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I think the large randomness in piety cost to banish a monster is not so good. For example, maybe you have invested a lot of XP in invocations in order to get a banish chance of 40% vs some unique with decent MR, yet get bad dice rolls and still must cast banish 5 times or so, or else cast it maybe ...

Is that question for some other OP who complained that banish "does not work vs some hard monsters"? Or are you reading my posts and talking to me?

invocations skill reducing that expense doesn't bother me So you invest in a bunch of invocations and get your banish % up to around 50% vs some nasty unique. Great. Now the piety cost to banish is random and could be either very low or very high. You even might spend a bunch of piety and not manag...

It incentivizes the player to either over-invest in invocations or just not use banish against hard enemies, and overall makes Lugonu weaker than it should be. When you really need banish to get rid of a hard unique or unkillable ghost, the failure % just represents a random and potentially very lar...

Jumpsquat is in the Smash games so that

it is traditional for fighting games to have jump startup frames, and also traditional for platformers to control jump height with button press duration. smash just combines these.

the theme of ice is ice. the theme of air is air.

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continuumg wrote:Geroth slightly appreciates it when you kill things (~30%)
Geroth appreciates it when your allies kill things (~50%)
Geroth greatly appreciates it when your familiar kills things (100%)

omg

rename gnolls to dogtaurs

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"Useless" here means really useless, not gray. "Useless" as in your character simply cannot ever equip it no matter what (weapons that are too big for you, armors you can't wear, food you can't eat, etc).

There's a soft version of "don't generate," which is "don't display." This could be an option accessible via the autopickup menu. I like "don't display" a lot better than don't generate, since monsters can use items and the items theoretically might do something when t...

In fact, don't crawl purposely create useless items? It could be bias but I notice massive amounts of runed armour when playing as an octopode for instance. No, it doesn't, and yes, it is cognitive bias. A good example of "players don't learn much about itemgen from useless items" imo. It...

minmay that's an extremely rude bad faith response. obviously i am proposing it because i don't believe useless items are that helpful for learning anything important about the game, not because i'm a selfish jerk trying to make the game harder for new players. your alternative changes sound fine to...

It isn't a study/practice thing, you develop a certain expectation not for specifics, but more generally you get a sense of "this item is rarer than that item" by observing it in a consistent way across games. Learning something through consistent repetition is like, the definition of stu...

I think the argument for generating, e.g., naga bardings for non-nagas is that seeing the useless items gives the player a feel for their generation rates, so there's a discoverability advantage. I don't have a strong opinion about whether it's better to see these items for that reason or better to...

I think the argument for generating, e.g., naga bardings for non-nagas is that seeing the useless items gives the player a feel for their generation rates, so there's a discoverability advantage. I don't have a strong opinion about whether it's better to see these items for that reason or better to...

You are misusing this word. 'Goldify' refers to reducing stackable items (mainly food) to non-inventory counters (like gold). What's the point? After you kill those monsters, their gear will be on the floor, and you are back to square one aren't you? No. You delete them. The point is to reduce usele...

I will add that loading items directly into the monster's inventory is directly contradictory to not allowing monsters pick up items from the floor, so the OP is not very thought out in this respect. The point is that if for example you play a felid then armors and weapons would be deleted, and mon...

Yeah, some players have this sort of "aw dang a barding, and this time i'm not a naga, heh guess rng got me again" reaction... Which I guess is sort of funny

If an item generates that is useless for the player and will always be useless for the player, just delete it.

Don't let monsters pick up items from the floor anymore.

Generate monsters with equipment a little more often.

If a monster would drop a useless item on death, delete that item.

They could be anything really, but if they were golems then players would expect them to have nonliving traits.

Just feedback on the name/flavor: Gnolls are really mundane... They're just hyena-flavored orcs, and gnolls in the dungeon reflect this. So it's odd for them to have such exotic mechanics. There have been some proposals for a "homunculus" species in the past... This is a kind of alchemical...

Shtopit wrote:Have scarves identify like amulets, so you don't have to identify each single one you find on the ground, but only one each kind.

do this with egos in general on all items

Using staff of energy is very tolerable with a macro... But it's a pretty obnoxious item.

I like the idea of improving monster AI in some ways but also I think something Crawl teaches is not to gamble... Events with a small % chance to kill you occur over and over again. One will eventually get you. So if something has a significant nonzero chance of killing you in a small number of turn...

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WingedEspeon wrote:Maybe put back the Str weight system, but give everything 50% weighting across the board, to make it less spoilery.

"why not?"

I like early altars in that they often influence my selection of deity. I used to always go to temple to choose my god and so I usually had a good idea of whom I would worship. With early altars I often think, not my first choice, but at d:2 I'll take it. For me it makes for more interesting games w...

recharge is for spamming good wands more, right? wands are finite even if plentiful and using them very liberally lets you kill stuff earlier and faster than without

In a lot of RPGs stats are a lot like aptitudes, either contributing a direct bonus to skills or determining the cost of training them. Crawl aptitudes have a big effect on how much damage you do, how evasive you are, and how good your spells are, so stats are redundant from a game design perspectiv...

i don't really like zealots because (rightly or wrongly) i tend to think of crawl's gods as being gods of the dungeon... they exist in the dungeon because of ...something something zot whatever... and your character meets them there for the first time.

unban dynast

that is why i look at the monster list when exploring or moving in combat... to see if new monsters have entered los

I always play trunk and so far haven't disliked any changes enough to want to switch to any old stable versions. I just play "Crawl", a constantly updated game, and part of the game for me is playing through the development cycle. The game is constantly getting better imo.

vamp bite heals a lot on stabs, so any caster who can get stabs (su, ne, en, wz...) may appreciate the aux attack a lot.

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It is hard for me to estimate how bad it is for native English readers, my point is that if we had most fire spells called like fire ball, fire storm, fire explosion, fire bolt, fire ring, fire dart, fire flame, it would be harder to distinguish spells in you spell list or book of fire. Ok, alterna...

Real world references in Crawl are corny but charming in a kind of artless 80s nerd kitchen sink fantasy cliche way. That said i don't really like killing Tesla and seeing mythological figures like Mara and Ereshkigal is always a bit jarring. Please never swap Nikola into Girl-Tesla with a silly nam...

i also don't miss the hearts, it was really easy to confuse enemies and allies especially when you had an ally of the same type as a monster on screen

Replace returning weps with a boomerang item

"SICK"

So far in this thread i really like the lignification idea, the dryad ally idea, and the idea that fedhas is Crawl's "tower defense" god... But in tower defense games, balance is all about creating levels that force the player to focus on carefully deploying the right defenses at the right...

i guess any conduct can be a challenge, but i've never thought of 'archer' as 'person who doesn't ever execute a melee attack" before, so i find the appeal of this idea confusing. at least the "i only cast spells" idea makes sense if you have in mind a wizard who is fussy or frail sch...

d3k0 wrote:it's the only God that encourages you to wait

that sounds awful... crawl in general encourages waiting a lot as it is, and it is not one of crawl's better features.

this my favorite thread, ty, i hope ur kid wins crawl

I guess that's true, but I don't think there are any circumstances where stealth/their awareness status has anything to do with it.

Hear, hear! by the way, something I was wondering about stealth is that it seems possible to end up with a monster "too close for your liking" during autoexplore that you should have seen sooner. Does stealth actually have the harmful downside that it lets you blunder close to a monster b...

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