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Now that both Short Blades and Long Blades damage scales with dex in trunk, there appears to be a general move to "blades" scaling with dex.
So would it make thematic sense for Blade Hands to also follow this pattern?

IMO spells offered by Vehumet and learned should not take up regular spell slots at all but should go in a separate list specifically for god gifts (which you would lose access to if you stopped worshipping Vehumet).

Aside from halberd gnolls and Sigmund, it seems particularly noticeable in Orc and Baileys. Have the same changes been made to ranged weapon using monsters? Orc knights and warlords with crossbows seem to be murder machines... Depending on what you're comparing to, you may not have noticed that mon...

Aside from halberd gnolls and Sigmund, it seems particularly noticeable in Orc and Baileys.
Have the same changes been made to ranged weapon using monsters? Orc knights and warlords with crossbows seem to be murder machines...

The complete morgue is here:
https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/G ... 193738.txt

It happened on D:5 at XL8
I don't think you can tell from that whether I was in a different form at the time, though it seems quite likely I was in spider form.

If you cast Dragon Form while wearing dragon scales, the scales could determine the type of dragon you become.

You would keep the resistances from the scales (and also the AC bonus?) and gain a breath weapon appropriate to the dragon type.

Wiki says that Naga cannot get the hooves mutation. Apparently they can... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.27-a0-909-g0721f309d1 (webtiles) character file. Gonzollydolly the Grappler (Naga Transmuter) Turns: 16785, Time: 01:23:25 Health: 117/117 AC: 17 Str: 20 XL: 13 Next: 33% Magic: 19/19 EV: 12...

I would have thought you should be able to catch a nagaraja in a throwing net and then stab it.

First attempt with new Ash https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/Gonzollydolly/morgue-Gonzollydolly-20210304-193751.txt Got lucky in finding the altar on D:2 and felt powerful very quickly (the amount of skill boost was nerfed part way through the run, so I don't know how the early game would have p...

It's potentially confusing that the card and the spell have the same name but are not at all related.

I'd suggest "The Swarm" as the new name for the card.

Saw the reddit post where if you get a mutation like hooves or horns that makes some equipment unusable, any cursed gear in that slot will fall away, destroying itself and the curse. IMO this is horrible, and Ash should block mutations that would cause cursed gear to be unequipped. Edit: actually, i...

I guess when I said "interesting", I really meant "strong" - this change makes Ash weaker for transmuters than for characters that can use all the bonuses all the time.

The latest updates remove the skill boosts from melded equipment, so it just got a lot less interesting for transmuters (other than octopodes.)

If I understand correctly, new Ash can now boost unarmed combat, which was never possible with old Ash, which could be interesting for transmuters.

It looks like in the latest version, rather than completely random skills, you now get boosts to groups of skills: Melee: all melee combat skills Ranged: all ranged combat skills Fortitude: Armour and Shields Cunning: Dodging and Stealth Elements: Air, Earth, Fire, and Ice Magic Alchemy: Transmutati...

I don't think "species that can only worship one god" is a good design decision.

Berserkitis is so bad that having it basically means you can't risk melee ever.

I think that, if anything, Kiku should give undead followers protection from Dispel Undead, to parallel the protection from torment that living followers get.

It also works with Searing Ray, and presumably Olgreg's Toxic Radiance

Ba might be my new favourite species. Their slowness doesn't actually feel all that slow, and I enjoy playing species with good aptitudes, even if they supposedly don't make that much difference.

I have to say it was hilarious the first time I accidentally started a forest fire that burned almost an entire level with Starburst - and Ignition is pretty good for killing the royal jelly.

...compared to other gods who only give the ability at 1*. (And I am personally would move very strong 1* abilities to higher piety, but that does not matter now). Heroism is at least a 3* ability by this metric. I'm sure there are some who do think that Heroism is OP as a * ability, though it has ...

I'm just back to playing the game after a long break to try out all the new stuff, and find myself agreeing with the original poster, that "interesting" targeting actually makes spellcasting less interesting, not more, as there is now a much smaller set of spells I would bother learning an...

Just allow undead to cast Sublimation of Blood. There's no real gameplay reason why they shouldn't be able to; I guess it would be a buff to Necromutation. The name could be changed to Sublimation of Flesh or something if undead aren't meant to have blood.

SUICIDESTORM - Conjurations/Necromancy - Everything in LOS dies, including you

The ice blocks don't do much of anything either way. DCSS has four level 9 damage spells and they're all loud AoE spells. Perhaps Glaciate should be taken in a different direction. One possibility is that Glaciate could take a single target and simply kill it outright. Flavour it as completely enca...

Fun fact: casting Shadow Creatures in Abyss can summon a 'friendly' Lurking Horror, which will still quite happily torment you when it dies (and is considered non-evil for the purposes of good gods)

If I'm worshipping a god who hates it when you attack your allies, will the following cause penance? 1. I create a harmful cloud, eg from Freezing Cloud or a Lamp of Fire. My ally walks into the cloud, takes damage and dies. Does that count as me attacking the ally? 2. One of my allies does somethin...

How does Shadow Creatures work when worshipping good gods in areas that only have undead or other evil monsters, eg Crypt?

Does the spell fail or are there always some non-evil monsters that can be summoned?

Are gargoyles still vulnerable to LRD in forms, eg spider, dragon or hydra form?

It's been a long time since I played so I'm not sure what changes have been made recently/not so recently. I remember a few versions ago there was an overhaul of throwing and ranged weapon speed and damage, but it's not easy to find out what the current status of thrown weapons is regarding damage. ...

Bug report submitted here:

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=11858

Not sure if this is a bug or if so if it's already known, or there's something I'm missing... Playing webtiles 0.23 as a GnSk of Oka Whenever I try to target a monster with a thrown projectile with Portal Projectile active, if an ally is standing next to the target, I get the warning that targeting ...

What about: remove fighting but make highest melee skill affect HP in the same way as fighting does now.

This would both make training weapons beyond mindelay more worthwhile, and to some extent maintain the rpg stereotype of "beefy fighters, fragile casters".

My suggestion for a long blades special ability to replace riposte: feint - Whenever you attack an enemy and miss, you get a (skill-dependent?) chance to do a second attack against the same enemy. If the extra attack also misses, you don't get any more extra attacks. This should have the effect of m...

It's called Dungeon "Crawl" but almost every character can walk.

Flavour wise: if you have 27 in a skill, you are already a hero, so Oka can't help you any more.

Change Ring of Shaolin to Ring of Dodge City.

Give halflings the Ds shadowstalker mutation.

Moria
Angband (+ about 50 different variants in various states of playability/abandonment.)

The trouble with spells is that just about anything that can be done with spells can also be done with god powers, evocations and ranged weapons, while spending less XP and wearing heavy armour.

What about a version of Ignition, that instead of putting a fireball on every visible monster, creates a number of fireballs determined by spellpower then divides them between monsters in LOS? So if there is only one monster on screen, all fireballs hit it, but if there are lots of monsters they get...

Zin hates randomness, so instead of removing mutations randomly, they should be removed in alphabetical order or something.

Or, more sensible, mutations you've had for longest get removed first.

FR: rename Barachian to Froglodyte.

No spell is overpowered as long as Trog exists.

Crossbow bolt is the best.

HEAE of Vehumet. Might have been 0.8 or maybe 0.9 or 0.10. It was when Mephitic Cloud was in the AE starting book and Tornado was super overpowered.

I'm not really sure why scarves need to be a thing rather than just putting the effects on amulets and making them take time to kick so they can't be usefully swapped in combat.

What about making it level 7 Fire/Earth and making it do partly irresistible damage like magma bolt?

Could be good vs TRJ. Seems a bit odd that the caster & allies are immune: Crawl doesn't generally protect you from your own spells (see ball lightning.) But I guess it would be a lot harder to use if it damaged you too. Also, good to see a non-conjuration fire spell, though I'm not sure it's en...

Ring of Flames seems like a potentially interesting spell that doesn't get that much use because it's too high level and uses too many spell slots for type of characters who might want to use it. Also, Charms look to be on the way out, and I think part of Ring of Flames is worth saving as a lower le...

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