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bel, Could you please list more specific examples of degenerate play with polearms? I see a few examples which are worth concern, like completely safe attack from behind deep water or Conjure Flame. This is easy to fix by modifying monster AI: if it can't reach player, it should back away 1 square a...

Why not just make monsters NOT follow upstairs at all? You could even make them surround the staircase, or summon help from other parts of the level. yeah stairdancing isn't good against zombies at all I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not. Either way I realized a potential weakness of my idea. I...

Technically you could - both slings and thrown weapons have their 2-handed real life variants. 2-handed sling is staff sling, (fustibalus, 1-handed in the game). Two handed thrown weapons are heavy thrown axes and hammers. You hold them behind your head. The most famous 2-handed thrown axe was franc...

Interesting. And, for what it's worth, it's in line with the idea of distinguishing attack styles through positioning. That's what I sensed and why I came forth with this idea. I also toyed with a few ideas for quarterstaves, but I realized my ideas boiled down to bonuses against certain enemy type...

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They're still good enough to shout and bring down a group of yaktaurs on you.

sdynet wrote:Agony, Dispel Undead: It was a bizarre experience for me to use this. This required me, the wizard, to act like a warrior.

Gandalf, one of the most iconic wizards in fantasy literature, casually carries a sword around and fights like everyone else. What are your counter-examples?

One way or another weapon length, reaching distance is the defining feature of polearms. It really needs to be about weapon length and monsters unable to damage you while you can damage them. We might disagree about the level of abstraction - should reaching be implemented in terms of tiles, or some...

A problem I see with statues is they would be unlikely to work if player is luring towards a cramped corner in a twisted corridor, which is where most luring takes place. I mean players tend to lure to places where few tiles are visible, so few statues are visible as well. You could try work around ...

One good use of Teleport + distortion is poison. It's a lovely combination, and I'm totally cool with monsters dying to poison out of my sight, where they can no longer hit me.

A simple but a bit boring implementation: instead of automatic counterattack, Riposte applies a status effect to monster(s) attacking you, making them vulnerable to "stabbing". It would generate "stabbing" opportunities, but to actually use it you'd have to attack one of the high...

In some situations reaching is not powerful enough. I really tried to get a naga of Hep (the ancestor god) running, but was deeply disappointed. The idea was to skip defensive abilities altogether(all defensive aptitudes are bad), at least for a long while, and fight from behind a Knight ancestor. I...

A similar idea: ghosts that jump out of walls. They wait until a player is fighting in a bottleneck, appear and attack. Similar to the old rock worm, except they don't attack solo, and are actually unkillable. They retreat as soon as other monsters are gone. Slime has acidic walls, Lair could have s...

Why not just make monsters NOT follow upstairs at all? You could even make them surround the staircase, or summon help from other parts of the level. The way I see it any proposal promotes some kind of character and doesn't bother others. Can't ascend if you take a hit? Promotes EV, shields. Monster...

Human Cannonball Earth/Transmutation (level to be determined) Violently hurls the caster into a chosen direction, attempting to damage everything that gets in the way. You deal lots of damage to monsters, but if you don't hit a monster you get confused. For funsies, the spell could have finite spee...

How exactly is your illustration desirable? The human is fighting slime creatures in the open. Why should he be punished for that? I thought the point is to reduce reliance on bottlenecks? I think your proposal mostly promotes stealth and divide&conquer tactics.

Was Saint Christopher really a gnoll?

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Are they descended from Adam's stock, or do they have have souls of beasts?

In this thread we complain about unrealistic mechanics in DCSS. Unrealistic compared to common sense, historically inaccurate and so on. That doesn't mean we should only post stupid stuff that can't possibly make it into the game one day. In this thread, we simply don't care about playablity. Bonus ...

Rename Natasha to Natasha the Ronin. She technically is one - she lost her master!

Allow player to play any mixed race of his choice. Half-orc, half elf; half ogre, half halfling; half centaur, half tengu...

Human Cannonball Earth/Transmutation (level to be determined) Violently hurls the caster into a chosen direction, attempting to damage everything that gets in the way. You deal lots of damage to monsters, but if you don't hit a monster you get confused. For funsies, the spell could have finite spee...

I enjoy the ID game. It's not great, but a fun little minigame that varies by your character and your own personality. For example I like to id potions when standing on a down staircase until I find one of the holy trinity - Might, Haste, Agility. Then I confidently descend. Scrolls rarely benefit m...

For your information, I'm the person who provided the original idea for the spell. The idea was mine, the implementation wasn't. In particular, I argued against giving it a MR check at all. The idea being the test is actually killing the monster. At the time Enchantment school consisted of both Hexe...

How about reducing slow effectivness to 1.5 (as was done with haste) didn't this already happen Why would any sane person make Slow 1.5 like haste ? Haste improves your speed compared to all monsters, while Slow improves your speed only compared to one monster. And it needs a MR check, and the targ...

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Re: Rework polearms

Re: Update stair logic (nerf stair dancing)

Re: Diversify thrown vs slings

Re: Diversify thrown vs slings

Diversify thrown vs slings

Re: Remove Vanilla Orcs Beyond D:9

Re: Positional Attack Magic Implementation [Now Playable]

Re: Rework polearms

Re: anti-luring feature: statues

Re: Player distortion brand --> no TP

Re: Change the way riposte works

Re: Rework polearms

Re: anti-luring feature: statues

Re: Update stair logic (nerf stair dancing)

Re: Positional Attack Spells

Re: Slime creature change

Re: Do Gnolls have souls?

Do Gnolls have souls?

DCSS is unrealistic

Re: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

Re: Positional Attack Spells

Re: Remove the id game (new reason)

Re: Inner Flame

Re: Hexes discussion