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That sounds really cool, especially when you consider that it's possible to have wrath from multiple gods at once.

If this is true, the wiki's page on Fighting is lying. "Fighting is a generic combat skill that provides small bonuses to your accuracy and damage with melee attacks (but not spells or ranged attacks)" The wiki isn't reliable From the in-game description: "Fighting skill increases yo...

This is kind of already a thing.

I know gameplay trumps flavor, and this is a legitimate issue, but something about the proposed solutions just rubs me the wrong way. Like, it would harm the diversity between species. Players getting stuck should try to be prevented, but can we try a less drastic solution first, like maybe increasi...

My complaint with the passive abilities is not just about power level, especially since you said the numbers weren't final. It's more an issue that they're all bonuses that can be provided by items, and I expect gods to offer something qualitatively different. Also, this isn't necessarily a problem,...

While the idea of a god that only accepts worshipers who already worship a different god is interesting, I would never choose this particular god even if I didn't have to deal with wrath from another. The passive abilities, while nice, are not enough be worth worshiping on their own, and the 3 abili...

I've updated the proposal. Good feedback so far; please keep it coming. In my example, I deliberately avoided some good mutations that players have developed an aversion to (particularly body-slot mutations), but in practice I imagine players would welcome those if they had the option to turn them o...

Well, this god is not intended to front-load power to the degree that Oka and Trog do, but it only takes a little piety to fish out some mutations in the beginning, so it's not like there's no early benefit at all. Access to the different mutation potions and mutagenic meat can speed up progress eve...

"No set"? You're saying even... Str +4, Int +4, Dex +4, HP +30%, MP + 30%, AC +7 rF+++, rC+++, rElec, rPois, rCorr, MR +90 Clarity, SInv, Passive Mapping Movement Delay -4, Stealth +120, at-will Blink Carnivore, Regen+++ ... wouldn't be good enough in your opinion? Because I've tried that,...

My bad.

Mutations can be interesting, fun, powerful, and cool, but because they're so completely random, many players choose to ignore them entirely, settling for less interesting gameplay in the name of safety. This god is an attempt to encourage players to have fun with mutations by rewarding experimentat...

I actually like managing chunks. It does change the way I play, at times discouraging me from using certain spells and abilities, at times encouraging me to give up on trying to down a difficult unique or ghost sooner than I otherwise would, which makes those decisions a bit more interesting. The di...

Linear delay scaling has been tried and no one was happy with the results. It's remarkably difficult to come up with damage formula changes that are clear improvements over status quo. This makes sense, considering the entire game is balanced around the current formulas. If all the monsters were to...

My only problem with extended being tedious is that there's no upper bound on how many Pan levels you have to grind through before you clear out all of its runes. If I have good luck, there's no problem, but if I have bad luck, it can feel like trying to farm some stupidly rare drop in a Final Fanta...

1. Fighting helps ranged weapons as much as it does melee ones. If this is true, the wiki's page on Fighting is lying. "Fighting is a generic combat skill that provides small bonuses to your accuracy and damage with melee attacks (but not spells or ranged attacks)" 2. There is no effectiv...

According to the wiki , weapon skills already contribute more to both accuracy and damage than the Fighting skill, meaning that there's always value it training it past a weapon's mindelay. In a way, the Fighting skill is also kind of gimped, in that it only benefits melee attacks. Ranged attackers...

In other words, for the vast majority of characters, there are no ways to effectively defend against malmutate. Granted, given that Amulets of Resist Mutation have been removed, it's also clear the the devs don't want the defense against malmutate to be as simple as an item swap. Though with the tr...

1) In terms of improving clarity, a good place to start would be to add descriptions accessible from the 'A' screen. 2) Maybe mutations with both advantages and drawbacks should have a separate category than "good" or "bad". That said, some of the good mutations are quite potent,...

So, I've seen a number of posts recently proposing to combine 2 consumables that have nothing to do with each other which, from my point of view, would only serve to make item management more awkward. If there are people that actually want this, why not make a god that randomly pairs one consumable ...

Ignite Blood should cauterize severed hydra heads.

I'm saying there are occasions when an extra level or two in a defensive skill would have been enough to save a character, not that players can accurately identify those occasions. But, the reason we can't identify those occasions is not because of Crawl's randomness... it's because, unlike some oth...

Aptitudes stop mattering if a player spends sufficiently long grinding in extended, but they can make the difference in whether or not a player can survive long enough to do that. Some players think aptitudes don't matter because they've become skilled enough to usually win even with bad aptitudes, ...

For great fun, use Wizard mode to create artifacts. Just don't be surprised if doing so makes the game less challenging.

Still, the fact that you can be killed while under the effects of Divine Protection, even at high piety levels, is enough to make relying on it to keep you alive while fighting a risky proposition at best. Attempting to exploit this feature seems suicidal, so in my mind, it's not broken.

I don't know of an spell that can generate massive amounts of noise at great distances in recent versions. The closest I can think of is Fulminant Prism, which due to its delay could be used in conjunction with a few Controlled Blinks to get some distance from the explosion before it goes off, but t...

As I understand it, the game client displays "noise" as the louder of the two values, so I imagine that spells with no spell noise would appear as "Silent" in the spell list and spell descriptions. The client already has the ability to update spell descriptions to account for Veh...

I'm not attached to the name or the AC modifier. Actually, I prefer both "Silent Cowl" and "Demonskin Cowl" to "Assassin's Cowl". The main point of this artifact is to be able to cast spells without making noise. Many spells, including most summoning and several hexes (...

Yeah, my current understanding is the chance of the protection status effect actually cancelling damage is proportional to your piety, and each time it actually cancels damage, you lose a good chunk of piety, so after the first cancel, you could be killed by a lucky hit. In my test, I died with ****...

My Metamagic God proposal didn't generate as much excitement as I'd hoped, and I suspect that part of the reason is that most of the features resemble existing items (ring of wizardry, staff of energy, robe of archmagi), but the ability to eliminate casting noise seems like it would enable interesti...

Overall, I think this is a healthy direction to take the concept, but I think tying the slow effect to lunge like this is going to be a problem. In the success case, you lunge at a monster, slowing it, then follow up with whirlwind attacks for extra damage and paralysis. But, in the failure case, yo...

I just tested it by creating a character in 0.19.0, turning on Wizard mode, granting worship of El, granting max piety, activating Divine Protection, creating a hydra zombie, and meleeing it (entire process took less than a minute). I was able to fight it while protected, and I was killed by it whil...

I really dislike the idea of losing access to the spell entirely if the supply of stones runs out. If it has to be locked into a single power level, I'd prefer it never use stones. But, I'd much rather Sandblast check the quiver for stones (or large rocks! :twisted:), which would solve the problems ...

What if vampires had an ability to convert nutrition into a potion of blood (maybe at the cost of 1 HP from the self-inflicted wound)? Players would still need to collect blood if they wanted to stay Alive, but no longer would there be an incentive to stand around waiting for nutrition to timeout wh...

They can also trigger on riposte strikes. >:D

You want boons to be situational, and also for players to be able to trust them (ie build around them). Seems contradictory. It's not. I don't book a flight to get to the grocery store, but when I'm travelling a long distance, I trust that the plane isn't going to suddenly stop working midair. The ...

That's even worse. Players wouldn't be able to trust their boons at all.

To an extent, I think you're right. I do anticipate situations where characters will want different boons for different spells (success or hunger for high-level or off-school spells, power or MP for spells that have been brought down to 1"%, etc.) or against different enemies (an enchanter woul...

The first time you encounter any monster, you should immediately stop and examine it.

What about this? * Reading (or picking up) a book places all spells it contains into a spell inventory, possibly flavored as the player's own spellbook. * Accessing the spell memorization screen displays a menu of schools with spells available to memorize, and an "all" option. * Upon selec...

Or even a wand!

True, but that generally takes longer (in game time), especially because you're not guaranteed to encounter them in a single autoexplore sweep. Which brings up a second use for scrolls of noise: if you get hungry while travelling between levels, you can read one in the hopes of attracting food (thou...

I'm a completionist. Even if I don't kill a unique when I first notice them, I'll always go back and hunt them later, if possible. Besides, sometimes it's worth killing them ASAP to take their stuff and/or get the experience boost.

It's more effective than shouting at attracting uniques on empty floors. Sometimes tracking them down can be a pain.

It can take quite a lot of skill in Spellcasting (or a staff of energy) to reduce spell hunger to 0 on mid-to-high-level spells, to the point where I've sometimes had to budget the usage of spells when I first learn them in order to not burn through permafood (or more rarely starve mid-fight). It ma...

Erm, no... I think if you read a bit more carefully you'll notice that you can only have 1 boon active at a time.... Also, +100% spellpower is perhaps not as strong as you imagine, considering the demonspawn mutation "Augmentation" gives +120% at rank 3 and full HP.

It seems to me that * Clear: Difficulty -50% (applied before skills/INT/armour/shield, e.g. a level 9 spell would be reduced from 390 to 195 at max piety) is strong enough to basically make all the other choices this god provides basically moot. Usually, in my experience in Crawl, you train just en...

Yeah, I once tried to constrict 8 monsters as an octopode, and only managed 6. A big part of the difficulty is that constrict damage keeps ramping up over time, so before you can grab the 7th, the 1st dies. That's why maintaining constriction is more valuable than it might first appear.

What are you talking about?

I mean... I guess that's an option, but it seems like a missed opportunity for a strategic choice....

Octopodes use 2 tentacles per "hand" and 4 for movement. When not moving, they can constrict 4, 6, or 8 adjacent enemies depending on how many tentacles are being used to wield a weapon/shield. But, if an octopode has enough free tentacles to constrict 6 or 8 enemies, and only needs to use...

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