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Which as you an see from the pose is akward to wield and would definitely preclude the use of a two handed weapon. It also hinders the use of a weapon and generally interfering with movement is every respect. I think there were only a few instances where a military did use both a shield and a two ha...

I was just about to make a post on my thoughs on the new tiles as well. There is something to be said for distinguishability. At the moment it feels a bit samey to have a lot of the new tiles having that same arms splayed dancey crouchy legs. Everybody looks like they are doing the haka. if they are...

I've had all of these except the bazaar happening to me.

Especially the bees. Oh the bees. And the first uncurse scroll found at D13. And one time 17 Hydras in Lair. I only remember that one because it was a death yak that killed me.

Pizzeria confirmed.

I reckon you should give it a go. Get them Okawaru gifts as quickly as possible.

So an amulet that basically acts as a weapon slot but for unarmed.

Btw that name would be nonsensical for crawl. I don't really see the reason to lose the uniqueness of unarmed into "your weapon slot is your amulet".

But...don't you just want to kill everything just prove you can? The need to slate your bloodlust? TSO bounds me to the eternal crusade against evil.

Is a shield less reliable defence than EV without a shield against a centaur? What if you play the tactics to mitigate arrows. Does it particularily matter? Someone can run the numbers. I don't know how to Would it be better to have a book or ranged start to kill a centaur? Possibly. Is the EV loss ...

I think fighter is the only "reliable" Op start since it's the only background that actually gives you an actual defence from being instant killed by a random centaur or whatever. I suppose summons might work too if you have amazing conecntration abilities. Ironically I find octopode const...

I've done new tomb with a HOFi of TSO with a broad axe and loads of tele scroll and and C Blink casted at 1%. I find that the intial drop down attracts most of the monsters so, when you teleport around you should *hopefully* teleport somewhere where there are less monsters so you can kill a greater ...

The few times I have used Yara's, it always seems to do minimal damage to the enchanted monster but more to its surrounding. It seems a waste of spell slots even if you happen to have both schools trained.

What is the chance of banishment compared with other status effects? From the sounds of it, the problem is that banishment has a high chance of occuring at a part of the game where you wouldn't neccessarily have sources of MR+ availbale, whereas other effects like paralysis occurs later in the game ...

It takes too much time and effort to kill orbs of fire with fire storm in my experience (read: 60 MP as DE of Vehumet wasn't enough). Interesting that you include your god but not your spellpower... IMO fire storm is the best spell in the game against orbs of fire. Yes, it takes more casts than Gla...

Is there a reason why we haven't counted how many shots you get per arrow on average in the current game, multiply ammo drops by that much, and make ammo mulch 100%? Isn't that the hellcrawl approach? It's not as if working out shots per ammo is particularily hard. What are people's experience with...

Not really a game mechanic and know it makes no difference, but I get a great sense of satisfaction after a fight to eat the corpses of powerful creatures in preference to weaker ones. I also prefer butchering and eating the corpses of uniques and annoying tricky creatures like the various spellcast...

I put rations to "y". That way I will always make the correct choice.

How about instead of a mostly-static maze of one-tile-wide passages, labyrinths basically just copy the Abyss code with fewer terrain types and a weaker monster set? Probably slow down the terrain changes as well. Escape hatches back to the main dungeon replace Abyss exits, and when you get enough ...

duvessa wrote:now we have to lure jorgrun across the dungeon to break transporter vaults, instead of just using a deep troll

Why? What has changed? Do deep trolls no longer have LRD?

Does the game even bother describing how monster damage or AC even works?

This game needs a squidcat as a playable species. Decafelid.

I just tried this with a summoned ice beast and it didn't tell me there was a corpse under a giant club. But I mostly use it for animate dead.

ctrl-f corpse

The anti food brigade leaps upon anything to remove food. Not that I disagree, but there doesn't seem to be a reason for mummies to scum turns anymore, so what relation does mummies have in removing food in order to to limit turns? Not to mention 90 000 turns is such a ridiculously low number. Every...

Surely the simpliest "fix" would be to make it so gifts don't cost piety. Gifts need piety to be gained, but don't take any away from the player; a faster gain would give faster time between gifts, which was how I assumed it worked in the first place.

Does receiving gifts use up piety? I wasn't aware that it did so.

You guys are so very kind, you know that?

I find Orc dangerously unpredictable, like getting killed by a summoned Sixfirhy in two turns, that sort of thing.

There is silent spectre. I don't see the point of making extended so you have a good chance of getting instantly one shotted, or having to use up all your consumables before you can get all the runes. I would say the problem with extended right now is that it almost forces you to build your characte...

The exact spellpower of a spell is one of the few things you can work out easily in crawl. Knowing how much extra you need to train to change range can be important, as well as how much to have a comfortable buffer, as your tactics can change, it's not as if you will have cblink first or whatever sp...

I don't see a problem with trees being digable, except perhaps to make swamp slightly different. Or perhaps change wands of disintegration to blow up trees. Possibly a more enjoyable solution than changing vaults.

I think the problem is that falling for 3 floors in the early dungeon is a bit extreme. Especially when you might have alread been shafted or skipped a level due to a dangerous unique or situation. It can feel very unfair. Perhaps limit shaft drops to 2 floors at least for the early dungeon.

Keep scythes but give them halberd stats.

A succession of single ghost moths killed my DgIE. Apparently a +10 shortsword of flaming isn't good enough melee damage and 28 AC and 20 EV isn't enough defence. They are resistant to both ice and poison, my main source of killyness, drained my magic and hit like an emperor scorpion. And they are f...

What is the damage difference in percentage? For the most part playing a melee character, I find lvl 15 shields in the game blocking about half the attacks. Then again in the later parts of the game for shields don't block most of the deadliest attacks.

I agree. If monsters are not to spawn after level generation, then there is no reason for piety decay. Reduce rate of piety gain to compensate.

What is the difference between unrands/fixedarts?

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My #1 cause of death.

Is Dithmenos supposed to be the enchanter god? It seems more like a god of random stuff.

What if you 'tw' her? Seems like she'd wander the level storming everyone... She still doesn't sound like the best pet but this might be better than having her in LoS all the time... She was slowly killing off my gifted undead. Not that it mattered. Next level down in depths, two successive flocks ...

Don't Enslave Soul Bai Suzhen's dragon form.

I had that vault. It's a wand of confusion. At least it was for me. Press V , everyone falls into the deep water and drowns apart from the one on the nearest tile.

What are the breakpoints for Lesser Beckoning? I understand how spell power works, but there seems to be no information for how spellpower relates to the range of Lesser beckoning. Lesser Beckoning appears to be almost unique for having an obvious breakpoint in a spell, which means that being draine...

I think in one of the patches, the sling and greatsling got +2 damage and the ammo damage got -2, so the total is the same. Sling went from 5 to 7 and greatsling from 8 to 10. Sling bullet went from 6 to 4, and stone went from 4 to 2. But then Sling bullet gives +2 damage with a sling. My understand...

I don't understand this time taken business. So it takes half the time to take a stairs to a new level as you do for a level you've already been to? When is the multiplier ever 1? Btw Ophie, Spellcasting gives a quarter of the gain in any one school as any other school. Though you had a lot of spell...

V:2 Price:+2 Ice Dragon Armour Amulet of the four winds rN+ MR+++ Clar 2 amulets of rage Amulet of Gourm rN+ 2 scrolls of identify 2 scrolls of teleportation 2 potions of experience 1 potion of haste 1 potion of resistance Book of the Tempests Book of Maledictions A book of Misfortune Sif manu’s Adv...

I definitely think that unifying ammo would be a good thing. Less items lying around, less inventory space taken, maybe a chance to goldify them. I don't know how much stones vs bullets matter. It's actually a very fiddly mechanic, and the reason why I avoid slings. The inventory description tells ...

I don't get it. Is this a joke thread?

Poisonous vapours is great. It seems to do at least twice the damage of sting for twice the magic cost, and smite targetting is just so useful. It's a bit odd that you can't target invisible monsters with it, and you'll likely get mephetic cloud anyways. It's the spell that makes VM survivable enoug...

I like to learn it just in case to kill invisible creatures. It's probably a mistake to ever let an invisible orc wizard to get into melee range with you but whatever.

I don't see a problem with useless items. It's a problem that is a non-problem. In fact, don't crawl purposely create useless items? It could be bias but I notice massive amounts of runed armour when playing as an octopode for instance.

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