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RBrandon wrote:

Duh, slippy fingers.

Rakshasa - a fast and cunning race with abilities of illusion making that opens new ways for cunning plays. Lore: Rakshasas are demons in tiger form who comes to the material world in search of power and knowledge. Experts in the art of illusions, rakshasas can manipulate the battlefield with ease, ...

What if he get shatter and fire storm? He is demon lord of magic, not demon lord of ice and air.

Aint that flux system leads to grinding? Since flux dissipates overtime like contamination, travel through levels will make a golem fluxless (slow and low MPgen), and only above grey level of contamination (one point of contamination) will build up flux. The ratio of flux gain from damage are still...

Thanks for reading this! Any suggestions will be appreciated. @duvessa Sorry I was misunderstanding that time. Thanks for your opinion! @proacelf Thanks for your opinions! Actually it's an attempt to recycle the mechanic form lava orcs. @chequers I think I will make them have lower HP (like gargoyle...

So it's the end of the story since one of the major member said so.
I guess it's time to make a self-branch.
Edit: words.

Golem - an artificial race with a straightfoward flux system that encourages fighting. Lore: Golems are humanoid constuctions build by wizards to do their daily labers. In some rare conditions golem may gain conscious and start wandering into the dungeon attracted by the power of the orb. Golems con...

A tip for caster is that you can use Regeneration + Sublimation of Blood to get MP in a fast and reliable way.

Sadly the strength of Spider Form doesn't make up with it's weakness, even with speed and clinging. But what do you expect from a low level transmutation?

With guaranteed slow 3 and no body armour after XL 14, it rather needs more natural AC than naga or maybe let them be at large size and only able to wear crystal plate armours like the old draconians being able to wear dragon armours and robes?

Stabbing undistracted monsters sound fun, and brand it with speed to increase the chance of stabbing.

Just have your spellforged servitor cast it and forget the aiming and mana cost.

Beogh smites anyone who smashes an orcish idol. In former versions, TSO would smite slayers of angels. If gods are allowed to harm each other's property without anyone "asking" them to smite, then why do they have followers at all? According to these rules, whenever you play a demonspawn ...

They work as some nice late game threats, and a reason to use your permafood.
And any ranged build that survived that long can easily take them down before being touch by them.

Sar wrote:I think the whole point of Nemelex is getting access to a bunch of overpowered and unique abilities.

Yeah since it's all in the cards.

Another niche race? I bet devs will love it, and since it doesn't involve EP it would stay longer than Djinn.

It seems I have to tinker my own fork.
And what's new about the Cherufe and that Plutonian? Haven't heard anything about them for a long time.

Sadly there is only one crystal plate armour - the Orange Crystal Plate Armour that actually imporves spellcasting, other CPAs provide nothing but hindrance and AC.
If you want to cast your current robe of Archmagi will do the work.

My first 15 runes win, also an experiment of building a caster able to cast fire storm and glaciate in the Orange Crystal Plate Armour.
The result speaks of itself.
http://pastebin.com/TwHuW7Em

I always use FR all the way through the game. And thanks for the neat gifs!

Naga is quite strong at its current form and can become extremely powerful if you have a long term plan.

Since we have many races that attuned with elements/spell classes like Merfolks with water/ice magic, Gargoyles with earth magic, Tengus with air magic and Nagas with poison magic and all previous attempts of making a fire based race failed, we need a race that is not too fancy to design: Salamander...

Please stop urging the devs to remove features, making DCSS a roguelite.

Guardian Spirit is good for any build that doesn't require draining all their MP, e.g. Berserkers or hybrids that use buff spells. There's even a species whose entire strength comes from the fact that they have innate Guardian Spirit (although admittedly it's much stronger with an antimagic bite......

Form my experience amulets are boring and too situational. Mostly I found myself stick to gourmand for the endless feast of chunks, only switch to amulet of rC for Slime and amulet of rM when I'm in the Abyss and a wretched star is in my sight. I don't even found any of the unrand amulets appealing ...

I think warding is an OK idea, but it's implemented really silly. Why can't the amulet just prevent all summoning in view (including summons by you)? That would be an effect I would actually use.

What if amulet of warding gives a evocable aura of abjuration just like ring of flight?

Just bring back Singularity, or make Gell's Gravitas' area grows with Spell Power.

Sif is decent for low level spellcasters or hybrids. Guaranteed spellbooks, protection from miscast, nearly free channeling and free scrolls of amnesia are really helpful in the early game but becomes lackluster when you get regen/sublimation for mana, high int and skill levels and the desired spell...

My favorite is blasting shop. Sells rods and conjuration spellbooks and comes with cool flaming clouds.
And thank for the Naga Guide, going to roll a Na^Che and don the awesome OCPA and HoP.

Web spitting is quite unique. And I think current aux attacks are too weak for their drawback. Hope aux attack powers grow with HD or strength.

RBrandon wrote:So you want to replace fire storm with... fire storm?

Just reduce the insane over time damage by making it a instant damage with following not so damaging flame clouds.

Simple: Shields of reflection always reflect all gaze attacks, 100% of the time, this would make them still only slightly not as bad as they are now :) How about a new unrand: Mirror Shield, shield with slight enchantment and -stealth(shiny things attract eyesights) or -EV(mirror is heavy) with a b...

While Fire Storm is incredibly difficult to learn, obtaining it cause the game descend to a "nuke every thing on sight" game. At max spell power, 8d26 damage per turn in a wide range is no joke, and it provides fire vortices as some attraction, effectively softens a lot of threats in the e...

IIRC old nethack players often branch their own version of nethack, but that's never heard of nowadays.
What's your opinions and attitudes towards making a branch or a reversion of DCSS?

Starting god are not the same as finding temple in D:4 or whatever.
D:1 Beogh or Elyvilon will significantly change gameplay, like a orc horde run or pacifist run.
And please don't merge more backgrounds. That will remove most of the flavors.

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Re: Race: Rakshasa - master of deception

Race: Rakshasa - master of deception

Re: Lom Lobon's abilities and their consequences

Re: Race: Golem - a race with a special system

Re: Race: Golem - a race with a special system

Re: Race: Golem - a race with a special system

Race: Golem - gentle destroyer

Re: YASD : You really need to double check yourself

Re: Hasted and Spider Form but still could not out run Duves

Re: Race: Golem, song of fire and ice

Re: Bring back Knife of Accuracy

Re: Is Orb of Destruction Glitched?

Re: Crawl inconsistencies

Re: Why do hungry ghosts and death cobs exist?

Re: Unrand: Cloak of the Rakshasa

Re: Iron Dwarf, the Spellless and Scrollless Species

Re: New Race Idea: Salamander

Re: CIP: GrEE^Ash: Buy randart CPA and keep casting?

YAVP: DECj^Vehumet with 15 runes

Re: In case you still think Fulm Prism sucks...

Re: Minor Naga Buff

New Race Idea: Salamander

Re: Remove Shafts

Re: Amulet balancing

Re: Amulet balancing

Re: Remove amulet of warding, add amulet of mana regeneratio

Re: Gell's Gravitas

Re: Is there ever a good time to pick Sif Muna?

Re: Lunurghi's Quality Used Wands

Re: Proposal: Minor DS tweaks & New DS Muts

Re: Proposal: Replace Fire Storm with Sunfire

Re: FR: Shields of Reflection reflect Petrify

Proposal: Replace Fire Storm with Sunfire

Opinion on branching/reversioning the game?

Please add priest and healer back?