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bel wrote:
papilio wrote:Remove shadows, grant their AF_STAB to unseen horrors

This would be extremely annoying.

I'm sure everyone would love SInv to be a must-have ability instead of "nice if you've got it but meh."

dynast wrote:--Be is for new DCSS players what the drake sword is for new Dark Souls players.

Really good until you realize you completely wasted resources upgrading it because the damage scales like shit?

EDIT: Alas, I should have scrolled all the way down and noticed that Shard already commented on this.

All fruits are designed to be eaten, that's how plants create other plants. You are right that fruits are not designed to be cut and seeds to be removed (so no new plants appear from the seed), that's how human is fooling nature. Wait, THAT'S how plants create other plants? Holy shit! See, when two...

Not to mention that past a certain point in the game berserking is often a lot more dangerous than just whaling on dudes with your big axe and turning on Trog's Hand or summoning some bros.

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archaeo wrote:This is a good counterargument, but "unless you wanted to make rods basically artefacts" is exactly what I'd suggest, probably. :\

I'd say in an average game I see quite a few more artifacts than I do rods.

You may as well remove disc of storms and rods with those changes. Disc already requires a ton of evo and rElec to be useful (it's one of the few items that actually encourages getting to 20+ skill), and the only characters that can afford to just have a rod in hand all the time can already nuke mon...

Also, I'm about 99% certain that Maurice can no longer grab things off of the ground that you have seen, so if you're worried about him blasting you with your own shit, just drop it on the floor before you fight him.

I clearly wanted to murder him and steal his sweet sweet cloak.

It must be an RC file thing, because I get warned if I'm taking stairs into an exclusion. My RC file also contains bits and pieces of stuff from about a dozen other people's RC and revisions/additions from 10 versions ago though, so I can't point you toward a specific line you need. ETA: Could be in...

kuniqs wrote:Let the Ponderous brand replace Vorpal which nobody uses if they can

Vorpal's fine. It has the advantage that nothing resists it. If it did the same bonus damage as flaming/freezing there would be very little reason to pick those two.

duvessa wrote:its basically as good as HESk

Well, DESk is actually selectable in trunk, so it has that advantage over HESk.

Well, there's still the various forms of god-based healing (Gozag, Makh, Ru, Trog probably). And Regen+ items. But not through any consumables.

I'd be interested in trying out a frog-species. Does this indicate a new direction for Crawl perhaps? There has been talk recently of distancing the game from "standard" fantasy fair; should we expect more of these kinds of things in the future? I'd certainly be down for that. That's been...

Just bring it down to 2 states, alive or undead and let the switch freely in between or with a Exaust/Drain cost. Are we really still pretending that this is not already the case? Can vampires starve? Food is still in the game to prevent players from sitting around forever, yet here it is, a race t...

Nothing I used to appreciate more than Maurice stealing my tele wand and using all of the charges in the process of taking 20 minutes to hunt down and kill so I could get my wand back and recharge it.

Rast wrote:Why are you assuming you'll have moon troll armour?

You don't assume you'll always get exactly the gear you want? =p

Look at n1000 acting like people don't just blow through a bunch of games drunk. =p

Deep Elf just sucks. So now you have the option of Human, or if you wanted to use long blades and conjurations, you can use shitty elves. Or Minotaurs. Or Octopodes.

You have to throw all your prejudices overboard and worship Cheibriados! I have to say that my list on 'unviable' gods for Tm is Zin, Xom, Chei, Vehumet, Sif, Qaz, and Trog. I'm really bad with Chei and I don't think my first Chei victory will come with Tm. Play Felid, the easiest way to "take...

I think it's objectively one of the hardest backgrounds to play if you really want to stick with the transmuter gimmick. If nothing else it requires a lot of training in at least 3 skills before you're even decent, and you want a bit of ice training too before you get too deep into Lair. Enchanter a...

The only Tm I ever won was an MfTm that I actually played as such, so I can't really argue with you here. =)

MfTm is an MfGl that can summon snakes if you choose to play it that way. And horns until you find some headgear. In fact, Mf and Tr are probably the easiest to get away from the transmuter game plan with.

Just make every other weapon one-handed. That's consistent with handedness and size. No reason to change melee apts in that case. Nice, but then formicids would probably disappear. Formicids still have stasis. If anything they should just be able to use all 4 arms for giant clubs. Make their weapon...

The most frustrating part to me is that it doesn't always have the entropy weavers, so you can never be sure if it'll be a relatively harmless vault or a total deathtrap.

One potential re-working of monster invisibility would be to make it behave like it does in the Elder Scrolls games: an invisible monster is *absolutely* undetectable if you don't have SInv (meaning none of the silly stuff mentioned in the OP is allowed), but once it attacks, it becomes visible. It...

Mathematicians talk as if the math canon and associated knowledge represent an understanding of external reality. If they were good sports and admitted that math isn't necessarily about reality, I'd take it. But they don't. (My point stands, by the way - but serious props to you for not evading it....

Well, I looked back over some old threads, and some random FSIMS showed shieldless UC doing about 15% more damage or so. It's certainly not negligible, but probably worth giving up for a decent shield. Of course, don't forget the XP investment that comes with a shield... If you're not casting spell...

Also... this spell seems to suck. It just doesn't last long enough to be worth casting, at least from what I've seen. But that's a separate issue. It's fantastic when your hexer ally is casting it, but I'm inclined to agree that it's rarely worth bothering with if you're going to be the one casting...

The only poison spells that can possibly pretend to be unique in another, potentially good way are mephitic cloud, spider form, and alistair's intoxication, none of which need the poison school attached to them (and alistair's sucks now anyway), just as dragon form doesn't need the fire school atta...

4 mana 7/7 (2 overload)

Over the years I've seen a lot of OOD spawns, including a d:7 skeletal warrior band, a d:7 storm dragon, and a d:11 or 12 eidolon. In all this time, the only OOD that I felt was just truly egregious was a d:3 shapeshifter that started as an eye of draining--when I thought "wow, that's way out o...

I haven't used big G in a little while due to my ongoing quest to achieve polytheist, but I did find bribe to be very effective in Zot:5, Elf:3, V:5 and Snake:4. I've also found Gozag to be great for weapons and jewelry, as well as filling out your aux armor slots. An excellent supplier of unrands a...

How do you get inside as a non ee? Random tele, I would imagine. That vault's called spin cycle and it was initially designed when teleport control still existed. The middle area is supposed to be a relatively safe area to rest up, since the rest of the level is typically so brutal. As far as I kno...

I *said* I'd worship Qaz! That's basically the same thing!

I still hope to one day achieve my goal of having song of slaying, singing sword, and gong all on the same guy. I'll even switch to Qaz if that happens.

- Black gets what appears to be a less powerful disc of storms that can't hurt the player.

I have definitely killed myself on at least one occasion with black draconian breath.

duvessa wrote:reflection sucks and is even bad

Counter-point: If you're using Chei, it's actually pretty good, since you're going to be getting shot at a lot more anyway.

But yeah, all else being equal, I don't go out of my way to use it.

And if you were an --En^Dith, you would invariably forget that Dith hated Corona, then cast it on something that turned invisible and earn some good ol' Dith penance.

I found her in a D:15 Sif vault on my current character. If that's not an upgrade, I don't know what is!

Seriously though, her pain does hit hard if you're not prepared for it and/or are a low hp species. She probably doesn't really need an upgrade for where she appears.

It is also rather unclear what other effects that !cancel will get rid of. Although most of these make sense, it seems logical that it would get rid of a bad polymorph form and it does not. Removing *Contam gear can also eat up two or three potions.

duvessa wrote:
prozacelf wrote:I would just like to point out that it is literally not possible to auto-explore into the gammafunk water vault (unless mf/op swimming allows it?) in question.
boots of flight

Who the fuck even wears those? =p

I would just like to point out that it is literally not possible to auto-explore into the gammafunk water vault (unless mf/op swimming allows it?) in question.

Otherwise, I agree, there should be a stop if possible, when you run into the big "fuck you" vaults, generally.

Floor difficulty is also of course affected in large part by procedural generation, which seems to be getting entirely overlooked here. Unexpected OOD spawns or a really shitty vault that the player doesn't recognize on sight and know to avoid can cause deaths or at least the use of a lot of consuma...

Sprucery wrote:I guess the advertisers think it's Dungeon Crawl Shoe Shop.

Stone Shoes, clearly.

Every snake rune vault has more or less the same problem, given that they're all packed full of giant, slow bags of hp that both take some effort to kill and take forever to lure back to a choke point.

Once I was on a streak and worshiping Nem. I went down some stairs and Erolcha was nearby. I draw a card from a deck of summons and a bunch of hostile wasps appeared. They killed me before I could go back up. I just knew it was the wrong play even before I made it, and I felt so bad that I never re...

Clearly, Uskayaw should be changed to Wayaksu, freeing up U for Udzu, and leaving I for Irving, who, I dunno, forbids enchanted equipment but offers powerful bonuses instead.

How the hell do you even insert an image?

Anyway, I like to play warhammer 40k and hearts of iron.

I hear there are these things called "beanitos" that are entirely made of beans. And filler.

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