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wielding a random weapon in the hopes that it won't be a cursed -3 death sentence, or just hoping that the RNG will provide enough ammo scattered about that they won't run out and be unable to defend themselves. the starting ammo given to an arcane marksman is generally enough to last at least 4 fl...

you're describing a proposal where shields become a form of jewellery with varying bonuses, players are going to carry as many useful ones as they can and swap them frequently. the only reason players don't currently do that with shields is because shield egos are weak enough that the deciding facto...

so your solution is to bring back the inventory issues books created, you say

kiku's first book is very strong when you consider you also get corpse delivery

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Mislead

To celebrate no spell hunger: take a low/mid level, non-undead character, try to find summon dragons spell, get it to 9x% chance to cast, sit on the stairs and repeat casting it until it finally works. Go down stairs, kill stuff. Rinse, repeat. Contamination.. oh noes, lots of bad mutations swappin...

let's skip the step where the player starts in a bazaar and instead randomly buy items for them, then we can call this background "Wanderer"

we don't compensate spellcasting background combinations (e.g. FoWr can't use Blink and scrolls of blinking, MuNe can't use regeneration), so it doesn't make sense to compensate non-spellcasting backgrounds. all this does is create a lot of bookkeeping; the current assignment is a straightforward re...

i think most characters with an int stat high enough to make this item useful have better ways to kill things

yeah, we already have a god of umbra in the game that we could reference

There was a discussion on Discord about calculating requirements for spell failure and I did some math to try and simplify the work; here's the stuff I worked out. First, here's a summary of what this post covers: This is going to explain (roughly) how spell level, spell schools, spellcasting, Int, ...

i suspect tasonir is lying about the quality of this guide, because it doesn't mention statue form, chei, vinestalkers OR naga

Perhaps a Zig more clearly illustrates the point I'm trying to make: If you hit a level filled with mummies, what choice do you really have to not have one of those three gods and/or necromutation? No matter how clever your strategy or play is, aside from avoiding the content, you'll be punished a ...

the classes that are under warrior-mage have one thing in common: they can't kill things at XL1 without using a weapon/unarmed combat, and the rest of their spells are not very efficient for killing things without using weapons/UC. classifying wizard as a warrior-mage would make this distinction unc...

Tumalu wrote:One fireball is better than 5 flame tongues, isn't it? Louder, but. 1/5th the casting time ontop of that.

even assuming this is true, 1 conjure flame and 0mp flame tongues is better than casting fireball even once

Poison mage: the problem with poison mage is simple. All of your spells can be resisted with rPoison. That means that you cannot hurt any undead, excluding you from ossuary, because it's unlikely that your backup killdudes can be good enough to win there most ossuaries have monsters slower than you...

Also, lv1 spells mostly suck. Especially if the speed is removed (I think it should be), you're gonna be in a bad spot if you don't kill things before they reach you and you just keep casting lv1 spells at it. This can be true as early as D2 0 MP freeze, pain, shock and flame tongue are all really ...

the point I'm making is that switching to a multiplier instead of an additive modifier doesn't actually accomplish anything; either you barely affect spell difficulty to the point that wearing heavy armour is a no-brainer, or you affect spell difficulty to such an extreme that wearing heavy armour i...

this proposal would just make it significantly easier to cast low level spells in heavy armour, which is not desirable gameplay given the large number of useful spells at low levels. for specifics, the current "spell difficulty" values are 3 (level 1) 15 (level 2) 35 (level 3) 70 (level 4)...

yes, BVC is specifically coded to not work on things you can't see (so you don't walk away and deal damage out of LOS)

johlstei wrote:I would have rather folded the two failure chances together

...that's what the commit does

...that's how it worked for two and a half years

mrob wrote:spirit shield doesn't need to drain MP

we really don't need an amulet that effectively acts as a heal wounds potion

Shtopit wrote:The one situation in which I think it would make sense is with troll vs hydras, and that could be resolved if treeform gave you wood punches (turns your claws into tree stumps, damage bonus similar to stone form).

this phrasing makes it sound like lignification doesn't already do these things

i just teleport ninja the rune

turns out you don't need to kill every single monster to get it

actually, shatter now does 1 die of damage to insubstantial monsters in trunk (vs 3 for normal monsters)

nago wrote:Actually, probably the thing I prefer most is to enslave duvessa or dowan and let one twin kill the other, but I guess this is a tad sadistic interaction to enjoy.

then you pacify the one who survives

from what I understand reading the code, the message occurs when the duration has 10 turns left, and the game removes 1d5 turns from the duration when the message is played so you have between 9 and 4 turns left before it expires

Code:: 98373 | Slime:5 | Identified the ring of the Thirsty Wars {rElec Stlth+} (You found it on level 5 of the Pits of Slime)

found on a vp

you were following sif muna, so the answer is channel, and then hit them with more fire storms

yes, all experimental branches are disabled for the duration of the tournament

you can just blast the monster with flame tongue if they're not entering the conjured flame

you were visible because you were standing in shallow water, which nullifies invisibility unless you're flying (which is also what the very slow status is)

note that Cj hasn't had battlesphere in the starting book since 0.20

Second problem, power of spells is low. Any sub-5 level spell is considerably weaker than any decent weapon trained to corresponding skill. first you need to understand this statement is completely false. saying that a skill 8-10 weapon is significantly better than freeze, conjure flame or the star...

Stonar wrote:Is it inconsistent? Isn't it just "When you deal damage to your allies?"

slouch doesn't anger allies

even if you could examine the stack you still wouldn't be able to tell if there was a corpse there, you have to step on the square to see any newly generated items under whatever is at the top of the pile. you can check what items are visible in LOS by pressing ctrl-X (and then selecting the item wi...

tasonir wrote:I'll take spell damage that can't be resisted for 1000, Alex.

Ouch! That really hurt.
You die...

Why is this thread copying a 3 year old YASD thread???

If you're a gnoll, you don't get any bonus piety from your trained skills, otherwise you get 1 piety for every 500 skill points invested. You can check the costs of skill levels here (remember to scale the amount based on aptitude.) In general the amount of piety gained from sacrificing skill is low...

you can use berserk at any hunger state above near starving just like other abilities with similar hunger costs

that's when you thank someone and say "oops, pressed thanks by accident"

base to-hit is in zap-data.h stored as <a,b,c> (the second one is used for monsters). the value is derived using the formula a + 12*HD*b/c for the purposes of beam spells. here are some example values (for reference, if your EV = to-hit you have slightly less than 50% chance of dodging the attack). ...

breakpoints happen whenever baseAC*(Armour skill) is a multiple of 22, so you get an extra point at 22/baseAC, 44/baseAC, and so forth

the game specifically tries to pick sacrifices to avoid overflowing 6* too much.

half of the modifier from stats came from strength and the rest was split between strength and dex using the weights

the enchantress can, technically speaking

I disagree. Popular features in games imply that an appreciable number of players enjoy the feature. Granted, this isn't universal, but probably largely holds true. Considering that games are ultimately about enjoyment, that makes it worthwhile to have popular features in games. Of course we can de...

counterpoint:

invocations skill required to make ru's actives useful: 0

invocations skill required to make qazlal's actives useful: something significantly larger than 1

i was reading the op again and realized you need to add a draining branded shrike called "antiskillrobin"

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