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The ghost thing is really more a complaint about Shatter/flying/statue form interactions, but that's been around for years and seems like it's going to continue to be that way. Generally speaking, the character was overpowered enough to not really fear any ghost, except when shatter suddenly does x6...

So I have usually written postmortems for the tournaments, although I think I never got around to doing it last time. Here's .23, with "notable" characters only, in chronological order. In line morgues will only have the character sheet info, click the links for full morgues. #1: Troll Hun...

Very interesting to see an assortment of conjurations on a minotaur; starting mostly air and then kind of switching to earth. Going for two level 9 spells (even if you were a bit short on getting tornado all the way castable) on a minotaur is pretty crazy though so congrats on the "reaver"...

Agreed; spell library is great. It did take me a little while to realize I can't ctrl + F search for spells anymore, but then once I saw the search on the library itself, that's fine. I would like and use the suggested feature where general ground item search would still search your spell library li...

I play crawl because I like to tab. Tab is cruise control for cool. I'm only half joking. Dealing with emergencies as they come up is interesting, but I tend to prefer the strategic power growth and staying ahead of curve more than I really want to be presented with a horribly tough "solve the ...

I'm getting tempted to go wizmode, give myself 1000 tomahawks, and go pure throwing for a full run. It'd probably be broken overpowered, and javelins would be completely so.

Half the people want smooth combat, the other half think that would be too easy. There's a solution for both camps:

Just put out a fork where you get the absolute worst result at all times. Your attacks hit for zero, they hit for their max damage all the time. It'll make everyone happy.

To give an example from that old calculator, you have a 58% chance to hit for zero damage (the monster has a fairly high AC value here), but if you do hit for at least 1 damage, the most likely amount you hit for is either 7 or 8 damage. Yet the max damage that can be done goes all the way up to 64....

There have been previous threads about this where someone (Was it berder? bloax? I think it started with a B) went ahead and actually wrote an anydice.com simulator which showed the distribution of the current formula. If you wanted to visualize crawl damage, that'd do it, although I'm having troubl...

I honestly think that a one pip=50% reduction system would be easier for new players because for new players clarity is way more important. Crawl is not hard for new players because they do not play it like chess, optimizing every single command. It is hard for them because they have no idea what m...

To be fair, I don't even really disagree with your criticism, it's a likely outcome. That said I think slow, cautious play will always be the choice of people trying to play safe and maximize win rate; that's already the case. I don't think it would necessarily require play so tedious that it would ...

I believe they settled on an odd mix of unarmed and weapon mechanics, where you get +1 damage per skill level (like unarmed) but still only need 2 levels to reduce the aut delay by 1. This applies for all throwing weapons except regular stones, which I think have their damage cut in half (to prevent...

Yes, there is a fundamental mistake in thinking about "timers" in crawl (and in other roguelikes). Kiting and camping are more problems of space than time. You'll never solve them adequately with timers. If you have a good approach to preventing the player movement abuses that occur in a ...

yeah I'm curious about the whole eveningstar vs flail here as well - I think it would clearly be the eveningstar for most characters, but the vine stalker bite makes it a lot harder for me to predict without actually running fsim. If anyone has the time to test it I'd be curious how it compares agai...

I'd personally be tempted to go with the demon trident, especially if you have any brand weapon scrolls ready. If not, you'll probably find one eventually. Bucklers aren't too amazing but it'd be super cheap to raise shields to 4 and get some "free" blocking as well. Later on you can use a...

In general with most gods I find faith most useful for the early ramp up, but not because I'm trying to hit 6* asap, but because the early game is when I'm most likely to need the invocations to survive, and having more uses of it gets you through the early dungeon/lair floors. Later on you can take...

A quick warning that some of the combinations you've gotten are going to be quite a bit harder than others, in particular mummies are considered to be the most challenging race (or sometimes naga, but either way). Demigod Fighter is also somewhat more challenging, but not as bad as the mummy. Some o...

I wonder if I'll be able to land those curare hits...I didn't even know blowguns could go to +11; it was generated that high off Sonja.

That about matches my expectations. Gauntlets are tough, but doable. I haven't died in one yet, but I've definitely walked all the way around and looked at the monster sets, and then chose the easier one for safety. Which IMHO is what makes them such a great portal - you can choose to fight specific...

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These fools thought we'd have more dwarves. If only they could have known the bleak, bleak present. With only a single dwarf remaining, and one that a sizable minority complains about...

As generally happens, I host a team each tournament which just reinvites the previous team members, but usually one person drops out for whatever reason. So team "Hello My Name Is Ignacio Montoya" has one slot open. We aren't terribly competitive but do ask that you can reliably get at lea...

Some terms: Aut is absolute unit of time, and it is NOT the same as a turn. There are 10 auts in a turn. An action means the results of some command which takes time, regardless of how long it took; it is NOT a measure of time. Swinging a dagger is always one action. But it isn't always one turn. In...

I've long felt rF/rC could use a rework, mainly because I think 50% resistance is just too large. Having a single resist becomes so important that games where you can't find it become much more punishing. Having it be something like 25/50/75% or just 25/50% in a 2 pip version would work better, and ...

I'd argue that the reload mechanic is different from mana in that mana regenerates over time automatically, while reload would require an explicit command be performed. You can regenerate mana while running away, but in order to fire another bolt after you've used them all, you have to sit still for...

I also like the +/- LOS effects, it's impactful enough to matter but also not so warping to feel unfair. It's also easily explained by the dungeon floor itself: "this floor is unusually bright" (or dim). For messing with the stairs: All down stairs are replaced with shafts, and then proper...

If people "cheesing" the spell online with a brilliance pot and similar tricks is really a dealbreaker, you could just add a check when deflecting a missile that checks what your failure rate for the spell is, and then fails to deflect the projectile if you would have failed to cast the sp...

Sorry for just nitpicking, but replacing the monsters on a floor with derived undead is going to generally make the floor much easier, and particularly if it happens to a very hard level like vaults:5, will remove a lot of the challenge from that run. Overall the effects shouldn't change difficulty ...

edit: re: duvessa's conjure flame, the reason I suggested reasonably intelligent autotargeting of adjacent tiles in the previous thread is that placing the cloud on the player then letting them walk off allows you to create a gap with many monsters where there was none before. Increases the power o...

I'm a bit surprised that it's IMB you mention at level 4 for conjuration; Fulminant Prism is the real Cj powerhouse at that level as far as I can tell. It's at least as much damage as IMB, in a bigger area, and can kill things out of LOS. I know it's dual-skill, but... it's so much better than IMB ...

So I haven't tried it yet, but from the change list, it sounds like tree form is just a potion of lignification as a spell? The potion is mostly useful early game, but the spell is a level 5 two school spell, which seems like it wouldn't be useful by the time you could cast it? Does it have signific...

It is weird that the entrance is guarded by the toughest enemy you can find in the branch. The only similar example I can recall is that sometimes you see death yaks at the Lair entrance. Coming up next: an orb of fire on U:5. I'm guessing you love the crypt ending where the tomb is guarded by Khuf...

Fireball should be loud enough to pull out nearly everything in a medium sized vault like this one is, I'm kind of surprised there were even 4 slimes left in there. Generally speaking, if you've cleared most/all of a floor and are just afraid of one specific area, being loud next to it can be a good...

You don't need to get so worked up; the simple explanation is that I didn't know the 1/30 fighting bonus was rolled, so I thought it was (roughly) x2, if it's rolled then it's (roughly) x1.5. Thanks for the correction. No, it's 1d(X+1)-1. The result of +3 slaying is either 0, 1, 2, or 3, which has a...

Should have gone Chei. But honestly, I'd probably have gone to d:3 without a god. I'm horrible with ash, don't take veh if I don't have spells, and wouldn't take Xom. Qaz could be an option, but it'd be tough to pair that with a mummy early on. I'd be looking for a simple power boost god with no dow...

Gauntlets of war are very good and you should use them, but +2 enchantment isn't worth 1 base damage I don't think. Base damage is multiplied by fighting/30, so roughly doubled in the late game. Slaying is rolled 1dX -1, so 0, 1 or 2; on average 1. 2:1 ratio might work as long as you have 0 fighting...

Troves are always always useless. The weird way they are set up is that you can only enter near the end of the game (or never: I may have never seen a game with 5 resist potions for example). And near the end of the game you have everything you need or close. Finding potion or scrolls may be useful...

only came across this after it was finished, but was pleasantly surprised to see statue form #1 and regeneration a close second for their levels. Definitely agree that LRD is very powerful; if I'm on a strong character and just blasting through rooms easily I won't be setting it up as much, but then...

I play a lot of EE's, almost never memorize and thus never use passwall. This is because I'm lazy, and go brute force over stealth. That said, there's no reason my lack of tactical finesse should in any way be taken as a reason to remove if from the book, it's a fine spell for those of you who care ...

I'd vote revivification, sure the loss of hp sucks, but what sucks more is dying permanently. That said if you want to do DDoor that's fine too. I've always been a bit afraid of using death's door though, so I don't have much experience with it.

When I read the thread title, I assumed it was going to be something that encouraged building different types of damage, rather than more anti-summoning. Something like a monster which when hit by elemental damage, gets an elemental barrier which blocks/reduces all further elemental damage, until he...

Chei would definitely help if you're trying to do the caster + armor route, but if you're going for just a fighter, okawaru is a lot more straightforward, and heroism will basically help you get anything reasonable to min delay about the time a normal race could. Plus assuming you find statue form, ...

Just don't read any puzzle spoilers unless you get hopelessly stuck or you'll ruin the experience I'm not super hardcore on puzzles so I look them up when I somewhat more moderately confused, but it's been fairly good so far. Beat the first snake boss, am trying to beat the giant one now, but I onl...

Looks like the original version of 1 is windows only? But the steam remake is on mac as well? guess that means I can't try it for free but maybe I'll just bite the bullet and buy it.

Edit: gog.com has it on sale for only 5 bucks, so I went for it.

how does a jackal get a ranged kill? I mean most of the rest of the non-ranged monsters could at least use wands, but I'm fairly sure a jackal can't do anything ranged...

I'm not too interested in the details here, but I'd like to make a "big picture" comment. Races intended to be *THIS* hard should probably just be player conducts. Like the whole MuMo with no god, body armor, magic, or evokables challenge; that challenge is extremely difficult. I don't thi...

I guess I don't fully understand the intent of having a tournament that's this long. If the idea is "make it so people have a two week window in which they can schedule a couple days of play and be competitive" then it's not working very well. I actually think the 16 days is very effectiv...

I have read the thread, I was just giving general thoughts on the idea of trying to limit down the hours played (or that you have to commit to place highly in the tournament). If you just want to set a cap of 12 hours on any day, and no more than 6 hours a day average over the whole tournament, that...

I'm unemployed now, but I still can't sit and do 10+ hour play sessions at all, I have a 3 rune win and a 15 rune win, as well as 14 rune loss (trying to get the nature's ally 3 banner was a huge mistake) and a 2 rune loss. Total play time is roughly 20 hours, and we're at about 1 week in; that's ba...

Of course as soon as I post this it comes back up a minute later. It was down for a few minutes before I posted, but seems like it was probably a fairly short problem.

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