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Reading that description of what GDR (and duvessa's addition) does makes me very much think it should not be in the game. I don't think there's a reasonable way to explain that mechanic in an armour description. I'm rather strongly of the opinion that two characters with the same AC should take the ...

The grindy gameplay can mostly be addressed by making traps activate as soon as they enter LOS , instead of when they are stepped on (and never let monsters activate traps). That way, the only way to avoid them would be to avoid exploring levels fully, which would lead to missing out on items. An a...

Completionism?

Also, if you can deal with a monster safely, it's better to do it, rather than wait and maybe meet it at a time (running up stairs from something dangerous, or the orb run) when it could cause you problems.

Early-game, priests and wizards are better than vanilla orcs and probably warriors. They're also common so when they die, whatever. The high-tier casters are in principle useful allies (their summons and damage are pretty okay) except: * They're pretty uncommon and it's difficult to level base-tier ...

My take on the OP was that TR makes it bad to rest near corpses, or leave them anywhere you might lure a death mage to — if you have a killhole, you might want to butcher all the corpses on the killing square before going off to find monsters to lure back. Killholes are in principle about the least ...

Yeah, TR's main function has been to deny me blademaster zombies. It would be a more threatening spell if it spawned earlier (when abominations mattered more) but that still doesn't address OP's point; using corpses as monster spell reagents probably inherently encourages tedious behavior. TR would ...

Sticks to Snakes is in the book, and they're even better at casting it than some other races! (That said, there would need to be special case code anyway to prevent them from starting the game with beastly appendage memorized. I imagine this was a simpler solution.) There's a special case that make...

Why would Tm be disallowed for mummies, whether they can transmute or not? It's the player's fault if they pick a terrible background for their species.

I can see why you can't have Dg pick zealot backgrounds, but this is different.

And current degenerate mummy gameplay does suggest Crawl is better off with at least a nominal clock.

For me, food was a larger concern in the past, but it was because I was used to playing Nethack and didn't understand Crawl's food game yet. So I remember food being more important, even though it wasn't. (IIRC there used to be a boatload more permafood back when hive was a thing, anyhow.) It has be...

I'd trust that.

I like Oka's foot smell. Seriously, though: Oka's a fine god, I just think "god of combat who gives you gear and makes it better" is more interesting than "god of frequent-but-bad acquirement" and the Excalibur proposal made me think about that again. I definitely think there's t...

Nothing really "warrants" elf unless you just like killing elves. The gear and XP aren't generally worth the risk/bother, and your gear is already nice. I usually go because I like killing elves and finding loot more than I like winning. You can definitely manage it if you want; you'll nee...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Is it really possible to get statue form before abandoning Trog? Trog becomes angry for training even spellcasting as far as I remember

you'd be in constant Trog penance which I guess would be an interesting challenge condition

Aside from the whole "Excalibur is a thing that is from real-world mythology" which Crawl has been trying to get away from somewhat, fundamentally I'm not sure a god that is exactly "you get an unrand melee weapon that interacts with invocations" is a particularly good idea. Even...

Non-mod note: Also, Sp is faster than Ce, so while you can still kite basically the same number of things with the two species, it takes longer with Ce.

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You've cast Animate Dead a total of like three times. You want to make a lot, a lot, a lot of zombies. If there are big groups, have Kiku airdrop some corpses and zombify them and then when they start killing monsters, zombify those corpses. The horde will take care of the crowd. And most other thre...

well oka will give you hats

Yeah, there are definitely too many weapons (probably too many weapon classes), which is a thing to talk about in another thread (say, the past threads that have already talked about this at some length). This thread is more "hey there is one particular weapon type that stands out for being ver...

There's a lot of room between "endgame quality weapon" and "unambiguously bad weapon base type, except you won't realize that unless you really understand crawl's weapon mechanics, also it is very rare but drops from a notoriously dangerous unique so the game is hinting it's probably ...

Assuming scythes should remain in the game, is there an important reason for them to be bad weapons?

I'm confused. Are you asking how it's different to find scrolls that can be used on any wand as opposed to charging wands by finding more wands?

Functionally, it means you get fewer uses out of rare wands.

Got complacent lobbing fireballs at a swimming frost giant, thinking the steam would finish him quickly. About 6 fireballs later, I learned that if you are flying over water, then bolt of cold can generate freezing clouds, which will kill you far faster. Damn. That is, unless you had been wearing d...

... are portals and uniques guaranteed? I always thought there was just a high enough probability that they'd show up that they usually do, in practice. I definitely like that there are levels where there are no uniques and then levels with a veritable unique party. Regardless, I think this is just ...

Non-mod-note: I didn't know for a long time that burning trees was a mechanic in the game, and even now I have a hard time remembering what effects cause trees to burn.

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And *not* using autoexplore with Chei is a good way to accidentally move with a monster onscreen :/

You can't choose where the stack of charges goes, it's limited by the kinds of wands you find.

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I haven't played Chei since it has piety decay and am not going to. What a great god was ruined

Chei has piety decay now? That... that makes very little thematic sense.

Yeah, but it's not really 99.99999% of the time. For spriggans (or other characters with plenty of MR) who care about spell power, it's kinda good. Not every character has access to a +2 robe with +8 int, either.

Having played a couple AKs I would no longer corrupt anything other than a polearm. It makes the blink effect so much less annoying.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/f61038a99b86eafe024c00d86616847eef7bec3c 1) Wand charges merge upon pickup when the player already has a wand of that type. 2) Wands no longer have a cap on the number of charges. 3) Remove wand charge identification; now a wand's charges are seen when picked up...

I'd take this a step farther and suggest that there probably only needs to be one kind of evocable flying in the game; either flyboots should give temporary flying or the other sources should give permanent flying.

Crawl is a game where if you play well, there are very, very few actually dangerous situations for decently powerful character combos. Shafts give the game a chance to be difficult again. I'm not a good player by any stretch, but some of my favorite times in Crawl have been where I got shafted and e...

What if you 'tw' her? Seems like she'd wander the level storming everyone...

She still doesn't sound like the best pet but this might be better than having her in LoS all the time...

FWIW I'm very much of the opinion "if Folly is not a terrible choice for your character, wear Folly" because when is the next time it'll make sense? You can win in either robe, you may as well look like a fool while you do.

IMO the obvious thing would be to have the vastly easier formula be 1x for all monsters. It makes very little sense that monsters with skeletons inside take 1x damage while skeletons take more damage. Or that you can walk up and hit an insubstantial monster with a club and do normal damage, while Sh...

I think Servitor shouldn't get spells that would anger the summoner's god. It doesn't look like that check is in there now.

TDTTOE

Yermak wrote:Now, if you are experienced player you could point out upon reading the section that large species get penalty for moving in shallow water too. But not for fighting, right?

I actually didn't know this, thanks!

It is also mirrored by the fact that Tornado is more effective against flying monsters. I don't think this is true. By the way Tornado mades things fly so it would be more effective against everything by itself. Looks like you are right about this. Don't know where I got this idea. Because Airstrik...

a - the +8 whip "Snakebite" (weapon) {curare, rPois} b - the +3 demon whip of Qyt Kevucw {drain, rElec rF- Dex+2} c - the +9 eveningstar "Obruff" {drain, rPois rN+ Str+4 Int+4} I know the first one is an unrand, and that this collection isn't the most amazing overall for later o...

I remember reading somewhere here that spears are the best normal weapons for beogh followers, as attack speed matters more than weapon damage for your warlords.

I've found sorcs and high priests to be trash allies. By the time you get them, they're fragile and outclassed by everything they meet.

This is almost certainly a bug either with the vault or Xom's travel. I'd post to mantis.

I guess *maybe* it'd be by design that Xom could drop you in a NO_TELE_INTO place (since Xom can always get you out again) but it seems unlikely.

Wiki says you get more abyss monsters with more invo, in-game description says you get a bigger area with more invo. Glancing at the source, it seems that more invo gets you more "corruption seeds". It looks like each corruption seed will be within 4 squares of the player, so the area does...

I know the text is there, but I don't actually know how to find it in-game. (OK, I spun up a character, it's in the abilities menu description mode.) I know the UI is what it is, especially in console. It's really hard to put this stuff in a place where it won't get in players' way but is still acce...

If you do it, leaving the area immediately afterwards is a very good plan.

A good place for the immolation trick is the end of Slime.

Ah here's duvessa's guide:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19674&p=266373#p266373

I did, I really did. I was surrounded by the guards and I couldn't get out (Those damn stairblockers), confusion stopped me from targeting the blockers and spamming cleansing fire. Moral of the story- Chug potions of mutation until you get clarity. I must say, my best two characters found an early ...

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