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I know this, when only mummy and angel zigs can give you a challenge. Or maybe tomb3 when you alerted everybody with tornado :) but then, you could land on a hellion island and be hellfired to death without much you could do about it - it is rare, but crawl could still get you. Luckily I did Tomb o...

congratulations to your first 15 runer, many fresh impressions i am sure, and you'll remember it a long long time. without any melee capabilities whatsoever, nice to see that done. i guess herding enemies together for icestorm is a key. perfect spellset, great equipment, a really outstanding charac...

So I finally got my second win! By the time I cleared Zot, I realised the character had some potential and decided to go for a few more runes (also thanks to some encouragement from R18 and a couple other spectators). The game kind of power-spiralled out of control at that point as there was increas...

Wow, rapid! Nice work MarvinPA

Bit of a silly mistake this one, but I just wasted a scroll of acquirement by attempting to press \- to see my unrecognised items from the acquirement screen. It was just an instinctual key combination that I expected to work. Magically, a completely useless staff appeared at my feet. Since acquirem...

The mechanics don't have to be the same. Here's an example: the way teleports and stairs work in NetHack. If Linley hadn't had experience with NetHack odds are he wouldn't have made them the way they are in Crawl. Now which game would probably be better: one made by a person who has had a lot of ex...

Finally anyone who finds Crawl "too difficult" shouldn't be making a roguelike of their own. This, in fact, is a ridiculously uninformed statement. I'll let dpeg explain why: I don't think he [Linley Henzell, creator of Crawl] is playing Crawl these days. (In fact, I'd say he never played...

Not common, but good D:1 finds are certainly not unusual.

The 't' key brings up an ally commands menu. You can tell them a specific monster to attack. I realise it's a bit late to tell you that

Mephitic Cloud is way too good against them. Not only does it confuse them, casting it on yourself prevents you from being petrified. Maybe this is one place where the spell power of cloud spells could be made to matter more: instead of one cloud preventing any other clouds from being created in th...

Shoals, moreso than ELF, appears to be the place for flying creatures. While it may not be true, I feel I've encountered more Griffons/Harpies/Manticores in Shoals than anywhere else, so having a flying petrification beast like the Cockatrice in the area instead of a land-bound petrification beast ...

IMB is really good and is one level higher than Stone Arrow, and will do more damage at decent power. It'll last you much longer than Stone Arrow (by which time you should have worked up to Shatter). Poisonous Cloud is also great, there's no harm branching out a bit if you have good spells available...

Wait so you'd be flying along with automatic flight, it can fail to recast automatically, and you can drown? Instead of miscasting and such why not just take spell success and and work it into the costs... and make the MP regeneration cost or whatever smooth? For example if flight is as good your M...

I noticed a particular performance issue that seemed to affect levels with lots of clouds. It was on Swamp:5 with the ice end, performance kept crawling to a halt. As soon as I left the level, everything was fine. Other occasions I noticed some slowdown when clouds were around although never as much...

It's not like I'm making any mistakes in my play the computer is just screwing me over I really don't know how to fix that. You say that's the case every time, yet you're now reaching Crypt:5 instead of dying to Sigmund on D:3? Crypt ends always have ancient liches, generally many of them, so that ...

In the end i almost died to 2 things: Zot level 5: got suprised by a fire orb that got behind me while running from another one. A teleport got me out, but inside the last temple thingie though. But with summons i could control the situation. Gratz! That's exactly what killed my last near-win chara...

A cockatrice is sometimes defined as a basilisk with wings, which would be a petrifying beast that would fit in well thematically in elf or shoals. Two of the beasts are brand new, cockatrice is a suggested addition and all three perform petrification/stoning attacks. I knew what a Cockatrice was (...

Talons are on your feet though. Shouldn't be a problem, unless you are an octopode, and then things just get complicated. True (although the idea of an Octopode with talons is terrifying!) - but I think talons alone shouldn't be enough if you think about it, you also need some leverage, hence the K...

Demonspawn with talons 3 can't butcher. I found out when I figured they could, and went ahead and cursed my mace, assuming I could still get chunks . . . Separate issue; you can't butcher with a cursed weapon, because you can't free up your hands, whether that's to use a knife or talons. Animate Sk...

Personally I'd also prefer a solution that makes constantly casting buffs for large periods of time a bad idea (like glow), rather than a solution that makes constantly casting buffs easier (permanent buffs with maxmp reduction seems like it could easily end up being more micromanagement than the p...

XuaXua wrote:With the catoblepas and basilisk in (with new tiles), would it make sense to have a cockatrice for the shoals and elf levels?

I would love to know how the first part of that sentence links in any way to the second.

Edit: Misinterpreted some posts.

Anyway, for consideration: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:misc:traps

It is simple, but you get only half the benefit : it is still half annoying :) I dunno; I would consider it about 1/10th as annoying; instead of constantly watching your buff levels and pressing various key combinations when you need to, you'd only have to press 'y' now and then. Anyway, it would s...

Made it all the way to level 27! Both XL as Dungeon level... Gonna grab everything i need, the runes... and then cross my fingers :P Just be super super careful in Zot ... try to engage one enemy at a time ... if you see an Orb of Fire, stop and think extremely carefully about your next move ... if...

Surely the purpose of autorecasting buffs is to make things simpler / less tedious, not to actually alter gameplay or balance or introduce any new things for the player to think about. I suggested it in another thread but I'll repeat it here: the simplest possible mechanic is to prompt the user with...

Why don't you do this already? The only scroll that affects jewelry is curse jewelry. That's it. You should be taking off both your rings AND your amulet EVERY TIME you read-ID a scroll. There's a big difference between a temporary effect which can be cleared with just a ?RC (the most common one) a...

To be honest (irrespective of any comments against the idea itself) considering the sheer amount of development work to code all the special cases for every single possible item type, and the huge amount of balancing and tweaking then required to ensure that this isn't just ridiculously overpowered,...

Having just finished clearing one for the first time, I can say that 250 is a conservative figure. I had to kill 281 :lol: Here was the mantis discussion . Mumra did some code-diving and found a vault where a castle moat could be filled either with "water" or with "draconians" (...

This wiki page contains a Parry proposal:

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:item:weapon_reform

Just saw my first Catoblepas; tried Meph Cloud but it didn't work, gunned it down with an un-id'd wand which turn out to be a Wand of Cold. It didn't breath any clouds at me the whole time it charged me. Another turn and it'd probably have gored me anyway tho

minmay wrote:By the way, I don't think acid spells should corrode armour. This is because players with acid spells will turn into player ghosts with acid spells.

Nasty! Could always just prevent player ghosts from casting acid.

Oh man, I just watched the Transformers movie.

I need to play Crawl until I don't feel dirty anymore

fire crabs have more spectacular ability than most 1 tier demons. Seems inappropriate. I never even met shedu in my last 2 wins. One of which is endgame. Where they can be found really? I put much effort in their tile and cant even enjoy it in game. Sorry for ot. I met two Shedu in a vault quite de...

Unless you also suggest that Transmuters get a bunch of starting skill in Alchemy you've just nerfed their entire starting game. (And, since Alchemy is supposed to encompass what's currently Poison Magic, giving Transmuters levels in Alchemy basically makes them overlap with Venom Mages.) I think t...

I really like the idea of having a separate alchemy school, with things like evaporate, ignite and sticks to snakes, and having poison being separate but include acid spells. I think acid spells could be quite strong but would also add a lot of balance, as you could use them but at the risk of dama...

I don't see where that suddenly leaps to gold being a source of magic! Concerning Gold -> Magic, it seems reasonable to me. E=mc^2. Sure, you could use any matter at all, but perhaps gold is easy to work with magically. That did occur to me but you've already said why that doesn't work; if gold, wh...

I tend to burn Enchant Armour scrolls straight away, sometimes I regret it, but it's usually more useful to have the AC straight away, and the scrolls become increasingly redundant the more artifact gear you find.

Using gold on the other hand could work (I think dpeg loves the idea) and the bolt of silver is an interesting idea. I'm thinking along the lines of "Alchemists have long sought the ability to turn base metals into gold, but never quite achieved this dream. Turning gold into base metals, on th...

Still pretty torn up about this. Lost her 10 days ago and still too bitter to get back into the game :[ I know how you feel; had a really good CIP which I posted on here and after he died I've been too gutted to even post the YASD. Had 5 runes and died mainly by underestimating Orbs of Fire (and al...

I think one problem is that it's not clear where the line is drawn between Alchemy and Transmutations. Correct. Alchemy is the mystic art of transforming one thing into another (lead into gold). Transmutations is the mystic art that was made for this game which has spells that transform one thing i...

Farming Abyss is never actually useful. Whatever piddling XP and items you pick up probably won't be worth whatever mutations you're likely to pick up. You say that ... but with my last character who hadn't found Fire Storm (but by this stage had the skills for it) I visited the Abyss and walked ab...

Oh, I was also under the impression that haste/swiftness wouldn't benefit my movement/avoidance/escape tactics because I'm already at speed 3 from Spriggan racial, is this wrong? Haste reduces the time taken to perform all actions - moving, fighting, casting, anything. It's the only way to get beyo...

I think one problem is that it's not clear where the line is drawn between Alchemy and Transmutations. Might it be overall better to just get rid of Poison and move existing spells into Transmutations / perhaps Necromancy as appropriate?

DemiFiend wrote:Sif Muna's pretty great for any character, really. Decks of summoning are extremely powerful, and the other decks give you lots of utility.

You lost me there ... what do Decks have to do with Sif?

I think there are should be the way to turn off 0 level skills. They're using a fairly inconsequential amount of your XP, and as soon as you have Level 1 you can turn off that skill. To be honest it adds a certain amount of realism; even the most melee-oriented character will pick up a small amount...

You have resist corrosion, so you could probably handle the Slime Pit as well, if you're careful. They say that even with rCorr, your equipment WILL get damaged in the Slime Pit, but as a Spriggan with lots of speed and EV, you have less risk of that than most characters. Since the Slime Pit's wall...

Well ... I've only ascended once, and I've been starting to think I was pretty lucky that time since on two return trips to Zot (with what I thought were stronger characters) I got seriously destroyed. Orbs of Fire are not to be messed with! To get Tornado remotely castable you need at least level 1...

You don't play Crawl. Crawl plays you.

Whoa - when did that book get taken out? I'd understand if the Conjurer book had been changed to include some Fire/Earth spells but it seems strange forcing the background into Ice/Air when they're supposed to be more of a generalist ...

Blurry vision is one of the worst mutations in my experience ... not being able to rely on scrolls changes the game up a lot!

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