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Suggestion: I would like to suggest that the spellcasting penalty for wearing armor be significantly reduced for dwarves. This will probably also necessitate reducing casting aptitudes for dwarves to compensate. Justification: Right now there is no niche for a heavy armor caster. I propose that this...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:amulet of Suanoi {rMut rF++ rC+ MR Acc+6}

This, the blade of Taehiot, and some Ice Dragon armor and you go go naked in the rest of your slots....

It would make permabuff worse than recasting. We certainly don't want that, we don't want putting up with tediousness to give a gameplay advantage. Anyway, the way to implement permabuffs has already been discussed a lot, and I even wrote a detailed and fair design for it. The problem is that I thi...

I am creating a poll to try to get a general feeling on the forums. Taking my own advice, I have split this topic off of the perma-buff thread to address the topic of buffing in general. My personal feeling is that some buffs (mainly swiftness, repel missiles, and haste) are likely too powerful and ...

The simplest, most straightforward way of implementing permanent buffs would be to have them reduce your maximum mana by their level while active. Even if you changed absolutely nothing else, that alone would increase the cost of using them (since you couldn't rest to regain full mana while still h...

..Well there is longbows, and according to people who know this game better than I do, a longbow of holy wrath (only avail as a TSO worshipper) is the highest damage weapon in the game when used on vunerable targets.

BlackSheep wrote:Is there a drawback to firing/throwing missiles at melee range?

no, other than you have to use ammo that you would not need if you were meleeing (machetes don't need reloading)

oh, the temptation. Found the katana "Autumn" (+8 slice clarity) with my mummy summoner. but i guess it takes so long to get long blades usable that the weapon is no longer good - and the xp would better be spent on something else? xl 11, D12, just found lair, did not do ork yet, only the...

Quick pro-tip. Only 3 scrolls ask you to pick items. Recharging, ID, and Enchant Armor. If you read-ID a scroll and it asks you to select an item, pick either an unidentified armor (that you might want to wear) or a wand that is at least un-IDed enough to not know charges. This will either ID the it...

I thought the point of the perma buff was to
a) reduce hassle
b) make it easier so people don't have to stop to recast all of the time

What happened?

I have not been playing much lately and I find myself intrigued by centuar and Okra (so you get the barding). What do you consider the best background/strat for actually getting one of these, um, running.

As your piety goes up monster glyphs start to appear as something else (lost sanity). If you don't get the orb before a certain amount of time you lose control of your character as they go insane

I've gotten more cloaks of proctection (the rcorr and cons one) from the games I played okra then every other game I have played togeather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farkle

Farkle is really fun, much like yatzee, only (IMO) better because there is more ups and downs.

With that said, I think it gets better with a few more people. 3-5 is better than just 2.

As a temporary solution you could make it so that if you press "p" you would sacrifice everything on sight, that could reduce tedium a bit. That would be a bad idea if you worshipped Ely or Card God and pressed 'p' at your stash. Or if you just had a big fight and perhaps wanted to eat 1-...

minmay wrote:I've honestly never seen someone run out of food without having a cursed blunt weapon wielded, and that circumstance is unrelated to sacrifices.

I've starved to death with a DD healer, but that was not related to sacrificing anything.

minmay wrote:Teleport.

Yeah, I had teleport up, but I had screwed up (in tiles) because I did not see it until the first OOD was in the air. I died before the teleport went off.

Ironically I had just forgotten summon butterflies so I could memorize dig to clear out slime (and I did not need it).

What do you do when you you are in the center of a room and your previous ghost comes in, hastes itself and then starts spamming IOOD? (like 3-4 in a row)

Yet Another Stupid Noob wrote:Is it ever worth going into crumbling portals? Generally when I go in I can get some poor treasure, but often all I get is YASD.

I am still bitter about ghost moths.

Is it ever worth going into crumbling portals? Generally when I go in I can get some poor treasure, but often all I get is YASD.

Since you have won, can I have your amulet?

ok one more question (sorry!) just got gifted a book of summonings from vehumet, thinking about learning shadow creatures since it rules. or should i just save my spell slots for conjurations? i did just learn abjuration cause i know from experience that comes in handy. that is the kind of question...

lerugray wrote:ok, i just found gold dragon armor, should i switch from my robe?

Probably not, the ev malus on that armor will make it difficult to impossible to cast high(er) level spells.

You should probably post this in characters in progress.

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Is it worth going evasion on account of that armor? You are only level 11 so have time to switch

Is it worth going evasion on account of that armor? You are only level 11 so have time to switch

you could "fix" zigs by giving every character a rod of 0.9 version tornado right in the entrance of level 1.

Also, if you could create shafts out of digging wands it would work as a much better banishment (drop a shaft in front of any annoying foe, kill 1-3 levels later).

Here's an odd one- you can defeat fungal colonies with naught but steam. I discovered this accidentally on a FeTM^N who came across a spore and realized he couldn't throw anything it at it, so I did the next best thing and evaporated a potion of water. It worked, and the steam killed the colony bef...

It makes more sense to be a portal vault anyway. Seriously, how many giant beasts would there be?

No matter how strong you think your character is, don't go into Zot when you come home from working a full day on 4 hours of sleep.

Can you case Rejuivication with TSO (since it is necromancy)?

Pteriforever wrote:

rPois AND +Int?

WOW.

I think that merely posessing this ring should give you a slow but steady increase in your gold.

While we are stealing things from random sources, I think that Tengu should be able to wrap their wings around medium or smaller foes, shake them a bit and then turn them into bones and slime. A cookie to the first person to say which movie I still that from (the fact that it is from a movie is you...

The problem is with the "I'm starving to death, why can I not eat this chunk of mutton."

If you want to remove the food clock, I would think that would involve basically rewriting the game (since spells/abilities would need to get an alternate resource).

http://www.sfsite.com/02a/gq193.htm

Goblin Quest

What cjo said, When I was running my DDHe I ended up only pacificing the things I did not feel like fighting (hydra and shadow dragons were on the top of that list). The piety gain is pretty minor and depending on the version (I was 0.9) will probably cost you more piety than you gain. Even worse, t...

While we are stealing things from random sources, I think that Tengu should be able to wrap their wings around medium or smaller foes, shake them a bit and then turn them into bones and slime. A cookie to the first person to say which movie I still that from (the fact that it is from a movie is your...

Although poison is less of a problem with a DD, if is nice to increase the chunks you can eat. If you have no soure of sinv that robe will be quite nice. (and free up a ring/hat if you do). If you have both of those covered then wear the archmagi (but realise that filling those egos in the robe will...

I can remember more than one post you did that ran something like "@#$@#%SOR$#$@*%@(*#F%$...THIS @#%&*@(^%@()*&% SUCKS".

Congrats on finally beating it..

Should all gods be suitable for a 15-runes game ? So is Xom or is it more intended as a comic relief god? XuaXua suggested this be turned into a thread, and I agree; so I did. IMO, not all gods should be suitable for a 15 rune game. Here are my reasons why... Right now if you want to have a god be ...

What Cerebov'sSquire said. My only question is what were you doing to yourself to get that many bad mutations so early?

I've starved to death with a DDNE and came close a couple of times (some of which were my own fault, some were just due to high food costs).

twelwe wrote: No, I'm sorry, I didn't notice what Gods you personally find more useful by comparison. I'll be more tuned to your personal taste the next time I make a thread

This is a pretty personal comment.

Please do not take offense to these comments; they are simply a general reminder/request. I do not know if this was the trend in the past (started playing in 0.7), but it seems (to me) that most of the balance discussions lately have been referring to zigs/extended endgame. Judging by personal exper...

Different poster made this comment, but if you are levitating then weapons with the electric brand will not proc when used on you. (Nick, and any other unique that happens to have that brand.)

I imagine that Minmay will be along shortly to correct me, but I think the crushing bonus is unaffected by a shield, so there is no reason you could not pick up a buckler with the dagger/staff. I really like that sabre. I don't know how the bonus damage caps out (never really played a stabber), but ...

you can post a character file using the [code][/code] tag and it will make it readable.

You use petrify with LRD to make orc bombs. I found it most useful versus ugly things and orcs. Alternatrly you stone the first guy while backing down a corridor. When he stops moving, you use LRD to decimate the back rows. if you are going the stabby route, I'd swap to the staff if you don't insta-...

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