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For the record: console glyphs can most definitely give information about a monster's danger level. Crawl, for example, tends to have the "dangerous" variant of a monster have a lighter-colored glyph: orc warrior -> orc knight, lich -> ancient lich, centaur/orc -> centaur warrior/orc warri...

The question isn't what the OP should or could have done to avoid heavy draining, or how rare this level of draining is. The issue is this: if extremely heavy draining (i.e. all skills to zero, like the OP) is basically just a protracted death sentence, that's unfun and should be changed. I don't kn...

Denying stair use while monsters are visible would greatly increase the power of wands/spells of Invis. So just restrict those to the player and possibly their allies. Seriously, could there ever be any non-degenerate reason for players to make hostile monsters invisible? I'm sure someone could com...

Why not just go full Brogue and make *all* monsters have infallible cross-level radar?

The descriptions for positive resistance are fine as-is, in my opinion - there's no need for perfect symmetry. "It is resistant to X" conveys both the decreased damage and potential resistance to status effects. The problem is that there's no similar word that works well for negative resis...

If scroll of noise became scroll of flash as proposed, encounters like these would cease to be interesting, because you could just blow the consumable and light up the invisible monster. It would be easy, automatic, optimal, and boring. Think about it, how many times per game is monster invisibilit...

Remove wearing rings. Rings have their effect just by being in inventory. Multiple rings of the same type don't stack unless you're an octopode. Larn does this. It works pretty well there, but it would be a *huge* player buff in DCSS. Perhaps if it were accompanied by making rings much, much rarer ...

Serious question: what do you think Fox Form adds to this? Of course it's very thematic, but the only real advantage they get from it is Fast 1. Even before the aptitude increases this isn't a particularly weak race, especially since (past the very early game) they will have a lot more ready access ...

Having resistances not be swappable is far more interesting in my opinion, and it makes way for potential design space based on creating more enemies that increase the importance of resistances. This design space is already occupied by AC/EV and earth casters/melee monsters. It's one huge resistanc...

99% of the time the player is going to want to rest until full health before exploring, so why not cut out the extra tedium? That's really not true. A lot of trivial encounters might leave you at >80% HP. Many players would gladly accept the marginally increased danger in exchange for shaving off a...

Another option would be to rapidly rot health. This would be kinder than instant triple-stat-zero (which has a good chance of being fatal if there are even any moderate-power monsters around), but nastier than just rotting stats (since rotted health requires consumables to fix).

Does lignification still stop hunger? If so that may well be a more desirable option than eating a ration, depending on the situation.

I'm usually a supporter of showing more numbers, but I honestly think a graphical display is more informative. The way that stealth calculations work involves a lot of magic numbers - adjustments for spells, monster intelligence, etc - which would make it very difficult for the player to know at al...

Or just display the numeric value already. I'm usually a supporter of showing more numbers, but I honestly think a graphical display is more informative. The way that stealth calculations work involves a lot of magic numbers - adjustments for spells, monster intelligence, etc - which would make it ...

I think it's fine - a wand is still an extremely limited consumable for most characters, and having a wand that works against most monsters isn't a bad thing.

Have ghosts drop all their sweet, sweet artifact gear on death... =) That will never happen: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:planning:wont_do . I do wonder if the devs would be friendlier to the idea of ghosts dropping a single good item upon being killed (an item unrelated to what t...

Elliptic's streak of 43 has several non-fast spellcasters: TeCj, KoEE, VSEE, NaNe, DDFi, KoCj, OpMo, CeCK, DgEE, MiCK, HEAs, VSFi, CeAE, DrAr, OgNe, NaBe, HuAE, SpAM, OpFE, DDAs, FoSk, SpIE, VSSk, GrTm, HOSk, HOGl, MiAK, HuAK, OgHu, DDAr, FoFE, MiWr, DrVM, SpWz, TrVM, GrBe, TrAE, FeCj, MfAs, GhWr, ...

Having scrolls and potions autoidentified would be a huge buff to the early game. Imo such buff is not needed. It doesn't have to be. Instead of making scrolls and potions less frequent overall to compensate, you could keep the generation the same, but erase the first one generated, simulating a pl...

Ydeve already covered most of what I was going to say, but to add: items or artifacts that gives you mutation ability like breath weapon Maybe this is just me, but I personally dislike active abilities that aren't from spells, gods, or species. It's very easy to forget to use them, since they're a) ...

"The Shining One is a very gregarious god, and rewards worshipers who meet as many new friends as possible!" More seriously, just say "The Shining One likes it when you meet non-evil creatures, and when you kill evil creatures." I feel like 'determine whether they need to be erad...

-strict food supply, so you can't spend many turns on healing HP Brogue does this. It's awful , since you spend half your time pressing ssssssssssss at apparent blank spots on the map, as one missed food ration can be a death sentence. There are literally two rings (clairvoyance and awareness) whos...

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but this is something the developers have long tried to address, and so far there's no way that even comes close to satisfying everyone. The entire race of Deep Dwarves was conceived as a foray into ways to avoid constant resting. Frankly, I've never seen...

Check the .lst file at the end. In theory it won't catch items in Pan/Abyss, but those are pretty infrequent.

I'm neutral on whether the mercenary card should stay or go, but to respond to your two points: 1. Mercenaries die easily due to bad AI and AoE effects I don't see a problem with this, as long as it isn't avoidable in some silly way. Most cards are not meant to be game-changing effects, especially a...

Motivation: Decision fatigue is a real problem in roguelikes. You encounter hundreds or thousands of items in a given game, only 52 of which you can carry. Now probably the majority of these items are worthless to your character, but enough fall in the "maybe" category that you are freque...

I fail to see how this proposal stops running upstairs to press 5. Sure, you can't come back down the same flight of stairs because you have low AC and tons of monsters waiting there, but there are 3 flights of stairs... ETA: Also, any caster with experience would not be surrounded with a bunch of ...

All characters, melee, caster, and ranged would have to think more carefully about how much of a group they can kill - I don't think that's a problem, and it works very well in Brogue. It's not even that huge a nerf to casters anyway: if you manage to run out of MP attacking a large group of monster...

One solution would be to combine IVAN and Brogue: ⋅ IVAN: You can run, doubling your movement speed or more, but after a fairly short period it massively hampers your combat abilities, and also increases food consumption. ⋅ Brogue: Monsters can follow you across levels, and group...

My only (fairly minor) suggestion would be to repeat unchanged nonzero skill levels. That way, by reading down a column, you can get a nice snapshot of what the character looked like at that XL.

Seriously, bump the AC up to 20, with an extra +1 every 5 levels, or maybe 15 with +2 every 5 levels. Assuming all other slots filled, that leaves you with 37AC, which is a decent amount (though for an AC-based character it would still be 'good, not great') - as it is right now, you end up with 22AC...

Yes I know some in this thread are just being tongue-in-cheek at this point, but seriously, I can't see the developers, wanting to introduce a new feature, hiding it behind a <1/22 dice roll that requires you to use a fairly game-altering feature. Remember that most players already aren't going to t...

There can still be a hunger cost I suppose, but if you were playing a spriggan you might not want to do this passively. You could have two abilities, a channel ability as now, and a "toggle auto-channeling" ability (they could be a and A, to make it clear that they're related). As for the...

You could in theory disallow the use of unarmed as well, but this doesn't really offer anything interesting, it just means you no longer have a decent choice for dealing with popcorn and have to stair dance to recover mana a lot more often. It could offer something interesting. Having *no* melee op...

Imps teach elemental users to avoid and ignore threats they can't fight. That's VMs, necromancers and FEs. The problem is, they don't. As duvessa pointed out, anyone can just grab a nearby battleaxe and eventually squash them, and the XP they give usually makes the tedium worthwhile. Worms work wel...

dpeg wrote:Tomb: Carring the golden rune makes you immune to mummy death curses.

This seems like it'd make some Zig levels significantly easier. I doubt it's a huge issue, but it does make the effect a little less localized.

HbG: I don't think current inventory management is bad enough to force this. But yes, I believe that the proper solution to item management is non-persistent items: you only have what you carry, all the rest disappears. That way, picking up and dropping are properly meaningful, and there's no trash...

How about reversing this idea a bit, by making it so you need the rune to wear the item? The game lets you know what (some of) the reward for the branch will be, which may affect your decision on whether or not to do it. Unfortunately this only really works for static, optional runes: the Hells, Tom...

Considering that mass summons is a very effective way to take down juggs, giving them cleave certainly would make them more dangerous. No, it makes them harder to kill. Since there are plenty of other ways to take them down that aren't affected by cleaving, it doesn't really make them more dangerou...

A simple solution to the ally cheese problem is to just make juggs' attacks cleave. Even sputterflies wouldn't stand up long to that, and cleaving wouldn't make juggs particularly more dangerous otherwise.

* the harm part could be something else than additional damage (e.g. stat rot etc.) I'd suggest occasional brief and incurable tactical effects on receiving damage, as opposed to strategic ones like stat rot. The vertigo status introduced for the amulet of dismissal sounds like a good possibility, ...

while mostly being no brainers, they add an element of flavor that I sort of like about the game Unfortunately, this is a very good reason to try and remove them. I'm like 90% sure the only reason they haven't been removed is that any potential solution to do so has to work with Ashenzari. For what...

Ashenzari can passively stop the normal curse timeout, and if you want an item uncursed under her you can pay a large amount of piety to have her allow you to do it. Say, about the amount that you lose for unequipping an amulet of faith. A third of your piety is a LOT, especially given that this wo...

Give rods significantly better melee damage (make them slightly worse than a morningstar for, example.) Then have an evocations-dependent chance of triggering the rod effect (without expending charges) whenever you hit an opponent. http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Magical_staff Doesn't have to be redund...

Again, I now think that giving a temporary level of frail on equip is probably a better penalty, since it has a similar effect but wears off naturally instead of being a small potion of curing tax. This is perhaps a discussion for another thread, but why not just XP-gate rot itself? Failing that, a...

Armour already has a really good mechanic to prevent swapping that doesn't arbitrarily punish some species more than others, why not extend the same mechanic to amulets and be done with it. On the devwiki, one of the other suggested costs for the amulet of regeneration was torment. Torment upon equ...

its not like you can switch to stasis or anything... That can be dealt with. Easy (and general) way would be to make stasis- or -Tele-blocked teleportations not decrement the XP timer. This could also need to be accompanied by giving stasis itself XP-expiring -Tele (basically a temporary -Tele muta...

Don't know if anyone has suggested this, but temporary Teleportitis 3 seems like a much better penalty for removing an amulet of dismissal. Thematic, non-permanent, not strictly consumable-dependent, and shouldn't really be scummable.

dynast wrote:What about MR? I think thats the first step to not get annoyed by banishments

Um, no:

Good Design: Bad decision results in player death, loss of consumables, etc.
Bad Design: Bad decision results in five to fifteen minute annoyance.

Wouldn't it be possible to give server admins the authority to block a given player from leaving ghosts? This sounds like something that's best left to the discretion of individual admins, rather than any one global policy. As a side benefit, server admins being able to block players from leaving gh...

Here's a suggested rework: The spell, instead of having a duration, has a spellpower-based chance of ending for every HP it gives you. The intensity of regeneration is based on tension, fading to zero at sufficiently low tensions (so you can't just kite a rat around for regeneration). This would be ...

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