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or give perma-flight immediately and let the EV bonus kick in at some higher XL

KoboldLord wrote:Additionally, remove interaction between flight and rare enemy spells that you only see maybe a couple times in a whole game.

what about the interaction between monster flight and a level 4 player spell

Oh, I had also found Storm Bow and the Sword of Jihad in my game. At first I thought "no", but then I found Amulet of Four Winds...

amazing selection for a char not cleared Lair yet. 54 cheiless dex! Guess I should switch to staves and use lajatang? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1715-ga59010f (webtiles) character file. doolittle the Spry (Halfling Hunter) Turns: 24185, Time: 02:31:54 Health: 110/110 AC: 27 Str: 22 XL:...

Dith's shadow mimic is intentionally programmed to be like a separate monster that does stuff from your position, and it's explicitly not *you* doing the shadow actions, but a distinct agent, which is why I find the special-casing of this particular ally somewhat odd. I suppose you think of it as no...

it suppresses demonic guardian

Why is it so funny to invert colors??

removing more than 1 species at once is so unreasonable

people talk about elves and dwarves and halflings as if humans can't have albinism or beards or midgets

Shtopit wrote:make up for low strength and light armour.

high elves have average armor apt and 7 base strength

Malevolent wrote: if they try to leave you or object to anything you say, you just have all his friends and family isolate and berate him for the rest of his life

lol what kind of orc has time to groan and moan about that

There are some kinks getting worked out when you worship different gods after sacrificing love to Ru. For example, you can't summon angels/servants/BiA/etc. Here are some final aspects to consider: Beogh The loveless cannot worship Beogh, but why not? There's still smiting and water-walking, and gre...

you only need a very small number of blink/tele/haste/fog/fear/etc to get out of virtually any situation, and you propose keeping the player in constant supply of consumables anyway, so what does the proposal even accomplish and why do you want to sustain consumables in the first place

you're just increasing the site's traffic by saying that here

CypherZel wrote:Heard it sucks mottled dragon shit

i heard different

yaktaurs are classic body horror in the vein of The Fly, death cobs are brilliantly unfathomable yet menacing killers, and have you even seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space?

the formicid peed its pants

It's okay, his ideas are predicated on the premise that crawl must be mind-numbingly long and easy

BTW, can't you say exactly the same spot-removal thing about Beogh?

How about making Desolation's salt clouds nonmoving and immutable, instead of placing cloud generators? Surely that would speed up processing, and it could actually be said that a new terrain type is being experimented with.

Warning: flavour ahead! Fwiw I suggested simply placing a runed door in each loot room upon killing its majesty. I like the previous (walls turn translucent) and the current (walls disappear) solution better than runed doors, because it provides visual oomph. What if the walls are instead doors, se...

You could already get less XP and fewer consumables if you played Mummy, so you're not getting much new in that regard if you're playing MiBe or something. The bigger benefit here, I think, is reducing the repetitiveness of fighting the same monsters too many times with the same character, which mak...

Remove boulder beetles Orb spiders and regular IOOD casters are a much better use of projectiles - rolling boulder beetles were almost always trivial to avoid. This sounds odd. If you like how an IOOD moves, and don't like how a rolling boulder beetle moves, wouldn't you make boulder beetles move w...

10 - Spriggan http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/b/b8/Spriggan_(monster).png 9 - Gnoll http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/8/8e/Gnoll.png 8 - Greater Mummy http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/6/6c/Greater_mummy.png 7 - Ogre http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/1/10/Ogre_%28monster%29.png 6 - Sonja http:...

edit 2: I'm going to go ahead and say something crazy here. Maybe, instead of using a complicated randomization formula like 1d102 + 1d101 + 1d100 - 3 or whatever it is and then trying to invert its cumulative distribution function or whatever is going on there (it's been a while), maybe -- just ma...

what about all the cognitive meltdowns this kind of thing is known to induce via information overload

what's the joke? what does it have to do with the new god for you? (you can't even say "explaining would ruin the joke" now because the joke is already ruined)

plus, how can something that's not a direct response be out of context as a standalone thread?

Who are you talking to? Did anyone make that argument? Saying ‘in hypothetical optimal play you should recharge MP’ about casters sounds about as dumb as saying 'in hypothetical optimal play you should get yourself next to monsters’ about melee chars or saying ‘in hypothetical optimal play you shoul...

wow, this guy is an unabashed one-man echo chamber.

e: perhaps you meant to use this for your gif:

Ah....silly me, I never noticed the time thing. I actually thought that number was just a turn counter...even though it clearly says "TIME!!!" lol. Fun fact - earlier versions of DCSS didn't display time at all. It was confusing as all hell and made me give up figuring out what weapon del...

@goodcoolguy Direct damage magic doesn't require degenerate gameplay. Recharging MP = cheeze and scum, while backing up behind corners and standing in hallways = reasonable tactics? You would sound just as sensible if you had it the other way around. Recharging your MP is a requirement of using spel...

As long as spellbooks remain as physical objects and book burning is retained, you should be able to choose a book as your gift. This would make spell-books more than the sum of their spells for the first time ever. Your orc would then have its existing spell-set cleared and replaced by the spells i...

i don't get it... why would you not want to rest at least until you are fully healed, in a system where your natural regen happens only while you are resting? And nobody has mentioned any taking away of "control" up until your post here, (I presume that you could press "." to get...

Probably the most important effect would be on speedrunners, who would forever curse the dev responsible for removing the ability to regen-on-the-go AND their beloved breadswinging all in one commit. I'd make waiting not count towards turncount while at it. This would encourage an extremely annoyin...

the commit meant to make Chaos Mirror scarier, duvessa... are you saying that the monsters should prefer to be petrified over being polymorphed?

Yes, I am. It is a scenario far likelier than the 1 in 19,683,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance of an executioner dealing 450 damage over 9 actions to a character with 0 AC (that's assuming it doesn't cast pain).

If tzitzimimeh were three times faster then they would outclass executioners in every. single. way. So: no, it is just speed. if executioners were three times faster they could do 450 damage in 10 aut. what's your point? you're fighting a lost battle with your pedantry. Tzitzimimeh can already do m...

It's been suggested before and I'll suggest it again because it's such a damn good idea: In the temple, there could be an item like a rune that automatically identifies all items and removes all curses from that point forward. You maintain all the silliness of not knowing if items will help you or ...

Sandman25 wrote:Don't get me wrong, I have 3-15 rune wins with Ash too. But having no jewelry means the god is almost useless for me.

What are you talking about? You had 2 cursed rings. You could have got your magic boost right there. Ash's conduct is to wear the cursed stuff.

the alternative is better for its elegance, you should have started your post with it, and added the "suppress fangs" proposal second... but yeah sandblast is used early on without stones quite a bit, so could start EE with more stones to compensate? But that's a bit unlike the Tm paradigm...

well, don't make your escape path run through a corridor? you'd be in the same damn trouble if you just ran out out of MP! what's inner flame got to do with it?

except speed and ability to kill you turns out those are kind of important If tzitzimimeh were three times faster then they would outclass executioners in every. single. way. So: no, it is just speed. 1s should be kept in SGD because the guaranteed place to see it is in the final level of most game...

Tzitzimimeh are stronger than executioners in all respects (except speed, but you could argue that anything of speed 10 is harmless) More important than how to communicate a tier's mechanical contents is communicating their mechanical use not sure what is the exact distinction between 'contents' and...

"Menace" should not translate to tier, because it's a less useful distinction, IMO, at least considering how the demons are designed right now. I think they need to have a glyph that marks them as "fragile but have nasty special attacks." I doubt that this classification can be t...

UI should make it easy to see high-priority monsters. Tormentors gobble 100+ HP in 1 turn. They are high priority. Their fragility and 1v1 harmlessness are not pertinent.

duvessa wrote:You might have a point with hellions

how many demons can kill you faster than a hellion?

Yeah so what if they give the same amount of XP as yaktaurs? Damnation and Torment are two key attacks of Extended. Who casts them? Uniques, pan lords, some 1s, hellions, and tormentors are the only casters of Damnation/Torment in Pan/Hells. What is the point of tier-numbering but to let you quickly...

what if passive freeze made monsters, like, "Freeze!" (don't move) for a turn? the pun is lame but think of the gameplay power

And you can see yourself, in wiz-mode, how this would affect venom-branded weapons. (Make a macro that tabs once and wiz-mode-casts Ignite Poison, and compare it to simple tabbing.) So has anyone tried this? ~ creates macros, "s" is available for the trigger key, &zignite\{32}poison\{...

Would it be too radical to remove normal HP regen from all non-resting actions?
Maybe it would - your char can even repair his equipment (from corrosion) on the go!
(but if it were removed then it could be buffed to e.g. 1 HP/turn, independent of max HP)

It raises base damage by up to that amount. Check it in wizmode fsim - max damage goes up by a lot, but the average damage increases by only about 40%.

And they multiply each other rather than add up, like it would be 156%*144%=224.64% with your percentages.

yes I Know that equipping and quick-swapping your char is often a hassle, and the OP tries to take quick-swapping and run with it, and make it as painless as possible by allowing you only ONE slot to ever keep track of, and it's a slot that is always visible on the game screen. Unlike with rings, th...

Poisonous Combustion - Poison/Fire/Transmutations (5) - Continuous version of Ignite Poison lasts several turns. Doesn't replace the lower level spell, which is useful in getting online earlier among a few other niches it has over the continuous version. During this spell, all poison immediately be...

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