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Irresistable, affects a large area, and has smite targeting , which gives it an interesting utility few spells in the game have. I usually open up on Hexes by the time I memorize Dazzling Spray, and leave it on until I get Fulminant Prism at 1-2% (typically around early Lair depths or corresponding ...

Man I wish I could meet some awesome wizards to party with out here.

I've recently moved to Istanbul and noticed two interesting connections: There's a (usually) delicious meal here named Iskender that I've mentally associated with our good wizard Iskenderun until I discovered that there is both a city and a specific cat that also share the same name. Additionally, t...

Dazzling Spray is really great in my experience so far -- especially for early monster bands. Blindness isn't quite as strong as I wish it was (dang Centaurs can hit me all day long while they're blind) but I think it's rather appropriate. If there's a chance I can hit at least two people with it, I...

Force Lance's limitations don't seem to work well for what I think its intended purposes are -- by the point I can reliably knock melee threats away, I generally want to spend the MP casting IMB or something else. Even if I end up in an unlucky D:2 or D:3 ogre-around-the-corner situation, dazzling s...

A problem with sticky flame is that it has a "solution" (besides jumping into shallow water when available) in dropping each stack of scrolls in descending order of importance; if it just destroyed scrolls on initial hit and didn't keep doing it each round it would be better I think. It ca...

I think there's some interest in that too. Getting rid of the tiles could be a good first step at least.

The big problem there, of course, is that actually there aren't even separate tiles for randart armours or weapons in a lot of cases. I could fix that sometime soon (though the life of an expatriate is pretty busy and there's tiles I said I'd do months ago, that I haven't even thought of, tl;dr mayb...

As the guy who made (many of) them, I'd still like to see the racial weapon/armour tiles removed; I've posted as such on Mantis. I actually think it has a negative effect for new players -- i.e. over-emphasizing the importance of racial weaponry and encouraging bad equipment choices. At the time I m...

I thought of a few ideas along these lines (more varied monster actions on death), and though it seems interesting and like it could add depth, it also carries significant risk of encouraging degenerate behavior. For example, if an enemy spawns another enemy upon death, you would always want to kill...

FWIW, in tiles, robes all look the same on the floor but look different on the playerdoll, and that doesn't really impact things. As long as items on the ground look different, clarity is preserved. There are loads of unused variant playerdoll tiles already.

I think this thread just draws attention to two of the biggest psychological terrors of Crawl: mutations and item destruction. We can debate what egos are more useful all day long, but players are still going to think that mutation and item destruction are the worst things that can happen. This perc...

Since we're derailing a bit, and because I'm not sure I want to make a whole thread yet, do people think there is room for an early/mid-game Felid unique? It would borrow Borris's resurrection mechanic (with a max of 9 or perhaps just 1d9 lives) but its difficulty should scale to depth. I originally...

I feel like this is minmay's joke account.

As an aside: desecrate seems like a good ability for a slow or immobile enemy at some point earlier in the game.

I'd agree with the sentiment that at any given time, given the option to haste or not to haste, it's always better to have it on. So far in this thread, we've discussed the countermeasures of 1) make haste harder to cast and 2) have "internal" penalties like causing glow or statrot. What i...

I have a set of tiles for various J enemies partially completed -- my abusive work schedule and lack of internet keeps the progress slow, but I'm using a tasteful amount of semi-transparency and trying to differentiate different Js by shape more. I do like that new Invisible Horror; personally I thi...

I am wondering why you are giving this god a 3* ability that requires you to be in penance to make it useful. (Silent spectres are very rare and usually only appear on floors where silence isn't useful anyway (do you really care about silencing skeletal warriors?); Mennas is a single unique; Eresh ...

I've had this proposal sitting unfinished in my drafts for a while, and it's deeply similar to Xiphias's recent proposal -- the key differences being the piety mechanic, the flavor, and deafness. I'll skimp a bit on describing the concepts that have identical counterparts in Xiphias's thread. Descri...

This make higher shield skill reduce the rate at which effective SH value gets reduced per blocked attack in a turn, and maybe even implement a GDR-like lower cap % based on shield size plus this Instead of EVP = base_evp - skill / 5, how about EVP = base_evp * 27 / (4 * skill + 27) and optionally, ...

I agree that suppression's probably not as dangerous as it sounds, but you don't have to scale up as far as Margery to imagine a nasty combo -- throw a tarantella or two into the mix, and you have a combo that players will complain about for years to come. (By the way, I'm not suggesting that this i...

I feel like Vaults could just go for a focus on humanoids -- Wizards, necromancers, vault guards, boggarts, a few elves, tengu, deep dwarves, et cetera. I don't think the current monster set should be booted out entirely, but I think weight-wise there should be more humanoid things in Vaults and mor...

Man, this is really good, and it overlaps significantly with a proposal I've left on the backburner for quite a while! I will still post mine sometime soon, and perhaps our ideas can make a nice synthesis. Welcome to the community!

This isn't where I'd prefer to take the idea, but if we want to make beast form a bigger drawback, we could say that in beast form, the player is "unconscious" -- effectively, the game would fast-forward to the point where beast form was over. In between, the game would control the beast,...

jewellery swapping seems pretty common. As far as I can see, that fits "low risk, take a lot of time, and bring some reward" Congratulations, you've set a new high water mark for missing the point! Well I was trying not to, but as with every single one of my posts on this forum I seem to ...

I think the thread has run its course, personally. I posted it to solicit some ideas but few new ones arose; we discussed long blades sidestepping a bit and I think there was some quite good discussion there. There are good points for and against the concept, of course -- I would say the strongest p...

I'll have you know that Human tile is deliberately gender-neutral

IMO a greater variety of egos would be the best thing for shields. What if there were a passive knockback shield ego? That is to say, sometimes when an enemy hits you in melee combat and you deflect it with your shield, the enemy bounces back a square? I dislike the idea of knockback weapons, becaus...

Note that I addressed this issue in the OP: ideas on the Tavern are so far from the realm of reality that they may as well not exist. Also, we have already discussed the various aspects of idea bloat / fake variety / removal or non-removal in the last thread . I definitely agree that there's no prob...

Here are more monsters for discussion: Ooze I should have included this enemy in the previous batch. I feel like oozes could be used to introduce more game concepts early on. They do as much damage as a giant gecko but move slowly, the extra HP isn't enough to make them threatening. What if they wor...

VargrVeum wrote:I know some people like the achievement system in games, but I don't know that it'd be suited to crawl

*whoooosh*

Would it be better or worse if fighters started in ring mail, rather than scale? Or is it too little a difference to matter anyways?

Here's how things are looking so far: Canines Wolves and war dogs can either be merged, or war dogs can be kept as a unique monster that shows up with Grum. Hounds and wolves (and possibly war dogs) could be given some kind of tracking bonus. Possibly this could work with blood -- I like the idea of...

I'm fierce on this topic each time it comes up, and every time I post about it on SA someone calls me an idiot or suggests I have to be some kind of crawl god to not use stashes. There is no reason to keep stuff in one place because running back and forth will increase turn count significantly; you ...

I think the game could profit from the addition of entry-level 2H weapons for a new background. The concern of course would be to balance those versus early 1H weapons -- for example, if a character started out with a scythe, I imagine they'd drop it for a spear in a heartbeat.

+1 for an EV penalty as much as I appreciate the thematics of KL's AC penalty -- it increases the gamble in a certain sense; characters will want to drop the enemy before they manage to get that one hit in. It does perhaps motivate characters to take up heavy armor more.

I noticed this -- it seems to be vaults. Recently, I have been finding rods at the end of that spiral sewer map, nearly 50% time it generates.

In fact I have been putting together a propsal for a god of parasitism, and the tick ideas here could dovetail nicely with the ideas I have on deck. (unfortunately my laptop just melted down, so besides the fact that I'm pursuing residency and looking for permanent housing in a new country, I have s...

This is basically the Dungeon Crawl version of "bring back the gold standard"

I think it is important to distinguish "fun" from "interesting" because they are both positives, but they don't necessarily overlap. Crawl is more about being interesting than fun, and you can certainly argue that permadeath isn't a necessary component of interesting -- but it is...

Done.

In general I'm not suggesting any removals -- it's been said before that cutting is much easier than re-working and improving, but not always better. In specific, though, I do think cutting war dogs is a good idea. I agree with the criticisms of my green rat/centipede ideas; it's particularly hard f...

minmay originally posted a thread about the overabundance of redundant monsters in Crawl. That thread ended up focusing on the question of "should we cut lots of monsters or not?" which I don't intend to be the point of this thread; this should be more of an idea farm. Please, let's not w...

I would respectfully disagree with a lot of what you've said. Complex equations can be used to support simple inputs with clear outputs, and the player doesn't need to know how to do each step; sports players are rarely professional mathematicians, despite the relevance of geometry to their given sp...

I was thinking about this some more, and I recall that there's interest in giving Snake something different in terms of layout/architecture like the other lair branches (e.g. webs which increase in frequency as you descend Spider, tidal waters which increase in prevalence as you descend Shoals, and ...

Original post has been corrected.

The purpose of this thread will be to discuss new weapon effects like reaching and cleave, partly for the sake of brainstorming and partly to keep the Cleave thread focused on balance/testing discussion. I want to draw everyone's attention to the more appropriate wiki page rather than the less appro...

I think it's good to have a take-away that is more than "someone else had a better idea than me," so please note Guppyfry's use of paragraphs and how he split related information into different sections.

This makes even bad ideas readable, and makes collaboration easier.

V-hooms will still be totally reliable, because the _one_ big feature is the spell cost discount/MP back on kills/range bonus.

dd suggested I let him know what tiles I plan to work on, so that we don't have too much overlap. This is just a good idea in general, and since many current tile contributors (w_n, dd) seem to hang out on the Tavern we may as well have a single collected thread where we list what we have planned. ...

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