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I'm with absoluteego; fixedart gifting should be limited or done away with. Fixedarts are special, and shouldn't have a high likelihood of showing up in any particular game. However, I think galehar was simply indicating a direction of change rather than a destination. There are many ways to nerf gi...

I'm thinking that there should be an Ice themed Misc. Item, possibly named Oz. Gem, that casts Refrigeration. Pending the Misc. Items reform , this Icy Item should do 3 things: ⋅ Give passive freeze when wielded (and do significant percent maxHP damage and possibly some rot damage when unw...

XuaXua, you're right. I shouldn't have supported KL's tone. I apologize for it. However, the content of his post is true, even wrapped in a bad tone. Giving a percent chance or probability that Apportation will pull something out of deep water means is equivalent to letting players Apport it on the ...

Ok, I'm completely lost then. What is it that Kiku gifts?

Well, I kinda think the special brands are special for a reason. If you could perma-poison weapons or move that Holy Wrath from the ankus to the broadaxe in every game, those brands would be less special. Awesomely good = no-brainer, and practically guaranteeing such an item turns a fun moment of Wi...

3. Vorpalization should be able to be overwritten by another brand. Perhaps both by the spells (Flame, Freeze, Lethal, Poison, Excruciating, Distort) temporarily, and when using a EW III, permanently ("Do you really want to enchant your Vorpal weapon with Frost?").

barding isn't shoes. IRL, it's a horse armour. In crawl, it has an evasion penalty of 2, so it does hinder UC and spellcasting, just like a ring mail. I just did some checking in Wizmode, and bardings don't appear to affect spellcasting nor unarmed. Are you sure bardings are reckoned in the same wa...

It shouldn't. Bardings count as shoes, I believe. Unfortunately, bardings seem to be rather rare, so you can't necessarily count on them for a Cheibriadite. (Hurray! A naga barding of Stealth! Now I get to be stealthy!) Eldritch tentacles are severed and die when the portal closes, so perhaps the mo...

When I originally posted this, I couldn't remember why I said to train Armour up to 1. I remember now: When playing a crusader or warper or gladiator until Armour 1, your leather armour will occasionally prevent you from hitting the {foo}. Particularly in the very early early game, missing on a regu...

From just reading it, that sounds absurdly fantastic (however, I'm no mathematician, nor am I a programmer). But everything that I read and understood, (Corrupt Branch and move out into Abyss, incomplete randomness - structures and pools and whatnot, Abyss getting harder for a variety of reasons, Ba...

Player stats barely affect weapon effectiveness in Crawl, which certainly non-obvious when I began Crawling, and still does seem non-obvious to me. I guess I'm thinking of 3 related problems. ⋅ The dominant boost to Weapon Effectiveness (W.E.) is non-obvious (Weapon Skill -> Delay reductio...

AFAIK, Berserkitis only affects melee. Ranged and Spells and Evocations don't trigger a happy killy moment.

...but i just have one problem with the spider tile. His head looked like a giant W, and i had to download and enlarge it, then It turned out that the W were its fangs. Maybe if the fang outlines were darkened it would be a bit easier to understand. I appreciate the criticism, Omndra. I do realize ...

I've been lurking the forum for a bit, but I do want to say that I'm looking forward to playing a Golem. Perhaps congratulations are a bit premature, but they are nevertheless deserved for your part. Nice Job, Curio.

Where in the Tiles folder would I find a list of all possible mutations (I don't quite trust the wiki)?

This is a related idea from the wonderful Things that should be more transparent thread. Another thing I think should be more transparent is how much your stats are boosted from items and mutations. So instead of | Str: 22 |, it would be | Str: 17 +5 | or even | Str: 17 +4 (in some color picked to d...

I like the idea of putting a awesomeness cap on the spells of the starting book, however, assuming that there is a spell level cap (4?), what will you do with the elementalists and transmuters? Do they have good replacement spells? What would you replace Bladehands with? Petrify? Polymorph? Dig? Wou...

I like this proposal. Like casting, but more limited, and should probably be capped at lower power (you are, after all, getting access to every spell you run across for the cost of a single skill). Also, Evocations skill should determine the level of spell you are able to cast, as well as your succe...

Passage of Golubria - L4 Translocation.The spell takes two casts to create the two "apertures" necessary to use it. The spell may not be recast until one of the apertures is used, which removes the entrance aperture . Each aperture is created with a slightly greater scatter area than a con...

The +/-4 indicates that a skill is crosstrained or antitrained, and the ' * ' indicates which skill is responsible for the crosstraining or antitraining. For example, good skill in Short Blades* will give a +4 apt in Long Blades, and skill in Ice* magic will give a -4 apt in Fire magic.

My apologies. Wasn't trying to be a jerk or make unhelpful comments. (Makes mental note to read more carefully next time)

If accuracy and duration are determined by spell power, then I think I was asking for too much in the OP. However, the benefits of differentiating the effects of different schools are just as sanka mentioned; being skilled in the 5 primary schools instantly give you functional access to any secondar...

Then Chei also shouldn't accept Ogres, Trolls, Draconians, Spriggans, Kenku, or Felids. However, read the discussion on Chei stat boost. Also, someone suggested that Chei give his followers a speed dial ability, instead of pondering armour.

I was waiting for someone more qualified to respond, but ... Anyway, I my estimation, the armour looks too 'bubbly'. Too many rounded corners and general bulbousness. If I were you, I would straighten just about every corner and angle, and increase the color depth. You don't have to try to simply en...

After recovering from a brain-fart concerning Charms, I now wonder if the magic schools should be separated into 'Power' and 'Secondary Effect'. For example, Repel Missiles is a Charms/Air, and since Charms are slated to be tied only to the duration of dual-school spells, not the power, then Air bec...

Ok, my brain-fart is finally over, and I remember what the duration thingy was about. If Charms merely extends duration, without increasing power, then L27 Charms L0 [Other Skill] should maximally extend a thoroughly useless effect. Gotcha.

I support tying duration to Charms, and not removing it.

When/if I play with tiles, I mostly use Corel PhotoPaint, which apparently uses not quite true blacks, so that when I make the outline, someone else has to go in and replace the color. Is there a way to check the colors within Corel, and still export those same colors (assuming I can find a true bla...

@Radiant: That's pretty much where I sit with it. I think it would be fun, but would it end up being too powerful? However, Glacier is destructible AND temporary, which may be enough to keep it from being overpowered.

Aw, what the heck. I'll go ahead and add it to the wiki.

If you are playing 0.8, then you can select what kinds of things you want to sacrifice to Nemelex. ^ then right-click. I always turn off b - decks of destruction, for example.

@dpeg: A while back, I posted a rough proposal in an attempt to make mutations more game-changing, using the mutations we already had. Minmay didn't think it was a good idea, and no one else weighed in, so I figured it wasn't something people wanted to do. However, I guess I assumed that people want...

As a side note, the reason why I'm making this post is because I feel that crawl actually needs _more_ things that can cause a player to reevaluate their character (and perhaps shift gears) in the middle of a game. I don't think there are many things that can do this, currently, and diminishing the...

I think that the problem of victory dancing is not so much a problem behaviour in itself, but rather a symptom of how the xp training works. Most RPG's make you artificially select which skills your XP points go into; Crawl puts XP points into whatever skilled action you happen to be doing at the mo...

Why is no branding a priority? It seems to me that magical weapons and shields and armor and evasion are good things, thematically, for a magical fighter.

That was discussed at Remove Berserk Spell; Replacement. Summary: - Replace Berserk with Poison Weapon or Ozocubu's Armor in War Chants . - Berserk L3 -> Frenzy L4-L6 : Berserks the target. The target is Confused, which "flickers" off and on during Berserk. Smite targeted, like Haste. - Re...

I wasn't trying to say that I want perma-summons. I like temporary summons. However, if every adventurer had a pet or something, instead of just those with summoning skill, then buff-type "other-spells" would be more powerful and sought after. This isn't a suggestion, just pointing out the...

As far as I see it, removing the Charms skill is out of the question. Unlike Divinations, the individual spells are tactically relevant. They may be too cheap and/or too strong, but they're not broken and there is no scumming. "Too cheap" and "too strong" can be addressed by cha...

Agreed. I don't know that Transmutations is the de facto Not-Charms school, even though some Charms might fit.

"The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" just popped into my mind.

I really, Really like smock's suggestion to remove charms. Really. A lot. There is probably some completely obvious reason that it wouldn't work, but I don't see one. There is a small sticking point of the charms without a secondary school, like Haste, but those could temporarily be moved to Hexes a...

This should do something toward removing endgame casting uniformity, right? Do you have any idea how much? Or is the answer to be found in playtesting?

You might want to also include http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/changes.txt, since it has stuff that isn't on mantis, and vice-versa.

Two thumbs up for the Guidelines!

If the devs are decided, then I am very sorry to see katanas go. I could see why they would be an irritant if you disliked the silliness of the wonderfully-magical-and-awesomely-slicey-katana-that-wins-every-time, but I don't think I liked them because, "I have a katana. I win." While I re...

D'oh!

I'm with mageykun. I had a happy every time I saw a katana. Please, please, please replace double-swords with katanas? I would rather see doubleswords go than katanas. Keep the crazy tripleswords of ridiculosity, they are ridiculous enough not to need predecessors or consistency. Note: written after...

The usefulness of the spell depends on shield skill, so you might want to use a real shield to victory dance up to level 1 at least. ^This always annoyed me. I can't use it with a shield, but to use it effectively, I need Shields skill, which requires a real shield to train in a timely fashion. If ...

Hear hear!

Just my thoughts on Demonspawn Mutations. See Demonspawn Brainstorming and Demonspawn Feedback on the wiki. Wishlist: Earth Facet, Air Facet (but it can't duplicate Black Draconians, or even be terribly similar), Poison Facet, Translocation facet ⋅ Ice 1 - rC, Conserve Potions, Icemail - ...

Where does one enter a reason for editing? I just see the standard posting screen.

yup, same here.

Phase Shift-- duration too low for normal use, does too little for emergency use. Teleport Self-- duplicates a common item. Apportation-- superb for speed runners, useless for those of us who kill everything. Portal Projectile-- haven't used enough to comment. Sounds pretty strong. Malign Gateway--...

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