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Realism as a design principle is terrible and if the reason you want a change is "it would be realistic" that generally means it's a bad change. You can shoot bees with arrows because it's a video game and it would be irritating and silly if you couldn't. Play Nethack if you want to experi...

It's ironic.

Detect Creatures, since you insist on ramming your head against the wall, currently exists in exactly two forms. A rare Xom effect, which is a joke, and via Ashenzari. The Xom effect is equivalent to the old spell Detect Creatures -- it happens instantaneously, similar to magic mapping. You don't ha...

It's funny: note how easily hecklers could have ridiculed Hyperphase as waaay too powerful defensively... but the first posters nudged at the "it's too weak" route, and that's the direction it snowballed. Perhaps you should focus on the fact that it's ridiculously complex and nigh-impossi...

Don't make a single thread for discussing several unrelated topics. Such threads usually degenerate quickly into several discussions and are very hard to keep on-topic (since there are several topics). If you want to address a transverse topic (eg. documentation, clarity,...) while giving several u...

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The names are defined in this file. So if you want the floor tiles that include grey_dirt0.png, you use either FLOOR_GREY_DIRT or FLOOR_NORMAL.

Gr getting smug about their resistances, dying to Hellions, and then whining about it? Sounds like everything's working as intended to me.

Are you on some sort of quest to say the word "stupidly" as many times as possible in one post, or In any case, have you tried... not aiming it at yourself? I mean, I understand; when it goes "hey you're likely to hit yourself, do it anyway Y/N" all it takes to burn yourself is t...

I used the example that in Lair, when the stoning monsters, forgetting about their names, don't do much to a high AC char, at least when they're the only baddies around. Catoblepas? That's a bizarre example since all you have to do is step out of the gas. And supposing you choose not to do so, and ...

It's no surprise that people who win these magic backgrounds on a regular basis usually disregard the magic aspect and just play them as a bit of a challenge background that lose a couple of early levels in the chosen main weapon skill and Armour and Dodging skills and just turn them into tanks. I ...

"It's nice to have" and "it's convenient" are not reasons to keep a thing. Is flight fun? Does it have a meaningful impact on how anyone plays? It's a legacy mechanic that we inherited from the bad old days of simulationism, that's all. If it's too much work to remove, that's one...

What purpose does flight (in any capacity) serve? It's almost impossible to drown nowadays and flight potions etc. are quite common, so all it does is pretend to gate you off from things and then not actually do that. At the very worst you go "welp, don't have flight" and then come back wh...

The problem with giving players the freedom to explore/choose their path/whatever we want to call it is that most players aren't wandering starry-eyed through Crawl, entering branches with a mixture of hope and fear about what new wonders this strange "Swamp" place might contain. They've e...

I believe what neil means is, you could make an image (in Photoshop or whatever) of an arch/whatever in water, and then use that. Essentially it would just be a normal square of water, it would just use this alternate picture.

That would be the keys for drinking a potion in slot V. In other words, you made a mistake, and the game handed you a cool challenge -- which you overcame -- instead of it doing literally nothing to you because you could just drink restab. I guess I just don't get complaints like this. You're basica...

So, I want to get this straight: you did something extremely unusual (How did the ghost moth corner you in the first place, despite the constant staring telling you it's nearby? Why not just teleport away from it and go do V or something, if it's causing you trouble? And you know you can still claw ...

I'd fix it if I knew how, but I don't. Sorry!

I pushed the six mummy tiles in my post above. Mostly I shifted the proportions to having longer legs and smaller heads and arms, and added hats/color/etc. to make them more distinct. New giant tiles look like shit. Incidentally, can you guys please say something like "I don't like X" or &...

Are these better?

Pic below is how my dog sees these mummies. My dog hates these tiles too. http://i.imgur.com/N0lg2cT.png I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here. The top ones are gone (notice how they all look the same?) and the bottom row are all extremely easy to tell apart, even blurred and in greysc...

Thanks for your in-depth critique, but I disagree. They are far easier to tell apart, have more interesting and distinctive silhouettes, and use color much more effectively. Obviously they aren't perfect -- nothing is -- but they're pretty good, in my opinion. Feel free to make suggestions or contri...

I'm not a fan of this. It's the same as selling: you lose something that's otherwise worthless to you and get a benefit. What are you giving up in exchange for this bonus piety? Nothing. You don't even have to give up the option to switch religions, because you just don't sacrifice the altars you're...

No, I replaced those recently.

v Yes, the last two are Menkaure and Khufu.

e: these were made by white_noise, incidentally.

Jeez, I thought gammafunk's first post in this thread was a made-up example and not a real monster that's actually in the game. What the hell is that thing supposed to accomplish other than making crawl look bad It's fast. It hits hard. It has no gimmick other than "you can sometimes walk away...

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Do we see any increase in winrate for those who use animate skeleton? You seem like you missed my point. You compared Necromancers to non-Necromancers, and noticed that Ne don't win as often. But Ne differ from other classes in more ways -- and far more important ways -- than just having AS in thei...

"Too powerful for level 1" does not mean it wins you games.

A ( partial ) list of major features added just since 0.14, not counting literally thousands of bug-fixes and smaller improvements: ⋅ Gozag ⋅ Ru ⋅ Dithmenos ⋅ Qazlal ⋅ Formicids ⋅ Vine Stalkers ⋅ The Depths ⋅ Squarelos &...

problem of poison magic is that it does not do anything in the extended game. And, that it lacks high-level poison spell is training poison magic in high skill will always be a bad idea. Neither of these are true, and neither would be a problem if they were. 27 Poison is probably a waste but 27 any...

Removing chunks will basically force people into playing some stupid "optimal" playstyle built around food if it matters, and if doesn't matter, than why have food in the first place. This is absolutely not true. There is a spectrum here -- the point of a clock is to make you play above a...

Man, I must be worse at this game than I thought!

Removing hunger altogether would be fine, but I'd prefer to make it an actual clock instead of the absolute 100% non-issue it is now. How on earth can hunger stop you scumming when scumming literally generates food on its own? The chunkless branch removes chunks... And then has monsters drop rations...

Would you rather we made all the enemy draconian tiles naked? No, but I was wondering if there was any reason behind it. So you can tell them apart. Lots of monsters are drawn with clothes on when they aren't wearing armor. If it helps, pretend they're cosplaying as humans; their "armor" ...

Man, okay, I see that argument over and over: "If you don't like it, just don't use it! Let us play how we want!" And it's a really, really bad argument. Suppose, due to a strange bug, the game was guaranteed to generate a +9 demon blade on D:1, but only if you manually walk over every squ...

Would you rather we made all the enemy draconian tiles naked?

I dunno about tackling or pinning. I don't want some weird complex bandaid that patches a hole in the rules, I want the rules to not have holes. What I would do (in the horrifying case where I had any authority to do so) is: ⋅ Set the normal energy cost for monsters taking a step to 9. In ...

Berder wrote:pillar dancing was the only option

Did you know you can escape via downstairs as well as upstairs?

Also, all characters are able to attack in melee, even without skills or weapons!

Luckily this change is easy to implement: 1. Pick up a melee weapon and equip it 2. Make-believe that all the lines that read "You slice the hobgoblin!" instead read "You rake the hobgoblin with pure magical force, using the power of your intellect instead of sullying your perfect han...

bcadren wrote:this invisibility bypasses monster SInv

Ignoring the rest of the proposal, I'd just pick this out as really bad design. Poison -> poison immunity -> super poison that affects even immune targets -> double secret poison immunity that blocks even super poison -> etc.

I've heard a lot of strange things from math students but "7 is a hard number to work with" is a new one for me.

The whole point of Demonspawn is having to deal with the mutations you get. If you want a character with predictable mutations, try any of the other races.
(except Dr I guess).

Chicken wrote:I don't really see rape as a predominant feature of it, more a sidetrack.

Oh, well that's fine then.

v Oh yes!

As far as I know, there's a pretty solid consensus that we want, if anything, fewer religious backgrounds, not more. There is a bit of tension in trying to find the altar of a god you want, and you might find yourself drawn towards gods you weren't considering because your One True Choice spawned ex...

Eating salamander meat might have a chance of making you more resistant to fire. Instead of having only generic mutagenic meat, you could actually seek out certain monsters to try to improve your profile of mutations. I know that the latter part approaches a perennial proposal, but when it is taken...

a) It was annoying and rarely mattered, since you can just drop stuff and pick it up later. Who cares if it's realistic? Why should halflings have a more annoying inventory management game than trolls? b) They were annoying and rarely mattered, since you could avoid them if you did boring things lik...

Being noisy does not make spells unusable. It makes them risky in some situations. LBolt is usually worth the noise, but if you feel unsafe, you may want to use something else. Also, "I can probably handle the things this spell will attract" is different from "this spell is quiet and ...

Just give the monster speed number in xv, and the player speed number in @ and %, already. This would be extremely confusing since those numbers are complete opposites of each other. A player "speed" (really delay) of 5 is (mostly) equivalent to a monster speed of 20 -- both mean the thin...

Is there any fundamental design flaw with having a very wide variety of Draconian colors, such as 15? "Why?" To put it another way, the current colors are already painfully similar to one another; most have a standard breath attack (whose element rarely matters), one pip of resistance (ag...

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