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so why didn't blowgun of the assassin get this much drama I'd be fine with it being removed for cheapening torment (even if it's an item you see once in 10-50 winning games, like with most fixedarts) it's the "it's objectively awful and we must protect our stupid players" reasoning that t...

Is there a way to quickly kill ice trolls? Wandered into one in the ice cave without any rC (don't ask; I was doing just fine until that thing showed up thanks to confuse + dazzle). And while I find it hard to believe fist only does one damage less, it doesn't really change the fact that a Tengu Co...

It would work well with evocations, too. It would make a decent walking-away-from-annihilators tool, if nothing else.

daggaz wrote:How does a cloud wear jewelry? Unless you are sitting in a lamp, this should meld everything, including weapons.

Flavor-wise, I don't have any problem picturing puffs of wind or clouds moving small rings about. If it were tornado form, I could see a whirlwind moving weapons.

Why not rename player halflings to goblins? That way Robin and Ijyb don't need to change.

Conjurations are really powerful, especially the Air school. It's important to handicap the higher-level damage spells by making them noisy in addition to having many of them be 2-school and require a ton of XP, otherwise they would just be overpowered. :^) Make them weaker then, not noisy. Having ...

"Sometimes good and sometimes not" sounds like a better recipe for interesting decisions than "Always/never better than any alternative."

This is kind of like using brilliance to cast a spell you haven't trained for, but In jewelry form. I like the idea.

It can be a pain in lair with all the plants around, but Static Discharge is great against things that have defenses or come in groups.

No time component to sleeping huh... no kidding. Then can it be made that the opponent is simply forced to stay asleep for enough time that I can EH them out of range and go in for the kill? Even the stealthy spriggan gets caught eventually. Currently, EH'd opponents are guaranteed to stay asleep f...

There is no time component to how long enemies stay asleep. They stay asleep forever unless something wakes them up. If other enemies can see you, they wake up the sleeping enemy, even if they are asleep themselves. So don't try to sneak up on groups unless you have lots of dex and stealth and the e...

Which would be better: -Current summon ice beast, which randomly places an ice beast, but can support up to three allies or -Placing a single ice beast in a position chosen by the player or -Placing up to three ice beasts in chosen positions, but as a level 6 spell instead of a level 4 spell Could b...

Yeah, if you are a completionist aiming for all species/background combinations, then there really isn't a difference between a troll fire elementalist and a troll enchanter. If you are exploring the different play styles that the game offers, a Deep Elf Air Elementalist plays differently from a Dem...

Yeah, trample sometimes knocks you out of your choke point and lets more of a pack through to hit you, but often it is toothless because you have lured one enemy away or because the trample moves you away from the pack and into a safer position. A reverse trample that moved you and the enemy in the ...

The nice thing about poison clouds is you can walk through them with one pip of resistance. So you don't stand around waiting for them to dissipate while 5 doesn't work because you need to read about plants freezing.

Stat drains are highly variable. I recently had a game where I would get hit by draining attacks in Depths, and during the same turn my attacks would kill enough enemies to remove the draining. The next game, the first enemy I encountered hit me once with a dagger of draining. My skills all went to ...

I think it's generally considered that having a weapon selection list is "clunky interface" and it's only in the game because nobody patched in a better alternative. I'm not looking up the numbers right now, but if fighters currently can choose to have a long sword and 3 long blades skill...

I'd rather see Str+, Str++, Str-, and Str-- properties, where each + or - was always worth the same number (5-8, but 6 is probably my vote) than see all possible numbers on gloves. In the same way, I could go for rings of magical power that were MP-, MP+, and MP++ where the effect was double the cur...

If tornado is a possibility, then airstrike is wonderful against dancing weapons.

Does frenzy work like discord on a target or just berserk it? Yes, but it's hard to use it well...Note that if you use it on say...dispater...he will proceed become neutral, but not berserk (he can't berserk). And proceed to Iron Shot the Fiends around him.There are very few good targets for frenzy...

It's normal ammo that NEVER MISSES, always mulches, makes noise, and has fireball targeting. The extra damage could be 0 and it would be worth using on occasion- bogarts behind summons, for example, or anything in the early game when you haven't trained launcher skill. I'm assuming the full damage o...

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Maybe it would be better as a weapon with an interesting bonus that has a penalty that grows over time, but resets to 0 when it is used to kill a demon. Duplicating existing items is not as fun as having something different. Possible bonuses: Attacks on one demon hurt all other demons in LOS. Blocks...

In the early game, you have plenty of free slots and don't want to be picky about brands. If you find a stack of 20 flaming arrows before you find a stack of plain arrows, you probably want them. So yes, you want arrows on autopickup.

Why not keep yuiff for random thoughts, and add a design brainstorming forum?

Personally, I view all posts from the "Search for New posts" link and never know what forum any post is in.

Yeah, +2 or even +4 stat rings are just like comfort blankets. A +8 stat ring will change your character. (I think it was a +8 Dex shield that I am recalling fondly.) +3 AC/EV rings make a difference at low levels and should probably stay. But just like FR++ is a nice find on some artefacts, MP++ or...

Rast's numbers make it look like in practice, jackals are not more dangerous than other enemies on D1 for low level characters. Could it be that most of those deaths are from people who don't understand what they are doing, and the problem is that good decisions don't reduce deaths to jackals like t...

When you try to hex something, 50% of the time your Dith shadow will attempt to hex it again. The second time, it uses the monster spell instead of the player spell. So if you get a bad roll, it often works anyway. I think that's the best thing about Dith for enchanters.

It couldn't be a plant joke? Goldenrod is a common wildflower in North America that has been cultivated for rubber.

I'll carry around an artifact weapon of the wrong base type if it has rElec or SInv or +Blink. So I'll wield-ID random artifacts until I find those intrinsics somewhere. Somewhere might be other equipment or a spell book. Poison resistance was on the list when you could eat chunks with it.

Hill Giant skulls should give two handed shields when enchanted. Stone Giant skulls should give two handed shields of protection when enchanted. Frost & Fire Giant skulls should give two-handed shields of frost & fire resistance with wizardry bonuses to their elements. Cyclops skulls have a ...

It sure beats carrying a randart club, and is no worse than swapping a ring. To bikeshed: "Potion of Insight?" Or if it remains "brilliance," the potion could give a TSO-like halo that lets you see invisible enemies nearby. So it's good against unseen horrors and sky beasts, but ...

If you think of it as a rod of fireball with 40 charges, it's not so bad. Between never missing, hitting around corners, and hitting behind the first row of enemies, exploding ammo can be useful.

Are there still miscasts and hostile Makhleb summons of Executioners that lower level players encounter? Does this make them too powerful for those scenarios? I used to feel like Executioners were dangerous, but it seems like I haven't made it far enough to see one without having adequate defenses i...

Zombies expire these days.

"ee" or "ey" should eat chunks, not permafood. Permafood that you pick up is specially assigned to not be in slot e or y if avoidable, but food that you start the game with is often in slot e.

Inner Flame or Ring of Fire seem to fit the rage theme. Either would change at least some characters' tactics.

Flame Tongue would be more fun than Bolts/Throw.

If AK can start in the abyss, why not let some background start in the temple? You get altars to choose from, but you are on a deepish dungeon level with starting skills. Is it worthwhile to fight upwards through hostile territory to look for easier piety, XP, and loot?

If they turn into full-fledged plants, then it would take a while to cut them up so you can explore on the other side. Unless you kill everything in open areas, which makes the plants meaningless. The loss of corpses wouldn't make food relevant, but having to kill dozens of plants on each level migh...

Could she be given a fire spell with a 0% weighting that prevented her from casting it? Would that be easier than changing Dith code?
Or give her the old spell that made a weapon fire branded, and a randomly branded scimitar? Let the monster version override weapon brands.

I expected this to be some kind of gozag-in-a-weapon proposal, since "the love of money is the root of all evil." To wit: +1 to slaying for each piece of gold in sight with no walls in the way. Once a piece of gold is in sight, you can't unequip the weapon or move to a place where you can'...

If mimics activated when you walked into the portal or picked up the item, then became an enemy to defeat, then became the item they mimicked, would there be scumming? There would be a reason to come back and defeat the thing rather than escape and exclude it. The portal should probably always eithe...

I think it would be difficult to put the spellpower into a persistent area to be checked for the Muting effect- it's why it was hard to balance mephitic cloud. The recent idea of a poison spell that uses an acid cloud to reduce AC would fit a rod better than the poison school. A Searing Ray/Stormcal...

Yeah, "not highlighted" is not meant to be anything like "not viable." It's just not one of the very few things to show off how that race works or is different from other races. There's no good reason that VSFi couldn't be highlighted, but then there would be too many things high...

Do they have permanent confusion?

I think we either need a flight reform where we add a bunch more disadvantages and advantages of flight to make it a more interesting mechanic, or just remove the disadvantages and make it always a good thing. Enemies with ranged attacks should be able to target flying players when other enemies ar...

I think that "There is a reliable way to produce fire clouds with evocations, but not ice clouds" is a not a problem that should be solved, but a differentiation between fire and ice that should be celebrated. It helps keep enemies and branches different, which is a good thing. There shoul...

I'm about to enter Lair with a HOFi of Kiku. I have a +0 whip of electrocution, a +1 whip of flaming, no other weapons of note. (blowgun, only poison needles, no throwing) I have 7 scrolls of enchant weapon. I have excruciating wounds in a book. I'm at 4* piety with about 10 Necro skill. It seems my...

Maybe it's kind of one bones file that generates both ghosts, since it's the fact that the player was killed by a ghost that makes the second (earlier?) ghost appear? So maybe in a way, there is only one bones file processed per level? But I know I have had exclusions on three ghosts on the same lev...

Avoiding banishment from afar: -Train stealth so you can walk away -Summon something to get in the way -Move so that enemies will be in the way -Use ranged weapons, wands, spells, breath, or invocations to disable or kill the threat -Magic resistance helps I've opened a door and been banished on the...

If there are multiple ghosts, it is because one of those ghosts killed the other players on that level.

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