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Voted for boots, hat and scarf, was disappointed by the omission of a "Let Felid wield rapiers" option.

Also needs a "Polymorph Ogre" ability.

What have we learned today ? Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-458-gb446440d2e (webtiles) character file. 712549 Oki the Slayer (level 27, -7/184 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Enchanter on May 15, 2018. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Killed from afar by an ancient lich (56 damage) ... with a crysta...

New monster: Slightly oversized* Amoeba. Stationary monsters which experience a tick of the Game of Life for every turn the player is in LOS: ⋅ Any amoeba adjacent to less than two other creatures dies from under population. ⋅ Any amoeba next to more than three creatures dies fro...

( Yet Another Riposte Suggestion) Currently riposte has a few problems: * Having better SH actually makes you riposte less often * While nice-to-have, it doesn't have all that much of an impact * Real-world ripostes are made after parrying an attack, not while jumping out of the way My suggestion is...

genericpseudonym wrote:Make them one all race, but at level 7 you randomly evolve into either an orc, a dwarf, or a cow. Like draconians.

And at level 14 you randomly evolve into the "Plains", "Forest" or "Ocean" variant.

Enable Beogh for everything (except Dg), but replace all "orc" with <your current species>. When you are not an orc, orcs worship a random other deity instead. Beogh is an evil deity, worshipped by the cave octopodes native to the dungeon. Only octopodes may devote their service to Beogh, ...

It's a tricky thing, axing species in baseline Stone Soup: The game has no difficulty setting, save for species, and to a lesser extent background and god choice. Maybe aptitudes and level stat bonuses could be moved from species into something new like "class"? So you get to pick * Speci...

Majang wrote:You still had to deal with the other 23 jellies spat out by TRJ, har, har, har...

Actually, I still have to deal with them... My plan involves lots of Discord :-)

(Because I figured stabbing TRJ and having his surprise entourage tear itself to shreds on the same day would be too much fun.)

The helpless Royal Jelly fails to defend itself. You spit the Royal Jelly like a pig!!!!!! You kill the Royal Jelly! Didn't even need my ?vuln to try and confuse it, just walked up to it and stabbitystab :-) Full dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-228-g3692b995fa (webtiles) character fi...

This Swamp entrance has a cloud of mist on top of it. While this looks interesting, it would be nice if the stairs themselves were excluded from having mist placed on top of them, so you can actually find them. So instead of this: P.#8.>.8..##...§§§..............# ........#...#§.§§§............... ....

This concerns rings of strength/intelligence/dexterity/protection/evasion and amulets of reflection. When wearing plain jewellery with a random bonus: upon finding find another one of the same type, optimal gameplay would be to check if it has a better bonus, which is kind of tedious for the chance ...

The minotaur fight is fun, racing to the timed portal is fun, fighting in an unusual layout is fun and the flavor is cool. This. I think the Labyrinth could be a pretty neat DCSS portal, but the experience is ruined by maprot and lack of autoexplore. Some people might like maprot and hate autoexplo...

I'm liking them so far, running into a neat artefact and actually being able to use it is very nice. If we want more variety, maybe we could mess with aptitudes a bit, based on background? Something like lower all aptitudes to +7, but instead of levels your background gives +apts. +7 should still be...

Pretty sure the purpose of naga bardings on non-naga's is to openly mock the player. New proposal: If an item generates that is useless for the player and will always be useless for the player, turn it into a pre-identified overpowered randart. Bonus points for naming it something that mocks the pl...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-233-g0929f2e (webtiles) character file. 49212 Oki the Bewitcher (level 14, -8/96 HPs) Began as a Vampire Enchanter on Aug 30, 2017. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Mangled by a death yak (19 damage) ... on level 5 of the Lair of Beasts on Sept 2, 2017. The game...

Any reason not to just use permanent, revealed teleportation traps instead of escape hatches on islands? If all those hatches are auto generated that seems like a nice solution, but I suspect there are a bunch of vaults with pre-defined hatches, which would all need updating. I think it would be ne...

Vorpal is +16.67% damage on average, regardless of AC. Freezing or flaming is +25% damage on average (sans resistances), regardless of AC. Speed is +50% damage on average, regardless of AC. There's not much point in making it any more complicated than that. This seems pretty straightforward, but wh...

But people will end up starving to death when they manage to teleport into a sealed area for the second time. I suppose they can quit, and it won't happen *that* often, but somehow forcing people to quit without any "real" dangers in sight feels like something to avoid. (I have no idea if ...

Alternatively, randomize hatch destinations every time you use them.

Some summoned things, like eldrich tentacles or greater demons, tend to go hostile after a while.
It would be nice if resting was disallowed with those in sight, just as when there are hostile monsters.

You start resting. Your eldritch tentacle suddenly becomes enraged! The eldritch tentacle slaps you! The eldritch tentacle sears you!! The eldritch tentacle claws you!! * * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * * The eldritch tentacle shocks you!! You die... Sif + overpowered summonings was lots of fun to pla...

Shtopit wrote:a way to pump up their staves skill before they find a good stave.

Why would you ever want to do that?
Better to spend that xp on something that keeps you alive right now, and train staves if you actually manage to find a good staff.

Instead of (waste a turn+MP) You call on the dead to rise... Nothing appears to happen. There are no suitable remains in the vicinity! I suppose this would be a small information leak, but for me at least "Whoops, didn't mean to cast animate dead twice in a row" is much more common tha...

Why would one skip an offered spell? Just learn it and amnesia it later if required. Gifting through the "M" screen is awkward and serves no purpose. As far as I can see, the only reason it works that way is because perhaps people thought that it would be too similar to Sif gifting books....

We already have a warrior zealot (Berserker), so it would be nice to have a mage counterpart. I propose adding a Vehumet zealot: Annihilators[1] are offensive mages who worship Vehumet, who enhances their command of the hermetic arts and offers them knowledge of increasingly powerful destructive spe...

If spellpower should do something, maybe allow picking a desired distance to blink, and with higher spellpower your destination is more weighed towards squares that far away?

mattlistener wrote:Vaults1 ironheart preserver (due to its summons)
Vaults3 ironheart preserver (due to its summons)

Do you mean they get credit for kills from monsters under Injury Bond?

duvessa wrote:you can quaff potions but when you do, they spill on the ground and make a big mess.

Like a single tile Evaporate at your current location?

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:Do they get (...) hunger immunity?

They should be permanently Starving (but without the penalties), eating anything simply drops the item through.

You are with Kiku and you have 0 necromancy and 0 necro spells (at *****. piety!!!) . I think there's a problem about that. Now that you mention it... I found a piety trove with lots of books at *** piety just as I was planning to start on necromancy, and I went for the ice spells I found instead o...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.21-a0-79-g04744e2 (webtiles) character file. oki the Thaumaturge (Octopode Ice Elementalist) Turns: 46573, Time: 03:10:23 Health: 103/103 AC: 1 Str: 9 XL: 15 Next: 0% Magic: 35/38 EV: 21 Int: 24 God: Kikubaaqudgha [*****.] Gold: 211 SH: 6 Dex: 18 Spells: 6/35 leve...

A scroll of remove curse might not be lying around on any of the first ten floors, so really do put off trying out unidentified items until you've actually got one.

Lasty wrote:Hobgoblin -> two goblins
gnoll -> three goblins
ogre -> ten goblins

prozacelf wrote:iguana -> five goblins?

goblin
hobgoblin
gnoll -> hobnobgoblin
iguana -> hobnoblobsobgoblin
ogre -> hobnoblobsobtoprobwobyobflopgoblin

Much simpler: more o = more danger

***Piety on D10, (Kiku had just gifted me my second book) scroll of blinking 3 scrolls of teleportation scroll of enchant armour a scroll labeled AQIOTRE DUCSI scroll of enchant weapon scroll of recharging 2 scrolls of teleportation a book of Callings Sif Muna's Guide on Excruciating Orientation Spe...

luckless wrote:The scythe could only come close at Polearms 26

Wouldn't you use Heroism in any fight where it really matters, giving you exactly that?

Code:: h - the +8 trident "Vukioxte" (weapon) {flame, +Blink rC+ Dex+8 SInv} (You found it on level 6 of the Dungeon)

Three guesses which god I picked... (Hint: it starts with "D")

Code:: N - the +21 crystal plate armour of Recklessness (worn) {+Blink rF+ MR++ Stlth-} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 1 of the Tomb of the Ancients)

How about using background colors? My guess would be that picking three different background colors (i.e. black and two others) for use with altars and throwing out the worst combinations would still leave 27 options.

https://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/Oki/Oki.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1089-g3fde505 (webtiles) character file. Oki the Imperceptible (Vampire Enchanter) Turns: 143789, Time: 09:23:06 Health: 189/193 AC: 32 Str: 19 XL: 24 Next: 77% Magic: 36/36 EV: 22 Int: 28 God: Kikubaaqudgha ...

Thanks for all the tips. Stuff seemed to die just fine while I was wearing it (probably because all the dangerous mobs where confused and fighting their own weapons anyway), and I ran into reflection a bit later, so swapped it for that.

It's -5 to hit (for all kinds of attacks: melee, ranged, conjurations etc.) Since you are mostly using hexes, necromancy spells (that don't depend on accuracy) and stabbing, it's ok for you, until you find something better. Thanks, I did look up the amulet, but had no idea how bad "-5 to hit&q...

I found this amulet of Wariness {Inacc rPois Int+4 Dex+4} , is it worth wearing until I run into something better, or should I just drop it right away? Full dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1033-g05abe66 (webtiles) character file. Oki the Jinx (Vampire Enchanter) Turns: 22659, Time: 00...

Leszczynek wrote:Implementation:

Would it not be easier to just rename kobolds when they generated with a blowgun?

Shtopit wrote:no/less 5 5 5

I only discovered these rc settings a while ago:

Code:: rest_wait_both = true explore_auto_rest = true

definitely made the game less tedious for me :-)

instead of "broken" I'm seeing this as a measurable way to improve my chance to win That is exactly why people consider it broken: Walking through half an empty level with some monster trailing you is hardly fun, but you do it anyway because it drastically improves your win chance. The de...

Made it out with the orb and a few runes, that felt underwhelmingly easy (except for one or two cases of near-YASD from really really not paying attention for several turns...). Gave that ring of protection a try, but permanent SInv was just too convenient. http://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/Oki/m...

Rast wrote:Be honest, you made this thread as an equipment brag.

Not really, I usually don't get this far with melee chars (mostly because I rarely create them), and while I'm quite happy with this equipment, Oka always (eventually) seems to provide pretty neat toys anyway.

http://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/Oki/Oki.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-555-gf6ae02d (webtiles) character file. Oki the Wrestler (Ghoul Fighter) Turns: 53149, Time: 02:55:43 Health: 196/196 AC: 30 Str: 30 XL: 23 Next: 80% Magic: 30/30 EV: 19 Int: 8 God: Okawaru [******] Gold: 2848...

mattlistener wrote:Species and background recommendations not being transitive -- is that considered a feature or a bug?

A feature: e.g. CK is not recommended, but if you're going to play it anyway some species are better than others.

My first tournament win ever :-) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.0-23-gf02e663 (console) character file. 1791501 Oki the Acrobat (level 27, 205/224 HPs) Began as a Vampire Enchanter on Nov 7, 2016. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 4 runes on Nov 19, 2016! The game last...

To get rid of backtracking-to-that-spell-I-want-to-learn: ⋅ Spellbooks don't take up inventory slots, and can't be dropped ⋅ You can view your books from the M screen by pressing : ⋅ Trogs "burn books" makes you choose one of your books and an adjacent tile...

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