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Please don't, ghosts are stairdance city.

Doing this thing where you brush aside anyone else's opinion when they don't have "evidence" when anyone who knows anything about statistics knows your evidence is clearly flawed and not something to make assumptions based on isn't doing you any favors

I have largely stopped playing DCSS but I feel I ought to chime in and say that tournaments in the past have been not only bad for my sleep schedule, but also my participation in college. I would be highly in favor of limiting time allotted towards tournament games per day, and maybe over the course...

Must have been the wind.

Abyss is easy to escape from for high level characters like yours ever since they made the change that makes an exit portal pop up once you kill enough stuff.

I always think of ogres as being at least twice as tall as a normal person.

aren't oni supposed to be huge

I definitely think that the amount of bright background tiles in shoals is not good. I often look at the screen for a bit before locating things, my eyes don't focus well on enemies there.

Why wouldn't you just play a normal RPG instead, then? So much of games like this is based around the concept of permadeath.

I actually think it's gonna take years for anyone to get a run good enough to beat this.

Hell yeah. I knew it could be done, it was just a question of when.

I was considering doing some speedruns again but now it's gonna be purely for fun because I'm not putting in the time to try and get the rng required to beat that lmao

Adjusting it would be a lot better than replacing it, considering pan lords can also have it(and the spell is fine besides this interaction).

Chei does suck without the actives but I think most people who play chei are attracted to having really big stats. big number feel good, etc Whether or not those are actually the good part doesn't mean that's what makes people play the god. When people talk about liking chei characters, they mostly ...

I would consider switching to lighter armor if you haven't already instead of switching gods.

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I don't remember what causes this message but I think it's extremely funny

Then you've got the hand crafted mage assassins, eyes of draining, ghost moths Can we just get rid of these? All they do is scare players that don't know how the MP draining works. (When they gaze, they heal themselves whether you have MP or not, which is the reason ghost moths appear to be hard to...

still the fastest ant. hell yeah motherfucker

Is it at all likely to starve to death before finding a staff of energy?

Because starting in the abyss is cool

this forum undervalues coolness factor

how do you guys play this game if you expect the starting kit to take care of every threat for the whole game? most starts are a lot more capable of killing everything they run into than VM using what they start with or stuff that uses the same skills as what they start with uses at the very least ...

None of those need to be changed. It's neat to have little references to things outside the game, and mythology is a good source to draw from. Like, do you really think Jory is a more interesting character than any of those referential ones you mentioned? He's just some vampire dude who casts crysta...

orcs and dwarves are not as cool as big angry bull guys with horns so I am extremely against this change. A change I saw talked about a while ago which I would honestly be in favor of is removing hill orc, letting anyone worship beogh, and then transforming anyone who worships beogh into an orc(perh...

Please check for evasion and riposte before shield block. This is really what we need that will bring Riposte from being mostly useless to being actually maybe useful. Gaining levels in shields shouldn't nerf your mainhand weapon. You can already play with 2H long blades and see that this isn't rea...

I don't think it's actually that important to maintain mindelay at all times.

Demigods don't need more variety. It's ok for some species to be less popular than others, in fact, it's basically inevitable. Different species have different appeals and some of those appeals being more niche is not a bad thing. I like demigod because they impose a challenge in a pretty straightfo...

Not having gods or any complex gimmicks is exactly what makes demigods good(from a game design perspective, not a "playing to win" perspective). They make you adapt more to the items you find than any other species.

Hellmonk wrote:https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/8a7c85174f6257ffa3f2e88cbc3da6f78f3c0e8b

Ayy we did it.

The real realization for stabbers, though, is to stop using short blades and instead just use actual good weapons because you don't need to do fuckbillion damage to a monster that is confused/paralyzed/asleep to kill it. Hexing would be good with no damage bonus at all.

if you want to get really fucking technical spiders have hemolymph instead of blood, but like, c'mon

If I could give you tavern gold by spending real money like on reddit for this post I would it's annoying, limits the types of characters that can use the god for no real reason, and doesn't even have good flavor backing it up because dithmenos allows other spells that would naturally cause light, i...

duvessa wrote:Isn't Draconian already a species under Simple that's well-suited to killing things with spells all game?

Yes, and both hill orcs and minotaurs also exist simultaneously.

Tumalu wrote:I wouldn't agree with displaying the exact damage done per successful hit.

But why though

personally I can't stand wallbounce spells because of the way that they bounce differently not just based on the angle they hit a wall, but also the position of other walls around that wall. like, shooting east here- ......# .@....# ......# bounces differently than shooting east here- .....## .@.......

After successfully hitting it you should back up one tile before swinging again though.

Into the Breach is good as hell

IMO it would be nice if instead of having decks, you had one hand of cards separate from your inventory. It would require a lot of reworking though.

what character on gods green earth is more scared of spider than abyss I cannot imagine that those tarantella/shoals situations(with careful play) would be more difficult than stuff you are likely to run into in abyss. He said abyssal rune as 3rd rune, so I assume he got runes from Lair branches ? ...

what character on gods green earth is more scared of spider than abyss

I cannot imagine that those tarantella/shoals situations(with careful play) would be more difficult than stuff you are likely to run into in abyss.

A big monster that just crashes through and destroys walls would also sidestep the problem of it getting caught up on things.

But that's kind of a weird exception, isn't it? Torment is damage. Spirit shield lets some damage, of whatever kind of damage you take, get taken as MP instead of HP.
Why should torment have a special case to ignore spirit shield's MP health?

You could possibly make each kind of amulet only generate once per game so it's a meaningful sacrifice. Don't know how hard that would be with crawl's codebase.

That's much more readable, I feel like my eyes kinda glaze over looking at these normally.

Also, to the issue of what bucklers are in this game -- there is never clarification one way or the other, There is though. It's confirmed to be the kind you hold with your hand, not strapped on your arm, by the way you can't use 2H weapons with one on. You could argue that it should go the other w...

I don't want to make a new thread for it, but as long as "aesthetic" monster tweaks are being talked about, I want to request(again, like the broken record I am) that titzitimtilzis be renamed back to shadow fiends. It gives them a straightforward language connection to other strong demons...

I know I don't have the experience to comment extensively, but I will say that I think that Fedhas does need a rework, and that this is a viable concept. The big problem I have with summon forest is the whole aspect of the Dryad in the first place -- more often than not unless you manage to meat-sh...

I don't understand the concept of 'pure melee'. Why would you choose not to have any kind of ranged attack, unless it is a challenge game? You can question the logic of it, but lots of people do play this way. I've won a buncha times without training any form of ranged attack, mostly because it did...

As far as I remember there is a default target value for Int and it is close to 8 so Jiyva will keep moving stats accordingly. You don't expect to have Int 1, do you? I wouldn't expect Jiyva to raise my int from its starting amount when I know no spells whatsoever. Especially when dex is so low. I ...

terally know no spells, have trained no spellcasting skills, and am a hill orc in heavy armor with 21 str who has not boosted dex at all

fuck off slime boy

I don't think they need a replacement, they don't really fit much of a niche.

If they were to have one I would rather it was just a straightforward (decent amount of)ranged damage enemy. But there's enough threats at range in extended anyways.

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