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There are so many changes that I cannot help but think: do you (the developers) know what you're doing ? it feels like 12 year olds changed a game into something short-sighted which promised more 'fun' and more 'power' without thinking about consequences. This sounds harsh and I know that 'm playin...

That char is not monstrous, you have demonic magic and demonic touch. I’d play it as a stabber or quick blade fighter/summon hybrid. When you cast spells you have a paralyze chance for nearby things based on spell level that checks will, so you should be able to (using touch) land it pretty well. Sh...

But, what I find most baffling, is the idea that demonspawn mutations shouldn't be revealed at the start of the game because that'd cause start scumming. This isn't the reason though. The reason is that Ds is about adapting, not planning your build from turn 1 based on your mutations. Ds is definit...

I've discovered that the most effective way to play demonspawn, It's a single player game, so play how you like, but this is contra to the roguelike ethos of crawl, would be considered cheating by online players, and is absolutely not at all supported behavior that we're gonna design around . This ...

as the choice of quitting and starting a new character that doesn't have the conflict is always the superior choice to continuing the gimped character, which is both and no-brainer and grindy I'm pretty sure quitting does the opposite of achieve the goal of winning. We do make certain concessions t...

Note that los reduction returned in the scarf of shadows that was added in charms reform (without the rest of the lantern of shadows). I have a similar idea in my brainstorming notes. The point of comparison for ego strength should be something like scarves. Ideally the ego list on these trinkets wi...

Scarves are absorbent and would fatally dry out an octopode through their semi porous skin. Hats, with less material and leather bands don’t share this flaw.

Very reasonable, in the mean time your current attack delay is shown (in numbers) by pressing @

This seems like a pretty unproductive series of speculative theory crafting posts, since, as Nebu pointed out, their playtests were based on an earlier iteration of the effects, and not the subsequent tuning. Much more useful would be things like Majang's post-tune play testing report from other pla...

The hell effects have been tuned based on feedback. Good to see they're landing closer to the mark now.

Proposing a solution requires a clear problem and problem statement, which you’ve yet to provide.

BVC is shorthand for Borgjnor’s Vile Clutch, the L5 earth/necro zombie hands spell that has beam targeting and ignores friendlies. It seems like you’re confusing it with revivification.

This post really belongs in DCA. I can’t say for sure without a morgue, but from your narrative it seems like a poorly built character being poorly piloted: ⋅ god swap from Gozag (gold distraction does work on ally kills, plus potion petition) to Makh (whose heal on kill has never worked ...

This is now live in trunk!

Welcome friends. As part of the 0.28 cycle I have an experimental branch to overhaul the Hells. Click the link for all the details , here's the quick executive summary: ⋅ each subbranch has its own branch wide "hell effect" that is always on ⋅ timed hell effects only ...

This is a bug in the warning code that I've pushed a fix for.

Chei would still punish you for swinging the speed brand.

In the drop menu, press

Code:: \

before selecting an item to drop, this will drop and turn off Autopickup.

I for one look forward to the imminent dckrawl release.

vt wrote:I really think it was not that unclear.

It was not, or at least it was clear to your target audience of orange-names.

It's additive, you can expect to get the full set of charges from both.

When talking about trunk it's best to include a version string from your game and the server you're playing on, since things tend to change rapidly. For example, earlier today I increased the curse rate to speed piety gain, but we have no way of knowing if your feedback is based on the old speed (wh...

Re 1: autofight is written entirely in lua and can be found in the file autofight.lua in the crawl source tree

Re 2: Hmm, I'm not sure; SOLID vis SOLID_SEE: two bushes block los, one is transparent but blocks lof. Maybe look in automagic.lua or the new targeting hooks?

Competition cancelled because the form was spammed with slurs and harassment and I can't be bothered to wade through filth for this. Sorry everyone.

Hi everyone, the 0.26 tournament has ended, you can read a write up of the results here . Thanks everyone for playing. This thread is for feedback on the still evolving rules as well as the webpage. Known issues that we'll try to fix (time permitting) before the next tournament: ⋅ Display...

doc.dcss.io has been updated, enjoy!

And thanks for the suggestion, I'll add something to that effect. Happy hacking.

I went and looked into the ldoc issue again and it turns out it was not any kind of versioning incompatibility. ldoc is just very brittle and will crash with useless error messages when certain things are missing. As of latest trunk (0.27-a0-62-g2af701fde4) and 0.26-b1-60 if you run `make api` it wi...

Hello everyone. Terribly sorry I didn't get it together to organize a CSDC for 0.25, Corona times are strange times indeed. As a consolation I'm organizing a different kind of contest. A guide writing contest for guides in the style of elliptic's SpEn guide . To enter, submit your guides on the Very...

Runed door vaults are not no_tele_into with the exception of ghost vaults. They're fair game for shafts and teleports, and give these features some extra surprise potential. Enjoy!

I would simply remove the item.

I would be interested in consulting the spreadsheets you produce.

Hi everyone, I hope you enjoyed the 0.25 tournament. Thank you all for your input, bug spotting, &c. on the tournament rules overhaul. I want to open a space to collect feedback on how the rules played, as well as share some changes I think are a good idea going forward. ⋅ Use a sum i...

It is still the average, not the sum.

Hepliaklqana wrath prevents you from gaining XP for the duration. A cheese strat that's ruled out by this rule is to abandon hep for the wrath and stick with usk for actual play.

I’ll start this with: part of the reason why the combat formulas don’t see a lot of change is that in the dev team we like the current playfeel of the formulas that were ad hoc matched to behave similar to linley’s ad hoc formulas long ago when crawl was much more opaque with numbers. A consequence ...

I've updated the draft again, thank you for the feedback regarding typos and wording clarity. It now consistently uses "score" for points and "rank" for ordering. As for what the harmonic mean is, these draft rules are a design doc and not the final webpage; they include a link t...

By "nothing's really changed since then" I was referring to tournaments that have happened so far . Oobviously your proposed rules change things quite a bit, and for the better, but they're for a future tournament that hasn't happened yet! Sorry for the ambiguity of that. It appears I too...

First Win: Makhleb will also rank those speed demons who are the first to win a game in the tournament. This category is ranked by the finish time of a player's first win in the tournament. First All Rune Win: This category is ranked by the finish time of a player's first all rune win in the tourna...

Hi everyone, in preparing for the 0.25 tournament we're looking at overhauling the tournament scoring system. I would appreciate both general impressions and specific feedback on the point values in the "banner score" section.

The current draft is available here.

Thanks for the play-testing feedback. For now I'm keeping nameless horrors durably summoned, but I've halved their HP and lowered their AC. I've also toned down miscast effects across the board, and improved status light coloring: grey failure only displays if no damage is possible. If the possible ...

Well this thread went way off topic very fast. Most commentators read neither the pr nor the wiki page. (Thanks to tealizard, petercordia, and duvessa; gold stars for actually reading). In terms of the wrath effects being more severe than the miscasts they're replacing: yes, good. These effects are ...

The current spell miscast system is... an adventure. It is at times flavorful and amusing, but it is so opaque that most players go with the option of "miscast as little as possible", while some players who have read the flowchart spoilers are more cavalier. As a part of my ongoing magic r...

Send us some PRs you coward we know you know how to write them.

For what it's worth, ebering's math in the PR comment is wrong because it equivocates weapon base damage to unarmed base damage, which is only accurate when weapon skill is 0. Yes, I left out the skill modifier to damage for weapons that unarmed doesn't get; I also left out the impact of enchantmen...

Aaand closed. Have to say I disagree with the response (you can't just gloss over the fact that shields are a thing, specially for Tr and Og) and that it doesn't really seem consistent with Crawls own philosophy You said yourself earlier in the thread that your goal wasn't to make big sticks optima...

Can you stop derailing threads with lesswrong sloganism mixed with (willful?) misrepresentation of devteam positions. Regen was not removed because it was like Trog's hand. Regen was removed for the combination of reasons presented in the commit message taken together as a single conjunct. The desig...

The Challenges have commenced!

Click over to the website for week 1.

Welcome Friends, a new installment of the crawl sudden death challenges will be starting soon. The format returns, this time in a five week series, running from 31 January to 6 March. Sign-ups are now open, and will close 7 February. Details can be found on the homepage . There will again be cool pl...

This thread was doing so well sticking to playtesting feedback. Maybe we can get back to it. I’m especially grateful to Sydney for translating cwz feedback. The issue with cflame and slow has been fixed. Foxfire was literally designed with the expressed purpose of being bad in corridors; that FE as ...

Now that it's in trunk Mantis is a fine place for reports.

Update: The branch has been merged into master. Continued feedback for tweaks &c. is of course still welcome. Thank you all for the feedback in the development of this.

It turns out allowing monsters to swap with foxfire and having foxfire attack on this swap were of equal technical difficulty, and that difficulty was lower than I initially expected. Monsters will now walk in to foxfire (taking the hit) to try to get closer to the player, so it no longer can be use...

Thanks for the report, I've pushed a fix.

The issue with the targeter is known, there are some similar issues with other friendly checks in the new spells; the right solution is a bit involved code-wise so it will be a little bit.

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