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In other words, historically it's a term like effeminate; it indicates that the behavior is being considered typical of a women as opposed to a man (with the exact behaviors it applies to being very culture-dependent.) ... I don't think it's a gay-specific insult, and I don't think there was any in...

came here thinking you had just discovered you were the Slayer, am disappoint :'(

Actually, the etymology of "pussy" as an insult is pretty confusing and unclear -- the senses of "feminine", "cat-like", "timid" and "vagina" have been so muddled together in various combinations for so many centuries that it's basically impossible t...

back in my day, misogynist comments aimed at nobody in particular weren't actually insults when they were wrapped in an obvious layer of parody

this is exactly the sort of pussyfooted mod-damn coddling that turns promising young crawlers into turnips in the first place

now get off my lawn

I'd call that a bug, unless we're going for some kind of flavor where your shadow jealously hates your other allies and passive-aggressively turns them against you

A little bit of stealth is great for any character that's not wearing heavy armour, especially in the early game. It's not about stabbing, it's about being able to back away from things you don't want to fight right now.

re: mid-game problems, a major hurdle for me was learning not to rush to "sexy" higher-level spells just because they are available (whether through book finds or Veh/Sif). I find I have better survivability when I let my starting spellbook do the heavy lifting until I have decent defense ...

What does this add that isn't already accomplished by timed portals and/or ziggurats?

this post deserves an "epic thank" button

Antoine de Saint Exupéry wrote:"perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

Or you could just, like, make the spell less pointlessly rigid. Think of it this way: If all bolt spells were changed to only fire in a straight line directly to the left, would it be a nerf? No, because repositioning to get full use of those spells would be trivial in 99% of cases. But it's still a...

Holding onto money for the slight chance that your game turns out to even contain a bazaar, much less that you'll reach it and it will have items you want...is, well...bizarre. But Zip's right, the iron rod isn't going to do much to get you through Orc if you're stumped by a Warlord or other high-AC...

I probably wouldn't buy that rod until I'd seen what's in the Orc:4 shops.

if that is true, can we please kill those vaults already (or replace at least one wall segment with glass)

^ i know that feel, joh

Is it the "more" that you believe eliminates accidental commands? Yes, because it can only be cleared by non-gameplay keys. And it's the best way we have to ensure that the user takes note of an error message. I favor [2] over [7] most of the time because of my tendency to mix up reading ...

my cousin posted this on facebook and my first thought was "whoa, a real-life GSC" https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11536074_1662791623934656_1092356293021255227_n.jpg?oh=0d443d05b991c7c30d52de55b237243b&oe=567CAE51 it took several seconds to realize i was loo...

tl;dr: The UI responses to accidentally typing an invalid selection from a menu are completely inconsistent, and almost always annoying. Scroll of Enchant [Weapon/Armour] seems to be the only case that gets it right. This has irked me for years, but it wasn't until tonight that I actually took the t...

rf+, rc+ also fail to find rings of protection from fire/cold

For next time, you can report bugs on Mantis: https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/bug_report_page.php (log in with your Tavern credentials) If you think something is a bug, it's better to report it and be on the safe side -- the worst that happens is it gets ignored or someone shoots you a message sayin...

I don't really see the depth in a spell that's locked into one firing pattern for four turns, even when your tactical situation has changed. With retargeting, you would still be locked in place for those turns, so your choice of where to position before you begin casting still matters. Though I gues...

well, if it used normal targeting logic you wouldn't notice the difference

by the time you meet vault wardens you ought to have at least one way to kill them at range, or to teleport/dig/otherwise escape whatever twisted vault edgefigaro decides to create for them

old versions are still around and playable, and what the fuck is a cherufe

EDIT: or did those never make it to trunk, idk. original question still stands

^ I also do this

A war axe is rarely something to get excited about and a zero-skill dagger of elec is a great backup to conjurations for a good long while. Train some stealth.

FR: spare gold gives +$/500 slaying

this game needs a reason to collect junk weapons far less than it needs a better L1 Tloc spell

I'm pretty sure duvessa's suggestion above (bring up targeter every turn) would create a homing effect using the normal "recast previous spell" targeting logic.

as someone who has even the barest idea what a volcano is, it always seemed pretty intuitive to me (to be fair, in a lot of maps the space between the volcano and the walls is about the same as the area that counts as "around lava"; on the other hand, the flame clouds don't appear in lava-...

they're in the ability menu now: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/eb7ffde4dc8cb8f965f166a5c8ced2a4e860c5bd

let the griping over this latest unconscionable nerf to tedium begin!

Irradiate is a lot like axe cleaving: it's great if you can afford to be -- or can't avoid being -- surrounded; but in general, being surrounded is even more not-great. That said, there have been certain situations when I was very glad to have it, like being caught by a pack of fast enemies in open ...

^ this is where we devolve into a crossover with the apportation thread, yes? Seriously: Except for that one layout where you have to pass through one of two parallel sets of small rooms -- in which it is more or less impossible to avoid flame clouds -- I find that the monsters in the volcano repres...

(kind of ninja'd, but) That's an interesting idea to play on the psychological phenomenon known as Loss Aversion, but in practice I don't think it would work. If the vaults offer significant/valuable loot, then reaching them on every level becomes a priority -- which means greatly increasing the val...

if the goal is to force the player to move on, how about you just shaft them

I guess I should have said my rule differently: "If it's not popcorn, it will probably give me a decent amount of XP, and the more dangerous it is the more XP it probably gives." Which is still not always true, but hey -- it's a rule of thumb, not a law of nature. Whether it is actually a ...

my rule of thumb is: if i consider this monster dangerous, it probably gives worthwhile XP This rule of thumb is completely false in my experience tough. i really doubt that it is false in every case, but i'm open to alternatives False and induce bad conduct : if it's worth a bunch of XP, I should ...

so many ungrounded metaphysical assumptions going on in this thread

my rule of thumb is: if i consider this monster dangerous, it probably gives worthwhile XP

I don't think I can properly explain why mountain dwarves were removed, but I'm pretty sure "they're too much like D&D" was not on the list.

DCSS is a blend of many mythologies and inspirations as well as original content, of which the ancient Greeks are only a part.

yes, same shop

I know there was some kind of reform not too terribly long ago to make them more logical or consistent or whatever, but I just don't understand how

Code:: j - $165 gold a +2 pair of gloves of archery

can cost them same as

Code:: k - $165 gold a +2 pair of gloves

Branching into another elementary scool is less good, becasuse they do mostly the same anyway. This really depends on what school you start with. FE's whole starting book can be neutralized by fire resistance/immunity, so unless you're comfortable in melee or have some kind of evocable to kill thos...

except these ideas would make weapons more similar

For the record, Sandman, I took 0% offense and was 100% amused. It's true: I should know how armour skill works! And I kinda did, but had a brain glitch.

well many people also say "Chei is shit" but you know the truth , right? The resistance meets in an plainly marked basement, under the former patty's on 112th, around the back. The door is red, and there is still an outline of the number 3 on the door, although the actual three hasn't bee...

Sandman25 wrote:Don't you know how Armour skill works?

who are you, duvessa or something?

Haha, yep, was just figuring that out for myself. My Armour Skill modifier rounds to 4 without the extra 1 base AC, but to 5 with it. I just don't think I've ever noticed this effect before in all my years of crawling...

A plain helmet has a base of 1 AC. I enchanted it up to the max, +2. It should give 3 AC. But when I swap it on and off, my AC changes by 4. ...What gives? (I'll add a dump if that's helpful. If it's deemed unlikely to be some appropriate but hidden nuance of the AC/Armour Skill/etc. calculations, I...

it sounds like a lot of people need to be better acquainted with this forum's "foe list" feature

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