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A few years ago I drew some fanart depicting the star-crossed romance between Trog and Sif:

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Should I submit it as a splash screen?

Thanks for doing that. Items tab is within a whisker of being finished. Let me know if I can organize the information better - Wensleydale was talking about having identical text fields marked as such. Not that you shouldn't thank nicolae, but you especially shouldn't thank me, as the one who's had...

Creating a continuously-updated webtiles trunk might be on the agenda for some future date, but up until this point its only developer (edlothiol) has been busy working to achieve feature parity with both local tiles (mouse support) and console mode (ttyrec playback). As ever, if there's some featur...

Furthermore, I would be surprised if Courier New (or, for that matter, any default fixed-width font on any machine in this hemisphere) featured support for Japanese glyphs. Webtiles might still be able to get by with the inherent font substitution capabilities of web browsers, but for now it's proba...

I added more descriptions for altars, traps, stairs, hatches etc. Also, I would like to know, how much in-game space is there for the quotations texts (spaces in row and lines)? Please limit quote text (including attribution lines and such) to at most 20 lines, where each line may be at most 80 cha...

Monster descriptions patch part deux is complete, submission to dpeg for review forthcoming. There are still a handful of monsters whose descriptions I felt could be better; as ever, these have been marked with "no" in their description review column for easy perusal, and comments left on ...

Starting work on finishing off the monster descriptions today. Are there any grey-background cells that you know of that have been edited but have not had their background changed to blue? I've noticed there's a few blue-background cells that have not had their corresponding `status` cell changed fr...

What a coincidence, I've actually taken advantage of the holidays to finish up the suggested revisions from dpeg's last round of criticism. The patch is in his mailbox right now. In the meantime, here's the list of his criticisms that are more editorial in nature, that I leave for your perusal: Ther...

Awesome, I like it. :) You don't need to submit it to the mantis, I'll submit it as part of my Moth of Frailty patch (which might not be for a while, though).

moth_of_delusion.png moth_of_delution_2.png I took a shot at it. Do you like either of these? -cjo Hmm... color it green, clean up the patterns on the wings, and give it a well-defined outline and I'd be happy to use it for my next moth, the Moth of Frailty. :) In this round, however, the ever-inde...

Grimm wrote:I suspect we need to put name changes on the wiki. Is that so?

Nope, I'll make name changes the very last thing that I do for the monsters tab, as long as dpeg signs off on each one.

Speaking of which, I'll see if I can get some work done on patches today.

I'm making a few new moth monsters, and I'm dissatisfied with the current moth tiles. Specifically, their wings are too small, making them look more like dragonflies. I'd like to see a moth tile with an emphasis on wing size, without being absurdly out of proportion. For this first round, I'm asking...

I think it could be worth making an explicit separation between strategic and tactical items, thus I can see myself getting behind new-but-similar item categories for strategic items. For instance, strategic potions could become balms and strategic scrolls could become vellums . The (admittedly slig...

Curio wrote:carp. You know, like those from another game. :)

+1

Let's face it, we need more references to things that aren't Tolkien, D&D, or Nethack :P

*dodges brick thrown by dpeg*

The books look okay to me, but they should get different titles (typo on the second one? :) ) and I wonder how they've been assembled? The were assembled with the goal of making each book roughly balanced while minimizing overlap between spells. The three most powerful eligible spells were Borg's, ...

nicolae: Slap together those spellbooks and I'd be happy to code it and submit a patch on your behalf. Cool, thanks! Here's my first attempt: { // Arcane Anthology I SPELL_SHROUD_OF_GOLUBRIA, SPELL_TUKIMAS_DANCE, SPELL_INTOXICATE, SPELL_LEDAS_LIQUEFACTION, SPELL_OZOCUBUS_REFRIGERATION, SPELL_FRAGME...

Sorry, I've been inordinately busy this past week. :) I'll have some free time to do text patching this weekend, though. I'll look into finishing up that quotes patch, monster name changes, and the Arcane Anthologies.

nicolae: Slap together those spellbooks and I'd be happy to code it and submit a patch on your behalf.

* Copies of descriptions should be avoided; use monspeak.txt-style references instead, if possible (if not, bug us until it is possible) Ugh, so now I have to read through this 915-line help file that describes how monspeak.txt works? :P Grimm: If you change any of the quotes that have been marked ...

I can't make sence out of double and triple swords. Tiles has you covered: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/source/rltiles/item/weapon/double_sword.png;h=47d1e54ac1f861a724fd072cd56f1d3140cd52c6;hb=HEAD http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/source/rl...

Finishing up the quotes patch today, don't freak out if the monsters tab looks like it is missing rows! That's called a filter!

Who says we can't change it? :) We have the power of computers! What format would you prefer?

Grimm: adjective changes are approved, although I'm still not sure where those nutrition adjectives are going to go once the food reform is complete. :P Also, I thought it was weird that all the ants had the same quote, so I've given soldier ants a new quote. This awaits your approval. Have you spec...

Grimm: with regard to the new adjectives, where did you intend for the nutrition adjectives for each type of permafood to be shown?

I'll try and finish off a quotes patch tonight. The adjective changes might be a little more tricky, and since they're a lot more visible (and potentially controversial) than changes to monster descriptions/quotes, I'd like dpeg to look at them first. Edit: I wouldn't say the monsters tab is coming ...

Also, I should mention that the patch was committed last night, just a few hours after being submitted:

https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commi ... 072afa737e

So go play trunk and enjoy the new monster descriptions!

...Oh, I had been including Oxford commas because I thought British guidelines favored them. :P In any case, I don't think I added too many. I'll keep that in mind for the future. To apply a filter to the spreadsheet, follow these steps: 1) Click on any cell in the first row of the table. 2) Above t...

Grimm: You're welcome! There was actually just one spelling mistake, "dessicated", and one punctuation error, which was a period where there ought to have been a comma and a space. I also periodically added a few oxford commas, but I wasn't trying to be exhaustive on that front. I've also ...

Monster Descriptions, Round 1 delivered: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4528 Notes: 1) This patch contains only descriptions, not quotes (those are for the next patch). Nor have any monster names been changed. 2) I wasn't 100% sure what Pharaonic Mummy and Vampire Count formerly referre...

Working on it right now, then. Consider the Monsters tab checked out until further notice.

Wow, this is really amazing. I love all the work that's been done here, and I'm very impressed at the self-organized nature of this effort. :D I'd be happy to format all the new text into a patch, if it's ready for it. Also, it would be great if we knew the names of everyone who helped out on this, ...

Mumra gives an excellent example of what we're looking for. Feel free to use his post as a template.

[UPDATE] Thanks for all the replies and discussion, everyone! It's been a month since this topic was posted, so let's look at the most popularly requested new features thus far: Tier 1: Abstract Demigod Worshipers (graciously undertaken by mumra) Hive Reform In-Game Autopickup (as an interface imple...

Are you following the instructions on the lower half of this page: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads ? Specifically, make sure that you haven't skipped the "git submodule update --init" step. Also, have you tried compiling normally, without tiles? To do so, just type "make&q...

Sorry we missed you in ##crawl-dev, Akhena! You came at a bit of a lull.

If you need any more help compiling, feel free to stop in!

From watching a few games with the damaging breath mechanic, I'm really happy with where catoblepae are balanced right now. Most 1v1 fights I see with them are incredibly tense. I think their tweaking is at last complete. :) But this does not mean that I will become complacent! Coming soon... THE CA...

Pressing ";" or using x will tell you if you are standing in a cloud, but it's not great to require an active command to tell if you are in a cloud. Maybe there should be a status indicator when you are standing in a cloud. But that area is pretty crowded already. The message that appears...

I must have just been mistaken.

In which case, catoblepae are more dangerous than ever, everywhere! Hooray!

I enjoy it when different monsters have different behaviors, and the new ranged AI doesn't exactly break anything nor is it strictly worse than the old behavior. I like it, but that doesn't mean that crawl's AI couldn't use some more improvements in general.

Now that I've had some playing experience against them, I think they're fine as is. Forcing you to move or initiate petrification otherwise is enough of a tactical issue with the dust attack that it doesn't need scratch damage. (And someone would find a way to exploit that scratch damage with other...

I've enjoyed them a lot more now that there are fewer, it got a bit much sometimes before. However, I'm not sure if a damage on hit would make them slightly too powerful, perhaps if it was on the low side of the damage 'sweet spot' it might not be too bad? I can imagine them becoming an annoying 'c...

Probably better to just make the breath petrify you when it hits; this is consistent with swamp dragon poison breath. That would make them approximately terrible, and specifically would make them awful. The point of the breath is not to petrify you, the point is to create discouraged terrain dynami...

From a lot of feedback, I'm toying with making the catoblepas' breath deal a little bit of damage when you are hit by the beam. This would only apply to the initial blast of dust, the clouds themselves will still do no damage. The goal is to have the amount of damage be in the sweet spot where heavi...

Mephitic Cloud is way too good against them. Not only does it confuse them, casting it on yourself prevents you from being petrified. Maybe this is one place where the spell power of cloud spells could be made to matter more: instead of one cloud preventing any other clouds from being created in th...

Just saw my first Catoblepas; tried Meph Cloud but it didn't work, gunned it down with an un-id'd wand which turn out to be a Wand of Cold. It didn't breath any clouds at me the whole time it charged me. Another turn and it'd probably have gored me anyway tho :) Meph works on them, although their H...

I keep getting them all over Lair in trunk, it's annoying. I would like to see Catoblepas bleed grey blood if possible; I think that might be amusing. Sorry about that, like I said, they will be much more rare in the 0.9 full release. Differently-colored blood is something that I would love , but a...

Hydralisk: part of my plan to make catoblepae a consistent threat was to ensure that they breathe enough that the dust clouds were pervasive. However, one of the recent buffs to catoblepae is that dust clouds are now guaranteed to last slightly longer, both in minimum duration and in maximum duratio...

I'm actually the guy who implemented catoblepae (sure, let's say that's the proper plural form) and I'm happy to see that you guys enjoy it (well, for the most part)! I'm actively soliciting feedback on ways to make them better, and in fact I've already submitted one patch with a few changes (all bu...

Request fulfilled! See here the lovely new catoblepas tile, courtesy of Denzi: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/file_do ... 5&type=bug

Have fun turning to stone, is all I have to say.

Both monsters are pretty rare, though.

Keep in mind these aren't the only creatures with petrification. Some enemy wizards can cast the spell, as per basilisks, and there are plans to possibly give petrifying breath to grey draconians.

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