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I don't think there's a significant balance issue here. I usually prefer to do Swamp/Spider before Snake/Shoals, but in my experience the difference between any two of them is pretty small for most characters. Access to one of a few specific abilities/spells can immediately flip the order from its d...

I'm pretty sure it took me a couple years of (infrequent, offline) play before I discovered not only that you *could* chop up corpses for food, but that the game was explicitly designed around the assumption that you should get a significant amount of your nutrition this way. (I starved to death mor...

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=shortlog

(edit: but I vastly prefer the github log b/c you can mouseover the link for each commit to read the notes without leaving the main page)

afaik there is no restriction. There are entire "bots" scripted in .rcfiles that require (almost?) no human input to win games. You edit your .rcfile by logging into the server's lobby and clicking the "edit rc" link next to the version you want to play. edit: FYI, your browser's...

There is a lot you can do with your .rcfile, both by simply toggling the options that are there by default and by adding scripts that the cool kids call "lua". For instance, you don't need a macro to make your character automatically eat chunks. You just need to find and "un-comment&q...

lol @ the idea that crawl is a forum in which one can meaningfully "pander to a political agenda" The point is that "gender politics" were already in the game , and this change just reflects a different stance within that context. chequers' commit notes made that very clear. So t...

lol @ the ppl saying "it doesn't make sense" to change the gender of mythical creatures in a video game about a magical dungeon

wish i could triple-like Lasty's post re: over-estimations of feminine representation

Bit ugly perhaps, but couldn't polearms just always hit both tiles in any diagonal or straight direction? That turns them into single direction key use, easy tab. It's a power boost, but I'm not quite sure how much. .ab.. ..c.. ..@.. ..... ..... i oppose on geometric grounds any version of reaching...

You can find answers to a lot of questions like this by using the Knowledge Bots. There's an implementation at http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots Here is the entry for "stabbing": 1. A stab with a short blade does increased damage: (dam+bonus)*mult, where bonus depends on your dex as w...

pretty much the only thing I use wands of flame for is to create steam clouds that break LOS with and/or kill electric eels, but I really like that I can use them this way

also also, he/it is a big kobold (unless you polymorphed him into a human?)

Pick the best available weapon (ctrl-F "weap && ego" to see the options) and train it as quickly as you can. If you don't find better books soon, you'll want to upgrade your body armour too; your magic skills are high enough that you'll probably have good spell success with ring or...

rPois a convenience, not a necessity. It's the difference between pressing 5 a bunch and pressing 5 a slightly bigger bunch.

Weapon Damage (from Knowledge Bots ): 1d(base*strength_bonus)*skill_bonus + 1d(to_dam + slaying) + various bonuses Weapon enchantment is additive, whereas base damage is multiplied by several factors. The only way I'd keep using one-handers is if there was a well-enchanted/well-branded eveningstar o...

CanOfWorms wrote:There's no specific benefit to moving diagonally.

actually there is a specific tactical disadvantage to moving diagonally because each step reveals more squares, i.e. more potential enemies, but this is vastly outweighed by the specific quality-of-life benefits of aut[o]travel

i should probably have said "SpEn" instead of "spriggan", since that's what this thread is all about. beyond the heavy skill cost, it's a terrible idea to give up stabbing on a super-stealthy race with a stabbing background

unarmed on a spriggan is a very bad idea

I never really used my spells Skills: - Level 12.0 Fighting - Level 14.0 Polearms + Level 15.4 Dodging - Level 2.1 Stealth - Level 4.3 Spellcasting - Level 11.4 Conjurations - Level 10.1 Charms - Level 3.0 Summonings - Level 2.5 Translocations - Level 15.0 Ice Magic Your Spells Type Power Failure L...

LearnDB says vamp does 1d(damage) when it triggers, so...have you tried it? If you can stack a bunch of slaying on it or are doing a lot of mid-fights stabs, it might be pretty good. Unless you are relying on weapon-slot swaps for rods or something, it's probably worth eating a ration so you can equ...

I would put a couple of stat upgrades into strength on these characters, especially once you've found a troll or steam dragon armour. It might net you a bit more EV/AC and could help get higher-level spells online (meaning higher than level 3, if you feel the need) -- but I don't know the formulas a...

The point is that the cancellation took effect in 2 turns while the character was more than 2 steps away from safety. Hell effect initiates cancellation, dynast hastes to try to reach shore before it kicks in, takes one step and drowns at full health. (You can see positioning, etc., in the dump: htt...

Prevent elftwin buffs vs unseen players (Lasty) The elven twins - Duvessa particularly - shouldn't buff up until they actually see the player; the player being nearby but invisible shouldn't count. https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/bfd796adb0cf1e963c196e6dc29dd03d254d4e0b In practice, this mean...

+1 would play

(I think the "rule" is because of code and/or interface reasons, but it doesn't matter because names are the least important part of any design proposal.)

Experienced adventurers never enter the dungeon, because... ⋅ ...they're all experienced enough to know better. ⋅ ...the concept of training doesn't exist in the surface world. ⋅ ...crawling the dungeon is a rite of passage for which you're allowed only minimal preparat...

I believe the Abyss "resets" every time you are pulled to a new region, which means the the rune you left behind is no longer "on the floor". In any case, I'm sure the rune will continue to generate until you manage to actually pick it up. Don't go deeper unless you're very certa...

at long last, we'll all be able to stop start-scumming for monstrous demonspawn

heh, thought you were going to propose removing the entire weapon class but this is pretty alright

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/ce4ec66371581d380467ecc9db3ddc7ded94e719 Reduce neqoxec spawn rates Neqoxecs were particularly irritating in extended, where they pose absolutely no physical danger, but threatened permanent harm unless handled carefully. And they were everywhere. This cuts thei...

HardboiledGargoyle wrote:
chequers wrote:Well, high AC gives spellcasting penalties.

No it doesn't.

To make this point clearer: Spellcasting penalties come only from body armour and shields. AC by itself is unrelated to spellcasting.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/728171904ee35c4193039000e7364fe23218a770 Make swamp worms amphibious. They're still speed 12, but I've also assigned them MOVE_ENERGY(12) so they move at speed 10 on land. I considered using MOVE_ENERGY(20), which would make them speed 6 on land (equivalent to r...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/809d96e94bcbae6ac81863c1fa048f718d036d2a Allow jellies to escape nets (#10187) Including TRJ. We still had code to prevent item-eaters from struggling against nets (so they could eat them instead), even though jellies cannot eat seen nets anymore. Remove that. T...

so we can wear cloaks over cloaks, but not pants over pants? interesting.

while we're at it, let's toss on those Blorky suspenders.

^^ my first 15-runer was on an experimental branch, and I was so bitter that it didn't show up on my scoring page that I made a sig about it

Assuming that the PSA vs. New Race poll is in any way based on an actual complaint: Is it a problem that they're "game design" threads that are being posted outside of GDD? I've been creating them in CYC because I wasn't sure what kind of reactions they would give rise to, and figured ther...

Code:: The death cob hits you!! You feel slightly more hungry.

#removehunger2015

(I don't know if the decision to remove the group has been properly made yet, but since Monday seems to have passed without blue names disappearing I'm guessing this is still relevant.) To the extent that the counselor group does any good, IMO, it's as byrel describes: giving newcomers a bare minim...

offer Zelda two bricks for a wheat

j), to test my new theory that GP may be infinitely farmable

only in the sense that a butterfly is just a faster rat

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e30ccbe4b1740cd89accc5b87c28816340782271 Revert "Mark the Elf:3 vault enemies as patrolling." Observation suggests this doesn't serve its intended purpose, and may in fact make it *easier* to killhole - you can lure off individual elves significantly e...

ontoclasm wrote:Death yaks aren't rPois.

WingedEspeon wrote:I stand corrected. I though they were due to their chunk type.

yeah so what's up with that anyway

I'm really torn between e) and l)

f) Take all of Terence's stuff

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/9d68cf9f451df6d0b0d7bfd4400c43bccbd8b5f9 Replace the amulet of clarity with the amulet of [harm] The problems with the amulet of clarity are similar to the ones with the amulet of stasis: complete immunity to a range of threats and no influence when those threat...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/3704a81a433fd2f71ab210965bdd1b8452590932 Monster spell: Awaken Earth. Turns some rock walls adjacent to the target cell into earth elementals. Smite-targeted; can be used out of LOS like Dig. Nothing currently uses it, but that will change momentarily. https://g...

FR: Rod of Popcorn. Has one spell, Throw Popcorn (3MP), that spawns up to 3d5 Popcorns placed randomly in LOS. Popcorns are of the same genus as Death Cobs, but have the stats of a plain rat, are immobile, can't attack, always spawn neutral, and give no XP. I actually think this could be a decent ad...

share if you remember when stashing was the #1 reason to keep Lair free of intelligent monsters

I don't really have any problem with the length of the game, people CAN DO 3 rune run's. You are not forced to do the rest and there are some that like to do all the rest, anything after 3 rune's is optional so I don't see how taking things away from those that want those options is beneficial. I t...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/eadaf5cd0ab493c842f83d7bdbb89d0cdd0d95cd Merge deep elf summoners and conjurers into mages. Mages are bumped up to HD 9 to reflect their new skills. Spells are six fixed sets loosely based on the old spell sets as well as a couple of additional spells to try to ...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/a64f057106d40d8cc8fc5fd2daa60911de1026c3 Flatten Orc to two levels, and remove plain orcs from generation there. These two changes, in addition to a bit of padding on the monster lists, provide a more streamlined Orc experience while keeping the average XP total...

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