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Mostly because I couldn't think of anything else or an efficient way to limit it (extremely low recharge speed, max MP drain, food, normal drain, all sound boring). However it's true, you can already play this guy with a bloodless vampire: he'll heal when biting and stabbing.

I'm just throwing this out there as a quick thought. An undead race, immune to poison, pain, drain and torment, which doesn't recover health with time. No damage shaving, no special abilities with evo, instead a ranged attack ability that drains your opponent and recharges your HP instead. Do you th...

IMHO, the best way to power up Sif would be by making the book drops work by having Sif propose one of two books, with the player able to choose between them. It's still situational, but it should be an aid.

It was meant to slaughter unwary players when they tried to chop up corpses

the weapon went back in their unsated hands, and they instantly died. It does give a very small advantage to undeads, though.

You do realize poison has the spell cure poison, right? So there already is a school that lets you be immune to poison and inflict poison on everything in sight, in fact both spells to do that are in the VM starting book. Cure =/= immune. Right now, you can get statue form and then cast Radiance un...

duvessa wrote:so when is someone going to draw fanart of sif muna making love to a spriggan

Your wish is granted.

Move Poison Magic to Transmutations, giving Poison Magic users more cool tools to mess around with for investing and giving Transmuters more reasons to invest past the bare minimum to function. While transmuter is my favourite background, I don't really see this well, for a few reasons. One is that...

It's a nice idea, but you should spawn in a relatively safe location, not to be immediately killed by a small abomination, and get a "get out of Abyss free" card, because you wouldn't have any piety to use the ability, so either free first use of the ability or Logunu kicks you out as soon...

Also, it gives very, very new players a chance to feel the Abyss But it doesn't. That's the problem. AK begins in a heavily modified Abyss that differs from the real Abyss in several important ways, and if your post is any indication, apparently it fools a lot of players into thinking it's like the...

I wouldn't give Necromutation the chance to drink potions, because forms are supposed to give a lot in a sector and to take away in another. All other forms will stop you from wielding, wearing clothes and using wands, pretty much turning you into a funny looking felid with special resistances, weak...

I don't agree with what you say, but I would spam the dungeon with my ghosts to defend your right to complain about them. (Voltaire)

So... I guess what this thread is really saying is... we should think up more zealot backgrounds with interesting enough reasons to exist. Fair enough! I say implement the slime knight! Starts with jiyva, neutral stats, a melee weapon of choice, and a terror of the word "slurp". Also, the...

Conjure flames is actually a very nice spell. Used in corridors, it has effects similar to blink. I still have to understand how it interacts with different intelligences, however. It can also be used as a 1 time shield against bolts of cold, which should go well with haste.

dpeg wrote:throwing books

My eyes are now open. My hand will soon wield the Book Of Molotov.

Shops sell you a scroll which creates an inscription on the ground which you then must read? Why not just have the shop sell you a spellbook , and have reading the spellbook consume it and add the spells to your collection? Same with the other spells actually. What's the point of reflavoring everyt...

As I said, I am against green-red combos because they aren't visible to everyone (like, 8% of men would see them wrong or not perceive the difference at all). If you really want to use a red-green scheme, make sure the red and the green have a strong difference in brightness. This isn't much of an i...

I think gods can give anything, as long as they take enough to make up for it. The problem with Trog is that, while he does take a lot, he actually creates a very nice build for low intelligence, heavy armour melee characters, who wouldn't be doing much with magic anyway, especially minotaurs. Rage ...

It's an attempt to solve multiple problems. 1. Make books disappear. Instead, fixed magical inscriptions appear on the floor, on which one can walk and with which one can interact (kinda like altars). 2. Each inscription contains a set of spells, pretty much like a spellbook. When you interact with ...

Evidently, the high priests and sorcerers of dungeon elf society are convinced that hellfiring oneself is a Great Idea, especially in corridors. Perhaps they have been tutored by trolling hellions. Perhaps those deep elves that do die gloriously via self-immolation are rewarded in the afterlife by ...

Rast wrote:

Found those cookies which fell behind the cupboard when you were five?

A variably resistant opponent could be the High Priest of Quetzal (or however it's written).

I think he meant having to choose between rPois, rC and rF from GDA against MR from the chain shirt, rather than AC.

They really hate you. Each gaming AI does, since 1995. HATE HATE

After all, Skynet needs to start somewhere.

Seriously how late can it be, I read chesthair instead of cheistats and robot participles instead of robot principles

It's just that I don't find the mechanic funny, and I hate inventory management.

dpeg wrote:If a feature never kills anybody (assuming good play), then it didn't really exist.

Yea, I never got what baseball's selling point is.

There are a lot of evokables in this game. I pretty much never use them. It's not that I think they are useless, I just tend to focus on other things in character build, so that the items tend not to do much in comparison. There are a few items which are recharged with experience. They are those whi...

Arrhythmia wrote:I'd vote for Chei, but I can never quite work up the gumption to head to the ballot box in November.

Chei, God of Public Administration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMbwWqceNw

Dungeoneer wrote:Ru

And so, my fellow Adventurers: Ask not what the Orb of Zot can do for you: ask what you can do for the Orb.

You can have the walls crumble into molten lava. It will keep the jellies away, and flight is more common than destruction (wings, rings, boots, potions, spell, Ru's jump, can use controlled blink or just normal blink until you get there...)

It's actually a Chei worshipper's wet dream. (I mean the bees).

You fall through a shaft! The shaft crumbles and collapses. Crazy Yiuf the Enlightened comes into view. He is wielding a quarterstaff of chaos. What is this, the beginning of a porn movie? Anyway, this game needs abyssal shafts and an infinite number of abyss levels, getting worse and worse, until ...

BTW I am reading, keep writing. The problem of how the guide is set is a real one, in the sense that a situational guide might actually be better off proposing a situation or an opponent and then telling which spells are OK. I don't have that much time right now, so I'm just adding corrections.

dowan wrote:You know... it would be worth it just for that one time you need both. I've heard some horror stories of people getting sick at parties, and choosing incorrectly when the one toilet dilemma came up...

Next POTUS campaign: "A Bucket In Every Bathroom!"

Dynast, how did that happen?

dowan wrote:
duvessa wrote:So I was sitting on the toilet, when suddenly I thought about Crawl, but luckily there was a toilet to puke into, so it was ok.

Massive plot hole in this story... how can you puke into the toilet when you're already sitting on it?

Maybe there were 2, just for such cases.

The Tiamat we all know and love is the avatar of the deity of dragonkind. Has Tiamat ever been worshippable? How would you feel about it, if Tiamat and draconians were to substitute Beogh and orcs (or Jivia and jellies)?

There is Hellion Island in Gehenna. That must be a vault. A little island, let's say, 7-8 tiles, choke full of trigger-happy hellions. I think I found it as a fighter, but if you approach it from the wrong side with a squishy PC you can get 4 Damnations in a single shot. 3d15*4 = 12d15 with a medium...

Just add to the bar a fixed colour (blue, for example, or white) background, with the bar slowly leaving room for it.

Agree, this should not have been removed. Even if shields are almost always going to be the better choice, it's good fun to be able to do silly stuff like this. Formicids tend to play the same way every game in my experience . It would be good to have another option. I think this sums up the proble...

I am against the suggestion because of daltonism.

removeelyvilon wrote:
Laraso wrote: I am science of it.

Together with "Is that an albino spider with a smile on its butt?", this is one of the things I read today worth remembering.

If you are into two handed, I often find a hostile executioner's axe in the Hall of Blades.

Well, if I thought I could do this right on my own, I wouldn't have asked for help ;) In general, I aim at correcting mistakes as soon as I find them or someone points them to me. The problem with the Wiki is that it is enormous and distributed on a lot of pages. This means that it will inform you o...

Some abilities already are over the top (Rage and Brother in arms come to mind). What would the potion do in this case?

When it comes to decisions, Crawl's magic system has two main aspects. The first one is strategic and long-term: the choice of spells to learn and forget. The second one is the tactical aspect: which is the best situation in which to use this spell? Or, given a certain situation, which spell should ...

I'm 70% certain this is a stupid idea but maybe there should be a Slay(speciesgroup) brand. If you go back in time and play ancient versions of Crawl you can enjoy beating down scrubs with your +1, +2 dwarven spiked flail of orc slaying. Fun fact: Fallout 4 did it last year. The result is inventory...

Medusa had wings, and snakes as hair. Poison? Multiple attacks? Flight? In general, her portraits were used to cause fear in the enemies. Add a fear effect, so that you can't get closer and axe her while she's petrifying you? Make the aura disappear when she's blind or cannot see the player or is h...

Medusa had wings, and snakes as hair. Poison? Multiple attacks? Flight? In general, her portraits were used to cause fear in the enemies. Add a fear effect, so that you can't get closer and axe her while she's petrifying you? Make the aura disappear when she's blind or cannot see the player or is he...

HardboiledGargoyle wrote:replace the minotaur with a formicid

Replace labyrinth with anthill.

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