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I think the design intent is that you might find a weaker god early and need to decide if you want, say, Vehumet on D:2 (who is maybe workable but suboptimal for your character) or wait for Kiku or Fedhas or Ru who might show up later. Nowadays there are enough gods who will be strong for a variety ...

The main thing I like about Be is that it means the character never needs to think about choosing a religion or exploring the magic system. Also, it trivializes skilling (autoskilling will probably be fine). These things make for a much, much simpler strategic game. Yes, it kind of sucks that Trog a...

Why not reply with this on the github thread, where it might garner an authoritative reply and/or due reconsideration? I thought about that, but then realized that MarvinPA commented in this thread and I didn't want to do something spammy or break the conversation into more pieces... FWIW, the pull...

I don't think a ratio totally sums it up; if there was something that increased incoming damage by 200% and outgoing damage by 2000% I wouldn't touch it because I'd worry about getting killed in like a turn and there's no reward for overkilling monsters. I agree, though, that whether harm is good, b...

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Wait, bucklers don't work for spriggans anymore?

On god choice, you might have better luck with a god who helps you deal with things you can't stab, rather than one who makes more things into kebab fodder. Even Sp^Dith won't get a sneak stab on everyone.

Thinking about this a bit... as much as I feel that zealot starts should only be used in extreme circumstances, I kind of like the idea of a bookless conjurer start.

If you're willing to stray a bit farther afield into "roguelike-like" territory, FTL is pretty great. Randomly-generated space systems with semi-realtime combat. If you have a choice, I'd get it on iOS, the UI there is really good. Also in the modern realm, there are some very small roguel...

Shtopit wrote:No ability works while confused. You can't even open the a menu, I think.

Some Ely abilities work while confused.

Do good gods allow you to train necromancy? I wizmoded up a character following TSO, and it appears that you can't. In the skills menu, you can choose to train necro but no skill points seem to wind up there; in fact, if *only* necromancy is selected it looks as though the XP is lost altogether, wh...

PowerOfKaishin wrote:There should never be the option of viable Haste under Chei (in this case where the effect outweighs the penance).

IIRC, the good gods don't stop you from casting Borg's; you just get penance. I don't see why hasting with Chei should be different.

Crypt of the Necrodancer is one of my favorite games of all time. Pretty standard roguelike mechanics, except that there's a soundtrack and you and the monsters move on the beat. It is made with a very large amount of love.

I'm going to assume you're either trolling or have no idea what Damnation does. This is like telling someone to use a -2 club instead of a +9 demon whip, because the club makes less noise. Huh, thanks. I knew it was a good weapon but assumed it'd get a Na of Chei mobbed and killed. I thought it was...

If you want to win, you're probably best off dropping the crossbow. It's pretty good at killing stuff, but you have 0 crossbow skill and it's loud af. And you're a character with good stealth who is pathologically bad at walking away from trouble and is better at shields than most characters. If you...

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It would be okay if the blessing raised the max enchantment to +11 or something. Say, you get a special kind of randart that you can enchant while following the god. If the blessing was the only way to further enchant a +9 weapon it would be pretty bad; there shouldn't be a reward for waiting to ble...

I actually think maybe Oka should be able to gift plate to Dr, or that Oka would try to gift you a plate but then gift you nothing instead. Most Oka gifts are effectively useless to begin with. If something is often useless, it's usually buffed, not nerfed. Oka is not Xom. I just mean it's weird th...

So should Okawaru be able to gift a plate to a Dr, who could then wear it? No, but if there were a god whose power was "you can wear items in restricted slots" then that god would allow Dr to wear plate and undead to wield HW. I actually think maybe Oka should be able to gift plate to Dr,...

a much broader solution - which probably should be addressed in a specific topic: let all the gods' powers bypass racial restrictions, resolving this messy situation with all the problematic powers. Mod note: Here's the topic. I've tried to pull in relevant stuff from the other thread but it was al...

Does this imply that you had no idea ogres had low accuracy until you fsimmed it? My experience was that it was trivially easy to determine that through observation. Knowing what I know about Crawl I would guess accuracy depends on HD and probably some other things, but I've never noticed that ogre...

It might be okay if gods could increase Gnoll stats, maybe a fraction of the amount they do for other species. Bend Space and Finesse work for Formicids.

Siegurt wrote:And convokers technically don't have summons either, they actually teleport real mobs from elsewhere on the level to you.

lol hope you enjoy this mennas

I suspect it is not a bug. Someone here probably knows how monster placement works well enough to answer for sure.

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Non-mod note: Don't melee it. Don't melee anything that can kill you in one turn. This can totally kill you in one turn.

The other thing that makes it easy to underestimate death yaks is the randomness of Crawl's combat. If yaks are easy for your char to deal with and the first death yak rolls low damage at first, it's easy get careless and let two of them stand next to you, and then they both hit for 27 damage and wh...

Was draconian ghost breath fixed? It's been a while since I saw people talk about it and I don't remember. Yes . I tend to agree with KL's "every aspect of ghosts is bad" comment. Like, the concept of meeting the ghosts of players past is maybe kinda interesting, but every aspect of their...

Another way to tackle that issue is to remove them because the gameplay experiment of "what if you were strong but had no regen" just turned out to be really unfun in crawl The trouble with this argument is that "unfun" is rather subjective; I actually like playing DD through th...

Escaping up an unexplored stair to find Dissolution is kind of amusing.

I could see a cool Dissolution + slimes + Jiyva altar vault somewhere in late D, though.

If I could design Crawl from scratch, monsters would have a chance of leaving multiple corpses; when asked why I would say "sometimes monsters have other monster corpses in their inventory" And then they would ask "what about uniques, where did Sigmund get a dead Sigmund to put in his...

I'd remove the hunger cost for all vamp weapons. I don't see how the hunger cost stops you from dragging monsters for healing all around the dungeon; it mainly makes it really annoying to swap weapons unless you have gourmand or are undead.

What changed to make D:1 safer for players?

FWIW I also tend to not die on D:1, and I am terrible enough that I die in Lair

That sounds like a straight-up bug, I'd report it on mantis.

There were like ten Wizardry releases in the US, and at least a couple dozen Japanese spinoffs; it's a pretty well-regarded series. So it's been common for a long time, though there haven't been any new releases in a while. Also, I'm 99% sure the rings you're talking about have not recently become m...

It would be funny if Robin had a chance of spawning with a dig wand

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:The god of self-harm is supposed to be Yred.

Wait, what? Did you mean Kiku? Because I don't remember any way to hurt yourself with Yred. I guess you could turn on injury mirror and get hit on purpose but that would be real weird.

I don't actually get what Makhleb is supposed to be the god *of.* I guess risks? Possible self-harm? Demons and random damage conjurations and demon summoning and heal-on-kills and "hey did you know Zin had wrath" don't really have a very cohesive theme. And while gameplay concerns are way...

This thread has, I think, run its very limited course of useful life; I'm locking it. If anyone objects to it, PM me or the other mods.

I'd actually keep the ring of ice on the whole time in Swamp, IIRC there's nothing outside of uniques with a fire attack.

Hm, it's interesting that it doesn't show a health bar when it's not damaged.

In Console, it is kind of annoying to see if a monster is standing in shallow water, but that's about the only time it comes up.

TBH I normally have a hard time finding the player doll on tiles screenshots :/

I mean how else are we supposed to make stone soup?

Wait... riposte doesn't trigger constriction damage, does it?

I've never actually gotten Haunt castable; everyone says it's amazing. Why? It seems like it summons some fairly weak undeads... is it great because it's smite-targeted and will slow monsters down, or are haunt summons surprisingly good at killing monsters?

Shrooms + ice beasts (assuming you still had the IE) should be enough to take down a death yak. If you're gonna have allies, polearms are very good.

Spell power doesn't matter much for transmutations, (except for irradiate which is secretly a conjuration anyhow) so an enhancer for it wouldn't do very much. Staves would spend all their time melded.

I can kind of get behind a race that doesn't get identify, even if just to see what it would be like. For curses, either the species could be immune, or have an ability to remove them at the cost of some drain. Ash should also reject worship, as scrolls are pretty central to that religion.

His point is that at *best* arc blade is a 1:3 chance twice per turn (so an average of 2 every 30 aut) *actually casting static discharge* is a 100% chance of 3 every 30 aut. Remember that arc blade lets you use tab to cast static discharge at a cost of 0 MP/turn, so you can cast it like a million ...

Also, ugly things only have rX+, so generally you can kill them by just throwing more elemental magic at them. Very ugly things are more annoying with pure elemental attacks, as they have both another pip of resistance and a bunch more HP.

Throw Icicle is alright but not really worth it imo, this char should have no problems w/ killdudes for the most part and you can just duck the stuff you have issues with. Icicle is really good and will make dealing with hydras and such a lot easier, especially on an Op who will have trouble tankin...

Of all the fast food places I've eaten, Sonic is the only one that actually surprised me with its shittiness.

Culvers is pretty great but I'm in Wisconsin so of course I would say that. Frozen custard makes ice cream seem stupid.

Well, I would argue that Crawl is not a very good game for the non-patient. It's nice to read that yes, streaking is a thing you can do and do reliably with some combos, and that beyond that it's mainly skill. You can argue about various ratings, but overall this looks like a non-surprising list to ...

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