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yes I like the concept of hunter (and AM), although I do find them very difficult to play. I agree there's a constraint that launchers must be worth using at the starting skill level, but that seems ok. Say accuracy is rubbish below skill level 4 (the Hunter starting skill). Most of my melee dudes d...

If you make the damage/accuracy low enough at low skill levels, it'll almost never be worth the bother to fire/throw stuff with no training. Especially if doing so costs more than 10 auts. Already I usually press '.' instead of 'ff' because it is simpler and it doesn't make much of a difference anyw...

I like the suggestion of (good) fragile unrandarts. I'd instead of the amulet of freezing hands, I'd prefer: amulet of petrifying hands. Doubles AC, disables both ring slots, fragile, earth spells enhancer. Just because earth enhancers are too rare. If you have lightning hands, do you get lightning ...

I had a promising summoner one-shotted by a komodo dragon who appeared to attack twice in 1 aut. Can anyone tell me how this could happen? I was wielding a shield and a dagger, was at >60 hp, attacked the dragon, and the next turn I was dead. As I understand it, attacking with a dagger takes 1.0 act...

1 - Why do I have to press > to go down and < to go up? Try using G> when you want to go down, or X>.> when you want to go down a specific staircase - it's actually quite convenient. 3 - X mode takes a lot of key presses to get to what I want to look at You can cycle through the mosters in 'x' mode...

I actually find the bow to be more relaxed than melee, because you can usually tab without worrying about position. Idem for the sling, except you have to think about when to use sling bullets. Crossbow is annoying because I do actually run out of bolts in the early game. Throwing is annoying becaus...

If you want to learn spells, the most obvious choices would be the support schools: translocation, charms, hexes, necro. If I wanted to learn offensive spells, I'd go for summoning. (You have Summon Hydra, and you can always buy more spells with Gozag.) Summon spells are mostly single-school spells,...

Why are you so afraid of failing to cast DD? If you try casting it 2x in a row, your combined fail chance is 5%*5%=0.025%. I doubt even quaffing brilliance could get the fail chance much under 1%

If I understand the wiki correctly, you should have a >90% chance of successfully fearing him, if you try. That seems too good to be true though. You can test in wizzmode if you want to be certain. I'd consider casting death's door. He can't instant-kill you, and if you miscast DD (5% chance), you c...

In case anyone is interested, I was eventually killed by my own Malign Gateway. The tentacle didn't land the killing blow, but it brought me to low hp and then cast me into the abyss. I guess I wasn't going to learn to be careful with the spell any other way :lol: here's the morgue: https://underhou...

I think slings are a good weapon, but switch bullets are annoying. Rather, I want to limit the use of stones to throwing. And I want to get rid of the bullet item itself. The act of picking up bullets at the Abyss is driving me crazy. In the Abyss, with the current system, you can use rocks and set...

I entered Orc:2, and got the message that there's a gauntlet on the level. Then I used a scroll of Magic Mapping to find the gauntlet, but the thing I walked into turned out to be a mimic. Now my question is: is there guaranteed to be a real gauntlet portal somewhere on the level? I'd expect there t...

Thanks for the advise I decided to continue clearing Lair until it got difficult, because I didn't want to walk all the way to the shop. As it turned out, Sif gave me Malign Gateway, which has proven so powerful that I don't need Summon Hydra right now. Summon Hydra is at 2% fail right now, mostly b...

To solve the limited or unlimited problem, I quite like the solution chosen for slings and throwing, where the good ammunition is (supposed to be) scarce, but you can always fire something meh. I'd propose expanding this to crossbows; e.g. allow crossbows to fire stones at -4 base damage and triple ...

I'm running a Barachi Summoner ^ Sif Muna, in Lair, and so far I've been given 3 completely irrelevant books. I could buy a book containing the spell Summon Hydra, but it would cost me most of my gold (715 gp), and buying books with Sif Muna just seems ...wrong... Would you advice buying the book? H...

Would such a vault interact badly with any other crawl mechanics? Some potential problems I can think of: Shafts/hatches must be guaranteed to spawn outside the vault, but might not be One of the stairs in the vault could be replaced with a hatch, with the real stair placed outside the vault (I've s...

-Acid fog is definitely too strong. -Calcifying Dust has potential, but it doesn't fit with the Earth school very well, and might be too strong. If it's too strong, you can balance it by changing the spell level. If it's only Acid fog following you, I think it'd still be less useful than Freezing C...

I like the hellcrawl solution too.

I rather like the +/- LOS and "change how stairs work" shenanigans :) I quite like being shafted, so any level effect with a similar effect I will like. I agree that many level effects would not be appropriate for branch endings. 2 more suggested level effects: 'the plumming is broken...':...

I finally managed to clear the Tomb. I have to admit, I died a lot before I managed to win this level. (Still using checkpoints.) The main trick i needed, was to keep a good line of retreat, and avoid breaking open the walls to the interior region until the exterior region was cleared. I mostly used...

That would ruin my main use for the spell, which is quickly getting more mp during combat

rMut in the resistance potions would be great

I see it as an interesting feature that more HP gives more opportunities for using SoB. It leaves room for combos like statueform + SoB, or training fighting instead of spellcasting. I do agree it's a bit frustrating I often gain no MP or all my MP. Looking at the wiki, they actually chose a "n...

sounds fun

I'm stuck. Which is, in a sense, a good thing, since it means strategy is actually important. I've done the Crypt without changing god, and found the spell Necromutation. My plan was to clear Pan or Tomb, using necromutation to avoid nasty mutations and torment. However, I can't use sublimation of b...

duvessa wrote: If taken literally, "remove ammo for launchers" would mean that large rocks would stay, since they don't correspond to a launcher. Yes to all of this post. (My reason for specifying launchers above, was that javelins of penetration actually work.) I'm glad I misunderstood y...

Remove ammo for launchers, please, or at least make it mulch at 100% and goldify it This is one of those QoL changes that only improves the game; launcher numeric balance should be addressed separately I don't think this is a pure improvement. It removes the really satisfying situation where a ston...

This run has 2 peculiarities: 1) every time I enter a new branch for the first time (temple and timed portals included) I copy the save file as a checkpoint. Whenever I die I revert to the last checkpoint. 2) At all times I put 50% of XP into shortblades and stealth. So basically I'm save-scumming. ...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Is it really so? I've seen monster wake up after passwall. Or can monster wake up without stealth check?

I've never seen a monster wake up after passwall, and I've run a EE stabber all the way to Zot. Are you certain that the monster didn't wake up before you passwalled?

I stand corrected. LRD does damage targets outside of LOS, but the interface makes it look like it can't.

See this example below: the middle of the cage is not highlighted, which made me think it can't be damaged. The monster in the cage was killed however.

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I assume you mean to put in altars of the DCSS gods, and increase the player penance counter with the appropriate god?

I think LRD recently got changed not to affect out-of-LOS enemies. I was annoyed because before that LRD was one of my favourite spells. a smite targeted damage spell that hits things out of LOS, is single-school, does a hell of a lot more damage than BVC, and is currently the best spell in the game...

I'd get Wyrmbane to mindelay

Rast wrote:FR, give Sif Muna a "cast from library" ability, expensive piety cost of course.

This feature would finally allow me to find out what Yara's Violent Unravelling does, as well as other spells which don't seem worth memorizing.

I got myself stupidly killed in Pan. https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/petercordia/morgue-petercordia-20181105-191249.txt I already had all 5 runes of pan, and I was scumming pan to get Shatter online. Not particularly good for my winning chances, but I thought it was fun. My mistake was in not run...

Is nightstalker 1 really that noticeable? I would have expected you'd need nightstalker 2 or 3 for it to make a big difference. I can't speak from experience though...

As a compromise between people wanting 1 or 2 menus, you could put the jewellery in a separate section underneath the armour. (Whilst still maintaining the functionality of the T key.) That way it can all be accessed through 1 key, old keys still work, and people who like the current keys won't have...

I actually like the distinction between (W)ear and (P)ut on, but I hate the distinction between (R)emove and (T)ake off. It took me a long time to find the 'T' command.

My only advise is not to worry about noise so much. Just blast everything to smithereens.

I would highly recommend doing the abyss first. I've done the abyss with a ranged character (once), and I was surprised how easy it was. Furthermore, you'll be able to open that treasure trove, so you'll get nice loot. The main things to do in the abyss are to keep moving in the same direction, and ...

I finished Zot. I even did the Orb chamber without intending to, because I was forced to fight some OOF's in Zot:4 without perfect preparation, and it went ok. I did have to drink some !Mutation afterwards, but I still have 4 spare. I did the 1st level of Hell with Oka, and I have to admit it went f...

Wahaha wrote: They already can't pick up items you've already seen, which is illogical for unspoiled players.

I can confirm it's unexpected for an unspoiled player. I never imagined...

Do we really want all good Crawl players to have a perfect 100% winrate? Because this seems to be OP's goal This is exactly what happened when the fighter background was given a potion of might to start with. Before that, the players' winrate with fighters was around 2%, then it became 100%. Amazin...

I survived. I had 4 actions after reading the teleport scroll, which was more than I expected. Luckily I survived, landed in a save spot, and finished V:5. I found an artefact axe with +blink. I've also done slime. The evokable blink may well have saved my life, when I got surrounded after polymorph...

Sprucery wrote:Why give AM a scroll of fog?

I agree, I don't see how the scroll of fog helps the AM.
Because I find the AM really hard in the early dungeon, of give them good consumables: 1 scroll of torment, 1 scroll of immolation, and 1 potion of lignification.

1) Newbies can learn how to use consumables from a start What exactly do you mean by "from the start" here? You can already get a handful of consumables in like 150-200 turns. Do you want to specifically give new players the opportunity of trying out what their scroll/potion does on turn ...

I'm surviving! screenshot5.png I read ?teleport, went down to 10 hp, then quaffed !Heal twice. If I understand the mechanics correctly, I am guaranteed to teleport after my next action, provided it takes a full turn. I was going to quaff a !Invis, but I realised I forgot to bring them with me :oops:...

If this makes the early game too easy, just make the early game more difficult (via harder monsters or less starting skill)

I like the idea. I especially like how you suggest giving most backgrounds a potion which amplifies their strength.

I think you should be able to stab a *lot* of enemies if you try. If you want to go stabbing, definitely learn Passage of Passage of Golubria. It lets you place a portal adjacent to an enemy, then pop out of the portal without making any noise. With some patience, I think it will let you stab creatu...

Thanks for the advise. I won't try the immolation strat again. I tried the fan of gales, and it helped somewhat: screenshot4.png All monsters except the one that's constricting me were flung back. Only the sphinx smote me, and now i'm in one-shot range. If I start quaffing potions of heal wounds, I ...

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