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Is there any pre lair enemy with trample? Elephants are the earliest enemy that come to mind. Frankly, mid-lair seems to be kind of late to introduce a potentially devastating ability. Why not introduce a relatively weak, yet trampling enemy earlier on? It will let the player know that it can happen...

That robe is really quite fantastic.

ESPECIALLY when being compared to MDA.

Question the developers.

My second win was a SpBe. They're kinda fun.

Xom thinks this thread is hilarious!

I think this is interesting. What if the species was "blind"? Braille reading could be a possible explanation for slow scroll reading as opposed to "you're just dumb and can't comprehend so good". Also, maybe a level of night stalker or something that actually makes not being abl...

If all monsters were bees there wouldn't be an issue

I've seen a "make weapons more interesting" discussion somewhere before, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. As for brands, I dont see the sense in changing anything besides maybe poison as Siegurt mentioned. But, even then it might confuse players. Having a poison brand that functi...

Maybe this type of thing would be more interesting on a weapon base IE staves.

Crate, that all makes sense.

This question came from a place of genuine curiosity, so I appreciate the sensible answers.

I couldn't find "come bitch about the game" in the index anywhere, so I'm posting here. As the title says, what's with that? I understand certain enemies becoming obsolete with the removal of certain mechanics. I understand enemies being flat out broken. To a lesser extent I understand ene...

Easy mode? I guess you just love the idea of the Russian new world order too, huh?

Greyr

From what I've gathered the developers are hesitant to implement a single ally god since the AI generally is'nt great

See the difference I was getting at between my idea (admitedly "inverse piety" doesn't really capture what I'm getting at) and the traditional model is that in the traditional model piety is theoretically infinite. Well, piety is capped at 200, and it's only infinite if the methods of gai...

I think it is a good idea Greyr, and could potentially work. I've had some experimental piety ideas myself—I think, however, that it can sometimes be difficult to get a good discussion going about an abstract mechanic, because how you imagine it playing out will probably be different than what othe...

There's a (very old) devwiki proposal vaguely along these lines, where piety becomes a much more limited resource that you spend: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:god:propose:summons I like that proposal quite a bit. But fleshing out the current summoning school is probably...

The idea behind piety is that you have to invest something into a god before you got something back out of it. A god that rewarded you in a significant fashion immediately on worship with no drawbacks would probably not work. On top of which, there's no real reason to reverse the piety chart in the...

I had this idea for a god that upon worshiping grants you the full 200 piety. Now the idea here is that the piety is not only spent but, is encouraged to be spent. I've read quite a few threads about gods that function as a shop, but more to the point, a sole powerful ally god. It could be interesti...

Again, PDA.

Hey man, welcome to the community! Lemme preface by saying I have no clue how to help you. If the YouTube video wasn't clear then, well. You've heard the sounds right? I'm assuming yeah. They're literally just pew pew and the occasional you're gonna die siren. Wouldn't you prefer the stark, rich bar...

I think taking 6 shots of gin is new game + enough

Klown wrote:Why is there a Scroll of Random Uselessness, btw? It seems rather random and useless.

Butterflies.
A /free/ level one spell with NO hunger costs? Idk, they're pretty OP...

Lol slings... You have the right of it, that's a waste!

Anyway, grats!

EV tanking is a serious gamble. Even with say, 100 EV there will still be a hardcoded 5% chance that whatever *thing* will hit you. That chance is closest to 2%, not 5%. (Also, even a rat will hit you more than 2% of the time with only 100 EV.) I coulda swore I read somewhere it was 5%. 100 was sup...

So we can all agree that the loss of a useful potion is a much bigger threat/bummer than quaffing a harmful one. That being said, and reiterating point that's already been thoroughly established: do not quaff ID. Going off the assumption of a few posters here that randomly ID'ing things won't get yo...

I'd rather not have the game play itself for me. How about we keep adding more scrolls (and maybe more dangerous scrolls) to keep the id scroll game interesting. I know everyone want to make this game easy and dull, but maybe it'd be a good idea to make this a little more like an RL again. ... How ...

I'd rather not have the game play itself for me. How about we keep adding more scrolls (and maybe more dangerous scrolls) to keep the id scroll game interesting. I know everyone want to make this game easy and dull, but maybe it'd be a good idea to make this a little more like an RL again. ... How ...

EV isn't a gamble at all, since none of the armours that allow your EV to be good do anything to keep your AC low and you have have good AC and great EV without extraordinary findings. I'm not really sure what you mean here. I was saying EV was a gamble under the assumption that dodging was your be...

I have mixed feelings on this. As-is there's no real solid reason *not* to read-ID all your scrolls, and so hunkering down and read-iding them makes the most sense and is tedious. On the other hand, I *like* having my character discover things about the world he lives in, it's one of the core thing...

archaeo wrote:I don't see how you can't generalize most of these issues to the consumable ID minigame as a whole.

Because drinking the wrong potion can have serious repercussions.

Well gosh, you seem pretty passionate about this. Scroll identification is tedious, as you say. It's a mechanic that most players have blindly accepted for no other reason than "It's been like this 5ever" The implications of auto ID'ing scrolls is not really all too radical; it would proba...

EV tanking is a serious gamble. Even with say, 100 EV there will still be a hardcoded 5% chance that whatever *thing* will hit you. However, I don't know how this interacts with the inaccuracy penalties monsters receive from umbra. It's probably not gonna make you all that more durable, but that's j...

I've found some decent armour, will it be worth diverting all my xp for the next century to make it viable (viable=spells online, negation of most melee penalty)? Merfolk have outrageous apts. You can wear heavy armour on merfolk, but you are almost always better off sticking to ring mail or lighte...

Is it worth it? I've had success with merfolk in the past, however I've found their aptitudes to always leave me a tad uncertain about what to do next. IE is this enough dodging? I've found some decent armour, will it be worth diverting all my xp for the next century to make it viable (viable=spells...

Changing the colors of the God's name on the ctrl+o screen would make alotta sense, IE red for "angry" blue for mollified... Something along those lines.

edit just ignore me

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Proposal: Early Trample

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