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Manuals should give a permanent, retroactive, +2 to the skill apt.

No manuals of Fighting, Armour, Dodging, as those aren't interesting.

duvessa wrote:axes, the only weapon class that specifically has anti-synergy with shields.

Please explain

My suggestion is to reduce Hell to one 9-floor branch, with runes on 3,5,7,9.

And remove the quick-exit function of Hell stairs.

Cornercat wrote:there isn't much inherently evil about DS. Its just their ancestry

i sense that you are unfamiliar with traditional fantasy tropes.

FR: Have all three of them (Minotaur, Hill Orc, and Mountain Dwarf) as playable races, but make them mechanically identical.

duvessa wrote:Is this an oblique rag on the xp penalty for using allies

It's more about amulet of the acrobat. Sorry, Lasty.

Fine, 5%

FR: new base amulet type. Increases earned xp by 3%. Applies drain on removal

duvessa wrote:Why do the people in these conversations never mention brands? The brands for different weapon types are significantly different:

None of this applies to scroll of brand weapon, right?

broad axe plus shield is fine

Pingas wrote:[list][*]Empowered Wands 1: Gnomes have increased power when zapping wands.

We already have a mechanism for this: The Evocations skill and aptitude.

How many different kinds of clouds do we really need?

duvessa wrote:qw is a literal bot and specifically values amulets of reflection and guardian spirit higher than it values amulets of regeneration

Because that's what the bot writer wanted. qw is not the product of a machine learning algorithm

Siegurt wrote:
Rast wrote:The current spirit shield+torment interaction is unfair.

But I don't know of a fix which is also fair.

How about 'Spirit shield doesn't protect you from torment at all'

But then you can get tormented down to 5% and still have max MP to protect you from non-torment attacks.

Even though I'm a console-only player, I will say that the person who creates a web-based GUI vault editor which uses tiles tiles and requires no knowledge of .des formatting will go down in crawl history as a legend. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21723 I suppose the next ...

Even though I'm a console-only player, I will say that the person who creates a web-based GUI vault editor which uses tiles tiles and requires no knowledge of .des formatting will go down in crawl history as a legend.

Is that what chunks look like in tiles? Mmmmmm delicious.

Spirit shield on: Omg brimestone fiend is in los! Too bad for him, I have bolt-o-cold! Oh no I lost almost all my mana because of torment! I can quaff mana pot, what the... (died from damnation) Spirit shield off: Omg brimestone fiend is in los! Too bad for him, I have bolt-o-cold! You don't want t...

MainiacJoe wrote:Help me brainstorms ways to do damage while moving.

That's not important. Just enjoy the +15 to EV whenever you are moving closer or re-positioning or running away. Epecially when running away.

Maybe an unrandart amulet that gives you a gnoll-like aptitude boost with forced training in all skills, as well as some kind of hefty malus. (It would be utterly broken if found while worshipping Ashenzari, though). Amulet of playing as a gnoll.... will there also be a new race which lets you play...

The whole point of gnoll is you can swap to whatever you want whenever you want. Yes a +8 speed longbow is good enough for the entire game, but you will find other endgame weapons as you go, and some will be even better. Such as shield+demon weapon. Or shield + eveningstar/broad axe. Or battleaxe. O...

Theoretically, if you get a skill to 27 with manuals, will the remaining skills train slightly faster?

I think red devils could have the same effect on combat while losing the annoyance factor if you limit how much and how often they can hop back.

Gozag plus 9000 gold works well. Ironically, it's better on orb tomb run, because you'll capture pan lords and they will beat up the greater mummies.

How hard did you train TSO invocations?

While I think a monster shafting spell would work a lot better than current banishment, it's worth noting that it doesn't improve the first two problems in the OP at all. 1) Positioning doesn't have to matter 100% of the time, both before and after banishment. It's enough that you can use positioni...

What if Banish spell sent you to a deeper level or branch instead of always to the Abyss? Basically monster-castable shaft .

Does this work with standard summons like rats and hounds?

Training stealth is good in general, but on a centaur it's not a reasonable protection against getting instabanished.

Again, the problem with banishment is the Abyss.

(presuming you don't usually go retrieve all your arrows and then shoot them again when you have like 10) In practice you can usually do this and it's super tedious and you take a few extra hits while picking up ammo but mostly its just an awful experience. Currently ranged combat in crawl is balan...

If failed banish is going to be free, successful banish needs to cost more piety. Mahkleb is already extremely strong and can already spam banish.

Perhaps low level banishment should be much less of an unfair shitshow.

The power of gozag is that it lets you buy strategic items with big plusses to give you an unfair advantage of the game. So I'm not sure why you aren't finding what you want in armor shops. Don't be afraid to switch weapon types after Lair if the weapon you have is just mediocre. This isn't Gozag-sp...

Would be an interesting sprint, VAF. Don't forget Bazzar and Trove.

I like lab too. Please don't remove it. How about devs test out the following changes in trunk: - No map rot - autoexplore allowed (magic mapping still forbidden) - No more maze reconfiguring itself, as apparently players don't realize this is happening - A few commonly placed minivaults with exits ...

Hairmachine, you do know that wall type is a clue?

Instead of this:

Code:: Annotations: Lair:2 2 exclusions Spider:2 Arachne, Kirke

Display this:

Code:: Annotations: Lair:2 2 exclusions Spider:2 Arachne the Acid blob, Kirke the Azure jelly

They could remain separate. Eating would continue to take the oldest chunk, or if you are out of chunks it would give a y/n to eat a ration.

If you're left-to right is "fighty to spellcasty" then Berserkers obviously belong at the far left. True! Zealots are really their own thing though, starting with a god is a big deal and has a major impact on how the game plays for you. We only have three zealots left, and Xom doesn't rea...

...so they don't take up inventory space and so you don't have to know their inventory letters when you eat.

Currently the role selection screen says: Berserkers believe in Trog, the magic-hating god of frenzy. Not much can stop a raging berserker early on, apart from hubris. Abyssal Knights worship Lugonu, and are sent from the Abyss into the Dungeon to spread corruption and chaos. Chaos Knights are playt...

...by combining Adventurer and Zealot categories. This would be more visually appealing as well giving new players a better picture of the relative play styles ... from left to right it gets more spellcasty and less fighty. Welcome, rast the Hill Orc. Please select your background. Warrior Adventure...

100% ammo mulch (or simply remove launcher ammo requirements) would make centaurs more popular.

What penis allusion?

But OP is right. Ammo quantities at that point in the game are still low, and picking ammo up after or during battles is horrible.

guidecriticcritic wrote:
GuideCritic wrote:This guide is most charitably described as inconsistent and most accurately as bad.

This critique was overpriced and can only be described as both bland and an assault on the finer senses,

Do we even have a captcha on forum registrations?

I'd take a vamp broad axe over it, but I'm just greedy that way.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Tavern: Train Fighting. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Fighting would be it. The long-term benefits of training Fighting have been proved by Crawl scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I ...

Of the three types of defense, all have different strengths and disadvantages, but also hidden mechanics. AC: GDR, which no-one understands and is considered to be unimportant. Bonus. EV: Giant malus if you dont have sInv against an invisible monster. Malus. SH: Giant malus if trying to defend agai...

After 2k+ games, one of the few things that I still find fun about crawl is setting trees on fire.

nago wrote:The major problem with the current version of Gn is that most of them will be quite similar chars in late game (1h+shield +same set of good spells, etc),

I think their shield apt should be reduced and weapon apts increased to make two-handers more attractive.

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