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Doors also create tactics that are good, unlike door-dancing. It would be bad to remove door closing and lose these tactics.
Give doors a chance to break on use. Something like 10%. Yes the vault warden thing is still a problem.

I don't know if this would be fun to play due to the lack equipment choices. But it's not a bad idea. It's fairly simple and yet different enough from existing races. I'd give it Slow (all actions take 1.5x time) instead of slow movement though, and balance their bonuses accordingly. Also yeah getti...

Sure, in the same sense that choosing Minotaur allows you to play a blaster mage. :P I'm pretty sure the idea here is that the kitsune's aptitudes would actually support the chosen specialization, whereas a human's aptitudes merely don't provide a obstacle. (both meant in relation to other race cho...

I don't think gaining aptitudes from leveling is interesting. I don't think it affects skill training decisions at all. It only means gaining exp faster. Also the 1st biggest problem is real. I think it's quite a bit different. Its features include: ⋅ It allows a race to have specialized...

I don't think gaining aptitudes from leveling is interesting. I don't think it affects skill training decisions at all. It only means gaining exp faster.
Also the 1st biggest problem is real.

I wonder what's the average of the UC and Tmut apts of all race ideas posted on tavern.

I only used it significantly in one game. The way I used it was point-blank or short-range. I don't think that reducing the size of the explosions is necessarily a buff, could be a nerf depending on how it's used. From my limited experience I found that attempting to not get hit by the balls results...

Is the point of this change to make blowgun damage scale with throwing level, same as other ranged weapons?

Damage per mp and damage per turns spent casting.

I thought it would be a chance to knockback and not guaranteed. But regardless of chance to knockback, after knocking them back you would press . to wait and then evoke the knockback again. This makes it three keys per attack.

Because it's tedious to press two keys per attack (v enter) when you could be pressing one. Although reaching is worse than 2 keys because of targeting. Maybe if the knockback was a fighting stance that you could turn on and off that would be better, but I'm not going to judge what is acceptable and...

Turns out that there are different types of tiles in this game. Certain monsters shoot fire or lightning. In particular spriggan air elementalists who spawn in forest vaults. Eventually a player should see trees being lit on fire even if they don't try to do it intentionally. It can easily happen un...

Regarding the 2.0 version's last ability Reverse Destiny, I think you should keep either ultimate blink or wormhole or something else. It's not really a god of time and as mentioned in another recent thread the ability is too hard to program in crawl.

Wahaha wrote: Has anyone ever suggested making scrolls and potions permanently undroppable in some way? I think that might work well. Sure, remove the inventory restraints and make items undroppable, but first make sure that picking up an item has no consequences. That was implied (only for scrolls...

dynast wrote:What is gonna prevent you from just not picking them up?

Your desire to use consumables.

Has anyone ever suggested making scrolls and potions permanently undroppable in some way? I think that might work well.

by the way Rise up fellow item destruction supporters! We've been oppressed for too long. Now it is time to reclaim what we lost!

"In crawl, with the exception of a few areas, the trade of two points of AC for a pip of rF is debated in usefulness in crawl."
When the difference is between 0 and 1 rF, the usefulness is not debated. You use rF when fighting fire damaging monsters. It's the same in Sil.

I don't understand this. How are you summoning it to fight for you if it's melded with your hands?

CanOfWorms wrote:obviously, the giant caster race should have an ability that casts str to int

thanks

gammafunk wrote:Thanks for removing item destruction and player inventory weight!

Sar wrote:thanked gammafunk for the first part of the post (itemdest was a good feature)

Thank

Robust is one of the funner DS mutations in my opinion.

Scimitar is better if you're fighting something that 1. Does fire or ice damage, and maybe whatever rm+ protects against. and 2. Is not affected by pain. You can easily swap weapons when needed. Another case where the scimitar is most likely better is if you're fighting something that does fire or ...

Scimitar is better if you're fighting something that 1. Does fire or ice damage, and maybe whatever rm+ protects against. and 2. Is not affected by pain. You can easily swap weapons when needed. Another case where the scimitar is most likely better is if you're fighting something that does fire or i...

With all this talk of luring being overpowered in GDD I came up with some tentative ideas to make luring harder to do and hopefully more interesting. I know it's kind of weird but please keep an open mind. First of all, luring requires a fishing rod. All characters start with a wooden fishing rod in...

I don't think stairlock-esque strategies or changing all stairs to hatches will make Tomb much better. Having an entire branch with a high density of enemies who use nothing but smite+torment while hiding behind summons, with wide-open level design and special noise properties, is not a recipe for ...

Being able to track tiles you've stepped on is bad. But I completely disagree that shaft traps are not dangerous or boring. Considering that no one actually tracks tiles they've stepped on to a significant degree, but everyone does fall into shaft traps, I think it would be a clear loss to remove sh...

A monster doesn't need to be able to solo the player to be a good monster.

Nice, that's exactly what I wanted them to be reworked into. Unfortunately, incoming complaints about having to memorize which pools of water you have been next to.

I find that EV is consistent damage reduction and does not really have "swingy" damage taken. Basically same as AC aside from gdr.
Edit: this is not addressed to the OP, in part because I read the OP after posting

abyssrun wrote:b) only Abyss:1 has exits

?
Edit: If someone manages to escape abyss 4, why do they have to do 3, 2 and 1? Ok maybe 3 is still dangerous, why do they have to do 2 and 1? There is no reason to not have exits on all levels.

Is it slow movement or slow?

I would have to play this to form an opinion.

It's possible to abuse the flux thing with contam items/spells.

Too modern (even beyond modern, attempting a bad "futuristic" look). I like the old one more because it fits the game better.

Protip for tabbing+kiting with a centaur: put one finger on tab and one finger on the direction in which you want to kite and mash both, pressing the movement key slightly more often. My strat for Ce is to wear heavy armor and train heavy armor and forget about dodging and spells. Bows are more anno...

I would definitely not learn necro or earth spells with this character. Melee with vamp battleaxe + exec axe is very good. You need higher axes skill and better armor and dodging. Put stat points in dex from now on. Vamp and Makhleb are probably worth switching to from Elyvilon. I haven't experience...

Agree with daggaz, it's like playing a Formicid of Trog who can use a ring of teleportation. That's about it.

Formicid is basically no scrolls already.

It's unlikely that you have enough heal wounds to make entering the trove worth it.

Pollen_Golem wrote:That said, scroll of blinking is close to game-breaking, despite being a consumable.

The next step is realizing that 10 scrolls of teleportation is almost equivalent to 10 extra lives when playing correctly.

That reason is not related to their paralysis being smite targeted and not resisted by MR.

lazorexplosion wrote:A glaive tier weapon is easily strong enough for 15 runes, but even more important it's easily strong early and easily available.

Would you use your weapon enchantment scrolls on the glaive then? Or branding scrolls? A +7 bardiche is a lot better than a +1 glaive.

I always use a great mace.

Yes, it's great for reducing the amount of time spent resting, this makes the game more enjoyable and faster (in real time). It also lets me play "suboptimally" by tabbing large groups of monsters without needing to split them, rest, etc which again speeds up the game a lot. My last game w...

PBD is decent to good; I don't think it's better than other good DS muts. PBD is very useful in V:5 and Abyss but not that much in other places. In other places, if you're playing well, you walk away from situations where PBD might be useful. Pull and fight monsters 1 at a time, split packs with sta...

Lasty wrote:The anecdote above does more to convince me that Powered By Death is much too strong, about which I was already concerned. I'll nerf it when I get a chance.

It's too strong because it helps farm Abyss?

Some fighting for more hp.

^Amulet of piety.

In Slime the player often gets surrounded by enemies that are often strong in melee, in a cramped area. This is what stands out about the branch compared to other branches. I think this makes the branch pretty interesting. I can't possibly imagine what the people who think Slime is boring/bad like a...

Cave Story should definitely be there. Kind of insulting tbh.

^ Separate branches.
No
Yes
Don't know. Ideally not but I don't know how zigs are generated.

Uh, when people say "UC is bad" what they really mean is that "UC is bad in early game, which is also only relevant part of the game". At 15-ish UC is becomes pretty damn strong, and it only gets better. I find that it becomes better than weapons at around 10 UC (13 base damage)...

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