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Plantissue wrote:
354x quitting
What is going on here?

Probably "aw crap I'm dead, might as well quit already".

+9 SH is not equal to +9 EV. The game has some weird calculations for blocks and SH's displayed value is considerably inflated compared to its actual usefulness.

Can someone provide a morgue of a character who reliably and consistently used Leda's? Preferably in a game where it was justified, and not picked over the better options out of curiosity or to prove a bad point. I'm interested what kind of a character would use it in the first place. I imagine FoEE...

I'm not sure this comparison is informative, since all three of these spells are awful. It's like evaluating axes by comparing them to short blades. A better point of comparison would be Freezing Cloud. Not at all. Those three spells have both damage and utility components to them, just like BVC. F...

I haven't complained about this yet because I barely ever play spellcasters, but now I do play one and wow. Borngjor's Vile Cluth is: - smite-targetted with effective range 6 (see point below), meaning it covers almost all LOS - 3x3 AoE - it's extremely MP efficient - its full duration's damage is w...

It doesn't stop mindless tabbing at all - the characters who do utilize this "tactic" really don't give a damn about porcupine spines and only know about the other two if they check the learndb entry.

This week's Leszczynek's Obscure Complaint is about spiny frogs and how they aren't actually spiny. Sure threw me off when I finally tried the famous Borgnjor's Overpowered Clutch out, realized I can't use it against spiny monsters (porcupine), then realized spiny frogs aren't really spiny and compl...

Plain summoning with low Invo/piety can summon a horde of hostiles on top of you, or a summoned pan lord can Glaciate you. There are several problems with Nemelex, not just this one.

Vehumet can give Yara's. While it's kind of fun in general and very useful for Mummies in Dis, I don't think it's a level 5 spell gift one would be hoping for; not only it can't be used reliably on its own, it's also Hexes/Transmutations, neither of which a Vehumet worshipper finds particularly usef...

<Leszczynek> !lg * !boring s=crace v>0.21 <Sequell> 550384 games for * (recent !boring v>0.21): 62420x Demonspawn, 52623x Minotaur, 38038x Octopode, 35679x Gnoll, 34550x Gargoyle, 33673x Deep Elf, 30128x Draconian, 26422x Hill Orc, 24015x Formicid, 20363x Spriggan, 17745x Troll, 17519x Vine Stalker...

Ha ha, exactly. I suppose ring of shadows wasn't exactly the best example, I think Eos would be better. A jewelled morningstar, glowing brightly with the light of the dawn. It illuminates the dungeon's recesses, revealing the machinations of those who would prefer to stay invisible. And if you have ...

My current Fun Elf (i.e. melee DE) found a ring of Shadows. Great find! It also made me realize that the umbra effect has no decent description in the game. Let me roleplay a new player. Q - the ring of Shadows (right hand) {Umbra +Inv Stlth+}. A black ring that can make its wearer one with the shad...

I tried playing on CPO, but the lags were killing me (literally, suicided out of frustration). If any other server closer to Europe would be willing to host it, I'd gladly try it out though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugtipv1YNmU The previous record, also by p0werm0de, was 31:26. Breaking 30 minutes was considered very hard to say the least, then this happened: 9009 | Lair:2 | Identified the +11 battleaxe of Odylonag {speed, rN+ Str+9 Int+4} (You acquired it on level 2 of the Lair ...

Patashu wrote:I wasn't around for this so I have no idea what you're talking about or what it does

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=10026

I actually forgot it was supposed to do something useful sometimes. Oops.

Keep: - Draconian - I don't like them but can accept their existence as "casters with good defences" - Felid - annoying in a good way, somehow. - Merfolk - staple hybrid fighters, they're great. - Mummy - as a meme (or "challenge species", if you want to call them that). - Naga -...

You know, that item that nobody used or cared for that was in trunk for a few weeks a few full releases ago and got removed. It would fit the theme of random uselessness pretty well. Read it while worshipping Xom and he does something random.

Too much of a groundbreaking idea to post in GDD, I think.

Agreed, but allow the monster to cast it on the second turn, and on the first turn of any subsequent encounter with the same monster. One turn is enough for an appropriate reaction. Distortion should not be limited at all. Alternatively you could make banishment a delayed effect just like teleport, ...

My favourite silly thing in DCSS is how incredibly effective are deep elven master archers at killing themselves while trying to hit me through a shield + reflection.

Every time I'm complaining about the Labyrinth, I remind myself what it looked like in ADOM (item destroying traps every few steps, the whole branch 7 levels deep including false staircases and levels) and then suddenly Crawl's version becomes an incredibly fun stroll in comparison. But yes, navigat...

Oh I know how this works, I'm just saying it's exciting and well communicated to the player.

It's actually so fun I'm not even going to report this on Mantis or check if it's been reported before, I'll just shitpost on tavern instead. Daeva didn't move by the way, although of course I have no way of proving it.

With your EV consider disintegrating tarantellas from afar, they're damn annoying for low evasion characters and confusion disables SH.

Also swamp dragon scales are a good armour, one of the better dragon scales actually.

There's little point to -3 in Bows since small races can't use longbows. If they are supposed to not wear body armor, you can call them Fairies instead of Gnomes and give them permaflight for flavor. I can't comment on the concept in general because I only play melee and I'm disinterested in things ...

It's not like it was his own hat in the first place anyway.

A version that is +0 scale mail but applies to all healing is basically like the current version -7 AC for most characters, which equates to "completely trash my defenses in exchange for better healing, which I could use to make up for the extra damage I'm taking due to my trashed defenses, ex...

TL;DR What it's now: +7 Kryia's mail coat {PotionHeal*2 rC+} My change suggestion: +0 Kryia's mail coat {Heal*2} Details: It was a pretty interesting armor choice back when wands of heal wounds were around. Now that they're no longer there, Kryia's is generally OK but uses a somewhat bad base (scal...

[obligatory comment about giving Necromancy yet another spell]

Without reading the comments above, the new gnolls are stronger than even the first iteration. This also means two things: they're fun to play as and they should be moved to "Easy" column in race selection.

Fighting limited inventory slots and inventory management in general by removing items doesn't sound like the best idea to me, though it's certainly an easy way out.

One argument for this background is that it requires low effort to implement for testing in trunk, unless it's deemed absolutely necessary to update online scoring as well. If we can have separate backgrounds for every low level spell book in the game save for Cantrips, we might as well have a Vehum...

Freaking white imps in Cocytus... They're there to block your path so that you can't get to that tormentor too fast, also a noobtrap to make you hit them and waste turns between hell effects. Other similarly annoying and otherwise absolutely harmless things: - Coc: flying skulls, skeleton/zombie sp...

None. After sinking into DCSS no other roguelike seems worthwhile. I did play Sil a bit relatively recently but it's not nearly as fun. In the past I played ADOM and a tiny bit of Rogue, Nethack and Elona.

Though they are still a bit weak (compared to many other races) in the early game. Could you please list races which are weaker as Wn than NaWn in the early game? OpWn immediately comes to mind. Wanderers are almost always melee starts (if you get a book start, it's quite likely to be a bad randart...

Maybe the player doesn't want the spectator to overwrite his last dump? If you aren't aware, there's only file for the ongoing character dump for each player (account) per server, even across game versions. You can just ask the player in question to dump the character for you, I don't remember anyon...

Oh no, turns out minmay has been lying to us all this time, the cunning bastard! Really though, if someone is, how to put it, enthusiastic enough to play the same combo over and over and over again quite literally day after day, then let them have that streak. I'd splat out of disgust at most during...

"Blink with Direction" already exists and is called Passage of Golubria. You can make it less controlled at low spellpower if you really, really want. As to the original proposal, sometimes blinking further away is not necessarily desirable. For a similar issue see Invisibility, where high...

I've played a few games of new gnolls and while it might not be a big enough sample to make any definitive statements, I do feel they are very, very miserable. The older versions were at least powerful early and they taught you to use all kinds of lower level things. The feeling was "look how a...

This topic was created because I was asking what is the point of a two-headed ogre on D:4 and hinting at a possible bug with monster generation. I don't need an advice on walking away from it, so please either move it back to GDD or, if this is Crawl working as intended, close the topic. Thanks.

Hm, I thought the initial monster generation respects the data in pop arrays, I guess I was wrong then. I was wondering if I should report this as a bug, but decided against it in the end.

http://i.imgur.com/CkoPjzK.png

How is this possible again? I spent a total of less than 30 turns on D:4, so don't tell me about OOD timers please.

Code:: { 8, 17, 300, SEMI, MONS_TWO_HEADED_OGRE }

Doesn't this mean they should start spawning on level generation from D:8?

Shard1697 wrote:I once got a wanderer start with two books that both had 2 random spells, and they each contained exactly the same spells(beastly appendage, spider form). I wonder what the odds of that happening are.

Wait until you get that but no training in Spellcasting, thus no spell slots on level 1.

Unless we're talking about hell rats, rats in Lair are cannon fodder that does absolutely nothing. Miasma bite and poison clouds make the Rat King look like something that would fit more in Swamp, but then it doesn't really feel unique enough since there are swamp dragons and the miasma rune vault a...

Backtracking doesn't take as huge amount of time as some people think. Full run from Zot:5 to D:1 exit with no digging, blinks, teleports and PoG, and with a bit of fighting along the way, takes less than 1k turns. With digging, PoG and so on, having to traverse only several levels, will take signif...

Transporter vaults are the most fun new feature of 0.20 in my opinion, so good job. Maybe there aren't very caster-friendly with their confined space and no way to regen MP, but I don't think it's a problem. The only actual problem I see is that these vaults lose their fun factor if you do come 10 X...

Maybe someone could fix Yara's targetting too, it uses AoE targetting and if direct line of fire is blocked, it will suggest casting the spell next to monster. Except there's no explosion when you cast it into air, so nothing happens, except for you losing 5 MP and a turn.

Plantissue wrote:I would consider troll leather armour to be "good enough" shieldless defence to collect a rune. Perhaps not good enough for Shoal but Shoal is generally deadly.

I've done Shoals in robes with old ogres, so it's not impossible.

This is not melee Tr, it has too high Throwing (javelins are already at min delay with Heroism). Also maybe it is not weak because of +6 ring of evasion, pure melee and AC 15/EV 16 would made the character feel quite different IMHO If you play a true melee only character (no throwing, no blowguns, ...

Trolls are very easy to play, they just aren't as beginner friendly as minotaurs. You're heavily underestimating the power of UC + Claws 3. Just lure opponents one by one and massacre them in melee. Throw things at them from distance if you need to soften them up or it's a hydra. Animate Skeleton an...

Ultraviolent4 wrote:Short version
Crawl probably shouldn’t have references to real-world scientists but if there must be, we shouldn’t be reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes by making them all male.

I can't believe this is in GDD and not in CYC.

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