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I hadn't noticed the ghost change, good to know. Well, its also true that I just don't like the spell very much so I'm not likely to take it anyway. Good point for taking Summon Imp just for use with Brilliance, I hadn't thought about doing that. But otherwise they just seem a tad too luck based for...

Well done, but why do you have 7 free spell levels and several useful spells unmemorized? If you mean Mephitic Cloud, I make a point to never mem this spell in online play due to ghosts. If you mean Summon Imp, I don't see it being too useful generally speaking as it just summons red imps (who usua...

Whats the worst that could happen on D6 when a worker ant walks into a Dispersal trap ~5 tiles away? You get teleported 2 tiles away from Menkaure in the open with imps preventing easy retreat, taking a step in and towards a corridor I find a centaur with a good line of fire and later a Jelly. Like ...

dolemite99 wrote:Replace "Spiny" attribute with "Spicy".

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A basilisk, two black mambas and a Tabasco Frog come into view.

Would this frog have a chance to drop potions of Tobasco?

If you're going to have a new species, IMO there should be something else interesting about them. How about you give fighting a -4 apt, but have weapon skills use fighting instead? I think this would only work if say, the apt was a little higher or 1 of armor/ dodging or shields skill was thrown in...

Heal wounds potions being evil makes sense because of already listed reasons. But Curing potions primarily exist to cure poison and toxic, the healing is mostly there to undo the recent poison damage and I would be fine with it not healing at all if you haven't taken poison damage recently (from a f...

If shapeshifters are raisable they need to be able to continue shifting with a chance to either break your hold on them and/ or to shift into a living (non-undead) shapeshifter. Otherwise I agree with them just not leaving corpses, mutagenic chunks aren't edible anymore anyway. Have them turn into a...

pubby wrote:They're shaq-sized.

So if I''m reading this right, Shaq isn't considered a large "creature" irl? Shaq is 7.1 ft and 326 lb, in DnD a large creature is 7~9 ft minimum (depending on the DM) and not much info is given about weight. I just always pictured Crawl Ogres as being Shaq-sized.

I don't know anything about Pubby wild magic experiment fork, so maybe your build makes sense there. A troll with short blades? Really weird. You're definitely right that claws would be better than the rapier. But this build is pretty fun, I am stabbing as a Troll with Ru. The fork's only differenc...

First time I played Crawl I spent an hour trying to figure out how to throw Potions of Degeneration, Lignification, Mutation (and I believe Potions of Poison were in the game?) at monsters after drinking one. I believe making it work would fix the OPs concerns about harmful-only stuff. (I also wield...

Someone is going to say it so: I like that corpse rot and animate skeleton are included in your list of gods. Otherwise, carry on, don't mind me.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-444-ga9534c3 (webtiles) character file. Cornercat the Slicer (Troll Monk) Turns: 17596, Time: 01:31:05 Health: 133/133 AC: 11 Str: 28 XL: 14 Next: 32% Magic: 20/20 EV: 12 Int: 8 God: Ru [******] Gold: 1343 SH: 0 Dex: 12 Spells: 18/23 levels left rFire . . . ...

Nemelex is much like Fedhas in that the high power level is coupled to severe mechanical/interface problems, in this case the inventory management involved in lugging around dozens of decks. There is also a very high burden of knowledge to the god, since you need to at least sort of know what card ...

It would work as a background only if we changed the definition. Right now backgrounds are just starting kits - they're the stuff you enter the dungeon with. The only permanent part is a few stats, and there are none that do a big rules change like this one would. I wouldn't mind more backgrounds w...

This thread is made to split off the discussion from "Vehumet's early gifts are really weak"; These are the main points raised so far in the thread regarding nerfs to Nemelex: You're aware that I post a rework/nerf Fedhas thread once every couple months, right? e: here is a list of gods th...

Balance-wise, the worst thing about current Nemelex is that you get a deck immediately. Because Crawl's difficulty is so frontloaded, a god that gives you something immediately is pretty much always going to be better than the ones that don't. Most gods don't give you anything immediately, or if th...

This seems cool. But doesn't it make more sense as a background, rather than as a species? I can see wanting to run this on multiple-species already. It has good synergy with Trolls, because terrible casting apts and they won't want a ton of spells anyway. Good synergy with Ogres because they have h...

damerell wrote:
Cornercat wrote:For those that don't like the Evylion case: Nemelex Xobeh is another valid example of a piety pure (also of Evocations rather than Invocations) imho.

Nemelex uses Invo now.

Thats honestly is probably for the best. Also explains why my last Formicid Artificer wasn't doing much damage with Nemelex.

While I agree that Vehumet is not very strong compared to other gods, remember that this is partly because gods are very strong these days. Giving Vehumet an early buff would be a bit of power creep for gods in general. Not that this is automatically a bad thing — I can't speak to whether the devs ...

Eh, fair enough. Just seemed like it would a simple solution.

unused hotkeys There are shockingly few of these, and I think it'd be better to keep them available for adding an actual new command, rather than something cosmetic. ] - ^M p ^T ^V. I don't see why p wouldn't be an appropriate flavor text hotkey. It was already serving this purpose a year or two ag...

If we're throwing out ideas for the god of defense. . what about the god of counter attacks? A god that enhances dodges and blocks to do counter attacks sounds fun in premise, although it probably needs more going for it than just that.

I would really like both Vehumet and Sif Muna (and Kiku?) as spell gods if they offered any useful unique spells at all. Otherwise I typically don't care enough to use a spell enhancer god on a caster . . . that honestly doesn't seem to need one anyway.

So why can't (dragon) scales simply be converted into barding anyways? Wasn't the original justification that enchant armor scrolls made the scales turn into armor thats suited to your frame ? Make it worse than the rare barding that you find now, if you have to, but keep the dragon scale's unique p...

I for one, wouldn't mind more flavour text if someone wanted to write quality flavor text for unused hotkeys. I miss the prayer command when you had no god, honestly.

Edit: I think it was: "You spend a moment in introspection". Or was it in meditation. . . Or self-reflection?

Didn't think of it before, but isn't there a 4th aspect win condition? Isn't game still winnable by pacifying everything via Elyvilon? So 4th aspect is piety. Just thought that the god choice was relevant to the "pures" chart of Crawl if someone ever decided to make one (I really want a 4d...

I try unknown jewelry even without scrolls of remove curse and it (almost) never backfires! Until you put on a cursed ring of loudness and a cursed ring of teleportation and get TP'd into LOS of both Sigmund and Grinder at the same time on the next floor. No, I'm not salty. But . . . ...those are m...

I try unknown jewelry even without scrolls of remove curse and it (almost) never backfires!

While I mostly agree with everyone else, I would like to see Demons buffed significantly and made hostile to all non-demons . . . and maybe other demons sometimes. Demons summoned by mobs would occasionally be hostile to everything too. It just seems like it would be fun.

Crawl is weird in that theres no real pure Dexterity character, as others have said. Instead it kind of splits, so rather that a Triangle as show in your picture, we have a Trapezoid with two Dex based corners close together and the Str/ Int corners far apar, Something like this (forgive bad ascii a...

#'s 4, 5 and 6 made me think of something: Unrandart spells. Generally casters always play the same once you have the spells/ books you want while weapon users get weird weapons every now and then to break up the monotony. It would require some effort to think of enough spells with weird or diverse ...

Thank you for the code but I was mostly calling into question why thats not in by default. Newbies aren't likely to realize that preferences exist or be tech savvy enough to be messing with it or care enough to Google what to change before they have started playing. Lately Crawl's development focus ...

It is quite a few keypresses to play troll. Why not have them auto eat chunks by default? I assume you can do this in your preferences (such as on rest/ explore), but it would be a quality of life improvement for the newbies who are probably on information overload anyways.

I'm actually really curious to know how tree form affects hunger.. theres no sunlight but plenty of nutrients in the ground your roots could pull up. Plus whats stopping you from directing spell hunger to the ground? Ofcourse, I assume Crawl does none of this but it seems like a missed opportunity n...

orcs and dwarves are not as cool as big angry bull guys with horns so I am extremely against this change. I agree with you but I also like the merge. Mechanically Minotaurs don't have much going for them besides horns and being 'easy to play'. MD seem a tad too strong to me at first glance but then...

Enabling TSO for demonspawn could suppress all "evil" mutations. Zin could just remove all racial mutations (permanently). Removes some of the reason to play DS but hey, why not? As I see it, there isn't much inherently evil about DS. Its just their ancestry and I would argue that there is...

Why not both? Rename polymorph to "wand of degeneration" and make it polymorph + malmutate like the Nemelex card. If the malmutate duration is relatively brief, it can even impose choices on the player following bad polymorphs. Do you stand your ground and kill this storm dragon while it ...

I'm hugely disappointed by the changes to Ogre as someone thats been a frequent player since version 10. Ogre's early to midgame is designed perfectly and is in my opinion what races should aim to accomplish: Not just slightly different mechanics to play with, but a noticeably different gameflow. Be...

This is just based on my own observations and Wu is still being tweaked so things may have changed since I last tried Wu but I'll answer these to the best of my ability. 1: Yes, this will even stealth stab multiple monsters in one turn 2: Yes for attacks (same as 1), the dust cloud part is random th...

This idea seems neat. I think scaling his abilities with Evocations would fit better thematically. You would Invoke (a) the god to change brands and Evoke (V) the weapon itself to use its abilities. Would make the UI a little cleaner too, as there seems to be alot of potential abilities. As this god...

Why not just make merging decks its own ability as otherwise Nemelex loses some utility. That way I can keep a few stacked decks around while merging anything I'm not intending to stack. For decks with large size we could also have ~1/3 (or min of ~10) of the deck discarded rather than discarding th...

As a less experienced player I agree with stoneychips. Starting as a ranged background only seems worthwhile so that I have a book with Portal Projectile for later. Ammo (for non-Slingers) is so scarce that you'll have to split exp with a melee weapon skill unless you get very lucky with weapon or ...

As a less experienced player I agree with stoneychips. Starting as a ranged background only seems worthwhile so that I have a book with Portal Projectile for later. Ammo (for non-Slingers) is so scarce that you'll have to split exp with a melee weapon skill unless you get very lucky with weapon or a...

Thanks @Magipi. I wasn't sure how much Chei stats would end up offsetting the plate armour. I just thought the game was trying to tell me something by giving me a Chei-less temple. Then suddenly +9 plate, staff of Air and Chei right afterwards. I may be slightly superstitious when playing DCSS (blam...

I just completed Dungeon level 7 with a Tengu Air Elementalist. I'm playing online so I'm unsure how to post a character dump from there. I have 12 Conj, 10 AE and around 4-5 in Fighting, Staves/Pole-Arms, Dodging, Shields and Evocations. I just found a staff of air and a +9 plate armour of ...

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