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With stoneskin and snakes, you could just about add a weapon choice to Tm and let players ignore the later forms in the starting book. You would hope to find petrification, statue form, irradiation, and passwall to get more use of your skills.

That word brings to mind the dufflepuds from Dawn Treader.

The last time I saw that vault, my FE got a staff of fire.

I was mostly thinking you use it when you're using a dagger for melee without training a weapon skill yet to stab things you happen to sneak up on. You have a little less chance to wake it up if you don't have to get all the way into melee range. If you have lots of junk weapons, spare mp, and weapo...

d* will do it.

Telestab: Executes a single melee attack on an enemy at range. Range is limited to 2, so it's like reaching. It usually moves your wielded weapon to the space occupied by the enemy, but there is a chance of losing the weapon to the abyss. The chance of losing the weapon is 30% at 0 spellpower and 5%...

I like being able to link to a post more than I like being able to see who has thanked it.

I like to see a five word post of appreciation. It clarifies whether you mean, "That was funny" or "That was well expressed" or "That is a better way of thinking of that" or "This is the right answer to this question that has been asked and answered a thousand time...

To prevent players from making decisions based on score, the high score list should be presented in terms such as "one choko and many sultana," "###..$," or "Somewhat uncanny."

I think the "malmutate simply changes your color" would make the spell worth learning if it's in your wheelhouse. I agree that being able to cycle the resistance manually would lead to degenerate gameplay.

Hunger is okay when it causes me to think about my skilling, equipment, or tactics. (Honestly, this is rare, but it may be just because "don't spam high hunger abilities" is well ingrained in my play style.) Hunger is bad for the game when I have to take action to put my satiation level wh...

Is there any reason enemy projectiles couldn't continue past the player, like when the player shoots with f instead of .? Sure, they would sometimes hit other enemies behind the player, but it would reward positioning, which is a good thing.

Read the section of the manual on inscriptions. You can use { to inscribe items (or maybe it's }.) =d will keep you from dropping it when you type d! to drop potions or d) to drop weapons (maybe it's () !d will prompt you to drop it even if you drop it by letter *d also prompts about dropping. I'm n...

If the staff of channeling let you cast using food items as a substitute for both MP and satiation, then the interface would be simplified. And maybe you would eventually run out of food items. Let the staff pick a food item from inventory at random or by whatever you have least of or in alphabetica...

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It is interesting to me how much you used Magic Dart, Mephitic Cloud, and Summon Imp at the end of the game.

That sounds more reasonable than the other similar proposal:
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Being more cursed gives more skill gain to weapons and defenses, right? So it makes some sense to keep jewelry cursed as well.

At AC42 EV 27, I would value +6 slaying and blink over +8 EV. Once you can cast blink and if you find a good triple sword, switch to Shaolin.

Those breath attacks sound fun to play with. Should they be added to draconian enemies? Are there glyphs left for more colors?

"I want to earn thirty different titles" is just as reasonable a goal as "I want to earn tournament points," "I want to win all races," or "I want to win a three game streak."

I reckon this is what Sandman25 is referring to:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/5 ... 8f7c9efb8d

What if we only have three foods: Pizza (unavailable to spriggans and mutated herbivores) Royal Jellies (available to everyone but undead who don't eat) Fruit l(less nutrition, powers Fedhas) And corpses- for ghouls, trolls, kobolds, vampires, gourmands, and mutated carnivores. I don't care how many...

Rast wrote:Are there any spells left which require wielding items? Arrows, rocks, chunks of flesh?

All of those spells would be more convenient if they didn't require wielding items to use them, without losing their tactical depth.

If single-turn rations were about as rare as cure mutation potions, the distinction might be more meaningful. As it is, I don't worry about running out of food. I eat multi-turn rations any time I'm very hungry and don't have a chunk on hand and "save" valuable single-turn rations for comb...

I couldn't tell you if wielding a cursed amulet stops you from unwielding it. It's a perverse kind of genius to figure out a way to save a remove curse scroll. I can tell you that in trunk, killing mummies doesn't curse equipment. I don't think mummies exist outside of ossuaries other vaults, though.

It adds realism if the pious self-obsessed adventurer has no idea whether anyone is listening to his sermons or not. Do you remember follower had to pick 1 recite type out of 4 in previous versions? You cannot do it when you don't know who is listening to you. Well, you can just rely on the spirit ...

The damage from the bite is high, so the anti-magic effect is high. Or it's high if you raise your STR and DEX and train fighting. A fast weapon gives more chances to bite. OoF die easily to a VS with a quickblade.

Why shouldn't a Zin follower be allowed to talk to himself? There have been times when I have wanted to retreat, recite, and wait for enemies to come around a corner. I don't know how recite effects work well enough to know how the first turn is different from other turns, or if more turns of expos...

1) Player draconians used to be able to wear dragon armour. And maybe robes, the same as Ogres? Maybe the tiles date from that time. I don't know; I don't play tiles.

2) Enemy draconians don't drop armour when you defeat them, so they aren't wearing armour.

I could understand the argument that since mummies have no hunger clocks, regeneration doesn't work because its main cost is increased hunger. And it would be annoying/scummy to keep regen on all the time as a mummy. But no worse than Ozo Armour or other charms. So why are mummies allowed to get re...

I could understand the argument that since mummies have no hunger clocks, regeneration doesn't work because its main cost is increased hunger. And it would be annoying/scummy to keep regen on all the time as a mummy. But no worse than Ozo Armour or other charms.

In a recent game, I read a teleport scroll next to a dangerous enemy, cast ball lightning, found that my surroundings changed, then walked back to find the enemy dead.

So they can still explode while out of LOS.

Do altars prevent things like water nymphs making water tiles, or thorn hunters making plants? It seems like there is probably some scummy case where it would make sense to create altars for a tactical advantage.

tabstorm wrote:I don't know why Petrify was added as a Hell effect after Paralysis was removed.

You can do something about petrify, but you can't to anything about paralysis.

araganzar wrote:Change [cure poison] to also provide rPois for a very limited time.

The Resist Poison and Resist Electricity (Insulate) spells were removed for good reasons. Nobody would pass them up, but if you had convenient equipment, they were useless.

Bring back studded leather armour and splint mail! Really, ring vs scale feels like an actual choice, in that they affect spell casting success rates very differently, especially early to mid game. I can't imagine a time I would use chain instead of plate when the chain didn't have better enchantmen...

"Distant" basically means it within LOS of your LOS. It's *right there* by the time you are close enough for it to say distant instead of very distant. "Distant" should be changed to "nearby," IMO. I think the prompts were changed three of four months ago, but it's stil...

I think it's a penis joke. Staves are typically longer in one dimension than in the other two, and anything that fits that description is often compared to a penis, presumably for "comedic" purposes. Also, maybe demons can be male, so that makes it even more funny.

For a while now, Logunu has suppressed the dangerous effects of unwielding distortion, so you can use ' to only have a distortion weapon when you want one.

Can it use short blades skill for stabbing damage and launcher skills for ranged damage?

Many of these have durations, damage, or a chance of a bad result that is based on piety or invocations. Should card power be used as a stand-in, should some fixed power be determined, or should Makhleb's demons be summoned with a chance of hostility based on invocations skill? Should these be on th...

The way it is now, spending piety to perform an ability often doesn't remove the option to use that ability. Just like in life, buying a coke doesn't make it difficult for most people to buy another coke. Getting a mortgage makes it difficult for most of us to get another mortgage, and getting a car...

Puns are only the lowest form of wit if you are envious that you didn't think of it first.

The vulnerability of a fire-natured creature to water is based on fire's need for air. So it isn't that different from drowning, and the breathing flag should cover it. Fire Elementals and Orbs of Fire should be tagged as breathing, and they should be vulnerable to drowning. The vulnerability of an ...

Proposed mechanic: Once you have twelve identification scrolls, you can eat them to gain perfect intrinsic knowledge of all items you see. It works for remove curse, too: if you eat twelve remove curse scrolls, nothing you touch is cursed. Once you have enough of something that you won't run out, it...

If an enemy gives my ally an inner flame, and my ally explodes, do I get xp for the kills or does the enemy gain levels? I think enemy inner flame was removed this week, but it used to happen. Who puts the inner flame on the golem? The summoner, the golem, the attacker, the environment? I can see ho...

That Frost Giant is kind of the boss of the Ice Cave. Most characters are not ready for something that hard at that time, and should run. Blowgun and Curare can take him out while you retreat. An identified wand of fire (or maybe fireball, but not flame) can be a big help, as could a lamp of fire. B...

The throwing vs launchers idea sounds fun, but I'm not sure Trog needs to work with fewer playstyles. Making all ammo explode might be a good idea for a race or some other deity. I don't like making Trog more situational, because he's kind of an introductory god. The drawbacks of Berserk and the pie...

I think adding "Mark" to the scroll of noise would be a good idea. Right now, the scroll of noise is just a reason to maybe read-identify scrolls on an explored level. With mark, it would be more useful for bringing fights to chosen terrain, or at least for clearing away uniques and ghosts...

Is that a word cloud generated from the threads on the first page of CYC?

When a draconian can see [n] other draconians, it executes [n+1] breath attacks simultaneously.

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