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probably because we already have several systems (skills, spell slots, single-element enhancers, cloud/opposite element cancelling...) that encourage specialization.

Actually, if you look at existing spells, you'll find about half of them all do roughly the same thing, i.e. direct damage. For the rest, quite a lot have duration effects either on the player, monsters, the environment, or allies created by the spell. I claim in all of these cases, which account f...

Crawl's magic system was built for simplicity and nothing else. To say that it is built for "tactical effects like fireball" when all kinds of other effects exist is a stretch. With a design philosophy like crawl's, you can have duration effects and you can have a one-size-fits-all castin...

Should there be MR-ignoring confusion attacks?

yes

Sprucery wrote:
PleasingFungus wrote:weirdly, this is a perfect haiku when translated into Albanian

Where's the seasonal reference?

in albania, all people lament the coming of Tomb Season

i would describe it as being a different decision, rather than necessarily a more interesting decision. after all, if you made nets meaningfully weaker for characters with 0 throwing, many of them would not bother with nets at all (just like with blowguns/poison needles, post-nerf). for them, it loo...

Regarding large lategame numbers, I imagine it being pretty frustrating to die at 3/4 HP because an ancient lich max'ed on you with an LCS. This is rare, but in order to see the kind of hits that will kill a reasonable player character (like 70s) happen somewhat often through AC, you need to have a...

HardboiledGargoyle was asking an actual question and maybe instead of being a rude, condescending dick and telling him to "shut up" you could have just answered him HardboiledGargoyle's comment was also pretty dang rude, and I don't think it's unreasonable to be offended by it. 2. says th...

-Numbers in crawl are too big. In the late game we see monsters like Juggernauts being introduced to have a chance at killing high level PCs. Combat which relies on ever more extreme swings as the game goes on is less than desirable, imo. -The branch structure. Due to semi-open-ended structure, pla...

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snapping turtles eating dicks is not, and does not even resemble, a common real-life act of sexual violence.

tedric wrote:
brainstorm wrote:Mummy warden

Appears in tomb
Block stairs
Making tomb impossibly difficult

nice haiku

weirdly, this is a perfect haiku when translated into Albanian

Stone Skin was removed because it was tedious to use, not because it was a passive effect. Generally, I think the decision about which effects should be spells vs other effects is more of a general question: "is this fun to use as a spell", "is this an effect that we want to be availa...

Elitist wrote:A hobgoblin jostling a goblin's hair/Robin petting Ijyb.

how do you jostle hair?

I'm sorry, I still don't understand. Why does it matter whether charms (once cast) are passive effects?

duvessa wrote:harold is fishing in lair but he cant catch anything except electric eels

pile of eels to one side of him, single boot on his hook

If all charms were instead turned into consumables and equipment, more players get to take advantage of the benefits that charms spells bring to the game -- not just those with the system knowledge to know they should be using charm spells. i'm very confused. possibly i'm misunderstanding, but this...

i think that's unduly negative - there are quite a few people doing dcss LPs right now (gammafunk, amalloy, demise among off the top of my head), and presumably someone is watching them. "Go back to Minecraft" just seems a bit rude... I found a few useful things from watching, but that's f...

felid: i get that the artist didn't want to draw a butt crack but the pose looks really weird without one, also the background ruins it. if you get rid of the background, the misshapen green butterfly, and the pointless jewel thingy, it's good the jewel thingey is supposed to be an amulet, i think....

third and most important question: why are you complaining that the tile, which only shows the outside of the book, doesn't show the pages inside the book

All books are now automatically identified when you step upon it, so there is no good reason to keep them with having random tiles varying with each game. So, let's apply adequate, fixed tiles to each non-randart books and make them automatically pre-identified. Current tileset for books is just ra...

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=10208

Just have Fedhas give the same piety for corpses rotting away normally that he would for sacrificing them. I guess maybe it's hard to handle corpses on other levels? yeah, i have a branch that does this, but other levels are the problem. i guess maybe you could do something like jiyva's off-level i...

Congrats Sandman25/FuriousCat. Only online win so far for hellcrawl, I think? Possible issue with uniques placement. I ran into a floor with at least 4 uniques (Josephine, Nessos, Rupert, and Blork in Orc:2). I'm pretty sure the same thing can happen in regular crawl, but I'm wondering if it's more...

Try popping in to the ##crawl-dev channel on freenode; gammafunk or someone can try to help you out there.

Shard1697 wrote:btw buff soul eaters

done.

baidu3 is correct. as long as you aren't aiming *at* a bush, you can fire through it. this works for projectiles and many spells (notably, not fireball).

in practice, it basically only comes up in weird centaur vaults.

yeah probably

you have to sacrifice both artifice and earth magic, and even then people have managed to get in using deep troll earth mages and/or jorgrun

it's a pretty goofy case but it's hard to reach

How exactly would you fix that? (That specific case can't happen in trunk, but you can certainly find other examples of "autoexploring to your death".)

It would make more sense if no allies were able to attack outside of LoS to make it more consistent, honestly. If there needs to be a special case (and I don't think there needs to be), then it should be restricted to permanent duration allies only (orcs, Yred derived undead/gifts, ancestor). In co...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/d5962735bc1b

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/fc13266dd594

if you cut ignite poison's damage by half, it'd do dramatically less damage than the poison itself would

i really, really doubt that ignite poison + otr is 'overpowered'.

Sar wrote:I thought they had cleave already?

No, they just punch things.

If I click thank on a post I've already thanked, I get a message "Are you sure you want to remove your thanks?". If I click yes, I get a PHP error, but the thanks are removed. I also seem to get the same PHP error when thanking, but it seems to also go through. Anyhow, it seems that you c...

i refuse

if they didn't have ac, they'd be toadstools. if they're going to be effective 'temporary terrain' (something that can block enemies for at least a few turns during fights in lair), they need to have enough defenses to do that. doesn't really matter if it's ac or more hp or whatever. the player shou...

<Implojin> everyone forgets murray

could use a prop to do that, ya

Many types of hide are pretty rare, especially earlier on. Troll hide is the only universally common type; some dragon types become common later, but that still means it's potentially at least a little interesting to see "cool, i got this fire dragon hide on d:5". The place that you crafte...

Is this actually better? it seems like where you enchant armour is very arbitrary, and less meaningful than where you found the hide originally. (not that either is incredibly important information!)

it doesn't seem overpowered in a fun way, basically

Which baileys are challenging at D:14? Surely the change should be to limit the depth at which any bailey can appear?

why is 's' even bound to wait in the first place?

he was already in wizmode heaven

jwoodward48ss wrote:How does BEOGH allow you to order specific allies around?

by having only one ally and leaving all the others on other dungeon levels. it's a very silly, pedantic thing to say, which is perfect for C.Y.C

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