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To avoid the special strategizing and gear-check aspect, instead of changing OoFs, more flavored orbs of roughly similar difficulty could be added: Orb of Cold: Glaciate, Freezing Cloud, high AC, rC+++, rF- Storming Orb: Chain Lightning, ??? Arcane Orb: pure conjurations, very high MR etc. Your prec...

xentronium wrote:This is a great idea! We can go further-different attack types can be implemented for other useless keys, together with special secret combo moves that depend on what race you're playing. There can be throwing moves, blocking moves, etc...

so basically ToME4

Crawl doesn't need more sources of permanent allies. Sources of permanent allies: Yred gifts and Enslave Soul, Beogh orcs, Fedhas plants, Mercenary card. That's not many sources; it sounds like your opinion may be "Crawl doesn't need permanent allies", which is a fine opinion to have. Yre...

That's more of an interface kludge than an actual active ability.

^ Not if it's different, such as making it a permanent ally. OR where god gifts would appear at your feet (Trog, Okarwu), Gozag instead offers an item directly for sale for a limited time. Kind like Vehumet's memorization offers? "Gozag offers you a [bla bla bla] for $xxx." That is also a ...

Venom Mage with any "strong" normal-speed species is a good learning start for non-melee, IMHO. Your starting spellbook is strong, but encourages kiting against dangerous enemies. Tedious, yes, but you'll pick up on positioning, retreating into explored territory instead of unexplored terr...

Theoretical max probably looks something like: agility, brilliance, might, confusing touch, cTele, Death Channel, Stoneskin, Statue Form, Ring of Flames, !Resistance, Swiftness, Death's Door, Phase Shift, Quad Damage, Tornado, Heroism, Finesse, Shroud (of Golubria), Cleave (card), Infusion, Song of...

Does anyone call food merchants with Gozag? What circumstances do you do so? I'm trying out some reworks of Gozag's call merchant that don't give you so much control over shop type, wondering if it'll be a problem. I just called a food merchant because it was cheap and I was running out of food... ...

Quite possibly the most apropos randart ever, from dcss reddit:

Code:: N - the +3 mace "Hulk" {crush, +Rage Str+4}.

I like the idea of having a little Xom mixed in to every game even if it wasn't implemented this way. A portal to a mini-level ("Xom's Whimsical Realm") where Xom acts on you as if you were a Xom worshipper. Enemies are chaotic and such. Loot is a mix of chaotic stuff (i.e. mostly useless...

Pteriforever wrote:When I first started playing I thought ToME4 was good

ToME4 has excellent mechanics and shoddy design.

I think a roguelike with ToME4's mechanics and Crawl's design philosophy would be excellent, personally.

Maybe I didn't explain myself right. I use the '5' of the numpad to wait 1 turn, and that's what I meant above. Therefore, if you are standing over an auto-pickup item and you want to wait a turn, the smart thing to do is to pickup the item (with 'g' or ','), waiting the turn in the process. My sug...

no, don't nerf melee if they nerf melee then everything will be on the same level again, which means they'll nerf blasters-casters, then archers will be too powerful so they'll nerf ranged, then melee will be too powerful so they'll nerf melee. lather, rinse, repeat. 2017 crawl learndb entry: rat 1)...

I thought that "the orc priest starts glowing" meant that it was charging up for some powerful ability or something. Then I worked out that orc priests are the ones smiting you, so I thought "the orc priest starts glowing" means it's going to smite you soon, so I'd try to kill it...

No, sometimes I've ditched an enemy upstairs because I knew he'd beat my Spriggan senseless. Eh. If it's something you're willing to allow to linger in LOS, and then give at least one free hit to, it's something you could tediously kite to death like 90% of the time. Oh, I just realized something. ...

⋅ Therefore caster must eat permafood. Caster eats a meat or bread ration, which puts him well into "satiated" - far above the bottom of satiated. ⋅ During the next fight, caster does not become hungry, because the ration gave him a lot of nutrition. ⋅ This n...

1. [g]et already does essentially the same thing. Use that? 2. It would add a weird and non-obvious special case to the [5] key - when no enemies are visible, rest 100 turns or until the next rest-breaking message; when enemies are visible, pick up an item if it is on the auto-pickup list. Those two...

Ammo is one of the things that ToME4 does right, IMO. For those unfamiliar, in ToME4, ammo comes in the form of quivers with varying properties (described with a dizzying array of numbers, in typical ToME4 fashion). Each quiver has a set ammunition capacity. Wearing a quiver grants you the Reload ab...

maybe he should give you a way of buying mercenaries (devs plz I want merc stores) I figured that giving it ally gifts would step on too many toes, but this is a cool idea. Thanks! Perhaps for the purpose of counting enemies, it could only count those that were on that floor to begin with? That's t...

Ing Song the Conqueror Ing Song is a god of conquest, who leads great armies on a never-ending campaign for land, gold, and glory. Unlike other gods who encourage finding glory in single combat, Ing Song extols the virtues of leadership, strategy and tactics. Devotees of Ing Song gain divine aid in...

What's the rationale for this change? Reducing the need for spoilers? (Which enemies carry curare, which enemies are silenced by Breath...)

So, I feel like I'm missing something with Cigotuvi's Embrace in trunk. If I have other alternatives available on a warrior-necromancer, I don't see why I'd want to use Cigotuvi's Embrace: ⋅ Ozocubu's Armour is 2 fewer spell levels, and seems to range from superior (if no corpses are avail...

mediocre late game Sorry? 31297 | Pan | Entered Pandemonium 31370 | Pan | Got a magical rune of Zot 31454 | Pan | Got a demonic rune of Zot 31826 | Pan | Got a fiery rune of Zot 32327 | Pan | Got a glowing rune of Zot 32670 | Pan | Got a dark rune of Zot 32703 | Pan | Took an exit into the Abyss 32...

Splatted :( Aizul is difficult for this character to handle for some reason. Went a bit too far in combat with him, popped a teleport with ~40 HP and strong poison, landed next to a greater naga, quaffed curing, hit the naga (if this were a chess transcript, that move would get a ???), its bolt of p...

I think learndb means staffs of energy and power. Ele staff is neither, it's just an unique artefact with an unique base type (there used to be "staff" staves, but they are no more). I checked the source; Elemental Staff should boost Evocations and Staves equally. Oh well. The logic, from...

0 | D:1 | Xelif, the Merfolk Warper, began the quest for the Orb. 0 | D:1 | Reached XP level 1. HP: 16/16 MP: 3/3 67 | D:1 | You fall through a shaft! 67 | D:2 | Found a shattered altar of Ashenzari. 67 | D:2 | Found a blossoming altar of Fedhas. 139 | D:2 | Became a worshipper of Fedhas Madash Don...

Thanks, bcadren! I decided to go with Ashenzari and the ice gladiator concept. Fortunately Polearms cross-trains with Staves, so that skill hasn't been entirely wasted. I don't know how it actually works, but it should probably boost Staves as Ele Staff is a melee weapon, not an enhancer. I'll repor...

Thanks for the advice! bcadren - Ozo's Armour and Condensation Shield are from a book of Frost found in an ice cave (along with the manuals and two rings of ice). Other books available: Death, Geomancy, Power, the Tempests, Party Tricks, Summonings. I was kind of thinking merfolk + Frost book + manu...

Pastebin of character dump. I'm in Snake right now; cleared Swamp down to level 4, Lair to 7, Orc. So, in a huge derp moment, I invoked a disc of storms, blasted my mushrooms, and really pissed off Fedhas ("godly wrath is upon you!"). I've cleared a couple floors and prayed pretty much ev...

KL: 1. Spellcasting out of combat has some principal problems. For example, casting success or MP cost matter less than for combat spells (potentially not at all). This is crucial: your hexing or summoning or damage spells crucially depend on casting chance, and running out of MP in battle is a ser...

What about, as someone said above, just skipping the scroll step entirely? A "scroll of curse item" is pure cruft, since its only purpose is to be immediately read. Ability - do what? Invocations - cost failure a - Curse Item scroll of remove curse 0% Curse Item Invoke Ashenzari's power to...

Berder - I think you just described ziggurat floors :D Since ziggurats are fun, it would certainly be interesting to add randomly generated mini-branches similar to Zig (with actual dungeon layouts instead of completely open) that are accessible earlier in the game. Maybe 3 small floors, each with a...

What if As were differentiated a bit more from Hu and held a little bit more true to its stabby background description? Go ahead and merge the blowgun start into Hu, and give As wands of paralysis and confusion instead - tools to help them stab, especially early on while they're still leveling up St...

And yet there is whining.

Xom is the least desirable god when you want to win a game. But it's better to worship him than to play without god. Better in what way? Rarely a god is absolutely necessary to avoid death, but it is not unlikely to experience Xom's deadly sense of humor. I seriously doubt that one could get better...

Don't feel bad! It's CYC, that crazy mix of "ideas that aren't good enough for GDD" and "DCSS circlejerk".

Sometimes it's difficult to tell between the two!

Sorry, if it is wasn't clear, I was mostly joking. Yet fighting all demons is not bad if they are different enough. I see a huge difference between Hell Sentinel and Ice Fiend, for example. Edit. This time I read OP all the way to the end and I can only say that I like those ideas, they can result ...

Greyr wrote:^How useful is that though?

Not useful enough to justify the spell levels, since you can already steamroll with Blade Hands alone.

I actually like the proposal. A god based around messing with the hunger/food mechanic seems cool. Maybe a caster-targeted god that doesn't interface with the spell mechanic? Putting a twist on it... Phaenereb the Bountiful. Phaenereb is the god of plenty. Phaenereb's acolytes are provided with food...

IMHO the fact that for 3 of the branches you used the final boss is telling. You cut through the mooks until you finally meet a meaningful challenge. If the early game was "you cut through the mooks until you finally meet a meaningful challenge", I might actually be able to streak! IMO &qu...

So, the extended endgame lacks variety. Think about the first 5 runes or so. The Dungeon and Depths offer a wide variety of monsters. Lair pits you against natural beasts. Orc has a mix of hard-hitting melee, casters, and smiting priest-types. Snake, Shoals, Spider and Swamp are all unique, and offe...

Demonify: you draw Hell's mystical force into yourself, and contort into a wrathful demon, bent on destruction. Level 9 Transmutations. You gain rF+, rC+, rN+++, rTorment, rPois, but are vulnerable to both holy damage and silver. Hell's mystical force will not strike at you while you are demonified....

and into wrote:I don't think the ability being useable in the midst of combat is a large buff. No more so than being able to use Zin's Cure all Mutations in just one turn, as you can do currently.

It's a one-time free Holy Word or Torment for TSO/Kiku respectively, as it stands now.

Spawn a portal to a new Ziggurat on each Zig floor.

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In your mind, is part of the game discovering what the different spell ingredients do and how to mix them together to create useful effects, or is it all pre-determined? The first option seems very interesting, though insanely difficult to implement in an intuitive and non-grindy way. (Unless you wa...

Could just make all backgrounds start with a scroll of remove curse. If having ?rc identified for everyone is a problem (which I don't think it is), make it a "vial of purifying water" or whatever, that only ever generates in your starting inventory. Or maybe expand the concept of giving e...

Yes, as long as you have some food and perferably non-zero evocations it's completely insane. If you don't see what you need (items you want, stairs, runevault, exit) then immediately activate it, and explore while waiting for the teleport. If you see something you do want, activate it to cancel th...

Every character should be able to list all the spells they've seen in one screen for convenience. Sif could grant the ability to memorize spells straight from that screen. I was idly thinking of a possible Sif-replacement deity (note: not saying that Sif needs to be replaced) that works something l...

Might be the worst piece of equipment I've ever seen.

Code:: the -8 ring mail of the Peculiar Runes {+Inv +Fly rN+ Slay-6}

I'll stick with the Ordinary Runes, thank you very much!

Thanks crate! A bit of a derp on the wording there, should be "...shelters you from death" or something like that.

I guess, the more I think about it, Divine Protection (and which version thereof you have) should be clarified a bit more in the abilities screen.

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