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What about a GDR-like effect, where high acc doesn't increase max damage but just makes it less likely to hit at the low end of the damage range the weapon has already achieved through base type, enchantment, skill, etc.? Like GDR, it would reduce swinginess. This makes sense to me because increasi...

Question: can enemies with Simulacrum (which is mainly necromancers, IIRC) still levitate corpses over to themselves to make a simulacrum, or do they have to walk over it first?

It would have been nice to be able to just wait until an enemy took a step toward you, and have fine control over turns like that. I tried to implement this at one point. The basic concept worked well, but the way it was implemented it caused a major performance hit; a better implementation is grea...

DracheReborn wrote:Getting your weapon replaced by a -5 club seems very Xom-ish. I don't think this god should do that. In any case, you'd just use piety to make it go away.

Yeah, why would the god of weapon collecting have absolute crap in his collection?

I don't remember it being any other way, and I've been playing since 0.10.

I just avoid putting my permafood in the slots I use often like y or z. That works fine for me.

How did you eat rations in the old system if "eat mode" only worked when you were holding a chunk?

Okay, but where would they show up other than the Volcano and fire vaults? I dunno if it's worth introducing a new kind of enemy that will only show up in a few, rare areas.

I keep track of my top 100 runs in an Excel spreadsheet; I generally keep using the same name for characters until it ranks in the top 50, which cuts down somewhat on having to find a new name. I've also used roman numerals after names sometimes (currently on Zelda XII the HECj, for example). But ye...

Mmm, I think Inner Flame works okay as an Arcane Marksman spell, since it's a thing you don't want to be standing next to when it goes off. But yeah, I kinda wish Portal Projectile was in the Arcane Marksman book; I was kinda surprised to find out it wasn't in the book when I was just starting out. ...

Since Plutonians don't mutate, should they be able to cast self-transforming spells at all? The undead races can't cast those spells (well, vampires can, but only when they're in their "not-quite-undead" mode).

I don't think it's a big deal for hooves to push off your boots instead of melding them. It sounds like the only time you'll de-mutate is after you've killed most of the things that made you beast up in the first place, so there'd be time to put your boots back on once your feet go back to normal. ....

She could grant piety for training Spellcasting, which would work in a pinch. We could also do something like the old Ashenzari vaults: put a randart spellbook with a single low-level spell next to the altar.

Hmm, this is a neat take on the whole 'werewolf species' idea. Instead of a full-blown form change, you just mutate a lot when you get into trouble, meaning you aren't locked into a particular style of combat (since your equipment mostly stays the same, though suddenly growing horns or talons could ...

Makes sense to me. Might make for more fiddly bits to pay attention to, but I'm sure the Tab-happy people out there won't be paying attention anyways.

WalrusMcFishSr wrote:Should get a bonus when using Plutonium Sword

Wouldn't outside sources of contamination boost their regen rate, too? So, in a sense, they 'do' get a bonus when using the Plutonium Sword (and any other radioactive artifact): they can take it off to heal faster.

I'd be okay with this sort of thing. I presume your natural regeneration continues to function while you're still taking gradual damage? Having this as a god ability (perhaps applied to equipgod, perhaps somebody else) seems like the best way to go, though maybe having it commonly available through ...

I could formalize these ideas into code if there's interest, but unfortunately I'm bad as a sprite artist. Hey, don't worry about that. If push comes to shove, you can just make a placeholder sprite that looks kinda like a reskinned unseen horror or something. We've used crappy placeholder sprites ...

Calling them Heirophants works for me. I'd considered it as a name suggestion, but I hadn't bothered to look up what it actually meant. An alternative to a trample mechanic might be a push-through maneuver: you bash an enemy for some damage, and move to the other side of them. (But if there's no spa...

"Pachmen are an exotic, sentient species of elephantine humanoids that hail from the frozen lands of the far North" is probably sufficient flavor to justify a +2 Ice, -1 Fire and the only ice spell they don't go well with is Ensorcelled Hibernation. Ice Elementalist start plus the other s...

Still, there is something to be said for having a wand that can deal heavy damage and is resisted by MR instead of AC/EV/elemental resists. Even if we took out disintegrating statue enemies, I'd still carry a wand of disintegration for fighting things like boggarts or Sonja. Disintegration also work...

Name suggestion: Galadon (no real connection to elephants besides the tenuous "-don" part; I just think it sounds kinda cool) trampling monsters off staircases doesn't have an effect. You can shove things off of staircases you were planning to climb. Trampling stuff doesn't seem all that i...

Makes sense to me. The edges of Shoals and certain lava-y areas already have their own separate terrain to mark the boundaries (open sea and endless lava), and if you can't dig through it anyways...

As far as the name goes, how about just "The Hollow" or "The Hunger"? Using a word emphasizes the difference from other gods (in that powers come from essence rather than piety), as well as making it really obvious what he wants you to go do. T is already taken, though H is stil...

This discussion is kinda reminding me of the Fjoad species proposal somebody came up with a while back: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9782&hilit=fjoad.

I'm not sure allowing them GC/GSC/large rocks would instantly skew them towards using those weapons. Formicids can use large rocks (and used to be able to use GC/GSC), and I don't recall that being a huge deal. Sure, you can *use* large-sized items, but we can make those aptitudes low enough to make...

I don't even use Spider Form all that much outside of the first gnoll/orc packs This is unwise. Spider Form is very good for a long time thanks to its combination of Venom branded UC and increased movement speed. You can kite any speed 10 or less melee dude to death easily (goliath/boulder beetles,...

Bwoooooo, zombie thread! I'd be up for a flying, electric Transmutation. I've often felt that the game kinda discourages learning both Air Magic and Transmutations, since there's no overlap between the two schools, and there's a bunch of overlap between Earth Magic and Tmut (Stoneskin, Petrify, Stat...

Yeah, player ghosts could stand to have the transparency turned down a notch. I think it's cool they use the same tileset as the player, though. Red box around all enemies. We will never get a complaint about this again. True... but then we'll start getting complaints about the red boxes around ever...

Sounds like the EP conversion would hurt more for frail races than robust ones, though at least you get a boost to your max EP depending on your piety, so maybe that would help out the deep elves and felids and whatnot.

Also, I suggest "Admiral" for the max-piety title.

From what I've seen, it's not exactly taboo, but people generally prefer simpler species concepts.

morbid weapon (an enemy weapon hitting you has a chance to become free (spectral weapon) and attacks its owner; once the owner is dead, the weapon drops to the ground) Tiny thing here: wouldn't it make more sense if this was a dancing weapon, not a spectral one? Not if we wanted to let the monster ...

I think willingly entering an Abyss portal from the Depths should put you on Abyss:1 (or maybe 2). If you planned to enter the abyss, you've already decided you're going to be spending a lot of time there, so it's not as much of a big deal if it takes you a while to work your way down to the level y...

Yeah, I can see melee-only characters having problems with this guy. Then again, all you'd have to do is set off one of his zombie friends and then book it, as they'd probably chain reaction off of each other. Plus, it's not like every unique needs to be easy to beat with every possible character. I...

...banishment should send different characters to different Abyss levels. You could model this on character XL, or also the banishing source's depth. Doing something like this could allow Banishment strength to be based on monster strength (and not just the severity of the MR check). Deep elven dem...

Are wandering mushrooms supposed to be able to switch places with toadstools? I've noticed that happening a bunch in my latest Fedhasite runs, and I hadn't remembered that happening before.

We could put in mummified felids. That'd fit in nicely with the whole theme.

We could base eligible Recite targets off of intelligence, then, i.e. Recite only affects stuff of normal intelligence or better.

Although... that would mess up Recite's effects on the undead, since a lot of them have low intelligence... Hmmm.

I've only seen Boris twice in one game before (though I generally die before I get to where he spawns, so maybe that's a factor).

Were they just resisting the recitation effects? I think the only book that could affect them is the book of Apostates, which does fairly minor stuff to non-priest enemies (confuse, daze, sleep, etc.), and it's possible that nothing happened to them when you used Recite.

tasonir wrote:The only question I have here is why ghost moths are apparently the size of ogres.

Because Invisible Psychic Mothra should be at least fairly large? *shrug*

A goblin, 12 orcs, and an ogre walk into a dungeon...

I'd tend to lean towards allowing thorns to persist while transformed -- partly because divine abilities often overcome otherwise immutable effects (like Lugonu's Bend Space and stasis) and partly because I like transmuters. Of course, if having those abilities while in bat form or dragon form or so...

Question: how would this god interact with Transmutations?

Another wrath idea: he could temporarily meld one of your armor slots.

Would the thorn armor give you GDR?

Probably. I play transmuters a bunch, and I'm pretty sure you've never been able to enchant things that are melded into your body.

Brambles grow over time on the armour [...] increasing the encumbrance rating of the armour. It'd kinda suck to be a mage worshipping this guy, then. Granted, I guess the whole spines thing means he's probably better suited for melee characters, anyways. The ability to do a demi-Tree Form sounds fu...

Or there could just be a cap on the number of flayed ghosts you have, a la Summons.

(note that bleeding does nothing). Bleeding saps a percentage of the monster's HP each turn. While it doesn't kill things like poison does, it can still add up to a fair bit of damage -- yellow draconians can bring a hill giant to like 1/3rd health with a couple hits of their acid breath (and only ...

That works better, though I'm still not sure about flinging in two new mechanics at once (i.e. the shield bash and flayed ghosts, though they work together thematically, at least -- by that, I mean the whole torture flavor). Also, I think this would work better as at least a shield, rather than a bu...

swordchucks Yes. We could, at the very least, add them as an unrandart. You could say staves also have the "no brainer" of never caring about shields, but in reality that's just part of what defines the whole weapon type. I'll use a shield if I plan to use an enhancer staff. My one DgEE g...

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