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I learned the word "bikeshedding" today. @XuaXua: New gods are really required to have unique initials? @khalil: I like #5-6 a lot. It would be tough to justify requesting a bunch of actual new mutations, but access to useless "fluff" mutations wouldn't require very much code, an...

I've always found glow quite interesting, and it seems like a missed opportunity that it's never been significantly expanded (AFAIK.) If some Serger abilities let me use glow as a resource, it could lead to fun situations where I have to find an enemy to dump my glow on RIGHT NOW or risk half a doze...

Thanks for the input! TL;DR: Can we talk about the glow-for-MP aspect of the religion? &into: I purposefully left vague the details of Serger's progression, relation with invocation skill, etc. because I thought these would interfere with putting across the general flavor of the god. Point taken...

Duplicated by myself from https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:god:propose:proposed_gods , which is no longer up to date. This document is "authoritative". Edited on 16th October to incorporate suggestions. This god loves to see followers cast terrifying spells with a...

danr wrote: ... This will probably [be] the biggest gameplay improvement in the history of the game ...

Autoprayer.

Same here. Assuming that the in-game documentation is correct (I think it autoupdates?) there is nothing with a higher stabbing aptitude, either.

When I go Okawaru I immediately switch into full-on Maha Kali genocide mode, killing and sacrificing enemies as quickly as possible in order to beat his piety countdown and get gifts; I eat permafood, explore while wounded, and if I have "faith I risk item burn or mutations by leaving it on unt...

Katak wrote:I just wanted to poke in and say that I prefer Invisibility in the Hex school, so I can actually cast it on my early stabbers.

Agree. Putting Haste and Invisibility in different schools is very reasonable, as the glow issue meant only stabbers used Invisibility anyway.

I think they've always started with a tiny amount of skill in it... did you pick a race you usually don't? One with very good stabbing aptitude?

I got to zero intelligence a moment ago and received the message "you have lost your intelligence." I believe that the game would be measurably improved if this message was replaced with "you have lost your mind."

Same here. I actually have three layers of autopickup exceptions-- when I'm low level, I want almost everything, so I comment out the last two. Later on I'll uncomment the second section to stop picking up things like !Berserk Rage and /Random Effects, and eventually I'll uncomment the third and ign...

Evaporating a potion of water produces opaque steam. It's amazingly valuable, particularly in uncontrolled teleport areas.

I have used Apportation extensively in almost every 15-Rune game I've ever played. ... Why would I want to spent fifteen minutes of real time killing Cerebov when I can be in and out of his castle in fifteen seconds instead? I've deleted two characters outright for failing to kill Cerebov. In no ca...

It'd be interesting to have them perform a lesser version of the same effect, like short blades stabbing worse than daggers and long blades stabbing better than everything else (which might not be in the game any more.) So a club could paralyze victims for a week (analogous to killing them outright ...

He didn't specify that the code was messy or bad. There are a lot of possible effects from a miscast, and a lot of things affecting the outcome. If C++ supported first class functions then yes, it would be worthwhile to expose the likely result, but for the amount of logical overhead required to do ...

Phase Shift-- duration too low for normal use, does too little for emergency use. Haste-- gives too much glow for normal use, does too little for emergency use. Come on. +8 EV is really good. Yes, Phase Shift is good. I, for one, have never "turned a character 180 degrees" to cast it; if ...

It sure doesn't. Is there time to fit that into 0.8 final ... ?

Shadow fiends will also happily cast bolt of cold against a lichformed player. I let one hit me with DU a few times. Damages: 23, 41, 51, 24, 44, 44, 25. So, not very LCS-like damage after all, unless we're talking about one of minmay's transmuters taking advantage of miscast protection to cast LCS ...

You already drop x by typing dx or ixd. I don't think it's worth sacrificing the d slot to allow idx. Disclaimer: I prefer Mac to Windows, and grew up in a web design studio. I often find myself in the 'i'nventory, reading descriptions, then see several junk items and exit the menu, open the 'd'rop...

That school has absolutely nothing else save Blink, which requires no investment whatsoever, and Control Teleport Phase Shift, Teleport Self, Apportation, Portal Projectile, Malign Gateway not enough for you? Translocations has more "good" spells than transmutations, and you're not arguin...

I don't know what makes you think that. Have you tried searching? Result list can be quite long. And I don't understand how it's related to dropping from the inventory, which is possible by the way. I was being facetious about the 27 element arrays; if Linley Henzell had for some inscrutable reason...

... Dispel Undead ... AC, EV, and SH don't work against it, and neither do any other sources of damage mitigation work. You get the full Crystal Spear-level damage every round you're in range since it's the only valid attack the shadow fiend can use against you, and there's precious little you can ...

I'm a big fan of the new "perks" to natural attacks conferred by mutations, although none of them seem particularly effective-- balance aside, they're cool and fun. Given that shields are very powerful and unarmed strikes with the off hand are quite the opposite, I'd like to see something ...

The only people who treat Necromutation as the cornerstone of post-endgame strategy are the people who have never played the post-endgame. Necromutation is desirable for approximately three types of characters : #1: Characters who have concentrated on necromancy from chargen or the Temple, and have...

Thumbs up to the "restrict spell slots" idea. I'm not sure if it needs to explicitly recognize school split, either; simply having a lower total slot count would mean being forced to choose between a few high level spells and a smorgasbord of low level ones. If the endgame deep elf who can...

1. Viewing shops: Right now, if you want to see what all shops have to offer, the only way I know how to do it is Ctrl-F, type shop, change action to examine, then look at each shop individually. I propose that if you hit Ctrl-O then do something like right click, you get a list of all things avail...

Crawl's current drawbacks to having cursed items when not worshiping Ash are limited. With many scrolls of detect and remove curse, the ID/curse minigame is not hard to win and so is not much fun. ... Any other ideas, either for monsters for interesting ways to get cursed items on to players, are w...

3. It relies on invocations, so using it effectively requires an XP investment. Just like everything else in the game that isn't a consumable. I assume that this is a thinly veiled personal attack, but on the off chance that you are serious: Trog, Fedhas, Kikubaaqudgha, Chei's Slouch, breath attack...

Recent threads regarding the value of Sif Muna's miscast effect protection made me curious; in particular, Galehar seemed pretty sure that you could suffer serious miscast effects from failing something at 'excellent,' which I can't remember ever happening to me. So, I made a wizard character and ca...

... it would leave people with only a few permanent buffs, which isn't much of an improvement. Yes it is! A few permanent buffs as opposed to tons and tons of temporary ones means less no brainer buffing activity, less tedium... increasing the percentage of keystrokes which result in something inte...

Definitely has potential for fun, and I'm a big fan of anything which dulls the pain of finding +7 boots of running RF++ RC+ on D:1 with a kenku, which is guaranteed to occur if your last character worshiped Okawaru until dying on Zot:5 due to crummy equipment. Off top of head riffs-- Early ability ...

Channel Energy has no piety cost.

A different idea entirely-- my complaints with Channel Energy are threefold: 1. It costs too much nutrition for "all the time" use. 2. It does too little for "ace in the hole" use. 3. It relies on invocations, so using it effectively requires an XP investment. The first two are r...

the decision there (for me) is "do I want to invest 12 or 16 ranks in a skill which significantly increases the amount of real-life time I spend resting off red sickness instead of playing the game." You've never needed to regain MP in or around combat? That's pretty impressive. Are you s...

Speed brand got nerfed lately. You guys know that, don't you? :) I found out about this the very first time I ever found Arga. After three years of playing this damn game-- here's your mithril axe, enjoy throwing it into a lake out of frustration. GG Crawl. On a less self-pitying note, I'm a big fa...

I am very jealous that you have a qb of electrocution, imo that's quite possibly the best weapon in the game. Nah, demon whip of speed is the best weapon in the game. Lies. Katana of anything is the best weapon in the game, because whenever I get one I'm continually impressed by how cool it looks; ...

1. In init.txt, etc. on lines like # easy_confirm = (none | safe) are 'none' and 'safe' (in this example) the only options? (I'd dearly love to put 'true' there, but it did not work as I had hoped.) 2. Is it possible to include the escape character (ascii 27, that is, not backslash) in macros? The k...

Is the "supports low skills" ability active in build 6061? Full piety, fully bounded, every possible slot cursed save shield (wasn't wearing one), no apparent effects. Also, the change to 25 piety for transfer knowledge seemed about right...? I might be singing a different tune if I hadn't...

one Sif channel reliably lets you blink. I guess reliability is what makes it better. I'd probably get more established characters if I didn't feel this way, but I can't call an ability "better" solely because it has a lower chance of killing my character. Crystal ball of energy is overwh...

I think you get cleansing flame'd. I've definitely been hit with that in the orphan vault, but can't remember which of the laundry list of evil depredations I was committing at the time triggered it-- killing holy creatures, butchering their corpses, sacrificing them to Okawaru, standing on TSO's al...

Sif's channeling is superior to crystal balls of energy, staff of energy, and sublimation of blood as means of mp restoration. Vehumet's mp for kills is the only thing better, but less so if you're not playing a pure caster. One turn spent using a crystal ball allows the user to continue fighting; ...

Justification: The removal of Selective Amnesia as a spell and addition of ?amnesia has gotten me thinking about spell slot management as a subgame, similar to food management, Ashenzari's curse management, etc. Given the very reasonable drop rate of ?amnesia and duplicate spellbooks, I have trouble...

I have so far used one amnesia scroll outside of test-ID Why? Getting rid of your low level spells and optimising your spell list is very useful. The fact that you don't use them doesn't make them useless. I'm certainly not calling them useless, and I don't leave dead weight in my spell list if I c...

... I don't think ?Amnesia are necessary. ... Why not simply reduce the generation of amnesia scrolls? I have so far used one amnesia scroll outside of test-ID, so from my perspective making them rare changes nothing. I'd suggest reducing the rate of duplicate spellbooks, although that is obviously...

... I'm not sure how great epic blade hands damage really is. ... I didn't notice a difference. (Disclaimer: I've only had one demigod TM over 20, and I don't think he made 27.) BH kills everything in a rather low number of directional button presses regardless, and reducing that number by 25% or w...

I like the MR : duration idea a lot. Don't monsters already use a system similar to this in addition to their failed-to-affect style resistance? I'd personally not play a version in which forgetting spells cost permanent MP. You may as well assign a permanent HP cost to unwielding weapons-- follower...

Pan has next to no monsters that can paralyze you… randomly generated Pan lords that got lucky on their spell roll. Exactly. Pandemonium lords which do get paralyze cast it at such unreasonably high spellpower that I once lost an "extremely magic resistant" character to chain paralysis fr...

For more fun, a failed distillation could (sometimes?) yield a 1-square cloud of the evaporated potion, on your square, for a very short duration... distilling that corpse has a chance to mephitic or poison you. Almost by definition, FD happens when a fight is already over; at that point a sensible...

I really hope that permanent distilled polymorph potions stay. Not mutation potions, but polymorph potions - ones that can be evaporated into mutagenic clouds. Why? I've never found them very useful. How do you use them? I don't know what minmay referred to, but isn't mutagenic cloud a good way to ...

After finally getting a character to the end game, I feel a bit more qualified to talk about the state of the build as a whole; here goes... The bleeding-edge change from 10 to 25 piety for Ashenzari's respec is a solid step in the right direction. I have worshiped Ash almost exclusively across my 0...

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