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Hi, I think the subject question is pretty self explanatory: we've had 0.22 for a while so I'd expect 0.23 to be around the corner (Dec or Jan). Is that so? Any more exact date?

The rationale is simple: early game randomly killing you has no point. It's meaningless and should be eliminated. Meaningful randomness is fine. One simple way to make things meaningful is to have randomness, while simultaneously giving limited "outs" for the outlier and/or unfair situati...

I'd like it if there were two autoattack buttons: One that only works when between 70%-100% HP, and the other which works when between 30%-70% HP I like the way it works to cast spell ( z ap): lower case to cast a spell and upper case to "force" a spell cast. The same could apply to tab, ...

What's the point of this game mechanic where you can randomly fall through 3 floors? It mostly happens in the early game, where there's a huge spike in difficulty level between several floors. Also, that's the time when you still don't have the tools you would otherwise have to get out of an unexpe...

Maurice Annoying to deal with and suffers from the same "drop everything on another floor" problem that item destruction used to have, plus you can intentionally have him steal certain items to get an advantage (steal wand of poly to turn your mushrooms into oklobs, steal rings of fire/ic...

You know how if you kill a monster under Gozag, and it's over lava, its gold gets dropped on the nearest floor square instead of into the lava? Do that but for all items and all characters. It's obnoxious to move merfolk, spriggan riders, etc. into shallow/no water before killing them. It is an iss...

However, unconditionally re-activating auto pickup on taking the stairs should address the problem. If the invisible monster followed the player up the stairs they'll find out soon enough when they get attacked. But that removes one of the thrills. Even early on you have mage orcs that can cast spe...

If power creep *is* a worry, stop generating these kinds of situations, find a way of signposting "there is no way to obtain these items" to the player, or have the items destroyed after a short time so players don't spend time & resources fruitlessly. I think the description of the s...

into their own category. Then, we could let people use them in another menu. From the (a)bility menu, or whatever. Practically speaking, it's optimal to drop all of these things once you identify them, because none of them are REALLY relevant except in a strategic sense. I always just hold on to th...

I think it all depends on how often you are moving. I find it good on anyone that uses range attacks primarily: they tend to do a lot of running away (to replenish MP, or for kiting). I guess assassin types would be like that too. Currently I'm plaing a fire mage, and I'd rank this amulet worse than...

Suddenly being very close to a dangerous monster is always a big threat in the first few levels of the dungeon, and gnolls with nets are not the worst. Orc priests, centaurs, Sigmund, Natasha can generate in D2 as well and kill you if you happen to find yourself in a bad position. I do not think th...

My 2c: if there's the need to remove spells because the devs need to put something else, then fine. Otherwise I think Inner Fire is a nice spell. Yes, it's quirky, but that's the beauty of it: you don't have to learn to use it, but if you do it can be a nice addition. Even if you find it's too quirk...

Hello,
anyone has any idea what the main changes will be in 0.22? When are the devs planning to release it?

Thank you

searing ray is pretty baller though. But yea.. vehumets gifts are pretty much always useless because they lag behind the difficulty curve until way later in the run. Book starts will ignore all the low lvl gifts and non book starts will have a terrible time until they get fireball or something. The...

So the current definition of "basic" isnt "powerful" but rather "doesn't have any complications which make it an unusual race to play" In terms of its *typicalness* gnolls are not basic, but, particularly in regards to the early game they have a lot of simplicity, you ...

Pekkekke wrote:I probably agree with your main point more than I disagree with it, but I'm not sure winning one game with gnoll counts as mastery.

Fine. What's a good word for "I don't die before Lair and get consistently to Swamp/Pit"? Anyway this seems OT, and more of a lawyery point.

I was talking about putting the accuracy bar in the spell's description (Aka the 'help pages') With the other bars (like power, range, hunger and noise) I was also not suggesting a change to the interface or mechanics. Oh, I see (I thought you meant in the spell list: "z?"). Your idea wou...

That would mostly just be interface screw. Think about why Mislead was removed. As I said it would change matters a lot for spellcasters or hunters, especially if the shorter LOS (the normal one) is very short (say 3-4): lots of spells have a longer LOS than that, so from afar you can just shoot at...

Game design discussion is really intended for the discussion of complete proposals, rather than "trying to sketch out an idea and come up with a fully formed proposal" Alright. I thought the wiki was for fully formed proposals and this was not-fully formed ones where we are looking for fe...

I mean, it is logical for stuff like demons and orcs to have an intense desire to kill you. But why you are getting attacked by Angels, Elves, Draconians, Nagas, Dwarves, and even nomal, sane beings like Dowan and Duvessa? Like, everyone - animals, humans, constructs, weird abominations, they are w...

duvessa wrote:That would mostly just be interface screw. Think about why Mislead was removed.

I`ve never heard of "Mislead". Is there any place I could find more, or could someone explain it?

I was ready to immediately write this off, but I actually find this really interesting upon reading further. Would enemies in the "extended" LOS detect the player? I think that's a major balancing point of this, and flavor-wise, having bad eyesight shouldn't make other things have bad eye...

The description of a ring of slaying is: [...] I'm not sure how you would apply that to spells unless you deliberately misread it. Fair enough. I am sure when I was a newbie I checked and was left unsure. Perhaps my issue was that when it says "ranged weapon" I thoguht that it wasn't incl...

Hello, Trog is the god of war and attack (e.g. berserk) and I think it should be accompanied (married?) by a second god of war focused on defense. Perhaps it could be a rework of Okawaru to better distinguish them. Like Trog and Okawaru she would grant equipment, but like Trog only grants weapons th...

There was an idea I was going to suggest for formicide or a new class (bat?) but if you'd like to use it on troglodytes I'd be more than happy: lower LOS a lot (say 4) but give a very long range (say 7 or 8) view that leaves enemies/terrain/treasure undefined (like antennae and gnoll's nose) but sti...

I am not sure if this is the best category to put this thread, but I'd suggest it would be useful to have a page on Tavern or the Development wiki where players -- and especially beginners -- can list aspects of the game that the manual/help pages (inside the game) left them confused or where ambigu...

Hello, currently Gnoll appears as an "intermediate" race. I suggest to move it to the "simple" column. I understand that not being able to focus your most important skills is a problem for better players, but that's already something complete newbies may take a while to take adva...

My "vote" would go for bigger penalties, like the amulet of faith, harm and guardian. The first two in particular require a certain comittment. Perhaps for rage it could exhaust you (like berserk does afterwards)? Anyway, it's up to the team. Just don't leave it as inconsistent as it is no...

Fantastic: good to know!
Thank you.

Fair enough, thanks for the reply.

Leaving aside that it's hard to know what spellpower actually does, many players wrongly assume that the pips are linear and that 7/10 pips = 70% max power Rather than changing the way it currently works, this specific issue could be make clear by using a different form of display, such as the &quo...

Independenly from thsi feature request, I do agree that the meaning of "power" depends on the spell and is often not obvious (e.g. I only recently discovered that higher powered conjuration affects aim too). The best solution imho would be to include a mention in the spell description (e.g...

Currently AFAIK every species sees up to the same lengh. Changing this could allow new distinctions between races, and new jewlery/egos, as well as mutations (myopia?). For now the propoal would simply be to change the source code of the game so it is not a hard-coded number but a per-character numb...

What about gloves of confusion, basically the confusing touch spell, but permanent?

Hello, most type of weapons have some kind of unique attribute: long blades have riposte, polearms reach, etc. Howver flail weapons (like whip or mace-and-chain) have nothing. I'd suggest the following: a new ability "disarm" that, if successful, disarm the enemy if they have weapons (and ...

Wouldn't it make more sense to put a restriction on the amulet slot itself, compared to having a unique "don't be incentivized to boringly swap this" mechanic on most amulets? eg: amulets cannot be swapped with an enemy in view. Or, amulets take 2 auts to remove and put on. Sure, but I qu...

After encouraging as many friends and co-workers as I could to play Crawl (we filled 9(!) teams in the 0.21 tournament), I noticed that many of them expressed a desire to cast some spells after they got their fill of MiBe and similar, but for many reasons the playstyle of "killdudes with spell...

Perhaps an easy solution would be to keep HO as it is, but change Minataur into a radically different character, with more limitation and flavour, and therefore turn it into a medium-skill character (i.e. not for newbies). For example: 1- minotaur may not use armour but they'd compensate with making...

It would be nice if all amulets and not just those three were harder to swap. Perhaps: 1- Amulet of regenerations first don't regenerate and then slowly increase their rate. 2- Removing amulet of reflection causes confusion (because of the sudden disappeaing of the distortion energy around it?) 3- E...

Hello, currently it is impossible to know when there are several summoners around and several summoned monsters who summoned whom. That makes choosing the best tactic hard: killing a summoner also "kills" its summoned monsters, but since the link is not clear a player may end up killing th...

The flying status (be that from an innate ability or equipment) should be slightly modified in the following way: 1- When flying the character or monster won't fall into shafts 2- When flying the character or monster won't activate mechanical traps (nets, blades, spikes, etc.) Optionally: 3- When fl...

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