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Crafting is on the won't-do list.

I think andreas raises some good points about piety clock in a crawl that has other pacing methods, but as KoboldLord points out, right now piety is our most functional clock at present. As andreas points out, that clock could be a lot more consistent and clear, and that's something worth doing IMO;...

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Fungusform is not the worst thing that can happen when fighting against grinder, since he can't use pain on you anymore, and you can confuse him with a punch. To answer the actual question, you're stuck in the form until it ends, but you can end it sooner with a potion of cancellation, if you have o...

Definitely do not train four offensive skills at once (possible exception: as Wz, I like to train a bunch of offensive skills to 3 or 4 because of the way the book is structured). Also do not arbitrarily target skill level 15. Your skills in this dump are already too scattered: you have nearly 10 Ai...

Also there's no bonus piety for Ukayaw, since it would decay almost immediately anyway.

For $50, I will personally add your name as an insult shouted by imps.

It gets metabolic englaciation.

This is the first time I've heard the suggestion of a short-range smite-targeted spell. That might be more interesting than just "short range, expensive bolt".

That post from Lasty seems very confusing to me. Right now felid is way too close to octopode (or possibly spriggan, I guess); the way to differentiate them is to make felid be able to use fewer items, not more items. This is why I never understood and never will understand why felids were changed ...

My big problem is that felids basically play a game w/o loot (well, very little loot), and in my opinion loot is a defining feature of crawl. Loot leads to excitement, and loot leads to differentiation of characters as you find different loot at different times, and make choices over which loot to u...

Thanked first post for suggesting felid removal.

You should take off the shield for now, use the sling and also wands to kill hydras, and use ice form for your primary form of attack. Ice form gives you bonus HP and AC that you need as well as giving you a very strong offense. If the sling and wands aren't enough to kill hydras, you probably shoul...

Also, selecting Ru has the benefit of making me happy.

I do think that the written proposal is too weak, but as has been said, that's not all that important. I think that for this god to be at its best design and power level, you should have the option to 1) burn several spells in a big fight, and 2) use the god's powers in several fights on a single du...

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So the reference is particularly apt?

Dragonskin Cloak kinda does most of this.

Players who don't see fedhas as strong often underestimate the early game power of mushrooms even with no investment, and the rune-vault-destroying power of oklobs. These powers come early, so you don't need to worry about maxing out piety. Fedhas has several other good powers as well, but mastering...

The advice tasonir is offering is focused on the part of the game where characters have had a chance to develop their strengths. Before this point, Chei mostly makes you more likely to die. If you want to focus on this part of the game try fedhas, who gives you a huge power boost at 1*.

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For Wz, Conjure Flame and Summon Imp are your main offensive tools in Lair. It's possible to get through Lair using just these, but it's much easier to learn to use a weapon, get some defenses, and then use you spells and your weapon in conjunction. DE is a pretty difficult species, and DEWz is a pa...

V:1-4 is mostly about managing the human vault professionals: if a convoker might finish chanting word of recall, you should strongly consider making yourself scarce before that happens. If you see a vault warden, be aware that it may seal the doors around you making conventional escape impossible. ...

Crawl's codebase is large and not always well-organized or commented, so it can be hard to determine something like this without familiarity; of course, the more time you spend tracing through the code, the more familiar you become. So, one answer is "spend more time with the code". Of cou...

I'm of the opinion that being able to stockpile magic potions under Pak is a big problem, probably a bigger problem than the problem it solved, which was the strong incentive to constantly be channeling mp into wands to avoid wasting it. I'm inclined to change this to have Pak direct overflow direct...

I'm a bit sleep-deprived and jet-lagged right now, but your NUMBER ONE suggestion sounds really interesting to me right now. A bit like Nemelex, but much more fun and better interface. I'll keep thinking about this, but at this moment I like it a lot.

You can add custom lua to your rcfile similar to the LUA in this file, near the comment "# If you've sacrificed a hand, don't pick up pointless duplicate rings".

This is not a good solution to the problem identified in this post: now instead of switching repeatedly to a +2 flaming dagger to kill green rats, you have to switch to a weaker bow to kill green rats.

Agreed. I am all for this. Patches welcome. I'll probably do this myself eventually if no patches roll through.

Shroud of Golubria is already essentially +10 hp.

I'm not saying people can't pooh-pooh my plans, but they should understand that the important parts of the plan, the parts worth discussing, are not the specific formulas. Questions like "what key will be used to equip/unequip a launcher?" are good, and can only help me come up with better...

{antimagic, MP+9}

I thought we had code to make this case impossible...

The formulas are pretty irrelevant to my plan above. Obviously, I'll have to pick some, but if they don't work out well, we'll pick another. The important aspect of the proposal is the macro-level changes, which you should be able to evaluate independently of the formulas chosen, because they're not...

The downside to making dropping a set of items take a single turn is that you are heavily incentivized to ensure that you drop everything you might want to drop at once -- if you miss something, you then have to spend an extra turn. I prefer to have dropping each item take the same amount of time i...

The downside to making dropping a set of items take a single turn is that you are heavily incentivized to ensure that you drop everything you might want to drop at once -- if you miss something, you then have to spend an extra turn. I prefer to have dropping each item take the same amount of time in...

I think this is a fair attempt to solve some of the problems with current ranged weapons in Crawl. It solves the problems of ammo mulching and half-solves weapon switching -- half-solves because you still have a better-but-limited resource (bolts) that you want to avoid using on chaff. The proposal ...

In addition to the other feedback, the * ability is almost identical to Dith's umbra passive. The idea of having Steal generate new items is a theoretically interesting one provided that it doesn't work on targets that are incapacitated in some way other than being naturally asleep, since those are ...

Spellpower in general has diminishing returns, but intelligence's contribution to spellpower does not. Strength's effect on ER has diminishing returns, but otherwise does not.

Some characters are strong enough that no monsters on Vaults:5 are frightening, and for these characters, stair-dancing can be acceptable, because they are strong enough to withstand an approach that exposes them to more harm and danger. It's still not the right choice for these characters, though; ...

curare is still useful but i think that's just because curare has an aura of amnesia. similar to how players always forget they're carrying curare when an ettin shows up, lasty forgot curare existed when he changed poisoned needles I didn't forget about curare. I considered it and decided I didn't ...

A long time back I was an advocate of stair-dancing. After a while, I became an advocate of "run past guard circle, then use immolation to clear them". More recently, I've learned the value of the advice players like duvessa and crate have been offering for a long time, and the crucial poi...

I meant to remove the "evil" from this item, but it slipped through the cracks. It'll have to be in 0.19.

Not including artifacts, what is the best weapon for general use? Assuming that the specific character in question is a human. Basically, what weapon, when you get it, do you think to yourself: "Holy shit, looks like I found my end game weapon." Lets also assume that you have yet to start...

PF and I recently discussed several of the topics in the opening post, and PF started a branch looking at god ability hunger costs specifically. I expect that we will be making changes in these systems in 0.19.

The ring of Pialiqod {*Drain rElec AC+6 Str+9 Int-2}

Ranged reform hopefully will happen in 0.19.

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Deprecating killing enemies in general would mean that you're constantly losing piety with this god. There's no element with enough enemies associated to make that piety gain condition work well. In order to make this work you'd also need to define carefully what is and isn't associated with fire, i...

In my experience, you're better off with the starting shield than without. It can often be a good idea to ditch the shield if you find a good two-handed weapon before you've got a good one-handed weapon.

I wonder how weak a species would have to be in order to make perma-invis possibly a reasonable thing.

Yeah, for most of the game, body armor beats having additional ring slots. In the very long game (post-end, as I said), the extra slots allow you to wear more total crazy artefacts, potentially giving you more power than the normal number of slots; you also keep all those extra slots in statue form,...

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