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Everywhere I go, the gay transgender dinosaur agenda is rearing its head.

Both drain and venom are very effective against the vast majority of enemies in a 3 rune game. With that being said, i'd probably wait until i had two brand scrolls to rebrand it if at all possible. Otherwise i'd probably consider doing it before Zot or extended.

The Frederick + Servitor double iron shot killed me once (OK, technically it was a merfolk javelineer, but it couldn't have killed me without the double iron shot first). I treat him much more carefully now. I feel like he fits in well with the other Depths uniques though. He's probably stronger tha...

Related: new shrike tiles look better, but now they look like pokemon.

Old caustic shrike in particular used to look like an angry metal bird.

My biggest issue with dismissal is that it encourages amulet swapping, while I swear the original justification for amulet overhaul was to discourage amulet swapping.

I started a job at a factory a couple days ago, and this morning I had a dream that Blork was looking over my shoulder trying to write me up for a safety violation. So now I will think of him as "Blork the Safety Orc".

I just wanted to say that the problem outland in this thread makes sense in theory, as in you don't want to have monsters so "potentially" dangerous that they force the player to over extend to be safe. That is no fun, I think it's very fun, actually. It's cool to put the player in a situ...

duvessa wrote:what is "acquirement pool" even supposed to mean

If you just insert "penis" for every instance of "acquirement pool" it's funnier and makes at least as much sense probably.

So I just slashed my index finger open while cutting onions and i need to stop the bleeding before i mix up some meatloaf. When my finger stops dripping blood everywhere, I will eventually have meatloaf. When you guys finish bitching about Crawl I will have still played Crawl, Sil, DoomRL, Caves of ...

I think Oka is still a reasonably powerful god, but nowhere near the top of power lists. That's interesting. Which gods would you rate better? I'm really curious. In the early game: Fedhas, Trog, Lugonu, Makhleb, Yred, sometimes Ely and Kiku. Overall: all of the above plus Dith, Ru, Zin, Jiyva. Nem...

I think it was that it both gave the player access to an unlimited supply of fog and meph clouds, and also that it encouraged a very tedious playstyle.

Making curses make items worse (i.e. changing rF+ to rF-) does nothing except punish players even more for wearing un-identified equipment without remove curse. If you want "interesting" cursed equipment just replace curses with the fragile property and make cursed equipment slightly bett...

orb of destruction isn't either. Am I the only one who finds OOD's targeting drawbacks pretty substantial? Maybe I've been using it wrong (seriously, maybe there are good ways around this?), but the whole "likes to hit corridor walls" thing seems to balance the "can't be evaded"...

There's no reason this should be an explicit command or take up an inventory slot. You can already autotravel to the nearest spellbook containing any spell you have discovered that you search for, which is safe wherever you left it for whenever you need it. If the character gets a global memorize l...

dowan wrote:You cannot currently train necromancy if you find a pain dagger on D1 until you find a necro book. Even with the current 'you must have an item of that type' restriction, you should definitely be able to train necromancy if you have a pain item!

This is actually one of the most annoying cases imo.

Never use a pip or number when you can use a word. ;) We should replace text descriptions with videos of someone describing/explaining things. I think we should just return to the idyllic days of explaining everything in terms of chokos! "It is 3 choko fire resistant." (I know this was ne...

But you don't even see orc high priests until either the orcish mines, or depths, right? Maybe I just haven't seen the high end of sixfirhie randomness, I know I've been a little surprised by them from time to time, but I've never found them particularly dangerous. Where did you get killed by one? ...

I was sure someone was going to bring up distillation/evaporate here, but I guess that's up to me.

The room with bugs, snakes, mushrooms and webs that has a guaranteed "good weapon" in it and often spawns in early dungeon. Great source of executioner axes, eveningstars, I've gotten the singing sword from it once too. Edit: Just got it, woop woop. Had a plain eveningstar. I never bother...

How did you find out that it instantly killed you if it touched you?

Also, you have a vending machine in your apartment?

cerealjynx wrote:How about the fact that } lists Orbs of Power. Plural. I like to think the Disco Pan Ball is just as powerful as the Orb of Zot.

Apparently some of Linley's old code references other orbs besides Zot, there was just never anything done with any of them.

To be fair, that is probably the best possible description of ol' Wiggles.

Yeah, I think you're right. Let Oka be the god fro book starts that want help branching into melee, Kiku be the god for help branching into spells, and Trog/Sif be the gods that pretty much need a certain kind of start to be useful. Just going to point out that Trog is perfectly good with a book st...

I for one periodically find myself accidentally standing in calcifying dust via hitting something twice and getting worked over by the magic of lag.

Noooo, that's Bill the Cat.

General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm. General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelin...

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Clearly, this race cannot be constricted either.

Before I read this thread, I really hoped that it was a spell that took you to a mini-ziggurat where you had to fight successively more powerful martial arts masters, culminating with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the top.

yesno wrote:
njvack wrote:
yesno wrote:FR: rename every monster to 'Death [monster]'

death rat
death kobold
death lich
death elf
death slave

death death yak

thank you

Don't forget death death knight.

or death death cob.

or death curse toe.

I'm pretty sure the idea is that you can wear 5 FDA if you want to, but you have to deal with the extra encumbrance. You are a slime, you should be able to just shove objects into your body (infinite inventory space) as well as engulf enemies to deal asphyxiation damage. Obviously slime-vomit is me...

Depends on how we're defining it. I killed one or two boggarts but I was also surrounded by all the shadow creatures they'd summoned, which would put it more around a dozen or so if we count them.

dynast wrote:if you use cbl to kill pointblank creatures you deserve to die. Leave exploding yourself to professional black draconians, please.

OOO! I killed myself with black draconian breath once! I even had an entry in learndb for it for a while before it got deleted =p

Does that make me a professional?

I threw this out as a proposal and popular demand says it needs to be on tavern, so here you are. Original idea: 1). Never suffers wrath upon joining Jiyva 2). Native rCorr 3). -1 to all apts except fighting, UC, dodging, and tmut (0, 0, 0, +1 respectively) After further discussion: 4). Leaves a sli...

Technical reasons. The Sword of Power (and a few other unrands, like the Singing Sword I think) have mechanics that don't work with Spectral Weapon. Probably it could be done, but it would be a serious chore; it's much much easier to just ban them from being Spectralized. FWIW, Sword of Power, Sing...

A preview for Crawl Legends #3, now with animation! https://i.imgur.com/HYiZFP7.gifv Depending on how things go, I'm hoping to have this one out in the next few days. Maybe it's just me, but from the preview it seems like it's harder to follow with the animation than it was with the stills.

Blade wrote:Great mace, great sword, helmet, troll leather armour. Maybe one or two other things.

Robes also. And I guess if you somehow managed to get a hammer it would have too.

+72 tla on an ogre was ridiculous, FWIW.

That reminds me that I have a tin of anchovies in the pantry that needs to be used.

Presumably it's there to punish the one redeeming feature of tengu, since apparently their low hp isn't punishment enough for having permaflight that gives them speed 11 and bonus EV.

njvack wrote:
ZipZipskins wrote:
njvack wrote:I don't know, it depends on which 30%.

Does it really? I'm curious

What can I say? I like a good slice of torso.

I'm surprised it took this many posts to get a reply like that.

See, it combines pre-0.15 Tukima's and current Spectral Weapon by retaining the tedium of oldTukima's and removing the benefits of Spectral Weapon!

Arrhythmia wrote:remove thanks over my dead body

D...did you kill him Archaeo!?!????

I assume they're called Caster Giants because of their resemblance to great big office chair wheels.

At least I hope so.

The weird thing about this obsession with "pure blasters" is that direct damage magic is one of the least effective ways to make a wizard or other magey type in D&D unless you are playing a computer game. Transmutations, Alterations, Illusions, and Enchantments are all more broadly use...

Naga barding is another example; people say that you never get Naga barding as a naga. But I strongly suspect this is because they play less Nagas than other species, and don't account for this -- ie. base rate neglect . This is very true, and yet will not do one thing to stop me from bitching abou...

The last time I posted an RC file solution for a GDD suggestion, the OP thanked me and considered the issue closed. I was more instructive than archaeo was here but I don't think that is rude at all. It would be rude if he tried to dismiss the idea or closed the thread, but to me the fact that some...

On the other hand, taking off the GDA will only take about the same number of turns as moving a square /s

Related: Within the past week I've both found my first ?blink in Gloorx's level of Pan in crawl, and had a gnome lord read a cursed scroll that flooded the screen with monsters in nethack. Doesn't mean I'll stop playing either game, or do the tedious shit that is required to play optimally in either...

I ID the singles first. I tend to wind up with stacks of !flight and !degen and sometimes !mutation before I get more than one of !curing or !hw.

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