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I've done the OpIE^Gozag for the jewellery stores and it worked out pretty well. Armour shops are not guaranteed to have anything you can use though, not even a +0 hat or buckler, so don't waste your gold on those.

Another plug for Tukima's dance! Donald the Adventurer comes into view. He is wielding a double sword of distortion. The double sword of distortion dances into the air! Your double sword of distortion hits Donald! Space warps horribly around Donald! Donald zaps a wand. Donald is healed somewhat. It ...

duvessa wrote:I guess you could solve the problem with amulet of the gourmand if taking it off set you to starving or something

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=9374

Code:: the +10 plate armour of Plasticity {+Fly rElec rC+ rCorr Slay-5}

Found on lair 5. So close to being worth it on a HaFi.

Reduce maximum weapon enchantment from scrolls
In earlier versions it was very rare to get a +9 anything in a 3 rune game (aside from Trog or artefacts). Now it happens in most of my games. I'd suggest limiting scroll enchantment to +5.

I actually appreciate the god conducts. Dith's isn't onerous but early on it keeps you from using some wands and you have to find another way to deal with hydras. Once past lair it doesn't do much since you have other ways of dealing with things but until then the conduct can matter - and you still ...

How about if you had only one charms slot. If you cast a charm it goes into the slot (replacing anything that's there) and will automatically get refreshed at the normal rate. Buffs can still expire in combat as usual. Buffs that would use this * Ozocubu's Armour * Stoneskin * Condensation Shield * ...

Now that rods of striking are no more there's no reason for rods to be melee weapons. It's a nice distinction from wands that you have to wield them so I suggest they act like a bow/blowgun/etc and give the appropriate prompt if you try to attack. That would be much better than having to inscribe th...

Once Sif gives you Mana Vipers learn it. Those things are great, especially in Orc/Elf.

The way I have wind wall right now is it creates a 3 space cloud next to you in a given direction. The clouds remain in place: ~~~ ~ ~~ @ @~ @~ ~ For every cloud square a physical missile (bolt, needle, etc) goes though there's a decent chance that it stops right there. It doesn't effect magic beams...

Split off from the haste thread... crate wrote: where are the remove rmsl threads? rmsl is far, far, far more problematic from a design standpoint than haste is (and this isnt really disputable). I wrote the patch for the current version of rmsl to reduce the tedium of recasting it. I now think that...

A while ago I made a local patch to try and make acc more interesting and did a bunch of fsims. I tried making accuracy reduce the variance, tried it sometimes giving a critical hit, and one or two other effects that I could think of. Eventually I dropped it because it didn't end up doing anything m...

Now YAVP. The crystal ball of energy does play nicely with OCP although having a backup plan for MP suddenly dropping to 0 is key.

This is the first time I've used firestorm so much, although only a few times on Zot 5 since it's so loud.

I have a patch in Mantis for a rMsl replacement - Wind Wall. It's a stationary effect so you have to cast it in combat but still gives the early AE decent defense against ranged attacks. I agree with Bart that an MP drain would be horrible for early casters - it could work for DMsl using 1-2 MP per ...

Odd game so far, very few amulets and no blink spells, so I went Zig diving to find some. Finally found rCorr and blink but still no rMut. In the process though I found the OCP and figured this may be the only time to wear it. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15-a0-1243-g3bc8b16 (console) characte...

To keep people from switching just make the reduced AC only apply to acid branded attacks.

How about just autoidentifying the brand on all distortion weapons? Then there's no surprise from the glowing kobold weapon or the Okawaru/Trog "present". You still have to figure out how to deal with it though.

Yet another plug for the Wind Wall spell I made to replace rmsl. It still repels missiles but it doesn't move after you cast it so it gets around many of the low level buff issues.

Another thought for using spell power would be to limit the skeleton/zombies HD to min(HD, pow/10) so you could still get an ettin skeleton but it would be noticably weaker. The intent really is to prevent getting strong allies from a minimal skill investment. I think Animate Dead is pretty fine as ...

If you didn't want it to depend on size you could change it so the animate * spells actually had spell power and would animate up to say pow/10 HD creatures. That way a max power (200) Animate Dead could get titans and a max power (50) Animate Skeleton would get ogres (but not ogre mages or two-head...

In its current state Animate Skeleton is one of the few L1 spells that is valuable throughout the game and in fact gets stronger the deeper you go. It also requires minimal investment to cast so it's almost always a good idea to pick it up if it's available. I propose that it has a 50% chance to fai...

I did the initial conversion of repel missiles to prevent tedious recasting - since it's cheap and there's no good reason not to have it up. The problem with it now is that it feels a lot more like armour rather than a spell, just something you put on out of combat. I'd definitely support moving rep...

Mainly for symmetry with the lower level spells. It seems wierd that a tornado won't have some effect on an arrow. Plus you'll be losing R/DMissile and Wind Shield gets canceled by a tornado.

I've put a few patches up on mantis https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=8208 for some new spells and would appreciate any feedback on them. The basic idea for these spells is they create a cloud that can stop projectiles (but not spells). The wall is in a fixed location and the shield moves ...

Two other options for making accuracy enchantments mean more:
1) let the higher plus count for corrosion resistance - right now only the damage plus counts
2) give a 1 in item.plus chance for a weapon to do full base damage on a "critical" hit

If you're worshiping Sif you could have two sets of spell slots, your natural ones and bonus ones based on piety. You can cast spells from either set. On joining you get one bonus slot prefilled with a low-level spell. Periodically Sif will change a spell in one of your bonus slots. Memorization wou...

For Trog it would be interesting if you only received a weapon gift when you burned a book. Ammo gifts could still be drops since that's sometimes tactically relevant. This would add a bit more flavor to the book-burning ability, especially later in the game when conjure flame is not as effective. Y...

A blademaster that picks up an amulet of rage on E:3 is terrifying.
A master archer that picks up an amulet of rage is hysterical.

I think this change would make the Fighter background quite a bit more versatile. There are a number of advantages I see to this: 1) Bucklers are easier to use and require less skill to offset penalties. 2) It makes it practical to start as a fighter and quickly branch into magic (Kiku or Vehumet es...

?Immolation works great on the royal jelly retinue!

The nice thing about stashes is that you can stand over your huge pile of books and the memorize command will show you all available spells. Much nicer than using "Ctrl-F book" and looking at each book individually. I'd like to see the temple have gates scattered through D just like Hell o...

I'd like to propose that the antimagic brand does not reduce your max MP and instead acts as double de-enhancer to all spells. ("You feel a numb sensation") Two main reasons: 1) It would work much better with guardian spirit. Guardian spirit seems like it should be a great berserker amulet...

I found an early acquirement scroll and got the very nice demon blade, then one of the shops in orc had a triple sword which I can vorpalize (as soon as I find freezing aura) so it looked like longblades was the way to go until: s - the +1,+3 executioner's axe "Hydrabane" {speed, Int+4} I ...

I think it would be great to split Haste into Haste Self and Haste Other but treat it like delayed fireball where if you know one you can learn the other for free. The biggest improvement would be not having to select a target every time you haste yourself (which I think is the majority of usage). H...

I find that god conducts add a lot to the feel of the game and make you play differently because you worship a god. While a lot of the gods (Ash, the good gods, Trog, Okawaru) have conducts there are some who only want you to do things you'd do anyway: like kill things or cast spells. Worshipping th...

I'd vote for staves giving a block (shield) effect vs. melee attacks; long blades the free attack when moving; and M&F have better base damage and can bypass shields (this would mostly affect the player so the better base damage would be the draw). The double attack idea for staves seems too muc...

How about it allows you to walk through summons, swapping places or pushing them back, to get at the summoner (or escape). This would be even better if summons disappeared once the summoner was dead.

The boulder beetle twitches its antennae in your direction.
The boulder beetle curls into a ball and starts rolling!
The boulder beetle falls into the water!
The boulder beetle drowns.

Another option would be to reduce INT by level/2 for every perfabuff to represent the attention needed to keep it active. If the glow alternative is used then Charms skill should be used in the formula to reduce glow so that at 27 Charms minor glow is instantly reduced and there's a short wait betwe...

It's already a suggestion on the Wiki, but I think that making base melee damage be the minimum of Str or weapon base would be great. There will be no effect for melee types since they'll be pushing Str anyway for heavy armour but hybrids will need to choose between bumping Int for spells or Str so ...

It's bothered me a bit as well that it's so easy to get other spell schools power up just using spellcasting. Having it improve the casting success but basing the power of the spell only on the spell schools could work.

I like the special item idea for strategic items instead of scrolls or potions. It gives an immediate cue that these are valuable or interesting instead of being just another expendable potion. Acquirement could easily be rolled into the bottled efreet (1/3 is angry, 1/3 becomes ally, 1/3 grants wis...

How about evoking them to temporarily brand a weapon for a food cost?

in a shop on D:24
the +6 gold dragon armour "Siramni" {rElec rPois rF+ rC+ SInv} (15405 gp)

It's going to take a while to find all that gold.

I decided to try out the new Octopodes, starting as an EE so stoneskin would compensate for the lack of armour. It worked out well. A few highlights: Found a book of clouds on D5, MC and poison cloud were very useful well into the dungeon. Ashenzari was a great choice, you just have to have a psychi...

dpeg wrote: Secondly, the messages after killing a big monster look strange, at least to the veteran Crawler. This, however, is really only a cosmetic problem. We may address this at a later time cosmetically (different wording) or differently (no idea how) or perhaps not at all. This issue is not r...

I think ammo gets quivered in alphabetical order so you can use =i to set up your desired order in inventory. I tend to use W,X,Y,Z for ammo and put the one I don't want to fire in slot Z.

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