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There is a "hidden malus" for using long blades (or Fencer's Gloves) and a shield. Since blocking is checked before evasion, you could block an attack, and never get a chance to evade - if you can't evade, you can't riposte. While I don't understand the reasons why you can't riposte a bloc...

I'm not going to address the specifics, mostly because I don't think it's important, but I will say I think ogres are the most fun race in the game, while I find trolls painfully boring. Doing !greatplayer and !great_class will become less tedious. I think this distinction is almost entirely meaning...

I'd be all for making working wrath off harder. I like the idea of making it permanent or requiring something that isn't infinitely farmable (killing corpse-leaving monsters?). But the proposal of "sacrifice a rune" means that either people never switch because it's not a "real" ...

First, I really like the proposal, and would love to see it ironed out and put in the game. That said, I think that 0-cost spells actually takes away from the stated goal of the race. When new players ask about stabbers, what's the number one complaint? "Why can't I sneak past stuff more?"...

So... I had a crazy idea today. Identification isn't particularly fun, and kind of happens in a rote, automatic way. That said, there's a certain interesting thing about figuring out which potions/scrolls are useful in the early game that turns to tedious wearing and removing of branded armor late i...

I don't know the answer to "Why can firestorm and maybe tornado kill stuff outside of LoS," but I do know why glaciate can't: There was a previously-optimal tactic of "Cast freezing cloud, close door, wait for monster to open door, close door again, repeat safely until all monsters be...

For armor, I'd normally recommend ring mail, but I'm not sure whether you can cast in it. I'd definitely suggest training your Armour skill, and then using that once you can reliably cast in it. (Especially since you have at least a +1 ring mail of rF - you currently only have rF on a ring, and you'...

I don't understand what the value of this change is. To me, it has 3 downsides compared to the current approach: 1) It's contrary to common conceptualizations of "shields." Barring a couple of notable exceptions (like old versions of D&D - it's even how it works in the most recent vers...

I'll need some time to think about the mechanics, but...

The post-apocalyptic robot army aesthetic is really out of character for Crawl's setting. Why not a god of artificing or golemancy or something more thematically appropriate?

On the topic of branches: Not going down to D:15 is basically giving up free XP (and more chances for that rPois ring.) I usually do elf before depths if I have lots of MR, but yeah, not until after my first 2 rune branches. Similarly, Slime should be tackled after Depths - if you're going for that ...

That does seem bad. But that feels like a different question. Being able to damage allies without them turning hostile seems so abusable - stuff like OTR/Ozo's Refrigeration/Shatter lets you put summons between you and the bad things, and still damage them. Even Ozo's Refrigeration + Ice Beast is ve...

We could also split "negative stat" from "positive stat": Ring of stupidity, clumsiness, and weakness. That way, the tedium of trying on every ring (and twiddling your autopickup) would go away, but there's still a risk to trying on rings. Practically, the difference is going to ...

I dunno. Hunger's so opaque in this game, maybe a warning for this situation is warranted? It feels spoilery that you'd have to know casting a level 9 spell can bring you from "near starving" to unconscious. Nutrition levels aren't ever spelled out, and spell hunger is far from precisely i...

The behavior of spells/effects on allies is rather inconsistent. For instance, Bend Time slows down allies as well, but doesn't turn them hostile. In general, a good rule to follow for these kinds of effects could to affect allies (damage/poison/slow whatever), but not turn them hostile unless spec...

For jewelry, you seem to have the right idea - try to get to MR+++ (so wear the MR ring around,) and wear "whatever helps you stay alive the best." It's fast to switch, so you can always change it if you need (like if you need rElec, for example.) For armour, it's a little tough to say, bu...

But that's how the game currently handles weapons and brands - it says something like: This monster does 15 damage, plus the damage from its rapier of freezing. You could easily just add this system for those base damages, which are displayed. (I'm not convinced there's really value to obscuring the...

I agree. I was trying to preempt the issue of information overload, but that feels like a small concern.

lol, did I get shadow banned or something? That's what I said! :P Anyway, I agree. :) Especially since such a system could (in the future) include relevant information for other sources of damage reduction - "Your current armour will proctect you from between 0 and 10 damage from this ranged at...

So, there are two questions in my mind. 1 - Would including GDR in the damage ratings on monster descriptions "fix" this issue? If it said "This monster can do 25 damage (or 30 without armor)," would that solve the issue? Is there a use case for showing GDR past "calculating...

What if we baked GDR info into the Xv information? That way, it could be "displayed" without having to actually display/explain it. I don't fully understand GDR, which is why I just assume every enemy will deal max damage to me, and is why I undervalue higher classes of armor. Related: I w...

In addition, a force_more_message for pan lords appearing is probably a good thing, though I'm not sure how to do it off the top of my head.

This is wrong approach when we are talking about spells IMHO. Spells should be balanced for their level. I agree, but am coming to a different conclusion. "Spider form is good on a naga at level 2" is irrelevant if "spider form is an appropriate power level at level 2." Spider f...

Couldn't you also set a macro to do "f."? It's not quite the same as tabbing, but it's pretty close.

Isn't that the point of transmutations? Doesn't statform invalidate the downsides of being an octopode or felid? Doesn't blade hands invalidate the weakness of "training unarmed on any race that doesn't have claws?" Doesn't necromutation invalidate the inherent weakness of having living fl...

Yeah - I just often find I don't have enough potions of mutation to go for roulette - I often only have one or two lying around when I win the game, and I'm certainly not going to blow them once I'm past the lair branches and have enough stored up that they could save me from dangerous mutation thin...

Oka is much easier than Chei. Chei's slow can be really deadly if you're not careful. Oka will always give you something useless, even if you're not unarmed. Heroism and Finesse are incredible, and sometimes he'll give you useful stuff. He'll tend to give you throwing ammo, even if it's not large ro...

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I'm a big fan of this change. Losing mutagenic chunks is a bit of a bummer, I'd love to see some way to mutation roulette similarly, maybe a dungeon feature like mutagenic clouds that dissipate when you step in them? Overall, I think it's a big improvement, and am happy to see it come down the pipe,...

Sticks to Snakes is in the book, and they're even better at casting it than some other races!

(That said, there would need to be special case code anyway to prevent them from starting the game with beastly appendage memorized. I imagine this was a simpler solution.)

The biggest difference to my chunk management is auto butcher. I don't know if that existed before and I just didn't know about it, but that definitely improved my hunger management (not that I ever had a particular problem with it, but I end a game with 40 rations instead of 5.)

You could try TrTm^Trog and just run around yelling "BLADE HANDS" while clawing things to death, that works pretty well.

My actual suggestion for playing transmuters is to play sludge elf, which I realize isn't helpful since they don't exist any more. But it's the best I've got.

I don't think Sojobo gives a bonus to his followers, but I think the idea behind that is that it counts as a kill for the unique - It's weird when a Death Yak kills you in Shoals:4. It makes more sense when you realize it was Polyphemus's horde and he just clocked you in the head for 50 damage with ...

If your goal is making a game, don't put additional barriers in front of yourself. Make it in the language you know. If you have a burning desire to learn Unity or Swift or whatever, by all means, use a game as an excuse for a project, but if you don't care about learning new tech, use the language ...

You should also look at the tournament banners: http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.20/banners.html

Those are pretty fun, as well, and the next tournament's coming up next month!

Has anyone tried a stabber yet? I've always wondered how well stabbers do with the Usk paralysis, but I've never done one. I'd think with the stealth apt, it might be workable, but I'm probably not the one to do it.

Is there any rPois in your game? I tend to avoid spider nest like the plague without it, so my vote is Shoals.

Hmm. This would make Abyss and Slime Pits easier - you could go in and only convert if you hit trouble. Maybe at significant turn cost, like memorizing a spell?

I would argue that a feature that unavoidably makes an already difficult game harder for the sole purpose of entertaining experts is a bad feature to require. In roguelikes, I'm a big fan of optional difficulty. If "streaking" is too easy, try streaking as a TrEn where you can't use unarme...

I agree. If monsters are not to spawn after level generation, then there is no reason for piety decay. Reduce rate of piety gain to compensate. This was the argument I expected the OP to make, and the one I agree with, personally. With monster spawning gone, are there any gods that can be scummed b...

When you're worshipping Dith, cast a hex spell, and shadow mimic triggers, it casts the spell again, it doesn't fire a shadow bolt. So if you have a 50% chance to hibernate, Dith gives you an (up to) 50% chance to give you a SECOND hibernate spell, effectively increasing your chance to hex from 50% ...

That's a really good point. I'm not sure I miss it on WebTiles, but I've personally never used the giant inventory box on local tiles, and a gold display would certainly rank much higher on my priority list than that thing.

I think the op would like it to be, presently dith sucks for enchanter types shadow mimic will almost never help enchanting, and will frequently just screw things up. Am I missing something? Dith gives an up to 50% chance to try re-hexing, and I can't think of any hexes that casting twice is bad fo...

That seems like a bug to me. Is that the intended behavior when you slimify Duvessa/Dowan?

So, I'm not TOTALLY convinced this is a problem, but other games have adjusted RNG so that, a 10% chance of landing a critical hit leaves you extremely unlikely to land two critical hits in a row, but you're more likely than 10% to crit on subsequent hits so the end result is "10% of your hits ...

Option #3: remove and replace elemental force with some new ability that doesn't generate allies. There are a ton of other gods that provide allies, so this would provide an opportunity to make Qazlal more unique while also getting rid of the ally interaction problem. The hard part is coming up wit...

I was thinking the same thing. Making aux effects scale with dex could be really interesting - right now, str increases your damage and survivability (in armor), int makes you better at spells, and dex increases your EV and accuracy (which, yes, does increase damage, but it doesn't seem great.) If a...

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