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There was a big long thread about this some time ago where I got flamed by pretty much everyone in the community. I stand by raising Str/Int long before dex for an ogre. The damage increase from raising str (considering a GSC, or rocks & javelins) is high enough to not be ignored, and the EV inc...

Any content, no matter how simple, is more complex than removing said content.

Lasty wrote:I'm not aware of anyone removing context just because it is complex. The complex content that's removed is being removed because in addition to being complex it also has some other problem.

Like mountain dwarves.

Really, their difficulty was determined by how many large rocks you could find before you started regularly encountering cyclopes and other such monsters. Bonus if you start with some (hunter, AM). At least, that was before the ranged accuracy changes that happened. I haven't played a large rock thr...

Sandman25 wrote:Really? Unlimited way to get out of danger is not OP?

Walking should be removed.

I'd be interested to see what the dodge training does to the character. It's my experience that even though I often train dodge to like 20 in heavy armors, it doesn't seem like there's enough EV change to make the investment worth it. Although my characters do not usually have 19 dex which makes a b...

I predict all decisions for play (cautious or risky, what skills, items etc, how many consumables you use) will be compiled into the init file. Then, all actions can be completed with a single key press (O) that decides what the player wants to do at a given time. This way the game is completely str...

I liked sticks to snakes back when you could turn giant clubs into anacondas and black mambas. It's a pretty boring spell now though.

Who will be the first to thank the dick attack?

I hate to be the guy who says the obvious but have you tried training armor skill?

vamp exe axe is really funny. surrounded by a dangerous unique and maybe 3-4 trash mobs? you will actually gain life. I would try to get to delay 1.0 (at least) as soon as possible before training anything else though. Your armor is good, but you want higher defensive stats with chei, especially wit...

Non-UC Transmutation Start is a great idea! Almost as good as my Non-Damaging Conjuration Start and Non-Ranged Throwing Start ideas. Why haven't you shared those ideas?. Sometimes, I like to pretend that the Tavern is just a performance art collective where everyone is trying to reach some kind of ...

I'm in an interesting situation because I play offline only and almost always don't have access to the internet when I play, so stuff like the wiki, crawl db etc. are not available for me. I would love to have db level information available ingame, because most of the time when I see something unenc...

dowan wrote:but if you're unlucky you get ... a two headed ogre character.

Says you.

re: sandman, I don't really agree, the fact that runes and infusions contradict with some skills, some take a turn while others are off cooldown and/or gcd, in addition to saturation etc. gives you lots of options in a combat where all of your actions are meaningful. you can definitely make a monobu...

My favorite thing about tome is the removal of consumables and the addition of runes and infusions and I typically use a similar system in D&D campaigns I DM.

I actually think the combat in tome is pretty entertaining (depending on your character).

For me it's been all the new stuff since I last played, e.g. Oh, a pearl dragon. Never seen one of those guys before. I wonder how dangerous that thing is against my MuFi. Whoops, look at that, he just did like 40% of my life in 1 hit. Welp. I don't think the difficulty has increased that much but t...

Oh, I was talking about Drogo. I don't really think there was any rape from the brother though, at least in the books.

If that was rape then I am the fucking hyperpope

I am personally really surprised to see that hydras kill more than anything else on that list. Hydras are a big deal to me, in the sense that it's one of the first monsters that forces a real strategic decision (do I fight them, burn consumables to kill them, or run?), but not because they are actua...

Everyone needs to learn a little restraint and not post in threads where they have nothing to contribute. I haven't posted here because I don't even remember the last game I played with a Troll. Don't worry for you who can't think of something useful to say, there's always CYC. Anyone can 'contribut...

I used to carry an amulet of the gourmand just so I could stuff my face full of mutachunks whenever a purple corpse showed up.

Best change in .16/trunk IMO (I think it is in .16)

I would not know anything about the dany plotline as I have never watched the show and skipped all of those chapters in the books

archaeo wrote:I'm waiting to see if GRRM actually manages to finish the series before I bother consuming any more of it. I already had one unhealthy-looking, bearded fantasy author die on me before finishing his series; I can't go through that kind of heartbreak again.

A long shot, but Frank Herbert?

I never understood why UC gets extra penalties when it's not exactly OP without them. fsim disagrees. UC is in 2h weapon category, there is no 1h weapon even close. Edit. Another solution is too make UC 2h (incompatible with shield unless you are Fo). This is the way I have always felt it should be...

figure and breast adjustment sliders, or no deal.

What's wrong with hula hooping the night away?

I think Dr are one of the most entertaining options on that list because of the random type at lvl 7 that can affect your skills etc. Draconians are pretty flexible (obviously) so it's one of the cases where I actually enjoy playing Wn. Pretty much just let the RNG guide you. A DrWn that turned into...

I could look at my morgue which is not available at this moment, but I am pretty sure being ice formed is considered a "helpful" action in general even though in this circumstance it was pretty much the worst thing that could have possibly happened.

it's possible that there's also too much free exp available in lair. The main dungeon down to 15 and orc are usually pretty easy once you have lair cleared.

The sad thing is I am pretty sure Xom considered it to be helpful to turn me into an ice beast...

I lost my KoCK after xom teleported me into 3 oof and turned me into an ice beast. I had decent rf+ from gear but that all got melded so I got roasted in a turn w/o being able to react. So yes, Zot5 is quite interesting indeed.

late game: gigantic piles of enemies that can't really do anything dangerous as long as you aren't surrounded
early game: not that

Lets you pick up rats and throw them who automatically become friendly ala Robin?

the chaos GSC will be way better than the vorpal giant club until the precise moment that it heals + hastes a dangerous enemy at the worst possible time...

Turukano wrote:
pickled_heretic wrote:You should be able to unlock secret ******+ mode with Ru where you levitate around as a quadriplegic shooting lasers out of your empty eye sockets.

Sorry, this belongs to GDD.

it's too cool to ever make it into trunk...

Turukano wrote:
Bart wrote:2) Worship Ru, sacrifice artificing.

4) Worship Ru, sacrifice both hands. You can't pick up anything any longer. THIS works wonders!

You should be able to unlock secret ******+ mode with Ru where you levitate around as a quadriplegic shooting lasers out of your empty eye sockets.

it's been a while for me since actually using a sling but throwing and slings both seemed to wreck a lot of face with chei stats a few versions ago.

This is sounding like a shoals branch with nothing but deep water.

those games where remove curse scrolls are rare or nonexistent pre/during lair are usually entertaining.

I'd personally brand the most damaging weapon I had access to, that probably would be a glaive. As a Mf I would also have no issues going for a bardiche if one existed in my game. I would not ever wait for a demon trident.

Verdict: idea dismissed.

I really just do not understand how you guys think at all...

I don't see that as shooting it down at all. I took it as saying the devs are fairly indifferent on the matter. We did kind of steal the thread from the OP though... Nah, the thread wasn't stolen. I am just struggling to understand the design philosophy behind difficulty, as I indicated in the very...

only partially relevant to the current topic but vorpal actually does more damage against OoF than freezing right?

The ingame recommendations are literally worse than worthless. although there's not any "bad" AK imo, there's no good reason to recommend Spriggan over say, an ogre (which is not recommended ingame)

Yup, I am really surprised anyone is allowed to just show up and post saying "this thread is silly" especially given that honest effort has been put in to explaining why the changes would be a good idea.

Is the mummy thing in trunk because I don't notice it in .16

I think they are pretty terrible for extended. They make a shot ton of noise. Guess how many times I had to cast fire storm to kill Anteus.... I think it was 5 or 6 times. Guess how many times I hit him with a warped weapon and teled/banished (I can't recall which it was as I did it to almost every...

Do you pick ... Hu ... ? I don't.

Neither does anyone else

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