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As far as I can tell, in 0.27, all equipment auto-id's when you walk over it, so the only use of scrolls of identify is for potions and scrolls. Once the player has identified the last potion/scroll, all scrolls of identify should disappear and no more should generate, as they are both useless and s...

I know it's just a joke but it's an inherently racist word that I think Crawl would be better without. My suggestion: change the semicolon into a period and delete everything after it, so the first sentence of the Demigod description would read: Demigods are mortals with some divine or angelic ances...

Blessed weapons (eudemon blade, sacred scourge, trishula) are some of the rarest weapons in the game. The only guaranteed way to get them is by worshipping TSO, and you’re unlikely to find them otherwise. They’re explained in-game as being the result of TSO’s blessing, making them the only purely ‘g...

Note that Wu *was* just recently nerfed (pin was removed from whirlwind) and there's not a really strong contingent that thinks [s]he's significantly overpowered Wu is actually the one god for whom pronouns are unambiguous. As per lore, "The Wu Jian Council is a congregation of martial monks.&...

Nope, I don't follow DCSS on reddit. Just playing the game, found the Singing Sword, was annoyed. Anyway, I'm glad it was fixed.

The only thing I've ever changed in an .rc file is autobutcher.

Every time it sends out a blast of sound it forces –more-- which is super-disruptive to game flow. It’s an awesome weapon but I’m considering not even using it on the character who found it because of how annoying it is.

Aside from the nitpickyness of which backgrounds are harder to generalize with, To me it feels like this *reduces* game variance (the point of having any starting conditions at all is to make games feel different from one another) rather than increases it. I feel like 'generalists' would play more ...

The idea is, when choosing a background, the player can choose the generalist or specialist version of the background. The difference between the two is starting stat distribution: generalist gets 4 4 4; specialist gets current background stat values (abyssal knight and wanderer don’t get a choice b...

What's wrong with having bad/useless weapon bases? They don't really enrich the game much, but they don't seem to hurt it at all. If nothing else, having some easily ignorable, obviously bad items around contributes to the feeling of a world beyond the video-game. Many of the items that gave that s...

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but clearly not enough becuse clubs still exist. Clubs seem to be unique in their badness and uselessness. Any class starting with M&F has at least a mace. I can’t think of any other weapon in the game that I would never use for any reason (even scythes h...

Like with Krishna's bow and a couple other unrands I think

The point of stone walls is to prevent you from being able to break the wall or pass through it*. So it's good that you can't passwall through it. This is also why transparent stone exists, for when you want to show something inside a vault but don't want the wall to be breakable. But in the case o...

How do you gain piety? Does it depend on which god powers you get?

I do think that giving them a name similar to forsaken would solve a lot of the issues (if you can call repeated forum posts an issue). Not that player feedback doesn't matter, but it isn't exactly an in-game problem, so much as a perception problem. As someone who loves the stat system, I do find ...

I think people are forgetting what a demigod actually is. Zeus is a god. Tyrael is an archangel. Heracles was a demigod, and while he was the son of a god, he was mostly just a regular dude, but turned up to 12. He didn't have godly haloes or the power to smite people, he was just The Buffest Dude ...

I don't have much to add, just wanted to say that I would support this change and enjoy playing some mountain dwarves!

Are Ds and Dr really popular, or do people just start playing carelessly or quit if they get mutations they don't want, resulting in more games total? I'm enjoy playing these species more if I could choose the mutations at the start. My opinions on popularity are based on what I've heard about acti...

Problem: Demigods are mechanically interesting but unpopular, like humans. They are "unsexy." Solution: give Demigods three level-1 mutations, randomly selected from a list, one each at levels 4, 12, and 20. Rationale: the enduring popularity of Demonspawn and Draconian shows that players...

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Right, those were just guesses. Most gods as far as I know give some extra benefit for getting to six stars. Is that simply not the case with Wu Jian?

Are martial attacks better? Is heavenly storm better?

It sucks to die from banishment; on the other hand, surviving banishment, especially on a lower-level character, feels awesome. For me at least it's worth the tradeoff.

Playing 0.21.0, wearing a scarf of repulsion, I picked up a glowing scarf and tried it on, it was also a scarf of repulsion! Right now scarves are consistent with cloaks in that when we see a glowing or runed one on the ground we won't know its enchantment or ego unless we ID it. IMO, Scarves should...

So to prevent degenerate play, a mechanic is introduced which is both spoilery and immensely counter-intuitive? It seems like it would be much more elegant to simply have monsters move away from the wall when it starts exploding at them. You could get one free hit, but monsters you can kill with on...

I like the transporter vaults, with the exception of the one that just has a few electric eels and a wand of flame. Part of this is because I died there after getting teleport trapped into the middle, but it would be pointless to ever go through it intentionally for such meager loot.

1. It became optimal to lower your spellpower in some circumstances to avoid breaking the wall (as vaf points out) 2. It was decided that killing things that can't even approach you is overpowered and stupid, particularly with ash. 3. It was optimal to stop and fire low powered lrd at walls you had...

...when the monster is on the other side of a wall? As far as I can tell, the mechanic is as follows: If the monster is in a space "closed off" from the player (so continuous wall or wall with closed door), nothing in the closed-off space is hit by shrapnel. However, once there is an openi...

Have slings been nerfed in trunk? In 0.20.1 the fustibalus (formerly greatsling) does 12 base damage with bullets and 10 with stones.

As another alternative, you could add a secondary effect to ring of magic resistance to enhance hexes and charms. I like the idea of a special dagger that boosts them, though.

Getting the demon blade to mindelay will take a lot less xp than maxing out unarmed plus getting blade hands online. .6 weapon delay + antimagic bite is pretty devastating, and if you don't use a shield you'll also get a decent offhand punch from the 12 UC.

It would be cool if it did, though. A blessing is a miraculous event that should transcend normal weapon enchantment limits.

I just mean it's weird that going Op^Oka gives you a better chance of getting Bear Spirit than Hu. And unless I'm mistaken, that's how things work right now. This is super OT for my own thread :/ I would counter that worshipping Oka with an equipment-restricted species is a meaningful strategic cho...

I'd like to see undead able to worship TSO. TSO allows them to wield the ******-blessed weapon by means of personal intervention, but other weapons of holy wrath remain unwieldable. The character is flavoured as a "self-hating undead" who functions as a repentant but necessarily imperfect ...

I'm playing a HuEn of Ash, currently working my way through lair. I'm wearing an acid dragon armour and also have a troll leather armour in reserve. I just found a book of frost and am considering switching to the troll armour to use with ozo's. Investment in ice magic is no problem since it helps m...

You can't cast corona on a fire elemental because they're made of fire and thus can't be illuminated. Does this mean their EV is lowered inherently as a result of in a certain sense always being coronaed? But since they're made of fire, the illumination shouldn't affect your ability to hit them. But...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll respond to different points below. This is a variation on another, in my opinion better, proposal. There is a slot locking proposal where instead of using curses on items to make things work, you "bind" equipment slots directly locking them so that yo...

Edit: I'm placing a newer version of the proposal incorporating certain ideas from this thread here, at the top of the post. The full original post follows. Revised Proposal: Ashenzari no longer gives the ability to curse items, but to bind equipment slots. Equipment cannot be equipped with, or une...

-Wiz isn't much of a penalty for anyone who'd be interested in the item. Casters won't care about the aux attack, while most fighters won't care about the -Wiz. I think you're right. As an alternative to give the drawback to fighters, I suggest: the unholy power of the item saps the wearer's life f...

Mechanics: give up helmet slot and take a wizardry penalty for fangs 3 and vampiric bite Rough Description: enchanted diamond jewelry in the shape of sharp fangs, designed to be worn over the teeth. Rumored to have been left behind by an eccentric (and wealthy) adventurer with a vampire fetish. The...

My opinion: Change Nikola's name so it doesn't reference a real-world scientist. Nikoletta etc. is still an oblique reference to the real-world Tesla; if this unique is to be made female, pick some other name. Don't add references to real-world scientists, regardless of gender. If we are going to se...

Scimitar of flaming death and the dagger of chilly death were pretty boring and I won't miss them, but I thought hat of the high council had good flavour and mechanics in addition to being a hat and thus niche valuable for octopodes, players with one or two head mutations, etc. Anyway, I'm not deman...

Learndb says the hp formula is Floor[(8 + Floor[(1+3*Fighting)/2]+Floor[11*XL/2]+Floor[Fighting*XL/14])*(1+Aptitude/10)]. Have fun with that. Here's the code, which also handles temporary HP boosts not listed in the above formula: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/source/player.c...

Followup: how does training more Fighting earlier than later affect a character's eventual max HP?

Thanks for the responses everyone. I'll respond to a few things explicitly. I'd sooner see a reform of the underlying skill system to address this problem than slapping a coat of paint on the titles. I'm not sure if this is trolling or just tone-deafness. "Flavour" is right there in the ti...

Sorry for the unclear post title, but I'm not sure what the official designation is for the feature I'm describing. One cool aspect of crawl's flavour is the 'predicate' your character receives based on their highest skill and the strength of that skill. For example, a character just starting out as...

As far as I can tell, the effect of this proposal would be to encourage a more generalist playstyle and discourage specialization for all characters. More 'hardcore' players--those who go for things like streaks, speedruns, or wins with all possible species/background/god combinations--seem to favor...

On a semi-related note, why did this commit makes Monks into Adventurers instead of Zealots? The bonus piety is their defining feature I think this reclassification is a key point. If monks are adventurers rather than warriors, then it doesn't really make sense to compare them to gladiators. Gladia...

Description: an orc warrior, wielding a polearm (minimum halberd) and carrying javelins, riding a war elephant --simply a regular elephant wearing armoured plates, thus more AC. Mechanics: same as spriggan rider to determine whether rider or mount dies first: if the orc dies, the elephant has a 50%...

disagree with removing the Abrahamic aspects of Zin, TSO, and Beogh. Having a pantheon of gods which, unlike in our own world, are universally acknowledged to all exist, and then having a few of them resemble the Abrahamic God, whose authority traditionally derives from the denial of the existence ...

I agree with most of duvessa's critique, but disagree with removing the Abrahamic aspects of Zin, TSO, and Beogh. Having a pantheon of gods which, unlike in our own world, are universally acknowledged to all exist, and then having a few of them resemble the Abrahamic God, whose authority traditional...

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