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not sure if this is a joke or not but we call those minotaur and deep elf

Irradiate is even weirder than most crawl spells for damage. It determines a max amount of damage it can do, which is 30 + (Power/2). It then splits that across six dice and rolls 6dSomething, such that the max damage is what it determined earlier. Rounding here is not handled by flooring as you'd e...

The thing to Serpent's Lash is that WJC piety isn't exactly an important resource, Lash and Heavenly Storm are the only things you're spending piety on. Use it any time you're feeling uncomfortable. IDK how much else to help you though since all my Wu Jian experience is with the old version of the g...

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keeping it on two keys is a very useful safeguard against accidentally hitting the key twice and going back on accident

this is very comforting to have online where you may not be sure if the game is just being slow to load the next floor or if your keypress didn't go through

bullfrogs are so named because they are bull/frog hybrids, sort of like frog minotaurs. they attack by goring you because they're bull-sized and have sicknasty horns

also tyrant leech is objectively a cooler name than giant leech sorry

I've seen it spawn on its own before, but that was when I exterminated almost all of the actual abyssal vaults to force mine to spawn. It might be very rare?

Go corrupt Slime instead, it's way easier than either Abyss or Vaults once you get the hang of it.

So now suppose skald and wizard are both 4/4/4... What improved about the game? A book-starved Wizard can transition into being a battlemage or even full-on warrior without having to worry about poor Str limiting their armor options, which is the main thing holding them back from that path normally.

Another direction I'd been considering was making stats more mutable, but I haven't been able to come up with a satisfactory way of doing this. It's also probably not a good idea with where stats are at the moment, looking at how trivial level-up stat choices usually are. Maybe the random stats you ...

Psyche the Insane Magess comes into view. She is wielding a dagger of _distortion. Found a bread ration. Psyche shouts! Psyche struggles to resist. Psyche gestures at you while chanting. _You block the puff of flame. _The dagger of distortion dances into the air! _Psyche appears confused. _You bare...

Go around him. Spider:3 has nothing particularly interesting on average so only explore enough of it to find a staircase to Spider:4.

Don't worry about MR, Mara doesn't do anything that checks it. I don't think anything in Spider does?

Reflavor it to mass banishment, make it require you to select a monster that is in view, then chuck everything on this level only of that monster's type into the abyss. They can still spawn later, shifters can turn into them, anyone can summon them; no lasting effects except those guys are out of th...

Currently gnolls are suffering from severe reverse power creep as some sort of means of differentiating them sufficiently from humans. While I understand the sentiment here, the main problem is that humans themselves are not interesting enough and gnolls are being saddled with a bizarre and unbalan...

They're worth 0 experience and produce "unrewarding" messages when killed, which is probably where the confusion came from.

I decided to look through the Stone Soup changelog and list features I thought were Good Ideas over linley's crawl: -You won't start the game with an ogre in LOS. -Reaching is no longer a special brand and instead is a property of all polearms. It also does not cost MP or hunger to utilize. -Okawaru...

I feel obligated to note that panlords don't use the same naming scheme as ancestors; they use a bizarre random string generator (that is shared by scrolls, shopkeepers, and the player if you decline to give a name), while ancestors pick a name at random from a large file of real names. You are prob...

I hadn't seen that, sorry! Just because I'm on the userlist doesn't mean I'm actually present or paying attention, I just leave it on all the time and maybe look at backlog. It's a good idea, I just called it bad because I'm in the bad habit of putting myself down a lot, and it also makes the name r...

Dumb rework idea: allow riposte to proc on attacks even if they don't miss. Change riposte rate from being constant on all misses to (constant * PC's weapon skill / mindelay required for weapon). Don't allow ripostes if the player's last action was a melee attack or a throw. This makes long blades' ...

here you go OP

The current plan is to start by backporting features from early versions of Stone Soup onto Linley's Crawl, and expanding from there

what on earth

just take stone soup as it is now and tack the old things you want back on

You wouldn't put an Unseen Horror on D2 *Sequell* 32 games for * (ckiller=unseen_horror place=d:2): 3x silentsnack, 3x firemonkey, 2x xomscumming, mamga, xixvx, xnavy, bairyn, Floodkiller, giantspikedclub, JasonMel, kal9871, kelbaugc, Luxivar, Elynae, Neil, njkz123, Nordon, okmg321, onwiheg, roushe...

from a coding perspective, no, because making mon-gear.cc change monster types would be an ugly hack. you'd adjust the spawn table so they have 1/10th the frequency of vanilla kobolds and adjust kobolds appropriately. (kobolds currently have a 1/10 chance to get a blowgun instead of a weapon roll, u...

some shitlord sent a PR to make beogh use more neutral titles, so maybe we'll see improvement on that front soon (edit: the shitlord is me. i sent a pr to make beogh use more neutral titles, so therefore i want christianity to not be mocked and thus am a shitlord by crawl subtext logic.) i could als...

I actually sort of like this start conceptually? It is definitely deceptive and quite weak though; I would rename it to "fool" and maybe lose the piety mechanic.

They're not actually angels at all. It's just a big illusion; the angels and daevas are demons, the seraph is a panlord, and they wield holy magic because some demons can do that (a well-kept secret).

The final hell floors haven't been -cTele for ages. I don't think they've ever been -Tele.

ring of removed

I actually did mean that, although I went and researched a better source (the source code) and I was mistaken; any level can hold up to 27 ghosts.

Some ancient versions (maybe) capped the number of saved ghosts based on the depth, but it seems that no longer happens.

Losing boots to be unable to die to poison would be a nerf, the boot slot is worth more than poison resistance/poison-death-immunity. If you're having trouble with poison maybe describe what's giving you trouble, it shouldn't be one of the worse threats in the dungeon. If it's something like early ...

yes, one character is probably going to be nuked

a D:3 ghost will only ever be loaded once though, so the rest will be fine

"This function is insane, but that might be useful." -crawl's source code The names of scrolls, shopkeepers, panlords, some artifacts, Jiyva, and the player character if they decline to provide a name, are all determined from the same function: make_name. make_name takes two arguments: a s...

just replace them with a potion of quad damage

that way you don't even have to add a new item or anything

Does it do anything besides the bonus slaying, harmless fog clouds, and noise?

Hey, I'm using this for the fork I'm working on. The crashes seem to be caused by the books in the player's starting inventory not being set up right since they're removed right away. Books should probably just not be given out with other stuff in character creation. Actually wound up overhauling th...

Alternative solution: add impossible gifts to a queue, check queue every time Xom acts and give them out then.

solution: rename magic resistance to rHex

It only works on poisoned targets these days, not poisonous or venomous targets.

Remove spell hunger

I've played only 1 partial game with the Council, but I really don't get at all the first 3 powers. I mean, cool, I can move in DCSS like a kung fu stuntman, but it feels to me that just being still in a corridor and fight 1vs1 is much much better. I mean, I can stay still, and hit one things at ar...

I like the third idea the best. Species difficulty is vague, background-dependent, and version-dependent; I'd rather not see it used.

I don't like Shoutitis as that seems to just be punishing stealth on the everyman sort of stealth builds that the race encourages.

I do think it'd be appropriate to change the shout messages to bark or howl though, similar to how barachians now croak.

Presently the only purpose it actually serves is to let you know if you have been just flat out training incorrectly. If you literally put 0 points into spell casting, but (inefficiently and not very effectively) dump enough xp into spell skills to succeed at casting a high level spell (not many ti...

and what makes it a compelling gate on spellcasting when MP, fail rates, and spell slots are already mechanics that gate high-level spells

duvessa wrote:Monster spines are stupid and pointless and shouldn't exist

This used to be the case but everyone got tired of monsters running away all the time, which is why they have backbones now.

This spell could be a good replacement for inner flame, that one spell nobody likes. [citation needed] Inner Flame works on manufactured undead, sticks to snakes, your ancestor, and even that most common and intended of targets: That Random Orc Over There. Clocking in at 3d20 for 3 MP, it's a very ...

Ages ago, a small nation of restless dwarves created a system of self-sustaining, magically floating landmasses, and flew away from the world at large, unseen for centuries. Their aerial strongholds turned out to be less than perfectly self-sustaining, and they crashed back into the earth recently. ...

monster air strikes do check your AC

whoever told you they didn't is wrong

I tried that, Torment won't anger butterflies because they have 1 HP and thus are unharmed by it.

You could spam s2s or something instead to get a nice horde of more durable and tormentable fuel going, though

i'm not the only one who values dmsl highly and goes for it whenever feasible am i

Yeah twisters, air elementals, ball lightning, and anything casting tornado have wind resistance and are thus immune to airstrike, tornado clouds, and whatever an air beam is (wind drake breath?). I thought wind drakes were immune too but apparently I'm a crazy person and they actually don't. (edit:...

Lightning Bolt is a level 5 dual-school spell that when multi-bounced, does zero damage 2-3 times because it has no to-hit and makes a truckload of noise. It checks rElec.

Airstrike is a level 4 single-school spell that ignores EV. It checks rWind and does extra damage to fliers.

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