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Just replace paralysis with a very high damage mr-checking disintegrate so the random chance of oneshot doesn't depend on how many other monsters are around.

ydeve wrote:Does the lore actually say if they're genderless or not?

edit: grammar

The lore doesn't say anything about the gods' genders at all
that is intentional

That reminds me, I really liked djinni. Why didn't they get into stable? A lot of people somehow managed to miss the fact that combined hp and mp makes for a very interesting and different race. Instead they focused on specific balance problems like Ely or fire immunity. Just don't give them fire i...

Given that the ratio between rocks and guns is huge (even in North America), but the ratio between rock deaths and gun deaths is tiny (in the USA), it seems reasonable to conclude that guns are more lethal than rocks. Rock deaths are so low because everybody has access to them, so nobody has the ch...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:It's usually a good idea to use enchant weapon/armour scrolls as soon as you find them. That way you can save two inventory slots for carrying more wands!

You mean carrying more varieties of food and runed daggers, right?

Shard1697 wrote:I don't think I've ever used apportation, tbqh

it's probably often better to snag items from a ways away but that sounds sort of annoying

I always memorize it but never actually use it.

I suppose it's nice for ninjaing runes, if you're into that sort of thing.

Black draconians need to be renamed to cyan or blue or something. Black really has nothing to do with air/elec.

Plus, it sounds wrong to someone who's played Angband and variants, where black dracs are acid.

duvessa wrote:repositioning spells shouldn't be in transmutations for the same reason that reaching weapons shouldn't be long blades

FR: add an unrand long blade demon whip of reaching

If iron dragon hides are too common compared to CPA can't you just reduce Iron Dragons' chance to drop a hide?

Also if you can wear a ring on a finger as a necklace why can't you just stick all the extra rings on chains and wear them as amulets too?

3 AC is good. I wiztested fight with Azure jelly in GDA (got 22 AC) and CPA (26 here, EV is the same) (armour & dodge skills were 20). AvEffDam is 7.6 v 11.2. I also put on 2 rings of rC and launched test again and got 4.4 v 5.0. GDA won vs elemental damage. Your arguments are invalid. Presumab...

njvack wrote:
stickyfingers wrote:0.17 and Gozag
http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Piginabag/Piginabag.txt

Jeez, didn't even learn Sting and Freeze to max Poison and Ice magics.

FR: allow training a spell school if you have a relevant spellbook in your inventory, even if none of the spells are memorized

If you have to come up with a bunch of ways to deal with a monster because just straightforward tabbing is dangerous, then the monster is not non-threatening. Can I just press tab when I see it? If yes, trivial, if no, not trivial. Also, just a reminder that having a single monster who forces you t...

Shard1697 wrote:Further beogh secret tech:
Play on trunk, let an enemy necromancer use Bind Soul on your orc, let your orc die for a chance at a friendly spectral orc, then resurrect him for double the orc

looks like this was removed

Paralyse + a distortion quickblade sounds awful.
Invis also makes it even more awful except that most players have Sinv by that point.

Other than that the rogue's permanent buff should probably be stronger. Permanent invisibility doesn't mean much when he already has an invis spell.

Polymorph is a weird wand with a cool effect that the player almost never wants to use on their own.
Solution: make enemies that force players to deal with it by casting polymorph on nearby other enemies.

Dungeoneer wrote:but how would the mlgxXx420 DCSS pro-gods know if IDA is ice or iron?

Probably the same way they differenceiate between Storm/Steam/Swamp.

The behaviour where Dith does not warn you when you attempt to cast a fire spell is a bug. You get a warning when you attempt to cast forbidden spells under other gods. You should probably make a bug report. The complaint isn't "i cast fireball under dith and the game didn't warn me". The...

As you read the scroll of magic mapping, it crumbles to dust. _You feel aware of your surroundings. As you read the scroll of magic mapping, it crumbles to dust. _You feel momentarily disoriented. This should never happen. Just block use of the scroll if you've already mapped the level But you can'...

I suspect that drain might not have been accounted for because the dagger was significantly better against a yak and an adder, not counting the dex penalty. I figured it would be closer than it was. (I only had a short blades skill of 8, though.) Is there any list of flags? It took me a lot of gues...

Shard1697 wrote:
genericpseudonym wrote:If you bind eat to y how do you move northwest?

Either you're a frenchman, or even worse, you're a numpad-user!
I move with
QWE
ASD
ZXC

I thought I had already seen the worst life had to offer. But now I see that the world is a darker, more evil place than I could have possibly imagined.

Save your scrolls of acquirement until Zot:5 so you don't run the risk of finding something better after you read them.

Sandman25 wrote:As a bonus SH will not be completely useless vs the most dangerous monster in the game.

Shields already did nothing to stop Grinder's paralysis though.

I think he's the enemy with the highest killrate anyways. It doesn't stop orc priests either.

People aren't saying that reflection is worthless or that it never does anything. People are saying that it isn't consistent enough to rely on. If you do have escape consumables but have no non-reflection ways to easily kill that lich, sticking around and hoping to nail him with his own LCS is a wor...

Entering lichform makes you count as undead, which should make you totally unable to use shapechanging magic. Of course this should cancel any ongoing transmutations as well, so ideally entering lichform will make you ineligible for spells like necromutation and thus immediately cancel any such effe...

PowerOfKaishin wrote:Doesn't rHellfire/rDamnation still protect 100% from regular fire damage?

Not any more. it used to be that "rHellfire" was represented by 4 pips of fire resistance, but at some point it was moved to its own flag.

Cerekov wrote:I hope to find games more fun IMO.

i hope you do too, mr. robot

though i'm not sure how important preserving the current behavior is - it'd probably be simpler to just have the new behaviour, unless people feel really strongly about having allies follow them around but not actively selecting new targets Hepliaklqana stabbers would certainly prefer the current b...

"The elf summons the power of Zot! The power of Zot strikes you!! OUCH! That really hurt! The power of Zot eviscerates your elf zombie!!!! Your elf zombie is destroyed! The power of Zot demolishes your orc zombie!!! Your orc zombie is destroyed! The power of Zot devastates your vampire knight!...

12x an oklob plant?!? At XL27? Where does one run into oklob plants that late in the game, and then how does one manage to get killed by them? There's a zot vault where all three downstairs are surrounded by an oklob forest with a bunch of classed yellow draconians and I think some acid blobs as we...

arandomperson12 wrote:Would you rather have a weapon that did 1d100 damage or one that did 40 damage with every hit?

in a game where AC exists even 1d80 would be better than a consistent 40

if AC didn't exist I would probably choose the consistent option.

If you bind eat to y how do you move northwest?

Either you're a frenchman, or even worse, you're a numpad-user!

I'd remove High Elf (they are the MD to Tengu's Mi) and rename Deep Elf to Elf.

Plus then you get a better excuse for why DE blademasters and such exist despite DE PCs being rather bad at melee.

PleasingFungus wrote:they make ae a lot more playable, for me

It seems like the solution is

duvessa wrote:but at least let us turn them off in our rcfiles

so the people who like it can use it and the people who don't can choose not to

You don't need flame tongue you can just carry one of those useless fire wands. Or are they flame wands?

Thank god the other ice/fire wands were removed, that naming scheme was awful.

Unless it was changed again, before: you press e -> y after: you press e -> , -> [letter of food on ground] . With easy_floor_use = true, if there's only one item on the ground you can just press e -> , The option was added in that commit but it was a few commits later that made it default to on in...

the worst part of the throwing change is that my 0-throwing characters no longer collect tomahawks or javelins to wake things up with because they have a higher delay than stones

it's ground floor, what are you talking about; if you think something is bad, just say, but I don't see anything funny The misspelling of Sif Muna may have caused people to think you were joking around. Anyway, I like the flavor of the piety gain, but it would mean almost no piety throughout Lair, ...

If you want to stick with short blades for an entire game, Kiku is the obvious choice, since it's the only reliable source of short blades that do respectable damage to a significant fraction of monsters. Lugonu. Except blink frogs, nothing resists distortion. I think having a dangerous ranged or s...

Okay hir plan: Your speed doesn't matter at all. So no more statue form naga with hat of pondering nuclear slouches. https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/source/godabil.cc#L3650 Player speed and player movementspeed are both taken into account. So in fact the learndb is wrong when i...

Shtopit wrote:Some gods punch through anything. Ru can paralyse (zzZ) Cerebov, although he is supposed to be MR: immune.

The game has non-MR-checking paralysis from Giant Eyeballs.

The good combination is weapons: range 1 consumables and conjurations: range variable consumables don't have variable range AFAIK Take away ?recharge and Pak and wands are consumables. IMO, non-consumable, non-conjuration ranged sources should not exist. Oh man, but LRD is one of my favorite spells!

Hydras are already dangerous without the head chopping. And now you're being forced to use an inferior weapon. And the increase in danger level is insignificant? Edit: long blades crosstrain with ... short blades. Head chopping doesn't make hydras super dangerous to non-nagas for the same reason hi...

It looks like some people are arguing the cap should be lower. Say, 5 turns. Thoughts? I think the problem with paralysis is that it can potentially kill you very dead depending on luck, and that rather than decreasing its deadliness the only resist simply decreases the chance of random death. A ch...

What a convoluted way to give players infinite mp. The regen power costs piety, it doesn't seem infinite to me. The "Cast spells while at 0mp" thing seems pretty great, but it's not much like infinite MP. A 0-mp fireball will give you -cast for 3-13 turns. It might be nice for hybrid-type...

Magipi wrote:I guess nobody understands a word of all this, but hey, we are all glad that the issue is solved

when you're in 'f'iring mode pressing + or - will cycle between enemies
nago had rebound tab to have this same functionality, but forgot that it was a user-customization

what would the point of that be? what playstyle does 'triggering riposte on shield blocks' encourage? Why is different from € 'equip "light armor" prefer ev and dodging?' playstile? light vs heavy armour is a choice that depends on your stats (str/int/dex), how much spellcasting you want ...

Hbg: My list is not really the important one, but I some weeks ago I made a c-r-d mail with some topics. These were: Single account for online play. Halfling removal [obsolete]. Ranged reform (Lasty). Luring. No more death from drowning [obsolete]. Try Elf:3 and/or Crypt:3 as portal levels (i.e. on...

With this change, great swords and double swords do the same base damage, yet double swords have a lower delay and are one handed. That seems problematic, double swords are now absolutely better than great swords, instead of just mostly better. Aside from that, I like the idea, although as duvessa ...

I feel like flavor-wise the riposte should trigger on shield blocks as well, but at the same time that sounds very OP, especially on Formicid.
You could reduce the riposte chance to compensate but then you're reducing the appeal of the 2h longblades.

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