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There was a MUD I used to play where using ranged weapons in melee range would make you miss more often. I don't know if that matters too much here, since often people switch to melee weapon anyway. In Crawl, melee distance is arbitrary. While you are in "adjacent" spaces, you aren't nece...

TehDruid wrote:Let's change XuaXua's avatar back to the previous one

There is already a thread for this sort of talk.

Any reason we can't take the Legend of Zelda route (and make Gozag a good choice for ranged weapon users)? Any ammo shot costs gold. Branded ammo still exists; it's on the floor. If you pick it up, it takes 1 inventory slot, but gives you the option to spend gold to use that type of branded ammo in ...

Mantis report?

It's weird that if I put ego clothes on, I get the ego, but if I keep them on, but form skin over on top of them, incorporating them fully into my body via a Transmutation spell, the ego goes away.

SYNTAX ERROR

tasonir wrote:Sure, his god ideas don't get implemented, but that's because no one's god ideas get implemented.

Then explain Gozag, man.

Curio wrote:I didn't said that.

Failed to unnest quotes. Fixed.

Berder wrote:
Wahaha wrote:That would kill my account because someone registered the name "wahaha" on CAO before I started playing.

That's very strange. How do you know they didn't register it after you?

I suspect he tried to register on CAO before he went anywhere else?

Gozag would work better reflavoured as an alchemy god. Innate bonuses to Transmutations spells (extended duration, +1 Skill aptitude), and access to the removed spells Evaporation and whichever one made potions (though corpse dropping would need rework; perhaps make the spell create gold when cast ...

Did you post this to Mantis?

I mean, I guess it's OK to have a "Gold God" even if he's kind of lousy, if only to curb additional Gold God proposals.

Arrhythmia wrote:saying gold generation is useful with gozag is akin to saying piety generation is useful with every other god

I'm just sayin; there are times when I just don't have enough gold early on and I want that one expensive item to make Orc easier.

dowan wrote:In the same way, shields are spells that do drowning damage, and swords are the same as rods, except they heal undead. Because saying things that just aren't true is fun!

Don't be your sister, man.

Doesnt wrote:There is a wand that shoots bolts for physical damage, it's called a crossbow

Yeah, but it requires a different skill and the damage scales differently from wand damage.

why potion petition exist because 1 useful ability is better than 0 For this message the author Sar has received thanks: 8 Arrhythmia, duvessa, Kismet, kvaak, nago, Rast, rockygargoyle, XuaXua I'm thinking that, so far, Gozag only has ~2 useful abilities: (1) gold generation and (2) potion petition...

I think most players avoid escape hatches while they're clearing levels, and don't bother triggering them afterwards, so the destination of an escape hatch typically remains unknown. I trigger many of them because I do believe Auto-Travel uses them if the distance is shorter, but only if they've be...

bcadren wrote:Why isn't there a wand of Venom (Bolt of Venom)

Blowgun + Curare

Low end: Blowgun + Poison

bcadren wrote: or a Wand of Energy (Physical damage bolt)?

Wand of Disintegration as others have pointed out.

tannisroot wrote:What's the best way to introduce or describe DCSS to an outsider

Lubricated.

MainiacJoe wrote:This wand is highly spoken of but I don't use it very much. Please list your favorite targets for this

Inner flame an orc in Orc, then charm him and tell him to fight.

But they used to be able to be trampled out of their terrain. I recall charming an elephant that trampled a shark onto dry land. Haven't tried again for several versions.

wheals wrote:I thought the old one was Charlie Brown.

Philistine.

Alex Ross will probably paint Captain Americat once in his lifetime. That was enough for me to decide he needed to be immortalized as my new avatar (for all definitions of immortality, considering having dumped Animal Man (good spot!!)). I will, however, agree that the background noise (of multiple,...

wheals wrote:
XuaXua wrote:Is there a "problem" if closing the door moved items to the next space over?

i think the real problem is your new avatar

Screw you, man. I would never have believed Alex Ross to ever paint Captain Americat in my, or his, lifetime.

Is there a "problem" if closing the door moved items to the next space over?

The main problem with the Abyss is that you can be forcibly sent there on characters for whom it is not dangerous Stupid simple fix for this edge case: It's not dangerous? Then why aren't you carrying the rune? If you carry the Abyssal Rune, you can no longer get banished to the Abyss via unintenti...

I only use 'o' till I can't, then I use 'tab' till I can't, then I tend to manually flail till I get around the barrier till I can 'o' and 'tab' again.

Many times I have to start over.

Felids and Octopodes are the best streaking race since they don't wear any clothes.

ajon wrote:What do you mean?

BTA wrote:I save scum... a lot.

What are you saving the scum for?

Also you can make percentage text colored if you still feel you need to.

THREE STEPS

1. Enter Dungeon

2. Follow the elaborate tactical guide document* explaining every non-step procedure one must conduct in order to get the Orb and win with any preferred quantity of runes (min 3, max 15)

3. Exit Dungeon

* document not available at this time

Thanked before someone disputes your numbers.

treerex5 wrote:Haiku

Gesundheit.

A spell that lets you create potions from corpses, which you can then throw for effect by using a different spell.

I think we're going to need to get the board updated a bit.

I'm playing a DEWz right now with 5 STR, 14 DEX, ~0 slaying. Have staff of earth with 20 evoc, 25 earth, and 8 staves. Have +9 freezing rapier (artifact +5 INT) with 14 short blades. Against monsters in the Depths, the rapier did noticeably better. The staff missed more often, so I think its +0 to ...

Sandman25 wrote:
Zooty wrote:I don't see why evocations has to be made even more of a nobrainer skill.

True, let's split Evocations into Wands, Potions (why potions don't depend on anything?), Rods, Cards and Evokables (fan, lamp, sack, lantern etc). I am serious.

You forgot Scrolls.

Zooty wrote:I don't see why evocations has to be made even more of a nobrainer skill.

Many get away just fine without a Wand of X.

bcadren wrote:
Rast wrote:If (2) is real, it should be fixed.
Just Wizmoded it to be absolutely certain: http://youtu.be/ZyvQDOV7RLY

Report it to Mantis.

Unless you are a Centaur of Chei, don't wear Ponderousness.

I believe Hasting and Healing wands don't scale with Evocations Skill. Aside from Digging, they might be the only ones. Make them scale with Evocations, and make them much, MUCH, less useful (by default) at low Evocations. Wand of Haste at 0 Evocations? 2 turns of haste and glow that lasts THREE TIM...

WingedEspeon wrote:Assuming you were already using long blades and you found a double sword and a demon blade at about the same time, which do you think is the better weapon for mid to late game?

Depends on your deity?

tasonir wrote:Were you using blade paws? It's my understanding the felid claws don't decapitate hydras...

ftfy

Report that to Mantis.

According to the logs, a number of changes to Gozag went into Trunk, and it looks like (1) corpses drop gold more often, (2) undead may drop gold, (3) potion petition is less expensive overall. My recommendation is to consider some of the more recent ideas from BobIsDead, but instead of replacing ab...

Siegurt wrote:Well, in all honesty, the only one of those that isn't exceedingly likely to inflict serious self-harm would be assembly, and that would just be horrible, inconvenient, and ineffective.

True; the sight gets in the way of a good stab.

plantaspoon wrote:
XuaXua wrote:
plantaspoon wrote:IMO, low int casters should use Staff of energy more.

Felids can't.

One race has never been the tipping point in a systemic crawl change. Felids can be rebalanced.

Obviously you weren't around when they got rid of Mountain Dwarves...

They're all Pan portals, guarded by relevant entities.

plantaspoon wrote:IMO, low int casters should use Staff of energy more.

Felids can't.

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