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Or the pools created by the rain could be temporary . . .

I do like the evocation idea - Perhaps with some thunder and lightning and permanent pool generation (and electricity frying the stuff in the water)

I, too, am for the reduction of chunk and food types. Originally, food was just rule (more like a guideline) to keep from scumming D:1 eternally. It was just there to make you keep going and keep from boring yourself. I don't think that the food "mini-game" is or should try to be fun, that...

I imagine the reason is similar to why there aren't similar options for shadow dragons, iron dragons, or quicksilver dragons. Why not Shadow Dragon Armour, 5 AC -1EV {Stlth} or {Inv}, and give Shadow Dragons themselves an appropriately stabby stealthy ability, like perfect invisibility until radius...

I'm just brainstorming here, but I thought that a good compromise between permanent and temporary gifts would be, I dunno, let's call them "conditional" gifts, which would only be revoked when the player offends the god in some way. This would probably require Oka/Trog's conducts being ma...

minstrel wrote:Edit - just noticed, you can also reach to hit hidden monsters in water. It's like fishing!

OT: Now we need someone code a fishing mini-game.

Having backgrounds of varying difficulty is a design choice, we're fine with that. However, fighter being one of them is not good in my opinion. This is the default background, and the one most beginners will try first. Fighter should be a simple AND strong background, especially in the early game....

Perhaps the overpoweredness of Meph/Evap isn't the spells themselves, but rather the Confusion effect. Perhaps Confusion should more like Poison for players and monsters, so yellow levels give occasional mis-movements, but dark red levels result in self-damage, friendly-fire, drowning, etc.

Bloodlusted orcs are resistant/immune to Alastair's Intoxication.

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galehar wrote: Alistair's is no longer irresistible. However, the chance to affect a monster depends only on spell power. It completely ignores monster's HD, MR and bloodlusting.

Early game: I have to aim for the wizard or priest instead of next to him if I want to be absolutely sure of hitting him. Against groups it is less reliable, but not really less usable, you just have to cast it more, and perhaps use some S2S. Later in the early game: Use as normal. It works mostly l...

Ontoclasm is the author of those tiles, and the new Labyrinth tiles, and tiles of the missing runes. Hip Hip Hurray!

argonaut wrote:in a shop on D:24
the +6 gold dragon armour "Siramni" {rElec rPois rF+ rC+ SInv} (15405 gp)

It's going to take a while to find all that gold.

Do keep in mind, though, that that is a standard +6 GDA with rElec and SInv, and not necessarily worth grinding out 15,000 gp for.

Ontoclasm submitted a bunch of (awesome) rune tiles on Mantis! Check them out!

In Crawl, "Strength" is what most games call "Constitution". The only reasons to have high Strength are: 1. To meet armour requirements (3x the evasion penalty); 2. To increase your carry capacity; 3. To do more damage with bows or crossbows or something (I haven't really used Hu...

I'd definitely put a limit on the stores of consumables in branch ends. In most cases, it was permanent items that mostly populated the branch end rewards, with a few consumables. I don't know how common it is to get a bunch of wand/scroll/food/potion shops, though . . . I also like the idea of sell...

So, it's currently difficult to get to L1, but too easy to train thereafter, right?

agreed. I took a Naga Warper to XL 5|D:3 without wearing the leather armour until I got the first level of Stealth. After that, it builds nicely...

Does accuracy (of spells, ammo, breath, ...) decrease with distance? Should it?

Nagas can be a pretty effective late-game caster/tank, provided they find a near-mythical naga barding. (Innate AC) - (1/2 base armour AC) + (armour pluses) + (Armour skill bonuses) ~ 35-45 AC, and they can can do shields easily as a large species, so 40-50 SH as well for a large shield, all while m...

Cowardice is closely correlated with continued existence in Crawl. Knowing when to run away and actually doing it (even when you want to stay and kill the foo) is the highest virtue within the game. Try a Spriggan Anything Recommended or a Draconian Air Elementalist. Spriggans are inherently fast in...

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Very nice intro post.

What if the gifts from the troublesomely-gifting-gods were limited and less random? Say, for example, that Okawaru gave three choices of 3 guaranteed good items (with lower probabilities of stashed item-types and of already offered item types), and then somehow supported the use of them (yes, I know...

Since demon whips are powerful already, how would you make them better without making them OP? Nerf demonic weapons?

Currently Str has 2 functions. It meets armour requirements, and it increases carry capacity. Occasionally it keeps you from dying to stat loss. What if high Strength allowed you to wade through monsters (Shift-Direction) with a STR vs Size check? (Monster version would be Size*HD vs Size*HD) Sure, ...

Considering that octopuses don't do their breathing with their beak, but by generally expanding and contracting their open mantle. They also have a roll of mantle they can use as a jet or blowhole, so it seems to me that they have a reasonable excuse to use blow guns.

So needles are just hexes lite, now, but with limited ammo?

Perhaps some form of this choice (Limited number of chances to make a choice between ~3 good items) could be given to the currently badly gifting gods, Trog, Oka, and Sif?

Using the Great and Powerful Wikipedia, here are the Rune meanings (Old Futhark) Gloorx Vloq - Eiwaz - Yew tree (commonly associated with death) Lom Lobon - Laguz - Lake or Water Cerebov - Fehu - Wealth or Cattle Mnoleg - Wunjo - Bliss or Joy Cocytus - Isaz - Ice Gehenna - Pertho - Pear tree? or Woo...

DrAE is my current fav. Early Swift + Flight (via Levitation). They don't have negative air apts, and Steam and Storm have positive apts. It also hybridizes fairly easily, so if you find some nice weapon, you don't feel trapped. Really, what it comes down to is that AE is one of the easier Draconian...

Currently, many runes use the generic "rune" tile, and one of the requests for 0.9 is to get unique tiles for all of these runes. I dunno if there is time, but it would be pretty cool to have good tiles for all the runes. Here's the Tiles Creation Guide and Paint.net to get you started. (E...

When Google Experiments first opened, these pixel paintings were among the few showcased. My favorite scenes are |Seascape - Sunset|,|Mirror Pond - Morning|, and |Deep Swamp - Day|.

Next time, I'll try to remember to post the tile to the forum, so I can get ya'll's feedback. :roll:

Right now we have no clear way to mark what's been reviewed and what hasn't. There is some new content that we definitely don't want, or that definitely needs editing. Is there any reason why a separate column marking revision status can't be added? That would allow you to sort the articles easily,...

Transmuters have arrows for the spell Sticks to Snakes (S2S), an excellent pseudo-summoning spell. You must wield the arrows first to use the spell. Most wooden weapons can also be turned into snakes, including magical staves, so be careful what you wield. Cursed weapons turn into hostile snakes. Us...

I guess I would say that there are two things to consider here. One is that specific, precise numbers are irrelevant, in that they don't help make decisions. The second is that a sense of progress is important, and numbers going up can provide that. In order to properly do away with decisionally irr...

you had another ring of +0,+7 slaying. This combination seems especially popular.

Whoa. Galehar proposes to make skills continuous, instead of stepped. I like the idea, but I'm not sure of some implementation (like for Spellcasting and spells slots and MP, or the proposed summoning cap; both of these appear to be dependent on stepwise functions). Apart from some possibly tricky i...

I have seen a lot of +0,+7 rings of slaying recently. About half of the ones I've ran into myself or that I've heard about from others have +0,+7. Maybe the RNG is just messing with me.

I like it, XuaXua.

"protruding"?

Do not join up with Okawaru until ALL your Demonspawn mutations are known. Just because you figure it will be unlikely that you will Demonic Guardian does NOT mean the RNG will consider it unlikely.

Talons are on your feet though. Shouldn't be a problem, unless you are an octopode, and then things just get complicated.

Demonspawn with talons 3 can't butcher. I found out when I figured they could, and went ahead and cursed my mace, assuming I could still get chunks . . .

Currently it doesn't. Just looking for feedback to know if I should post it to Mantis or the wiki or not.

you might soft cap the number of buffs through glow perhaps adding INT [k *Spell level * (n-skill level)] glow every T turns (play with k , n and t until reasionable.) I don't like the idea of using glow as a soft cap. Glow amounts aren't measured like HP or MP, so I can't see if X spell will tip m...

Those look pretty good. Are they straight greyscale with a bit of purple blood? If they are, I would use some desaturated almost-grey purples and greens in place of the grey. The troll zombie looks chopped to me, was the original tile chopped as well? Also, post this to Mantis (log in, 'Report Issue...

You could make MC a target-required spell, like Haunt, though not smite-targeted, and say that you are merely inducing extreme flatulence, BO, mind-fryingly stinky pustules, (. . .) in the victim.

Having just finished clearing one for the first time, I can say that 250 is a conservative figure. I had to kill 281 :lol: Here was the mantis discussion . Mumra did some code-diving and found a vault where a castle moat could be filled either with "water" or with "draconians" (...

or a 2/3 chance of water? I love me them water potions.

Perhaps instead of capping buffs by glowing, buffs should have a hard cap instead, much like what has been suggested for summons. I think Charms skill should increase the cap, while casting buffs from different secondary schools should decrease the cap [e.g. a moderately skilled Charmer could have F...

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