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I think a lot of people are mixing together "get rid of/fix abusive mechanics that trivialize games" and "make the game outright harder for everyone". It seems to me, reading over minmay's proposals in the OP, that this thread was meant to fall in the former camp. The majority of...

How dare he ! !

Finding unrands in lategame vaults is much less exciting than finding them pre-Lair.

I hope you're playing an octopus.

Not every school needs a level 9 spell, IMO.

Shopping spree!

http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Brannock/mo ... 000242.txt

Code:: L - the +4 robe of the Illusory Eyes (worn) {rElec rF++ rN+ Slay+6} (You bought it in a shop on level 4 of the Vaults)

Cost me ~1850 gold. Worth every penny.

From my latest win.

Code:: J - the ring of Foivir (right hand) {rElec rF++ rC++ SInv Stlth-} (You bought it in a shop in a bazaar)

You're proposing "summon forest but different" and saying literally nothing about how it's different aside from some meaningless flavour fluff. That is not really useful. You're criticizing the proposed spells and saying literally nothing constructive aside from some meaningless negative ...

Found while playing a stabber:

Code:: u - the quicksilver dragon armour of Philately (worn) {+Fly rElec rF++ rC+ MR+} (You found it on level 5 of the Vaults)

None at all.

I recommend against running Chei on Centaur. Centaur's main strength is their speed, and Chei, obviously, deprecates that advantage. What's more, 1.7 speed, or whatever Ce ends up with, is not that much better than 2.0 speed. You will still always want to stay stationary or to blink/teleport in figh...

Wouldn't squarelos cause exploring/LOS oddities? For instance, moving orthogonally in squarelos would reveal only one row or column of tiles. Moving diagonally would reveal one row and column.

I wonder why we don't have an "anti-pack" monster which would be weaker in big numbers (the bigger number the bigger penalty). Some could say it would be annoying to gather 5+ monsters before fighting them but luring 5 monsters one after another is even more annoying IMHO. Slime creatures...

Remove wands of magic dart.

TeshiAlair wrote:Honestly, death cobs are the only thing that I think is kinda meh simply cause they are wildly uninteresting in every way aside from glyph/tile.

Give death cobs the herd/pack property.

Orbs of fire can turn death cobs into killer popcorn.

Frankly Transmutation is too overly focused on self-formes anyway. Stuff like Irradiate is a good step away from that.

Level 9 Transmutation? I don't see that as a forme, but rather something along the lines of "Severely malmutate every monster in LOS."

http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Brannock/morgue-Brannock-20141018-220445.txt A - the +15 crystal plate armour of the Tuna (worn) {rN+ MR++ SInv} http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Brannock/morgue-Brannock-20141017-222831.txt S - the ring "Qaackoi" {rF+ rC+ Dex+3 Slay+2} Both from Elf: 3. Lesson learn...

I think this is a rather fun-seeming idea and I could probably even do without the Genetic Tide/Recombination abilities and keep everything else and still enjoy playing this race.

Sharkman1231: Spiny no longer is restricted by AC.

chinchilla wizard wrote:It doesn't make sense that demigods are atheists. Did Hercules or Perseus not get artifacts or any sort of help from their parents? I know it's for balance, probably, but no one plays demigods in the first place.

Don't get too hung up on the flavor is my advice.

?remove is far too common right now for cursing to ever have any chance at being meaningful, unless you're trying to frequently swap between selfcursing gear.

Rings are very easily named to "bracelets" if people no longer find the 1-ring-per-hand justification to be sufficient.

Ignoring the bots is a solution, but one that isn't entirely successful because not everyone will be ignoring the milestone bots, and the overwhelming excess of milestone announcements means that people are disinclined to participate in ##crawl. wheals, I forgot about ghost kills. That should be kep...

Is there a good reason poison/curare isn't subject to Throwing but the other needles are? That might be a sufficiently suitable nerf if you were to remove blowguns -- it still requires that you invest at least a little into it so you can use those needles.

Well Veh is just the better conjurations god, and fedhas is just the mushrooms and oklobs god, and okawaru is just the heroism and finesse god, and... Mushrooms and oklobs, and the rest of Fedhas's myriad abilities, are far more impactful and appreciably flavorful than Sif's single channeling abili...

Well I also don't really agree with the premise that Sif actually needs changes, either (except for interface improvements to channeling). Personally I'd rather change Veh or Kiku since for various reasons I dislike them more than Sif anyway (both from design and gameplay standpoints) but they're n...

This just occurred to me, but guaranteed success invocation also mirrors Okawaru like many of Sif's other abilities already roughly mirror Okawaru's. Heroism and Finesse allows the player, briefly, to fight as a much more experienced and powerful warrior than they actually are. Guaranteed Success wo...

Borgnjor's with minimal power carries a significant HP cost (10% of maximum health), and Death's Door with minimal Necromancy and no Kikubaaqudgha piety puts you at single-digit health. Usable, but hardly ideal. Not to mention the low chances of finding the Necronomicon without following Kikubaaqudg...

so you would rather remember that you increase a stat by 1 at xl2, 1 at xl3, 1 at xl4, 2 at xl6, 1 at xl8, 1 at xl9, 1 at xl10, 2 at xl12, 1 at xl 14, 1 at xl15, 1 at xl16, 2 at xl18, 1 at xl20, 1 at xl21, 1 at x22, 2 at xl24, 1 at xl26 and 1 at xl27 instead of "you increase a stat by 2 every ...

Sif's long been viewed as a boring and bland God compared to others who have active and punchy invocations that really make the choice of following them to feel visceral and meaty. Her design space and theme are very established, and, IMO, fit very well in the pantheon. However, virtually all prior ...

Minotaur and Demigod fighter types are very comparable in both early game ease-of-play and late-game strength. Both have a 10% HP bonus. Minotaur have a rougher time hybridizing into buff spells compared to Demigod, but comparatively Minotaur don't have to deal with as severe of a XP penalties or th...

Demigod won't see the full benefit of that +28 until they're at XL27, which is quite a feat to accomplish with a -2 XP aptitude. While it's undeniably a buff I'm unsure if it's as much of a buff as it seems. Starting stats can easily be lowered to accommodate this, or tweaking them in some other way...

Currently we have three varieties of Curse scrolls: Curse Weapon, Curse Armour, and Curse Jewelry. This creates inventory clutter and subjects the player to the potential of RNG screw when trying to convert Remove Curse scrolls to curse your equipment for Ashenzari bonuses and piety. I've had a few ...

Also if you removed identification, to make curse stay relevant you'd have to add more curse-item type attacks into the game, and to make good gear generate cursed so the player has to make a decision if they want to wield that cursed +3 war axe knowing that they'll eventually have to burn a ?remove...

The best solution, of course, is just to give up on the item identification mini-game entirely. It's almost gone already, and putting that sacred cow down now would be a mercy to the cow as well as being delicious hamburger. While I'm ambivalent on removing Identification entirely (I like "unw...

XuaXua wrote:I like Tasonir's "Forsaken" suggestion a lot, but I can also see someone dropping the "a" and substituting "i" for "e".

Foreskin.

tabstorm wrote:Maybe it's really important for some tactical reason to not allow these gods to sacrifice all corpses onscreen in one turn, I don't know.

Animate Dead, Twisted Resurrection, Simulacrum.

Or perhaps better, just give them stat boosts every level and slightly nerf their starting stats to compensate. Take note that sacrificing base stats for XL stats is a hit to Demigod's early game, which is traditionally their strength: high base stats and high health values mean that Demigods are m...

Don't care one bit about what Dg are named.

There's a problem with the proposal. What is to be done about double prompts at XL 6/12/18/24? Asking the player twice what stat to boost is inelegant. Choose one stat, get +2 to it?

Moving strategic consumables to a new item type would be a reasonable first step if you wanted to bring back item destruction, and a good idea regardless. How about glyphs? Lesser versions of runes, that you can consume to release its magic for your own strategic benefit. Shift the strategic potion...

On average a Demigod should have a 4.33/4.33/4.33 stat gain split from their randomized distribution at XL 27. Allowing full control over their stat distribution would mean (potentially) a 13/0/0 distribution, for a gain of 8-9 stats in their favored ability. This comes at the cost of 4-5 stats in t...

Currently they have those racial advantages: Bonus stats awarded every even level, 10% extra HP, 20% extra MP, and +4 MR per level . Compared to Humans, Demigods get 1 extra MR per level compared to humans, seven extra randomly-assigned stats gained via XL, and ten extra base stats at character crea...

Optimal play involves not incurring any mutations whatsoever. Potions of beneficial mutation frequently are not as much of a benefit to the player as they are an obstacle to curing bad mutations in the future via !cmut. Thus in an ideal game of Crawl, mutation has no function beyond being a detrimen...

Hell effects should be tied to encounters rather than time spent in Hell. The longer you spend "in battle" or otherwise encountering monsters, the more likely a Hell effect will be triggered. Once an effect triggers, the counter resets. This would allow you to rest in Hell, and keep the un...

khalil wrote:
KittenInMyCerealz wrote:I like this idea.
currently mutations and "managing" them is boring.
and you hardly ever get any before Zot/Pan

I get lots of mutations because I chug every potion of mutation and chunk of mutagenic meat I find, but that's not exactly optimal behavior.

Dost thou seek the purple?

The orc was huge, well-muscled and even attractive for his species.

I agree with the general thrust of this but please no tormenting dragons.

Abusing teleport is my favorite strategy, though not the safest way. I hit haste, agility, resistance, brilliance, whatever spell buffs I have, then tele port until I'm in a lung and run into apport range from there. Tele again if you land in a bad situation (too many tough dudes, ghost moth or mot...

It might be better to just have a higher chance of getting a bonus enchant from using a ?EA on heavier armor rather than making enchantment work differently for heavy armor than it does for other types of armor. So you might decide to get a +1 on your cloak, or get +1 on your scale mail with a X% ch...

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