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I'd be happy to see all racial items done away with if we get to keep most of the functionality they used to bring, which would mean something to compensate Beoghites, a stealth brand for cloaks and a masterwork brand or similar for metallic armours.

To add to the suggested changes, perhaps enchant and brand weapon scrolls can be made targeted so that you don't have to ensure you're wielding whichever weapon you're trying to enhance when read-IDing them (and would also give more symmetry with enchant armour)

I've always wanted there to be ogre/troll warrior enemies which wore armour and occasionally used a shield as well. Orcs and nagas get such a fine treatment, let's have some love for the other big and burly races. This isn't really related to the topic but I find the argument 'well ogre monsters are...

To me the only reason to play an Ogre is to use a bigger weapon than any other race can use effectively, being able to use a great mace with a shield would fit the bill just as well as a GSC, but I would think that gmace + shield would be even more of a no-brainer than GSC since they can generate en...

I feel the same way about sticks to snakes, it's pretty terrible to admit but I definitely use that spell less than I should just because of the annoyance of having to swap weapons around.

Midgame Ogs are great at bashing things with clubs, until they take a dozen yaktaur bolts to the knees. Yaktaurs are speed 10, back them up to a corner. Yeesh, how many characters have I ascended and I still thought yaktaurs were faster than average? I suppose there's such a thing as being too caut...

I managed to get a NaFi to 27 without realising that Temporal Distortion even exists, I should probably pay more attention. Luckily that char has 50 AC and SH so I was able to just tab through hordes of yaktaurs. Would have saved some piety from time to time though.

With the right kind of scale, I think this would be a good way to show spell damage. Main thing you want to know isn't the raw dice rolls, it's how good x spell is compared to y. It goes without saying that something similar for weapons in inventory would also be extremely useful. I know this has b...

On a more serious note, what's a good god choice for these guys? Being an unarmed and mostly armourless hybrid really reduces the number of useful god abilities, especially if you don't want to branch out into other spell schools until later on. I've been using Okawaru just for Heroism and an almost...

I was under the impression that body slots were supposed to be a slight net negative in the end, that's why you're guaranteed to get one.

I agree with whoever said grey draconians are really unappealing; they're not so much weak or anything like that, they just don't have any of the sorts of perks that I kind of expect from draconians to actually make them interesting (this also applies somewhat to yellow but at least they have a brea...

I don't like this change, especially since Mi always seemed like the perfect niche for a Large size race with good armour apt which would handily differentiate them better from MD. I'll admit that HO and MD have always been pretty similar, though. I'm more annoyed that this seems like an easy way ou...

I like this suggestion, but doesn't it make the distinction between Sif and Vehumet smaller? It removes Vehumet's unique reliability at getting certain spells at certain times, and also increases the number of spells that Vehumet can gift, making Sif's unlimited book gifts less appealing, at least i...

I'd like to see more nagas with shields (and large shields on warriors), they use them occasionally but rarely and it would make them a bit tougher if they were more common, as well as giving more drops.

"You'd need nine tentacles to do that!"

Octopodes <3

A couple of the game's layouts do tend to be pretty repetitive. A good example of this is layout_big_octagon. layout_cross can also have this problem, although it at least has a number of variations. Other open layouts (eg layout_city) aren't as problematic though. Agree with this 100%. It's not th...

A lot of ice caves have nothing but wolves, polar bears and yaks with a frost giant at the end and they're usually easy to take out, or at least partially clear for xp if you have an even moderately strong character, or one that can cast freezing cloud, animate dead or poison cloud reliably.

Trying one of these and I was lucky enough to snag a trident of venom and a book with Lightning Bolt from Orc early on, plus a ring of control tele in the dungeon so if I die it'll be entirely my fault (unless I get a shaft trap onto a fire drake that 2shots me like my last mummy). Feels really weir...

3. Can a kenku still fly if they are transmuted into another form, eg spider? As far as I remember this works roughly intuitively, so that if your new form has a shape and size conducive to flight then it flies. So in other words, lichform, dragon form (not sure if you still get the special kenku b...

No, sticky flame is specifically excluded from Extend Range, I assume to make Vehumet less of a no-brainer for FEs.

I agree with a lot of others, katanas looked super cool and were sufficiently rare that they really felt like something special. Even if I found one on a character that was never going to use it I'd usually drag it to my stash just as a keepsake!

Gets dispersed too easily and seems to have a short duration compared to other buffs. I've tried using it on several characters but it never really seems to be much use.

I've been thinking about dropping Kiku for Ash once I get Necromutation easily castable, how bad is his wrath if I'm in undead form all the time? Or will his added chance of necro miscasts make casting Necromutation dangerous in the first place?

If it makes sense (i.e. does not occur too often), we could use a single ! if miscasts of level 1 and 2 are possible, and !! if miscasts of level 3 are possible. Although perhaps not immediately intuitive (though the current system is anything but) this would be a really useful bit of info to give ...

"Ice has refrigeration a single school spell which is the most powerful offensive spell in the game short of the level 9 spells. (it can clear snake, swamp, shoals, elf by itself with very little risk)" BRB making an IE Well the self damage is a slight balancing factor but yeah the spell ...

Katak wrote:Sandblast is now quite useable, as well.

'useable' in this case meaning 'will carry you to the end of Lair if you have enough stones'

Is this intended to replace both of the skill boosts that were in earlier versions of trunk or will there be a 'boosted skills based on bound aspects' bonus as well?

This spell seems to have a bit of an identity crisis. As an unarmed-boosting transmutation, compared to using Blade Hands, you lose more item slots in exchange for AC, HP and some resists but get slowed, and your damage goes up but you swing slower so overall there's not a huge change. It has some u...

I noticed that 'fake' skill levels in fighting from the low level skill boost don't give HP. WAD? (I can see why you wouldn't want to give heavy casters any more boosts as Ash seems very strong for them currently)

Quick suggestion for an issue that cropped up in a recent game: Ash should allow his worshippers to curse weapons of holy wrath. Unless it goes strongly against flavour, I suppose.

I really like the idea behind letting them use 2h weapons as hand and a half, it would make the choice between GSC and 1h/shield a lot more interesting.

I noticed the low-level skill boosts weren't showing up in the skill window (latest tiles trunk) which is kind of counterintuitive, especially since the boosts to skills from being bound were shown. I am assuming that it's a bug. I have a MDEE with 21 earth skill, 17 armour, 15 axes, 8 fighting afte...

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Re: Trunk update on the 24th, no more racial weapons

Re: All scrolls auto-ID on pick up

Re: The larger species and fragility

Re: The larger species and fragility

Re: Sublimation of blood

Re: The larger species and fragility

Re: Chei questions

Re: New player lost without numbers

Re: So Octopode transmuter is the best combo ever, right? ;

Re: Lets Talk About Demonspawn (Again)

Re: White and Red Draconians or Red headed step children?

Re: "Give Mountain Dwarves the axe"

Re: Vehumet spell gifts

Re: Shields vs Bucklers

Re: Your favorite dialog or game message?

Re: Open levels are too common

Re: CIP - DDNe - needs advice

Re: YAVP MuWz 15 runes + 13 zig wins (including some advice)

Re: The 'Questions too small to need their own thread' threa

Re: Vehumet + Sticky Flame

Re: the Weapon Reform

Re: Condensation shield

Re: religion switching guide available?

Re: Casting Success Scale

Re: Make Fireball a level 5 spell

Re: Very disappointed about the changes I've heard about

Re: New Ashenzari

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Re: Another Ogre Idea (sorry...)

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