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Oh, I didn't realize that miscasts were coding monstrosities. I wasn't trying to lay a heavy load on your back or anything.

FYI: If you'd told me that reason first, I (most likely) would have shut up sooner.

I think unarmed effects are slated to go in when weapons get abilities.

I don't think describing spell failure instead of success would change anything. Also, most spell failure are harmless, so it wouldn't describe the risk of a bad miscast effect. And even if you're never going to want cast anything below 50%, it's still useful to have some detail to know how much yo...

I like explicitly naming the casting success scale in terms of miscast chance. While 'chance of miscast' isn't exactly immersive use of language, it has the huge benefit of being clear and objective about the 'casting success' while still allowing the player to decide if a 'large' miscast chance is ...

I would call them rules, and then explicitly state that 'they're more like guidelines, anyway'. New rules 5 and 6 are good, I think, though I agree with minmay about the good/bad examples. I would probably add another rule: Rule N. Respect the other people on here. Even if they make a remarkably bas...

Could we split this thread into "Crusader Berserk replacement spell" (see options at top, possibly new spells) and "Frenzy Spell"?

Do monsters even have LOS? I feel like they don't, because stuff like Lantern of Shadows and Nightstalker works. Monsters only can see you if they are in your LOS.

Does anyone know if Slaying or Might affects DS-spikes? It seemed like it was, but I'm no code-reader, so I don't know for sure. Henzell didn't appear to know, either.

I just read this sticky at the Wesnoth forum, and thought it was really helpful, (I will post different titles now than I would have before). I realize that it probably doesn't have much relevance to YASD or Crazy Yuif, but it seems pretty. applicable to Game Design. If it is helpful to you, I'm glad.

Ice/Poison/Tmut L5 - Octopus ⋅ Slow movement out of water ⋅ Innate Stealth like halfing or spriggan ⋅ Ability-Invisibility ⋅ Ability-Ink Cloud (water only) ⋅ Poison attack ⋅ Spell duration increased if in water? ⋅ normal HP?

Mimic seems like it might go nicely with the Tmut stalker, but it also might encourage tedious play (Mimic, mash 5 until monster is gone| Mimic, '5' until monster is close, stab). How about some more forms? Currently, Fire, Ice, Earth, Poison, and Necro all have forms. What about Air and Translocati...

@minmay: The thing about the bars would be that distinguishing them would be difficult visually (do you really want to count hashes?). Range (you can see that easily) or Power (obscure anyways, but generally more is better) is somewhat less important than Miscast Chance. The reason the devs don't gi...

Right now, everyone who has played casters for a while knows that Great = Not Great in terms of casting success, and has complained about it, even if only muttering under their breath. I think that there are currently too many descriptions of the "uncastable" end of the spectrum (Terrible ...

Agreed. I don't like this proposal. This proposal would turn priests into mini-Tormentors on D:4 that potentially spawn in groups, and rarely without orc wizards (ranged attacks) nearby. Also, unless Smite is changed universally to hit for 15% HP, they will need to be special-cased. If Smite univers...

Just noticed that editing is open! Thank you danr and mageykun!

Testing editing. Where is the "reason-for-editing doohickey?"

A targeted Hex/Charm Berserk would be awesome, especially in conjunction with Enslave or Confuse, and even more especially when MR moves from a binary Success/Fail to a gradient. Summon Hydra would be massively powerful with such a spell, considering that each attack would be Might/Hasted. Of course...

I'm going ahead with the 'submerged tail' version of the shark. If this won't work let me know. Again, critiques are welcome.

Here is the edited version of the first, with thanks to co. (I kept the legs more or less the same) Submitting again to mantis.

Thanks for the demo, that's really helpful. Shading to the back of the legs, and between the head and abdomen, cleaner contrastier colors. You're not stepping on my toes at all. However, I will probably make the forelegs thicker again (Jumpers, on average, tend to have thick, fuzzy forelegs) and add...

The whole 'Trog isn't really evil' thing baffles me.

mageykun is probably referring to Troglodytes, not those with the spell or amulet, especially since mageykun started the SpBe.

In another recent post , it was suggested that the spell be removed, which I fully support. It seems a little out of flavor that the magical fighter can go berserk, which precludes all casting. In terms of a replacement spell for War Chants, I would have liked to suggest Sure Blade, except that it o...

I see that the shark is flat, but how would you shade the jumper? Posteriorally darker? Ventrally darker? Darker between the legs? If you have time, could you show me?

dpeg, would you say that I need to redraw the shark to include the lower half of the tail?

I just made 2 tiles today for the first time (woot!), but I would like feedback on them, if you don't mind. The reason for asking here is that a lot more people seem to read or reply to forum stuff than mantis stuff. That said, 'Contributions' gets a fairly low number of views/replies, which brings ...

Reading a spell description of a spell you know already will give you an option to forget it. Forgetting spells this way destroys the book. However, as a Munite, you have Selective Amnesia and will never need to use book-forget. Seems a little silly as a conduct, but it's ok for flavour, I guess.

See this topic and the links provided therein. Multizap is the strategy you are expected to use as a air elementalist.

I like unbranded myself. Having a weapon that can flame, freeze, or distort when need be is pretty useful, even if it takes 9 spell slots.

no prob.

I thought that we were going to increase racial HP and reduce HP gained from fighting so that the squishies don't have to train fighting to avoid one-shots. Will linearizing HP growth increase it enough?

P.S. I'm still hoping for Koboldlord's 7-tier HP intrinsic for racial HP.

antimagic A weapon brand added in 0.8 trunk. Dealing damage with it sometimes makes monsters lose a turn when they try to cast spells. Wielding it reduces max mp by around 2/3, getting hit by it depletes mp. Works on everything that has spells, including demons, orbs of fire, electric golems, etc. ...

I like the bee mini-vaults that show up every so often in the dungeon or the lair, and would prefer to have these exclusively instead of the Hive. When I have encountered them, it's generally been an oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit moment, unless I had Meph or Evap. Perhaps Bees should Berserk and gain rPoi...

If you have good ideas for plants, see New Plant Monsters. But yeah, I would like to see some more plants for Fedhas eventually, though I think other gods have more pressing problems.

You're right, there was another condition that I didn't state (but I was thinking it, not that that counts for much): your armour slots must be completely pondered. Those with 5 slots and 4 Pondies shouldn't get a boost. Those with only 3 slots and 3 Pondies should.

Grey draconians are now stealthy, stabby, and amphibious. See https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=2705

Edit: Oh, and draconians get 12 AC by XL 27.

But gods add significant flavour and gameplay changes, and while a religious character may indeed be better (more likely to win) than a non-religious character, that isn't the only appeal of being religious: it's usually not a simple 'advantage/disadvantage' thing. I think it's fair to say that taki...

Was the spell power-potion type correlation removed just because of the rotting corpses hassle? Could this be re-implemented without the rotting mechanic? It seems like it could certainly fix the 80 potions of mutation you can get by the end, particularly if the power ceiling was relatively high and...

...when I found the Three Bears mini-vault with the bowls of porridge.

When a trove asks for a special item, like the Horn of Geryon or a Rune, it is asking for you to show the item, not give up the item. Normal unrandarts can be sacrificed to the trove, but not game-advancement items.

Fulsome Distillation is THE spell for you, since potions weight the decks toward Wonders, especially once you are fighting Ugly Things. Potions of mutations cost much more than 1 g (9-10 potions of mutations will glow in weird colors when sacrificed) so you can actually get some piety from it, too. ...

FWIW, I agree that piety for Ash and Chei is too slow at low levels, and too fast at high. However, that could just be that I tend to play conservatively, and don't use abilities enough...

I think that for the average joe bow-shooter, the crossbow was more powerful and easier to use. However, I've come across the anecdote several times that a skilled (and very strong) longbowman could put an arrow through an old oak tree.

Stormfox wrote:Just watch out for that deadliest of uniques, Teh Stoopid. (Who, like Boris, has the ability to come back multiple times in the same game to try to kill you.)

This is golden. (Also,Teh Stoopid also has a chance to appear on EVERY floor of the game.)

New Thought: Chei will offer to further ponderify armour (Ponderous++) when armour slots are full, ponderousness is less than max, piety = X, and # turns ponderous = Y. Y should be a very long time, like L:1 - V:8 or so, but higher ponderousness should reduce the turn count. For example, using arbit...

+1 for targeting autopickup items.

Most subsections are also alphaindexed, though . . . Hmm, Vinterman knows, or whoever it is that posted vinterman's food reform. Should I just leave a little orphan page as it is, and wait for someone to fix it/add it to the alphaidex? This is kinda OT from the discussion, but knowing how to post st...

I have wondered about this for a while, especially with the Alphaindex. Still confused. So you go to the blue bar at the top and bottom of the wiki, and hit 'edit', which brings you to something with this : ======brainstorm: Discussion and Feedback about Features ====== This namespace contains broad...

Richard Stallman. See also XKCD. Stallman is featured in parts 4 and 5, but it makes a bit more sense if you begin at the beginning.

I like it. You'll need to reduce the generation of detect curse scrolls, though. However, does this overlap overmuch with Ash?

Uh, yeah, Interface and Software is the right section for this. In fact, this very thing is being discussed.

Glad to meet you, though.

Interface forum?

I thought about Ice/Earth, but I figured that since it was a high-level spell, it shouldn't try to tie together schools that don't currently, even if it fits thematically. (Glacier is a much better name, too) I do like the idea of the walls (Earth?) weakening the Ice. I had been wondering about how ...

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