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I'd love to see a "Life" or "Nature" school of magic that would oppose necromancy. I strongly disagree. Not everything has to be symmetric and have an opposite. Life/ Nature in Crawl is the domain of the Gods : Fedas and Elyvilon specifically, maybe also the god of the hunt if i...

After reading the criticisms, I have arrived at the following modified proposal for the Book of Stalking. 1) "Soft Steps", Level 1 Earth/Charms, spellpower dependent bonus to stealth. A very tentative proposal would be 0.8 per spellpower, max 80. Cannot improve stealth above 300, i.e. cann...

Clinging was a version of flight with really complicated rules. It was utterly pointless and I'm glad to see it gone. I didn't use it very often but the rules seemed quite clear to me - stay near walls and you won't fall into water or lava. Was its interaction with Airstrike and some other spells t...

I quite like the Caltrops idea, particularly the area version. However they should only last a certain amount of time; creating permanent assets from renewable assets (MP) is generally quite bad. It would also encourage setting up an area and luring enemies back there which is kind of bad gameplay....

Dig is now loudish, so good luck tunneling through the dungeon to get passwall stabs. That is very unfortunate. What is the rationale behind this decision? I could imagine that the spell digs "softly", so verisimilitude is not the issue. The latest version has clinging removed for Gargoyl...

Mass caltrops seems fairly similar in effect to Leda's Liquification, maybe just use that instead? Well, the original suggestion was to have it be targetable, instead of affecting the area aroung the caster. Second, Leda's Liquefaction, while suitable for a mage or an archer that wants to prevent m...

jejorda2 wrote:There was an idea to give gargoyles a stealth boost when they were beside walls.

I think that this is still present in the latest trunk build. Gargoyles close to walls cling and get a stealth boost.

Make mass caltrops the low level spell, make the caltrops invisible and detectable with traps skill. Place them randomly within LOS and hope you don't run over them. No targetting. So essentially a version of the Minefield card from the Deck of Dungeons? By the way, can monsters detect traps and av...

I think you can start with EE, pick up a dagger and train Stealth. Partially yes, but you won't get Dig easily and that spell is very helpfull for using Passwall succesfully, i.e. for stabbing. In addition, one of the points of the original post was to come up with new earth spells that would compl...

After the spell Fulsome Distillation and Evaporate were removed, the Stalker background was understandably also taken away. I still think however that it would be neat if a stealthy background existed that came with direct access to the Passwall and Dig spells. Since Dig has been changed to a pure E...

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It might not be a bad idea indeed to go through the crypt with TSO to get a quickblade of holy wrath but only if you then swith to some other god, say Ashenzari. Otherwise, your 27 levels in Necromancy would go to waste. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that Ash is the god for you....

I need some advice concerning this character. I have tried a few archers and am confident that this one will can get 15 runes if I don't do anything stupid. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.0 (tiles) character file. Orel the Crack Shot (High Elf Hunter) Turns: 71973, Time: 04:53...

Alright, so I have splatted quite a few characters and seem completely unable to create a melee necromancer. I tried a hill orc necromancer, a hill orc gladiator that worships Kiku and a lot of Sludge Elves. Does anyone have a build of sorts that an idiot like me can try to follow? (Not a follower o...

[/quote]the only demons that show up in 3-rune games are summoned and you can just walk away from those[/quote] This is all good advice for the normal game, but what about extended? Necromutation is after all the only way to negate torment. By the way, what is the proper procedure for using Death's ...

I am trying to make a necromancer (essentially the challenge is to mostly/only use necromancy ) that is capable throughout the game and beyond. I've been struggling with the concept for a while and it seems to me that there is no way to play a pure mage and therefore I need to hybridize. I could alw...

1) If you don't have a fast way to kill fiends, don't go into extended. rN+++ with 2 hand weapon is good enough. Well, the typical scenario is the following: I am confidently strolling down Pandemonium and see a field at the edge of my line of sight. By the time I get to it, I usually get tormented...

rchandra wrote:Sometimes in ziggurats or Tomb:3 or Pandemonium lord vaults or similar places, blocking LOS is useful. For example, mummies can't torment you if they can't see you.

Interesting. Could also mephitic cloud be used to do this? Since it is just level 3, even an GDA wearing character can learn it.

1) kill them 2) use it when there are going to be monsters close to you but you aren't going to move or melee anything, or you need to survive a teleportation timeout before something reaches you ftfy 3) I only find this useful when I am on the run, but near max hp. In other words, never. 1) The th...

There are many a number of things in this wonderful game that escape the grasp of my comprehention. Since I am probably not the only one that doesn't get it, I thought that it might be benefical for everybody if a thread was created so that we might teach each other how to do/use certains things in ...

I like the idea, but does it really need to have such a harsh code of conduct and have a rapidly decaying piety on top?

XuaXua wrote:This would make playing a Nemelexite easier on the user.

Yes, that would be very, very helpfull. Right now, it's really a mess.

The blurry vision is really a nasty debuff, in particular since it also harms trap detection significantly. The nightstalker mutation is fun to play with, but blurry vision is too much. The "dig a tunnel downwards" ability would fit this race. Since the ability can be quite strong, maybe m...

After dying several times due to improper use of the Spark card, I have finally gotten a Demonspawn Fighter of Nemelex into the endgame. I would like to try to get 15 runes, which would be a first for me. However, I don't know how to use Nemelex properly in the endgame: using the legendary decks of ...

A species like this was suggested some years ago and I think even implemented and tested in a patch. Apparently, as a result of the limited vision it had some problems with monsters attacking in diagonal (?). Anyway, I guess you could try to contact that guy and ask him for his patch... tell me wha...

If it's proficient in earth magic, I don't see any reason this ability would be preferred to dig/shatter. Also dig wands are common enough. As far as flavor goes, antenna could go with blurry vision too. Maybe they should get it at first level. It would get somewhat obsolete later on, but help at t...

Igxfl wrote:These would really steamroll the dungeon with Earth Magic.

An sludge elf earth mage of Ashenzari would be probably better at that.

I have never gotten a DS with Nightstalker very far though so I don't know if the Mullvads would be pigeon holed too much into certain playstyles. Whether or not they are pigeonholed would depend on their aptitudes. In principle the nightstalker mutation is good for everyone with the possible excep...

The Demonspawn species is one of my favorites and one of my favorite mutations is the nightstalker one. Unfortunately, if can require a lot of scumming to get a character with this mutation going and so I think that it would be appropriate to have a species that is designed around it. Say hello to t...

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