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Pcloud is more useful, but Fcloud and derived undead work alright too. Yes the cloud kills the zombies, but it does so slowly because of undead cold resistance. Meanwhile, your horde will keep monsters inside the cloud easilly. If you are killing living things, you'll have more zombies soon. Besides...

1) Put Ignite Poison in the starting book. This \ changes the way the background plays from the moment it becomes castable. May obsolete OTR. 2) Add Spider Form to the starting book. I predict either of these two changes significantly the way VM plays and what it builds into. Both would feel like a ...

The dark maul is a great and fun weapon. (did this get removed?)

Reminds me of my stormkitty win. That game was awful. Congrats! Questions: How useful was lategame lightning spire? Summon Lightning | | | | | | | | 20 | 4 || 24 Why so much upheaval and so little disaster area? Invok: Upheaval | | | | | 10 | 38 | 31 | 39 | 15 || 133 Disaster Area | | | | | 2 | | | ...

As long as we are talking about necromutation and high level poison spells, I feel compelled to link to my old plant boss form idea that never went anywhere.

I have a soft spot for High Council because it made this Irridate ghoul possible. I think Irridate was also removed at some point.

7 Hashes of spellpower at 12 base int.

b - Irradiate Conj/Trmt #######... 5% 5 #####..

Someone ran a simultaneous constricted monster challenge a while back. How many creatures can you constrict with a pode at a single time? I think 5 or 6 was the best I saw. It is actually rather difficult to constrict 8 things at once.

Summoners (both the background and other classes who hybrid into summoners when convenient) are absurdly powerful. Less XP does not bring them out of the absurdly powerful category. On a tactical level, the most significant summoner drawback is that they fight so poorly around staircases and have to...

Most of the spells have a tremendous amount of utility, but the highest levels of utility of spells really depend on the player having alot of experience with the individual spell and the game as a whole. There are many spells that are zone-specific, incredibly useful in one or two areas and then ma...

Pick your battlefield on every encounter. Chose where every fight happens.

Getting better at Abyss is basically: Get better at walking away from everything, knowing when to teleport. I call the abyss lesson threat assessment. Characters in the abyss will typically just walk away from everything until the area is too troublesome to continue walking away from, and then tele...

VpSu is my favorite summoner, by far.

?fog breaks LoS

?fog --> back up two spaces --> luguno blink --> batform may be an even better play, but it depends on terrain. Also, it depends on how close the nearest OoF is.

I really like to use ?summoning and Phial in zot to buy time as well.

?fog + batform is an easy disengage from multi OoF as Vp.

The first 10 floors of zig is safe with a reasonable chance of !curemut, and if a floor is dangerous you can skip with a ?blink.

Also, all your ?immolation scrolls can be burnt in zigs and allow you to trivialize alot of mid-teir floors.

But 0.19 Tournament!

It is my experience that there are excellent places to fight in on most maps. I value picking good battlefields, I generally consider more than just corridors as good battlefields. The perk of cooridors is it makes it simple to be fighting exactly one thing at a time. Corridors that have internal co...

If you encounter a threat on a mostly explored floor, ?tele makes dealing with it trivial. This is not true "near the stairs" on unexplored levels, where ?tele can make your position worse. You're still spending at least the same amount of time on mostly unexplored levels if you explore f...

Qazal DreamScroll

Exploring the black on an unexplored level is less dangerous than exploring the black on a mostly explored level. Even if that were true, you're still exploring the same amount of black of unexplored levels either way. I don't think that's true, though. Exploring near the stairs is what's least dan...

Have you ever watched new players? Part 2: Place yourself such that monsters have to walk past your mushrooms to get to you is not at all intuitive. I see many new players not choose their battlefield. It isn't something they are aware of. They see monsters to fight, but are not aware of the terrain...

I've thought about this in the past and would enjoying playing it were it an option.

[*] (The conjecture:) Even when a floor is easy in general, there's always the possibility that you run into a dangerous situation (e.g. the wrong combination of otherwise perfectly manageable monsters walks in from unfortunate angles). Every dangerous situation, by definition, bears the risk of ma...

Fedhas is a very strong good, but I would not place it in the easy of gods catagory. The strength of mushrooms is not realized unless the player is decent at minioncrawl, which isn't deeply learned until a player has experience with summoners. The strengths of other god abilities (sunlight, rain) ar...

I like playing the game of travelling downstairs immediately upon finding the 3rd down staircase. I do this when I want to play around, not when I want to win. O-tabbing and fully autoexploring is a more relaxing crawl experience than either speed running or streaking. Fully autoexploring is better ...

Oh! It is next week! Thank you!

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The tournament scoreboard link is broken for me. Where can I see nemelex choice options?

Add way more shields!

Smaller Shield
Buckler
Targe
Small Shield
Shield
Medium Shield
Normal Shield
Kite Shield
Big Shield
Large Shield
Bigger Shield
Biggest Shield
Tower Shield
Biggerest Shield

You should always rest on Z4 anyway, never on Z5.

Yred is incredibly powerful early god. Animate dead at 1* is top teir for 1* abilities. Your character can be garbage and if you have a D2 ~D3 yred altar, you have everything you need to clear lair by the end of D4. Luckilly, you can hit ~6* by clearing through lair, and top teir yred minions are ri...

Maces and Flails are good for very similar reasons and effects. You lose stabbing utility, you gain a transfer into 2h weapons more cheaply, demon whips and evening stars are less expensive than switching to long blades from short blades (I don't think this is a significant saving of XP, opinions ma...

Short Blades are great. Useful early brands show up frequently and XP expenditure is minimal. Hybrids naturally transfer into demon blades later conveniently around the time XP is more plentiful and short blades begin to fall off, or you naturally transfer casters into enhancer staves. Even into end...

Summoners are really strong, and the summoner minigame is one of the most interesting and best developed minigames. You really pay attention to how everything on the map moves and acts. The summoner minigame also extends far later into the game. Frequently, characters normalize to some kind of stabl...

Ghost Moths present significant challenges for certain characters as well. I am currently running a VpSu that has a terrible time with them, to the point where I went to shoals because it was easier doable. I can see invis, but my only minion that can fight them is my K9. Fat lot of good my spellfor...

Trying to achieve the goals of charms reform by adding such enemies is quite simply using the wrong tool to fix the problem. I respectfully disagree. Is it actually possible to convince you otherwise? I'm not really sure at the moment. I've spent the past couple of days trying to argue that the men...

and into wrote:Trying to achieve the goals of charms reform by adding such enemies is quite simply using the wrong tool to fix the problem.

I respectfully disagree.

It isn't directly analagous. It is a wonderful design space that is nearly completely unexplored by crawl as it exists. Good things exist in that design space, and we should explore it!

Frequently, on this forum, the vault warden combo of monsters if hailed as a well designed school of monsters. Each of their abilities on their own is not incredible, but a pack of them, combined with different monsters presents interesting challenges. There are opportunities for good game design by...

Adding a few monsters that cast anti-Charms spells will not change any of this, sorry. This is not true. Invisibility's place in the game, how it is more useful in some zones and less in others, how it is more useful on some characters than others, is directly related to the frequency of monsters t...

I went deep hexes (dischord) on my stormkitty, and got Dragon/Statue Form Later. It kinda worked (i won), but game was very hard.

Conj are probably a good choice.

I claim that the game can make charms more interesting choices by interacting with magical effects more than it does now. I further believe that the charms school can promote diverse character builds by way of dual school abilities. The direction of charms reform has been to reduce, remove, and nerf...

Hunter starts generally can't clear lair with just ammo unless the dungeon floor is exceptionally kind or they are slings.

Game was hard. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1743-g6dcb786 (webtiles) character file. 1331875 edgefigaro the End of an Era (level 22, 94/94 HPs) Began as a Felid Monk on Sept 29, 2016. Was the Champion of Qazlal. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Oct 2, 2016! The game lasted 10:31:0...

Yah no, on my stormkitty with a faith amulet, I'll get ~4 Disaster Areas per zone. My stormkitteh is a bad character though, so I lose a lot of piety to decay.

I respectfully disagree.

So: I thought yara's gave contamination like irridate. It mutates you. That seems excessive. Retooled proposal: Make monster yara's give contamination according to number of buffs it dispels. OP has been updated. It appears I have been talking out of my ass. I stand by my assessment of charms reform...

Players are going to do this: 1) keep charms up as much as reasonable given hunger cost 2) if they see a monster such as outlined in this proposal, retreat, rest/get pelted by missiles until charms wear off, return to charms-counterer, attempt to isolate and kill with no charms active 3) keep reset...

I don't pack split and kite each deep elf annihilator when I take down the elf vault. I kill swarms of elves, reacting the to the mobs as I can. Sometimes I am forced to retreat. LCS is a more dangerous threat than yara's. Not all mobs need to be punishing. You just need to have some monsters -inter...

Gluttonous Slime

HP 75, Damage 25
HD 13

Each Time Gluttonous Slime hits you with a melee attack, it dispels one magical effect. If it dispels a magical effect, it doubles HP and Damage (the slime creature mechanic.)

Spawns in slime and spawns from TRJ

Sure, but the difference between sinv and Yara's is that if I'm inattentive around sinv the worst that's happened is status quo; if I'm inattentive around Yara's then suddenly I'm either dead or horribly mutated. Damage and the amount of contamination can be balanced. Yara's is a way better mutatio...

Nitro Snail:

HD 15
HP 100
Speed 7
Slow Aura
Enchantment Drain Aura

Enchantment Drain Aura saps 1 life/magical effect on player/snail action, snail gains 1 speed for every magical effect on player.

i.e. 4 magical effects = -4 HP on player each time snail moves, snail speed = 11

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