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It would also make longblade-wielding monsters more of a threat to high EV/low AC player characters. There are already way more serious threats to high EV/low AC player characters than there are to low EV/high AC characters. This is compounded by the fact that a good number of high EV/low AC charac...

Yes. It will confuse everyone!

WalkerBoh wrote:Dieselrobin is the best, you know we'll throw a team into the fray.

"teams"

Just make blink level 1. Would it really hurt to make blink level 1 otherwise? I never thought of it, but it would help warpers a bit and it wouldn't really make life much easier for non-warpers. The main barrier to learning blink on most characters is just finding a book with it, rather than makin...

I honestly had not thought of the debuffing effects of cancellation. In theory it would cause "interesting tactical choices", but, in practice, it would make the potion less usable in the early game, when e.g. might can be important against adders. About cancellation and new mut, I am not...

MainiacJoe wrote:Would moving in the opposite direction as OP and starting Halflings with rMut 3 step on Zin too much?

rMut is about the 843rd reason to take Zin IMO. If you're taking Zin because you're afraid of mutations, you're bad at Zin.

Wait, if I own a forest fire caused by a lightning bolt, can I just shut a door and quit earning penance from Dith?

Also, now that clouds act this way and PCloud is gone, my favorite way to clear 90+% of Vaults is defunct.

1. Draconians have poor dex and dodging anyway so it's not like you're going to get Spriggan EV 3. High-evasion characters are overrated since there are quite a few EV-ignoring attacks. Seems ok to me... Huge EV seems great until about the 3rd stone giant you run into and then you realize that one ...

Shard1697 wrote:Or just not there, like how ghosts lose... all other abilities besides spells

For real, just make a negative breath draconian if it's that important. I hate having every xl 7 asshole who died with a couple of annoying spells as a draconian being the most dangerous thing by far on a level.

I always have to go manually remove them from my auto-pickup, because I've been too lazy to make the change in my rc. Obviously, the problem can be solved on my end with fairly minimal effort, but if we don't want to remove them could they at least not be on auto-pickup as a stopgap? I could count o...

There's also still the problem of Xom thinking that he's giving you a helpful polymorph by turning you into a spider in Tomb with 0 UC.

I always felt that the primary use for Imps as a wizard is dealing with adders. Or just them getting poisoned so you don't have to in general.

Alternatively, we can just bikeshed a nickname for him/her!

I'll start with "Captain Calamari!"

I like that Fo can't accidentally get shafted. That's one of those things I always thought should be in the game anyway.

Caves of Qud. A post-apocalyptic style roguelike. You do have to pay to get it in tiles format, but that shouldn't be an overwhelming problem around here.

Xom also usually gives you 2-3 different types of scales, a couple of natural resistances otherwise, and a random grab-bag of 6-12 good mutations otherwise with maybe one or two bad ones mixed in by the end of a game. I don't think that changing how scales/"covering" mutations work current...

I'm fine with the list as is, I just find it kind of funny that Human falls under "Intermediate" rather than "Simple." While harder to win with than the races in the "simple" category, they are arguably the simplest race in the game.

Also ignites poisonous/meph clouds.

I've always thought MR+ might be a more interesting side effect of !brilliance than !resistance. As it stands, the potion is functionally useless on heavy armor/melee types that are only going for 3 runes.

Wall jumping is fairly powerful, you can pretty much always escape from a normal speed monster using it. Lunge seems pretty pointless so far though Among other uses, you can lunge with a dagger for a stab, which cuts down the time for a monster to notice you and wake up. (Actually, I'm not quite su...

There are a lot of area spells that don't affect the caster. Ignite Poison, Olgreb's, Mass Confusion, Ring of Flames while active, Shatter, Tornado... The explosions are shaped around the caster because otherwise it would be annoying to use, and I refuse to add spells that are annoying to use. Unsp...

What are the trolley's feelings about the bourgeoisie and running capitalist pig dogs?

Another Metroid 2 Remake (AM2R) was supposed to be pretty cool. Of course, Nintendo issued a cease and desist on it, so it may be difficult to acquire and the legality of doing so may also be questionable.

Procedurally Generated Mayonnaise puts on one hell of a show. They blew the roof of the dump at the Bronco Bowl in Fort Worth, TX.

Wow, there actually is a downside to not checking the tavern very often!

Why? They are removed simply for gaining piety(IE basically doing anything) under this change. To be more accurate, dealing with them in a timely fashion becomes awkward. Granted, most bad mutations you can just ignore, but there are a few of them that can get you killed if you're not careful. Alth...

That last bit makes sense. Otherwise it gets really awkward to deal with bad mutations under Zin.

to be clear infusion gives you a buff which adds 2+(spellpower/25) damage, with a spellpower cap of 25(so 2-3 extra damage, which is significant early on). It is reduced by AC separate from your main attack, so against enemies who have AC it becomes useless quickly. For example, against an enemy wi...

I mean, it would heavily disfavor switching to Zin unless you were only doing it to clear mutations. Granted, I have never switched to Zin because I'm already pretty sure I'm cool with a Zin game as soon as I see the altar. But how would this affect piety sharing between the good gods? If I had 6* w...

So wait, do you have to be free of mutations before you can gain Zin piety in this instance? And does he still provide rMut?
Zin is still probably one of the best gods with or without the change, so I can live with it.

What, you don't like saying Uski-uski-uski-beki-stan?

Or Hepatitis?

TIL: People spend 10 mins on d:1. that ain't that much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStCYJRhd0s When I watch videos like this it really makes me think about how different discussion about DCSS development might be without online statistics and the idea of streaking existing. I watched over a min...

If you're worried that playing crawl is a waste of time, you're going to be horrified when you think about what posting on Tavern is. That's an interesting perspective; couldn't you argue that trying to communicate with one's fellow beings (however futile such efforts occasionally seem around here)...

Oka definitely drops +0 stuff, especially if you've never seen it before. +0 hat is a classic Oka gift. Unless that has changed recently.

Yeah, ninja always seemed cool because of the sheer number of weapons they could use, but low level black magic is just worse than low level white magic, and they just can't do anything else as well as one of the classes that specializes in it. And before the class upgrade, thief was just even worse.

I always like the classic Xom gift of inedible rations. Followed up by stones. Although Xom might be the best gifting god in the game on the whole, behind maybe Gozag. So I can't complain too much.

TIL: People spend 10 mins on d:1.

To paraphrase someone else, didn't 2016 already prove that progress isn't a given? I'm sure that some joker in the year 200 was all like "really, we're *still* burning people at the stake in the year 200!?" Turns out people are horrible, and progress is only what you can claw out of the co...

Statue Form and Necromutation, of course, are the best spells ever. There is really little reason to train anything but TMut, Necro, and Earth.

If you're not planning to do a ton of extended, a vamp weapon is always the answer for DD.

Being with Makh kind of counters that, but really only if you're planning to go do extended.

bel wrote:Hybridization is useful for the same reason diversifying a portfolio is useful: you don't put everything in one basket.

Protect yo neck--diversify yo bonds!

Any effect that has is probably pretty negligible, because I can think of any number of times that I acquired a weapon and got a two-hander when I was already using a shield at or near the "appropriate" skill level for it.

I always thought of it more as a "while I'm here" sort of thing more than doing it intentionally. Lugonu excepted, of course.

ETA: Well, when tele ring still worked in Abyss and was evokable, it was a legit choice. But since then, not really so much.

Heh. First time I ever beat that game was with EdgeFigaro's 3 Fighters and a Red Mage tactic.

Much later I got it on my phone and tried to make Red Mage, Thief, White Mage, Black Mage work. It was brutal. I think I eventually made it to Tiamat and then my phone died and I gave up on it.

Forever ago I suggested a higher level Poison spell that gave the player severe poisoning in exchange for Might and/or Agility effects. The Might effect would only apply if the caster weren't poison immune and would only last as long as the player were still poisoned, to prevent just casting the spe...

Rast wrote:While I don't think OP's complaint is truly a problem, I'd favor adding aux slot items to a few more early uniques. Especially the nastier ones. Incentivize the player to fight them.

I do frequently fight Yiuf even when it's not a great idea just to get my hands on his sweet sweet cloak.

I use new protection more often than I ever did old protection.

Well, the unstated assumption there was that you generally aren't going to use ?torment while you're trying to melee a mob of dudes, but rather if you have some way to handle them at range or to sic summons/zombies/whatever on them. I feel like the reasons to use the Kiku version should be fairly se...

Yeah, my point is if you're willing to go through that to improve your winrate, you're welcome to as far as I'm concerned.

I honestly think that if you enjoy scumming pan/abyss, there are way bigger problems with you than there are with the game design at that point. That isn't to say that Pan couldn't use some streamlining, but I've got better things to do with my time than spend it needlessly in the two most annoying ...

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