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https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/6 ... 49688b771d removed Absolute Zero and https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7 ... 9b818ef8a6 moved Tornado to Ice (and rethemed it as "Polar Vortex").

I see it just as the "you must use Makhleb" species at the moment (yes, I once won a DDBe, but it was tedious and unfun). I don't have a problem with it, but it doesn't have much to do with strategic HP.

Anyway, deep elves aren't on the "simple" list either.

Personally, I'd rather go the other direction of being the heal-on-kill species. That is, current HP and maxHP are the same thing, so no other form of healing works at all (in particular, no more innate heal-wounds); but you get an HP increase for everything you kill.

Agreed; the only draconian I ever won (IIRC) was a DrTm in 0.16 bugbuild. I'd switch them with deep dwarves; those are "easy" if you go with Makhleb, at least, though I suppose that would need to be communicated clearly to actual newbies.

So ghouls actually need to use deity actives noticeably less often? I've never noticed that but could be.

And possibly confuses newbies who are led to think it matters?

Also --- does piety decay even matter in realistic situations? Yes, I suppose if one is right at a breakpoint then one could go below it backtracking or something; but then one gets it back in the next nontrivial fight. I'd rather just have somewhat slower gain.

I think the early game is easier than the rest of the game largely in that it's simpler (which makes it easier to get good at it) and most of us have far more practice with it; I'm not sure it's intrinsically easier.

I think it's good for clarity; but Sigmund should probably be nerfed somewhat; I recently lost a character to him without being confused, which almost never used to happen. Unless, I suppose, he's supposed to be a "run away at sight" monster; but those are rather boring.

That's too bad; for future reference I'd have taken the lajatang; it's rather a large upgrade over your quarterstaff.

What are your current weapon and body armour?

Hope one of those gets in.

I knew some but not berserk in the alligator map; and I've been playing since 2014.

Agreed. Also, deep water leading to nothing (also present on some Sewer maps) should just be removed I think, for similar reasons; but your suggestion is more important probably.

But won't you still be caught in the explosions, if you're near the thing you're fighting? Or am I misunderstanding how they work?

Having just lost a XL15 Ko to friendly fire from my own ballistomycete --- when is it a good idea to grow one?

Or, at least, it did on my list of "recognized items". Bug, or new organizational scheme?

I think the magic staves issue should be communicated somewhere; since if I didn't know then I'd probably assume Spellcasting would substitute for spell skills in that context just as in the context of actual spells.

Huh this would certainly make apporting the rune and running for it a better option.

Very confusing for the ghost moth, I'd think.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7c41658a7123cd9630e3765cc5872098aef23733

is what I'm going based on.

Not a designer, but my impression is that Sif, Vehumet and Kiku are banned for Djinn.

I don't know that I was aware until I saw this thread that grinding Abyss/Pan for a specific unrandart was a thing anyone did. One way to prevent it, though, would be to disable unrandart generation in Abyss/Pan. (I don't think one is intended to be able to get one's preferred unrandart in every gam...

I actually am fine with ID as it currently is too. Yes at some point in the game it becomes trivial; but from then on it's now pretty unobtrusive. But I do like the idea of making mutations something that one will actually interact with.

Ok between a +4 flail and a +0 morningstar it's closer. And yes I'm sure the acid dragon armour was better than your starting armour; but if you're going to go with it long-term then I'd train some more Dodging. And I'd certainly keep the kite shield if you're wearing an amulet of reflection.

I don't know how much of the enchantment on the flail was natural versus how much was done with scrolls; but I'd take an unbranded morningstar over a flail of protection.

Did the game not generate a morningstar yet? In answer to your question --- if you don't have rPois yet when the time comes, I'd do Swamp. It's probably more survivable without, and you could get swamp dragon armour.

My scimitar of freezing seems to be summoning a spectral weapon when it attacks. I assume this is a side-effect of https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/b294f25f7b7bcef0372dd0f3142051ae1850ef57?

Edit: I see it's been fixed now.

That will have the negative side effect, though, of discouraging newbies from trying other deities. Also, it seems pretty consistent that leveling up never makes a character weaker (except for an unlucky Ds roll, but with the reform of Demonic Guardian even that's less of a problem); this would brea...

With the removal of curses, is there any reason left for wearables not to auto-ID? It seems to me to be relevant now only in rather rare cases (distortion weapons, artifacts with *Contam or *Drain) --- and I don't think either of those is intended primarily to punish wear-ID. At least, it's now tedi...

Sure, once you've trained Dodging to a high level. The decision between a bardiche and a halberd is also a no-brainer once you've trained Polearms to a high level. But some characters won't have, and the early game exists.

But it could ignite only after it leaves the body. (Otherwise it would be effectively a universal passive sticky flame, which it's not.)

One could just either make DEX rings +4, or make EV rings +6.

That could be a new sacrifice. Or a reflavoring of Sacrifice Words.

I'm not sure it's such a problem; one can already get high enough AC to trivialize a large fraction of the enemies in the game. And then there are some that ignore AC, either officially or by doing such massive damage that most will still get through. So now one can trivialize a different large frac...

I believe it used to be as Majang said but was changed?

Yeah I just won a HaBe that didn't feel obligated to use up its two manuals of Evocations as soon as it got them, just to get them out of inventory!

And it has been made so! (With option 2.)

True, though when I lose a character to Gauntlet it's almost always to the minotaur, not to the actual gauntlet. And one can't pre-scout e.g. what weapon it got.

The problem with skipping Gauntlet is that I don't really have a sense for which characters shouldn't skip it; and it's rewarding (and fun!) enough that I wouldn't want to skip it every time.

petercordia wrote:I recently had a character come within a hairs breadth of dying because he was completely ill-equipped to deal with the cave's simulacra. Luckily he survived because the simulacra can't follow you out the exit.

Yeah simulacra are scarier than they look (and than the game suggests they are) IMO.

Airwolf wrote:Go slow and use the tools you have available.

Well yes of course. The immediate motivation for this post was losing a one-on-one fight with a freezing wraith, for which I'd berserked. I was probably going to leave after the first little pile of loot; but didn't get that far.

Under what circumstances do you (totally and voluntarily) skip a timed portal? I basically never do; but I lose a lot of promising characters in Ice, so maybe I should start skipping it when I lack rC?

Andrew, I'm guessing most players will just take the drain hit. The idea is that you should be stuck with the item for like a floor before you can take it off. That's how it works in the early game, anyway. Late game curses just are an annoyance. What if the curse was indeed tied to floors? Like, y...

I was talking about a replacement for *Curse on artifacts, not for curses on random equipment.

Thanks as always. One thing I miss about the old rules is that they rewarded winning harder species/backgrounds more. (This also incidentally yielded some nice data about which species/backgrounds players actually found easier.) I'd be for bringing that back in some form.

Sanka, you may like throwing more than I do. But I think if I'm using a 2-handed melee weapon anyway then I usually will want to use either a bow or a crossbow.

I prefer antimagic as a swap, rather than as a primary weapon. The problem with distortion is that being unable to swap really narrows down one's options against monsters that one needs to deal with in not-melee. So that requires at least a bit of special-casing in a bot, I'd imagine.

I may be misunderstanding your point. I understood you to be saying that there wouldn't be an information leak because players would already have seen the level was special by the time they got their first Zot warning. Which is true, but they wouldn't have seen that yet when they see the clock is hi...

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