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*** Call Undeads: Invocations-dependent summoning the stuff Yred gifts now. Abjurable. Long-ish (probably like TSO summons) timeout. Costs MP and piety. ***** Enslave Soul: Mostly as now (maybe cheaper piety?). However, instead of becoming a permanent ally, enslaved souls enter the pool of undeads ...

Why not Naga? Naga of Chei's Slouch is strong and piety gain is fast.

VeryAngryFelid wrote:By the way I know one rogue-like where player ghosts are perfect because they...

Which rogue-like is this?

In my Zin game all necromancy-branded weapons were colored red, and I did get a warning if I tried to equip one. Come to think of it, I wonder how the game handles distortion branded weapons under Zin. If you can equip them without Zin-related comment, but then get the same warning that unquipping i...

Auto-eat permafood as startup option. Automation always picks from the food stack that is the least nutrition away from creating an empty inventory slot.

If food's being kept in the game, of course.

It's nice of the game to warn me that taking off a *Contam artifact "could" put me under penance with Zin. Would've been nicer if the game had warned me before putting it on, like it does for a gajillion other things! The Wrath description led me to believe that as long as I !cancellation'...

Compared to other roguelike dungeon crawls, I think the orb run is pretty good. Especially my first time, I was in a "HOLYSHITHOLYSHIT" sweat the whole way. Having seen it a bunch of times, it's gotten old (though can still kill me). I'd hope that it's retained but as one of N possible end...

I equip-ID'ed an Amulet of Harm at XL2. I'm a Summoner and so took it off.

The drain nearly dropped me to all-zeroes skill-wise. I only just now finished working it off at the high end of XL6. I'm amazed I made it.

Is it intended that Harm is that punishing at XL2??

Tapatalk on my iphone doesn't respect code tags. So when someone properly tags a character dump, I have to scroll all the way through it in order to get to the rest of the comment thread. Deleted tapatalk.

Loud sounds are made by the clang of combat, destructive spells, screaming etc -- which aren't normal sounds in the dungeon. (It's an internally peaceful society.)

"Great oracle, as an avatar of the storm god I'm followed by destructive clouds everywhere I go. When I summon allies to fight for me, they're destroyed by my own energies. How can I ever prevail in my quest?"

"Know thyself."

To the list of restrictions, add
no mutation
no fire
no poison/stabbing
reduced health
buffet of restriction choices (Ru)

To the list of ability cost types, add Breath (Zin).

Killed in the mines by Donald and his Shield of Reflection. (I only got hit by one reflected arrow, but my other methods weren't enough to kill him.)

Diet Blood will be remembered.

I've just cleared a Labyrinth on my current toon and realize I'm too unfocused, which is a typical problem for me. He's also godless at the moment, though it's not a conduct. I was paralyzed by indecision at Temple and decided to carry on agnostically until I found out what he wanted to be when he g...

Long blades do passive damage to surrounding mobs, it's a real difference.

% chance of knockback would be an example of a real difference, for maces. But I agree that being a pip higher in damage compared to the tier is already a unique thing about them.

I enjoy the variety of weapons and randarts as it currently exists, and would hate to see that variety curtailed because it is capable of producing, say, a +10 morningstar of crushing and a +0 eveningstar {+5 Str, +5 Dex}, which were not significantly different in their contribution toward winning (...

Dithmenos' ability descriptions should make explicit that you can shadowstep to an enemy "within your umbra" rather than just "nearby". If the phrasing "nearby" is preferred in the "you haven't joined yet" text, it should at least be changed in the a)bility te...

Gourmand is early-game relevant for some characters. It's ok to have items like that right? Food is relevant for some characters. Probably more than is commonly thought because people habitually don't explore avenues of development that would be open if hunger were a non-issue. I would try a foodles...

"Only faded altars before D:4" seems boring. If they were close to break-even in value (early religion almost being worth downgrading from choice-of-god to random-god) it'd be more interesting. Weighting gods by strength and depth would be really good. It's a lot more interesting to win a ...

It seems to be about creating favorable terrain and luring things into ambushes of oklob plants that you can stand behind and shoot through. I've dabbled with him and never felt powerful. You can get screwed on fruit drops. Reproduction can kill you.

Hellmonk wrote:That query includes games from before the gnoll redesign. You'd want to use the newgnolls keyword to grab the winrate of the current version of gnolls. My subjective impression is that 7/7/7 gnolls are better than Mu but not very strong and not fun at all.

Thanks, I will rerun and update the post.

(Deleted newgnolls winrate breakdowns by class and god. N is too low.)

(Edited to use newgnolls keyword per Hellmonk's comment.) As a datapoint, Sequell says winrate for post-redesign Gnoll is .48% over 2906 games so far. [19:08] <Mattlistener> !Lg * newgnolls race=Gn / win [19:08] <Sequell> 14/2906 games for * (newgnolls race=Gn): N=14/2906 (0.48%) Winrates for all ra...

I'm rather ambivalent that the patch was rejected (entirely expected), but I really wish you would have addressed it from the perspective of bookless spellcaster that recieves RNG damage spells start rather than zealot start. The interesting thing about the proposal isn't being able to pick vehu at...

I beat Unexplored over the weekend, taking a slow'n'steady approach. I only skipped a small number of enemies, many tough ones I was able to deal with by retreating and coming back with bow&arrow, stealth, or a suitable immunity. There's a lot of achievements and other classes to unlock and play...

If there's an effort to make a spell library, I would suggest a filter-by-school approach rather than sort-by-school.

Filter: (*) Show All / (A)ir / (C)harms / Con(j)uration / (E)arth / (F)ire / (H)exes / (I)ce / (N)ecromancy / (P)oison / (S)ummoning / (T)ranslocation / Trans(m)utation

I'd play it! Non-book "caster" start is interesting. Book-based early games are getting repetitive.

Congrats, mostly!

Trolls can use regular shields with reduced penalties, and only need 9 skill to remove all penalties. (It's 15 skill for normal sized races.)

I was wondering about large rocks versus fustibalus+9. I suppose I thought the +9 enhancement bonus on the sling made it better. [...] I have to admit until now I'd never considered a shield. [...] Can trolls use any helmets at all? I haven't found any that I can equip. The rule of thumb I've seen ...

Anyone playing Unexplored?

I downloaded it recently but haven't launched yet. Will comment about it if no-one else does.

Scroll of Immolation becomes a must-carry under Qaz. :-)

Since no-one has mentioned it, monsters that are too weak for words 1-on-1 can still contribute to an existential threat in context. If you're running away down a corridor and there's a bullfrog, the turn it takes to kill it could mean what you're running away from has a chance to kill you. If you'r...

Is Gozag the god of choice here for distraction stabs?

Well, the description of body armour is already wrong by omission. We could make it less-wrong by less-omission while still leaving out whatever's needed to avoid maximizing horribleness. eg "3 AC with a 14% reduction of an attacker's max melee damage".

Search keywords that work in Crawl which you might not have known about, as well as good things to search for that might not have occurred to you. corpse food weapon/armour polearm branded throwable stick (finds all Sticks to Snakes reagents) necromancy (finds books with Necromancy spells) MR+ rElec...

Did you still have just one + of MR when you were Banished? Abyss is a big cull on the low-MR. eg the ring of Greed {Fire MR+ Str+2 Dex+2}. (Ironically, the ring of magical power being worn in the dump shown is more greedy.) I live in fear of Banish and Mark when I'm below ++. Having MR+ jewellery a...

How about cursed items immediately lose cursed status upon being worn, and instead grant a temporary (but long-lasting) bad mutation. That would take Remove Curse out of the game, while making no change to Identify. You will sometimes be tempted to wear an identified cursed item, instead of making t...

FR: "Qazlal's clouds do 50% extra damage to allies." Translation: an avatar of the storm is not good at being friends. Find another way to be overpowered with Qaz.

Season 5 is getting too television-y for my tastes, I have to say. The previous seasons seemed to deal with the material in the book in a way that worked well given time constraints and kept things tight/well-planned, but now it seems like there's a lack of material to work with and it's being fill...

IMHO don't change GMDR, just document it in the manual and in inventory descriptions. A +0 leather armour. A suit made from layers of tanned animal hide. It provides basic protection with almost no hindrance to spellcasting or stealthy movement. Base armour rating: 3 Encumbrance rating: 4 Wearing mu...

One suggestion that would reduce both ally power and ally annoyance would be to make them time out far quicker when there are no hostiles in view. Wouldn't address all the issues, but at least it'd be a dual-win nudge in the right direction? It would blow the "one zombie horde per floor" s...

Skill menu setting, "Train this, and turn off training at level X" I wish for this every game. I don't want checking skills to be about avoiding unintentional over-skilling. I want to look at them, make some decisions about how high to get certain skills, and then not look at them until n...

njvack wrote:It would be funny if Robin had a chance of spawning with a dig wand

To the batcave!

Final update: Ignition easily clears Vaults:5 and Slime:5. I tapped the Royal Jelly twice with Iron Shot to get some spawns, read Immolation, cast Ignition one time, and RJ was dead. Summon Forest is fun and gave me some extra oomph when I was spell-poor. Ignition + Death Channel can result in hosti...

Picking up and dropping items should take 0 time. Besides the obvious benefit, this also means we can throw out everything related to turning autopickup on and off for invisible monsters. I once made it to a portal, examined it with xv, saw no indication it was almost gone, dropped 5 items, and it ...

I always assumed it was grid distance. If I were in the SE corner and was told the portal is "very distant" then I would make a beeline NW, ignoring a tunnel that went back to an unexplored area also in the SE corner. On the other hand if I were told the portal was "nearby" and I...

Update: cleared Desolation of Salt. Silence was golden for that portal, in part because it kept the noise of combat from bringing reinforcements. I teleported away from the crystal golems in the main vault and then circled around to ninja the loot. Picked up: the +10 glaive of Duty {elec, rN+} ring ...

What spells are available? Is Fire Storm the endgame plan for this character? Is MinionMelee? Are you not yet sure because good books have not yet dropped? You only have 6.5 Spellcasting. Start learning higher teir spells and diversify your kit. Best fire spell in the game is Fireball. Best killdud...

Slime is usually done after depths:5. Good heavens, that late? What's the rationale for having it be a Lair branch then? That seems rather a trap for the unspoiled. Wouldn't it more reasonably be a branch off Depths? Is there a sequell query that could shed light on when players pick up the slimy r...

Ok here's my current DrFE. He was feeling strong for a while but I'm starting to get nervous. Only one pip of MR and no +MR in the game so far. I had to break off exploring Snake due to MR issues and don't have gear for Slime, so I guess Vaults is next (update from Vaults:1 -- Sentinel's Mark has a ...

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