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Even games that tell you almost nothing else in the way of statistics provide numbers for damage dealt after a hit lands. It's by no means a meaningless, abstract, or incomprehensible value. Hiding it is as weird as hiding the player's HP, in my view. (Wait, I said I *didn't* want to argue this, my ...

Even games that tell you almost nothing else in the way of statistics provide numbers for damage dealt after a hit lands. It's by no means a meaningless, abstract, or incomprehensible value. Hiding it is as weird as hiding the player's HP, in my view. (Wait, I said I *didn't* want to argue this, my ...

I've been playing for about a month and a half, and what I've learned the hard way is that 1) the notion that you can play this game based on the information that it gives you, without outside help or spoilers, is just not remotely true. and 2) autoskilling is apparently some kind of prank by the d...

It is a design decision for crawl to not give you damage numbers and I think it is very unlikely to be changed. Posting here is not even talking to the correct people if you are trying to get that changed. I don't want to argue about it but I am curious about the justification for it because I can'...

How is "roguelike" an effective marketing buzzword anyhow?

I've been playing for about a month and a half, and what I've learned the hard way is that 1) the notion that you can play this game based on the information that it gives you, without outside help or spoilers, is just not remotely true. and 2) autoskilling is apparently some kind of prank by the de...

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Re: Understanding spell power

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

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