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Also - there's just been a tournament. You could go look at the tourney logs to see who did well and search them out.

Hamburger is still edible. Poisoned meat less so. Don't get your realism mixed up in my fantasy!

Without responding to the race proposal per se, the backstory needs some work; a unique individual does not work well as a race.

Mechanically, I'm wondering how a tactical piety counter would play out if you need to backtrack to an already cleared area, or spend some time in a monster-free zone (temple, etc.) Perhaps the piety should decay asymptotically, so that it decays very quickly at high piety but drops to a very slow d...

Note that Yred hates statue form, so he's likely to hate statues too. I think you may be confusing Yred w/Kiku, here, actually. There are a few different "golem eats non-food items for fun and profit" ideas floating around. I believe someone actually implemented some flavor of one or two o...

palin wrote:GDR is bad on shields. It would mean increasing GDR to spellcasters.

He didn't say GDR, he said "GDR-like". I believe he meant some like a minimum block chance for larger shields (similar to how GDR raises the lower bound on AC's damage reduction.)

I tried unloading it via Craigslist, but there there were too many scammers and just plain psychos that tried to rip me off. So instead I built this museum for it. I architected it myself, kind of like some weird giant body with the Orb at its heart, and various other wings leading off where the lun...

I'd go for a wand, hoping for heal/haste, or possibly staff (hoping for a decent rod - you'll get *some* rod as a berserker.)

Eww...

Something that might be nice is a LoS-increasing spell, as that would make training Hexes to a decent level a reasonable option for AM (right now, the only high-level hex that isn't for stabbers is useless to them). Having a hard time justifying this as a hex...maybe you make everything perfectly v...

Shields of reflection aren't bad. They're just worse than everything else.

varsovie wrote:We do NOT want more variety just for the sack of variety

This is the problem. The OP does.

And what about armors? If I remember correctly at low armor skills heavy armor causes you to miss. Should I stick to animal skin until I train some armor skills (say up to 10)? Plate armor's AC will help you more than the penalty will hurt you (so always choose it over the skin unless you're going ...

If you bring them into an open area, they tend to split.

You can try polymorph...but it's very risky.

They don't shout, so if you see one, try to lure it away and kill it before it joins up with others (e.g. throw a stone and back away.)

You've got the evolution mutation, so it might take care of itself. Also - acquirement for food is an option if you've got any scrolls left. Necromutation is a *long* way away from 0 transmutation + 1.2 necromancy. 6 rations won't cut it, especially when paired with fast metabolism. If you were goin...

You could also go with a kind of hybrid model, where mutations are temporary up to 3 (or whatever max tier is for that mutation) and become permanent if they exceed the max tier. For example: You get Slow Healing 3, get hit for another mutation that "lands on" Slow Healing. You're still at...

What's the delay for casting the spell vs. actually firing/throwing?

You should post the "arrow up for level annotation causes crash" in Mantis.

http://robsteen.blogspot.com/2011/12/weredwarf.html

Orc followers are different, because they are permanent followers. Mercs are durably summoned, and thus cannot pick up items. Personally, I think that mercs are rare enough that they can be permanent...but that's how it's currently implemented.

Don't carry around what you don't need; the game's find feature (CTRL+F) means you don't have to remember where you dropped them. Red Jellies eat scrolls and potions, but not all slimes do. This doesn't mean you shouldn't drop your not-currently-needed consumables - you'll lose more to random elemen...

All the ones in the Ecumenical Temple pantheon + Jivya + Lugonu are genderless. That's not to say that all potential deities are.

It's 'cos it's quiet as the grave, so everything else seems louder in comparison. Really.

Meh. You swine have hogged all the good puns.

Konebred wrote:So anything I kill with the caster staff will only give my guy half xp? That kind of sucks.

What? No, where are you reading that? Oh - KL's comment about "half credit" was in regards to additional damage, not XP. There's just a point of diminishing returns.

Actually, wasn't 12 staves skill based on the fact that elemental staves used to be based on quarterstaff weapon type? Now that they're "staff" instead (which no longer has a non-magical version) do you need the full 12 to get to min delay?

Styofoam + kerosene would actually be pretty close to Napalm B (which is polystyrene + benzene + some petroleum derivative). I doubt you'd want to voluntarily eat any sheep that had been immolated with it, though. The combination of residual chemical taste + severely charred organic material is hard...

I think it's a bug though that you got a Lair entrance mimic *after* you had already entered the Lair. You should report that (and upload the save file) to Mantis.

Interesting idea, and it would definitely differentiate elves better to have a feature/gimmick like this. I wouldn't call it "fear" though, maybe an "allergy" or "vulnerability" to iron. Points for consideration: ⋅ This would be a distinction between gloves/ga...

yogaFLAME wrote:Or you could make traps out of fruit

Yah, maybe it could be some kind of herbal-acid spitting trap...

Just wondering - not wearing amulet because?

If you're Zig diving, you might want to pour some of that XP into Fighting --> hitpoints...just a thought.

Mountain Dwarves have never been a player race.

...and this thread should really move to CYC.

JeffQyzt: It is not necessary to prevent all kinds of tedium -- in fact, that's impossible. What is important is to avoid tedium which actually yields gameplay benefits, or where players reasonably think it does. If someone wants to play a strange conduct game which then leads to bizarre actions, t...

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, because it typically moves the target you are trying to damage out of yo...

This is pretty far OT... ...but if for some reason we want to allow more chances at mutation roulette then it could be accomplished via 1) Increasing frequency of mutation potions (this would have a side effect of making them even more likely to be mistaken for curing potions in the early game, whic...

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I suck at this. I keep trying to make a Dragon but it comes out looking like a Hydra.

RE: ^ - actually, since this thread is to provide feedback on .11 trunk, and .11 is no longer trunk (and there's a corresponding .12 trunk thread) it should probably be locked...

Advice: 1) Don't go Chei :-P 2) Pick up some heavier armor - the scale that you start with is awful. Surely you've at least seen some chain or splint mail, if not plate, by level 8? 3) Using the auto-fight command (tab) will use evokable reaching for you without going through the evoke menu. Very he...

...couldn't train armor (don't know why, maybe because I don't have any gloves/helmet/etc.) Draconians can no longer train armor skill (and since you can't wear body armor, it would be extremely suboptimal to do so anyway.) On the plus side, you get free "armor" from your scales that exce...

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jejorda2 wrote:What if there were some enemy that could only be attacked from the diagonal, and never from directly vertical or horizontal? Hippogriff wings deflect could direct attacks.

Anti-gridbugs?

Ive seen references to this victory dancing before. Can someone tell me what exactly it is? Pretty soon, those of us who can remember it will be all nostalgic about it, even though we hated it at the time. Other "am I really that old" moments: ⋅ Re-watching a TV series, and obse...

You can already somewhat accomplish that via more complex vault scripting (and some have.) It's up to the vault authors to implement that though, and not everyone appreciates the break in flow that a message generates. Adding flavor text messages for *all* vaults, though, would clearly be over the t...

You don't think a club is a blunt weapon? At every pinata party I've seen, the whacking stick has much more in common with a staff than a club. what's fun are then parties where it involves a machete. (short sword) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFPWl40dAsI ...seems surprisingly ineffective. I gues...

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Hell yes sir!

I just noticed that the stable version of the download incremented to 11, for anyone who's not yet addicted to trunk :-)

However, I see that the development builds are also .11.x of various flavors (except the Android build, which has skipped ahead to .12.x)

Who do I believe?!?

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