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The MP reduction is awesome and could even be bolstered to make the late-game not terribly hard (if we're still afraid of this being a weak late-game species) - for every 3rd spell level, spells cost 1 MP less, rounded up. Levels 1-3 are 1 MP cheaper, 4-6 are 2 MP cheaper, and 7-9 are 3 MP cheaper. ...

Cynfeld wants the Orb of Zot because he thinks it'd be really funny if he had it. Piety: Cynfeld gains piety by telling jokes to enemies. The first time any enemy enters view, you gain some piety. If the enemy is brainless, the player gains no piety at all. Powers/Abilities: *: What's the Deal... (2...

Vowel tier list

S: E
A: O
B: A
C: I
D: U

Weird mix of tough guy and "this game is too hard" going on here. I am not going to get in a record comparing pissing match with someone who can't win a game of hellcrawl. You literally get into a "pissing match" with the 9 words following the phrase "I am not going to get ...

I imagine Okawaru will be very powerful with this iteration of Gnoll, which isn't a bad thing (Okawaru is broadly good), but may play with skills in a way that is against the design goals of the Gnoll.

Will Heroism work?

*drunk at birthday party voice* if somebody told me... a YEAR ago... that today there would be a version of crawl with no food and no identification and no curses and no upstairs... i woulda said... get outta here.... Seriously though, you've moved the ball forward on crawl a lot in a year. So many...

I think this hasn't updated in a couple months.

Rast wrote:
chequers wrote:You may not be aware but post level gen monster spawning was just removed in trunk.

Gozag BTFO

Well, Gozag is a super top-tier god so him getting nerfed is not a huge loss.

Merge them into one god, then delete it

Another idea is that only faded altars can appear on floors before temple. A bonus to that is that when you find an altar to a specific god, you know that the ecumenical temple is on that floor.

I think I come down on having 0 zealots, not more. To compensate, Xom/Lugonu/Jiyva altars should be guaranteed to generate somewhere in Lair via a Ecumenical Temple of the Strange. In fact, if I had my way, there would be fewer altars in the Ecumenical Temple (8-12), slightly fewer altars in the dun...

Berserkers only exist to aid newbies, but that a) gives the impression that Xom and Lugonu are also newbie gods (which they aren't) Why? Unlike CK and AK, Be is showcased in tutorial. I agree that slime yogi should be a thing. All three are in the Zealot category, which for better or worse infers t...

This is definitely the most interesting Zealot as unlike Be it actually has interesting implications. The only reason the other two zealots are interesting is that 1. Lucy is nontrivial to workship otherwise. 2. the branded weapon for CK. Be is just "let's make a Gladiator worship Trog at leve...

Plantissue wrote:It's a shame because a lot of people seem to find the idea intriguing or fun enough.

Yeah, I have no strong opinion on it either way. It's just almost certainly not going to be put through for the above reason.

Rightly or wrongly, the odds are much greater that a zealot class will be removed before another is added. If Jivya can't get a slime knight, there's no chance that Vehumet (who has a guaranteed altar in the early part of the dungeon) is, or really should, get one.

Halve STR/DEX/INT and each action takes 1.5x aut. Can't be cured, can't be extended, and if you've been confused, you are "clear-eyed" for 3d8 turns after confusion ends (temporary clarity).

Guys, there are no interesting decisions involved in curses, there cannot be, and there never will be. Curses are a fundamentally bad idea that do not fit in the game. They're as good an idea as fake weapons that break and shoot springy snakes everywhere when you attack with them. It's a mechanic y...

Just make cursed items uncurse when the player enters a previously unentered floor and make scrolls of remove curse considerably more rare.

Webtiles is back on cbro. I am still working on permabuffs, but I pushed some changes to qazlal and makhleb that should be live now. Detailed changelog whenever I get around to it, but the gist is that qazlal is a little less bad and makhleb has hurl damnation instead of greater destruction with so...

Hide ghosts behind runed doors (could even be black doors that are "the entrance to a murder" or something flavorful )that don't have tele traps and include the monster that killed them, and only if the killing monster could be generated normally on that floor (not OOD or orbrun). You stil...

Delicious Gyros

I would like to reform Ashenzari into nothingness, but that probably won't happen. A good test for god removal is "if this wasn't in the game, would we introduce it?" and there's basically no way that Ashenzari would be brought into the game resembling anything like it's current form.

Shard1697 wrote:hey btw how has the amulet "vanished from the pages of history" while there remains this information about who it belonged to and how it was notoriously used

crawlflavor.txt

So they actually removed pudding farming in NetHack, and "too tedious to be worthwhile for optimal play in a game with permanent death" rarely exists in actuality (see: all manner of degenerate gameplay across various roguelikes). Regardless, the argument that it's already tedious does no...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Just from Abyss 5 IMHO, we don't need yet another reason to scum Abyss

Scumming Abyss is like pudding farming in that the punishment is the act itself.

Roulette of Golubria, a WizLab that is themed around the Abyss, should be accessible from the Abyss. Would be a neat, flavorful thing, that would also make that particular wizlab a little weirder (which is good). Something like 1/20 of exits out from Abyss: 3 should re-roll into this wizlab portal, ...

Why do you call Imps and Canine Familiars, but summon demons and ice beasts? The answer couldn't be "they are in the book of Callings," because Summon Small Mammal is in there. New players are going to be confused that Summon and Call are two different words for the same thing. Rename Call...

Shouldn't it be HARDER for labyrinths to be solved by low-INT characters? They aren't smart enough to navigate the labyrinth!

ZipZipskins wrote:please add to hellcrawl

I refuse to play hellcrawl until this god is in it

I'd prefer removing all real-world references over just changing the male scientists in the game to female scientists, but if we are changing, I'd prefer keeping Nikola and just adding a female unique (most likely Curie, a unique malmutator of some sort). That brings up two problems that make it les...

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. Except Maxwell, Tesla and about 99% scientists before XX century were male. I know there are historical explanations for that but l...

Shard1697 wrote:professional wrestling is really good and also fucking terrible at the same time and for mostly the same reasons

This is absolutely the best descriptor of professional wrestling

*this is a joke* *do not take seriously* Piety: gained by standing over skeletons/corpses Conduct: Wuancena only allows unarmed combat. * (Jobber) : Increase unarmed combat and fighting aptitudes by 1. **(Territory Wrestler) : Suplex - Targeted adjacent monster is placed on the adjacent colinear til...

gammafunk wrote:What the hell is a jobber?

I'm not sure you're serious, but if you are, a jobber is wrestling parlance for someone who is booked to lose to everyone else in order to make opponents look good. Generalized, it means someone who loses constantly, usually in embarrassing fashion.

duvessa wrote:yiff yiff's yiff

It's yiffs all the way down

The change to !mutation was an enormous late-game player buff, and in combination with the availability of mutagenic corpses (you can even farm respawns for them) guarantees that every non-Gh/Mu/Zin/Jiyva character ends up with a ridiculously good mutation set, at least if they're willing to play t...

See - Why - See

Let's not do that. Once Ce lose movement speed they will be very similar to a number of other species. At that point I would argue for removal, because species differentiated by aux attacks and aptitudes are boring in my view. (I realise that there are quite a few examples of those...) If this was ...

I think that the problem with Ce is that it's a race built around kiting, and kiting is boring. I think they should be turned into Yaktaurs, given normal speed, and get equal bows/crossbows aptitudes. I agree. Then, we should probably compensate by the reduced speed by giving an auxiliary headbutt ...

I guess you are worried that the churn of mutations is too high, but there's no guarantees that any one quaff of !mut will eliminate your current mut set entirely (and that hasn't been my experience as a player). It's of course reasonably likely if your only entry into the mutation game is !mut, wh...

If I'm going to complain about anything for 0.20, it's pots of mutation, and that's only because each potion of mutation actually reduces your mutation levels, which does not make sense in a flavor, intuition, or gameplay standpoint. [...] Right now, there is no inherent risk to the this strategy, ...

I originally thought removing yellow wands was a horrible decision, but it actually makes the game easier (by giving you access to pots of haste earlier than you normally would). The HW and Tele wands are a wash given you generally had some measure of those before you saw those wands. That wasn't re...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:It's clearly optimal to avoid both. Remember, you don't have to drink every beer.

Would you consider PBR the Mara of beer?

dare - ull

duvessa wrote:i feel like you should mention denny's, it's not fast food but it's the 3rd or 4th place i'd go if i wanted to hire a hitman

When you need someone snuffed out but Waffle House is just too far away?

gammafunk wrote:Have you ever made a breakfast burrito with chorizo? Good imo.

Is there any other way?

kuniqs wrote:Replace all permafood with pizza.

Definitely. Even gets around the veggie problem, as the standard pizza is cheese, but some portion of them have sausage/pepperoni on them. When a Spriggan goes up to a pizza, they pick of the pieces of meat and get fewer rations because of it.

When playing a ranged character, there are several different types of weapons. This is good: bows are different than crossbows are different than slings. What doesn't feel as good is that there are 3 (or 4 if you include stones) different types of ammunition: bolts, arrows, sling bullets, and stones...

I think it would be more interesting to have vague item id categories, maybe based on inventory color, this way you are less likely to make a useless call (random instead of tele), but you might get agility instead of the might you were hoping for This adds a lot of needless complexity to the game ...

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