone who gets very frustrated with mage backgrounds I want to share my thoughts on what turns me off. * Spell hunger is really punishing, and not in an "i'm going to run out of food kind of way. In a "you ar...

I've been on the #removefood train since the first game i played in the year 2013, but if these are the serious alternatives i might have to rethink my position.

Two things i notice right away

It doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between "Escaped" and "Escaped with the orb"

Monsters and some of their effects are separate in the kill listings (adder's poison) (jelly's acid) (large rock thrown by a cyclops)

I just realized, that first folder is only the games i played on one of the servers, since games from different online servers are saved separately, here is my other online morgue folder. Ready for more headache? This server saves the files in the offline style :lol: On the other hand maybe that mea...

I downloaded my online webtiles morgue files and uploaded them to google drive, it's a pretty thick folder but the files seem to be saved slightly differently then the way the offline version saves them, i hope it's not a problem.
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Man i was excited for this but my page is still 10 months old.

I tried starting a webtiles game and Qing out, any idea if there's a certain version or server i could poke around on to give it the kick in the butt it needs.

The uniques that commonly wield distortion are incredibly balanced, with Sonja in particular appearing so late that there's no real excuse for a character that can't deal with her by the time they see her. And working around a monster with the brand even on the extremely early floors is usually very...

Casual mode was born for this, turn off clock of doom in casual, normal hellcrawl stays super intense.

Anti scumming mechanic is that no matter how much you scum you're still a casual.

you can explain how LRD, CBL, or Simulcrum aren't a huge bonus, sure... I mean, if you place two identical characters next to each other, one with fancy set of castable spells and one without any, the one with spells going to be a lot stronger. And "opportunity cost" alone against the ver...

The reason i don't like this is because i don't trust the games definition of "useless", for example if i get resist poison though a potion of mutation then the game thinks all rings of poison resistance are "useless" even though i might end up wanting one, just put the item on t...

With a low aptitude for spellcasting I like to train that early since I plan on auxillary casting. Biggest mistake you are making, this character archetype as nothing to lose and everything to gain from replacing spell casting entirely with invocations evocations. A GrFi should not be opening a boo...

?Blink left, ?fog and run. I think a less resource intensive and safer way to achieve that would be climb up read teleport climb down while it's channeling. Crypt could be a good place to level up and find items before handling this encounter, just know when to bail if it's an especially deadly cry...

It's similar to the distortion question for me. Do you keep on an item that, while situationally useful for some characters, is mostly dangerous to use in combat in order to try and build up your power level to the point where yanking it off can't outright end you? Or do you take it on the nose and ...

It's a risk reward thing for me, most amulets don't help much, and harm hurts allot. If there where amulets that helped a character as much as harm hurt them i might take the risk more, but i don't feel like there is. When i wear id amulets i never think of what good one it might be i'm always think...

I really enjoy throwing tactics, but dislike the inventory management hell i find myself in when i focus on and try to make full use of the skill. So much so that i find myself strategically choosing races that hold on to less gear when i want to make a throwing focused character. I'd like to see a ...

It might be Gozag, he stops dragons and trolls from dropping their armor when he turns their bodies to gold.

OgGl of Oka , asking fee 15 curing potions, version .20

3 crystal balls of energy

2 fan of gales

2 lightning rods

7 scrolls of recharging

A box of Beats

A phial of floods

A wand of scattershot

A wand of confusion

The +3 Elemental Staff {rElec rF++ rC++ MR++ AC+5}

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