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Great, both the frailest race in the game and slow. (There is a huge difference between "slow" and "immobile and -tele")

My point is you effectively have -55% hp. (-10% from the frail, then halve hp again because you can't do anything to escape once rooted). This is more frail than felids and spriggans.

dynast wrote:The case here is how bad not having ev could be, specially when you just start the game, which would require testing.

No EV is orders of magnitude less bad than no movement and -Tele.

Entering uncancelable treeform upon reaching 50% hp is really bad. It's very similar to just having 50% less hp.

Plus using consumables early generates a feedback loop, of sorts. You need to use fewer, less valuable consumables when you do use consumables (in general), thereby giving you access to a greater # of powerful consumables as the game progresses. Strategic tips: At some point I realized that the maj...

Alternative proposal:
Change all food into evocables, with nutrition gained based on the evocations skill. At high evocations skill allow weaponization such as evoking pizza to make a tornado and jerky to summon minotaurs.

no...

inb4 "crawl was never great"

Run away frequently. Separate packs. Not everything needs to die.

FWIW, I actually found Brogue's combined commands annoying at first. But it works for Brogue because the inventory limit is really small. I think bringing up the entire list of options in crawl would be pretty bad. Maybe not Nethack-BoH bad, but still bad.

With savescumming you learn bad habits and dont learn how to play the game right. Explore mode doesnt teach the same bad habits.

Roguelike tradition. The same reason there's (q)uaffing, (e)ating, e(v)oking (for wands and spells in other games, (z)apping is often used instead), and (r)eading for using different types of items. Probably from leftovers in the original Rogue from roleplaying games. In contrast see Brogue, where a...

With explore mode you can't undo what's already been done. Checkpoints take that away. If the game offered checkpoints, people would feel like that's legitimate play (it isn't for a roguelike). Explore mode feels like you're playing on training wheels.

the patch notes need more wikipedia links in them to explain jokes, names, ideas that many people and perhaps even me do no understand without guidance. it out to be like the june 27th patch notes with the white dragon. i thought it was a game to thrones thing, but nope, japanese... Um, it's Chines...

the patch notes need more wikipedia links in them to explain jokes, names, ideas that many people and perhaps even me do no understand without guidance. it out to be like the june 27th patch notes with the white dragon. i thought it was a game to thrones thing, but nope, japanese... Um, it's Chines...

The reason to not add a checkpoint mode is that the game isn't supposed to be played with checkpoints. Explore mode (and wizard mode) already exist for those who want to remove permadeath. Directly supporting degenerate play (savescumming) teaches bad habits and does not improve the game.

There's no reason why player-created derived undead can't use stairs anymore since they time out. Just let all derived undead use stairs.

Dr,Hu,HO are all good caster species as well.

Whichever of sif/veh/fedhas/dith/kiku you run into first.

Can you give me an example of a situation where you are taking damage that is going to kill you in a turn or two, but it makes sense to preserve your mana so you can fight? Spiky damage isn't usually what kills pre-S-Branch blasters. Getting into a situation when you run out of mp is. For example, ...

Even Cj and FE are different. Sticky flame is way different from battlesphere and fulm prism.

idk that there's a real problem of players being encouraged to reset fights against derived undead these days, though i could be wrong. It's not that common, but it does happen that you run into a zombie/skelly that you might run out of HP just hitting tab against(eg: an early centaur skeleton, or ...

Elementalist backgrounds play completely differently, where Gl_mace plays just like Gl_longsword.

If you just took a big hit in your mana pool, that absorbed a lot of damage that would have drained your hp pool instead. So, you're low on mp, but you're not dead. It may only give you one extra turn, and you might not be able to escape with just one extra turn. Often, though, that one turn will m...

Usually with blasters, you use low mp instead of low hp as a sign to run from a fight...

I don't see Spirit Shield as being very helpful to a blaster.

rPois is completely unnecessary. Just don't stand in poison clouds. Other sources don't poison you fast enough to matter, and !curing exists.

As per "Roundabout", though, robots can experience different levels of priority in following the laws. It is very possible that the robot would save the greatest number of people and be fine afterwards.

Yes, it would be an interface nightmare, but at least it would actually be a translocations spell.

Lack of "stabber" background? We already have Enchanter. Stop, you are killing me. Is "needle-stabbing" specifically interesting enough to merit its own background, especially when gladiators (nets) and artificers both start with strong consumables with limited use in the early ...

Why a cone? Cone geometry is really weird on crawl's grid.

If you're looking for a lvl9 translocations spell, how about one that's actually translocations and not reflavored conjurations. For example, blink all enemies to locations of your choice.

This proposal would make the race much more tedious, as now you actually have to play in such as a way as to take as little damage as possible, where as the current system gives some leeway.

This is the idea between Uska, except instead of changing the effects of your spells, it gives access to god abilities.

This is how it works on console.

I thought someone fsimmed this and found gsc is usually better.

Deep Elf is actually a harder species for a caster build. Sure you have extra mp, but that's not really that helpful if you retreat regularly before you run out. The reduction in hp hurts a lot more than the increased apts help. Naga is a really hard species. Really, the easiest are Dr,Gr,Hu,HO.

Just cast bolt spells from the upstairs. Reset as needed. I've never had any problems.

Please, please, PLEASE don't make weapon types matter in the hands of monsters. It's an extremely annoying way of essentially creating new monsters. Just make the new monsters instead of forcing us to use x-v even more than we already have to!

You should have committed to an endgame weapon long before Depths.

If this was actually true, irc bots and the wiki wouldn't show monster max damage. And the code would be hidden because code diving gives you information that makes play more shallow.

A fair rule of thumb starting out is to train Spellcasting when you need more spell slots. Don't trickle it. Avoiding melee is bad advice. Popcorn can and should be killed without spending mp, since you'll need it when something big walks around the corner. Pick up any decent weapon and use it untra...

You can try playing more casters. Tab is harder with spells.

DrFE/Cj is pretty easy. The concept behind skills is pretty simple to melee: get your killdudes up, then do defenses.

The biggest thing to learn is to run to the stairs early and often. Treat 1/3 to 1/4 mp as dead. You never want to be caught without any mp.

Friends don't let friends do stashes.

Ninjaing the orb is likely to be hard for a newbie.

Any guide that recommends players to pursue lvl 9 spells (in different schools???) in a 3-rune game is pretty terrible. That's not capitalizing on a playstyle, it's just plain giving bad advice. That xp is better spent on defenses. A caster playing as a blaster mage will have greater success with so...

Slime is pretty trivial as a stairdancing blaster.

In addition to toes, you can fit multiple rings on ea finger, so that's more than 40.

Does the lore actually say if they're genderless or not?

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Again, the problem is you can no longer run away from threatening monsters. Which means you have to camp by staircases. Which is even more tedious/problematic than the current system.

It works great on D1 though.

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