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Charms are currently the one type of spell you can cast pre-battle to gain a long lasting strategic advantage, instead of having an instantaneous tactical effect. This places them in a weird position, balance wise, rendering their spell power (insofar as it is tied to duration) and failure rate larg...

Could have all rings of foo resistance become rings of foo that give rFoo+ and bonus spellpower to foo spells, with no corresponding elemental weakness.

Too meta for my tastes

You already have to fight a few monsters to go from undead to living currently. Now you just dont have to press c and e while doing so. If wanting to make this merely an interface change, just have draining only happen on change from dead or bat form to living, and use exh to prevent fast repeated s...

BabyRage wrote:
gammafunk wrote:just remove Cheibriados

Only over my dead body!

youre a chei worshipper, we'll just jog past you

1. No more potions of blood 2. Can switch between living form, undead form and bat form at the cost of draining and exh 3. Draining bite instead of satiating bite Reasoning: Makes vampires a lot less tedious and eliminates the need to do things like scavenge through the whole dungeon, lair and lair ...

I mean, i find vanilla dcss too tedious even without hunger which is why im exclusively playing hellcrawl. Would love to see hellmonk get rid of food though.

I have to be honest and say I'm not gonna do that, because I don't see how it would differ from an ordinary game of crawl other than not having to press c or e all the time. But good job nonetheless.

So apparently the devs are split on this issue -- some want to implement this type of solution where hunger simply becomes irrelevant, and others want to remove food in a way that makes hunger clock even more important than it presently is. I think the players mostly favor this type of solution wher...

Idk OP, I guess it could be interesting to have a player sitting there trying to decide whether to re-cast haste after being dispelled or positioning to try and avoid a dispelling monster while still dealing with other monsters. I think my main issue is that the effects you're proposing are either r...

None of these ideas solve the "equipment in spell slots" issue (...) Letting permanent charms "drain" MP, as lethediver suggests above, is completely meaningless to the average non-VS melee dude, while it makes them completely useless for the casters who would be most likely to ...

I think the main problem with monsters specifically designed to punish (rather than merely being impervious to) charms is that they basically force a lot of tedium. Players are going to do this: 1) keep charms up as much as reasonable given hunger cost 2) if they see a monster such as outlined in th...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:
lethediver wrote:Then cant we just make them higher level?

it seems we can't. I suggested it many times.

The difference is, back then didnt have me on your side. With a tavern luminary like myself backing you, the devs will have no choice but to heed us.

I like the idea of fast skeles that chatter their jaws mockingly while chasing you as the slow zombie hoard rolls forth to finish u off.

charm spells can be casted without monsters in view so it is a good idea to have them active when you are exploring. new ozo armour or repel missiles don't have this problem. This seems like more of an interface problem than balance problem tho. Solution is to just rMsl ify all the charms spells an...

Where does this idea come from that spells need to be brainers? cant spells just be....good? no, they can't. if every character who finds a spell, instantly learns it and tries to make it castable, we have op spell. animate skeleton, blink, summon butterflies, spectra weapon, regeneration, passage ...

When people talk about charms being "no brainers" what is really meant by that? with the exception of not wasting mp/hunger on popcorn, arent most spells no brainers? You always want to be shooting monsters with your strongest available direct damage spells. You always want to have a pog e...

edgefigaro wrote:Make Yara's a Monster spell on

Ogre mage (spell set 1, replaces confuse)
Deep Elf Sorcerer
Lich,
Ancient Lich,
Pan Lord. Doesn't Dispel Magical Flight or Forms.

Don't put it on demons. Put in non demon based extended game content and put it in those branches.

End Charms Reform ...

why

Rule #4 for survival on these mean dcss tavern streets: assume non sarcastic posts are the exception rather than the rule

Quite a resume you have there.

This cements it for me, south korea is definitely better than north korea

Shit happens bro. Sometimes ya just gotta deal.

I like this idea. Supported.

Now if it doesn't go through you have no one but the devs to un-thank.

Please stop teasing me and just tell me what I need to do to make it happen!! Is it a matter of money?! Make the kickstarter and ill throw you 30 bucks, no joke

Tried to tabspam down that entropy weaver eh

Well? Dont just leave me in suspense bro -- tell me what they are.

OP can you get "Crawler" to give us his sound patch thing? We'll pay him money I am afraid of telling you that he is disappeared from our community before about 3 months ago. But our web developer will work together with gammafunk and me to share our module with you western guys in Decemb...

I didn't forget. Sadly you can only make a poll with 10 options max. Yet more oppression on the part of the mods ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OP can you get "Crawler" to give us his sound patch thing? We'll pay him money

Nah im pretty salty but in the end it was my fault for not bringing a ring instead of potions.

brought flight potions instead of a ring, ran out of those, and then ran out of desperation teleports.............................

raararrghgharhhgahghghghghghghgabblblbl :cry:

duvessa wrote:DjCKs out for harambe

And my KoCK!

Good. You millenials have gone far enough with your emoji culture. We're a decade or so away from regressing back to homo erectus times where communication only happens through facial expressions and hand signals.

For what it's worth, immediately after seeing ultraviolent's posting on reddit (again, many thanks for this), I wrote an email to the public crawl-ref-discuss list. I don't feel like regurgitating all of that over here, but rest assured, the matter is being taken seriously. I don't think immediate ...

Fr: dragon corpses have a chance to leave hides on decay

Trollish meta responses go here | | | v Thanks, I have one ;) People who voted for removing blinking monsters should get good. Blinking monsters are among the best designed monsters because they make player stop mindless tabbing and luring to corridors. We need to have more monsters like this: Orb ...

Welcome to the wonderful world of DCSS design friend.

Im flattered you even think i was aiming for interpretability.

Its like i flung poop at the wall and you said "eh its an alright painting, its no mona lisa tho"

Make it cost 1 maxMP

Its only ~12 people that voted so far, looks like. You can vote for multiple options btw, not sure if you realized.

Made an account just for that huh? Stick around, we need someone with your level of dedication.

Counterpoint: armors look cooler

it got blocked by their damage shaving

I now feel better about putting Eustachio out of his misery. Imagine his suffering. Constantly stopping at every tile to spam summons and check for traps. Little wonder he went mad and attacks the player on sight for your crime of not playing optimally.

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Relevant reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/54kdyv/psa_if_you_die_to_traps_you_only_have_yourself_to/ Looks like someone finally sacrificed himself on the altar of the dev's hubris and manually marked (with exclusions) and walked on known non-trapped tiles in order to score a largel...

I think this race is too generic as is. If they're implemented pls get rid of Ogres since their niche as large casters will have been completely subsumed.

The tavern provides enough thanks to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

cmon gammafunk steal their module already

and their splashscreens

Every man dies. Not every man truly crawls.

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