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Way to shoot down their enthusiasm. I'm sure everyone joins up here hoping they can immediately face a wall of corrections and caveats...

Thanks! I used to immortalize individual characters in songs too, but that was before I started recording them. I'd like to play, hear about, and write/sing about some new characters. I'm even fine with people just playing wizard characters so they can do meme crap. Whatever makes a good/amusing/lor...

Well, if you do get a DCSS video/webseries/thing going, you know who to contact for the music.

I found discussion of the Discord and got on there, but I'm with those who think Discord is a replacement for IRC, not forums.
Well anyway maybe if we piddle around long enough, others will come out of the woodwork!

Dang, what happened to this forum? You guys doin' all right?

Hi. I forgot I had an account here. I've only played a bit of DCSS recently, but I do have a project which I work on every Halloween. It's inspired by the game. There are 8 songs now and the first "character arc" is done so I guess there's enough material to warrant showing it off. https:/...

This is pretty nifty so far! My request: Remove paralysis. Rupert paralyzed me for 7 turns when he came into view, went berserk, and killed my FoWr with a battleaxe of chopping. Salt. EDIT: It was a TrMo. Good grief, y'all. Putting the rest under here so it doesn't derail the thread... I've ...

I queried my 'bot for random nouns and adjectives and we came up with this: Statue Form: Transforms the suckfish into a slow but extremely fitful stone statue, capable of dealing powerful blows with cheese pizza or bare pyrostats. The suckfish's stone body is insulated from electricity and gains res...

Arrhythmia wrote:I was hoping for a crawl adaptation of the popular ancient japanese board game personally...

I tried Crawl Gomoku, it was brutal.

Thoughts: A cool idea. Supports hybrids and early-game casters a lot. 27(+/-aptitude) spell levels worth of mastery is a pretty awesome thing to have. Hybrids would usually be able to master most of their repertoire and reserve their MP for abilities. It does give Vine Stalkers a bit of an advantage...

Zerahypt (space exploration in a universe the creator has been working on since he was a kid)

And now, shoot-'em-ups:

Jets'n'Guns Gold (steal a giant beer stein from a borg cube)
Enemy Mind (possess any enemy ship)
Symphony (kill a demon that lives in your music)

A lot of people (incl. me) pick up items for only a moment, so they can turn on the skill associated with the item. You can drop the item and continue training. While I would hardly call this "broken", and I like it, I have to admit it doesn't make much sense. How do you practice Conjurat...

Conj was my example (a bad one, admitted). The trick works with equippable items and evokables. Actually, there is, Okay. EDIT: It IS very, very good that the trick works - for player survival. I just don't think it helps make the dungeon of Zot a foreboding place. You can wander in there with some ...

Scoregasm and Irukandji (shoot-em-ups)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (platformer/puzzler)
Super Smash Land (Smash Bros. demake)
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (base jumping tomfoolery)

There is no such thing as what "makes sense" outside of user interface and gameplay considerations. It is a game. There is no such thing as games either, outside of user fun and entertainment considerations. This is a forum. The less nonsense checks about "uh, well, I don't know if i...

They're boots of hoofness.

I'm playing offline... was it fixed recently? Didn't know it had been fixed at all; never seen anyone mention it.

A lot of people (incl. me) pick up items for only a moment, so they can turn on the skill associated with the item. You can drop the item and continue training. While I would hardly call this "broken", and I like it, I have to admit it doesn't make much sense. How do you practice Conjurati...

Did someone say necromancy? What a tedious no-brainer of streak YASD YAVP optimal console tiles. Early-game is the hardest. Just look at this level 1 character:

I use coins and hot glue to weigh down wooden dice towers so they don't tilt over when someone pours a whole bin of dice down them. That's the only use I've found for coins in recent years. One day Chinese coin collectors will be digging through landfills, hoping to see a balsa-wood castle parapet s...

Anyway, you've made some excellent points, but they still highlight that ∞ works the way it does because decided-upon matters have dictated it and not because mathematicians pursue the truth in earnest. I think your dissatisfaction stems simply from a confusion about how math works. If you ask &quo...

the core rule of dcss stairs: the more you think about them, the less sense they make You mean you don't enjoy sprinting up and down non-Euclidean flights of stairs in the same unit of time it takes to drop something out of your hand? Well, I better get to it. Those death yaks and tormentors need e...

you can't define x/0 as anything because that would require that either division or multiplication violate the definition of a function (one input always gives the same output)... But this IS practical and makes perfect sense. With that requirement/definition, I begin to see reasons for others' tre...

After some thought, I have a partial answer to my question. n/0 would not equal ∞ in any system wherein there was no progression. So, for a finite series, operators with ∞ can loop, effectively terminating the mathematical progression. (Iterations still go on forever, though.) Anyway, you've made so...

So it's again a matter of "our system works like this, we have decided thus". :p That's not what I said at all. One thing you seem to be confused about, and that I'll admit mathematicians haven't been the best at explaining to the public, is the idea of there being some "canonical sy...

So it's again a matter of "our system works like this, we have decided thus". :p

Thanks for trying, though.

I mean the operation of division itself. So, "yeah".

Why does dividing by zero not lead to infinity when you can perform the operation an unlimited number of times in succession? I'm actually interested in whether anyone has an answer for this. I've yet to see any other than "Oh, that's not useful to us as mathematicians". But I care about t...

Bubble wrap traps. They work like alarm traps, but they mark the trap, not you. The enemies swarm to the trap and then, when in sight of it, become distracted by it as with gold when serving Gozag. Once the bubble wrap is all popped, the distraction ends and the enemies resume being hostile.

The FF6: Beyond Chaos randomizer /romhack device is fun. Shuffles almost everything in the game to make it feel somewhat roguelike. S'mo' good, free PC games (I know like a million of these, throw out some wanted genres and I'll post more): Cave Story (action/platformer) Middens (RPG) Murder Dog IV:...

I'm envisioning a stronger version of Mara/Nergalle mixed with a bit of Nessos. I dig. Could be an interesting Depths/Tomb miniboss.

I say make him drop a barding (always of a type unfit for your race, natch).

We can't ever remove Nemelex, because it's one of the few things that rhymes with "Memorex". This will become super important if an underground rap artist ever decides to spit malmutating fire.

Yeah. It's nice to be able to leave the ancestor and head out of its LOS to deal with something, but it sucks to wait around for it to catch up. Random energy should be enough to give the player the lead on the ancestor the majority of the time.

The "Metabolic" kind of works to imply that the coldness is locally concentrated so as to hinder the target. I'll try to come up with other spell names that seem to carry this implication: "Indigenous Frigidness" "Cryogenesis" "Crystallization" "Mr. Biggl...

Or you can get HyperRogue, which is 3% of the price, contains functionally-infinite multitudes of hyperbolic worlds, and has actual gameplay in it!

Seconding the recommendations for One Way Heroics and Nuclear Throne, great fun. Several high quality, free 16-bit-esque games (I especially recommend EFMB, Maldita, and Hydorah): https://www.locomalito.com A few Steam recs: Crypt of the NecroDancer (isometric DDR dungeon thing), Vagante (sidescroll...

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Maybe Pakellas isn't mechanically sound to some, but no need to ditch the theme and flavor that it brought. I like the idea of deities sometimes being a more aesthetic or stylistic thing. There are some gods that I only pick because I like how they go with my character, and I'm basically playing ath...

Will definitely be making more DCSS ascii art soon, as I need to make new mobs for my retarded IRC game. Check out the stunning ANSI color and ultra-high-res EVGA graphics:

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Breaking items is an idea I've wanted to see. Pakellas seems like a bit of a mad scientist; finding out what happens when you break something plays into the theme of that. My idears: Implement breaking at piety 0. Make the effects dependent on device type. Maybe you get a Might buff, maybe you get h...

Amulet of the Charlatan This amulet fortifies usage of Ivocations- and Piety-based abilities at the cost of doubling the Piety cost of divine ability use. Invocations work as if the wearer's Invocations skill rating is 33% greater (not to exceed 27). Abilities work as if the wearer's Piety were 30 ...

I like permanent allies. It's sort of self-balancing. I play as carefully as normal when I have a Hep ally, and don't really feel THAT much stronger because of it. When I have a Beogh messiah going, it can snowball the floors a bit, but commanding the orcs becomes such a micromanagement issue that I...

Turn it into a general-artifacts god whose interests extend to machines/gadgetry as well. Nerf the Evoc stuff a bit and throw a few "artificial magical creature" battlesphere/servitor-/golem-esque spells in there. Reliance on devices: Simulate player atrophy due to over-reliance on whiz-ba...

You run into them earlier so you know what branches you got. That helps you know what to try for in terms of items and equipment.

(That's what I take away from it, anyhow. For instance, if I know I rolled Spider, I grab lots of poisoned/venom-branded stuff I'd otherwise ignore.)

Beoghism is dungeon Scientology. You "pay" by being an orc. Increased Piety leads to greater Operating Thetan levels, allowing you access to alien technology that lets you walk on water and bring people back from the dead. If we place power like this into the hands of any random Spriggan W...

This Orb Guardian has a 3000-yard stare. But making the ASCII's eyes/body proportional like the sprite's results in a headless grizzly bear with three breasts. ▀░░ ░░▀ ▀░░░░ ░░░░▀ ▀░░░░░░ ░░░░░░▀ ░░░░░▄█▄░░░░░ ░░░█▀ ▀█░░░ ░█▀ ▄ ▀█░ █▀▀▄ ▄▀▀█ █ ▄ ▀▄ ▄▀ ▄ █ ▀▄ ▄█░▀░█▄ ▄▀ ░▀░░ ░░▀░ ▄░░░░░ ░░░░░▄ ▄░░░░ ...

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The way he was dragging that +72 giant club through the water... it really looked like he was going to descend into the Dungeon of Zot and try to take the Orb. My sympathies to the zoo worker who had to zap him. I think the zapping was totally justified given the circumstances. No matter how our sen...

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Natasha zaps a wand of lightning. You hear a mighty clap of thunder!
You die...

Make the game draw the player overview like this: http://i.imgur.com/0Fwd6Ai.png http://i.imgur.com/LvAHfS2.png A conversation with my bot about future updates: Zephram> will DCSS devs ever remove food? Razma> Zephram: signs point to yes. Zephram> what if they're all signs that say "no" Ze...

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