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Yeah, I guess you don't know that it's the cost of the next level, as opposed to the cost already paid to get where you are now. But I don't think defining the baseline on that screen is important. That's what the knowledge bots and the manual are for. Knowing the cost of one skill relative to the c...

I like for all numbers to be right-aligned with the same number of decimal places. It makes it easier to scan down a list and find bigger or smaller numbers, because they are wider or narrower. Which column is quicker for you to scan? 50.7 50.7 1.2 1.24 12.3 12.3 0.3 0.29

The advantage of byrel's suggestion for a human 9 to 10 as the baseline cost is that the same number means the same thing (presumably about the same number of enemies to defeat) in different games across different character builds. It makes both the XP aptitude and the skill aptitudes clearer. If th...

Sometimes as a troll or minotaur fighter I'll train only shields until that penalty is gone, then train weapons. But that's just because those races are strong enough in the early game that it almost doesn't matter what you train. And of course, as a hunter, you can train ranged even if you are usin...

Without pulling up the XP table and looking up what the definition of an aptitude is, I can't tell you whether a Hill Orc finds it cheaper to train conjurations from 12 to 13 or fire magic from 14 to 16. Even looking at the skill menu and seeing the aptitudes, I really don't know which is cheaper. R...

The ratio is more valuable to me than the table. I usually want to know: Of these skills that can benefit my character, which is the cheapest? I don't want to try to remember the levels of 6 skills and my aptitudes while I cross reference a table. I had a spreadsheet that did this calculation for me...

SH is displayed on the main screen without explaining that bolts can't be blocked or that the second attack in the same turn isn't blocked as well as the first. It isn't unprecedented to show a useful number without completely explaining it.

We should think if we can make flying more tactically relevant Flying should change how targeting works. #### @ogb #### If I'm standing on the ground, I can aim a single-target projectile at the orc. If I shoot at the goblin, I'll probably hit the orc instead. Because the bat is flying above the or...

If you pick the most expensive skill as the basis for comparison, then every other skill is less expensive than that, and could be expressed as a percentage between 1 and 99%. We already know those numbers fit on the screen where the allocation numbers are now. Picking the highest leveled skill as t...

I could understand it if casting spider form while in spider form turned you back into your standard from instead of extending spider form. Same for the other forms. This would go with removal of the "cancel form" ability.

We have bread rations down. Now we need volunteers to make jerky, pizza, fruit, and honeycomb. And chunks? A bottle of blood? Hooray for parallelism and completionism? Then we can move on to armours and scrolls. Eventually we'll breed death cobs and the rest of the menagerie and we can play crawl in...

There have certainly been times when I wondered if I was right to give up my +5 AC ring or what have you for a flight ring in Swamp or Shoals, so flight as it is now is already valuable in my book. I have used flight potions for the stealth boost on stabbers before. Does this turn the somewhat commo...

The other exception is that Nessos can shoot flaming poison arrows.

I'm going to speculate that players lost that ability in 0.8.

The problem with enemy elemental resistance is that if it forces you to use a weak irresistible spell even though you have a stronger resistible spell, then there are still stronger resistible spells, they'll just be used on the non-resistant enemies, which will be relatively weaker because XP was g...

byrel wrote:Can you self target breath?

You can. I recently undid petrification or slow or something on a purple draconian by breathing on myself. It did a bit of damage, but it was still worthwhile.

I think better than the "can't leave without a rune" would be "you can enter, and you can leave, but you can't re-enter before gaining a rune from here or somewhere else." So it's like a portal vault, but once you get a rune, you can re-open the portal. So you can flee Snake beca...

Is this a hat?

Go ahead and put the same mechanism on the lair runes.

Accuracy and damage are still increased, but the speed stays the same. So there is usually something more valuable to train unless you are in extended or a Berserker.

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Z already shows the spell list. Much of the time that's equivalent to z? with one keypress.

Sometimes I miss transmuter evaporation grenades. These could be almost as fun.

FR: Enemies use 10 charges per zap.

The Star:
Polymorphs the target into 3d4 enemies with the HD (30-Throwing Skill)/15 that of the original.

I think that Draining still needs some work. It probably takes too much experience to remove in the early game and too little in the late game. Draining breath from player ghosts and wands of draining are especially annoying in the early game. I've lost access too all my spells on a book background ...

Many randarts have bonuses or penalties that are effective when you equip them. Should there be tomahawks that give you rot resistance or increased MP regeneratin when you quiver them? Or do we already have enough slots?

What monsters is a shock serpent likely to become after polymorphing?

Transmutations that don't time out are an awful lot like artifact weapons with drawbacks. Except they can't be "wielded" without skills.

If forms didn't end without interaction, I would autoexplore in spider form before lair, in ice form during lair, and in blade hands (or statue form) after lair. When I encounter something that makes the drawback matter, I'd change back. It would be easier to deal with if the spellcasting penalty fo...

So we move swing-at-a-space to spacebar, go to }, and macros to ctrl-spacebar to free up keys for panic moves?

Maces aren't funny.

We need to think of something else of low utility for Yiuf to hoard.

Slings?
Scrolls of Random Uselessness?
Porcupine corpses?
Kraken corpses?
Negatively enchanted boots or hats? Or animal skins?

Would you move lightning bolt to The Book of the Sky? Or maybe Swiftness?

Those are much more attractive and well differentiated. Is the last one Khufu? If it's not a unique, I could see how it could be too much like the first one.

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/8/8b/Mummy_%28monster%29.png http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/e/ef/Guardian_mummy.png http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/0/0f/Mummy_priest.png http://crawl.chaosforge.org/images/6/6c/Greater_mummy.png Are these the current Mummy tiles? I got those from the wiki....

A late dungeon unique: The Jigglenaut. A Juggernaut Slime who does acid damage, so it's resistable sometimes. And half the HP of a standard Juggernaut, kind of like Purgy or Prince Ribbit.

Does lignification affect the player/allies or the monster/summons?

Lignified hydras could be something else.

The orb is fabulous. We need fabulous things.

Nobody has survived Zot long enough to come back and tell us who lives there, much less their history.

How does rock throwing affect allies? ta will get your allies to attack a particular enemy. I assume that is just as loud as shouting.

With 2 stealth skill as a draconian, sometimes shouting isn't enough to get an enemy in sight to notice you.

This is a really big change. Maybe this kind of space could be introduced as a new terrain type, or even a new plant type, rather than letting it replace doors. At least initially. Lots of vaults would need to be reworked to make sense with these. The game doesn't use the whole keyboard anyways. Whi...

How about just...removing the interaction between clarity and berserk? It does two things: Hear, hear! Clarity is a fancy name for rConfuse. It shouldn't have any effect on Berzerk in the first place. If clarity needs a drawback, is it enough that it usually occupies an amulet slot, or possibly a g...

There must be better ways than slow giant spores to improve the orc mines. Orc needs to get rid of staircases and only have hatches. Without stairdancing and retreating, the orc mines would be more entertaining. It might be a pain to get level generation to work, though. Disconnected bubbles and one...

It could work like the drop menu. d24t drops 24 of whatever is in stack t. Typing m24a24b44gENTER could set skill a to 24%, skill b to 24%, skill g to 44%, and all the other skills that are activated to the same fraction of the remaining 8%. I don't think it's worthwhile to think about percentages s...

I've seen several orcs pick things up and use them in trunk. I wonder if somehow orcs still get to pick things up form the floor, as a side effect of Beogh gifts?

It would be fun to see an average age weighted by turns or hours played.

For the more crawl variant! Purge the faithless!

What is the most important way that dwarfs are different from orcs?

Interface-wise, I would prefer If searing ray brought up the targeter every turn, even if every space but the original target was considered "out of range." This would mean I press "zc-enter-enter-enter" instead of "zcsss" when I want to cast for 4 turns, and "zc-e...

Most removals happen because the enemies aren't different enough from other enemies. Some happen because the specialties that made them different were bad for the game. Which enemies in particular are you interested in bringing back? How are they different from other enemies that could be used inste...

+1 Shoes "Shuu" (Contam, mr+, Sinv) I can't decide whether to say: -Shoes "Shuu" should be a fixedart! What a delightfully understated name! -Shoes are just boots with a confusing name and should be remove like spiked helmets and gauntlets. -Randarts should be able to have re-na...

Any of these could be snails (like torpor snails) or angels (like servitors) or humans (like the corrosive guys in Spider) if the enemies need to be placed where ghosts are out of theme.

7. Perfect: "Choose [a weapon/some type of armour] to enchant, or Esc to abort." Always followed by a ---more--- interrupt, after which the menu automatically re-opens! Obviously 7 is ideal, because it both communicates that the user made a mistake AND anticipates that they will want to t...

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