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One suggestion is Enchanter -> Stalker, Stalker -> Assassin, and delete the current Assassin class . what Edit: Sorry for the excessive terseness. I just found it amusing that you think it's a possibility to remove Assassins so that you can rename Enchanters. Is renaming Enchanters so important tha...

Actually, it would be cool to have the storm spells follow Tornado in having a single-word name. Inferno is a good one. Can't think of a good replacement for Ice Storm off of the top of my head, though—maybe that one can stay.

The use of reagents for Evaporate is almost the only thing keeping that spell in Transmutations, and is also the only thing that differentiates it thematically from Mephitic Cloud. I'd rather see the spell taken out (as I feel it should be).

Options for pet death besides penance: Pets are immortal and solely provide buffs based on the pet. Monsters would need to be able to walk through the pet or you would have a great mobile shield. Pet death causes no penance or piety loss, but getting a new pet costs piety. This is a better idea, in...

I'm concerned that Chei may be a the no brainer god for Octopodes. An Octopode of Chei gets full ponderous bonuses for only 1 ponderous hat. Note that the bonus from the hat comes at once at ***** piety, and none before. As an Oc of Chei, you'd face a choice among sitting at ponderous until *****, ...

Does that mean skill points were still allocated to it, but it's not being actively trained as a zero skill? Exactly. I agree that the disappearing is unintuitive, but not seeing level 0 training at all would be even worse, and cluttering the skill screen with every level 0 skill you ever used is a...

Except for Sticks to Snakes. But the fact that you have to wield the sticks to snakify them has an almost negligible effect on gameplay; it would probably be worth the interface improvement to make that spell targeted on your inventory as well. (It would have the side effect of reducing the times wh...

I also like minmay's flavor suggestion for hex MC, although personally I would make it simpler and have the spell just taint the air around the targeted location instead of blowing it. That's a minor quibble, though. One simple suggestion I have that I'm not sure has been mentioned is to make target...

I still think the best and simplest way to handle Elemental Forms is to make it an ability the player activates from the [a] screen like most invocations instead of an automatic effect. Transforming has huge drawbacks as well as benefits, so it's a significant problem if it automatically happens und...

The * ability would be VERY annoying if you haven't gotten the ** ability yet. I'm imagining corridors being blocked by lava while exploring, while not yet being able to pass through them. The Elemental Form idea is pretty cool, but with the elements only appearing randomly until **** it seems somew...

I've been trying this build a few times. It seems very promising, though I've been dying early due to my own noobishness. The draining upon stab seems to only partly offset the fact that your HP regen is slowed way down as you get thirstier. I would guess that Makhleb would be a better god than Okaw...

It seems strange that Monks would have invocations without having a starting god. Who were they invoking at?

I'm also not so sure about the idea that Invocations determines starting piety with a god. Starting over from zero piety is the only option that makes sense in most god-switching situations.

I support the piety boost idea, and think that for DgMo the piety increase should be forfeited instead of the background disallowed.

This is just kind of a silly idea.

I think that the term "passive abilities" for melee maneuvers not activated by 'a' is really a misnomer for most of the moves being suggested, since if you read the wiki page, the plan is that you ARE going to be able to trigger them actively; instead of just pressing 'a', though, you will...

The worst is when you are in the corner and he hits you and you have no idea because you can't see the breath effect behind you. Pressing ";" or using x will tell you if you are standing in a cloud, but it's not great to require an active command to tell if you are in a cloud. Maybe there...

On top of all the balance problems noted upthread, it doesn't make any sense that a spell should require different proportions of skills for different players or at different points in the game. Every time you cast a spell, it's the same spell, so it seems it would need the same sort of procedure, a...

I like this idea: (1) Buffs become active when memorized. They cannot be cast. I don't like this idea. Buffs are spells. Right now, all spells share the same system in which they are memorized and then cast when you want their effects. You are suggesting creating and balancing a completely new syst...

But isn't showing decimals more confusing than not? err, we're not showing decimals, no. They are not relevant. I support continuous skill increases, but I'm confused as to why it makes decimals of skill levels not relevant. If partial level increases gave partial benefits, wouldn't the decimals be...

It's gotten to the point where I get scared when I see an orc, cause I'm worried there's a priest behind him. This the appropriate response to orcs in the early game. Try to lure them away and kill them one at a time so that if there is a priest there aren't 5 orcs in the way when you charge it. I ...

In my mind, the cost of perma-casting a buff should be almost mathematically equivalent to casting the temporary buff again when it runs out. That's why I disagree with the idea of introducing a drawback to permanently casting a buff; it's still optimal to go through the tedium of recasting the temp...

Moving Mephitic Cloud to Hexes also has the problem that it will be nearly unambiguously better than Confuse, which is also level 3.

It's not minor. In the old system, you couldn't train magic skills without angering Trog because you couldn't cast. Now you can work around it and train spellcasting for MP (guardian spirit), or an elemental school for an evocable staff, or necro for a weapon of pain. That really doesn't seem right...

I remember when I wiped out an entire gnoll fortress as a level 4 transmuter using only FD/Evaporate and the occasional Spider Form. Good times, but it was also when I decided that the FD/Evaporate doesn't belong in the game, period. I think the trick is to remove Fulsome/Evaporate from the transmut...

I've got a polearms user (NaSk). At what point, if any, will it be worth it to switch from a trident to a halberd?

You could cast fire spells over and over to put your last 500k XP into fire magic. Now you put the next 500k XP you get into fire magic for no tedium at all.

Specifically, if the autoattack key is the key most recently pressed, conditions such as the following should pop up a --more-- prompt: A new monster moves into the field of view, Player has low health, One of the player's buffs are fading, or have run out, or Player has received some debuff. (Feel ...

A Naga was my most successful Skald so far. Their pretty huge HP and native AC become very helpful for hybrids once you get some XPs on that sucker. Their breath attack will probably take out about one in average out of a jackal pack to begin with, and then you can cast your brand spell and Shroud a...

Definitely have player ghosts not cast evap/meph as much, as XuaXua said, they absolutely destroy early chars without proper resistances, with no real way of avoiding it. I end up just downloading the latest trunk when I build up to many player ghosts, although going through with a DDNe sorts them ...

Couldn't we instead use the alphabet key to cycle through off -> on -> focus? It would make toggling skills on/off very annoying, especially to people who don't use focus. But that only adds one keypress to turning a skill off, and just a repeat. Using focus is annoying as it is right now. Players ...

Thanks for adding the focus feature. However, it seemed sort of clunky interface-wise to have to press a button to switch between selecting which skills to practice and which skills to focus on. Couldn't we instead use the alphabet key to cycle through off -> on -> focus?

One complaint I have about the new system is the inability to turn level 0 skills off. When I start a Skald and want to focus on Spellcasting, I can turn off all the other skills and get its percentage to about 98% initially, but whenever I cast a spell the percentages leak to secondary skills such ...

You can: press "*" to display unknown skills and their weights.

The OP applies to either, interestingly enough.

Bad forms would be the perfect place to bring in Turtle Form from the list of bad suggestions.

Yes, we will hear this complaint from time to time. I see two potential solutions: 1) Train skills as now, but only level a skill when it is acutally used. 2) Train and level skills as now, but only announce leveling when the skill was used. A bit lame, I know. One possible fix is that the game tra...

I suggest Book of Brimstone. Fire, stone, destruction, and alliteration.

Goodbye, "oh I'll just melee that kobold because I don't have points in my pool to put into magic", and good riddance. I can definitely see myself over-micromanaging with the manual mode, but that was to some extent a problem with the old system anyway. A question, though: In auto mode, ho...

Please don't name the new crusader background Skald. If a background name can't describe the playing style of a background with generic words, it has to use prior cultural associations to clue players into what playing a background is like. Everybody knows what a monk does, everybody knows what a be...

After realizing that nobody actually answered the original question: kobold works well. Deep elf and kenku have the aptitudes, but don't fit the playstyle as well as you might think. Mummies and vampires have serious disadvantages but fit like a wizard hat. Draconian is decent, too. What makes that...

I'm with KoboldLord in that I'd much rather have maneuvers or "tactics" implemented as a skill available to everyone rather than something granted by a god. Knowledge of how to charge or disable an opponent with a weapon is quite specialized knowledge, but it makes no sense for it to be gr...

In this case, Swiftness would require the caster to be at lvl2 in Air and lvl1 in Enchantment, while Repel Missiles would require lvl1 and lvl2 in these skills respectively, and so on. Two problems come to mind. First, you can still raise a magic skill high enough to cast any basic buff you want wi...

Try thinking about it classically. Heracles was the son of Zeus, but he only got super human strength, not the ability to chuck scaled down lightning bolts. Heck, Greek mythology is full of descendants of Gods, and a great many of them didn't get any special divine abilities (well, aside from being...

In my opinion, restricting spell slots for multischoolers or changing around the magic schools does not address the real problem in the magic system, which is that the availability of a spell currently depends on the caster's experience level. This makes it possible for experienced casters to pick u...

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