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I've been playing a human fire elementalist on this branch, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. I no longer have the feeling that when I play in a way that's fun for me I'm playing suboptimally. I have been forced into situations which demand harder choices than normal, and the outcomes have gene...

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. There are something like 253 contributors to crawl, and I'm certain that none of the contributors involved in changing the name were involved in creating it in the first place. Do you want me to apologize because someone once made a bad choice? Do you want ...

I think there are three ways to interact with real world references that are worth unpacking separately: 1) References intended to comment on the real world . These references are deliberately making a statement about something in the real world, most likely something many people care about. They ma...

Leaving aside any specific details of the implementation for a moment, in an ideal world what sort of experience will a player of this species have? Please be as specific as feels reasonable. I would like to understand the motivation better in the hopes of contributing useful ideas.

Locking topic to avoid duplication, but please feel free to continue the conversation from this thread in the other topic if warranted.

Two quick points: 1) bezotting in the current branch is fairly opaque because I assumed that people would read about it here first and then go try it out, so to save time I didn't document it strongly in-game. There is the point raised above that "how deadly a monster is" becomes harder to...

Hey folks, I just updated the dynamic monsters branch with new rules: * Monsters can have up to three levels of bezotting. Triple-bezotted monsters are very scary. * Monsters that follow you off-level will get a level of bezotting. * Monsters that are tracking you when you leave a level get a level ...

The way I see this, there are two rare tiers of 1H weapons. First is the fast 1H weapons with min delay < 0.7 (demon blade [12 damage, 14 skill], demon whip [11 damage, 12 skill], demon trident [12 damage, 14 skill]); second is the heavy 1H weapons with high damage for their class and 0.7 min delay ...

That said, when you sink dozens or even hundreds of hours (and believe me, I have) into a project you start to develop strong opinions about certain things. There's nothing wrong with strong opinions, and I'm certainly not trying to discourage you from having them. After trying out multiple variati...

Oh, I play the branch I'm describing routinely and it works much better than the current trunk and the former version. I can clean it up and PR it, or even nag johnstein to open an experimental, but what purpose would it serve? Again my problem is the lack of metric. At what point would it be consi...

I don't know about the others but I'm personally not interested in restoring the old version of WJC as is, but rather taking it in the direction that I am convinced will be better than the two we've experienced. I have written again and again that my goal was to combat "adadadad" spam, an...

Crawl is a game where combat depth is designed to come from questions about when and where to fight and which consumables (where consumables means any somewhat-limited-use effects) to use when. Making the process of attacking monster slower and/or more complex once a player has decided that now is t...

Well I didn't like it. And I still don't. The game doesn't need more xp and items removed. [...] But your user base wins 1% of the time. Even for those players who have won several times, most of the game is still fresh to them. Cutting content is not what they want. The goal should be to make the ...

That part is inaccurate. I said it was a plan for the future. I strongly doubt any of that will happen in 0.20.

At least 4 gods have been largely developed and then scrapped or taken back for additional work. The development of the game isn't about preserving any one creator's vision because its a collaborative design project. It's a bit off putting that you find it necessary to remind me of this now. The go...

You see, the problem I have (and the reason why my change of attitude since my last post, where I wasn't necessarily upset at the changes) is the absolute lack of a metric of success. [...] It has become very clear to me that ##crawl-dev are closed to player feedback. Any dissenting opinions from t...

After running this survey for a while, Void Step and Power Leap seem to the be most popular entries. There are a lot of "other" votes, but no Other vote has many thanks. My conclusion is that people are reasonably happy with the current name, and the best alternative is Void Step.

My implementation preference would be to have all food items appear as they do now while laying on the ground (or maybe even more varied than now), but have them all merge into one "food ration" or even just "food unit" in the inventory. Better still, goldify them: "Food: 43...

The Ru ability Power Leap could use a rename. The name is a little ambiguous in a way I don't like, and it sounds like "power drive". I think there has to be something better. Help me choose the replacement. The current flavor of the ability is that you gather the power you've gained by sa...

It's possible I beat it:

Code:: Inscribe with what? =R _T - the ring "Ummucs" {+Inv AC+6 Dex-3 Slay+5, =R}

I don't have an argument to add in the discussion between bel and SteelNeuron, but on the specific subtopic of whether martial attacks should be activated, I feel strongly that they should not. I am certain that doing so would kill any hope of the god being fun by making something that should be qui...

Theme-wise I could see it going either way: what you said, or their bones are too brittle, like SteelNeuron said. In terms of gameplay, UC is different enough from weapon combat that having it be a different number is often justifiable.

In this species, I don't see the value of the following apt choices: Most melee +1, staves +0, short blades +0: what's interesting about being very slightly less good at two seemingly-random weapon types? Slings -2, bows +1, crossbows +1: why shouldn't skeletons want to use slings? Stealth -2: I get...

From a few different threads, I think people have come to badly misunderstand what makes "flat apts" desirable on a species -- it seems like most people are understanding it as "+0 apts across the board are best" (very incorrect) or "all aptitudes being identical is best&quo...

Beat this:
a - 1026 gold the ring "Riomiumo" {rF+ rC+ Str+8 Slay+3}

Quazifuji, see the updated list above. I already moved Deep Dwarves as you suggested. I also renamed the second and third categories back to Intermediate and Advanced. You're correct that this is meant to represent difficulty to learn, per the release notes. I left VS in Advanced, which I think is a...

Almost immediately updated: "Simple", SP_HILL_ORC, SP_MINOTAUR, SP_MERFOLK, SP_GARGOYLE, SP_BASE_DRACONIAN, SP_HALFLING, SP_TROLL, SP_GHOUL, "Intermediate", SP_HUMAN, SP_KOBOLD, SP_DEMONSPAWN, SP_CENTAUR, SP_SPRIGGAN, SP_TENGU, SP_DEEP_ELF, SP_OGRE, SP_DEEP_DWARF, "Advanced&...

(2:24:55 PM) Cheibriados: Lasty * 0.20-a0-745-g43cdf58: Refactor new game menu construct functions to allow species groups (minmay) (9 minutes ago, 2 files, 202+ 74-) https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/43cdf580475d Now feel free to dispute the number of groups and position of species within the g...

When you talk about luring do you mean just separating a monster from the group to kill it more easily or do you also include kiting and stair dancing as part of the issue? What I mean is that by luring is activities that exchange non-trivial time/keypresses for tactical advantage, and activities t...

I don't have the historical lens that dpeg does, but as a relatively new dev to the project, I'd say that crawl's biggest problem is a messy, disorganized codebase. Write a clean, organized one instead. :p Beyond that, what I wish had been done differently in crawl is pretty much what my plans are n...

I'd prefer to sort it by learning curve, which address both difficulty for new players and weirdness level without biasing newer players into thinking that hard-to-learn species are bad. I'd put most of the easy species in as "easy to learn", make a category after that for human-ish charac...

If you're looking for a way to incentivize high EV / low AC characters with this god about interesting movement, it seems like the way to bring those goals together is to use your armor evasion penalty (or AEVP) in one of the following ways: Hard restriction: a) You may not wear armor with AEVP > x ...

I've won octopodes of every background, and I almost never use transmutations, particularly statue form. As Rast says above, octopodes have access to 3/4 primary defensive skills for melee: Fighting, Dodging, and Shields. Make use of them. However, like other no-body-armor species, you really should...

To the best of my knowledge, remove/evomer are not dummy accounts for another poster. I believe that he was seen to be a troll/puppet account. We're resolving the situation by email.

I don't really care if you read the forum or not, but being banned means you may not post here. I'm banning your new new new account and I'm going to edit out any content you posted that wasn't directly related to the banning. I'm going to delete any other posts that you manage to make from any acco...

dynast repeatedly violated forum rules after several warnings. The ban happened a while back.

Just to be clear, Gozigzag was banned for being banned poster dynast. totallynotdynastpleasedontbanme was banned for also being banned poster dynast.

dynast, if you think you shouldn't be banned, you can email the moderators and make your case.

Mod note: moved to CYC. OP, read the GDD rules before posting in GDD.

Stealth is not very strong offensively, but is pretty strong defensively. If crawl had more genuinely scary monsters, stealth would be one of the better skills.

I genuinely have no idea what's happening here, but I split it from the hellcrawl thread for being off-topic. If some other moderator wants to do something here, that's fine with me.

lethediver wrote:
Lasty wrote:No release notes credit for blowgun removal?

He slaved night and day over this branch and this is your comment? Sigh.

It looks like you're trying to passive-aggressively shame me for not praising hellcrawl, but that would be a weird thing to do. Are you trying to do something else?

No release notes credit for blowgun removal?

You're right that the old rules post was destroyed somehow. It took a little digging, but I found a thread referencing the old tavern rules in their entirety (at least at the time). I've posted that as a global announcement , which should make it significantly easier to find. @lethediver, the forum ...

This thread is more or less guaranteed to break tavern rules; it probably already has, but I don't really want to try to parse it. This isn't a great place for discussing politics. Locking it now.

If you're worried that playing crawl is a waste of time, you're going to be horrified when you think about what posting on Tavern is.

I think its most likely as a permabuff spell that increases regen rate We have multiple equipment slots regen fits into. You want to make it fit in your spell slots too? Yeah, if I were proposing that change, it would be weird. But that's not a change, that's how it plays now, except stronger and w...

Moved to CYC because post doesn't meet GDD requirements.

Moved to CYC, since this post doesn't follow the requirements for GDD posts.

For what it's worth, "so nobody will be offended" isn't a useful criterion for anything. Anybody can choose to take offense over anything.

I feel that the correct solution is one that is always-on and simulates whichever scriptable behavior is the most interesting as a passive effect. How do you keep spell power and spell success relevant? As I proposed before: have the per-AUT effect be moderated by the current spell power/success ra...

Think about it this way: under what circumstances is it an interesting choice to cast regeneration? My answer is virtually never. It's almost always trivially scriptable when to cast it. These proposals don't change that. Given that, I feel that the correct solution is one that is always-on and simu...

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