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W - +11 double sword "Ythrueqa" {speed, Str+4} (curse)

Thank you, sword in stone vault.

I'd like abandoned shops to be retained on account that they have the rare and valuable ability to punish a player for being spoiled about the game.

I could really do with less food shops, though.

If your spell doesn't kill everything on the screen it isn't worth casting.

OTR, Ozo's Fridge and Shatter are three best spells in the game.

Probably in that order.

And they say Olgreb's Toxic Radiance is useless.

I'd just like to say that Crawl's food clock led to some of the most fun experiences I've ever had in the game, because I use permafood very liberally and sometimes run out and have to dive to levels far above my head just to keep killing edible things. The correct solution to the food dilemma is to...

the +7 knife of Accuracy (stab, acc) Vorpal dagger, allows stabbing undistracted monsters with a chance that increases with Stealth and Short Blades and decreases with monster HD. Increases your melee/ranged/spell accuracy by 5 (or more?) like a reverse Amulet of Inaccuracy. I'm told that melee is a...

Certain Orc endings can be utterly destroyed with Immolation and (optionally, if you want to make it real safe) a source of invisibility, like the ogre swarm and the dreaded ranged vault.

Speaking of that "would you like it if your weapon suddenly became animate" comment, I'd like to see a mid-game Tukima's trap that animates your weapon as a hostile (and sets the trap as its guard point so you don't go looking all over the level for it later on). It's an interesting decisi...

Hey, it'd still be screaming, you'd just get death metal growls and ear-piercing arias into the mix now.

Though I always imagined the Singing Sword to have a really high-pitched squeaky voice, so maybe it isn't cut out for metal.

Sar wrote:But the crazy stuff it screams!

You can make it so that once it gets enough slaying bonuses, it becomes Screaming Sword and starts doing its slaying bonus as noise damage ("The Singing's Sword's song rises to a crescendo!")

F - +11 broad axe of the Vestibule of Hell {drain, Str+3}

First artifact found. Thus begins the saga of the axespriggan.

Also got +9 eveningstar, a demon trident, a vampiric executioner's axe and 9 surplus EW scrolls by Orc, thanks to Maud and a bailey. Too bad I can't use the exec, though.

Iron dragons actually pick at their scabs and throw them at you. That's what metal splinters is.

Grey draconians don't get a breath weapon because they know better.

I like both of them but you can mostly just walk away from hungry ghosts and death cobs are yet another enemy that you shouldn't ever be meleeing (provided that you have a food clock). I propose that their AF_HUNGER attacks be made into gaze attacks instead, so that they can't reliably hungerlock yo...

Maximilian II's sword is, in fact, a taxidermied sawfish.

New monster: Steagle Colbeagle
Like a shard shrike, but casts Bolt of America dealing 3d30 irresistible AC-bypassing freedom damage.

There are also stingless bees, but don't worry; they'll climb into your nose, mouth, eyes, and ears if the colony is threatened. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01995317 There are also wasps that spray their venom as an atomized mist that eats into the soft membranes of vertebrate predat...

Failing that, remove Canada.

I was thinking about a unique in the same vein as this, except as a headless horseman. Only its head spawns at first, and it screams (like a flying skull, but maybe with unique speech) and vanishes when you find it. If you don't leave the current level within X turns, it returns with its body. Head ...

Have it sometimes spawn a clone when you take huge damage, with HP equal to the HP you lost. Some of your essence flows out through your cloak of the Rakshasa!

Also makes sense since Rakshasas only clone at low HP now.

You're assuming oka is gifting something useful. That's a bad assumption Well, this Oka would also gift all your equipment (sans one) to your clone, and it's a good assumption that even if that +0 robe won't be so useful, the rest of your gear (and your HP, and your spells) will. Furthermore you ge...

If you recast Dragon Form while already transformed, you should become Double Dragon for a massive boost to your UC.

People already complain about some ghosts' names offending them, so I don't really see this feature ever being implemented. I don't know, Elona is a great game and Crawl can be improved by implementing some of its design decisions, such as death messages, item destruction applying to worn items, la...

tasonir wrote:For those that don't know, you start at white belt; yellow is the second belt after that.

Think about it that way: You've gotten to the Lair of martial arts, you should be able to get black belt and 10 dans with no problems after that

If Gr wants something to fear, give Hell Sentinels Shatter. In fact, make another 1 that has a no-changes aura (so no transforming into something, no getting out of your current transformation, no charms you don't already have etc.) and give them Shatter too. It will be fun when a hell effect deposi...

He hardly ever plays on booze!
Then give three cheers and one cheer more
For this abstaining user of the Tavern board!

FR: Game mode where you start in the middle of the orb chamber and must travel to D:1, grab the orb and return it back there. Since we've reversed the order of early, middle and late game, clearly this must be easier, at least until you clear 99% of the game and run into the dreaded hobgoblin with s...

The idea, I think, is that Crawl is an easy game and under ideal conditions you would virtually never die except in situations that kill you before you have an answer for them, and these situations occur almost entirely in the early game. I disagree, though. Although it is true that very few encount...

That it doesn't happen. You get the area zap animation but it doesn't actually harm enemy monsters. Though I don't see any reason why it shouldn't, since shock serpents (and electric golems if this proposal goes through) are usually a bigger threat than anything else they may be damaging in the proc...

1. Cut both ears off
2. Sacrifice Ear (player can't hear shouts, doesn't take sonic damage from screaming sword)
3. Free Ru piety!

Two simple suggestions for Zot. Now that Curse Skulls are fast, there's no reason for Toes to keep their slow-movement gimmick, and a fast enemy that torments and blocks you with mushrooms could be fun in Zot. Making them generate spores for extra confusion may be another bonus, though that might be...

Oh right, so you intentionally set it up to make the potions scummable? You can't scum potions because you have a finite number of them. But yeah, that's exactly what would make this sort of gnome boring to play. Still you forgot to mention the solid disadvantage of "basically can't use tactic...

No, I am not. In fact, I'm proposing a species that drinks potions all the time, because it can't reserve them for when things turn sour. You're getting a solid advantage (enter every tough fight with might/haste/invisibility/whatever) with a solid disadvantage (can't gain these within the fight its...

Would you really risk getting confusion or strong poison without the possibility of reliable curing? Well then, let ?remove curse, ?ew, ?ea, !cmut and the status-removing part of !curing apply their regular effects in addition to their random effects No longer a problem. But the "ideal" w...

Why would you ever quaff potions when there is only like 20% chance they will help you, and the same chance to kill you 1. Find tough enemy 2. Step back from enemy 3. Quaff potion 4a. If you got something bad, wait it out 4b. If you got something good, kill enemy So you can quaff potions before bat...

Well then, let ?remove curse, ?ew, ?ea, !cmut and the status-removing part of !curing apply their regular effects in addition to their random effects.

Unnecessary inconveniences should be eliminated, as long as ?acquirement and !experience are still subject to the randomizer rule.

Well, what about this: Every potion produces a random battle (curing, heal wounds, magic, invisibility, might, agility, brilliance, confusion, degeneration, strong poison, resistance, haste, lignification, cancellation) effect instead of its own effect. Every scroll produces a random battle (blink, ...

Crawl design philosophy: simplify things because they're too unintuitive and spoiler-y, then get rid of them because they're too simple.

It's been working so far.

Potion of Jorgrun petrified me and I died with this in my inventory.

It's certainly got its uses.

Only because these limitations are too lenient and the items truly vital to progress are too few. If the choice came down to, say, having to take either !heal wounds or ?blink, then we'd be talking.

Weight still imposes meaningful choices by limiting the amount of options you can have at any one point. It's just that item slot limitations do the same thing much better.

Making weight more important would have been just as acceptable as removing it.

seems like it would pose balance problems if implemented exactly as you suggest (increased speed, a good melee brand, and extremely strong spells sounds like it could be as strong as a high-level player character), but that could be adjusted. Well, the idea is that the demon would randomly gain som...

Background: 1. Permanent allies are fun, but tedious to manage. It is nice to see your wimplings develop into dungeon-shattering horrors, but coordinating them is a major hassle, to such an extent that the recall spell and the related god abilities have been revamped to reduce the tedium of handlin...

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