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TGW wrote:banishment: not a spell

If magic resistance has an effect on Lugonu's ability, it might make sense to address banishment along with spells. I can't say if it does.

I'm guessing his INT deteriorated due to hunger, since he is a Ghoul.

Yeah, it seems like we don't need mimics when we have hidden traps and the possibility of useless artifacts. Maybe summon traps could replace mimics?

For some of the hairy ones like minmay listed, maybe when an enemy is 80% teleported, there is not an 80% chance it will teleport, but there's an 80/10=8% chance or 80/4=20% chance. Just pick a factor, and have a big jump in the success rate when you pump the effect up to 100%. And, given the P is t...

What if instead of a distant 3x3 block of cloud, the spell created a single square of cloud at the target, then a second cloud on a random square adjacent to the targeted square? Also, reduce the range to one, like freeze. That way, you can't reliably get groups of enemies, can't get 'em until they ...

monsters don't glow currently, Don't monsters glow when you cast corona at them? My original idea (which I worked into this glow mechanic because I thought the original might be too complicated) was to have graduated states for each enchantment. Instead of "Confused" or "Not Confused...

The problem is, anything powerful enough to be threatening usually has high enough MR to resist most hexes (which I think could stand to be balanced better). (from here ) I've seen grumbling about this on the wiki and in the tavern. Here's a set of mechanics that might help out: ⋅ Glowing...

If you're a MuIE and Pikel is resisting your freeze attacks, it's because he's wearing a robe of cold resistance. Find another way to attack him and/or flee.

galehar wrote:ask the knowledge bots

I had no idea there was a web query interface for the knowledge bots. I've been loading this and searching with the browser's find command:

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/learndb.html

That's much more friendly.

So heavily enchanted clubs can make Ijyb a threat without a wand.

Who knew?

What if we did something like this: No HP is gained when Fighting skill is raised. No MP is gained when spellcasting is raised. When XP Level is gained, compare fighting skill to spellcasting skill. If fighting is higher, give full hp gain from fighting skill increase since last level and 1/3 of MP ...

Aren't ammo gifts on a different timer than weapon and armour gifts? Isn't it already set up so getting ammo gifts doesn't reduce the number of other gifts that you get? Isn't the only bad thing about ammo gifts that enemies might pick them up if you don't? They don't take time or inventory slots if...

Moose wrote:Wonder if there's any chance that can get added to the UI somehow, maybe on the weapon description screen...

It's being worked on:
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... :weapons&s[]=delay

I understand that pain is additive, like electrocution, so it is best on quick weapons. Go for the dagger.

Ok, made some changes based on all the feedback here (thanks everyone) and submitted it to the Wiki. It took me about four tries to get the wiki code right since I forgot to preview the first revision and the page ended up in a complete mess, but at least now it's clean and readable. Link: https://...

You can identify artifacts the same way you identify the regular base item, but sometimes you have to use a scroll of identify to fully identify the item. Once you get the item's true name, you're done. Knowing the item's name happens at the same time as knowing all the properties for armour, but n...

I think that of the three volcanoes I have explored, one was about like that and the other two had a weapon of flaming from each class and eight different armours of fire resistance.

It looks clear that the only cost for training any skill should be the opportunity cost; that XP now can't be used for something else. Or it is now harder to train some opposing skill.

I like that smite works over other enemies and can't be resisted. Sometimes I wish it were set to something like 10% of max HP like torment is set to 50% of current HP. I think I would still have to prioritize for that, but there would be fewer, "Oh, I saw that, so I'm dead" games.

I went through with rPois and rNeg++ and only got rot, not slow or poison. I don't know if anything short of Necromutation will avoid the rot. I used Flight and Swiftness to minimize exposure time.

Would it make sense to give HP based on some combination of dodging, armour, and shields skills, much as MP is given based on Spellcasting and Evocation skills? HP is a form of defense, so perhaps defensive skills should contribute. Defensive skill investment is worthwhile enough that it might not b...

+4 darts still seem useful for getting rid of fleeing creatures even as far as the vaults. I don't think I've had a character survive longer than that who didn't either have ranged spell attacks or slings that replaced the darts.

What if we renamed player Ogres to Hobgoblins?

Nobody expects hobgoblins to be good at anything. They're just bigger ugly goblins.

The only time I ever encountered Mennas, I ran just out of his LOS and called 4 brothers. They all exhausted their zerk and poofed away before they could kill him. He's hard for them to hit. I managed to take him out, but I'm not sure they helped much.

You mention throwing things into water and hitting walls when you miss; do you know that you can target an enemy and press "." instead of enter to have the missile stop at the target whether you hit or miss?

I don't like the idea of making Hive a portal vault. That makes it too difficult to carry all the food out. I guess carrying a potion of levitation in there isn't too onerous.

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Re: Hexes and Magic Resistance

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Re: Mimics break autoexplore

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Re: Mephitic Cloud Suggestions.

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Hexes and Magic Resistance

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YASD-Ijyb with a +9 club

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