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even species that were briefly in trunk but did not make it to a release in recent years fit with my theory of species proposals The removal for Lava Orcs said: When you strip away the fundamentally broken tension mechanic, you're left with a species that is essentially "Hill Orcs WITH FIRE&qu...

Seriously, the problem with this proposal is not that it uses existing mechanics. The problem is that the OP didn't explain why it's a good idea. But I think it's silly to prima facie dismiss any idea that doesn't introduce some gimmick. Yes, there are species ideas that are so similar to existing s...

Was just about to point that out. The assertion that "if it's easy to code, it would have already been added if it were any good" is just false. Species don't just have to be coded, there's hundreds of hours of playtesting and extensive discussions about balancing that go into making them....

Wild magic seems like it could be adapted into a tier 2 Demonspawn facet, instead of its own species. The mutation could perhaps be enhanced, if people consider too negative, or it could be combined with something strictly positive (MR+ comes to mind). @watertreamentRL: As for "species proposal...

How about just putting exits on every level of Pan? The "you're trapped here for a while" shtick was meaningful back when item destruction and item weight (shudder) were still things. Now it's just tedious. Alternately, an idea that also accomplishes making the branch finite: once you have...

@ ion Wouldn't it be easier to get to select items you want from the search menu, and having them dropped at your location 10 turns later, if no monster shows up in the meantime? Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable alternative, and I think could be used alongside the "bag room" idea. I st...

My personal idea for inventory would be: Open inventory is now limited to 25 or 26 slots. For the rest, you have a nearly-infinite capacity bag of holding, either accessed as an inventory item or with its own command. The bag takes ten turns to open. This is interruptible, and is automatically inter...

Standard EV for me was around 15, as 25 dex (+ 35 STR) in only med armor (with nearly 10 armor skill) would demonstrate. I was not going to die -- I was mowing through enemies without issue. Especially in a place where -- aside from uniques -- I would meet no casters/dagger wielders. I admit I didn...

When I say "D:12" I am saying Dungeon:12. When you say "depth 12" are you meaning the same thing, or are you meaning ACTUAL "Depths"?? Given that Depths is only 5 levels long, he means Dungeon 12. And he's right, D:12 is an absurdly deep cutoff point for distortion - I...

My feel is that if you get rid of some of the goofy behavior like the free hit on corners and the lost moves in pursuit, then implement Patashu's pack tracking idea from the hellcrawl thread, you'll have dealt with the part of the problem specific to pack monsters. Link please? I'm interested to kn...

Let any monster in a pack recall all the members of its own pack. Specific ideas for mechanics: ⋅ Recalled monsters appear around the casting monster, not the player, so the player is unlikely to be surrounded immediately (which is probably too cruel). The Recall could be instant or delaye...

Issue 1 can be mostly solved by making monsters wander in set paths as opposed to randomly. The same change should also help with issue 2 (since monsters are wandering over a smaller area, you're less likely to miss them). A monster that loses track of the player can start wandering a different path...

If all those hatches are auto generated that seems like a nice solution, but I suspect there are a bunch of vaults with pre-defined hatches, which would all need updating. I don't think that would be overly difficult or time-consuming, actually. It seems like escape hatches are just "escape_ha...

Pleeeeeeeease just make the game end when you leave Zot:5 with the Orb, and get rid of the orbrun mechanics. The ascension run borderline ruins the endgame and adding more wacky bullshit like faster pan lords and seraphs and teleport delays and contamination doesn't help, it just makes it even wors...

rigrig is referring to the one-use hatch idea. If you got stranded on an island once, used the hatch to get out, then got stranded on the island a second time, you'd be stuck because the hatch is now gone. So we'd need another solution for islands. Maybe Tomb-style one-way renewable stairs, since t...

Remove the ability to cure it, remove the stumbling, and suppress wand/evokable use. PROS: It's more meaningful, but also no longer an automatic death sentence. Lets the player try to escape by running away, at least, if they can't just melee their way out of it. Also removes what I consider one of ...

CanOfWorms wrote:*a deep, guttural voice emanates from under the ground* "mountain dwarves"

Appropriate username.

Even that doesn't solve the problem, because for some reason, Crawl's UI only has "merfolk corpses" and "orc corpses," even though the corpses actually do retain their original identities so far as HD is concerned. So if you killed an orc warlord and a vanilla orc on the same til...

I'd like to see undead able to worship TSO. TSO allows them to wield the ******-blessed weapon by means of personal intervention, but other weapons of holy wrath remain unwieldable. The character is flavoured as a "self-hating undead" who functions as a repentant but necessarily imperfect...

I'd put it here as well:

Code:: Duvessa, Sister of Dowan comes into view. She is wielding a short sword and carrying an unknown wand.

For those of us who are too lazy to x-v everything.

You could theoretically apply the pattern you just mentioned to movement as well, although it would look weird and be confusing (since, for example, a speed 15 monster could conceivably take 4 single steps in a row, or could sprint across with four double steps - both are reasonably probable). Hones...

Without the aut principle, the whole weapon system would have to be re-arranged. All of a sudden the choice between a hand-axe and an executioner's axe would become a no-brainer throughout the game. Yes to the first sentence, but no the second. You could instead impose massive accuracy and damage p...

One possible idea re: piety costs for unbinding/uncursing: make it depend on how long (either time or XP-based) you've had the item/slot cursed/bound. The fundamental problem with a piety cost for uncursing is that it needs to be enough to make tactical swapping unsustainable, but not enough that it...

Yes, that was the non-subjective part of my first answer. OOD spawns are not all due to the anti-scumming timer. They can just happen randomly, with a potential difference of nine levels (or five for D:1). If I'm reading that correctly (and this is from the learndb), that makes a D:4 two-headed ogre...

Allow me to suggest idea #47 to Make Player Ghosts Better (TM). Just make them rare normal monsters that (potentially) get a name. Instead of directly creating bones, the game instead creates a (small) database of recent deaths, which includes the player name, XL, and highest skill. It then generate...

Yeah, assuming both attacks hit, do full damage, and your AC does nothing. Admittedly I didn't notice the 5EV (I tend to sort of assume 10-12EV for an early-ish character like that). Each attack has an ~85% chance of hitting, so yeah actually that is pretty nasty. But even 12EV reduces its chance of...

Because not all OOD spawns are due to the timer. If its normal spawn range starts at D:8, seeing it on D:4 is quite possible. Also, that's not even that nasty a monster. They get two attacks, sure, but they have barely more HP than a standard ogre, and it's not exactly like their attacks are especia...

Ghosts should be more like folklore ghosts: they should be immaterial and unkillable. They would haunt the player (independently of their former character), inflicting hexes on the player until they have been appeased. They are appeased by revenge, id est, the player killing the monster which kille...

The problems people cite re: the wiki, e.g. out of date, bad opinions and advice, are symptoms of structural problems with wikis. You won't get around them with a change of URL. If that change of URL makes it easier for more people to edit the wiki, it absolutely can help. What you're citing don't ...

I've adminned on that wiki, and on NetHackWiki. I figure I can offer a few insights: 1) You absolutely need the agreement of the community there. Also, it would be better if, once the new wiki is migrated, you could get Kornel to take the old one down. I was with NetHackWiki when they moved from Wik...

Yes, it's better to pick up and wield a weapon in the same way it's better to pick up and wear a helmet. That doesn't mean all mage backgrounds should start with a helmet. A helmet is not at all guaranteed to appear on D:1. It is very rare that a club or a dagger doesn't appear on D:1. Lord Haart's...

You definitely don't want any sort of player XL-based maximum level for monsters: it's spoilerish, prone to breakpoints, and could encourage really weird tactics. However, there is definitely something to be said for culling popcorn. I'd suggest rather than using HD directly, go with a metric like &...

TeAE starting skills also give you about an 8% fail rate on Shock, so miscasting it 3 times in a row is about an 0.05% chance. It's a lot more common than you make it sound. The spell can miscast, the spell can miss, and the spell can do little or no damage (low damage roll, or high monster AC roll...

In the very early game you have no control over how many monsters you need to fight. This is not true. No, but what is true that unless you're playing a super-strong mage start (like most DE), you can expect, with reasonable regularity, to whiff all 3MP from time to time. You're not just up against...

This existed, and was removed way back in the mists of time . If I recall correctly, the starting weapon for pure casters was a knife (think dagger but even less damage). Honestly, I'd rather see casters' early game made less painful by raising spell success chances and accuracy early on, but giving...

Demigods are golems, beings created by magical rituals for specific tasks. As such, they are identical to humans in all but two respects: they are capable of extraordinary physical or mental ability, depending on the purpose to which they are set, and they lack souls. Just remember to rename them t...

As duvessa says, the whole point is to make it costly to swap amulets. Moreover, things start getting weird when you consider properties like *contam and *drain. Do those still trigger if you're swapping to an item of the same base type? If they do, it's weird and confusing to have some unwield effe...

Lots of items have negative effects upon unwield/unwear, and none of them make any exception for switching to an item of the same type. Why should faith be any different?

I can think of an example. You might want a force_more whenever you come in sight of an orc priest: stronger than simply stopping autoexplore, so you don't just tab the orcs around it and get smited to death. Given that you're likely going to be playing LOS games with said orc priest, it may come in...

I wouldn't mind it keeping your EV/SH and clarifying the range of its duration, or even giving it the same duration every time You realize that you're proposing a substantial nerf to Paralysis, right? Having it keep your EV/SH is something like a 2/3 damage reduction for EV-based characters. If you...

I do wonder about "simulating" the effects of such a spell in a turn-based way. I'm imagining an effect that causes your speed to randomly slow by large amounts for short periods of time - in effect, it would make all monsters move and act rather like sixfirhies. It would be a kinder, gent...

Most dragon armours already get unusual colours for armour. They don't when displaying "Items here:" I only see normal, race/mutation restricted, runed, and artifact. This also goes for potions, mutation potions e.g. don't show up as purple in this case, and god restricted items don't sho...

So the stated goal of gnolls, in the recent commit disabling them in stable, is to encourage hybridization. A simple way to do that would be to force them to always be training more than one skill. They would get decent non-decaying aptitudes in return (maybe something like +1 across the board, but ...

Console has the same problem: randarts are just random colors that aren't used for normal items.

I agree that this is a very low priority, but it does have a simple(ish) solution: remove mentions of color from randart descriptions.

phloomp wrote:spoilery (since it is hard to tell how fast they are moving without tracking how long they have existed).

This could at least be partially solved by making the orb change color as it changes speed. This is really easy in console and probably not too difficult for tiles.

I don't see how this "scumming" would be wrong or unusual -- how would you decide what to memorize other than by standing on a pile of all your spellbooks and hitting M? Spell memorization is bad and should be changed; it's just that no one agrees quite how. But there's certainly no reaso...

I'm with duvessa on this - vamp weapons are good but not head-and-shoulders above everything else everywhere. I don't think they need a special downside. Honestly, the hunger thing is historical. Vampiric weapons used to have a really nasty constant hunger effect - IIRC it put a normal-consumption c...

@watertreatmentRL: Thanks for that. I actually didn't comment in the original name change thread for Jihad, because by the time I had really read through it, the change had already been made. I commented in the gloat thread because I didn't want the conversation to overwhelmingly turn to "this ...

Have we had any instances yet of a real Crawl player being offended by a Crawl reference to their own race/ethnicity/religion/culture? Truck Sword of Jihad incident doesn't count because it was an obvious troll. Yes. I was vaguely put off by Jihad as a reference to my own heritage. I put this in th...

Because it's an elephANT? More seriously, I'm assuming the elephant going into a frenzy means it turns neutral? That would be an interesting if marginal motivation for fighting these in large crowds. There are actually a lot of other interesting possibilities with mounts, though: ⋅ Horses:...

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