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Been playing a bunch of gnolls, mostly for the fun factor of steamrolling the early game and being able to easily use anything you find. However, the games are getting quite samey. Get lots of skills to 10ish, then pick your endgame spell/weapon and focus it. The most interesting parts have been fin...

If I read the changelog right, the current changes are: - No more slow from whirlwind. - Wall jump needs a valid target. While I still think it would have been more interesting to leave the mechanics intact and restrict their use (by piety, MP, etc), this should at least help confirm if unlimited en...

Webpages are a band-aid for lack of good communal species communication. Suggestion: remove internet, focus development on mental telepathy.

The curse change seems interesting. Leaving that aside as a separate issue, I think the following combination of prior suggestions and one of my own (#5) would be good: 1 - Do away with ?acquirement. It adds nothing interesting because it rarely causes you to change your strategy. Most of the time t...

Why not preserve both a little unpredictability in monster power and the player's chance at a good drop by buffing monster base stats a little as proposed and allowing only ego items to generate equipped? That way, you still have some risk/reward of that early goblin with a dagger of electrocution, ...

I like it. Actually I'd rather this, or somthing like it, be more common than you propose and replace ?acquirement. ?acquirement reinforces existing builds on average and reduces interesting choices. Acquirement biased more toward good, maybe multiple, items with forced types and cost offers the the...

Code:: the ring of Godan {rPois rF+++ rC++ SInv}

Figures I'd get this when I already have SInv from Ash. Into the lava it goes.

What does "solve" mean in this context and how does WJC "solve" luring? Sorry, that was poorly worded and I was afraid that line might get singled out. I hope it doesn't detract from my main point about the overpowering nature of en passant cleaving. FWIW, I meant that it makes ...

Just finished an 8 rune game with MfFi^WJC and figured I'd give feedback. I couldn't bring my stats up yet, but it's player name Moni on CAO if you want to find the morgue/ttyrec later. The three rune game was incredibly easy, even using a plain trident for a good chunk of it. I am convinced more an...

Playing off the monstrous frog theme, a tongue attack could be interesting and add versatility. A couple ideas: Swallow whole: target within two squares is constructed, and in three turns swallowed whole if it fails to escape as per a throwing net. Player is slowed while this happens and for some ti...

Part of the issue with RoF, in my experience, is the fact that, by the time you get it, rF is seldom something of which you need more, and if it were, I wouldn't want to rely on having a specific spell up to cover it. Whereas, another dot of rC- could be a big issue (shard shrikes come to mind).

I'm basically comfortable using Whirlwind against anything minimally troublesome, and don't find this playstyle to be more tedious or tiring than, say, casting offensive spells. I made the mistake of putting two points in the same post and didn't mean to cause them to become conflated. My criticism...

I'd also vote for maintaining the status quo. (In any case, the fact that Whirlwind can make it suboptimal to tab through popcorn is a terrible reason to change it; in general, game features that otherwise work fine should not be changed simply so that the small minority of players who aim to maxim...

No More Talking, it's axe time.

Code:: The +7 executioner's axe of No More Talking {venom, rPois rC+}

OK so venom on an axe isn't the best ever, but with a name like that on an executioner's axe, I have to win with it.

As currently implemented, I think Reap might become strictly a buff in the later game, when the smaller HP pool is less of an issue and the player has access to plenty of consumables and good armour. I wonder if adding a hp-on-kills effect and making Reap be the only way skeletons can regen HP might...

Doesn't nerfing whirlwind's damage actually encourage the opposite of what you you want from the god, in terms of fighting in open areas with multiple enemies? If the player is now encouraged to attack-while-moving until slow is applied, then tab, won't he just fight until slow, then run to a safe s...

Undead should be able to cast dragon form and become bone dragons. It would be a rare, but fun, reason to branch into high level tmut as undead.

Sorry for the title, couldn't think of a more concise way to describe this. Situation: the character detects a monster or item behind a wall, but doesn't actually move in to see it. Let's say it's a kobold. (As seen on the character's screen) @.#.} The character then moves out of detection range. In...

Played my first game with IJC a while back as Gargoyle. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Osk/morgue-Osk-20170226-084054.txt Impressions: ⋅ IJC was VERY strong. More than anything, being able to attack while moving opens up a ton of tactical flexibility. The free slows and other abilities ...

Shoutitis could be interesting as a species innate, but I don't think I'd want to play with it unless there was a linked upside, something like a small amount of damage when you bark, a-la Singing Sword, or a chance at weakness or -wiz effects on monsters. Fear would be more appropriate but also a h...

I agree having a chance at tier 2/3 mutations would be a positive change (and one I've really wanted too). But I think adding a second layer of complexity to mutation roulette may not be the best way to go. What about, instead, giving the new !mutation a 80/15/5 chance per mutation of being tier 1/2...

What is an "oh the player is standing between a potion and a grate with some gold behind it" moment? It's shorthand. The long version is "oh !@#$%^&*()". Also known as an "oh the player is standing between a potion and a grate, some gold, a bread ration, a zot trap, Cer...

In addition to randart distresstingly furry scarves, there had better be an unrand with a Dr. Who reference.

Fair enough regarding difficulty, but in the time I've spent there, I've seen any number of exits generate. Even if the chance of rune generation were 1/10th of the current chance of exit generation, it would be an improvement for those who choose to dive there, and would not decrease substantially ...

Premise of Abyss depth: Abyss 3-5 can spawn the Abyssal rune. Abyss 4 and 5 offer higher chances of the rune spawning, at much greater player risk. Problem: Monster density of Abyss:5 is so high that even if you are capable of taking on the monsters, you'll actually spend more time, both real world ...

This just happened so I though it might be fun to do a thread of oh !@#$ moments. Antaeus, Guardian of Cocytus comes into view. He is wielding the +14 obsidian axe {chop, +Fly SInv *Curse}. This may actually be a blessing in disguise, if mesmerize affects him. I'm wearing boots of running and have r...

Is chei a requirement? If not, I've found spriggan to be a surprisingly awesome choice for statue form, paired with Ash rather than chei though. Ash lets you overcome their mediocre Earth skill easily and bootstrap statue form pretty quickly. And you can start out with a typical stealth / shortblade...

Thanks! I'm around 19 (depending how many times I've used Apocalypse recently...), and it feels like I'm doing a bit better than without, so I'll plan on keeping them on.

Unarmed ghoul, worth giving up claws for riposte from Fencer's Gloves?

I dumped with # on CAO, but not sure how to link morgue. Character name is Osk.

Thanks!

I haven't played a Nemelex follower since you had to play Dungeon Janitor to get decks, so I'm not sure if this is new, or something I've forgotten, or a bug I should report. I'm playing Trunk on CAO, and just drew the velocity card from a plain deck of escape. Instead of hasting or swiftnessing mys...

Blink + Decent HP + EV+++ + quick regen + weak attack makes crimson imps an exercise in tedium for low level characters without any real threat, except in the rare cases where they spawn with a wand or the like (if they even still can in recent versions). You can mash tab, but that introduces danger...

Why not make amulets take 3 turns to swap like body armour?

Thank you. I suspect it's my poor playing, but I've always found kirke to be an underrated threat. It's good to have an extra panic button.

Wondering if quaffing a potion of lignification will prevent Kirke from turning you into a pig? Wiki lists porkalator as affecting natural, demonic, or holy creatures, so I guess this could be rephrased to: is tree form "natural"? Likewise, will quaffing a potion of lignification shift you...

I like this, and agree it's an elegant solution to making zigs a little more fun. However, I think I'd see if it were feasible for the soul stone to only work in ziggurats. I have a feeling that some builds might find the first zig easier than a 15-rune game, and so might introduce issues unless it ...

Some ideas to vary things up a bit and add utility for ranged/magic characters:

Horns - make it retaliatory like MI
Tail - manticore type ranged attack, with damage at level 1, 2, barbs at 3
Tentacle fingers - extend accuracy bonus to spells

I think you're casting too broad a net here, especially since these reforms aren't likely to have much in the way of ripple effects that necessitate wholesale overhaul. I suspect this will just end up in a CY style throw-it-all-at-the-wall brainstorming session instead of something that could effect...

PowerOfKaishin wrote:I die a little inside when I get one of the crappy colors like Mottled or Black.

This 19 times over. Some of the colors are just a letdown and, unlike demonspawn, you don't have more fun mutations to make up for it.

"You are no longer not the speed you were before"

This feels like a felid on ... whatever the opposite of steroids is. Here's an alternate idea, that optionally does away with eating items (tedium) and gives it a unique twist with regards to equipment: A sort of spin on Octopodes with far fewer, but more versatile slots. Jellies start out with 1 ps...

Wow, with 7 recharging scrolls and those two rods, I'd be pretty tempted to actually bump evo even higher and charge those puppies up, . IME, rod of clouds can carry you through a 3 rune game with ease, given moderately careful play. When you start getting acid clouds more regularly, it's absolutely...

As to your particular proposal though (point blank counterattacks) I can't say I see any alternative to switching to melee. The other things you've mentioned (raising ranged skill higher or defenses higher) seem unlikely to have more impact than simply training up a melee weapon. Given the current ...

Spitballing: remove amulet of harm and potion of might, replace with "potion of harm", that has the effect of amulet of harm. Plays a little into the theme of potions/scrolls that have both good and bad effects, like lignification/immolation.

New ranged still won't require tactics, right? Wrong. EVERY idea suggested to introduce tactics into ranged combat is on the table. Arguing about details which devs agree to try out won't proceed this discussion. Imagine there's a forum bot that quotes every ranged-tactics idea and then replies wit...

I dug through the spaghetti for a bit before giving up. ... _gale_push_dist returns (I think) the distance to push whatever is getting pushed. The part that changed was: old: dist = player_adjust_evoc_power(1 + you.skill_rdiv(SK_EVOCATIONS, 1, 10)); new: dist = 1 + random2(pow / 20); This looks lik...

When fan of gales got the elemental summons removed, the changelog indicates the intention was to buff the knockback: bcf4d46 | Chris Campbell | 2016-05-28 02:22:48 +0100 Make the lamp of fire and fan of gales not create elementals And strengthen their other effects - make the fire clouds last longe...

Trying to tease out the premise a little here. Are there still issues with players delaying progress that have not been addressed with OOD spawns? So far I see the issue of "what if the player can beat the OOD spawns and get even more XP"? That seems well-addressed by making OOD spawns dur...

Every idea which doesn't start with " I think ranged attacks as primary killdudes is perfectly fine for crawl - here's how I refute Lasty's specific concerns " gets swallowed into "once ranged isn't a primary attack we're much more free to play with its dimensions". In other wor...

My fear is that by having such a clearly defined niche for ranged, it's not giving players an *alternative* play style, it's just giving players one more tool in their toolbox for the *right* way to play. I agree with this assessment, although I disagree with Lasty in that I think removing ranged e...

This doesn't address everything the OP mentioned, but I feel like a little buff to the level 1 and 2 blasty spells would go a long way to achieve the same effect of eliminating early-mid game MP regen tedium. It's usually a crapshoot if they'll hit, or do damage, and if not, sorry you're out of MP, ...

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