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I'm not sure an infection-like spell would be a lot of fun in a roguelike, actually. Optimal play would be "cast this on dudes and get out of sight," and stuff happening out of LOS is, well, not that fun. I feared this so that's why I mentioned 'explosive boils'. The optimal play there wo...

True, this needs rethinking.

But are the mechanics of a spreading infection type spell worth carrying forward? It's seems to a different take on area of effect than any of the storms, tornado or shatter.

You could make infection count toward being Ignite Poison vulnerable but that's a bit of a stretch just to try and fix the idea. I suppose the explosion effect but apply to even totally poison immune creatures but it wouldn't make too much sense. For post-endgame it would be weak but a lot of Zot mo...

There's been several mentions recently that poison could do with a high level spell to make it worth training beyond what's needed for Poison Arrow. Here's a suggestion that I think could work as a either a high level Poison Magic spell or maybe both Poison Magic and Hexes. Pox This spell induces vi...

People are reading too much into "AI". It doesn't mean the monsters will actually be made intelligent. It just means they are given more complex and interesting behaviours that make it harder (and therefore more tactically interesting) to apply simple rinse-and-repeat measures to deal wit...

I've recently played a few games of a locally modified version of crawl that roughly halves the depth of the dungeon and branches (except abyss, pan, hells, zigs and anything less than 3 levels deep). I balanced for XP in a crude way by just doubling it and did the same with piety. I'm only an inter...

I think I muddied the waters by mentioning mutations. The idea was just to copy the idea that being a werewolf is a disease, rather than a species. Mutations are just the closest analogue in crawl. The reverting when starving is the weakest part of the idea flavour wise I'd agree. The transformation...

Firstly, gaining any specific intrinsics from eating chunks is firmly on the developers' "will not do" list. It's actually just not very interesting in terms of gameplay and balance. Additionally, having it happen as a result of being attacked doesn't sound like much fun. That's a fair co...

It would work nicely as a mutation gained by being attacked by or eating the chunks of a werewolf monster. Make the transformation work on a clock to simulate the full moon, after you've survived the transformation a few times make the transformation an ability. Once it becomes an ability it doesn't...

I think I've got this to a state where it's worth other people playing it now. Where do I go from here? The changes are: - New game type, Dungeon Run, haven't done an icon for the main menu in tiles mode yet though. - The idea is to make the game shorter but to otherwise keep it as challenging. - Ro...

Well I think I've got all the map, branch and XP stuff sorted, the runes appear where they should and so on. It's now technically winnable. However I can't get off the first floor due to orcs :^) You were right about the OOD code, I'm finding it difficult to understand some of the logic in there. Th...

Thanks for the reply. - While I've currently hardcoded the divider it's all hidden behind a branch_depth_data_by_gametype(game_type, branch_type) function I've put in branch.(h|cc). I was going to go with 'floating point divide by 2 and round up' but that meant that Orc was 2 levels which seemed too...

I'm not an official dev and the following is just a personal experiment. I've recently started trying to add a new game type called Dungeon Run. The idea is roughly halve the number of levels but unlike Dungeon Sprint keep the game otherwise intact, so the branches and runes are still there and so o...

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Re: High level Poison or Poison/Hexes suggestion: Pox

Re: High level Poison or Poison/Hexes suggestion: Pox

Re: High level Poison or Poison/Hexes suggestion: Pox

High level Poison or Poison/Hexes suggestion: Pox

Re: Monster AI (was: Dungeon Layout)

Re: Dungeon Layout

Re: [Suggestion] New race: Werebeast

Re: [Suggestion] New race: Werebeast

Re: [Suggestion] New race: Werebeast

Re: Dungeon Run

Re: Dungeon Run

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Dungeon Run