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Since gozag is the god of capitalism, worship should cause rapid acceleration of climate change, ending the game in 50,000 turns after worship instead of the normal 200 million turn cap. This can't be undone by abandonment. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Finished a VpEn of Gozag. Pretty clean overall, though the autoswap thing wasn't working. Huge improvement over blood bottling. As others have said, swap while resting is kind of hacky. It would be nice to change this to no regen with monsters in los and either prohibit swapping at less than full hp...

Interesting as a way to make people quit playing crawl

You can do this with more monsters than just giants/cyclops. It's a thankless way to handle something like Vashnia + 4 sharpshooters, but you CAN. I rather dislike ranged enemies camping stairs. It's too prone to stalemate scenarios/annoyance where you just go down repeatedly until they finally mis...

Sbranches are the worst-designed part of a 3 rune game and are almost always a slog to go through despite being the one portion of the game where branch availability is partially randomized. It'd be nice to fix that. While I support cutting one sbranch from the game entirely and shortening the remai...

make beogh worship available to all races by default

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If you want to put branches in the technically optimal order, sbranches need to be below orc, slime needs to be in depths somewhere, elf needs to be in vaults or later, and orc needs to always show up after lair. You could also put conditional warnings on the branches; "really enter elf with no...

So obviously the current state of buffs in crawl is bad and should get revised, but I think it's worth pointing out that the remainder of crawl's spell system isn't compelling either. Once you take out buffs you're left with 6 varieties of direct damage, allies, hexes, and some miscellaneous emergen...

I don't think a species that wants to turn off autoexplore for food management reasons and carry 20 useless artifacts every game is going to go over very well. There are fundamental gameplay problems with the interaction between species size and equipment restrictions on a species where your equipme...

goldify food and remove every food status

Agree that confusion is a bad status, largely because curing exists. There really shouldn't be a status effect that you cure by drinking the most common potion in the game. The status effect itself also isn't super great but I'm not convinced that it's worse than, say, banishment. My biggest objecti...

I do vaults:5 third probably 90% of the time. Imo it is not harder than slime for the vast majority of characters, and the rewards are better. I will sometimes do slime third if I have something like ignition or firestorm because it's faster, but it's easy to do either one if you can cast those. I a...

sandstorm should summon darude

But the MAIN ideas about Angels are quite simple actually : 1 : Two forms (Profane Servitor vs Angel) determined by your choice of god, which can be changed during the game if conversion. 2 : Gods are chosen at the beginning, and can only be either good or Evil. 3 : Innate *Faith (it's one of the v...

D:1-Lair In the broader context of the game, we can compare Trog and Oka along other lines as well. BiA allies are really strong, often better than finesse but also more expensive. Trog is more likely to give you a relevant gift than Oka. Berserker as a background exists whereas Okawaru on D:1 usual...

Berserk increases your damage by a lot more than heroism does, which is especially important during the hardest part of the game.

and here I was going to give an example about teleporting away from a dangerous monster that either missed or hit me, saving my game, and then running into it again hundreds of turns and several days later

This is almost a good model, but it doesn't fix armor swapping/50% failure rate casting. Need to explicitly tie some feature of the spell to the current spell failure rate, imo. Also, if the "penalty" is going to be an mp decrease, then the spell should fail to deflect when insufficient mp...

Would be good to merge them with rF and rC rings instead.

This character had the correct amount of stealth for a DEFE. Dodging and fighting were undertrained but that is not really the cause of this death.

Sounds like a species where you micromanage nutrition for the entire game, just like vampire, but even worse because you have to carry backup equipment for different sizes. Re: evolution, the problem lies with crawl's mutation system. Mutations that barely do anything (like Str-2, AC+1, Horns 1) dom...

Give naga mages petrify instead of teleport other, increase their hd by 2, rename them "gorgon". Bonus points: give nagarajas petrify instead of teleport other as well.

have you considered writing a guide for crawlwiki

Building characters around riposte is absolutely a newbie trap because the returns on riposte damage for increasing EV are very small (in most circumstances). The fact that people are still bringing up "riposte-oriented" characters as if that's a real thing that exists in DCSS is proof tha...

Imo lichform should just be able to quaff.

Apportation, butterflies, passwall, beckoning, maybe confuse. This character should train fighting and then dodging for a long time and probably not train spellcasting again for the rest of the game.

Third option is independently good for all species so I favor combining that with the first option.

Should also mention that you can get away with very high failure rates, like 50%, on dmsl since you usually cast it out of combat. You can also swap on wiz and int gear or change out of body armor before casting. Lots of characters want to think about getting it bc it's so cheap when abused this way.

Hard to think of a spell school concept worse than direct damage school number 7. I assume you don't count Necromancy (3 damage spells) and Hexes (2 damage spells) as direct damage schools. Necromancy has it all: damage, buffs, utility and summoning. Hexes have utility, good summoning (mana vipers,...

Hard to think of a spell school concept worse than direct damage school number 7.

FWIW the spoiler problems of consumable generation are not impossible to overcome. You could do the following: ⋅ Automatically identify any vault-placed item that isn't fully randomized within its category. It'll look a little weird but some vaults already identify certain item types. &sdo...

This would also increase the relevance of potion/scroll weight and vault knowledge spoilers (and the associated inventory bookkeeping), which are not good. I strongly object to any change that would force me to care more about these things. If you're willing to come up with a workaround for potion a...

Do this, then halve consumable generation and xp for the remainder of the game and you might start taking things in an interesting direction.

If you kill a monster under Gozag and its gold pile would be destroyed, you actually get the gold directly. It never drops on the ground at all.

Fr: do this for all Gozag gold piles.

Are we doing crawl confessions? I was in irc when some of the discussion for the zot teleport changes was going on and I voiced approval, anyway I'm sorry.

Mo is a bottom 3 background and clearly worse than Tm. It deals far less damage than Tm at level 1 and will continue to deal less damage than Tm for the remainder of the earlygame unless it gets very good weapon drops. Tm earlygame damage is high btw - you'd have a stronger case for calling it a har...

Pack it up everybody, mainline crawl is done.

Pretty misleading damage comparison since freeze never misses and does not check AC.

!lg tenpercenters recent mage s=god /won urune=3 o=% [00:17] <Sequell> 421/3184 games for tenpercenters (recent mage): 15/37x Yredelemnul [40.54%], 4/12x Beogh [33.33%], 26/87x Ru [29.89%], 13/47x Nemelex Xobeh [27.66%], 37/134x Ashenzari [27.61%], 6/22x Wu Jian [27.27%], 5/19x Zin [26.32%], 38/156...

Posting your winrate does not make deep trolls hard to separate, sorry.

Seems misleading to post raw monster kill statistics without accounting for the quantity of each type of monster generated. There are significantly more deep trolls than liches generated in depths in a typical game, for example.

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new monster: two-headed bee

There is no need to compare Mu to an above median species like HO. You can just compare them to Hu (a below median species). Compared to human, mummy cannot drink potions, levels more slowly, is vulnerable to fire, and is worse at everything except fighting (tied), necromancy (tied) and spellcasting...

New update. ⋅ Several new mutations in the general mut pool. Too lazy to list them all here. ⋅ Several new Jiyva exclusive mutations. Ditto. ⋅ "Completion" of the major Jiyva overhaul: ⋅ In addition to the aforementioned new mutations, mutation gift...

This is the official updated nomenclature for all crawl character archetypes effective 7/25/2018. Below you will find the old designation followed by the new designation that replaces it. Make sure to incorporate the new terminology into all future posts, lest your memes fall out of date. melee brut...

5. Insubstantial Wisp
4. Phantom
3. Merfolk Avatar
2. Red Devil
1. Hungry Ghost

Looking into the monster gen thing, haven't found anything yet. Thanks for info on the timer etc, will try to tweak that again soonish perhaps (I also want to modify level gen and the sbranch end vaults in some way). Nemelex cards will be reclaimed on abandonment in the next version. I'm pushing a l...

Counterproposal: buff killer klowns. "Resistance check" monsters are pretty dumb though, so I kinda get where op is coming from.

All this power level discussion is irrelevant imo. Nem is basically unplayable right now because of inventory hassle and this proposal takes a step toward eliminating that. There are plenty of other power knobs that can be tweaked later.

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