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Please take away xp gain from training dummies. Actually, I'm pretty sure the whole point of the 1XP is to make autofight target them. Of course, training dummies have been designed for tutorial. I'm not sure what's the point of putting them in normal crawl vaults. If they are there just for decora...

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Not in-client, but you can do this with inotifywait on Linux. #!/bin/sh #Save this as something like 'crawlwatch' and chmod +x it. # then use it to run crawl instead of typing 'crawl-tiles'. # Hit Ctrl+C to exit the loop. VIEWER="geany --read-only" # if you don't have wmctrl installed, th...

Is there way to view your morgue file as soon as you die, or do you have to close the game and go find the individual file. (if there is no way, i'd love to see an option to see latest morgue file.) And yes i know you can check your morgue files individually, but i'd prefer there to be ability to lo...

Only reason not to quaff potion of experiance, is to have full experiance. Improved armor, dodging and fighting. Only thing that can be unknown can be weapon you are going to use, if you are draconian what spell schools you are going to focus into. But honestly you'll find ok weapon for every weapon...

If you get crazy slaying bonuses one handed weapons usefulness is increased compared to 2h weapons. If in addition to decent slaying bonus you find a decent shield which gives resistances, I'd see one handed weapons as a decent option, if you don't find crazy good 2h weapon. If you find shield of re...

I've had some experiance with transmuters. I'd say both of these tactics work. UC ->6 Then train poisons to 2 (or 3) and transmutation to 4-6 So you can cast spider form with decent chance. After that Train unarmed and maybe dodging, until you feel ready to learn a new spell, then just put everythin...

dialectric: That's a good observation! I'll mention it in ##crawl-dev. Here's an idea of my own (back from my ancient stealth god proposal): Under D, spotting a monster gives you half its xp. That's a passive power you get immediately, i.e. at 0 piety. If you then kill the monster, only the second ...

Without getting too much into the weeds here, why can't the ally thing just be HP/MP based? You have your choice between aspects as before, but you can only make one at full HP/MP. If it's a melee bro, you lose 30% HP, hybrid 15% HP/15% MP, and magic 30% MP, or whatever percentages are chosen. The ...

After some more experimentation, I am not satisfied with the stepdown. Starting from the linear speed formula (speed = 10/delay + k * skill), I replaced skill by stepdown(skill, base_delay * alpha) to give a steeper slope to slow weapons speed (so that they can catch up). It also had the side effec...

So I met ereskigal when i was worshipping shining one, and i had to escape from monsters in second room of vaults. I had zero int, so i wonder if that can summon pandemonium lord, or was it just some vault monsters?

I have to say that I do like how in current system some weapons are better than other with low skill, an other weapons are better with highskill. (generally weapons with high delay are not worth it with low skill in my experience, so people who don't want invest a lot in weapon skill (but want to in...

I was plaing with Formicide so GDA armor was pretty close to optimal possible armour, considering how early i found it.

Maybe just sync voice level of singing sword and song of slaying (so when sound level of slaying would be same as screaming for the sword, screaming sword is activated despite tension level). Would it still be too comboish?

Anyway flavor message would be really nice, though.

Combination of 1 and 2 sounds cool.

Only time i really tickle down enemies slowely with poison is poison darts and sting spell, other poison sources either do enough initial damage or stack quickly enough and at worst you usally only have to take few steps back. Generally I always thought that poison needles being very situational, an...

Well that would make poison pretty much useless, i think. Toxic radiance would give swiftness to every monster in your loss, making it extreamly dangerous except if you are already in corridor. Anyway I don't think i would use poison anymore if it made monsters faster, it already kills monsters slow...

So with the new armour evasion penalty how much strength is optimal for golden dragon armor? as much as possible? or should I go for around 26-27 and then buff dex? (btw what about lighter armour for future reference.

Btw I'm not sure if it has mentioned before but formicids should be able to drink potions of speed. Sure the satiation gained is minor, but is still theoretical usefulness.

I think Singing sword and Song of slaying should combo with each other. Slightly increased scream damage, Screaming starting to happen if song of slaying is itself already causing ton of noise and slightly increased slaying bonus. Also some flavor message saying "Singing sword is happy to sing ...

I'd suggest we add 1 more tier of poison, which is not capable of killing you. Once poison damage is roughly just bit more than your average hp gain, poison should become incapable of killing. Generally dying to poison is only annoying when you just barely die to it (especially in early game)

Clearly "Dither". By the way, the simplest implementation of Shadowport I can think of is to make it akin to the current implementation of jump attack - from within a certain distance of the monster (perhaps piety-dependent), it moves you adjacent to that monster, making no noise of its o...

AC is only checked if SH fails to block(just like EV), so I don't see a practical difference between AC and EV in this context. The thing that matter is that each block makes next block harder in same turn. If you eat 3 centaur arrows you have high chance to block the first, but lower chance to blo...

It means you get 2 rolls. + shield loses some efficiency as it blocks more attacks. I'm not sure about forumla though. (there is only 25% chance to get under 50% of average score for both)

Friend I know who has played more. So after int is 20 buffing dex isn't bad idea? Anyway the difference between 1% and 0% is possibility of fuck up, even though it's small, but i guess it doesn't matter as much with offensive spells.

Pretty much what others said. I begin the ID game either at end of D2 or at some point on D3. I read-ID scrolls, if one of the scrolls brings up my inventory I use it on unknown potions. IDing potions and scrolls are priority. I will generally wear-ID relevant equipment except artefacts. One thing ...

So i've started making blaster casters as i've already beaten game with more melee oriented char. I've been playing octopode ice elementalist quite a lot. I've started wondering how much is enough int. I do feel that after 20 the spell power increase is probably neglectable and dex would give me sub...

I don't mind fleeing. Isn't this what the player does when close to dying? Why wouldn't other intelligent creatures be allowed to do the same? We could write an AI you couldn't beat. It would be really no fun. If you ducked into a corridor, monsters would stand on both sides of the entry way, out o...

I might want to have it with giant spied club, but damage is generally more useful than accuracy, so it would be useful to some build, probably more useful for 1h weapon users than to 2h users.

Hmm This would make the ability much more usable. As getting to high tension is something you really generally want to avoid. Do fire and ice spells effect your temperature? Personally i think they should, same with berserk. Basically your HP could rise the temperature to around 75% (maybe even to 1...

Only reason to lose food to harpies is to not care enough to bother. Which is almost always the case for me.

btw I think vault guardian should do more damage more runes you carry. Every time you pick up a rune new ring of 8 vault guardians spawn around the orb. (But if 8 already exist no additional once will spawn, their damage just upgrade)

Morgue file: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13.0 (tiles) character file. 93920 Brian the Bludgeoner (level 16, -10/157 HPs) Began as an Ogre Hunter on Nov 25, 2013. Was a High Priest of Okawaru. Killed from afar by a vapour (30 damage) ... with a bolt of lightning ... on ...

I just come down to a spiral vault. It had some kind of lightning shooting mist and orbs of lightning. I died trying to get middle of it. I'm just wondering what's in the middle?

Now that we are on topic about gifts. What the f*** is wrong with okawaru giving me non-branded large rocks all the time? Make large rocks not drop if it's possible for you to pick 10 of them up somewhere. (or just make them not drop as you'll probably find enough of them from cyclops) Otherwise I h...

Ya i think for boggart the the flavor of summons staying for a while isn't too bad. At least it makes you think twice about diving a boggart, if he summons something nasty. (as now if you kill the boggart the summon disappears. I think the amount of round summons last after boggart is dead should be...

The gurdian serpent thing is probably what happened.

Can boggarts summon uniques?

I was fighting 3 boggarts, i quickly poisoned and killed them, but i think one of them summoned frances before i could kill them. Frost giant and merfolk also appeared to the room, and none of these had purple dot in the corner of the icon which indicates summon.

I agree name is the part of the problem, but my vote will still be volcano dwarves! (though any name is better than lava orc)

I'm doing Ice elementalist pode. I'm planning on using 2 handed weapons though i'm not planning on dipping too deep in weapon skill. I've got great mace of protection, latang and Halberd of venom. That protection really helps a lot for armorlessness of octopodes, but attacks are slow. But Lajatang w...

I have died to boggarts twice. First time I met them. And once because I didn't have see invisibility when I started going down the dungeon levels. In my opinion boggarts are funny and unique enemies, that can easily be taken care of even just by charging them. Even more easily if you have strong sp...

I wouldn't carry quite so many wands. All you really need are digging, heal wounds and teleportation.

Also every mutation that only fit one kind of play stile is annoying.

I'd think this would be better as random mutation.

I'm having this bit unusual build of hex octopode. I plan to stab and hex my enemies to death, I'm wondering which god could prove to be useful for such character. I'm thinking that okwaru might be best. My gifts will probably be useful weapons and hat, since i can use none other. Cheibriados might ...

the +7 blowgun of Medusa's Doom. (speed, -2int)

My character's name was Medusa. Decided not to buy.

Hmm I just found perfectly good demon trident laying around. I'm quite heaily invested in mace's (12 skill points) and as i hope to find demon whip, but I guess demonspear would be just as good. My current weapon is mace of crushing +6, +2 and i plan on using quick weapons and shield in order to max...

Bah Blasted by deep elf annhilator poison arrow... Didn't expect poison arrow to over 60 damage vs rPoison.

Also which one is better. Morningstar of draining vs morning star of protection (with around same enchantments)

I plan on getting demon whip of distortion as my main weapon once they start dropping.

Headbutt vs AC+2? Which is more useful for minotaur who worships lugonu. (I'm not planning on using any spells, and I plan to shoot for Golden Dragon armor)

Counter-proposal: Iskenderun's Shimmering Sphere: Level 7 Charms/Conjuration This spell creates a shimmering sphere of energy around you, redirecting some of the destructive energies hurled at you and spraying them in random directions This spell would create a bubble of reflective energy around yo...

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