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My armor choice on this character would be, in order of preference, robe of archmagi, steam dragon scales, or any other ego robe. You should memorize cause fear. Assuming that those books are the only books you have, I would probably train for summon lightning spire next, which means turning off eve...

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That strategy is, imo, not good. re: Leda's, it is an extremely niche, awkward, complicated spell that is almost always inferior to the level 4 single school spell in the AM starting book and is unlikely to be worth the investment for anyone else even if they find it early. There is probably room fo...

This character is spread pretty thin. I think I would probably turn off everything except crossbows until like 12+ crossbows skill (arbalest of speed is really good) and pick up pproj, looking for either heavier armor or to find ozos eventually. I can see an argument for just mindelaying the trident...

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just kidding, remove poison magic

There was an attempt to fix another bug that caused that, but I replaced that fix with a better one. Should fix on server update, ie tonight or tomorrow.

Silence was, imo, a relatively bad spell at level 5, so I moved it to level 4 to make it a little more attractive.

Retaliation effects on monsters are mostly a way of giving them hidden extra melee damage. Porcupine spiny can sometimes change your tactics, but it does so in a dumb way (let me swap to my unskilled shortbow to kill it so I take less damage than using my 12 skill flail!). Torturous demonspawn and h...

The species plays almost nothing like gnoll though.

Remove monster spiny.

The usual complaint against hell is that it's too long and repetitive. There are various ways to address this including shortening the hell branches, rotating hell branches like lair branches, making hell floors smaller, or rotating hell with pan. Extended reform should definitely happen; my underst...

I told you man, you gotta put proclick in the title.

e: nm you're good

Hot fresh content: ⋅ Species stuff: ⋅ Hill Orc is removed. ⋅ "new species": Mountain Dwarf. Sturdy frame, increasing levels of wild magic as they level up. Normal HP. Otherwise similar to HO. ⋅ Tengu no longer get fast movement while flying. ⋅&n...

The premise is interesting, though I don't agree w/ the strategy talk outlined by the op. You need to do a big overhaul of crawl's magic system from the ground up to get it to work imo. I'm thinking something along the lines of pubby ogre magic everywhere- a very reduced set of spell schools or stra...

Finally finished another game, hill orc this time. It feels much better now. The discord/cblink combo I got this game was really fun to play around with, and so was getting dcall in zot. Maybe the power/success formulas could get tweaked a little more so that a level in spellcasting "feels"...

Very curious to know if bel would support a "ranged weapons exp penalty" to encourage hybridizing out of longbows.

While the premises of the op are wrong, the conclusion is correct. The point of comparison for FE is conjure flame, which trivializes every enemy that you would want to consider blowing up with inner flame. None of the orc band examples in this thread are convincing at all; dealing with them using c...

If you haven't won before, you should just go win.

Here is the function for chain spells in spl-damage.cc spret_type cast_chain_spell(spell_type spell_cast, int pow, const actor *caster, bool fail) { fail_check(); bolt beam; // initialise beam structure switch (spell_cast) { case SPELL_CHAIN_LIGHTNING: beam.name = "lightning arc"; beam.aux...

what do we do about cats

The exp penalty for damaging things with summons either decreases your ability to win or doesn't decrease your ability to win. If it decreases your ability to win, it is optimal to tell any existing summons to stop attacking and use 0 skill melee/ranged for full damage against every trivial enemy fo...

Agree that there is too much digging. There's also too much para and enslavement and acid, and probably too much of all the other wands. A widespread wand charge reduction would be good. Increase the power scaling again if you really want to compensate for it (please don't). A different digging shap...

Serious question. I think it might be good for variety if Ilsuiw didn't show up in shoals every game. Maybe rotate her with some other uniques if you want a very high chance of a unique in the shoals ending; could do one of Ilsuiw/Polyphemus/random non-shoals-exclusive unique.

Played a full game OgFE of Vehumet. I like the general concept but the implementation has a couple problems. There is a bug in the current version where if you get a level up spell while Vehumet is gifting you the same spell, Vehumet won't gift you any more spells until you memorize that one. IMO Ve...

Ash, Beogh, Elyvilon, Fedhas, Jiyva, the corpse rot and animate skeleton spells, Nemelex, Xom, Yred

Nemelex is much like Fedhas in that the high power level is coupled to severe mechanical/interface problems, in this case the inventory management involved in lugging around dozens of decks. There is also a very high burden of knowledge to the god, since you need to at least sort of know what card e...

One potential issue with this change is that the passwall targeter can reveal map bounds, because the ray won't render. I'm not sure there's anything to be done about this, though, and this is far from the only thing that does (e.g. setting exclusions on out of bounds positions). Sometimes I want t...

While I agree that Vehumet is not very strong compared to other gods, remember that this is partly because gods are very strong these days. Giving Vehumet an early buff would be a bit of power creep for gods in general. Not that this is automatically a bad thing — I can't speak to whether the devs ...

I think this species should have no spell hunger.

Kiku's first book guarantees at least one very useful spell. Vehumet is not guaranteed to give you anything worth casting before lair.

Jesus Christ

You get a level 1 spell and then a level 1 or 2 spell and then a level 2 or 3 spell. Level 1 or 2 spell gifts are almost always useless because you have a book and are casting spells of another school with more power and at a higher level. At level 3 you can at least get something that has utility l...

I have Gn as the 5th best species in the game fwiw

my first win did the swift fly meme. I don't remember what else it had other than IOOD and freezing cloud, whatever was in the old wz book probably.

Imo this character should not have trained the following skills: short blades, slings, stealth, spellcasting, conjurations, summonings, fire magic. It should have worn heavier armor and definitely should have picked a god.The biggest problem is still tactical though. Don't get surrounded.

When shatter got tweaked, the interaction changed so that player gargoyles take extra damage even if they're flying. The damage is high enough that Jorgrun can oneshot you if you ever spend a turn in his los. Seems silly to have a unique with a spell that instakills a single player speices and is no...

[16:27] <Xiongnu> Pips are log curved. That's like, 45% max power, not 70%. [16:27] <eb> also you probably don't need any more spellcasting skill ever [16:27] <collin38> oh.... I thought they were linear [16:27] <Sequell> spell power[4/5]: Got bars (#)? You have at least 0, 10, 15, 25, 35, 50, 75, ...

The previous changes to display monster spell sets, monster max melee damage, etc. were good. Showing monster max spell damage seems like an obvious extension of this process (though again, probably not easy to implement). You shouldn't have to consult the learndb to look this info up, imo.

Boxes don't become inert. There is no reason to carry multiple of the others.

Lol, also showing monster max spell damage seems good but iirc it's nontrivial to implement.

Thought this was going to be a species proposal. Imo stone arrow won't do enough to differentiate it from the other melee armor guys in vaults and there are already a lot of those. Remove spell hunger.

yeah, that fork was going to be my dank april fool's day prank but it ended up not getting on the servers. feel free to steal anything you want from it though

Heck, I even liked the shared HP/MP mechanic on Dj before it got buried in special cases. Metal Dwarves, or MD for short, are cool new dwarves that don't have magic but can cast from hp. The gimmick: MD always have 0 mp. Things that have mp costs (spells, god abilities, a couple evocable effects) c...

When you get a god gift, you get some amount of "gift timeout", which is often thought of as negating a certain amount of future piety gain. But it's not quite that simple. With all gods except Ru, when you would gain a point of piety: 1. If you have gift timeout, it is decremented, and 7...

I'm not dead but I'm moving for a new job. Probably going to be a few weeks before I can start work on hellcrawl again.

Hit me up if you want the permabuff code but its kind of bad so you can prob write a better version for me to steal, thanks in advance.

DCSS could use amulet reform 2.0. This one has weird design space ("Running away is very powerful in Crawl and this makes it more powerful." is not something to encourage imo) and apparently a weird interface problem, Harm's design allows a really annoying version of amulet swapping, gourm...

Spell hunger is rarely of strategic importance. You have to argue from ""blaster caster" of Gozag / Firestorm Spriggan / 0 spellcasting shatter rush" or some improbable food luck scenario for starvation to be a legitimate threat. You can play 100k turncount 3 rune "blaster c...

Starts with Confusing Touch and Pain memorized, no armour.

Eliminating ID for consumables is a good idea anyway. Crawl's ID game is pretty bad.

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