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Which impact would have (e.g.) 10% faster piety decay? How many percent would be necessary to make resting a bit less of a no-brainer? People would rest just as often and endure the lower piety, I think. If things got to the point where you'd lose all piety and be excommunicated if you kept resting...

I think the problem with blink allies encircle is that it uses the caster's line of sight rather than the target's. If it used your LoS, you could blame yourself for letting other enemies into your screen with a serpent around (especially since half of Snake is slow), but as things are now you have ...

n - the amulet "Zola" {Harm *Drain -Tele *Contam rC+ Str+8}. I met it in a ziggurat in tomb three where I immolated some orcs and they burst like a nova N-O-V-A, nova I saw a shimmering amulet on the ground so I popped an identify on it and it said: Zola Z-O-L-A, Zola Zo-zo-zo-zo-zola Well...

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I still think that permanent allies work best as a summon spell that summons the same ally every time, allows it to level up with on-screen kills Beogh-style and gives you an exp-gated period in which it can't be resummoned when it dies. I also still think that this is best accomplished with a Summo...

*: Enemies lose all their immunities with respect to their own attacks. Greater mummies lose half HP whenever they torment, hellions and orbs of fire can fry themselves, you can kite Asmodeus through his own Ring of Flames. **: Poetic Betrayal - smite-targeted invocation that turns all enemy summons...

Here's a silly idea for a level 9 poison spell: Noxious Conversion, Level 9 Poison You take the next 13d(spellpower/4) damage as poison levels. This is no different than regular poison and can be healed by !curing or Cure Poison. Effect ends only if you take all the damage allotted by the spell, unu...

You made me think for a moment that Ashenzari got removed.

Pakellas first, please.

Snake: "You pick up the serpentine rune and feel its power. Its warming glow fades, causing the dungeon to cool. The inhabitants of the branch grow weary and lethargic." This is also a very good excuse for raising enemy nagas to speed 10, which should happen already. Want old lure heaven ...

Here are the main problems I think Poison Magic has. 1. Its early game is tedious. Sting encourages kiting, OTR encourages kiting plus Cure Poison plus resting afterwards, there are a whole bunch of enemies (phantoms, necrophages, ice beasts, player ghosts, high-end zombies) that you can't really ki...

I thought Jiyva's slimes were special-cased to display old jelly behavior and ate whatever they pleased. Are they not?

Here's an alternative solution: Have them disappear slowly, giving you enough time to rush in and save some but not all of the items (choices!). Remove jelly paralyze altogether.

Wands should go the way of rods and start having unique effects, starting with a holy damage wand.

They're limited resources, anyway, and this way you don't start thinking "do I use this on my /hw or my other /hw?" when you get recharging late game.

While we're at it, let's allow every species to worship Beogh too, since unlike Ds/Zin or holy damage/undead interactions, there's virtually nothing preventing that from happening.

"A fast-running yaktaur that prefers to pierce its foes with its lance rather than bolts. Trained to avoid the projectiles of its brethren, it locks fleeing enemies into place while its pack-mates pepper them from afar." I like centaurs because they present a clear danger (fast, consisten...

This is a dream, no sort of bolt is going to stop us.

Take the house, and the door with it.

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a living version of a lich that randomly kills itself I think the correct word for these is "player character". That said, he would be an interesting addition to the abyss, where you wouldn't need to spoil yourself for any of his card effects because the optimal way to deal with him would...

remove new year, does not bring anything new to table, is useless feature bloat

2015 is perfectly fine but should be renamed to mountain dwarves

duvessa wrote:I'm especially not going to let you hit on a cat.

But Tohno Shiki says cats are fine too and I take all my love advice from incestuous vampire-murdering bestiality fanatics

comparing MD and Beogh is a complete fail on your part. No it isn't. If flavor is really the sole reason for Beogh to exist, just remove the god entirely. Beogh doesn't have a niche and is just a collection of abilities you get from other gods/items, is what I'm saying. Now, this was my reaction to...

This works well for species, as these are extraneous content: you can truly ignore all species you've not chosen for a particular game. Well, I can't ignore Hill Orcs no matter how much I may dislike them, because I have to choose them when I want to play with Beogh! Opportunistic jab aside, I woul...

the part where people told you that literally the only reason for Beogh to exist is flavour and Beogh flavour is being a god of orcs who hates filthy subhuman non-orc races mechanics-wise Beogh isn't very unique apart from being orc god, if you want to worship Beogh as a non-orc just worship Yred i...

So, what about the part where a reasonable explanation for not letting non-orcs worship Beogh is provided? I mean, even if you know dungeon orcs and player orcs are different, we have precedent for non-orc Beogh worship in flavor text (Mennas) and cave orcs being led by a human isn't any worse a for...

If summons are still a problem, you can also make it so that when something is in the knockback pathway, it takes crashing damage a la Force Lance.

Try to sputterfly your way out of a juggernaut, and it'll smash you to death with your own butterflies.

Out of curiosity, what was the reason given?

Lacuenta wrote:What if malmut was more like a 50/50 thing instead of 80/20?

It would make people find a Neqoxec and stay in its sight for 500000 turns until they get perfect mutation sets.

We know this because Alter Self.

I can't see why that shouldn't happen, beyond flavor reasons. Other species can be honorary orcs I guess?

It's not like Beogh is an exceptionally powerful god, so being able to take him as a non-orc just increases your options without forcing you into taking him. Having more options is good!

carthage does not force meaningful decision. when player see carthage, he want to destroy carthage. there is no strategy choice, but there is a lot of key click for burn carthage, kill carthage soldier, sow salt in carthage field. therefore i suggest followings change to the game: -carthage removed ...

Oh, that certainly is fun. I got dropped into that vault with spatial maelstroms eating at walls.

Literally into it, mind. I was in the glass and had to wait for them to dig their way to me.

My point is this: Extended ought to be shortened, just as Dungeon, Vaults, S-branches, Elf and now Orc have been shortened.

And yes, additional extended content is good (except Demon Hounds). I have no complaints about that.

Then perhaps it is erroneous to classify branches as core and optional to justify not paying attention to the latter. Orc rework is good, though. Here's hoping that it being good will draw some more attention on other branches that could use a similar shortening, and especially to the atrocity that ...

Orc is not mandatory content no matter how you look at it.

Might be a good idea to move Orc entry further down to give a clear idea that it is not a pleasant place and definitely no longer an alternative to Lair. Or was that already done?

I also do Elf early and try to tackle the end vault if I have the necessary tools (MR, clouds and/or good melee, plus extra consumables for master archers and possibly blademasters/crystal golems) on hand, and I'd like to say I dislike these changes. Elves being both squishy and threatening made the...

I don't understand why you are replacing amulets with entirely unrelated amulets instead of adding the amulets you want to add and then figuring out which of the existing items need to go (or vice-versa). I'm also unsure whether MR needs to go from "the single most important resistance in the g...

Nothing says fun quite like fire floors with 50 orbs of fire.

Looks like the greatesterplayer entry may soon stop being a joke.

I'm starting to think that the Pakellas thread was a starcursed mass in disguise.

Another solution is that after Howl runs out, you should get a long duration in which you can't get that status again, like banishment (but not like paralysis where the grace period is very short). This way, you'll always have some time where no hounds may spawn and you're able to take out the exist...

What purpose does that serve, other than making people cast LRD on Tomb walls/Hell end vaults fifty times in a row? Stone and metal usually mean that you're not intended to dig into a vault, except you can break in anyway if you have the patience to sit around casting at walls until you hit that 3% ...

A prize to whomever turns Grinder into one first!

Not annoying enough, call them Hounds of Tindalos and spawn them on Zot traps/Tloc miscasts/abyss.

Also discourage luring and killhole tactics by having a 1/270 chance for each turn spent with a corner ("sharp angle") in LoS to give you the howl status.

I'd rather see something like this: Crystallize, L4 Earth/Tmut This spell channels transmutative energy through the caster's spells and weapons, converting any monster killed for its duration to a tough but short-lived crystal statue. Crystal statues are susceptible to LRD, can be attacked, and have...

Spectral Weapon is another good spell to pick up.

Also, Pakellas is limited by piety rather than MP, the regen-on-kills effect is such that you'll gain back your maximum MP fairly quickly. Don't be afraid to learn and cast utility spells if the situation calls for it.

Well, won with my only death to a curse toe mishap (tried to blink out of its range, miscast the spell thanks to a certain slime idiot giving me wild magic 2, got chainconfused without getting to use my scrolls). I wanted deathless, but oh well. Also, crashed a dozen times from an annoying bug about...

With pretty much any character I eventually get to the point where I can say "yeah, I've got this" and winning the game is just a matter of not making stupid decisions. When this happens can change depending on the build ("lair entrance" gets touted a lot but we all know it can b...

I hope you won't remove Mountain Dwarves from the dev list to make up for this exciting new addition.

The proverbial stone soup was made possible only because of an initial ingredient that served no role by itself. Food plays this role in DCSS. Just as there would be no stone soup without that initial stone, there would be no DCSS without food. People who claim that food is "pointless and shoul...

New monster: Life cob
Each hit feeds you by 1/4 of your satiation. If you hit maximum satiation, you choke on your food and die.

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