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Generally speaking I feel rather weak on DE. That's probably because I like picking up weapons on my casters, and -3 HP aptitude sucks. This particular character finished Lair and Orc and is in lower dungeon. My book is all online a long time ago, and I have decent defenses for a DE. I haven't had a...

Interesting, but highly annoying in practice I suspect.

I'm game. The account is pblur.

Perhaps the 'Free and Easy' clan?

No, I think it's based on knowing to expect a shop in a certain place (whether because Orc:4, bazaar, ash or a scroll of magic mapping) and getting the to find an abandoned shop. And feeling loss when that happens. His complaint wasn't 'I don't get enough shops,' it was 'I don't like the feeling of ...

This would be considered an effect of having demonic spellcasting/holiness within silence; not a racial mutation.

How is it different from a racial mutation? I assume it would show up that way in the A menu?

so the real solution to the OP complaint is Gamblers Anonymous? that squares with a theory i've held for a while now: that DCSS is the world's most elaborate slot machine, and the devs are a front for the mob! Well. If we hold that gambling is wrong in some way, yes... But my proposition is that ga...

While I agree that there's no inherent difference logically between a chance of not being generated and a chance to be useless, the inherent complaint is a psychological one. It's well known that people don't react emotionally the same to loss and lack of positive. (We suck at gambling.) This is par...

A lot of things that aren't great design when randomly generated work quite well in vaults, because there's human attention to (nominally) ensure that the design issues with that bit of nice flavor are minimized or irrelevant. In the case of abandoned shops, imagine a vault like the overgrown yuif v...

One more average damage stat: Searing Ray (level 2 single school), 40 spell power, zaps 1/2/3/4

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Yes, the last shot out-performs IMB. The Cj spell book is damn good.

OK, now that I understand more of what feature freeze means, I'm OK with games from week 6 being on 0.17 (since week 6 basically entirely overlaps with the 0.17 tourney.)

Fedhas forgives confused enemies killing plants (#9917)

But I may be confused

I don't really like the idea of deciding what changes are major an what ones aren't. For instance, I'm trying to get a good god coverage, and I haven't used Fedhas yet. We already have a significant divergence in fedhas balance from 0.17 and 0.18a. Can I really make Fedhas an option if I let people ...

I just figured I'd add some average damage numbers to back up the damage claims here. Lvl 5: Iskenderun's Battlesphere (per shot) 7+0.09*Power Lvl 4: Fulminant Prism 10.5+0.263*Power Lvl 5: Fireball 6.5+0.25*Power Lvl 4 (single spell): IMB 7+0.16*Power Lvl 6: Bolt of Fire 12+0.333*Power 40 is quite ...

I play a lot of gozag.

And when I said vaults, I meant in the 'pre-defined content' sense, not the branch.

How is extremely slow a good racial mutation? Am I confused?

Um. A crawl god likes my idea. I'm not sure how to feel about that... I mean you sponsor mass-murder and excuse it by requiring the mass murderers to not eat the corpses of the people they kill? Non-cannibalism excuses murder?

What if I told you that there's a "traditional roguelike mechanic" in the game that could be removed without making Crawl's design appreciably worse, that is responsible for somewhere around 300-1000 extra keypresses per winning game, all of which have little to no impact whatsoever on th...

I disagree about the foodshops... I think they're about right. And abandoned shops should still be usable for flavor (abyss and vaults.) We could really do with removing portal mimics though. I find them incredibly unfun. I mean, I like swamp, etc. mimics and rune mimics, because they're simply pret...

I think the noise-spreading aspect of silence should be separated from the spell/invo suppressing, these should be renamed slightly to avoid two entirely different things being called silent spectres, and these should only have the no-noise aspect of silence. Add perma -Wiz, and raise a few of those...

This does sound more like molten gargoyle or molten construct/golem than salamander

Rather than delay week 6, I'll extend the deadline on it, so week 6 will have 3 weeks to finish. Is that agreeable?

I've never played Fo much. I'll have to try that combo

The consensus on ##crawl-dev was that it was a bug. I didn't see anyone nail down exactly how it happened though.

To put it another way, if you put all nine of your level-up points into str you'd get about 3 slaying at the end of the game. OTOH: Race: Fo str: 35 dex: 24 ER: 11 dodging:20 armour: 27 :: EV: 31 Race: Fo str: 44 dex: 15 ER: 11 dodging:20 armour: 27 :: EV: 23 You'd be giving up 8 EV. I'd take the 8 ...

Assassins are best played as ordinary melee character that happen to start with one of the best items in the game (curare) and one of the best items in the early game (poison needles). If you're having trouble, run a HOAs. Train up an axe. Use curare on all early vulnerable uniques. Use poison on al...

Stasis is worse than inaccuracy for the entire game outside extremely specific situations (say, fighting Grinder)

FE is strongest on hybrids because sticky flame is your best spell. I know some people like IE hybrids, but I'll take FE any day.

Pro tip; macro all your prefight charms to a key (I use '0') and punch it when monsters come into LOS.

This should be a repel-missiles-esque toggle; you cast it once, then each time it procs it has a chance to dissipate You feel the last traces of fire leave your veins Edit: I know devs keep threatening to rework charms, but they've been doing that for 3 versions or so. I'm content with incremental r...

Fighter weapons: (rapier, flail, war axe, trident, longsword) Gladiator weapons: (rapier, flail, war axe, trident, longsword or quarterstaff) Quarterstaff is a good weapon, but otherwise it's the same. Berserker: (short sword, mace, hand axe, falchion, or spear) Much worse. Skills, Fighter/Gladiator...

Congratulations! Yeah, GrEE is pretty close to the strongest caster.

Good luck!

I'm not going to say that MuCK with Xom scumming is actually better than any good combo. For streaking I'd way rather play HO--, Sp--, or whatever. I'm not even 100% persuaded it's better than a good mummy (say MuIE or somesuch). But I'm 100% sure it's better than MuCK without Xom scumming. You're g...

Aside from being permanently kitable, you mean?

Returning to the original topic... I dressed up as babysitter+husband extraordinaire and managed to get my wife a nap, a candlelit dinner, and half a day of complete peace from the baby. Best Halloween ever.

I admit he didn't specify, but I'm imagining Sp-level HP pools. Which should make this an interesting race to play.

Ah. Agreed. You could replace spell-less with perma -Wiz. Even give it reasonable aptitudes for some magic so that you have difficulty casting magic, but have good spell power when casting.

The proposal is thought out and well written! I don't have time to go into the details, but one comment: spell-less is certainly a possible handicap, but it is in no way as strong as other (such as slow movement, or no healing). Almost every species can be won spell-less (it's a challenge for Sp an...

I dunno. MuCK is easily the easiest mummy I've played. Maybe it's just me, but it feels stronger and more survivable than taking the same bad Xom actions while potentially in the middle of combat.

And what about Boris and Natasha? OK, so... Banishing isn't killing Boris and Natasha count as killed the first time. Avoid geryon; you don't need to kill him. But diving through the vestibule on a Sp sounds like the hardest week to try for 15-runes... Unless you have darkness+shadows + controlled ...

Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 5 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 4 . Week 5: SpSk (Spriggan Skald) Tier 1 bonus: Kill no uniques before your first rune. Tier 2 bonus: Win a game without killing any uniques (3 points, uniq point included). Week 5 Gods: ...

Nope, that won't work.

It's possible, but less horrifically abusable. Temple eliminates nearly all risk for a mummy. You'll eventually run out of nearby monsters on a normal race.

Flavor-wise, they bore him. In reality Xom-scumming is the worst case of scumming because it's remarkably powerful (sorry Blade), and effectively hungerless races shouldn't have access to that.

DK? Those don't exist anymore, right? I'd think this would make an excellent enchanter too.

I really like the idea. It sounds way more fun than mummy.

The one of these I like is replacing flight with batform. Flight is awkwardly simple right now; bat-form is a much more interesting tradeoff. Though that infringes on vampires. Maybe wisp-form?

I took a stab at this. My MuCK is still alive. Stopped scumming after first rod drop, abd found two more and a +23 CPA {rF+} by Lair. I entered Lair at 61 AC. I got the hell ending, so I just dove and killed Geryon. Then found Doom Knight in an orc shop... This is really silly. Really really really ...

I suppose maybe it depends on how short on food you are; sif channeling is more hunger costly.

I think there's an argument to be made that tabstorm's right, and Crawl would seriously be better with random Xom/Hell effects across the whole game via the trap-triggers-when-it-comes-in-LOS approach, but I tend to lean toward simply removing traps and giving those effects to monsters instead. Lar...

Why? Spit Poison already seems quite strong... And how would you handle the mutation?

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