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It's just a way to let benemut keep being good while allowing it to be diminished by rMut.

CanOfWorms wrote:if you want a randomized game that's always winnable i recommend solving the sudokus in your local newspaper (remember to use a pen)

I just realized you can't solve a sudoku with a solvent, but only the ink with which it's written. Let me bask in the radiance of this epiphany.

Dungeoneer wrote:i highly doubt you won arena of blood with claws

No, I would have had to be a Felid for that!

What I meant is what background I chose, going with claws is easier because you can wield the Axe faster than otherwise, assuming the time needed to unwield is factored in.

Are there still different levels of ResMut? The mutation resistance could interact with benemut by giving a cap to good mutations with multiple levels, instead of outright negating them. If you already have e.g. scales 1 and you gain ResMut 1, the scales can get up to scales 2 but cannot reach scale...

Yup, I actually finished them! They are very funny, and the faster playstyle is a nice change. Red Sonja: I first won it some years ago with a MiBe before I took a long pause from Crawl, now with a MfTr of Sif Muna. Shifting resistances is very useful, although having no certainty of finding the boo...

The rule #1 seems quite arbitrary imo. It is very restrictive. If you want a specialist caster, you can ignore it. This is why it is just one of the criteria. In general, I suffer from the consequences of D&D 3.5, so I still think in terms of full, generalist casters vs full, specialist casters...

The problem, I think, is that armour doesn't limit movement speed. If heavy armour made you slower, you would suddenly have reasons to not go for it. Make dex have you move faster, with body armour limiting your speed in a scaling way unless your strength is high enough. Stealth and ranged characte...

Meglaciolic englobation. Call it blizzard and it becomes an area status lasting various turns and impacting anything that doesn't pass a certain strength test or is large enough. After the first phase, the blizzard ceases and the ground is covered in ice for a while, slowing everyone and occasionall...

Trying to cast a spell at 34% failure rate can bring to a 5 fail - 1 succeed - 4 fail series. Trying to use a 71% failure ability can bring to 15 consecutive fails. Failing a 4% spell 4 times is somewhat more difficult than getting 4 twenties on a d20. It is rare, but not impossible. Triple twenties...

I don't know if they are stronger, but melee PCs are surely easier. You have infinite attacks at your disposal, improved HP through Fighting, and improved protection through heavy armour. You can find a full plate on D:1, wear it, and you're set. Shields generate less problems. You can make a lot of...

The Last Blade II, most underestimated fighting game ever, and one with the best art.

Metal Slug!

Once a great king, he offended the gods by trying to best them. The ground opened beneath him and now he lives in the Dungeon, accompanied by his loyal army. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Hyksos.jpg Amphiaraos avoids direct combat, circling around the PC on his fast chariot, s...

Uhm, they don't really rhyme. Let's remove him.

Deus Ex is pretty good. Summoner also is. And Fallout 1. And Aliens vs Predator 2. Forged Alliance. Age of Kings.

So, about Makhleb and demons. I personally thought that Makhleb simply was well liked by demons and that they therefore worship him, and that Makhleb asked demons, as conduct, to render themselves evokable by his mortal worshippers. The Hellbinder also has an altar to Makhleb, which I assumed was th...

To me Dispater is more dangerous, for the simple fact that you don't really know how much damage you are going to take against him. Once you find an iron giant and his friends, that's pretty much it. You can also run away easily, if you want to, kite, and so on. Dispater has smite targeting and summ...

Generally, you can expect to find large shields in Vaults. They may be generated earlier, but they are quite rare, and there aren't many enemies carrying them in general (daevas, vault guards, Louise and Mennas are the only examples I can think of).

Gell's Gravitas.

Go Chei, go go go!

I guess something about lack of hands.

Yermak wrote:Worship Me, puny mortals!

Less personality worship, more personal whore ships!

It would mean that transmuters would be extremely vulnerable to confusion. It's like a dispelling bolt. And there's the problem of flying or floating, the fact that you lose your form and the ability to immediately cast the spell again, and the defences that happily disappear. It's disproportionate ...

re: "Wiki says demon whips are good," demon whips actually are good. Wiki goes a bit further than calling them good: "Demon Whip: best all-purpose 1h of M&F, generally considered best 1h in game. Sacred Scourge: generally considered best 1h in late game." Anyway, they are go...

You can't use abilities while confused, whatever the ability. Reverting is an ability, so it shouldn't have been unexpected. But yes, at least for bats there should be some way to revert. Actually, they could just get clarity, it's not like they are terrible powerhouses.

But there is a chance to be spotted while doing nothing, right? Is waiting considered an action?

That whip isn't that good. Its bonus are useless (+rage, INT) for this character and the penalty strikes the most relevant stat (STR). However, compared to a war axe, it decidedly is a step forward. The "demon whip = best 1H" comes from the Wiki, BTW. About shields and axes: axes tend to h...

Technically, he is a collection of atoms which may or may not have been physically equivalent to "pleasingfungusbaby". He is as a boat with a ne'er-ending leak, and if he dies, is his violin in fact himself? Are the machines themselves anymore? Is the past reality?! (Thus was my descent i...

We need a new race which can be as hard as speedrunning. Something like Monkey: -5 aptitudes in everything, -20% HP, -10 % MP, forlorn 3 (unless I am mistaken this is name of "slow piety growth"), deformed body, no potions, stasis, slow 1. I'd add "Meteorism 3": your frequent ga...

Shields make spellcasting more difficult. To make this penalty go away on medium sized races, you need 4 for a buckler, 15 for a shield and 25 for a large shield. If you don't want to get more SH right now, you can stop training it. It's kind of hard to say what schools you should keep activated wit...

There's no elitism here, just attempts at snottiness :P I could see elitism if there really were an inner circle, but the most I think I've seen is someone occasionally being condescending, without anyone actually acknowledging that he was entitled to it. So, no elitism, as it requires a group recog...

PleasingFungus wrote:it's a precursor to mass hysteria, actually

Chei sacrifice, snails and dogs, living together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S4cldkdCjE

I am somewhat sorry for demigods, did they get something in return?

Other lvl 9 trans spell: transmute weapon: permanently change the skill from which a weapon depends by transmuting it, while keeping all other stats. Just to make non UC transmuters more likely. Only 1 handed weapons can be short bladed. Would also be interesting if Formicids could wield big-ass clu...

Lvl 9 trans spell: copy monster.

I guess you wouldn't be able to. You'd have to use piety for swapping them.

I'm starting to wonder if this whole "everything is cursed!" thing wouldn't make the game actually more cumbersome, since it would be a pain for e.g. rod users.

Have different forms of curses instead of just the sticky one. The idea is that of making certain items disappear (inaccuracy, teleportation, loudness...). Their penalties will instead be displayed by cursed items, which may also (but don't need to) be sticky. To these I would add all of the negativ...

To make my idea clearer: once upon a time, you had to pray on your individual pieces of armour to turn them ponderous, have them slow you down and have Chei give you his powers. Now it's all automatic: once you start worshipping Chei, your speed decreases, and it will decrease more and more as you g...

You can expect to have a bunch in a short time, and they will be cursed the moment you wear them.

When you start worshipping Ashenzari, everything on your body becomes cursed and stays that way, unless you abandon him. You can only swap your stuff by using a piety cost ability. This way, Ash ceases depending on random drops.

Any thoughts?

In the Ten Rune Challenge, apportation is the safest way to get Anteus' rune. Dude is really hard to kill below level 20. Just lure him out of his alcove, disappear, blow up the walls from outside Cocytus with LRD, yoink and never be seen in Hell again.

I'll ask the Oxford English Dictionary to add them, then

Holy pan is the only instantly recognizable guaranteed demonic rune vault, so I usually clear it when doing extended, even as undead. And summon hollies is annoying. Is it? I'm just asking, because, when I got it, I had already got the rune. if you don't have the rune, it's guaranteed to spawn in H...

Why not caster build with a late dip into melee? When I play elementalists of non-Vehumet, I usually stop at level 6 spells. Edit. Examples: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Sandman25/morgue-Sandman25-20140131-225442.txt http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue//Sandman25/morgue-Sandman25-20150321-031809....

...you wouldn't call a character who learns spells up to level 5 and 6 a hybrid? The starting class everyone points to as a "hybrid start", Skald, basically supports itself with level 2 and 3 spells... spectral weapon being the "hybrid"-iest spell I can even think of. Here I hav...

I would like it if pearl dragons were turned into phoenices with exactly the same stats and mechanics.

My dumb answer is that, if you are a melee character, you can sacrifice essence, arcana, stealth and love without losing much. I wonder how sacrifice love and demonic guardian interact.

I think both tormentors and hellions are glass cannons, and, therefore, important targets but not enough of a menace to make them into t1 demons. I can see a reworking of demon tiers, though. And, unless you are trying to run away on foot, Executioners effectively aren't that dangerous.

I see a huge difference between hybridization and dipping. Hybridization would be, to me, a character which is equally good with stealth and maces, or with conjurations and armour, and uses both in roughly the same quantity. Dipping, to me, is a character with a melee build which can cast blink, app...

Right, how does Gell's Gravitas work with bees? They are fast and come in packs.

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