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I read it as a butcher of the damned born in Thrain.

I don't really see why it is needed to pick a weapon and train it yet? Train more fighting for more weapon damage perhaps, and just hold onto the +5 spear till you find a great weapon that you think can training can be invested in. What is it that must be hit by a weapon that you cannot wait for, th...

The entire ogre magic rework concept is basically wonky gnolls.

TP is always a risk, but as a trog worshipper, you can always summon brothers.

Sometimes I do d:15 after branches because the vaults for the entrance to depths and vaults can be suprisingly dangerous.

*slow doesn't matter most of the time. Till you die due to being slow. You got so many scrolls of teleportation, you should be able to read them in a threatening situation as long as you recognise when to use them early enough.

Axe will hit it if it's in any of the tiles around you.

I disagree with the opening post, but I also find the tone of gorgondantess's posts so disagreeable that I feel almost obliged to argue against him out of principle. I don't really see any problem with displaying more information about monsters or how damage works. The randomness of the nature of da...

I don't see the point of an anti-summon, anti-buff diety/species, when those are the main means of adding volatility to kill you.

Ring of flames is basically number 4.

If rarity of certain spells is a problem, then I would say that new books should be introduced, or book rarity values altered so the liekelyhood of a certain spell is equalised across the spell level, rather than an attempt to brainstorm a new species. If certain backgrounds need new spells before l...

I once played as a "blaster caster" of Gozag and died from spell hunger.

i think it;s great that you've gone ahead and programmed out a new race, but it honeslty doesn't fulfill what you set out to achieve which was "My ideal outcome would see Faerie Dragons as very clearly strong at killdudes with spells, especially on earlier floors, but with meaningful drawbacks ...

damerell wrote:
Shard1697 wrote:What's wrong with stabbing with 2handers?

Well, I think of it as sneakily inserting a blade into a vital spot [1], which is probably quite hard to do if the point is two metres from your hands.

I've never really understood why trolls and ogres can't use bucklers. In reality,the size of a buckler relative to the body doesn't have as large an effect as it does of shields; bucklers only need to just cover the fist to still be somewhat effective as bucklers. Shields are just strange in crawl a...

Don't forget to make "Mom & Pop's Block, Chop & Iron-Shot Shop." charge twice as much for every item.

Ever since poison vapours was added in, Venom mage are strong enough for most encounters. In practice, their gameplay experience is "Poison vapors, run away , repeat". The only problem is that their power drops severely at the point you meet rpois creatures in which case you must branch in...

Quick thoughts. +SH appears to be an interesting alternative, but it is unlikely to change tactics too much. I suppose the player would be more willing to get shot by yaktaurs. Then again axes shouldn't change tactics too much either till they get some form of heal on hits/kills, and even then most ...

Today I drank a potion of experience at lvl4 and gained 3 skill levels in almost everything.

I need to know. Did this work? Can you get out of treeform? Did you starve to death?

I am in suspense over your suspension of time in the suspense of treeform by your suspension of posting here.

I thought shields also made unarmed attacks slower as well, but nevermind. In any case I don't consider axes with shields that much different in terms of effectiveness than with any other weapon type. It's going to be pretty rare you would want to engage more than one enemy with axes anyways, except...

The crux of your terribly bad argument that vampires have a massive advantage at start is that you will steadily dripfeed justifications to your assertions one after another. First you say it is because of bloodless stealth bonus. Only that it isn't useful till D:2. Then it is their stealth skill, o...

Doesn't unarmed have anti-synergy with shields too?

As far as I can tell, the sole justification you have given for this weapon that you want an intelligence scaling weapon like dark souls do.

Sorry, but writing as if you are pitching a ponzi scheme, in a exaggerated hyperbole isn't a good way to convince me of anything. In any case, if bloodless was that good, then you would automatically sit on entrance till bloodless, rather than waiting some random point on D:1 or D:2. +50 stealth is ...

If you have a lot of EV, you are likely to dodge whatever attack you would otherwise be shielding. EV is even more effective, for that matter, because it isn't heavily penalized for number of dodges per turn. A shield is still nice, of course, because two rolls to avoid attacks is better than one. ...

I think that your idea to give crossbows innate penetration is a great idea. An interesting difference. It might make that artefact longbow Piercer feel a bit wierd though. If I find an early buckler though and can make use of it, I tend to train the sheild skill to 4 very quickly.

Early game vampires, for me, are quite easy because you can get a massive advantage What is this massive advantage you speak of? The only thing I can think of is fangs, and it really isn't a massive advantage. I think making vampires get bat form at XL 1 will result in players pressing 5 several ti...

I don't see how it would be a niche for characters in heavy armour. Extra SH doesn't make different armours any more, or any less useful. Heavy armor means lower EV, and low EV makes SH more valuable because both EV and SH are checked against to-hit. So what if it happens that they are both checked...

Ogres can also wear troll and dragon armour.

I've never really felt that Hell branches were too long, since normally I just take the first down staircase you see. I think it is more of a case that there are 4 branches. I've always felt Pan takes absolutely forever, but then again, there are 5 runes in Pan. Playing extended feels like such a sl...

If you look at history, every 1 handed weapon are usually used with shields. Some two handed weapons as well. If we look at shields in fiction, it is no longer history. "so on" isn't specific. That said it's a fairly interesting idea. To tie the bonus with dex and weapon skill so the focus...

Riposte is useful if you are spellcasting and you haven't got or plan to get an appropriate staff.

Don't have a wrath timer at all. Make wrath permanent.

Don't Silence in Tomb. It will guarantee death.

I suggested Sinv as a flavour, as people seem to be fixated on their flavour, and this would be a relatively minor, but feels powerful flavourwise that would solve that issue. You are right, they are "unsexy", in that they appear to be unpopular for whatever reason. The idea is of a relati...

By being a pointless game mechanic as it is already essentially taken by gnolls. What I am saying is that I disagree with your entire premise that they are uninteresting, and that because you are playing a race without positive apts, then you are automatically doing something wrong. Humans don't nee...

Perhaps glaciate should be like ignition and simply hit every enemy in your LoS.

Their main gimmick of demigod is essentially a lack of the major source of excitement in the game:gods. It is the sole reason for the existance of their species and so I don't think they should have a mutation/divine system associated with them on the basis of their name. It also doesn't seem to fit...

I quite like humans. They were my first "caster" win. I view humans, like demigods as the "newbie" caster race. Their 0 aptitudes means that there is always a better species for a preset background "build", and their supposed jack of all trades is practically worthless ...

I think what will actually occur from reducing inventory slots drastically would be an insane amount of stashing and backtracking.

Nothing that you wrote is specifically untrue, but you don't lay out why Kiku should be buffed. In my opinion kiku doesn't need a buff specifically.

Isn't that exactly the same idea as your previous idea, but replacing amulet with glove. I still don't see a reason for "your weapon slot is now your glove slot". I don't see a problem with an unrandart, because it'll just does what an unrandart does normally. Though I would prefer that su...

If amulet swapping is undesirable, along with perhaps ring swapping, why not make them take 5 turns as well? Normalise jewellery with armour. It'll be less interesting as there is less differences with armour, along with losing the positive effects which you see. The only problem is if you want to i...

For these sort of "hybrid" spellcasters, I tend to wear the heaviest/best armour possible which keeps my spell failure comfortably low. Heavier armour only reduces spellchance; spellpower remains the same. Exceptions if for some reason I really want to cast a certain higher level spell, ov...

Pan lords are frequently faster than you even with haste. I mostly find summon butterflies and blink are the surest method to escape form a pan lord. Both should be castable with minimal investment. Even with the teleport delay effect of the orb, it can be worthwhile to read a scroll of tele. You'll...

Mana shield 1 can be a negative especially for spellcasters; I don't see a reason why Mana shield 1 and 2 can't be swopped around, hellcrawl style.

Also...that abbreviation of "bolt of cold" by one key press doesn't really seem worth the bother.

Gnoll seems to start off with really powerful SDI stats. Presumably this is to offset their slightly slower learning in the very early game, but it contributes to feeling overly suited for everything. A bit like how you wish humans would play.

The whole thing seems to play like Beogh, but the description and intention appear to read like a personal fantasy, rather than creating an interesting game mechanic. It doesn't help that your description and modified description uses use multiple words to describe the same game mechanic multiple ti...

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