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Early elf, early WizLab, with OpAs of Ash. Able to scry all the fine loot and stab the dangerous monsters, I was happiliy rubbing my tentactles together. Found a cursed robe of resistance. The uncursed robe "Jimigher" {rElec rC+ rN+}. _Found an uncursed chain mail. _Found an uncursed leath...

Paralysis is un-interruptible, much much much stronger than sleep. And needles allow no-magic characters to stab. Even unique Pandemonium Lords. So its good to have them in. The game would benefit from just keeping one of the debilitating types, though. Why not just have paralysis? Would be a buff, ...

Yes, pain branded QB. If you do that you want to have much higher defenses. Train a lot of dodging,to 20 at least! Dont worry about offense for a while, pain QB rocks that much.

>Dire flails, Battleaxes and Great Swords may be used 1H. Historically, crawl has moved AWAY from using weird arbitrary species/weapon dependent hard-to-intuit rules. See: removal of 1.5 handed weapons, recently allowing evening stars/double swords to be used 1-handed by spriggans etc. If you want t...

Also, high hexes enable invisibility. That lets you take down effortlessly 3 of the 4 S-Branches, Elf without the end but with hall of blades, all draconians in Zot.

Then you ALSO get silence basically thrown in for free.

Well I was excited for it! Dont let your caution get in the way of excessive removal :-)

Yeah, and lets give Desolation some form of desiccation over-time-damage! Doubled for octopodes and Jiyva people. And you can find special food in there: salted calamari.

In in 0.20, Corin intends to trim the core game, cutting Lair to 4 levels (from 6), Lair branches to 3 levels (from 4), and Depth and Vaults to 3-4 levels each (from 5).

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1) Faith is much better than spirit - just make sure you actually use trogs abilities generously. Faith means that many more weapons, Hand of Trog activations, Brothers in Arms etc. 2) _Any_ plate that has more +1 enchant. Preferably rF+, since Trogs hand (cf. 1) ) also gives Mr++. ctrl+f for plate&...

Wait what? "You reveal the great annihilating truth to your enemies" is about the best line in the game!

A monsters wears a glowing piece of armour and is hit with poison/curare needles. If the glowing armour gives rPois, you get [/b]NO[/b] message. The monster information does not update, and you actually have to read the message and know what it means that you dont get "X is slowed". Since ...

A point of feedback on high-EV/low AC chars, since a usable god(dess) for those seems to have been one of the design goals. Council is not working with octopodes, and I'd imagine with other high EV/low AC chars. If you need a shield, and many high EV/low AC chars do, current shield implementation pu...

That vamp axe is going to be better than eos at some point. If you are confident you can survive until then with a bunch of dead XP, switch. That said Eos is a rather strong weapon, and switch is unnecessary - its perfectly fine endgame weapon. And if you get the eveningstar up and running (>+5, goo...

That is true for all transformations, just as is was before for (old) repel/deflect missile. And all the other charms.

I have found the last ability "golden clouds" not to be communicated well at all. Song of slaying has the number of bonus in status field. Why not have that as well?

Wand warnings have been a thing for like 3 versions now?

Thats the whole reason I am proposing the net-warning change - it fits into the general direction the game is going, interfacewise.

Nowadays, the player is warned from almost every conveivable circumstance regarding debilitating monster abilities. Weapon brands and wands, spell books, spell chances, glowing armour, rings. There are two exceptions to that right now - potions and nets. I dont mind potions, you get a turn to react ...

0) In Trunk, food types already have been reduced to meat/bread/jellies/fruit. 1) Chunks are now auto-butchered by default. 2) Just stop picking up fruit/jellies by lair. 3) auto-butcher/ eat rations from there on. 4) for even further reducing, put rations on e. BAM your food juggling has been reduc...

Well thats more because strange creatures lying in ponds distributing bloodlessness is no basis for a system of government!

Spiny is the name of a demonspawn mutation - monsters get retaliation damage for melee attacks against the PC. Exactly two monsters have the same property; Porcupines and Hell sentinels. (apparently briar patches too). Spiny frogs dont. Now dont get me wrong, spiny frogs with property "spiny&qu...

Stealth is strong defensively because that first centaur/orc priest/cyclops/unique wont wake up after opening a door to them. Close door, exclude, and raid the rest of the dungeon. Of course stealth on +0 aptitude sucks, its only cheap enough over other defensive skills on +4/+5 aptitude.

I like it, too! Since the potions are so common its now optimal to quaff until you have mut set you like. Awesome.

Currently scarves seem to have a really odd (=bad) position. Unless I am draconian wouldnt I _always_ want +3AC over rc+? Even rMissile seems just barely better than 3AC.

Please do not introduce different mechanisms (monster/player) for the same race.

Its a robe. Its gives 6AC, and +4 to each attribute.

Joke aside, dont think DS mutation has been changed in the past few versions.

I play melee Ops because a) ranged is fucking annoying and b) because constriction makes melee actually acceptable for Op. Damage output is soo bad without constriction that I hate it.

Playing almost exclusively melee octopodes for a while now. Was always of the opinion that two-handed weapons just dont work - you take too much damage relying on dodging alone. Then I had a game http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/git/svalbard/morgue-svalbard-20170202-111704.txt where I got a very earl...

Ambrosia+Treeform are widely hailed as very successful redesigns. The only pure!bad potion left is degeneration (arguably mutation) - we need ideas to make degeneration have a good effect balanced by a bad one so that its actually a tactical decision to quaff it. Random idea: have !degeneration act ...

Also we are talking about Gozaq- literally the god of hardcore capitalism - NOT wanting to get money in exchange for potions? Thats a huge flavour fail.

We could call the unique "the Ducktator"? After all, if it quacks, swims, and looks like a ducktator - the probability of it being one is high.

Lets give Donald a twin! Features: - glyph/icon should be orange - could be squatting the orb chamber - Sprouts nonsense ala Donald/Crazy Yiuf - Randomly dismisses uniques and other monsters (use pacification code) - Whenever such a dismissal/pacification occurs, get a global message "Boris was...

We already have two species with "needs to press c/e a lot" - troll+ghoul. I'd play it once, but never again because having to eat AALL THE TIME is so freaking annoying.

So its said Octopodes, the greatest race of them all, have the highest number of slots. 8 rings+amulet+shield+hat+weapon comes out to 12. Weapon slot excluded we get 11x6 slaying=66. As weapon, by that point you probably want to use dagger of speed/quickblade, but for maximum slaying wield a fully u...

Removing the cloak works fine too. Thats more of a flavour thing anyway - it made a teensy bit of sense more when elvish cloaks gave stealth.

Would be a nerf, but As is a strong background anyway. If the stealth-flavour should be kept, give ring of stealth.

Assassin background: you get a +2 dagger, a blowgun, 8 poison needles, and a cloak. Octopodes cant wear a cloak, so they dont get one, missing out on +1AC. Compensate this by giving OpAs either: +1 hat (a rare item, maybe too valuable) or a ring of protection +1 (already equipped - probably has long...

Makhleb works also fine for SotG.

On a stealthy char (octopodes my favourites) you use the start stealth to good advantage. On anyone else, its not just blowgun, its especially the curare needles. Otherwise, yes, pick up the first weapon and go to town with that.

Call it "daystalker".

@Sar: Its only +1d10 damage, not 1d15. Much weaker /s

So we have a strong, onetime effect, with a built in exhaust-timer to prevent abuse- and get no penalties at all for equipping/unequipping it. Why?

Mostly relevant if one has the only other amulet that has no penalties for swapping, amulet of reflection. But then its a nobrainer.

Consistenly dip and dive down levels. Just cleared orc, dip elf, OOOPS wiz lab! Great fun! Helps to be stealthy, though. For extra fun, play something with mapsense (Fo, DD, Ash), and go hunt shops if they pop up in the map. Ash also works with troves. Also, play melee octopode, dont train any weapo...

Simulacrum pretty much can win you game by itself. You definitely want higher defenses than you have now, train a bunch of dodging. Would stop training spellcasting skills for a bit until you have 11-ish dodging and better fighting. Other spells to look out for reanimate dead to use with corpse drop...

Well robe of archmagi is a realllly good incentive to stay in robes. Otherwise, some light armour is mostly preferable.

Zapping wands does make noise, its not a lot, I cant find any numbers anywhere, but monsters in sight that have not noticed a stealthy char yet will invariably notice if zapping teleport/heal wounds/haste wands. This leads to strange and micromanagment-heavy behaviour: if your character is at all st...

- Level 3.8 Fighting + Level 10.2 Short Blades + Level 5.7 Throwing + Level 14.4 Dodging * Level 26.7 Stealth + Level 5.1 Shields + Level 0.8 Spellcasting * Level 4.4 Invocations + Level 3.0 Evocations Stop training EVERYTHING at once. If you have learned dazzling spray, there are likely to be some ...

Thanks to whoever is designing and patching in all the unrandart-vaults. Starting with vampire tooth, but also Olgreb, Ring of Robustness etc. I am immensely enjoying more opportunities to play with the artifacts.

Just wondering if everybody already knows that there is a way to play trap-free crawl? Its called worshipping Ashenzari. Soooo good.

Constriction damage is independent of using Unarmed Combat/sword/mace etc. Going UC with Chei is awesome because the +15 STR/DEX you get lets you have enourmous damage. However, in regard to your original question "where did this char go wrong" I'd say when you pressed p/> over the cheibri...

If you get like 20 or 30 thirty slaying? Yeah sure, that happens in less than 5% of games that go 15 runes. Not at all a viable strategy to plan around.

LB can work with SP, but SP are so horribly bad regarding HP/AC that you still dont want to be in melee range of anything scary. And melee/conj are hardly the only available routes, evo works splendidly well, necromancy is the most awesomest, tornado/shatter are possible to get up in a 3rune game, j...

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