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What is the "Cast: <spell>" menu for in the new interface?

Found it: it's like quiver for spells

Regarding spell schools, I'd prefer the opposite: remove all elemental schools and group spells by function (leaving only conjurations for damage, charms for buffs, hexes for debuffs, summoning for ally creation, translocations for movement). I think this goes too far. The many flavors of elemental...

lots of text I thought about this for days, trying to figure out a way to say this in a nice way. If you can't reliably reach Lair, your opinion about DCSS game design is not worth taking into account. Hundreds or thousands of people play this game seriously for years and have Very Good Ideas which...

svendre wrote: turn monstrous demonspawn into it's own race: monster

There's an idea. Flavor it "druid" or something, expand the mutation list a bit.

Let me turn off my skin color too as a red Draconian Ice Elementalist.

The problem with a huge change to how resistances work is rebalancing all the monsters... It is actually a good idea. Monsters are balanced with assumption that PC has one pip of corresponding resistance and 50% damage reduction is too much. Orb of fire, for instance, can kill almost any PC without...

The problem with a huge change to how resistances work is rebalancing all the monsters...

I don't think that the rarity of a chain-shafting is completely relevant. You could take my awful example of 1 in 3 steps cause you to instantly die, and say that this mode activates in only 1 of 100,000 games, and it would be super rare to die from it, but it still wouldn't be a good example of di...

Getting back to actual constructive conversation, and upon further consideration, I think that my earlier suggestion to prevent multiple shafts from happening within a certain time frame and leaving the rest alone would go the furthest towards limiting the difficulty level to a more consistent and ...

I thought that cutting 10% of HP when you're at your most vulnerable, as well as starting with a robe when the background is obviously weighted towards melee fighters, would be enough to balance for the early game; but perhaps I'm incorrect. Maybe the vorpal brand was too much? You're not cutting 1...

You're saying essentially something like: if there were a game element that forced you to instantly die with a 1 in 3 chance each time you took a step, that because there are unavoidable deaths in crawl, there should be no reason to remove or modify that mechanic. He's not essentially saying that. ...

Thanks for that. I swear it wasn't there yesterday.

teaching the player that running away is a viable option, without actually splatting them, seems like it's worth a monster

I haven't used this account in some time (over 5 years, wow time flies) and by a lucky guess managed to log in. I don't know what email address I used before, and want to change my email in order to also change my forum password. Can someone please help me out? Thanks.

It might actually compel people to memorize this spell.

People come up with a million complicated ways to eliminate haste, when the fact is that most top players say it's fine, and fewer than half of the 0.13 tourney even bothered with it. Maybe just make it level 7 and see what happens? but seriously, I don't understand why people worry so much about on...

and it does not matter which build you are playing, it is always worth the investment. the spell was nerfed several times, and did not stopped being a must for every character that can possibly cast it. 2- it does not provide a decision. you will want to get the spell sooner or later, the only choi...

Well, your argument seems to be that all damaging spells should have a place in the game at absolutely any point no matter how much you've improved in that school at all and in fact that a spell you might as well have chosen at random (it so happened to be first one) should be the most damaging one...

Is this a joke?

[*]Can't wield most weapons, or any armor
[*]Huge negative resists, no jewelry
[*]Can't teleport or blink
[*]Can't haste
[*]Ultra slow

I think this is a joke, like maybe its a stoner tree or something?

It's no so easy to assess the source of a noise. What if magic dart triggers an inner flame chain reaction? What if it is triggered by an ally? So probably, the meter should just display the loudest noise you heard during the last turn, without caring about the source. I agree, just so long as the ...

Some sort of advanced tutorial about tactics could cover noise. It should be much more free-form than the regular tutorial, and with fewer message tiles. Something like a fairly easy sprint with some signposts stuck in. It would be hard to do well though, and might be a lot of work to maintain. How...

Noise is a vital 'resource' which deeply effects the player. But for now, there's no good way for a new player to gauge the 'noisiness' of particular actions.

Can we develop a way to more clearly communicate the concept of noise to an unspoiled player?

Is the bring-back-MD thing still a thing?

Long blades are interesting because they are the least interesting.

EDIT: That is to say, not having a gimmick, in a game where every weapon has a gimmick, is a gimmick in itself.

I'll keep casting it then, but it seems so rarely worth the loss of an extra hit if it fails in battle...

hi folks, I'm back from my self-imposed hiatus after acting like an A-hole on the forums. Sorry for that.

Anyway I've been messing around with Skalds and absolutely cannot tell when it's worth it to cast shroud. Is it ever worth casting shroud or should you just keep stabbing?

Here in Malaysia we have just about every kind of noodle in the world... so bring it on

We do have a definition, it's right there in the philosophy section of the manual : Another basic design principle is avoidance of grinding (also known as scumming). These are activities that have low risk, take a lot of time, and bring some reward . This is bad for a game's design because it encou...

Time consuming and not fun, yet having a notable in-game effect. Yes, I get that is the intended meaning, but now we're just stuck on the "not fun" or "time consuming" part. If something is not fun or time-consuming with an in-game effect, just elaborate on what that is. For wha...

I was reading over this thread, discussing changes to Felids https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=59354#p59354 But it could be any thread really... Solutions to problems are deemed "tedious," and therefore unacceptable. Tedium is not a bad word. Doing something like this...

Another fun way to play a bashy mage is try Ogre Wizards, they have low conjuration but its not a huge handicap, especially if you worship Vehumet. They really are a lot of fun.

It is one thing to ask why certain things are the way they are, but it's quite another to keep pushing. This is annoying and it has driven off developers from public discussions (not saying that evilmike is going to be offended by your post, but I am). There are many more players than developers an...

Stuff that goes beyond this (such as renaming monsters, or printing special messages) can be ok in some cases, but it should be done sparingly. >99% of the vaults in crawl don't use any of this, and that's the way it's going to stay. You say that it CAN be ok, but it SHOULD be done sparingly, and t...

I miss those scrolls of detect curse because it helps dilute the RNG so your other scrolls don't get burned up.

(haha

You could just do both at the same time, tiles and console

Dont misunderstand, more crabs would be fun, fire crabs are one of the more dangerous threats early->mid game. But don't let them swim...

That is exactly what crawl needs. More gimmicky submerging water creatures. I will get right on this.

I like it cause it's funny

Great now just make rings of hunger evocable so that you can keep your resistances up.

Somehow the idea of hunting down firebats in the volcano to get another pip of rF just does not appeal.

You could always write a batch file to make a rolling backup of your saves folder.

[/quote]Are Goldie and Harimau as good at crawling as Mandi?[/quote]

Mandi just got lucky that day from leaning on a key. But since then she hasn't been quite so good. Except for hunters. She's quite good at crossbow hunters until she runs out of bolts. haha.

In my religion we don't really have dogs as pets but I have 3 cats. My cats' names are Mandi (bath), Goldie, and Harimau (tiger)

But sometimes I call Harimau as "Hari limau" which means... um.. "Lime day"

haha

I do not understand, what is the effect 'brainstorm,' I have never encountered it before

@palin

Oooh, that a really neat idea....

Burn a ident scroll to get an unburnable scroll of blinking/teleport? But, it just might be a curse weapon!

I propose a new item called "Book of Scrolls," it consists of 5 scrolls which are predetermined by the default scroll-generating rules. How it works is that the first scroll follows the default (if you already IDd the scroll it will be IDd.) The next 4 scrolls have a chance to be identifie...

To put it more simply, if the malus wasn't documented you wouldn't even notice it

Once you can kill Cerebov does it really matter what you wield?

No, but even with this kit and a full wand of hasting and a bunch of summons... HP 164/206 (211) AC 38 Str 32 XL: 21 Next: 67% MP 20/20 EV 7 Int 4 (5) God: Trog [****..] Gold 2228 SH 0 Dex 14 (15) Spells: 0 memorised, 20 levels left Res.Fire : + + + See Invis. : . a - +6,+5 executioner's axe (elec) ...

Seriously wtf

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