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+1 merge positive energy and sustain abilities. I dunno about any of the other ideas, though. I almost never use rings of fire and ice because of the added vulnerability they give me. The only times I've ever gone for a ring of fire was when a) that was all the rF I'd found with a mummy, and b) when...

Yeah, I'd agree that yellow draconians kinda need a buff. The acid spit as it is currently is kinda useless; it hits only 1 target, does low damage, and comes with a *chance* of reducing the enemy's AC. Some sort of aptitude bonus would also be nice (since literally every other color gets an aptitud...

Wrath idea: Dsomething summons a shadow copy of you a la Zelda II. ("Your shadow rises to attack you!") We can probably make it similar to Mara's clones, though if we do, it should probably be less common than other results, just so people don't rage-quit as often. Stuff like getting Coron...

I'd be okay with this. I tend to avoid HO of Beogh because trying to micromanage your band of mooks gets kinda annoying after a while, especially once you've gone through the Orcish Mines and recruited every common orc and his mother to your cause. "No, I don't want to take umpteen bazillion me...

Nice to see people are still thinking about this one. Here's some more thoughts of my own: Since Sea Nymphs get a regen boost while in water, should they heal slower away from water? Seems like a lot of people think slow movement steps on Cheibriados's toes, though you don't become hideously slow li...

Wait, there was a centaur warrior on D:2? That seems overly deadly, even for Crawl.

I think Djinn not being able to use Wucad Mu is more because one of the possible side-effects is losing a huge chunk of MP. They could conceivably poof themselves out of existence by screwing up a channeling attempt.

Twilight Phoenix's idea sounds interesting.

Would you be able to set off your own magic traps? That could be an amusing way to go.

I'd be okay with this.

I like the idea of devour working on demons/undead being based on your level (your stomach gets stronger as you do, allowing you to eat stuff you couldn't before). I'm not sure on the level progression, though; level 21 seems a little high for when you can start eating demons/undead. Yeah, that's pr...

Yeah, teleport traps are cool. I ran into a player ghost and lured him into a teleport trap. No more ghost problems for most of the rest of the level.

I figured bend space works because Lugonu is the god of the Abyss, where translocations/stasis just kinda fizzle. It's a divine ability given by the god of "not even stasis can protect you now!".

I'd say it makes sense to give Fjoads at least saprovore 1; I mean, they're going around eating things live without even taking their various metal bits off them first. I had kinda wondered what would happen if you ate something concious; after all, that orc probably isn't going to just let you eat ...

What happens to equipment when you eat stuff? Do you hork it back up as part of the process?

Well, looks like I finally have a reason to use Passage of Golubria.

Yeah, Trog would suck, considering you can't berserk, but I guess you could still use Hand of Trog or Brothers in Arms. How are Okawaru and Nemelex worse for Formicids, though? They've got +2 evocations for Nemelex, and Okawaru helps them do shield+2-hander (though I guess losing Finesse is kinda bi...

I'm okay with hybrid-sized Fjoads, but I'm still not sure they should be able to eat things as big as themselves; sure, you're hybrid-sized, but so are nagas/centaurs. We're doing the devour ability as a ranged tongue-snatch, right? What sort of range are we talking about? Also, should there be fact...

I've been running FoVMs, and they've been pretty fun. I've died a bunch, but that's mostly me just not playing as well as I could have. Getting Cure Poison right from the start really helps with random adders/blowgun kobolds/etc., plus Venom Mages are just kinda fun to play. You have a hard time wit...

Generally, I've found that if my inventory's full, I'm probably carrying stuff I don't need to be carrying, which is when I head back to my stash or make a new one nearby.

Being able to use more stuff off the floor would be nice, though.

Finally, an ice-based species! (To all of you who say Merfolk are the ice-based species: they're really not. They're more Tmut-based with a decent apt for ice. Deep elves have just as much ice magic as merfolk, and nobody says they're the ice species.) I like the idea of just up and eating your foes...

Wild Magic 3? On a starting spellcaster? Have fun trying to kill anything with Magic Dart at 38% failure rate. I'd basically ignore magic completely for the first several floors of the dungeon. I'm actually not sure why people are so enthused with Wild Magic; sure, I guess it helps you burninate stu...

I like these ideas! Having stuff like this in Dungeon Crawl would be fun (though the game's already plenty fun without them). I really like that idea with the shopkeeper's key being an unrandart amulet that you can just yoink for yourself, if you so desire; it fits in with other, similar events wher...

I like that no-level cap idea that was being tossed around earlier. I also think giving Demigods small amounts of the "lesser" resistances (SustAb, rN+, boosted MR growth, things of that nature) could tie in effectively with their "divine stamina" idea without completely breaking...

Vestibule of Heaven, guarded by Mennas.

Yeah, Wild Magic is a major nerf in the early game, when you're still working on getting your spells castable. I had a demigod who got wild magic early on from a mutation potion where basically I just focused more on melee until I finally got enough skill to be able to use Stone Arrow again. I don't...

I imagine all the "Aaargh chopping up corpses is so tedious" people are going to be thrilled with this idea.

You regain saturation naturally and very quickly if you rest while rooted, setting yourself to "Full." Gourmand has no effect. You do not use perma-food or chunks. Otherwise hunger is normal. You do not gain saturation if you are taking actions while rooted. Now *THAT* is a cool idea! A r...

Isn't there supposed to be an option somewhere that makes 's' wait until something happens? (e.g. a monster moves .7 aut after you hit 's', it stops waiting instantly there)

Technically, this would be an ego, not a brand... Pedantery aside, I could see a spiked shield or body armor work like the Spiny mutation. If people think it's too powerful for random stuff you find on the ground, just make a fixedart (though I've never really noticed my demonspawn's spines doing mu...

I'd consider using Bullseye if it was a buckler, especially if I was playing a character who didn't want to devote much to Shields.

Bardiche is probably too strong. I know that if I was planning a polearm character and saw him early, I'd definitely let him level up to his final form just for a guaranteed bardiche by lair. Many games won't even have a bardiche, so a guaranteed one by lair is OP. A glaive would be a better choice...

Don't gods excommunicate you when you hit 0 piety? You'd essentially be starting under penance.

I like the idea of scrolls/potions being risky to use when you've taken lots of fire/cold damage (though I haven't actually tried the destruction test branch yet, so I might feel differently after experiencing the effect myself). One idea I had was, instead of (or perhaps in addition to a reduced ch...

Still not entirely sure what's so wrong with the current backgrounds that makes people want a customizable background, but whatever. I'll still give this proposal my two cents. Wouldn't starting with no skills at all make it really hard to survive the early dungeon? I mean, yeah, you might be able t...

Don't mummies with 0 intelligence get a message saying they forget to exist or something? I vaguely remember reading something to that effect on TVtropes...

You could try to put out sticky flame by splashing your potions on yourself, but make it so it's a fairly low chance of it working (potion bottles aren't very big, you know). Then the choice becomes "Do I just hope not too many of my scrolls catch fire, or do I use half my potions trying to put...

If we did want a more balanced unrandart Butterfly Regalia cloak slot item (I DO like the name suggestion there), I could see +2, +Fly, and rWind (!!!) being an interesting combo. It's a unique resistance you don't see anywhere else, but it's not a useful enough one to be game-breaking : P I think ...

So, does anybody else think Fedhas' Sunlight ability should harm enemy vampires? Player vampires already take increased damage from Sunray (that one spriggan druid spell). It probably wouldn't come up often, and if it ends up being too tedious to code, then that's okay. I just thought it would make ...

If you worship Beogh, he turns off your aura so you're not constantly setting your disciples on fire. There is no other way to disable a Lava Orc's fire aura; non-Beoghites just have to be careful not to stand right next to their allies (or just get allies that are immune to fire, like fire elementa...

So, I guess the idea is that Unarmed Combat specialists will be the ones who will benefit the most from the various form changes? A lot of them are kinda UC-based, though I guess other followers will still get to use their weapons in the mer-forms. Selective Stasis (when entering a teleport trap, yo...

What I usually do is inscribe a junk item (like a single arrow or something) with a unique tag like "supplies", then drop that wherever I happen to make my stash (which is usually Lair:2). If I have to make a ministash, I usually find another junk item to inscribe with the word "drops...

The spawning fog as a defense against dangerous clouds could work. Alternatively, you could have the breath attack blow clouds around. Death drake spews miasma at you? Blow it straight back! (Of course, death drakes are immune to miasma, but the stuff standing around behind it might not be.) I could...

I'm liking what we've got going here. That draining effect sounds like it could be annoying in areas without much water, but I guess you'll be making quite a lot of your own water as you go. I have to say, I like the idea of summoning a kraken better than turning into one. As fun as it would be to t...

So, I guess the general consensus is leaning towards making this smite-targeted? I'd advocate not making this a Conjurations spell; you're not really conjuring anything into existence, you're warping space. I'd also prefer to avoid the caster having immunity to the spell's effects; it seems more the...

Am I the only person who's never really had a problem with having to eat chunks? I think it adds an interesting bit of tension to the game at times; yes, I need to heal, but I also need to eat something *right now*. I guess chunks might get more tedious when you're keeping well-fed, but I never real...

I like the idea of the water god's wrath involving asphyxiation damage/breathlessness. "You feel your lungs fill with water!" I also like the idea of a water god giving you the ability to turn into water (which I'm assuming is what JARG's fluid form idea was going for). It could give you s...

I'm not sure about giving things +/- 9 to their stats... A deep elf with dwarfism 3 would really take it in the shorts. Would those with gigantism be able to use giant weapons? It'd be fun to have something wielding a giant spiked club that didn't have defenses that were crap (though I guess the For...

What if instead of a merfolk, certain species turned into different things? For instance, maybe a felid could be a catfish (like half cat half fish, but obviously in homage to the actual catfish). It would fit thematically (turning into an aquatic version of what you are) and it would allow continu...

One thing that could be done to lightly prevent them from abusing these sudden new equipment slots would be to NEVER give them access to weapon or armour skills; any skill that was N/A from the start could be treated as zero. Even with opposable thumbs, cat brains just don't grok how clothing and c...

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