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What about the Megadwarf (like an ordinary dwarf but bigger, like a megabat is to a bat)? Or the Red Dwarf (has an INT score of 6000, but after three million years floating in space, he forgot everything he knew)? Or the Seven Dwarf (when equipped with the Seven Axe, can split into seven different d...

Grimm wrote:bread ration of draining

After 1000 turns, bread rations go stale, and can be used as makeshift clubs or shots.

Not a dream, but I realized as I was falling asleep last night that Halo's needle gun sure seems like a clone of Half-Life's bee gun! (Note: I'm sure the bee gun has some other, more proper name, but I have no idea what it's really called, and it does fire little dart-shaped projectiles that home in...

Huh, strange, so there's no medium-size zombies? Seems odd that a human zombie is the same size class as a rat zombie...

As a Draconian Death Knight in 0.9.1, I animated the remains of Jessica, and when I examined the zombie, the description said that she was small... Is this a bug? Or are human zombies intended to be small?

Brass knuckles - Occupy the ring slots; increase unarmed damage. Possible starting equipment for Monks?

I don't like the "one chance only" concept - that means you're actually better off avoiding places that might have secret doors until you've trained your traps & doors skill up high enough to have a better chance of finding the doors! Of course, this might be irrelevant if you can't so...

I don't get it - everyone talks about felids as if they had multiple lives, but whenever I play one, and I die, I'm dead for good...

Do you only earn the extra lives after reaching some particular character level or something?

TehDruid wrote:Not infallibly so.

Ring of Papacy - Makes any effects described as "not infallibly so", infallibly so.

Wouldn't #1 just make polymorph overpowered in a DIFFERENT way - polymorph a tough enemy and he's guaranteed to get weaker!

Also, tonberries! Wielding wands of death! :twisted:

Maybe it's just me, but I see artificers as a rather weak background - after all, their main advantage is the ability to use wands and the like more effectively (though I have no idea how MUCH more effectively), but once the charges on their starting wands are used up, what are they to do? So how ab...

omndra wrote:EDIT: Might need to watch out for KillGore, or make a special Tile for that one... basically just a troll in a suit

Or GoreRage... "WHY YOU CASTING FIRE SPELLS? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT MAKE GLOBAL WARMING?!? RAAAAAR SMASH FIRE MAGE"

What if instead of prompting the player or using the allocation that the player had previously set, the potion just distributed the points equally among all known skills?

This has bothered me for a while, but for some reason I never bothered to report it... ;) When you gain a level, and you have Spellcasting skill, you typically gain a few spell slots. However, there is nothing in place to notify the player of this fact, so new players might not realize that they hav...

Yesterday I started a game (0.9.1) and after a few moves found a potion of experience. It raised me to level 2, which makes sense, but then it also brought up a skills screen. That seemed rather unintuitive - why should I have to CHOOSE how much my various skills go up when I drink a potion? - but b...

Medisword - When you attack with this sword, instead of damaging the target, it heals it. Useful for summoners! Armor of Nemelex (he is the one who likes sacrifices of money, right?) - Like the magic armor in Twilight Princess, it massively improves your AC, at the expense of draining $$$ each turn....

Lugonu (Luh-GO-new) Beogh (B'yogh) - yes, only one syllable; the "yogh" is like in "yogurt" Cheibriados (CARRY-a-BRY-a-dose) - I know, there is no "r" in "Chei", so sue me! Elyvilon (El-VILL-ee-yon) - mixing up letters is fun! Fedhas (FED-iss) Jiyva (JIV-yuh) ...

Then he realized that there was a ray of hope! If he could somehow travel back through time to his background-selection, become a Skald, and convince the powers that be to add "spoons" as a new weapon category... he might be able to be a slightly less ignominious Edward!

A MINUS FIVE ring of protection? :shock:

Can you get negative AC, increasing the damage you take from every attack?

For some reason whenever I see "demon axe" I think "CRITICAL! 20 dmg to the enemy... and 40 dmg to you! You die..." ... stupid fire emblem

If you kill the teddybear, does an insane six year old girl cast "Summon Aircraft" and bomb the crap out of the level? Or is that a bit TOO obscure a reference?

No, silly, "potion of methamphetamines"

Just a minor annoyance here - for some reason "potion of slowness" sounds kind of... cheesy? What if it were renamed "potion of sloth"?

Done

Any reason why no one's posted a news entry at roguebasin about the 0.9 release? I'd do it myself, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes if there's some dev whose job that is, or if you guys are trying to keep a secret!

While we're on the topic of unusual backgrounds, why not the Engineer? He gets the following spells from the Book of Gadgetry: L1: Build Dispenser - Creates a stationary "dispenser" (can be treated as an immobile friendly monster) which heals the Engineer and restores his MP when he is sta...

Except in Soviet Russia, where, oddly enough, you play Crawl...

Oops, sorry, I realized that the "You worship nobody. Atheist" comes from ToME 2.x, not Crawl

Maybe they could get bonus aptitude in Throwing skill (especially with rocks)? A tip of the hat to the Zelda games, not to mention the fact that they have more arms to throw things WITH than any other species

Heh, I was thinking more of the TF2 Engineer...
Eee-rectin' a fountain! Teleport trap goin' up! Buildin' an oklob plant!

Not to mention the response you get when you hit ^ without belonging to any religion... "You worship nobody. Atheist" - sounds rather mocking to me!

Two-Handled Sword. Basically, a big sword that has not ONE handle, but TWO, so you can wield it with both hands more effectively! Or not, as how would you swing it... Oddly enough, this is how I thought two-handed swords were supposed to look when I was playing pre-tiles Nethack as a kid... of cours...

We need a Wand of Polymorphism! No, not a Wand of Polymorph... this wand simply applies object-oriented programming concepts as found in C++ to introduce levels of abstraction... So you have an "orc wizard" that you're fighting against... you zap him with a wand of polymorphism, and he bec...

Squonk wrote:The giant eyeball stares at you. You suddenly lose the ability to move!
The ogre shouts, "YES!"

Thankfully the ogre was confused, so I survived that incident.

Oh dear... Captain Falcon was creepy enough in Smash Bros when he shouted "YES!"... now an OGRE?

Would this autoswitch increase the amount of game-time taken by the attack? Or would it be a free action a la Angband's rather silly "you can wield a sword in one hand, carry a shield in the other, and a lantern in... wait a second, how ARE you carrying that lantern?! Not to mention the crossbo...

Speaking of pizza, how come "a slice of pizza" in tiles looks like "a pizza with a slice missing"?

*prepares for inevitable TF2-ization of Crawl hat-economy*

You hit Schrodinger! Schrodinger may or may not be wounded and/or dead! Schrodinger's wave-function collapses! Schrodinger casts Summon Small Mammals! You are displaced by an indeterminate number of cats in various states of life/death/undeath! Hmm, that gives me another idea... Cheesy Sci-Fi Crawl!...

Crawl HAS sound effects? :shock: More on topic, though, am I wrong to like to listen to remixes of Mega Man music while playing Crawl? I do find that since I happen to have an album from OCRemix that contains Elec Man, Air Man, AND Spark Man music that I do tend to play a lot of Air Elementalists......

Also, Portal Projectile would be SO much awesomer if you could use it (recursively) on an Aperture Science High Energy Pellet

Stormfox wrote:This sounds like either the prequel to Spore, or it's Katamari Damacy.

There is a kraken corpse here.
You cast Animate Dead.
The dead are squirming!
You hear music in the distance: "Do do do do do do do do, do do do calimari necromancy!"

You've seen a RUNE? Lucky! I hardly ever make it to the Ecumenical Temple, which means I don't get to play a worshipper of any of the new gods - and not even of The Shining One these days, what with the removal of paladins!

Heh, I remember playing Dominions 2, and there was this one event where this hoburg (the Dom2 equivalent of halflings/hobbits/hurthlings) hero would show up along with his band of nine adventurers...

Also, any game with R'lyeh as a playable empire has to be good

If you play as a Crusader or Archer, and convert to Trog, he should on occasion summon flaming peasants to surround you, because everyone knows that Trog *adores* burnination of knights, archers, and peasants! Also, slime creatures should on occasion drop medicinal herbs which restore 30 HP... and r...

Is it just me, or does Sigmund's tile look an awful lot like a certain similarly-named boss character from Mega Man X?

And if so, what happens if you name your character "Zero"? Will said unique scream "ZELLO MUST DiEeEeE!!!111|||onetyone"?

Wait a second... what's all this about "traps"? No wonder I lost so quickly! *checks special abilities to see if there's any "lay trap" ability*...

And yes, I am serious... Maybe we need a "tutorial mode" for Zot Defense!

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I have two old bugs that I reported a while back that show up in my mantis view as "awaiting confirmation of resolution" - how do I confirm that these are resolved so they can stop cluttering everything up?

I suck at Crawl (and Angband, and Space Empires V, and just about all other games)... I on occasion will make it to the Temple

I always wondered why Crawl has both Conjurers and Elementalists... don't they serve the same purpose, namely that of zapping enemies with powerful offensive elemental spells? Seeing as Elementalists are more fully fleshed out (there are more types than just fire and ice, as conjurers are limited to...

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