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The character type who wants to use it is an all-in fire mage that lacks either Fire Storm or the kill-die apts/wizardry to get Fire Storm running, and it is quite noticeably useful for them as an MP-efficient way of burning popcorn before Fire Storm.

As RMsl is dead, cutting Call Imp would reduce the book of minor magic to 5 spells. I could see it getting Sticks to Snakes as a replacement, or maybe having a cost attached to Call Imp? Strong agreement with regard to AE change causing issues, though I think any solution should also make Bolt of Li...

If you've only won five races, and are against doing conversion shenanigans to get the Xom win or repeating races/backgrounds, I suggest shelving Chaos Knight for now and picking up some wins with more fragile species. Sticking with Xom the entire game as a non-Troll is much much more difficult than...

confusion got nerfed from a 7/8 chance to misdirect to a 2/3 chance recently was always a 2/3 chance: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/c8f91ca9c73902d6c7f25a75cddaa7dd092dc799/crawl-ref/source/main.cc#L3156-L3186 melee'ing through confusion is thus a valid tactic if you have decent melee, which y...

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Why doesn't Joseph drop a hat? No room in the structure. Monsters don't actually have an aux slot; the things that have them cheat and wear them in other slots. Robin wears her helmet in the shield slot. This won't work for Joseph because he wields a quarterstaff, so he'd have to take his hat off t...

_There is a stone staircase leading down here. You climb downwards. The deep elf mage shouts! The centaur warrior shouts! You redirect the centaur warrior's attack! The centaur warrior wields a glowing shortbow. It bursts into flame! The centaur warrior shoots an arrow. The arrow hits the deep elf ...

it's really not hard to figure this out if you ever play a fire elementalist

Scrolls of identify and remove curse are usually abundant once you are able to enter Zot. For many characters and playstyles, they're abundant before then even. They're also still necessary to carry around at all times, even on a 3-rune, as there are a bunch of glowing cloaks in Zot and random artif...

I agree with the OP except the part about Swamp; swamp drakes are trivial on their own even without rPois and swamp dragons are manageable 1v1 if you have decent offense and curing.

i made this for myself ages ago

Berserk fades off faster if you do things that aren't killing monsters, so you already are mesmerized for practical purposes.

i want to know why ogres were given 9 base int this is higher than humans which is confusing given they're still apparently "mostly seen as brutes" and are almost entirely martial enemies in the wild like i disagree with everything else about the changes strongly but this is just insane to...

bad idea: borgnjor traps that cast borgnjor's revivification on you whenever anyone steps on them

It'd be rather weird IMO to capitalize the names of a lot of real animals:

Code:: A Polar Bear, 3 Yaks, and a Hornet come into view.

I eat perma-food

They were replaced by Barafrogwhatsits, actually.

It's basically irrelevant for everyone, including casters as they favor backing up instead of zapping wands.

Dedicated evocations users probably enjoy the firepower boost.

You're not doing anything wrong, it's just rather uncommon to see him more than once due to Dungeon being a lot shorter (as well as the low odds of seeing him in the first place). If you want a grudge match with him, he has a chance of spawning in Tomb, so you can start routing that in (do not do to...

MfGl^Qazlal with liberal Disc of Storms abuse. It was my first time trying Qazlal and also my first game of 0.16 after not having touched Crawl for years. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.16.1 (tiles) character file. 2100891 Doesnt the Intangible (level 27, 215/225 HPs) Began as a Merfolk Gladiato...

one can also make a case for a PC who worships jiyva, but that one's a bit of a stretch

edit: it's a stretch because it's assuming the player has a brain

most slimes are brainless too

Flame is actually legitimately useful in Shoals, especially on bog-standard meleebot characters that lack ranged damage output; steam does solid damage to lots of stuff in water, at range, and it has a good chance of blocking LOS to boot.

Random effects being purple I could see though.

-get rF+(++), cast it on dude next to you, smack dude next to you until it dies -cast it on manufactured undead (go kiku), sticks to snakes, your ancestor, or something you've zapped with enslavement (it fails on most summons) -cast it on a killer bee that you have forced distance between via conjur...

removeelyvilon wrote:Can pan lords still have distortion brand btw?

Chaos brand can roll disto so "yes"

There already is a punishment for ninja'ing pan runes: the corresponding lord gets put on the Pan spawn table, which can fuck you over in both Pan and in the orbrun. Most characters do not want to see a unique pan lord ever again: 126244 | Pan | Entered the realm of Cerebov. 126624 | Pan | Noticed C...

Hell has quite a few mortal inhabitants actually: hell hounds, hell knights, the odd ice dragon in Cocytus, and iron giants (but not doom hounds, oddly enough).

Elyvilon doesn't actually give a shit if you break a zombie or a demon. They're not living things. The solution here IMO would be to fix the description of divine protection rather than to change its effect. It really isn't broken at all; live-saving doesn't heal you, it just averts the killing blow...

Releasing Delayed Fireball costs 0.0 auts and 0 mana. It's much more practical than it seems.

First time you arrive on the level. That looks like really awful luck. The closest thing to a "lesson" I can pull from it is to avoid Nikola like the plague if you don't have rElec: 31740 | Shoals:2 | Noticed Nikola 31900 | Shoals:2 | Killed from afar by Nikola Could've dipped into the oth...

I think I've only used it once so my opinion isn't too informed, but seeing other people use it it certainly doesn't look very impressive. It's probably okay if we ignore the cost but I'm rarely in a position where I actually want to learn a level 6 triple-school spell that is strictly for crowd con...

Try doing the same kind of damage with conjure flame, sticky flame or corpse rot. Conjure flame has short range, creates only one cloud and can't be cast on monsters. Sticky flame can only be used on one adjacent monster. Corpse rot requires a corpse and a bunch of strategically placed corpses at t...

Unarmed attacks would presumably reach 0.0 delay at 54 skill, allowing you to freely erase anything that gets in melee range.

Elf lover wrote:
PleasingFungus wrote:in general, i'm sure if you mine enough fantasy settings you can find some precedent for just about any race

So then whats the real reason for removing High Elves?

Frog is just a temporary name, they're going to be renamed to High Jump Elves at some point.

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I had to deal with a Glaciate ghost in there once, and had the same problem a Chei worshipper would have because: -glaciate kills movement speed -the exit is far from the point you arrive at Putting an exit at the arrival point would be sensible for all portal vaults I think? It's kind of silly to i...

Has anyone else here played a Vampire Transmuter? It's one of the most hilariously awful things in Crawl; you want to stay out of Full so you can batform, but you also have to stay out of Thirsty so you can actually use your transmutations. It's really painful because you need to actively drink bloo...

Qazlal is a good god to worship because he increases your experience gain by drawing all the monsters out of hiding.

Humans are a relatively uninteresting species in terms of gameplay, feeling somewhat like demonspawn but with fast leveling like kobolds. Their theme originates from Tolkien, a source of lore that crawl is trying to borrow less from these days. Their gorgeous round ears not withstanding, this partic...

duvessa wrote:
Crawl Design Philosophy wrote:* meaningful decisions (no no-brainers)

guess i should get my troll games out of the way now while i can

Legit question: What was wrong with Ogres being good at clubbing things? If I was playing an Ogre, it was probably because I didn't want to think much about weapons and just wanted to use the shiniest mace I could. Interesting weapon-type decisions still exist for most other races, and Ogres themsel...

cerebovssquire wrote:I sometimes feel like I'm part of a big masochistic cult here

well you play crawl, don't you

finally, a movement to remove remove

i don't get it either

if gozag turns the bodies of defeated enemies to gold, then why aren't the dragons all dropping gold dragon scales?

DgAE (who found the wizard starting book on d:2 and thus ignored the air part)

Code:: e - the +16 gold dragon scales "Raoceer" (worn) {rPois rF+ rC+ Str+3 Int-5 SInv}.

I have enough Str to not only wear this, but continue casting Fireball in it.

^this is correct

Hep is, though maybe not ideal, certainly more fun for FE and AM as you can cast Inner Flame on it and use it as a walking grenade.

why is gozag so good

sounds like you need to get better at committing every safe tile to memory

(really can we just remove hidden traps already please. replace hungry ghosts with shafted ghosts that kill themselves to forcibly shaft you if that needs to stay)

Oh right, I forgot to add a detail to this "hypothetical" scenario: you have no scrolls of summoning. You wished you had found one when you were getting the Slimy rune and you haven't gotten any since then.

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