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I'm on a cleared D5, and I read my unidentified scrolls just to see what I have. First is butterflies. Second is immolation. Third is poison. Fiery explosions kill me. All I had to do was wait for the summons to expire. Oh well. I had found a quicksilver dragon scale on D4, which is pretty good for ...

After ~9k games over 13 years, I made use of a scroll of immolation today for the first time.

I guess I'm learning.

The player species with six limbs and a rolling ability should be called "Boring Beetle."

I gave it a shot. Fear got the orb guardians moving east, and the first teleport moved me a bit to the west. I used Bolt of Cold to pick off a draconian and the one pursuing Orb Guardian, then used fog when Ring of Flames expired to keep the Ancient Litch from seeing me for a bit. The second telepor...

I don't have a buckler because I might need to melee something elec resistant with my lajatang! The teleport to get here was delayed. I guess that's a fairly recent change in trunk? I don't think fog will help much because I cast Ring of Fire to increase my rF against the last Orb of Fire. I might n...

This DEFE of Vehumet is my first character that can cast firestorm, and I've been celebrating by making a little too much noise. I cast it 4 times to kill an orb of fire, then ran into another one while retreating and teleported into a batch of enemies near the Orb Chamber. I'm down to 92 HP and 11M...

Give it an even chance of causing confusion (like ambrosia), draining stats, or draining skills. And let one cast last until HP are full. Then it's useful for getting back to safe HP in unknown territory, but not for use after every fight.

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/jejorda2/morgue-jejorda2-20170127-162540.txt I played a game in this branch without reading the thread first. I only noticed one bezotted monster during the game, and xv and fighting it weren't enough to tell me whether "bezotted" was good for me or t...

I don't see another good Hepl thread, so I'll put this here: -I just won a HOGl game with a hexer ancestor ( on cbo ). I don't win much, so Hepl is probably overpowered. -I used transference constantly to close the distance to ranged threats or split up groups. It's fun. I never noticed it slowing e...

| switches between view modes: health, terrain, weapons, player, monster (I don't think it works in web tiles)

Getting the rune in the Snake Pit slows S monsters to N speed?

The iron rod appears to hit an n-headed hydra n times, which is really good because they don't have AC. So it's a nice thing to have in Lair with an edged weapon.

Sif with a transmuter means you can cast dragon form at 66% failure and have no fear of miscasts, which leaves more xp for UC, fighting, and dodging. And you'll eventually be guaranteed the little things like blink and swiftness, so you can reset fights and try again if the form doesn't work the fir...

Does it take more than one turn to eat a royal jelly? I've been playing as if those were a jerky/pizza substitute.

Does wearing rCorr decrease the chance of getting hit by *Corr?

Does wearing multiple rCorr help more?

I have boots of *Corr/MR/rPois/Regen, gloves of rCorr, and an amulet of rCorr. I have other useful gloves and amulets. What to do?

For two !cure mutation:

a - [Trove] a glowing shortbow
b - [Trove] a box of beasts
c - [Trove] 12 stones
d - [Trove] a glowing scythe
f - the +7 great mace "Kutish" (weapon) {holy, *Confuse Str+2 Dex+3}
k - a +0 battleaxe of venom
n - amulet of clarity

Clarity isn't bad.

Does throwing skill (or needle type, or gun enchantment, or anything else) impact how long the breath timer is?

Replace altars with chapels so we have something to enter. Still a _ glyph, so it's just a matter of replacing the word everywhere it appears.

Improved shop mimics could be portals to a 9x9 room where you are surrounded by the dangerous creatures that forced the shopkeeper to abandon the shop. Or 2x1. There could be variation. Kind of like a labyrinth without the maze. And maybe without the loot. Or the announcement.

The boots of the Assassin are special and let you stab with what you are wielding instead of the butchering dagger.

Let storing the spell be foolproof, and have the spellpower be set by multiplying typical spyllpower [(piety+200)/(max possible piety + 200)]. Then have a chance to waste a turn instead of instantly casting the spell, based on invocations. Use a formula similar to Makhleb's old friendliness chance.

Because of all the disconnected areas and the lack of loot, it makes a lot of sense to dive to the bottom of slime and only clear the lowest level. The Royal Jelly is interesting enough that the rest of the level doesn't really need more. And the other levels won't really be interesting because they...

I think "Are holy weapons good enough to sacrifice the skill boost" is a fun question. But on the other hand, in the late game where holy weapons are best, there is enough xp to get those last few levels of weapon skill without Ash's boost. And getting to use rods and maybe a launcher adds...

milks wrote:[Ghost moths] are the only permanently invisible monster with a ranged attack

Did vapours get removed?

Once upon a time, someone proposed creating a screen for the wield command that was kind of like the memorize command for spells. There was lots of general support for the idea, but not much consensus over exactly what info should be included. I certainly like the idea of a list that compares the ef...

I've never seen this happen. I view the forum in Safari on a Mac and IE on Windows. Also mobile safari on an iPod from time to time. What are you using? Can you link to a post where the name is in the wrong place? You can right-click on the red or grey triangle beside the post date to get a link to ...

Maybe L1 draconian should have a placeholder breath weapon? Like maybe a roar that makes the same damage as shout, then gets replaced when the color is revealed? Or breath that can do nothing but wake up sleeping monsters at range, like throwing stones without needing to find stones, but with a brea...

Blink with fast regeneration on imps is interesting, especially with the relatively high AC.
Blink on blink frogs makes a tough monster easier to escape.

I'm not sure why phantoms have blink. But sometimes I'm glad to escape an early one.

Sandblast still needs stones, right?

Big things should block line of sight like walls do. Just to make size more relevant.

le_nerd wrote:SIze also affects if you can net a creature

I had no idea. Big things like Ogres, Hill Giants, and Cyclops are what I try to use nets on the most. I figure I'm likely to hit them since they aren't evasive.

Ghosts are restless, anxious, and without repose. Spooky, beset, transient. Harrowing. Aggravating?

Could an eerie gloom replace ghostly flame? A vexing disturbance? A harrowing atmosphere? Anxious ambiance?

Or what if the damage from the weapon is added to your AC for a few turns when you strike something? So you only get the AC when you are actually hitting things with the weapon, and the same skills that increase damage increase the defensive bonus. It can be a pretty high bonus if it is short-lived ...

Could it also increases the spell slots that the spell consumes? Or even the spell level? Granted, I usually don't have amnesia scrolls coming out of my ears, but I usually have two or three that I'm not going to use at the end of the game and boosting the top spells would always be an easy choice a...

It worked that way for a while, but it was a complicated list to remember. Fire is clearer.

I know what cleansing flame is- that's what TSO worshippers can attack with as an ability, and what angels and daevas smite with.

What is blessed fire?

Apparently one-handed bows do exist. Some people draw them with their teeth.

http://www.bowhuntingbasics.com/disabled_archery.htm

I don't think we need an unrand tooth bow.

Throwing is really strong. It's better at lower skill levels on trolls (for large rocks) than on other species, and it's worth training all the way to 27 on everyone for more damage. That said, if you have evocations, then you have ranged damage, and you don't need both evocations and throwing. If y...

For anyone else who is behind a filter that blocks imgur, the OP celebrates 50k commits to the crawl git repository.

The game is all about whacking monsters, and the user-frienliesth way is to hit it and be done with it. The game is not all about whacking monsters. The game is about exploring how different approaches to the skill screen can give you different ways to use the random finds to avoid dying to the ran...

Jellies are formless and ought to be chaotic. I think whisps and vortexes should be chaotic. I haven't looked up what is chaotic in a long time. I could go for adding kobold astounders who have a chaotic burst spell that randomly casts shock/sting/throw frost/throw fire/magic dart/blink and kobold i...

I don't feel like explaining why right now, but I think that: Deciding whether or not to open a runed door is fun. Deciding whether or not to open a standard door is usually relegated to autoexplore. Deciding whether or not too close a door is not fun, because the decision is often obvious. (The doo...

Yeah, simple smite targeting would work, too. I would argue for letting all ranged attacks have smite targeting against the player, too, in that case.

Would that mean you could also always smite target flying things, or is that taking it too far?

An alternative that would be simpler to explain and execute would be to have "high" and "low" projectiles that interact differently with flying targets. You shoot a high projectile when you aim at something that is flying, and a low projectile when you aim at something that isn't...

As I said in that thread, I believe flying should change how positioning affects targeting. Here are some examples of how it could work: #### @ogb #### If I'm standing on the ground, I can aim a single-target projectile at the orc. If I shoot at the goblin, I'll probably hit the orc instead. Because...

From a recent thread,

dpeg wrote:We should think if we can make flying more tactically relevant

Does anyone have ideas on how to make flight tactically important?

The planet is going to be just fine no matter what we do. I don't think we're in danger of shifting its orbit or changing it's mass or composition much.

The biome? That may be another matter.

The commit for this change also doesn't indicate that this is part of any kind of flight reform. I just don't see how this is a good change. :( What commit are you referring to? I don't see any commits after July that refer to flight or swiftness. The good change that is proposed is that if potions...

Presumably, weaker weapons have to shoot more to defeat the same enemies. With the same mulch rate, more shots means more mulched ammunition.

Looking at the current skill display, you know the level of the skills and your aptitudes. To find out which of two skills costs more, and how much, you also have to have a table of how much xp (or skill points- I use the terms interchangeably) each level costs. Then you have to use the aptitudes, l...

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