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That used to be not runed doors. They used to be secret doors. As in, you could auto explore right past them because they were walls. And then when you make noise, a dozen doors open at once and there are smiters and tormenters and whatever you were already fighting and oh, now you're dead. Unless ...

I think all these need a portable altar effect built in- when you wear Jivya's hat, you are prompted, "Wearing this will cause you to abandon your current god and begin worship of Jivya. Are you sure? Type yes."

I nearly always clear the rest of the level, then open the runed door. I rarely get upset about dying, though.

1010011010 wrote:Skill boost armor?

Helm of the Zealot {+5 Invocations}.

I guess there is a small incentive to switch to some invocations-based god, but I don't think it would ever entice me.

I'd use it if I had an invo deity, and it might push me to choose one if I found it before temple.

+8 chainmail of good stability: Switching between good gods is not allowed. So once you have worn it, you can't switch for the rest of the game? Or you just have to take the armour off to switch? Or you incur wrath when you switch? +14 plate armour of demons: Makhleb: Summons are never hostile and ...

What if: When gaining permanent flight, they lose their arms and gain wings. -Rings are worn on talons (makes no real difference, it just means they don't lose ring slots) -Gloves can not be worn -Weapons and shields are wielded with talons, which means aux attack from talons are lost when using a s...

They call me Sir Robin the Brave
And history one day shall rave
I'm valiant and daring
and noble of bearing
Courageous and gallant;
A mountain of talent.
No wonder folks curtsy and wave!
I'm Robin-
Sir Robin-
The Brave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YMg6oBFHQ&t=2m45s

Ooh, ooh! People die on the first lair branch they attempt more often than they die on the second (because completing the branch strengthens the character). And they attempt the easier branch first. So the one they die on is the easier one. I guess games that end in lair branches without visiting th...

I wish talons had a better effect than weak damage so they were better differentiated. Birds have a strong enough grip that constriction makes sense, but that doesn't need to be overused.

I don't see any reason chaos couldn't stick to neutral-negative effects on the target (keep polymorph, but eliminate berserk.) If it always hurts the target, then there is no downside for the player to wield it. It's okay to have things that are always good (most weapon brands are always good), but...

I had Trog, so MR was kind of solved. I used an anti magic quick blade in Tomb and Crypt, and vampiric through zot, but I unwielded it at some point and went to my backup weapon during the ascension so I wouldn't have to eat.

A more dangerous abyss (deeper floors based on the strength of banishing attack) would be better than preventing banishment. I don't like the idea of making any rune undesirable. Having the rune already makes exits more common, right? Making them always appear in LOS of the entry point might be even...

I hit a few with anti-magic attacks, and I don't think that ever stopped them from casting unless it killed them. It seems like that ought to be a valid strategy.

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/jejorda2/morgue-jejorda2-20150621-184556.txt That one was under melee-bug, so maybe it doesn't count. Here's another VSBe win. I think this is the first time I've had a character with the strength to wear GDA who found one early and chose to wear something else...

Hurkyl, can you explain how unavoidable death provides more opportunities for decisions than a series of dangerous enemies? I think that Vehement should send a series of dangerous enemies, too. If statues that cast high level conjurations were placed such that no part of the level was not in LOS of ...

It's probably a dgamelaunch prompt and not a crawl prompt.

Here is the prompt, which I see here in console play upon resuming a character: Hi, you have a 0.17-a0-1399-gd5b76e1 save game: [T]ransfer your save to the latest version (0.17-a0-1403-g9df874c)? So there's probably a git command I could use to see all the commits between those two versions, but tha...

This week I learned that kangaroos are left handed. Would Okalaru require you to use left-handed weapons and armour?

Playing possum could make a decent panic button, but Chei already gives step from time and it's pretty much the same thing.

If you find a quickblade of electrocution/pain, or a triple sword of speed/holy/flaming before you find a trident on a MfSk, you might decide to pick up the weapon because there might not be a bardiche in the whole game. (Or because those are great weapons.) If you have +2 UC, you know you have a hi...

Waste of money, brains, and time.

Tab? I've always used =.

Yeah, one of the best things about QDA is that you never feel bad about wasting scrolls on it if you decide to switch to something heavier later. I've taken hybrids to Zot wearing it (I think..) and I've also worn it while I train armour and raise strength and hunt down another dragon armour.

I don't think I'm talking about save file versions. It appears to me that every time there is a commit between when I save a game and when I resume it playing online, I am prompted whether I want to keep playing the version of the game that I was playing or transfer the game to the new version. This...

I wish the "Do you want to [T]ransfer your game to the new version?" prompt had a "[R]ead the changelog" option. The prompt tells you the new version, and your current version must be available, so what else is needed to show you a list of all changes between the two versions? If...

If each channeled MP cost 10 gold, it would be hard to abuse channeling, but easy to use it in tough spots.

Chain armor doesn't really seem to have much of a purpose in my experience. Chain with an ego vs standard plate is a fun decision. But you usually find an ego plate or something else that makes the chain less valuable. Maybe Scale and Chain should have a higher chance of generating with resistances...

I like the idea of having games where you encounter blizzard orbs or orbs of suffering or storm orbs instead of orbs of fire. This reduces the tendency to say, "All else being equal, choose fire resistance over others because it will be important in Zot." Give some of these something that ...

If everything worked this way, would cantrips be removed? Would smiters never move, but always smite?

I think that when it worked to enchant the weapon you were wielding, a cursed weapon would be hostile. Are cursed weapons in an enemy's hand turned hostile?

Donald's shield is early enough that Terrence doesn't need one. I find enemies with shields annoying in a way that I don't find evasive enemies. If I miss with a wand, I feel like it's my fault for not training evocations enough. If a wand hit does no damage, well, then the enemy was clever to wear ...

The last few times I faced them with rElec, the damage was still not something I could ignore.

I could swear I looked in the lst file after I died and it still just said pearl dragon armour. Maybe it takes time to update.

Eyesburn wrote:It was +0 pearl dragon armour of the Kettle-Drum {+Inv rC+++ rN+ Dex-4 SInv}

How do you find that?

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/jejorda2/morgue-jejorda2-20150613-134555.txt There's the final morgue. EV was 15 with the robe, 14 with ice dragon armour. I didn't notice the distortion weapon or I would have taken the salamander out at range. I thought it was an MR failure until you guys bro...

Well, I bought the Ice Dragon armour, figuring it helped me now and who knows if I'd live long enough to get the other. I completed Lair, D15, and got to Snake 3 where a Mystic cast me into the Abyss. In the Abyss, I found enough gold to make up the 951 gold difference in the prices. I think having ...

I saw the shop with the PDA before finding orc or lair, so I decided to do orc for gold. I already have all the gold from orc. It is just enough for the IDA, but not enough for the PDA. I even did a few deeper dungeon levels looking for gold before entering lair. With the +4 protection ring, my AC i...

I have a TrMo Nemelex who has done Orc and is early in Lair. In shops I can buy an ice dragon armour (which I presume is +0 because it isn't glowing, but I may have floors and shops confused) or I can save up for a randart pearl dragon armour. The ice dragon armour is in an antique shop. I have an r...

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=37625#p37625 context: crawl was going through a big turn of removing information and adding more mimics and traps to the game, and a couple of the more publicly visible devs were saying that skill training is boring and everyone should just use auto m...

There should probably be some form of channeling (maybe Wucad Mu, maybe something more common) that always fills your mana pool completely, but that takes longer the less skilled you are and that is uninterruptible. It should take longer to regain 8 MP twice than to gain 16 MP once.

Blink used to refuse to land in clouds, but it was changed. Maybe in .12 or so? Around the same time mephitic cloud was taken out of half the starting books.

Should *rage mutations be negative ranks of the clarity mutation, just to keep from having both and removing the danger of *rage? If levels of clarity are needed (I don't think they are): 1)Confusion happens just as frequently and has the same duration, but there is a 2/3 chance that attempts to cas...

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I think you may be right.

If you're playing linesprint, moving away doesn't always change the situation very much.

x, highlight the enemy, v, choose the spell from the list.

Or the spell could give you a status instantly that produces a storm at your location later if the stormcaller is still alive.

Just as dungeon levels were reduced from 27 to 15, max character and skill levels will be reduced to 15. Max stats will be reduced to 51. For clarity, race names on the character selection screen will be replaced with useful numbers. For instance, felids will be renamed 12speed0slots1apts. Skill nam...

Would there be a big difference between introducing killer butterflies and renaming ravens?

1)Rats turn into whatever Pikel & Kirke's freed slaves are (hostility-wise) when you see them. 2)+1 Intelligence for every rat in LOS, as your mind bonds with theirs and forms a rat-king hive mind. (I think planescape torment was the last game I played before crawl.) This means that summon small...

Entropy weavers matter enough to change my tactics.

Storm callers' damage is low enough that I tab 'em when I get around to it.

Maybe I just had a stronger character when I encountered the stormcallers.

ololoev wrote:If we have an altar to a random god form a specific set, it would be much more clear to the player if he should try praying on it.

For themed altars, I don't think the starting piety needs to be provided. The early benefits of a play style aligined god are enough.

Why are potions of brilliance and magic useful to troggers? I guess they let you wield weapons of -INT for a short time or maybe evoke blink one more time?
Scrolls of amnesia are correctly marked.

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