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Ah. So the wand of heal wounds really doeesn't scale with skill at all.

Also whoops, I typed invo when I meant evo.

Wands of heal wounds and digging are also "evoked" despite not scaling with evocations skill.

(Well that's not absolutely true. Elyvilon worshipers can target enemies with /HW to pacify them and this effect scales with invo.)

You can just add

: if you.race() == "Ghoul" then
auto_eat_chunks = false
: end

to your rc file.

Akshully it's 0.2, so Haste or Finesse do improve it, but Finesse is not better than Haste at it. It's still a dumb restriction. Going straight from 0.2 to 0.1 with haste would be stupidly powerful of course but there shouldn't be anything stopping the game from just using div_rand_round to make it...

Hating light is definitely more thematic but hating fire is more straightforward and simple for players to understand. Everyone can see that corona or haloes would be bad but what about things like mutagenic glow or Olgreb's Toxic Radiance? How about "your rapier glows with a cold blue light?&q...

I don't really like the idea of having extremely slow piety gain that's only used for determining spell level. I'd suggest using a combination of piety and invo skill to determine potential spell gifts, and then actually giving the player abilities to spend piety on. I'm not sure exactly what abilit...

le_nerd wrote:Short reminder, someone some time ago suggested that dropping stuff with D removes that stuff from autopickup. Would be awesome to patch in as well!

If this gets in it should definitely be a toggleable rc option, not default behavior.

how about making it evocable at an HP/MP cost and taking time, and making it dismiss only the next hit? E.g evoke it for 10hp cost. Takes 2 turns to "charge". The next monster to hit you after the charge teleports. And it makes a loud noise? This would stop it being an instant win GTFO a ...

For clarity the inscription would probably have to say something like {slowmonsters}.

Also throwing my vote in for removing the stat changes, they seem mostly unrelated.

I feel they play very differently. H gives a single ally who increases in power with the player, B gives many who increase in power individually. There's space for both, just like there is space for Y and B right now. Also notably, Hep gives an expendable ally who will respawn later even if you lea...

I guess that would be one of the versions between dismissal being created and warding no longer existing. But my point is that DCSS is a very random game as is, with damage rolls being 1-x damage, with very random and swingy combat. you really gotta play some ToME4 if you want to expierence swingy ...

Meh. Even if you got "30 free spell levels," I don't think it'd break the game, honestly; it's just a pile of conjurations, which you'd still have to train to use. No worse, really, than Trog or Oka gifts. You're unlikely to carry more than about 5 Trog or 10 Oka gifts around with you at ...

Labyrinth should just be a long, twisty corridor made of stone, probably with width 2 or 3 and no branching or dead ends. Full of monsters just like any other floor. The twist is that, just like now, the loot and the only exit are at the end, under the minotaur. No retreat, no escape, win or die. e...

- Being knocked into deep water by trampling monsters - Stumbling into water while confused (I'm thinking 'no' here since there is no warning, and there usually is when confusion might really hurt you) - Losing Flight status via a shambling mangrove's Roots attack - Any way other than Flight natura...

njvack wrote:I'm curious: how does the slow healing 1 mutation (yay Ru!) interact with sources of regen?

Looks like it'll halve everything except the regen from Trog's Hand (when a monster's around). Since you're not worshipping Trog that probably won't be relevant.

Random armor brands sound a lot less interesting than the possible effects from a chaos weapon . Possibly paralysing, hasting, confusing, berserking, etc is interesting and significant. Suddenly getting an extra pip of resist or higher spellpower for a turn is not very interesting. Maybe it would be...

The "cblink into a cloud" ability seems to go from moderately good with just qaz clouds (which are mostly within 2 range of the player) to absurdly OP with access to some kind of cloud spell/rod.

duvessa wrote:The chance of a random wand being either digging or disint is 66% higher than the chance of it being random effects.

But if a player has both /random and /dig it's optimal to empty out the /random at the wall first, since digging charges are more generally useful/valuable.

Making pickup take 0 turns would make it easier to pillar dance/kite with arrows. Not sure that matters much but it's the only case I thought of. The biggest buff would probably be to throwing, since javelins or large rocks are in short supply (unless you meet the shoals or the cyclops end in orc, ...

Well, it can be argued that ID adds something to the game early on when you don't know if that stack of 3 potions is degeneration or haste, but later in the game when you have a stack of 9 ID scrolls and 12 remove curse and can instantly identify every randart or unrecognized consumable you see, I'd...

Aren't there already similar panic buttons in Necromancy? Additionally, getting to block 50 HP of damage whenever you have a couple mana is ridiculously OP, even if it decays very rapidly. There'd be no reason not to spam it every few turns in combat, which would be incredibly tedious. DDoor and Bo...

To drop an item you first have to unequip it anyways. Unless you're trying to tactically drop a ring by sacrificing your hand to Ru or something. (Does that take a turn?)

Swapping between two weapons takes 0.5 turns, according to the time readout in-game.

You could probably replace all runed doors with normal doors + plants in front of them, so the player doesn't autoexplore through them. That would cut out a relatively rare dungeon feature while still making the formerly-runed doors about equally irritating to enter. Imo it would definitely be more...

I was suggesting "remove ID at the point where the ID minigame has already ended because at that point it's mostly superflous". An argument can be made to remove ID earlier on but at that point you're arguing about removing (part of) the ID minigame, which is another debate. And there's a ...

Floor 8 is the last level of the Lair of Beasts. You can go back up to the regular dungeon from Lair:1, and go on to explore the Dungeon, the Orcish Mines, and eventually the Vaults. When you're a little stronger you can come back to the lair and explore some of the branches that are connected to it...

duvessa wrote:orb of scrying

Cheap Plastic Replica of the Orb of Zot

ZoFy wrote:Mummies and other undead can't cast anything while silenced though.

Curse skulls can, though.

LearnDB has this tip: "Bcraden's Weird Tips: 6. Paralysis sets a monster's EV to 0. So Paralyzed things are always hit by Bolts of Inaccuracy." Is this accurate? And if so, does this also apply to sleeping monsters? Because it seems that a high stealth character could use the Rod as range...

It barely exists for 90% of the game, it's hardly tedious. If there was passive autoID past a certain XL there would be almost nothing to complain about. Lair:8 currently has nothing in it (compared to e.g. rune branches, or the Orc shops). Maybe stick a "stone of lore" in there that pass...

Clubs are a "starting weapon" for unarmed book starts who need to scrounge up a melee weapon off of the first goblin they kill.

The formula is worse at both levels, actually. MHP/3 is lower when MHP < 60, and MHP/6 + 10 is lower when MHP > 60. Personally I don't see anything wrong with simplifying it to use MHP/3 regen at all levels though. I don't think that 300hp ogre is going to notice the extra .4 hp per turn when he goe...

"Centaur but without movement speed" is boring in my opinion. It's like, let's take a human and give it 20% hp and make it worse at defenses in the early-mid game. Except this proposal has tough skin 3 to partially make up for having bad defenses. That's about it for special characteristi...

Quick charge is a very good ability and the piety cost is low enough that you can pretty much afford to use it every time your mana gets full again. Or if you just leave your mana full he'll start counting up all the extra mana you earn and gift you mana potions for it, which you can basically use a...

The worst part of item identification in Crawl is probably consumable identification. Keeping track of where each potion/scroll in your inventory generated, how many have generated, stacks, which ones were in monsters' inventories, etc. lets you improve your guesses as to which consumable is which....

Rast wrote:How about....

"magical"

You wield the magical executioner's axe {god gift}

F - A +5 antimagic executioner's axe.

In the current formula (with no regen muts) it takes 300 turns to regenerate from 0 to full if you have anywhere from 0 to 60 maxhp, and it takes longer if you have more. With maxhp/6+10 a 300-hp character will take 500 turns to fully regenerate. Your graph looks at hp-per-turn instead of turns-for-...

Some really good arguments ITT, I just want to point out that wizzzargh's post has already won the thread, because dual randart giant club wielding ettin skeleton is the best weapon overall. counterpoint: the ettin skeleton is not wielding the dark maul is it possible as an yred worshipper to let M...

AFAIK the only spell with a nonstandard cast time is Passwall. I think you're just getting unlucky with energy randomization.

Even if it weren't Evil with a capital E, it would make sense for Ely to hate the thing, given that it's literally an Amulet of Harm and Ely is The Healer. By that logic Ely should hate weapons and most of the spells in the game. Yeah! She should hate them so much that she gives the player piety fo...

Specifically towards spell success. Is it feasible to make use of crystal plate armor without having an enormous spell success penalty? If so, what do I need to do. I was wanting to eventually switch from trog and eventually start doing zigs, any advice on this would be appreciated: http://crawl.ak...

Seems like a significant nerf to nagas of notchei. Centaurs too but they're already better-than-average.

ajon wrote:Out of curiosity, and slightly off topic, why was ignite poison changed to only burn poisoned enemies and not poisonous ones?

It affected enemies with poisonous corpses, and poisonous corpses were removed.

I guess that would be one of the versions between dismissal being created and warding no longer existing. But my point is that DCSS is a very random game as is, with damage rolls being 1-x damage, with very random and swingy combat, with lots of spells and attack effects having % chances to inflict...

Sar wrote:Shatter isn't very good against slimes IIRC.

but on the other hand shatter lets you break into the endvault without actually fighting TRJ

Having a chance to dig stone is super annoying and super spoilery (since stone walls are only created by vaults, so I have to go look up the vault to see if it is worth digging into and if so where it is worth doing). Stone should just be indestructible. Yeah either diggable or indestructible. Digg...

EE's can already blow up stone/metal/crystal with lrd/shatter so it's not like letting them use passwall is a huge change. Of course passwall is available for much lower investment. Maybe 'special' walls should count as 3 or 5 towards the range limit, so it's only available to highish-level mages wh...

I disagree heartily. *Fragile is basically the same to me as scrolls burning due to sticky flame or potions bursting due to freezing. It's a game mechanic that is annoying at best and makes items worse than useless. i'm gonna break CYC kayfabe here and ask, sincerely: can you explain yourself furth...

Why was it removed? To explain my rationale about weapon choice in the new system; a) high attack speed makes STR more important because more instances of damage (think slaying), b) High accuracy means that DEX scarcely helps user offensively, as you will already be hitting due to high accuracy. Si...

Rast wrote:So why'd you do it to blowguns?

points in throwing are still useful for non-blowgun stuff like nets or eventually javelins of penet

points in shortblades on a mace character are almost entirely useless after you outgrow your dagger of venom

In my opinion, VM is one of the best book starts. Try to get over the fixation of "X has to be awesome throughout the game'. People say that VM is the strongest in the early game but it doesn't feel like it when you have no way to deal with spiny frogs or hydras. Unless your definition of earl...

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