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It could maybe be put in the @ info:

if there are any Gods mad at you, the last line can be:
"You have the following Deities mad at you: Sif Muna, Trog, Beogh"
else,
don't display that line
or display:
"You are in good standings with the Gods."

This can easily be handled with nothing but flavor text: "Casting (Spell) requires somatic motions that are difficult in your armor, and likely to fail without practice. Continue memorizing? (Y/n)" when attempting to memorize anything that will have 30% or more fail chance in whatever armo...

If i understand the purpose of this forum, it's for organizing challenges and events, right? Well, I have an idea for one... Ok, so there are a number of players who visit the Tavern, and have never won a game (i'm one of them, having only ever gotten one rune once). I'm curious if there would be en...

I was also thinking about a god with a fast killing conduct, but I think giving piety if the monster is killed quickly after it spots the player would be more interesting (of course if the monster is killed before spotting the player the player still gains piety). Note that this can be achieved in ...

What if the pet worked like the demonic aid mutation (one of my favorites), but with animals. In this case, a race may make more sense than a background. But hear me out: this race, call them Beastmen, Druids, or whatever else you want. I'd consider making them small, and calling them Satyr (and not...

Water levels have always sucked, and I have no idea why. Also, the drowning themes in Sonic games always gave me massive anxiety. It's tradition for water levels to be horrible, goes all the way back to the original Super Mario Brothers. If they weren't a pain, then they wouldn't be proper water le...

Hmm... what if it was a 1 for 1 exchange and used a permanent HP instead. the species gains the ability to rip further into their own flesh to cause more pain to others, and can at any time sacrifice one permanent HP for one permanent additional damage. stackable, if you want to sacrifice all your H...

I don't know who the person arrested is. Justin Beiber He's a singer, right? Don't celebrities get arrested pretty often? According to the article, he's younger than a lot of the ones that get caught with drugs and underage women and that stuff, but i don't think some celebrity getting arrested real...

What are you talking about? I just saw something about him on MTV Last night. He's promoting some new album or single or something.

In fact, they put the video on his website.

did i miss the joke or something?

Becoming better at worshipping makes you vomitting less noisy? Huh? :shock: Well, i figure if it's a divine ability, why not. plus you would be getting used to vomiting that much. And ok, I'm going to reprise my post with changes: According to legend, Rotgut is a world-devouring terror, worshipped ...

This in CYC, because it doesn't have a lot of detail yet, but it's a semi-serious idea for a God Proposal: Altar: An Acidic Altar of Rotgut (tile is an off-white altar) According to legend, Rotgut is a world-devouring terror, worshipped by those who would sacrifice their body for power. The imagery ...

All jewelry can only be worn until it's IDed, then it gets given to your grandkids.

I always envisioned Spriggans as this guy:

I know a Satyr is a different thing, it's just how I've always envisioned them. small, herbivore, fast, that's this guy!

I wasn't asking about fishing and owning houses. You're making this extremely more elaborate than I am. Both of you are acting like I want a simulator when I'm only asking for the 1 skill. I don't care about all the other skills. I certainly don't know of any game that you use a skill to go pee.......

What if instead of tearing, they worked like Pathfinder? The net is unfolded when used. unfolded nets work at like -5 or something, and exist as another inventory slot, "unfolded nets" until you take some amount of time per net to re-fold them. This would make them a bit more tactically in...

YES! Playable Player Ghosts! This needs to happen! Well, player ghosts aren't invisible, but a Phantom species (abbreviated as Ph) totally could be. Racial features: 1) Permanent Invisibility (as the spell, so things that end it or reveal you would). - the original proposal 2) You hunger for the ess...

Hear me out on this: 1) We have no basic dwarf anymore despite them being a staple of the genre. 2) We are getting to where the animal-hybrid species are getting stupid. Admittedly, I'd rather play an ant-man than a sentient cat, but this just feels out of place. 3) Admittedly, I've not gotten past ...

But....you could shoot a spell effect at them yourself? Summon them infront of you, use searing ray or something to charge them up, and boom, instant bomb. I would guess you take damage too. you're in range in this scenario, right, since you didn't specify movement. Would they fly in a random patte...

So basically, you would be able to set Zot traps?

It doesn't sound awfully imbalanced, but it would need careful planning and tweaking. Maybe one spell per tile, and possibly only one tile in existence at a time?

@galehar With all due respect, I don't think my design method was bad. I started with the intention of making a interesting race that was unique within crawl. Currently there is not a single species with more than a +1 in ice so i figured that was a good place to start. In the end id say the specie...

I don't think all the -3 aptitudes make up for the fact that no species has a +5 in any skill, and this does. Not sure how powerful that would or wouldn't be, but it seems like too much, especially for Fighting. You'd be better off increasing the frequency they gain HP up from the zero you have. We ...

No IMO. Reason: autoexplore. Edit. Re-read it, I see you notived AE as well, sorry. However, why would you want include this kind of trait, isn't chei of naga enough? I would say no. Chei changes much more about gameplay, and doesn't force the blink effect on you. Anyway, I think it's interesting, ...

If I had to venture a guess, I would say that based on the randomness of the layout, and the armoring, that the orcs are mining with explosives. You arrive dramatically just after the explosives have stopped exploding, so there's still all the gold they blew out of the rocks all over the floor. The ...

I had a random thought, I don't know if it's any good, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Give Demigods the mutation; "your spells are much harder to cast, but much more powerful." as a natural mutation, (or some other step along the wild magic branch.) (Also, I think it would be cool ...

I'm sorry, I'm not understanding what "rune lock" is. This is referring to the action of removing certain uniques from generating on the floors with the runes?

I'm not sure why this needs to be said, but it seems like it does: Fantasy the Genre != Fantasy the word in the dictionary. As a genre, Fantasy is somewhat defined (and admittedly broader than just Tolkien and D&D), and going against the expectations and tropes of the genre changes the genre. Yo...

XuaXua wrote:Still hoping for the Lich Kitteh

I don't understand, can Felids not learn Lich Form?

I mean, I hate the idea of a cat-race in this game and have never played one, but it seems like there's no reason they couldn't learn it. Maybe I just don't understand what you're trying to say.

What if the sunlight ability made Vampires (or possibly all undead) flee the area? It doesn't add damage that way, and while it's already an effect of Turn Undead, that doesn't mean a Fedhas Worshipper necessarily has access to that spell. If Fedhas is really underused, adding Turn Undead as an effe...

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I seem to recall your unarmed combat skill affecting them. to some extent. maybe only certain ones.

Most of the feedback here is right, this seems powerful. But... I like some of the ideas. The concept of a disarm spell or manuever, especially one capable of making an angel drop the holy weapon, sounds good. it should be pretty high level spell though. Summon Wall would actually be a really intere...

Ok, I really don't use Nemelex. Thanks for the answer though.

If you read some of the changes on crawl.develz.org/trunk/ there are two entries a few lines down mentioning something I've not seen in Crawl before: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2dcda89 | Pekka Lampila | 2013-04-12 10:43:40 -0500 Show lowered pric...

Species - Opposite Species Human - Alien High Elf - Rehabilitation Elf Deep Elf - Shallow Elf Sludge Elf - Pristine Elf Deep Dwarf - Shallow Dwarf Hill Orc - Bay Watcher Orc Merfolk - Landfolk Halfling - Doubling Kobold - Kobnew Vampire - Twilight Vampire Mummy - Wet T-shirt Contestant Very nice. i...

Yes, I know it's crazy, but I was considering that there could be a race that is the opposite of a Deep Dwarf. Since we can do damage shaving, maybe we can do damage deepening too. with that in mind, i present my idea for flesh golems. Flesh golems are living humanoids made from amorphous pink goop....

Personally, I go with the idea of Mario World like 'Checkpoints', using the following rules: ⋅ No checkpoints prior to Temple being found. The difficulty of the start is sacred; and if you can't even make it even that far, chances are this character might well be a bust anyway. This take...

I think it was already sort of suggested here, but i have an idea: When playing Fallout: New Vegas, you were able to buy plenty of what was called "surplus ammo." Surplus ammo was high in quantity, but not so much in quality. The exchange for not having to pay much for enough ammo to keep ...

I've never won either. I've been playing on and off since I discovered DCSS in like 2008. I am, however, an impatient alt-aholic who doesn't finish most of the games I play, instead finding some sort of satisfaction or fun in trying out the various different combinations available to me at the begin...

Man, sites like this need to DIAF already. I fix computers (mostly for seniors) for a living, and so many of them get these sorts of programs. Something pops up and says "OMG! VIRuS!!!!!11one" And these seniors are just throwing their credit card information at it. I continually have to un...

Well, no, see if demigod status is independent of species, so should be vampire, mummy, and ghoul, seeing as how it's as easy to mummify a dead human as it is a dead minotaur. and a vampire-Spriggan would be hilarious.

akin to going to Gamestop or Steam to buy a game instead of Walmart. I wouldn't say it's quite the same. Pretty much anyone can wander into Gamestop or go to Steam - just like Walmart, all you need is a credit card. Obtaining and installng Linux or something else requires a higher level of technolo...

New magic school: Swears. Includes spells: F-Bomb, Racial Slur, and the dreaded Lehudib's Yo Momma. level 9: Swr/Conj, Shit Storm New god Proposal: Cornelius, god of the dungeon's sewers and fecal matter. Has various powers related to pooping, that sometimes help adventurers too. at each rank of pi...

According to Bing Translator, "giygas" is Greek for "not funny". Bing is a crappy everything. This just proves that it's also inaccurate. Right. Everyone knows Giygas was the first known abortion in history. No, really. Giygas was the boss of the game Earthbound. You essentially...

Just some advice that helped me: You don't mention God choice at all. You might get further at first with a berserker. The ability to berserk at will is really nice if you do get into a tight spot, and Trog's other abilities are also powerful. I usually read scrolls to try to ID them. It's been ment...

Confidence Interval wrote:Don't you have a big <delete> button you could press instead?

The +12 +12 Giant Delete Button of Ice. It causes extra damage during flame wars.

Resquiid Sounds cool, but I have two questions: 1. How would vampires be affected by this god, if at all, considering that their mode of consumption is drinking rather than eating? 2. Would players gain extra piety for killing mummies in approximately the same way Troglodytes do for killing mages? ...

Nope. The gods are intentionally genderless.

Confidence Interval wrote:
IronJelly wrote: Something with the testicles hanging from the chin would have -AC, since a hit there would be critical.

Unless you were female.

I'm pretty sure the players are genderless. That's why the gods treat us so well, they identify with us as the only other members of their gender.

Negative AC acts like zero AC, and so does negative EV. I view negative AC as a black hole drawing hits toward you and negative EV like putting your face directly into the next swing. Thanks for ruining my fantasy :cry: See, I thought something similar as well. Good to know. Although, I think, in r...

Wizmode is good for thematic play. Like, wearing a special artefact which gives insane offense and cripples your defense (rF--, rC--, AC -20, EV -20, Dam +50, Acc +50, Curse). It's not as easy as you might think. :P Tell me something: if my character has negative AC or EV, do they do anything? Is t...

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