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Anybody that enjoys Slay The Spire should also take a look at Griftlands. Same idea, but with more story and character to the characters. It looks promising!

Instead, I think it would be fun to add a "swallow whole" ability. Save-or-Die is, historically, kind of a bad idea in most games that implement something of the sort. If I were to do that I would have the success chance of the swallow ability scale directly with the remaining HP of the m...

We've lost the hilarious mental imagery of a Wand of Shotgun, though, which I'm quite disappointed about.

An extremely poorly reasoned post, so much so that even addressing it in a serious way would be ridiculous. It's responses like this that drove me away from this forum for a long time. Why do people do this to each other here? "People" don't do this to each other here. Tealizard does this...

14 [double sword base damage] * (1 + 17.1 / 50) [long blades damage bonus] * (1 + 17.6 / 60) [fighting damage bonus] / 39 [bonus per point of STR] ≈ 0.623 damage per extra point of STR. Multiply by 7 for that ring and you get 4.36 extra damage, which is more damage than +4 slaying (again, consideri...

This seems like a nice, easy to make change that would increase player satisfaction. I'm in support of this idea. It should give you a link or button to dump your morgue and be screenshot-friendly with statistics like turn count, a highlights list as you mentioned (probably have to go with a scroll ...

duvessa wrote:remove merfolk water bonuses

Merfolk without water bonuses become bad tengu with no wings, if you went this route it would be equivalent to "remove merfolk" because that's the obvious next step after removing their defining feature.

It's possible that it bound the command to your other "+" key (Shift+=), but also note that Crawl doesn't seem to like to always recognize keypad input as separate when numlock is on. For example, I've bound a few spellcasting commands to my number row (za., zb., etc) to 1, 2, 3, and 4 but...

idol: Functionally a one-trick, piety-less and wrath-less minor deity. I'm not sure what this even actually means, but I like the idea. Do you find idols of specific gods in the dungeon and it lets you use their * ability? That would be neat. Maybe you get an extra small bonus if you're carrying an...

I am of the impression that auto-skilling is simply a noob trap that will, in almost all cases, lead to an objectively weaker/less optimized character than manual training, in addition to adding needless confusion for people who don't know that the game is deciding for them above and beyond their ow...

tealizard wrote:Actually, instantaneous ally commands would be worse.

As with most of your posts, can you give any sort of justification as to why this is the case rather than "because I said so"?

So there's no point to be made and your arguments hold no merit. Excellent, glad we got that sorted. Let's move on then. Back on the topic of the actual post, is there a compelling reason why deep water even blocks movement in the first place? Despite our recent argument about an unrelated topic I d...

I completely agree with TheMeInTeam here. Super Mario Bros and Crawl have different item systems because they are inherently different styles of game. But even completely disregarding that, let's look at some other classics to compare, shall we? Castlevania has items that you pick up, carry, use rep...

I have an Alec Baldwin gif for this kind of situation, but the mods don't seem to like my gifs here. Anyway, you think I'm memeing with you? I am not memeing with you. Then can you explain why you think this? I don't necessarily think you're wrong, but most of your posts that I come across seem to ...

I'd be more likely to pick up and wear this if it gave a weak (2-4 tile distance?) Scry as an active effect rather than passive treasure generation but that might step on Ash's toes a little too much.

I'd argue opening a whole portal and stepping through it still only entails physical movement on the part of the Formicid. It's space that's warping to accommodate.

Considering in many other cases outside of being undead a scroll of torment is nothing more than a particularly flashy form of suicide, I don't see why we can't let TRJ followers get a little added bonus from it.

IIRC, there are enemies and loot in there if you have a source of significant digging (wand or Formicid) or get lucky with a teleport.

Not that it's entirely relevant, but I come from a long line of swamp-dwellers - the water doesn't really flow. It mostly just sits and creates muck and waist-deep bogs of mud and grime. While the idea could be interesting, thematically it doesn't really fit. That is all.

Allow me to remind you how dangerous orc priests are in early D levels and then apply that template to every enemy Centaur as well. That is all.

I continually hear that Animate Skeleton is one of the most powerful low-level spells in the whole game, and to an extent, I understand why this is. You kill something big, you raise its corpse, now you have a big ally. But... I don't really understand how you're supposed to use them so effectively....

Sprucery wrote:Rename DD as something evil and give it a drain life ability (improves with XL). Then make it no healing or regenerating whatsoever, except for this intrinsic drain life.

We could call it a vampire!

Wait...

This is, like you said, _very_ different from existing Crawl design. I think that many parts of the game would have to be tweaked or changed outright in order to support this. However, I love it - particularly with the inclusion of Engineers. An Engineer should always spawn with a pack of allies, wh...

We've been asking for a straightforward values display for ages, I wouldn't count on it. I'd use it if you made one though.

It can cause penance for Oka though can't it? Seems the prompt is there for a good reason, you usually don't want to hit allies if you can help it and occasionally you REALLY don't want to hit allies.

Seriously, half the noob traps in the game can be removed entirely if we just get numbers. Resistance confusion? Give us %dam reduction numbers. Weapon types? Give us damage numbers in the combat log, let us swing a +4 mace vs a +1 flail and compare directly. We could even go so far as to put number...

Dunno why it's not doing it when you ascend, but you can press "#" ingame to make a fresh charfile.

mattlistener wrote:Checked for other ways to get out? Unwield weapon of distortion to get banished? Learn Passwall or Lee's Rapid Deconstruction even with high fail? Translocation miscasts?

+1 to this. You should post your char dump, let us see what you've got.

But training short blades further wouldn't give any benefit, right? Or is there something weird about crosstraining that I don't understand?

At the point that you can reliably complete megazigs, does it even matter if you continue to get buffed? Megazigs are fairly repetitive. Speaking as someone who is very familiar with them, the biggest draw to doing absurd numbers of zigs, at least for me, is the gradual numbers increase as your cha...

"No up stairs" can (and should) still spawn hatches.

At the point that you can reliably complete megazigs, does it even matter if you continue to get buffed?

You wouldn't join a god to get free food, but when your useful god abilities require rations, being able to replenish them easily is something you should like. Right now, several of Fedhas' active abilities are effectively consumable, because you WILL run out of rations eventually if you use them of...

This floor feels... spooky. All monsters spawn as derived undead. You hear scuttling within the walls.... Greatly increased chance of spider/insect spawns, replacing other normal spawns. CRASH! You hear a cave-in in the distance. Only one down stair on this level. This place seems to be on fire. Ran...

So what I'm gathering from this is that instead of playing DCSS, or anything remotely related to DCSS or its contemporaries or its gaming history, you want to play an FPS. Is that fair to say? Personally, my issue at hand with this discussion is that I can't picture what you want. Your examples cont...

Honest to god that amulet is probably better than anything you can expect to find in the trove

The funny thing about this argument is that the vast majority of video games do not have targeting like crawl has, yet in these games people manage to shoot things in ways that are based entirely on the player's position and it's no problem. Weird how crawl has to be exactly the way it is for anyon...

Any game that lets me cast a fireball but doesn't let me aim it is one that I'd not like to play. While your suggestion may be practical, I think it strictly lowers player enjoyability with little return. You take a lot of player agency away in order to save a keystroke or make people care more abou...

Stupid idea: why not just scale bee packs to the D:X floor? D:1 bees can only spawn one at a time if they spawn at all, D:5 you can get 5 in a pack, and so on. By the time you hit D:10-12 and the bee packs start getting huge you should be equipped to deal with them.

In my experience it really depends on what character you're playing, and that's really the whole point of Hep. Your ancestor can support whatever you are. If you, like most crawlers, are geared to deal damage, a Hexer can shut down whole crowds of enemies so you can carve through them. If you're squ...

Nets can be used on Tiny creatures, they just have a really good chance of escaping early because of their small size and high EV. According to the wiki (which may or may not be at all even remotely accurate), you can net anything except a Giant-size creature, of which there are none naturally (only...

I am pretty sure that ArmourEncumbrance+2 STR does not nullifies the penalties. http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Encumbrance_rating While you are technically correct, the formula is so complicated that it's reasonable to say "match your STR to your encumbrance + some, to get rid of penalites"....

Finally you had potions of haste. If it was me, I probably would have read scroll of fear, if it worked, quaff curing, haste(if you were more than 6-7 squares from the staircase, although I'm not sure how/if haste even works after berserk), and head for the stairs. Haste+Slow is a status effect, I'...

Blink or other "forced movement" should break constriction, I believe.

tach3 wrote:The player is always hungry. But never thirsty.

Really attack while wielding your mug of ale?

Rast wrote:FR remove blowguns, rename needles to darts, remove about half the dart brands.

Really though let's just roll all of Hellcrawl into mainline

Personally, I'm a fan of "Lumberjack".

Right now that's the plan after Armour reaches the next AC breakpoint. I tend to train Fighting, Armour, and Dodging pretty evenly on medium armour characters, because I'm not sure how to meaningfully compare the relative benefits of each defensive skill. But your comment (and those of others) sugg...

How this makes any sense at all? Crawl characters don't fight each other, they fight monsters. Even putting that aside, "a character that put all their available XP into armor and axes" will get his ass kicked for having low hp, low EV and no ranged ability. They do fight player ghosts, b...

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