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If we must have consistency on this point, I think it'd be better to just allow large species to use bucklers and not add several new weapon types and a bunch more weapon use exceptions.

VM does not really have problems transitioning to a viable midgame/endgame build. You can take one of several overpowered gods, transition to pure conjurations or another elemental school, pick up a longbow, or whatever; vapors/meph/OTR give you plenty of time to get something else going. The proble...

Venom Mage is alright. It's still clearly the worst mage background but it's fairly playable imo. The problem is that poison magic as a school is bad and emphasizes bad gameplay. I'm honestly amazed that "damage but green and you kite a lot" is still a spell school in this game. If you wan...

There's not really a reason for these to take up an inventory slot. As long as the boost is noted on the skill screen like it is now, the manual itself doesn't need to exist as an item. This would slightly improve crawl inventory management with negligible downside.

If you have 0 in all skills, kill Cerebov, and put everything in stealth with a +5 aptitude, you get about 25.5 levels (there is some variance). This is not achievable in practice. The amount of exp required to get a skill point increases as you get skill exp, so the practical upper limit is going t...

Riposte's benefit for damage does not scale significantly with EV if you are attacking at mindelay. Taking EV from 10 to 30 is about a 10% damage increase against a stone giant, assuming we are attacking at mindelay. People greatly overestimate the impact of EV when considering riposte. It is not si...

To be fair, that game did not really attempt to optimally conserve HP (I played the early game drunk and pretty sloppy) and is also one of the weakest earlygame backgrounds. Deep Dwarf is literally the most powerful species in the game, so from a balancing perspective it's reasonable to nerf them pr...

!greatoneandwon !greateroneandwon Basically a oneandwon is winning a combo on your first play of it, and the title is for winning every race and every background in a oneandwon combo. So if I'm not mistaken, !greateroneandwon would require creating a new account, and then streaking at least 28* cha...

I'm pretty sure that fsim is not accurate, but it's not too hard to calculate in this particular example. If you simplify away all the things that make riposte damage complicated (monsters that do things other than melee, monster speed, monsters with multiple attacks, etc) then it's easy-ish to calc...

Not going to fight about whether or not Dg are fun since that's subjective, but their earlygame is pretty good. If you're going to propose a power buff, don't buff their pre-lair power, which is already top 10. Obviously they "fall off" later if you usually take Trog/Kiku/Fedhas/Gozag ever...

I did zot defense with a MuSu of sif. I died a bunch, finally had a run going really well, then had a game crash render one of the runes permanently unobtainable so I couldn't win. That is my zot defense story.

Labyrinth is not real crawl and it's lame and annoying to solve a big dumb maze just to fight a cow at the end. Pac-Man on the other hand is one of the greatest video games of all time. Therefore, remove labyrinth and add a portal to Pac-Man. Lab already has ghosts so it wouldn't be that much work. ...

Mini-update: ⋅ Fixed a bug where a multi-use bazaar entrance would sometimes show up on V:3 ⋅ Fixed a bug where unarmed combat was not being allowed as a starting weapon choice. ⋅ Removed the Hunter background. Gladiator can start with a shortbow now. ⋅ Remove...

Disagree that other Ds mutations are balanced, but agree that passive freeze is utter garbage and flame/freezing cloud immunity are the lamest shit imaginable. Imo remove the passive freeze facet and move nightstalker to tier 3, then come up with another cool mut for tier 2.

cbro is working again and zips are up on github.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/8 ... f78f3c0e8b

Ayy we did it.

If deflect missiles is going to exist at all, it should be permanent. Breaking the effect so you have to recast it does nothing but add tedium. If you want dmsl to scale with spellpower, just scale the actual effect with spellpower. If you want to keep the current "sometimes you lose dmsl for t...

Monsters randomly generated with the level have their own weapon tables, which you can look at in mon-gear.cc. Monsters that are placed by vaults can have some or all of their equipment specified by the vault, which is how you get stuff like the abyss rune surrounded by distortion/chaos ettins.

Mummies can haste by following gozag.

New update hitting CBRO shortly. ⋅ Weapon brand stuff: ⋅ Protection, venom, vorpal, and speed brands no longer generate normally (still present on some unrandarts) ⋅ New brand: devastation, which is sort of an inverse-speed brand. Swings are 1.5x slower but get an avera...

The vampire blood clock is like 20x worse than the normal food clock for basically no reason. Whether it's fucking off from spider to go kill some orcs you stashed, quaffing blood to regen and then fiving so you go bloodless again, or constantly chugging potions all game so that you stay at high sat...

Glaciate is pretty widely regarded as the worst level 9 spell, being dual-school like firestorm but without the ability to hit things offscreen and also doing less damage at max range. Dumping a ton of exp to get a level 9 spell is rarely a good idea to begin with, but it seems pointless to have an ...

No it isn't?

If they're too weak how about just buffing their damage or something instead of making them an ungodly annoyance to fight

Glad you are doing well fam. If you ever catch the sadbrain again you'll always have a place here, in the dungeon crawl stone soup videogame tavern forum.

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MainiacJoe wrote:Oughtn't TSO hate the Ring of Shadows because it makes umbra?

I don't think umbra is evil in the ~crawl lore~. Dith gives you umbra and isn't an evil god.

Going up or down stairs doesn't break ozos. Seems bad to allow this but disallow other forms of movement tbh. There don't need to be more reasons to lure dudes back to a staircase.

Blinking doesn't break ozo's either but I'm less convinced that's important.

Do more runes if you feel like it. Use whichever armor gives you more AC. Why would you want hat of the alchemist on this character?

From what I understand it's pretty close to this. Do bugfixes or other stuff that needs doing until the devs get tired of having to approve your commits. Ask around in ##crawl-dev on irc and you'll probably get more info.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/f ... f2b944bb23

Goodnight sweet prince, you were too good for this cruel world.

On an unrelated note, I suggest giving the species no spell hunger. In my experience, new players tend to pay a lot of attention to the ~hunger cost~ so having a species that explicitly does not need to care about it might help correct that. You'd encourage better skilling habits and provide a smoot...

Despite the name, random2 is a single roll of 1dX - 1.

Played a 4 rune FDFE in the most recent release and I essentially agree, it's like deep elf but good. Had less defenses than the above character because I opted for double enhancer firestorm but the principle is the same. Fast movement should probably get cut imo. There are a lot of species that hav...

Several backgrounds stand out as "never pick" way before the ones mentioned in the op - Mo, Sk, AK, CK, and Wn to name a few. If you're just concerned about background strength and not playstyle, I'd definitely adjust all of those before VM, Cj, or Wz. Wz is not a weak background. I'd rank...

Something that would be cool, but maybe outside the scope of this project, would be to have the ability to select a "custom species" and fill in your own aptitudes and innate mutation list. Lots of potential for customization there I think. This has come up before and it's sort of been in ...

The word you all are looking for is "dank".

Aka the other bat challenge. Bats do 1 damage and deep dwarf damage shaving always shaves at least 1 damage. Harm and might don't work, because their damage increases get floored back to 1 damage, and inner flame is cheating. Luckily, being asleep makes melee attacks do 2.5x damage, which boosts bat...

I would train 10 fighting before getting anything else. Halfway through shoals is way too late to be at 0 fighting for any combo, especially so for something like Mf where the aptitude is good. Dodging looks a little low as well, you've got a +3 apt there and 30 dex in a robe will give big returns o...

Agree w/ op. Feels like my posts are getting less thanks recently, might be time to pack it in and move on.

Remove boltbouncing. The "cool tactics" are like, not standing next to walls around certain enemies and luring dudes for a billion years and it's also unintuitive as fuck. In a much tighter tactical game it could make sense, in DCSS I think on balance boltbouncing is dumb and bad.

Seeing a resist poison ring has nothing to do with future monster generation. I'm not sure what the "level 4 or powered up level 3" is referencing, but you most certainly do not need a certain weapon brand for any part of the game. Endgame quality weapons are practically guaranteed to gene...

Whoops, didn't realize it hadn't updated when it got put back on. Should be updated now, also has some exciting new features. ⋅ Monks get some starting invocation skill. ⋅ WJC passively reduces total AC by a percentage (scaling with piety) in exchange for a passive slaying bonus ...

this is cool, also prob gonna steal some of the no ammo code at some point thanks

Ok since you took the time to respond to my shitpost here's my response to some of the juicy nuggets in the OP. Longblades are great: See above ^^. Shield blocks thwart parry. I've heard in response that "parry doesn't really factor in when choosing to use longblades." To that, I say "...

If online stats don't matter then how come your argument that summoners are weak is that it was the least won background in the tournament? Checkmate, atheists.

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I reject the premise that Makhleb's actives are weak or forgettable. People underuse Makhleb's actives because they underuse god abilities in general. My last Makhleb game used 117 lesser servants and should have used more. Minor destruction has no piety cost and is therefore extremely spammable if ...

Ok here's my amulet list since we're doing these now. Trash tier: ⋅ Inaccuracy. The only strictly negative amulet, obviously never wear this unless it's a very good randart or amulet of the air. ⋅ Gourmand. Functionally no amulet in all but exceptionally rare edge cases. Worth we...

The +0 gloves "Bad Touch" {painUC} Magically crafted by a particularly heinous Lich, these bony gloves allow the wearer to inflict immense pain on the living with an unarmed strike. Opens up that UC + necromancy playstyle. You could have the glove enchant increase when a skeleton having en...

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