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I don't understand what this thread is supposed to be about. More complicated limits on how inventory size works will only make management correspondingly more complex and therefore bad. It could actually simplify some decisions, in that you no longer would need to weigh the value of each scroll or...

check out 0.9 or so and see how you feel about d1 kobolds with exploding darts

If it's intentional, '55' would be less of a pain than '5Y'. I don't do this intentionally often enough to worry about that... Most often I rest while at full HP/MP in only one of two situations: 1) I finished a fight and hit 5 out of reflex, forgetting I took no damage, or 2) I want to wait for a ...

reflavor shafts as hungry zot mouths that are pulling you deeper into the dungeon

add pink flamingos

i'm torn, in that i don't like getting paralyzed, but i do like reading complaints from players who are mad at dying...

PlatinumSpider wrote:This makes them more useful for casters who are out of MP from using their spells and help differentiate God magic from the in game spell magic.

but why is either of those things desirable?

("Scumming" is presently used to describe reloading the game from an earlier state, typically to get better results from the RNG) No, that is "save scumming"... A subtype of more general "scumming", i.e. degenerate gameplay behavior based on actions that carry little t...

The usual process--'X' to level map, '>' or '<' to cycle through stairs, ']' or '[' to peek--works for me but color/tile-coded staircases couldn't hurt.

It sounds like the simplest thing to do would be to add a paragraph under the chapter on armor in Crawl's manual.

i wish calculators couldnt do math faster than me :\

The ?/ function is nifty, but flawed right now. It is inherently spoilery, in the sense that you can't use it unless you know what you are looking for. Plus there's a ton of absurd names in crawl: getting attacked by a summoned invisible monster? Good luck looking up Leuryocrypa. The solution to th...

watertreatmentRL wrote:Also, I played Chrono Trigger and I don't remember anything you're talking about.

they are three really central characters... it's hard to imagine how you could forget them unless you just didn't care for the game in the first place.

yesno wrote:i never tried saying it before out loud but i tried it just now, and the y and i sort of glide into each other so that it sounds like "yuf", rhymes with booth/youth/tooth/forsooth/ruth

proof goof aloof

mibe420 wrote:And as always, if I made any mistakes or anyone has anything to add, feel free to criticize my guide!

Put this part...

mibe420 wrote:play 10+ hours a day.

...at the top.

duvessa wrote:devs deleting my ideas and then stealing them years later

i wanted to go thank your 5-year-old good idea but i can't because it's deleted despite being visible in search. everything about crawl is weird...

Instead of defending old design choices all the time, or getting "you're stupid" shoved in my face, I'd much rather talk about ways to change things. If, for some reason, an orc-exclusive god was suddenly considered un-Crawl, I'd suggest that any character taking on Beogh would become an ...

i never tried saying it before out loud but i tried it just now, and the y and i sort of glide into each other so that it sounds like "yuf", rhymes with booth/youth/tooth/forsooth/ruth

make beogh smite to death non-HO beoghites carrying the orb when they try to ascend d:1 stairs, and print a message about beogh thanking them for their great deed on behalf of the orcish people You are about to leave the dungeon with the Orb! Leave Beogh first? [Y/N] he also smites you to death if ...

1. The HO-only conduct is downright awful, has no place in Crawl, and only survives because of design inertia. Other species limitations have at least a pretense of reason, like the "no getting extended benefits like holy wrath/hell effect reduction in conjunction with torment immunity" t...

never mind

never mind

Fighting represents approximately 3% of the total skills in the game (give or take a few, I'm both tired and wiped out on grading math assignments for hours last night) but is 30% of the endgame titles. That's the definition of disproportionate. This of course says a lot about fighting. this might ...

Tyrant leeches is a way worse name than giant leeches. But don't forget it's a real kind of leech! https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22132 good point. next time i want to convince a friend to try crawl i will say this: "you should play dungeon crawl. it has real kinds of...

when i read the title i thought maybe it meant crawl should have items called keys, that you can use to go upstairs a limited number of times, which sounds cool

Thoughts? Skill list is already cluttered, so personally I wouldn't like to see Fighting multiply as alternative to removal. Your suggestion of "Constitution" makes me wonder if a Constitution attribute would work in Crawl. It could replace both fighting skill and HP apt. It would restric...

A lot of games have an extra layer of player abilities which Crawl kind of lacks... Many RPGs have systems like feats, or perks, alongside their skill and attribute systems... These are minor abilities that are usually small adjustments to resistances, hit points, etc., or special abilities and comb...

Spellcasting is the only comparable skill on that list and it could be removed for a lot of the same reasons as fighting.

I don't think training magic is boring compared to fighting because I am training specifically to use some ability, and there are a lot of different spells of different schools and combinations of schools, so often I have a lot of choices as to which spells I should prioritize. Without fighting, the...

duvessa wrote:This is a game where a porcupine can physically obliterate a black bear by biting it twice. Once, if the porcupine is berserk.

fr: rename porcupine to giant porcupine

please just change it back to giant frog! it's a giant frog... Everyone knows what "giant frog" is. It's frog that is way too big! Very scary! Bullfrog is just smelly little terrarium pet.

I think those two examples are not great, sandman, because they are totally extreme examples... Super low HP species with no fighting and super high HP species with all fighting. For fighting to be really relevant interesting decision, it would be relevant most of the time. But most characters trai...

I think those two examples are not great, sandman, because they are totally extreme examples... Super low HP species with no fighting and super high HP species with all fighting. For fighting to be really relevant interesting decision, it would be relevant most of the time. But most characters train...

Agree... Sometimes I want more HP on one character than on another but it always feels like a pointless part of skilling.

i just had a terrible thought, is it possible that i am arguing for the sake of arguing about video games?????????????????? bbl gotta figure some stuff out in my life

The same argument applies for skald so you can pretend I said that if you don't believe that the book start with wide variety of "toolkit" spells no higher than level 3 is a hybrid by design. So, when you say, "the same argument applies", and your argument for Wz was that it's g...

Seriously tbh when I see a dev thank some random idea in GDD i wonder "does this mean this dev will propose this change to the dev team and support it?" I probably wouldn't have put any effort into replying if dpeg hadn't thanked OP...

Making your background prescribe a major part of your long-term strategy on turn 0 takes away a lot of potential depth. When I start crawl i have an idea what kind of character i feel like playing and that will be fun for me. If i want to start a character who is not a specialist and who will have ...

...Wizard is a hybrid background and that's why it's relevant. This change is a big improvement for people playing hybrid backgrounds, who wish to have a different playstyle between the beginning and the end of the game. Right now, because of stats, if you wanna mainly go melee by vaults or somethi...

People keep talking about MiWz, which seems like one of the least importantly affected characters by a change like this... What about HuWz, GhNe, NaFE, HOFE, GrEE, OgWz... All the average spellcasters who would take a big hit to early ability. The effect would be pretty large so it can't be waved a...

People keep talking about MiWz, which seems like one of the least importantly affected characters by a change like this... What about HuWz, GhNe, NaFE, HOFE, GrEE, OgWz... All the average spellcasters who would take a big hit to early ability. The effect would be pretty large so it can't be waved aw...

Also as others wrote, it would make some combos almost unplayable. I wouldn't even try playing MiWz as Wz or TrFE with Fire Storm in 3 runes game in the new crawl. How high of a priority should the balance of challenge combos actually be, though? If you're not allowed to make changes because it'd m...

Backgrounds shouldn't have far-reaching, essentially permanent effects like that.

Since people don't agree on this statement, it seems like it should be the focus of conversation.

Characters are a combination of a species and a background, which defines a semi-unique starting package for each combo that will determine a lot of the choices they make through the whole game... Seems good to me.

Sprucery wrote:
watertreatmentRL wrote:Hellcrawl has been identification and curse free for about five months now.

Well, isn't it great that Hellcrawl and DCSS are different games? Everyone can choose what they want to play!

this id minigame is tearing us apart!!!!

dpeg wrote:What gives you the right to state what's the One True Path to roguelike enlightenment?

whaaaat

crawl has been moving toward a more arcadey, streamlined dungeon hack experience and item identification requires the player to recognize good times to stop and identify their scrolls. dpeg might be right in his arguments about identification introducing choices and strategies but but i don't think ...

You're right, it's not that hard... I think it is inelegant though, because the colors are so arbitrary, and it clutters the visual presentation of the game. I guess to me ^x seems like the fastest way since then if it's something you want you just hit one more key to go get it. Plus it will be anno...

console has other funny glyph color conventions, like purple helmets, and red robes, etc. imo these items should just be colored by their rarity like in lots of other rpgs. so mundane weapons and armor are all gray [s and )s, ego are blue, artefact are white. theoretically the specific colors for sp...

Chicken wrote:"distracting"

why did you put this in quotes? Are you responding to someone who said it?

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