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Congrats. a 1hp victory is still a win (just as it in DCSS). I haven't "won" traditionally in a while, but that's because I've been playing with Captain's Endless edition, which is a mod that adds a whole bunch of stuff to the game making it more rogue-like. Besides having the option to co...

Who says it has to be a hermit crab? Make it a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. No, really. A permanently slow race with an active self-petrify in the flavor of withdrawing into it's shell could be interesting. You could introduce them as a complete race with warriors and priests (of Chei, naturally). T...

of course, you can never identify anything in this branch, but you are able to play in it as any of 9 slightly different elf varieties, so there's that. One addendum. Can we please put Felids in this branch and remove sentient cats from existence in the rest of the game where they don't fit the flav...

Flavor idea. As a familiar, the felid isn't as autonomous as some other species. Due to this, a felid can switch gods much easier than other races by transferring some of the pennance to its patron witch. As such, a felids god penance is shortened significantly, maybe down to nothing for gods that w...

I enjoyed HexCrawl a while back, but that's like 8 versions ago now.

twelwe wrote:The slice of pizza is a mimic!

You starve to death! The slice of pizza mimick decides to mock your corpse.

I agree with the topic. Xom is the only God that makes starting as a monk pointless (and even a "bad" decision since you start out with less equipment). Xom seems like he ought to be interested in luring the aspiring Monk away from the other gods with shiny trinkets. So I think the first t...

If they aren't going to be able to eat like trolls, Wendigo is a bad name. A Wendigo is a spirit of neverending hunger, doomed to eat and eat without being satiated. Ghouls cover that. Trolls cover that. If you want the ice-theme to stick, give them a slowed food clock. possibly using the lava orc t...

NessOnett wrote:Oh crap. Am I the only one who just realized the Shadow Dragon sprite has red eyes, and that the Ice Dragon sprite has blue eyes?

No, but if you pay Attention, the monster called Blue Eyes White Dragon is actually a blue dragon with white eyes. they dun goofed.

Djinn had it's chance and failed at it. Just let it rest in peace. This is a bad attitude. What if claws had abandoned the Vaults:5 layout change after the initial negative feedback? What if Gargoyles had been abandoned after the failure of the self-petrification ability? What if the rune lock was ...

this is CYC, so I am breakng your rules to post that I laughed out loud at "The Smithing One."

//and how about Hamaar, since, you know, hammers and smithing, and it uses that pesky H spot.

///dammit, other punny ideas:
Anvilzari
Forgehas Madash
Smith Muna

Rogue Legacy has a village. There isn't much to do, but beating the castle does return you to it.

You are feeling hungry. You see here a chunk of giant mite flesh. Really eat this poisonous chunk of flesh? [Y]es or [N]o only please There was something very wrong with that meat! You feel weak. You feel clumsy. You feel stupid. You feel nauseous. (10 turns pass) You can't hold it down any longer!...

Have those who are attacking natives and servers treated as criminals. It is a criminal act. Normal competitors who go to a fighting competition don't attack non-fighters (unless they get drunk, belligerent, etc.). They get thrown in jail. If this is a video game, you can either choose to have them...

Nah, RTFM isn't snark. We use it all the time on some of the other forums i belong to. It's RTFA on Fark, and it's just a common phrase in most places. You imagine the F stands for Fornication (or some other word meaning the same thing), but it could just as easily stand for "Free" because...

Instead of resisting silence, if it's a non-breathing amulet, make the player silent while it's worn, but you're immune to drowning and cloud effects (other than LOS blocking). It's situational this way, but provides a use when you need it, at the exchange of being unable to cast. Or, make it the am...

Basically, if someone proposed "electrified chunks" that you needed rElec to eat, the idea would likely be mocked as dumb and yuifed, therefore I think poison chunks are only around because of momentum and should be removed. I don't see why, if it makes thematic sense. I can see there bei...

I don't like where this thread is going. So it's now about something completely irrelevant and different. I need an opinion, and I think you guys can provide it. I am planning to run an rpg wherein the PCs and NPCs are world-class fighters (up to about Street Fighter competency, so some minor superp...

as for the point of "this would be spoilery" (bingo), please tell me: if you started playing the game right now, the chunk eating mechanic would be intuitive? you would immediately think that one needs to press 'c', over a chunk, to chop the edible parts, eat them when they get a hunger w...

Confusing touch should absolutely not be useable on halflings. Or if it is, a Cop should be generated on the same Dungeon Level, with a 1 in 100 chance of being Chris Hansen instead. New unique: Chris Hansen On entering LOS, he commands the player to "Have a seat right over there." Player ...

Thank you Psiweapon. I came in here to try and figure out in what universe this is a good suggestion, and am glad someone else pointed it out. The hunger mechanic is something that separates certain species, and auto-eating removes a lot of choice (do i sacrifice this corpse to God, or eat it?). If ...

At least few of my arguments - bad flavour(not just my opinion), temple diving encouragment(I've been succesfully doing it almost every time recently), lack of variety, dullness of the temples that look like a graveyard. How did you manage to miss those arguments? And those who oppose the idea were...

I am not a very good player, but I don't feel that the temple is a significant milestone (at least not for me). Getting a religion IS a significant milestone, but it would happen without the temple. Showing the player only a few deities at a time would cause more varied god selection (if the player...

I think there was a reason somewhere why this isn't going to happen. off the top of my head: 1) It does seem kind of abusable. you would get double piety gain (gain for pacification, gain for weapon sacrifice). 2) Not thematic. Why would an Ely ability encourage you gaining a weapon? 3) Not thematic...

You know you play too much Crawl when you think of (or worse, refer to) your church as the Ecumenical Temple. Apparently storing your stuff there is frowned upon if you don't live there too.

I don't understand what you are saying/having me look at, but it appears that you are opening the venue of having me actually swear at stuff in DCSS for an effect.

Which is brilliant. Shut up and take my money. I hope a meteorite strikes your worst enemy right in the balls.

semi-on-topic reply: In my current Pathfinder game, I have the party investigating the murder of the blacksmith. See, nobody knows how he died, or where his flesh might be, but his animated skeleton showed up at the anvil, and now pounds away at it. He makes a single iron or lead hammer each day, po...

You know, that wouldn't be a bad enemy in the mid-early game (starting around D8 or so): Xombie Hand This animated severed hand is said to be in the control of a trickster God. and it's, mecahnically, a rat with the chaos brand on it's attack. that's it. Now to figure out where to actually propose t...

I would like to counter that Rings of Sustenance are far from useless. Not everyone is an expert at the game, and those make my sub-optimal gameplay choices a bit less dangerous. Good not just for Ash Worshippers, but the early Zin worshippers too, who can't eat some of the things they kill. also us...

moocowmoocow wrote:If this goes in, I want Hulk Hogan and Macho Man uniques.

Both should be Trog Summons, I think.

I'll stick to gaming on my Nemelextop PC. Zindows 8.1 is awesome so far. It's definitely the one shining operating system. I bought it at Sam's Makhleb, and it cost Fedhas Madollars, but it was worth it.

//am I doing it right?

portal beast: killing it opens a portal to a abyss-based vault. it counts as a timed vault, announced as "you hear the strange sound of an extradimentional beast. kill it to gain acess to its dimension." the beast flees after a while. the vault is as dangerous as a Wizlab, and the exit is...

IronJelly is, in fact, not made of much Iron. Or Jelly, though that's debatable, as I like doughnuts. I have however, been drawn as a gray substance in a jelly jar. //new monster idea: Iron Jelly. it's a Jelly with a very high amount of damage resistance, and does slashing damage (in the odd event o...

Unless you were in the Fairly Odd Parents, in which case it was Genetically Altered Adolescent Karate Cows.

start a Berserker, find a wicked book, and become a caster This is kinda problematic considering your Int is crap and Trog will kill you. This is CYC, so i said it out of hand. truth is that i've never abandoned Trog, and hear his wrath is pretty terrible, regularly offing people wanting to switch ...

The simple way to make it useful would be to make it randomly choose among any good or double-edged, tactical scroll (not curse foo, enchant foo, recharging, identification, or acquirement). The scroll should have instant or quick field effects like butterflies, fan's blowback effect, mass slow/con...

I keep reading that there is plenty of exp in Crawl. I've always thought "useless" God Gifts and drops were intended to tempt you to change focuses or specialize. The game is so not-dependent on class and existing skill, that it's very possible to win with a caster class that eventually wo...

I can see the piety being encouraged to be spent permanent effects, specifically on allies, but inverse piety isn't necessary. Perhaps something based on and into's analysis, but I don't think piety chunks are nessercery: Mentorio the mentor god - Mentorio loves the journey to become and creation o...

I don't think peppers would make you berserk. Maybe a few peppers with different effects: Jalapeno - you immediately cast fireball when eating this, even if you don't know the spell. Doesn't anger Trog either. Chipotle (a smoked jalapeno) - you emit forth a cloud of smoke Trinidad Scorpion - summons...

I doubt that the "triggering at the end of combat" thing is anything other than "it triggers sometimes when you melee attack and you notice it happening at the end of combat" That's possibly true, I totally hold tab down and pay no attention until the screen is flooded with &quo...

The bad thing about rage triggering like that is not food loss, it's that the battle that triggered it might've attracted other enemies and you'll have to deal with them while slowed. It's a harmful mutation, after all. Oh ok. if the fact that it triggers at the end of combat so often is an intende...

It's just a thought, but I think that if you kill the last enemy in LOS, the mutation should have a higher chance to not trigger. I find that I often end a combat, and on the last kill, I go berserk with nothing around to use it on. This makes it just added hunger for finishing combat. Unless this w...

Always detecting them would make certain vaults trivial that weren't meant to be. Would monsters get this detection too? Would it make Ash less useful as a God (I ask because I don't generally use Ash or even know if he's relevant)? Perhaps some other compromise could be reached. You detect "so...

More serious note, a monster spell that made a 3-wide ice wall directly behind you would be freaking cool. Mind numbingly painful, especially in corridors, but cool. One of my favorite powers in the MMO Champions Online was Ice Wall with the advantage that instead of forming in front of you, it wou...

My title basically says it. There maybe should be a way for non-spoiled players to find out whether Spellcasting or Fighting is better (or if one doesn't contribute) to raising their essence. Currently I can't find that information anywhere. I'm not sure where you would put it. Maybe in the skill de...

ok, new spells: Stick and Twisted: you use magic to twist your ammunition. Since it will now spin when fired, it gets an accuracy and range increase. That's Just Stick!: you cause yourself to appear to enemies as nothing but a useless stick. Enemies ignore you and wander randomly until the spell col...

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Siegurt wrote:Ask and ye shall recieve

Well, if it isn't too much trouble, I'd like a patch for a bottle of 25-year aged Bunnahabhain, a PS4, and a new printer.

I don't know where in the world Bunnahabhain is, but I would also like an attractive 25 year old from there.

I disagree. Sure, nothing stops someone from asking for help in the forums, but as a competition, you have both players and mentors with a vested interest, an obvious timeline of games to compare (maybe it's possible to document effective mentor tips or ways to train someone), and the PCs are all go...

I'm fairly confident that a check to see if you're wearing armor would be trivial.

oooh, i like that! Winner is the team that wins with the least number of deaths using the combo after the start time.

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