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Presumably it would be "almost entirely stealthy."

It does. It should be renamed Armour & Haberdashery & Cobblering & Knitting, though.

I'm willing to bet that I had the most hilarious death of the contest so far: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/wheals/morg ... 204451.txt

I managed to survive the first explosion only to have one boomerang back while I was eating :(

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 18a294beeb

Thankfully, we have a future psychic on the devteam.

Press '=' (w/o quotes) on the screen. The only thing that was changed was whether useless items were showed by default.

I don't see why UC improving auxiliary attacks is more intuitive than it not doing so. "Unarmed" doesn't mean "miscellaneous," it means "without a weapon."

Note that gargoyles can't be flayed either, like undead.

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 1cd5c8588e

It seems pretty clear to me that the Base Damage and the enchantment/slaying are going to work in not quite the same way, but you might have a point there.

This is a general issue for melee fighters. Crawl's number crunching is formidable - this is not a game that's going to see a crowd funded pen 'n' paper release anytime soon. That said, it would be really nice to work towards a parity of information flow between spell-casting* and physical combat. ...

For example, a shield that grant +6 hp. +HP is already a randart property I'm pretty sure this is only true if the randart is færie dragon armour. For the proposal, it does seem overall similar to Shroud of Golubria. The suggestion for gargoyles seems exactly the same as increasing their maxhp by, ...

Then making it knockback non-flying players/monsters seems like a pretty simple thing to make it more interesting, and a lot more transparent (I had absolutely no idea that there was a difference between flying and not flying).

Doesn't white breath have knockback?

Another minor reason is that they are the highest base damage weapon that can get the speed brand on a non-artefact. Even more minor is the fact that they can have the vamp and pain brands, which are not available on all weapons.

Oops, I meant that Fire Starter was copying a spell, but if it was replaced by Smoke Signal then the god would have two cloud creation invocations.

no my comment was originally "xuaxua opens thread sustaining debate," then i saw duvessa's thread, then i edited my post but it doesn't show as edited if you edit it too soon after originally posting it.

this is all incredibly important and i'm glad we all know it now.

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How about replacing Fire Starter with something creating a cloud of fog instead; it could be called "Smoke Signal" instead and cost piety, since infinite fog is very powerful. Fossilize could instead cast "mass petrify" all around you with power equal to your piety, so that it ha...

Lasty wrote:The loot outside of C:$ is normally generated, so it's roughly equivalent to the loot on a similarly-deep level of D.

Except that late D, and definitely Depths, is going to have lots of vaults which often give above-normal loot. Crypt vaults are definitely rarer or feel that way to me.

Crypt certainly has the highest xp/danger ratio of the branches mentioned. The loot is mediocre to nonexistent outside the final level though.

It's worth noting that draconians's stats have been changed since before they were disallowed to wear body armour. So it seems likely that this is a relic.

It could offer a choice between gifting you the Singing Sword or the shield of the gong at max piety.

if you don't win in 10000 turns you die of old age

duvessa wrote:...Yeah, which has the exact same result.

I assume that it would be the same level quality as a normal randart you found on the ground so ---
Oh. yes.

In some places. For example, acquirement has code specifically to give you a negatively enchanted item if it fills an armour slot you are missing. Not exactly...it normally has code to not allow negatively enchanted armour, but in the case of missing armour, it removes that code. This replaced the ...

I'd be willing to try this out.

There's also maprot in abyss, which does serve a function, true, but is also annoying when, for example, you teleport near where you were before, and you can actually see that for a second before a screen refresh and the old area is dumped. I guess there's no way to fix it without changing abyss tho...

By the time you clear Lair any trace of your D1 character has been completely overshadowed by your choice of god. The only exception to this is Demigods, and this is one of the reasons demigods are so cool. This is true but also a really weird way to say it, since your choice of playstyle usually i...

Well imagine that level, only there are five of them Well, having the Enchantress in the Depths, I thought there was no more Enchanted Forest... I mean, it was as if I found the Royal Slime Vault ._. Anyway, I know there were a lot of coding behind the enchanted Forest, but I think I enjoyed the Fo...

1010011010 wrote:Starting with translocation skill but no means of using it is like starting with axes skill but no axe, in fact it's worse since you're more likely to find an axe than a book.

Wanderers can't do this? I was fairly sure this had happened to me at a Wn start.

Right now I'd say. A +3 speed lajatang is better than that qstaff at any skill level.

Yup. I assume this is partly because of their dual-wielding quirk: deep elf blademasters never drop their starting weapons. That's because they can actually wield any weapon in their hands. You can test it out yourself: !fight deep elf blademaster; claymore . claymore v 5 yak is pretty fun to watch.

I checked the list of possible mercs: it's orc kinghts to orc warlords, nagas to warriors, merfolk to impaler, tengu to tecj OR warrior, either of those to reaver. Draconians don't seem to get classes.

Of things that (i think? pretty sure i didn't leave any out, though i might have included some things that I shouldn't have) can be mercenaries: orc kinghts to orc warlords, kobolds to big kobolds, centaurs to warriors, yaktaurs to captains (who promotes them, anyway?), nagas to warriors, naga mages...

damiac wrote:To ensure this thread is deleted forever: The swiftness change accidentally screwed up the velocity card. Discuss.

Good point, I used to think Nemelex was a good god but clearly that's no longer true now.

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Don't you get three times the XP in sprint?

You're in 0.13, so I'd suggest going down to D:20 after clearing Lair and Orc. To be honest, neither the short sword or the mace are very good. The scimitar, on the other hand, is pretty great. I'd say start focusing on getting your Long Blades skill to 14: you can kill hydras with makhleb abilities...

The point here is to kill two birds with one stone -- orc equipping and monsters picking up things you've seen. For both of them, the optimal behavior is boring and scummy. Beoquipment solves the former, true, but combining it (or just Beogh giving his own things to you orcs) with the second thing w...

Well, she had corpse eating so that back when she had a band she could eat the flesh of her children, because that's how Lamia rolls. I liked that she was, for a time, the first monster you'd see OOD in half of the games you played. I still don't think she's less interesting than Frederick or France...

Dragon King is pretty amazing. One of the problems with GDA is that by the time you find it you probably used your enchant armour scrolls, but it doesn't have the problem. I'd definitely recommend Spider now (after completing Dungeon). With rPois, a lot of the threats are greatly minimized. For skil...

Abyss is stsill going to be very different, since terrain is usually a lot more important than the actual enemies that you're fighting (unless you get orbs of fire or something, but that bug was fixed). In practice, you have a section where you've got lots of enemies from a specific branch but after...

what's a horned helmet

Or you could not make a stash at all, so that if a jelly does eat something, your whole collection won't be ruined.

I realise one of the goals of crawl is to make it lean and without clutter/annoyance, but I really don't think there is any need to remove branches/cut the levels down just because they're currently boring/difficult. I agree it needs a bit of work, but branches are what makes the game fun/gives an ...

I decided to fsim this (vs stone giant). +6 Great sword of slicing, 12 fighting and 20 long blades, XL 17 (around the time you'll get 3000 gold): AvHitDam | MaxDam | Accuracy | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpeed | AvEffDam Attacking: 11.9 | 45 | 93% | 11.2 | 70 | 1.43 | 15.9 Defending: 21.0 | 44 | 68% | 14.4 ...

Because, for the third fucking time, ' kills your spectral weapon and spectral weapon with a fucking sharpened butter knife does more damage. What spectral weapon? The one you made while wielding Doom Knight? How about pressing ', THEN zc or whatever key spectral weapon is bound to. Also, I think y...

I thought about the xp but since spriggan monsters are rare outside some Lair vaults / Zigs anyway they could be adjusted up or down to keep the xp at what it needs. Even without as much xp, I find that most Enchantress vaults have pretty awesome loot, and a lot of characters could benefit from a go...

Forest, as it stands, has some significant problem. The biggest seems to be that it isn't fun to play. A major complaint seems to be the monster list: see pubby's post here for a pretty good list of some of the problems. Another issue is that it doesn't seem to really have a coherent theme besides &...

Torment and Holy Word are purple, for characters who can be harmed for them (sucks for ds, they're harmed by both). I have absolutely no idea what you mean by "spellbooks that can backlash"? Vampiric weapons are way too good to confuse new players by making them purple, given the only dang...

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