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Fix those aptitudes and you have my vote (for what is worth). Some people will probably whine about the lack of reasoning behind the new species, what niche it aims to fill, etc. So you should probably write that down as well. I'd certainly like to play a perma silence, no scrolls species. Edit: and...

Fingolfin wrote:So this happened while playing oO

Can she still cast?

If so, maybe she'll turn you into a hog as well. Elope together, leave it all behind.

bananaken wrote:
pedritolo wrote:This is giving me a tyrant headache

Agreed

Revisionist!

This is giving me a giant headache

Isn't head cauterizing a random event? Which would mean you were unlucky?

Reptisaurus wrote:And while we're on the subject, Tomahawks of Dispersal are not particularly useful. Get rid of 'em, please.

They actually are, it's just that everyone forgets to use them (including me).

Hellmonk wrote:Pupper gets you PuCK and PuBe.

You make a strong case, I'm sold!

One combination I like is using darkness, allowing you to firestorm stuff a few squares beyond your los. Complement with makhleb and sublimation of blood for your mp/health needs. Stuff that gets past your fire barrage is dealt with with disjunction or tornado. It gets even better if you're a demons...

You're using a long-winded biblical argument to justify nerfing minotaurs, did I get it right?

Edit: nevermind, I forgot your very 1st phrase.

Remove soup

What's with the NULL, btw? From what I could tell, it has absolutely no defining characteristics. Is it meant to be a joke?

Hi, great work with the imps, had great fun dying by teleportitis.
btw, please remember to update CPO with the plutonian

I've been playing it in trunk. Seems pretty fun so far, wouldn't change a thing.

I'd love to see a "drop and exclude from auto-pickup" option mapped to some key combo, very much like the current drop command. Same for shift+d for dropping the most recently picked item and excluding it. At the very least, an option to "drop and exclude" in the item details win...

but wtf, chei is a good speedrun god? I understand why that's true conceptually under the current system, but breadswinging or whatever aside, that's gotta be one of the most counterintuitive things I've ever heard of Besides chei's great active abilities, there's two factors that make him very str...

papilio wrote:
duvessa wrote:so, without slaying or AC, the portion of your damage that

OK, the whole rest argument is pointless

Come on, those were valid considerations regardless.

Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that's air you're breathing now?

Thanks, yet another thing I didn't know about this game.
So one must always assume stuff like tengu and orc warriors can swap into a ranged weapon and kill you at a moment's notice.

Notice how the tengu manages to swap his bradiche with a longbow, and then shoot me; in the meanwhile I was stabbing a giant, which took 6 auts. How did it manage to do it so quickly? It's not hasted or anything. Or do monsters take 0 turns to swap weapons? http://pasteboard.co/Bw2PYveIT.png

For instance, it says that the crawl is deterministic because the RNG is pseudo-random. In practice, nobody knows the state of the RNG, so this assumption is useless. You can create some perfect definition, but you have to show how it's useful. If your aim is to only show that the concept of optima...

The playstyle defined by tavern meme "playing optimally" maybe could maximize winning probability of the given game (though I seriously doubt about that), the clear fact is that playing in that style is extremely tedious, cumbersome and sucks ass Yes, I also think that most strategies usu...

You didn't specifically address the end condition: when you're on the exit with the orb, you can generate more OK's by just walking around or picking up/dropping items. There needs to be some notion of taking the shortest branch towards the actual winning turn, but you don't necessarily want to alw...

what if there's a branch with 2 OKs but 10^100 non-OKs and another branch that has no sub-branches and is OK, is it still optimal to take the branch with 2 OKs (e.g. if you have the orb of zot and you're on the exit, is it more optimal to do random things since it can generate more OK branches inst...

of course, there is also optimal play for getting highscore, optimal play for low turncount, optimal play for low realtime, and optimal play for winning as much as possible without driving yourself insane(the realworld cost of too much optimal play) Sure. As long as a cost function can be quantitat...

I'll formally define what constitutes the optimal playing strategy for dcss. Since dcss is a fully-deterministic game (rng is only pseudo-random, with initial seeds for map gen and combat and such), like chess, we can construct a full decision tree for each tuple of possible initial rand seeds. Now ...

I rarely use polearms just because i hate hitting v and entering target mode when i could just be using a mace and the numpad. Balance/design aside i dislike polearms because they fall into the category of 'powerful w/ tediousness as a downside' Just macro some key to v+Enter, so you'll be attackin...

Delayed fireball, due to its 0 aut cast time, it was the most strategically important spell I never memorized.

Dmsl is a trap. Rmsl works just fine in all but the most stubbornly suicidal of engagements If you're launching a frontal assault against yaktaurs you need to rethink your playstyle, not your spellset TBQH I'm more worried about iron shots from iron giants or crystal spears from ancient liches. The...

papilio wrote:Small tip: you can cancel out your bad effects (pertrification, corrosion, doom howl, ...) with casting yara on yourself.
you are NOT damaged in that case, and if you have no "buffs" you don't get contams

Yeah? Sweet. Does it work with slow too?

a simple way to avoid "trapped between Urug and THO" situations 90% of the time is to not flee into the black, or just knowing to start cooking a TP scroll before it's too late IMO, reading a tp scroll is pretty much fleeing into the black, but on a grander scale. Mind you, I'm not advoca...

I'd rather remove summon ice beast from the book of callings - it has altogether too many spells for a starter book. Canine Familiar is a perfectly respectable replacement for ice beast, especially at higher power levels. If we're to replace the spells as the OP suggests, then one should reintroduce...

Food is cool, but chunks are tedious and by rune branches I have enough perma that I eat it even when not necessary, especially since it clogs the inventory. Absolutely. If chunks (other than mutagenic) were made inedible by all except ghouls, and then spell food costs adjusted a bit, the game woul...

My conscience compels me to contribute with "dream quest". While not exactly a roguelike, it still features permadeath and randomly built dungeons. Simply put, anyone who sermonises on game design principles should take a close look at this game and see how it's fucking done.

Nice idea, but I'm afraid it's simply too powerful unless you get it at lev 9. For a stabber, it cracks the whole game wide open, since it affects all foes that are otherwise very hard to kill. It's clearly over the top, but I like it because of that. Mind you, some people will hate it for exactly t...

There's no real reason to buy dildos. Whenever I go to someone's house I try to get myself alone in their bedroom for a minute, then find a dildo and slip it into my jacket. Even when they realize their dildo is gone, they'll never ask you if you stole it, because it would mean admitting that it's ...

Breaking parity with current scores wouldn't be a problem - obviously it'd be nice to keep the numbers similar for average games, but high-scoring games clearly wouldn't really be comparable. When it's been discussed previously, there were plans to apply an overall species modifier for slow/fast ra...

HOMOSEXUAL MANA VAMPIRE But it begs the question - how could you tell that the mana vampire's sexual orientation was indeed biased towards others of the same gender? Mind you, I'm not discussing the fact's relevance, since it's clearly of great significance for one's gameplay decision-making proces...

I think I agree with the other posters mostly, but to try to give a bit more information to the OP about the flaws of this design, since he/she is new. There are two main components to this race: The long list of innate mutations, and the gimmick of getting XP through eating instead of killing. Bot...

Not really the same as playing jiyva. - You get mutations. This should perhaps be replaced with some other mechanic or improved. But I do see the need for it, since it would be your only reliable source of resistances. - You spawn a jelly. Not when hit but when you eat. - The no weapons/armour/jewel...

Perhaps instead of the locked box thing, there could be a new, guaranteed, unguarded vault (or with lots of snakes) somewhere on D* , containing what would otherwise be in the starter box? It's IMO more inline with the adventurer archaeologist tropes. Also, I feel the rewards from that box are being...

With the recent changes to the game as a whole (namely the removal of Heal Wounds and the removal of rods), Pakellas isn't empowering an already powerful play style so much as offering an alternative way to approach the game, which is in line with some of the other deities of Dungeon Crawl and is w...

StupidBerserker wrote:I have found a better solution. We can just edit the bolts' and other things' descriptions. It's simple and solves the problem completely.

That's crazy talk. We should remove them.

Can you elaborate please? If you can kill 50% HP monsters while being at 50% HP yourself, you can kill 100% HP monsters while being at 100% HP yourself unless you do it purely with spells. Being at 50% HP yourself makes it easier to die if you underestimated some monsters, you might not have enough...

prozacelf wrote:Meanwhile, people still criminally underuse Kiku's Torment ability.

Or torment scrolls. These are really very helpful, even if you're not playing an undead species.

Yo, why the hell *aren't* berserking players subject to mesmerization? That seems like the easiest fix in the world to a ridiculous tactic. It's not a trivial thing to do. Imagine there are a couple monsters on screen, on opposite sides of your LOS. They both mez you. Now you can't move towards any...

Can you do some ethics trolley problem variations too?

Deso wrote:There's always dungeon sprint.

Good point. Don't allow Behemot in dungeon sprint.

I don't think you guys are being sufficiently over the top, so I'll show you how it's done: Behemoth. In a new size category of its own, it seeks the orb for reasons unknown. Yeah. Due to its monstrous size, it takes up 4 tiles. It can smash any kind of wall by walking into it, taking damage proport...

I vaguely remember a 0.5 win with a mountain dwarf in heavy armour offline, but I am not sure about that one. Sorry but I'm curious: how can it happen that one does not remember their first winning character clearly? (I remember my first Nethack winner, Elf; it was about 25 years ago. First Adom vi...

It's... it's too gimmicky!

*runs away screaming*

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