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early levels feel a bit big too, for how little they contain

as for the proposed cuts, I agree with them, but from my understanding, 27 is sacred or something, so floor size reduction is probably better

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you may also take interest in lua traps
that is, pressure plates that do things defined in lua
(have a look at source/dat/des/variable/traps.des)

danr: the OP actually acknowledges the wiki page about one-off uses for misc. items
(the OP is actually about the specific god items idea)

written before danr: Nobody ever said anything about slowly raising the numeric statistics of random panlords, you silly goose. Obviously a proper implementation would need discussion, but you seem to be more intent on pretending the only way to do this is to give panlords more numbers. On tornado b...

(failed semicontrolled blinks degrade to random blinks now in trunk)

(for tiles and vaults you will want to select "Upload: Graphics" and "Upload: Maps and Vaults", respectively)

exp reduction from draining really isn't that bad

centaur monks should work well too

on your first: the biggest difference here is that you can scum pan forever (so you can eventually get what you want), and no, you don't need to be crazy powerful to do it. on your second: things like hellion island will only generate once, so they have nothing to do with scumming (as a consequence,...

on your first point: on loot: well that and anything else that didn't generate earlier, like magical staves, potions of cure mutation, piety, etc. I'm not sure exactly what pan loot is like, including that in the pan vaults, but this floor trash, at the very least, can be quite valuable. on grinding...

'casual' players would presumably bail out after getting the fiery, glowing, dark, and magical runes, in addition to a single demonic rune as long as difficulty increases take their time to become noticeable, 'casual' players needn't even worry about it; they're forcing it upon themselves if they ha...

then they get a wacky Lair and they're no more interesting for the rest of the game
racial elephant enslavement also doesn't sound very elegant to me but whatever

overshadow? no.
base hp gain from fighting on racial hp? yes.

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How does the high hunger make them iffy spellcasters? I'd blame it more on the bad magic schools, but it's still fine and I'd be sad to see them change.

ogres don't like eating raw meat; you're thinking of trolls

curio, trolls can throw large rocks, too, you know, right? weapon choice bias is a pretty superficial differentiation, too, and some people even play giant spiked club trolls and unarmed ogres. oh and trolls are fine at casting, so long as you victory dance a ton (ogres are better at breadth but the...

while I agree some extra HP might be okay, I'd accomplish that by scaling HP from fighting with racial HP and rebalancing around that
just as long as they're still a good challenge

challenge species are fun (because they are challenging)

If I recall correctly, HP bonus from Fighting skill is silly and the same for everyone (except for special-cased felids) based on XL; ogres only have high racial HP.

There's a corner of stone sticking out somewhere in the forest path; search there (and then there'll be another secret door in the room you find)

you'll get some nice out of depth monsters if you wait too long on any level, too

Bim, what's so bad about "rushing"? Preventing it does nothing more than make your challenge zone unplayable for many builds, for which it would be quite fun. dpeg, the problem with using ziggurats for this is that it's common to have to scum for them, but fixing that would be nice. Scalin...

a gradual shift to impossibility is exciting, as it promises constant challenge

melee is pretty easy (but the early game is boring so I don't really like starting pure melee) but I find pure casters spammy so I don't play those so I can't compare them

hybrids are probably the most powerful, though

Written before minmay: I think extended endgame material should scale in difficulty over time, particularly Pandemonium, Abyss, and Ziggurats (such as not to fall behind Pan). Hopefully this would make these infinite areas more interesting for those wanting to play further with their current charact...

you are wrong, coyo7e

the decay curse is gone in trunk

but you indeed forgot potion destruction by cold

Mara (a unique) weaves illusions of the player, which are basically what the player ghost would be like (had the player died), mimicking spells and damage and whatnot.

invis is a hex because it's a playstyle spell for enchanters, the hexes class. hexes and charms are not opposites. Slow is already mass-hasting for ally users, and more distinct from Haste than yet another spell, and I'd say if it isn't good enough, perhaps MR-checking spells like it should be a bit...

hexes are about branding weapons and projecting noise

a radical idea I've had for a while that would require a lot of reworking but would help with this: get rid of the exceedingly dull Charms and Conjurations schools, axing pure spells (I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be too sad to see Haste go) or reflavouring and moving them to other schools ...

the crawl vault format is simple enough

kiku's pain weapon blessing is great too

sorry to nitpick, but mummy paladins

If axes pale in comparison to maces, buff axes or nerf maces; don't make them the same.

I agree with KoboldLord. danr, it's hardly a difference; there are so many parallels and things that hardly affect it at all it's ridiculous. As I state below, too, there's pretty much no difference in gameplay, either, unless you branch out into stabbing or spellcasting or something. Guillard, stre...

perhaps danr is confusing "interesting" with "universally appealing"

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giant clubs require you to be ogre (a large price) or troll (better with UC anyway) as for axe bias being interesting, it's something you must consider when choosing axes, not getting excited when you find a big axe. While it may not be interesting on its own, removing that distinction just makes it...

I assumed "Maybe only give special moves to monks." meant "unarmed combat only", but if it meant making it background specific, then that's even worse.

Unarmed needs less raw damage and more special moves, yes, but only giving special moves to monks still leaves weapon types undifferentiated (and uninteresting).

1) if there is no demonic axe, it makes the axes/noaxes more important when playing demonspawn; adding one dilutes the school in that regard 2) if you want 1/1.5-handed options go maces and flails, polearms, or long blades; axes' 2-hander bias makes them unique. 3) and you need to make axes the same...

USDlw, the funniest joke

such is the fate of OgWr

Might it be easier to organize a round robin like this using a subvault for each room, like sprints 2 and 3, or am I crazy (I imagine it'd get a bit messy what with everyone adding to a single monolithic vault)? This also makes it so as long as people who want to design the same room can agree on a ...

GhMo is really good, but GhCK is better. OgIE and OgVM are probably two of the best ogres, but they may not seem natural as OgBe. Really, the best combos often aren't the most natural-sounding, species share best professions, and there are multiple great (and often thematic) combos where picking one...

On 2, I'm sure this has come up a ton already, but you could also make status ailments (like confusion, for example) come in degrees and generally make them succeed more often but the power of the effect depend on how well they succeeded. Further on confusion, its chance to override a monster's acti...

Short blades are all about the stabbing and being both common and fast; if you're not stabbing or using slaying or an additive brand, you should probably choose a different weapon type. If anything, I think short blades are too big: only daggers (best stabbing), quick blades (quick) and sabres (best...

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