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Almost no character will want to spread their experience around that many spell schools, as well as Armor, Dodging, Shields, and Weapon. It's just too thin, you can feasibly max all of these in a 15-rune marathon game but you'll never survive long enough to get there unless you specialize early and ...

Two of you so far recommended Fighting, but I've read several places not to waste any XP in fighting. Excuse me? What? Who told you this? What monster wants to see the world burn like that‽ If anything, you should skimp your weapon skill early in the game in favor of Fighting, since Fighting is one...

It's not necessary, but I like to stash everything useful near each other so that I can Ctrl-G to my waypoint and be able to actually peruse what I've collected instead of making 267 Ctrl-F queries.

It's probably a ghost vault, and if so you can safely ignore it.

It could stay on until it absorbs X amount of damage, which doesn't have to be 100% of all incoming damage at once. Mobility problem solved, recast while moving problem solved. If someone wants to recast it over and over during a fight because 1 or 2 hits is removing it, they can but they are drain...

I dig hellcrawl, but it does seem to crash a lot.... If there's some way to salvage this scenario, I'm interested. Those "unlinked item errors" look like the same (or similar) ones that I was having on my Yred run mentioned previously. I can't possibly fix this, but do you remember how yo...

I'd be interested in seeing an Yggdrasil branch appear as an alt Elf.

My dude, you should play Caves of Qud.

tasonir wrote:how does a jackal get a ranged kill? I mean most of the rest of the non-ranged monsters could at least use wands, but I'm fairly sure a jackal can't do anything ranged...

Does self inflicted harm from e.g. Pain attribute the kill to who it was casted on? Or does it have its own thing?

And that's pretty much true, but here's the thing: with current acquirement, the choice is already always a no-brainer if you're spoiled, and there's no realistic path to making it not a no-brainer. Is this true? As someone who's played a lot but hasn't looked up the acquirement rules or anything, ...

If you could just permanently and innately scry everything around you then there is nothing stopping you from carrying around a giant inventory full of every resistance and swapping them out prior to every fight. It adds another objectively best way to do things that requires massive investment of t...

I noticed that I can bribe the whole branch at a time, but the one time I ever used the skill was on V:5. Is it generally better to bribe at the end of the branch, to make sure you get powerful allies on the floor you really need them on, or am I losing out on making the rest of the branch way easie...

I believe Angband and the games built on it do something like that, and if you take off an item with a full inventory it lands on the floor? > fire giant comes into view > take off ring of Yiff {Ice rPois rElec rN+++ MR++ Slay+6 Dex+8} > You hear a sizzling splash. > Why would you want to do that?

(I hit the character limit with my chardump, so here's my commentary:) This is actually the farthest I've ever gotten on any character ever, embarrassingly enough. The initial intent of this character was to play a heavy armor short blade fighter, making use of VS's varied melee benefits. Spirit shi...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22.0-6-g71bd7aa (webtiles) character file. 741364 PseudoLoneWolf the Slayer (level 27, -6/166 HPs) Began as a Vine Stalker Fighter on Aug 13, 2018. Was an Initiate of Gozag. Killed from afar by an orb of fire (24 damage) ... with a fireball ... on level 5 of the R...

New Yred causes wicked crazy log spam. I Enslaved Pikel, sent him promptly to his death against a pack of orcs and ogres, and while he's dead I get 4-5 "Unlinked Item held by dead monster" notifications in the log every turn, forcing --more-- for each one. In addition, if I hit Enter one t...

How about a half-headed ogre?

"This one looks a little slow..."

Stupid idea: why not spawn AM with a single remove curse scroll? Hell, why not start everyone with a remove curse scroll? Just one, to make early game wield-IDing less immediately fatal when you need to scoop a weapon off someone to start the game with. You've already got a good, nearly guaranteed, ...

Can confirm, that's configurable in the RC. I hate instant travel but love the footprint trail, so I set it to the best of both.

Having instant resting is really nice as well.

w - the +3 short sword of Zuliticw (weapon) {pierce, *Corrode MR+++} (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon) It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies. It affects your resistance to hostile enchantments. It may corrode you when you take damage. y - the +5 robe of the Earth (worn) {+Inv MR+ Int+6}...

So make it an invocable god power to grant a temporary brand over top of your weapon, then. Like the Excruciating Wounds spell, with the caveat that it can be applied to any weapon (artifact or otherwise) and does not overwrite the existing brand. Or maybe it does, whatever, that's a balancing issue...

Choosing where your summons come in should be baseline anyway, IMO.

Doesn't that just exaggerate the original issue without solving anything?

Doesn't that feel like a proper tradeoff though? In the early game (say, pre-Lair) most summoners are going to have access to spammals, imps and dogs. Maybe Ice Beast if you push it hard. That's a 1, 2, or 3 point HP drain, which is likely less damage than you would take trying to melee the enemy in...

Properly summoning a creature requires infusing some of your own lifeforce into it in order to (even temporarily) bind it to your realm. All summoning spells now also cost HP equal to their MP cost and the summon XP penalty is removed. This is affected by Deep Dwarf damage shaving a la Pain. Thoughts?

Cornercat wrote:I try unknown jewelry even without scrolls of remove curse and it (almost) never backfires!

Until you put on a cursed ring of loudness and a cursed ring of teleportation and get TP'd into LOS of both Sigmund and Grinder at the same time on the next floor.

No, I'm not salty.

There was an idea I was going to suggest for formicide or a new class (bat?) but if you'd like to use it on troglodytes I'd be more than happy: lower LOS a lot (say 4) but give a very long range (say 7 or 8) view that leaves enemies/terrain/treasure undefined (like antennae and gnoll's nose) but st...

I'm not very great at Crawl, so I may not be playing with a full deck here - but I also tend to take Chei for the stats. Slowing yourself intentionally is an obviously bad idea, nobody takes Chei so they can be slowed. I take Chei for the +15 all stats making you the Grand Lord of Multiclassing and ...

Your width and height are negative. I don't think it recognizes that.

Fair point. That was the explanation I was looking for, thank you.

Generally speaking kiting isn't something they want to encourage players do to more of, and it's generally a bad idea to add mechanics that are better than tab for melee fighting. If you got +1 turn after moving, the ideal strategy for any melee monster (and many things that aren't) is to take a st...

I'd love to see this on an experimental branch for the servers that usually host those; even if it isn't going to be added some people like playing forks and experiments :) I second this! I think it'd be a lot of fun and would bring it to a wider audience. Just because this wasn't accepted doesn't ...

Some more stupid spells, since I was inspired: Shiftness - Air/Charms - Each time the player casts a spell, they shout the name of their attack, causing Noise equal to a shout. Causes all message logs for 1dSpellpower turns to appear in all caps. Lightning Dolt - Air/Conjuration/Summoning - Summons ...

How stupid would it be to edit it so that it gives you +EV when running and for one turn after? So rather than the bonus being available only sometimes, you can leverage moving often in order to refresh your evasion buff, it doesn't last long enough to be considered a spell-tier "Lasting Buff&q...

Plantissue wrote:but I think just using a quarterstaff of flail would have been better to be honest.

Petition to change the Vorpal brand on Quarterstaves from Crushing to "Quarterstaff of Flailing"

Based on Shtopit's idea new game mode suggestion: you get max-piety Halo from TSO, mutation immunity from Zin, Ely's protection from harm, Clarity from Ash, water walk from Beogh, +15 to stats (without slow movement) from Chei, max-piety Shadow Mimic from Dith, walking and shooting through plants f...

As of 0.19 the wiki says that Treeform sets your hunger to Satiated and you don't continue to hunger while in Treeform. I don't know if that's still the case.

Stupid idea: what about a new spell, Sustain, (Lv7 Charms) that lets you sustain a buff at the cost of an extra spell slot. Number of sustained spells rises with spellpower. If you don't like the using extra slots it can use max MP, but I like the idea and it might make it easier to balance for stro...

What with all the acrobatic walljumping , whirlwinds and lunges, it makes sense.

If this isn't canon, it should be.

Oh yeah, so they are. I had somehow managed to completely forget that accuracy rating was in weapon descriptions for a moment.

Sprucery wrote:Yeah, no one has ever got 15 runes with Yred or Fedhas, sure.

Fair enough, you make a good point, but if we start trying to balance Crawl around !greaterplayers then regular people aren't going to want to keep playing it.

They're more accurate, for that matter. I don't have hard numbers for that, but the wiki says it (so it must be true, right?) and anecdotally, I can't ever hit a damn thing with a bow, sometimes hit things with slings, and generally have a >50% hit rate with crossbows when I have a reasonable skill ...

why not simply remove the option to switch gods at all? I don't think I've ever switched a god in my entire time playing DCSS. That being said, I think this is a terrible idea. For one thing, Jivya. Removing the ability to swap gods will effectively remove Jivya from the pantheon, as you're exceedi...

Make Xom's piety and actions fluctuate in realtime. Stepped away for a bathroom break? Have fun coming back to 3 new mutations and a nearby hasted hydra.

svendre wrote:Please check for evasion and riposte before shield block.

This is really what we need that will bring Riposte from being mostly useless to being actually maybe useful. Gaining levels in shields shouldn't nerf your mainhand weapon.

Crossbows hold the unique (among launchers) ability to use the same skill to use a 1H weapon or a 2H weapon. Bows are all 2H and Slings are all 1H unless you're a Small race, whereas crossbows come in both 1H and 2H varieties and use the same skill.

What's an example two state build? Who wants to shift to bloodless to deal with X pack, but then sees Y pack, and quickly switches to alive to take them more safely? And feel free to correct anything I've gotten horribly wrong here; like I said, I played vampire once just to check the box... I have...

I think people are forgetting what a demigod actually is. Zeus is a god. Tyrael is an archangel. Heracles was a demigod, and while he was the son of a god, he was mostly just a regular dude, but turned up to 12. He didn't have godly haloes or the power to smite people, he was just The Buffest Dude E...

It applies Freeze, as though casting the spell, to anyone who hits you in melee. It'll only slow cold-blooded enemies but it'll do damage to anyone. I'd be interested to see if it is modified by your spellpower, though, or if it casts at some preset value. That I don't know.

The home page of the site lists it as " a resource for players and admirers of Linley Henzell's Dungeon Crawl", so, I'd say probably not. Also the last post on the website was in 2004, if that gives you a more accurate ballpark. I dunno when DCSS forked off from Linley's.

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