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That should teach me not to write from memory, I guess!

ATM the difficulty rating for species is actually a "straightforwardness" rating. The more unusual the species is, assuming human is the most usual, the more advanced it is rated. I am not sure that such a system can be easily implemented for backgrounds. All of them are different, but I d...

One option would be to make a total mean of the score achieved during games played. I know that it would be a mess, and that it would mean that a player that has a good first game wouldn't need to play any other games in the tournament, but it's a way to make time played irrelevant.

You can just say "only the first five hours played during a given day count for the purpose of scoring; days are calculated according to Greenwich time".

Vehumet is fun to play, at least from my pov. It's also pretty simple. It should be fine tuned, because the spell library is weird and often useless. But I'm OK with a magic god made of passives.

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Weirdly enough, having many options closed off, being immune to a good range of attacks, and having lots of inventory real estate make Mu one of the nicest species to play.

Some info about year, genre, and why it was that good? You know, for the uninitiated.

Tbh, how many players read Des files? I would never do it, too much of a hassle. And most players likely have no idea they exist.

From the rare old times:

Wizards: Work smarter, not harder.
Fighters: Not smarter, hit harder.
Rogues: Lie smarter, steal hardware.

Iron dragons and bone dragons are very similar to fight. If iron dragons are considerably stronger, maybe, rather than their own dragon species, they can become the hardcore versions of bone dragons, something like "boner dragons" .

I do not think that all transporter vaults need to have either dark or transparent walls. They pose different challenges and different decision making processes to the player. From "do you take this challenge" to "do you feel lucky, you greedy punk?" . In this case, I would keep ...

Wow thanks, I had no clua.

I wonder if these changes affect certain sprints more heavily than one would expect. So there is the one with the invisibility cloak, I wonder how it was meant to be played.

Also, Arcane Marksman is a sexist, specieist name, and should be changed to Arcane Marksindividual.

In general, I think that the player has too few occasions in which a killhole isn't the perfect solution, so this monster is meant to increase the number of such situations. So it's more of an addition than a substitution.

The idea is that of a monster that has the ability to always see the player, as long as you are within a range the size of your LOS. This monster has a wall-crushing attack that destroys rock walls between you and it, perforating them and inflicting more damage the more rock tiles there are between ...

Does it even need to be a frog or toad? It just needs to be venomous, fast, cold-blooded, and amphibian. It could be some sort of "pseudohydra" that is fast, doesn't regrow heads, but has a poisonous bite.

Or just "yellow frog".

Yes please, change the name of spiny frogs. Call them death frogs or something. It makes no sense to have such a name, sporting a feature the monster doesn't have. What about coral frog?

Online, autoexplore by default doesn't show you while you explore, and only shows you when you stop. In this case, is your character halted each time your human sees a barding? If it isn't, then I don't see any difference from having an option, activated by default, that hides items unusable by your...

Immolation is good with bees in the early game, especially the bee vaults in Lair. I have never tried it on boggarts. It's good against TRJ.

I use inner flame to fill up large corridors.

Just a melodramatic title to observe that Github has been bought by Microsoft.

https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/m ... 5-billion/

I voted for leave felid alone, but I really wanted to vote 'remove wands from felids again'. Also make them revive on the same spot they died on and remove the XL loss upon death. Then monster who has just killed felid and sees it again should immediately get status dazed IMHO :) Do it like in coin...

Wait, weapons can have +12 enchanting?

You can just have an XP cost for summoning creatures. As I often say, I hate how allies are implemented in this game, and I think that they only belong to gods and should cost piety and be limited in time, because the mechanic itself is boring to me, and it's only fun if it doesn't cover the whole g...

Is digging for the orb run worse than exploring all hatches to know the shortest way during the orb run?

Isn't potion of rust = wand of acid? Personally, I'm always OK with limiting the number of item types in the game, as long as it doesn't detract from the game. Somehow, I think that potion of degeneration has its place. Scroll of noise doesn't. Random uselessness also is unneeded. Removal of curses ...

Personally, I'd call this Demigod or Angelborn or Divine Soul and I'd rename Demigod to Forsaken.

I am not clear on what Abyssals would do.

I think you are a copper sent to retrieve a stolen item. Those guys are the mob, that's why they're all on the same team.

My pov on showing info is that there should be two modes, lite mode and deep mode. Lite mode shows you only a little, stays general, and doesn't cover everything. Heavy mode shows everything (much more than is currently displayed).

Are there stats or spawn differences that justify the existence of two kinds of barding? Or is it just because of knight/lightning? Those two artifacts could stay as unique items bound to species, while the normal bardings can be merged as an item that works for both.

Slightly less clutter = good

Alternate dwarf and mino in labyrinth?

@gorgondantess Multiple spellbooks for a monster type are a thing.

Instead of "feed themselves", the description should say something like "feed and heal themselves" on "magical and then life force". Also a "looks healthier" message. And there's also that "living beings" thing, are undead and unliving immune?

Unhand longbow, mistype or stroke of genius?

duvessa wrote:.

(When they gaze, they heal themselves whether you have MP or not, which is the reason ghost moths appear to be hard to kill, but you can simply turn invisible and they won't gaze at you ever.)

The things I learn after twenty wins

Is it described in the moth spell / ability?

This is kind of a best and worst artifact simultaneously. The resistances and bonuses are nice, but MINUS 8? I've never seen a randart with that bad of an enchantment. My experience is that large shield randarts so often have such bad enchantment numbers, that they are almost always useless, or inf...

Or just "Dragon Call deactivates when you take stairs".

Maybe as an rc option? I would find this cluttering.

Right, I guess that it would also simplify the relationship with starting background. So, if you are an ice elementalist, you start off with 3 ice magic and 1 conjuration magic, will be able to memorize throw frost as soon as you hit level 2, and will have a little head start when it comes to memori...

Lugonu, and, generally, non-temple gods, could simply always generate their altars out of the Temple, and in vaults that don't comprise other altars, maybe with some scenery or appropriate monsters, but in the same dungeon floor range as normal generation of altars outside the temple. Et voilà, the ...

OK, thank you VAF, I hadn't understood what you meant. This is a kind of randomization that maybe can work with this design idea. I say maybe, because I think of a school like Necromancy, where you have very different spells that work for very different playstyles, which is a different matter from &...

Shields skill have a multipler that's linear between 0 and 1, reaching 0 at a specific breakpoint value. The value depends on your species and shield so you'll have to look up the exact number; I'm not going to post them.[/list] Worth noting that this number is listed in the item description of the...

Trog docet.

Probably not going to be a splash screen... :mrgreen:

The Bikeshedders are an ancient people, doused in magic. Their innate talent allows them to learn spells as their skills progress, without relying on magic books. The idea is that of a species that doesn't gain new spells through randomly found or gifted books. Instead, the player uses skilling to ...

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