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But you still end up casting it after every battle.

I dislike those solutions because they don't address the use case of casting regen 3-5 times after many fights, which is often optimal.

I agree that the Regen spell as currently designed is problematic. If it has a good remedy, I think its most likely as a permabuff spell that increases regen rate somewhat based on current spellpower for the regen spell; it might also make sense to have the effect be a redirection of mp regen to hea...

This thread is being used primarily to defame Muslims, so I'm locking it.

Incorrect. You're exhibiting the same bias: assuming that you associate extremist violence with Muslims because Muslims commit a lot of extremist violence. The logic goes like this: * The old name was singling out one religious group consisting of ~1.6 billion people and associating it with zealotry...

Oh, and since you brought up politics, great job of playing right into the hands of extremist groups by undermining our own freedom of expression. That is exactly what extremist groups want. This is just silly, but it illustrates well why removing the phrase "jihad" was a good choice -- t...

One other suggestion if this goes in: Have some kind of icon for bezotted monsters. When I play on webtiles I don't like to read the text box or enemy listing unless I have to, so it would be useful to have an icon indicating that a monster is bezotted. With that said, I hardly noticed any bezottin...

As was pointed out above, the first post on this forum at all times, the post labeled "Game Design Discussion Guidelines", has as its first paragraph: DCSS has been maintained by volunteers and players as an open source project for nearly a decade. The developers primarily discuss the game...

I have a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think DCSS would benefit a lot from making an extra effort when about to remove something and instead focus on reworking, even if the rework involves a complete mechanical U-turn. I disagree with this. Because this is a version-controlled project, if ther...

Oh, I didn't realize how low the skills were. I should try it out.

Oh, right, I forgot the spec calls for starting w/ 6 AC and full EV and a weapon, which means that it's starting with above-average defenses that get significantly better once you find a random ring mail. This might just be straight-up OP instead of exaggerating the curve. IMO you should be looking ...

I'm concerned about this background idea because it seems to be about making the extremely early game harder in exchange for a significantly easier early to mid to end game. In a sense it amplifies the existing difficulty distribution, which is already not ideal IMO. I like the thrill-of-discovery a...

Linear delay scaling has been tried and no one was happy with the results. It's remarkably difficult to come up with damage formula changes that are clear improvements over status quo.

Yep, but you'll have to download and compile the branch.

Hey folks, come try out a new branch on CBRO: Dynamic Monsters. In this branch, each turn that a monster moves while tracking you, it has an increasing chance to gain the "bezotted" (temporary name) status permanently. Once it has this status, it gains +20% HD, HP, and damage. It gets 2 mo...

Rage fell off my radar. I agree it should have a penalty. What penalty should it have? I was thinking exhaust on equip, but that would, ironically, let you use it to block *rage.

@severen: my point is that you can get excellent damage from great maces for way less XP than a bardiche or exec axe. Arguing against that from the position that some hypothetical player has decided to get 27 weapon skill is like saying CPA is bad armor because a hypothetical player might have chose...

17 base dam at min delay for 20 skill is considerably better than 18 base dam at min delay for 26 skill.

I'm not sure why magic boosts should compete with shields.

I don't really see how this plays into any taverns memes. My feeling was that pcloud wasn't in a particularly good place and felt really unnecessary when OTR basically did the same thing but better.

I think you're wildly overestimating how much "tavern memes" affect development.

Nice work editing down your proposal here. This is exactly the direction I was hoping you would take this god after playing through it myself.

It's always the last place you look.

@VAF imagine the gnoll with a spear of distortion has a haste potion too, or amulet of rage. Now every race needs /haste to survive by your argument. This is a player nerf, not a naga nerf. Heck, let's say that gnoll has a wand of haste -- we just saved your naga by removing it! @removeely, the argu...

This thread is a perfect example of a classic de fructus argument.

I am pleased to announce that nagas can still read and quaff, and that none of Chei's abilities are being removed!

I'm not sure what part of my post you're addressing. Everything I wrote seems to apply in the case you're describing.

edit: Tho frankly it'd be better if it didn't -- it'd be nice if there were more situations, particularly in postend content, that didn't have clear solutions.

If you're worried about what characters with no offense except conjurations do to silent specters, then shouldn't the discussion focus on wands of acid or maybe disc of storms, both of which still exist? I mean, an even more trivial solution is "don't make Vaults/extended characters that are co...

This sort of thinking really confuses me. If we removed Wyrmbane, would people ask how they're supposed to kill dragons? Healing and haste wands are rare items that even 15-rune characters are not guaranteed to receive. The characters who found them got an insane power boost and the characters that ...

None of the removed wands were a reason to invest in Evo anyway, since their effects weren't affected by Evo. Technically /tele was, but only if zapped on an enemy, which wasn't the typical use case.

Thanks, archaeo. I want to emphasize one point: you are allowed to disagree with anything you choose, but you are not allowed to use that or anything else as a reason to insult and belittle other members of the community or broad sections of humanity. If can't stop yourself from doing that, do it so...

This was a fun game with an unusual sacrifice pattern. I also found 14+ scrolls of brand weapon, but only after I had a weapon of elec already. I had one bad moment on Z:5 where I didn't notice that I had petrify stacked on me, but otherwise it went pretty smoothly. http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/m...

IMO humans are the most interesting species in crawl.

The design philosophy can be and is ignored when it's convenient, see floor traps A design philosophy is a useful thing for keeping disparate people with different opinions moving overall in the same direction, but it's not a magic spell that instantly makes the game the Platonic ideal of itself. N...

The design philosophy can be and is ignored when it's convenient, see floor traps You've been around long enough that you should know better than this. I assume you're well aware that the dev team has been talking about the problems with floor traps for a while now. We tend to move a bit slowly and...

One more point regarding my advice above: I'm assuming that the first decent god you find will be your first investment opportunity, which is why I advised you to lean into it, but there's also a chance that you'll find another good investment opportunity first: a rod or +Invis item, a good book, a ...

I would choose a weapon other than UC at game start. Monks don't get transmutations books, so planning for them is like planning to get a triple sword of speed: it might work out, but you'd be better off working with what you actually have. I don't recall what I did with my DrMo, but what I would do...

Locked. This thread started poorly and is going downhill fast. OP has been warned.

Here's why I dislike the Pain brand: It encourages players to spend xp on Necromancy, instead of [Fighting/Weapon/Armour]. This encourages them to learn Necromancy spells. This encourages them to wear light armor, instead of chain or better, and encourages them to spend more xp on Spellcasting and ...

The strongest Necro spells affect even the nastiest monsters: Borg, DDoor, and the products of all the minion spells. W/ Kiku's corpse delivery, Animate Dead can clear Z:5.

Pretty much any good base weapon makes a good weapon of pain. Fast attack speed is nice, of course, but if you choose a low base damage weapon and aren't stabbing, you're really leaving value on the table. I would discourage you from trying to get a ton of different weapons unless you have way more ...

Magic is one way to get extra tools in your toolkit, but evocations and gods are also ways to do that. I expect that veteran players who prefer melee to magic find that with a strong god and/or evokers their toolkit is sufficiently robust. I prefer magic overall because my experience is that, when u...

I've already got a patch for this on the incomplete ranged reform branch. I also cut needles down to three types: poison, curare, and frenzy. I wanted to remove the overlap with hexes to a large degree.

I wish the damn rMut amulet would just be brought back, maybe as (rMut *Contam) so that muh switching is not an issue. I am seriously too lazy to play around neqos/shining eyes, monsters that basically cannot harm you except through mutation, to the extent that I'll sacrifice a better amulet just t...

Yes, but I'd prefer a +0 spear, +0 trident, or +0 flail, or +0 falchion. Have you tried it? It's not that bad.

Well, if you didn't bring a weapon.

Then you would take a step back after every step forward.

I think the ideal solution without introducing new mechanics would be to have traps trigger on exposing new tiles.

I already have a patch for that on the ranged reform branch. The branch as a whole is still in progress.

Almost all of the rules of thumb and detailed questions about how to min/max are for players whose grasp of the fundamentals (threat evaluation, positioning, noise, consumables use, exploration patterns) are weak or are intentionally playing sloppy. Good fundamentals are something like 90% of skill....

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