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Rocket Ray: Level 6 Conj/Air/Fire When cast, gives Flying and Ray status (similar to Searing Ray). Every turn you channel it, it consumes three mana to fire a moderately powerful blast of fire and knock you backwards in the opposite direction (as if trampled). Becomes beam-targeted and more powerful...

Seriously. Why is this a thing?

It feels kinda weird to me.

I'm not entirely sold on a god who looks to be blatantly aping (one of two versions of) Gilgamesh. I'm also not entirely sold on the idea of the major selling point of a god being "I have 7 awesome fixedarts." Finally, the end effect of this god seems to be similar to Okawaru, with skill e...

Feature Request: Bring back item weight, but only for Amazot shipping costs.

I love Dream Sheep. It's fun, it's flavorful, and it's threatening.

But spawning packs of them with no other monsters is boring and makes tabbing through a pack of them really obnoxious considering they're still basically popcorn.

This seems like an unnecessary amount of grinding and backtracking for a mechanic that doesn't really fit Crawl. A better solution in the same vein might be to either improve Beogh's "grant followers" passive so you don't get crap at max level, or to make "get followers" an abili...

How would the piety spell interact with miscasts/failures? On the one hand, if you reduce/eliminate the chance of failure or negative aspects of failure, you can give extremely early access to high level spells, even by Veh's standards. Plus, that would change Vehu to be less focused on spellcasting...

I've always found it weird how people use that FF10 scene as an example of how bad the voice acting is. He's supposed to be laughing in a really fake, forced way; it isn't like Baten Kaitos, where every line legitimately was read by randoms from the street.

Also Tome has the really creepy orc breeding rape dungeon thing, which is totally unnecessary. So is the one sidequest where you get a waifu tbh.

Dredmore was supremely boring to me, along with how slowly it played because of the animations.

REEEEEEE

Shtopit wrote:A variably resistant opponent could be the High Priest of Quetzal (or however it's written).

I feel like this unique is more suited to being the high priest of Xom, so he can Control Chaos or something.

I think that Shoals 1-3 is probably harder than Vaults 1-4; Shoals 4 definitely is. On the other hand, I think that the last level of Slime is disproportionately difficult to the rest of Slime (which is mostly just super tedious and likely to mutate you and/or filler to dive), so Slime isn't really ...

Markshedding

Oh right, acid trip, that's a good point. I hadn't thought of zigs, that makes sense since I assume you're dropped right in range of them. I mean... everywhere else the game goes out of its way to prevent you from even moving into range of the damn things. Iirc Oklobzig has one tile out of range of...

well some scrolls are similar to ?immo in that sense and should be removed too However, effects like blink and tele and enchant are simple and don't require the trickiness immo does; fog can be finnicky, but effectively reducing your LOS to 2 is a benefit that is often an easily measurable one; sum...

If not, maybe reconsider making him turn most tiles within visible range+2 into lava when you use disaster area.

49. Washing Pole. An unrand +3 *Fragile, Reaching Katana. Attacks with the Washing Pole never leave blood stains and have a 25% chance of removing bloodstains from nearby tiles. Attacks with the Washing Pole have a 25% chance of briefly spawning shallow water on top of or on a random tile around the...

Autoexplore goes into shallow water by default, so unless I'm misremembering you can definitely autoexplore into it without permanent flight.

What is the meaning of the red x's that are separated from the bulk of the red shape? (Like, Xom has four unconnected x's at the corners.) The chart is pretty. I think they're meant to say that the god is inconsistent in that attribute. Mahkleb is really strong at helping... provided you don't rand...

Why does Qaz have zero improve and help? I get that the big thing is disaster area, but he gives you fairly solid passive defense buffs, and both clouds and summons provide fairly strong indirect offense.

He should also probably have a much higher drawback, to be fair.

Speaking of autoexplore trap vaults, there's a vault in Lair that has a bunch of shallow water that curves around; after you round the corner there are 3! electric eels (and behind that, more monsters). I didn't get killed by it, but I took a ton of damage despite being heavily armored; I'm pretty ...

Speaking of autoexplore trap vaults, there's a vault in Lair that has a bunch of shallow water that curves around; after you round the corner there are 3! electric eels (and behind that, more monsters). I didn't get killed by it, but I took a ton of damage despite being heavily armored; I'm pretty s...

How about monks start with 0 piety, and 0 in all skills. However, we'll all agree to insist they are the most powerful background, and act like it should be completely obvious why. Obviously I'll edit this post so as not to spoil the ruse. Oh gitp forums, how I missed thee and thy partially charged...

I prefer the idea of a "charge attack": when you move adjacent to a monster from a non-adjacent square, you get a free attack. It's fine for it to be at your movement delay because you'd have to move back again to get another charge attack. There would likely need to be a damage bonus tho...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:Since when do gods buy followers? Whatever happened to faith?

Alternate answer: Isn't there a Zin vault with a ton of coins you can access if you start worshiping? Or maybe those walls don't break and you have to dig them out; I've never tried it.

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:Since when do gods buy followers? Whatever happened to faith?

I mean the god did give faith as well.

it already does I don't think a Tm for example will appreciate wild magic? Or anyone with a great randart helmet getting it pushed off. edit: of course the question is should all mutations from !benemut be beneficial to all characters or just to some... Duvessa is of the opinion that slotloss mutat...

duvessa wrote:How do you know that you will find a "superior two handed weapon who's damage output out-ways the defense a shield offers"?

Because the game gives guaranteed sources of weapons that do just that, and it seems the design for shields is to make them weak compared to a strong two-hander.

ydeve wrote:The idea is you aren't supposed to be able to alternate between a 2h weapon and a shield in-fight.

Why?

I understand that's the point, I just do not see a design reason for it. Shields aren't good enough for that to matter, unless there is a serious issue with swapping for resistances.

Additionally, make equipping a two hand weapon automatically remove your shield and current weapon. As it stands it's annoying to be prompted when trying to switch weapons and shields taking long periods of time to remove doesn't offer much in terms of gameplay, since the response to "shields m...

Tiktacy wrote:
milski wrote:Jiyva Jabooty is really hard to remember the full name of.

what

Jiyva Jabroni always changes its last name, so I never really remember what Jiyva Jaybird's name is in game.

Jiyva Jabooty is really hard to remember the full name of.

From a metagame perspective PBD is one of the worst mutations because when you're fighting enemies 1 at a time it doesn't do anything (except prevent piety decay). So most of the time it's useless. Now from a real player perspective it is indeed good, because real players don't have infinite patien...

I'm not sure that vault warden abilities, anti-summoning, and a mediocre scrying are worth building a god around; the benefits are very marginal and frequently totally useless (e.g. most all of the lair+associated branches). Plus, being built around doors means you even more explicitly need to manag...

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Well yeah, that's why I suggested just that.

Just replace Labyrinths with an arena where you fight a few mythical monster uniques. The few "vaults" in Labyrinths that give loot tend to be spoilery/annoying (flight required, trapdoor spiders, etc.), and beyond that they barely cost any food to actually get through. Literally the only ...

Xom should be allowed to chaos brand armour. Chaos armor has a random chance on every hit taken of gaining any armour/shield brand for a turn*, including brands that wouldn't spawn on that gear. It additionally has a random chance to apply most of the "on-hit" effects from e.g. Ru, dismiss...

Iskenderun's Staff: A staff of conjurations with an enhancement bonus equal to Conjurations/3. On hit, it has a conjuration/evocations based chance to hit the target with an Iskkenderun's Mystic Blast that always explodes. Can be evoked to fire off an evocations/conjurations dependent barrage of IMB...

I'm not the OP, but: All other effects on the wand of random uselessness attempt to affect an enemy target (though there are a couple buffs). Having digging on random uselessness is tedious, spoilery (you may not realize it can dig for many runs), and encourages inventory clutter. It also makes digg...

The runed vault filled with a shitton of animals is always a treat because it's a ton of free EXP if you have a strong early game character.

Aren't there already similar panic buttons in Necromancy?

Additionally, getting to block 50 HP of damage whenever you have a couple mana is ridiculously OP, even if it decays very rapidly. There'd be no reason not to spam it every few turns in combat, which would be incredibly tedious.

Probably meant Minotaur, not Ce. Neither mythological not Crawl Minotaurs have hooves. Minotaurs having hooves is a very, very common depiction, though. Kind of an unrelated aside, but Crawl and the (non-modern interpretations of) the minotaur of the labyrinth are probably the only minotaurs that d...

See title. "Beneficial" mutation shouldn't give you mutations that are very likely (though not guaranteed) to weaken your character, e.g. gaining Horns 1 and losing your fancy helm. It makes it needlessly risky to quaff considering (afaik) it's supposed to be a rare way to get a strategic ...

An optional graphical interface in a genre that traditionally didn't have such and used other ways of conveying information? Edit: Lets look at traditional roguelike graphics. Which looks more dangerous to you? AFAIK, we were discussing the tile interface. If you only have opinions about ascii inte...

Because of the way the monster energy system works, wouldn't this just mean that you'd wind up going up multiple sets of stairs if the chance to ditch a monster was only 50% at two tiles? Plus, it seems like it'd be a hassle to communicate "Monsters will follow you up the stairs in 1 turn, are ...

Maybe I'm crazy but the game refuses to stop informing me that im even the slightest bit hungry .... That and bright yellow/read capital letters against black are pretty darn noticeable. Maybe if you're color blind, I don't see how you could ever "accidentally" starve to death. I've accid...

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