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duvessa wrote:What player makes it to D:2 without figuring out that the movement keys can move your character away from monsters?

Tab and o can move your character away from monsters?!

dpeg wrote:It proved so hard to tune balance into something working that Brent sort of gave up (he just disappeared).

Just come out and say "we assassinated him so that we could take control of the game", dpeg.

We all know it already. Some say his corpse is still buried in the depths of beam.cc.

I really like how GDD threads have a preset structure that our otherwise incredibly chaotic board seems obliged to follow. To wit, the first poster will suggest a small and prudent change; for example, that trolls should be able to eat entire corpses from the ground for the total nutrition that its ...

Split screen with Boris and Natasha looking at the same portrait of a catty old wizard petting a wizened old cat.

For what it's worth, here's my take on an "archer god". * "You begin to phase in and out of reality." Permanent phase shift, with extra EV increasing with piety. ** Duplicate Self: Target a tile. A copy of you appears on that tile (takes no auts) and you can fire a single attack ...

Baby tiamat playing with draconian toy soldiers in a pillow fort made out of the dragonskin cloak.

So you're suggesting to... use a lot of extra food to prevent yourself from using a lot of extra food?

goldify shops

PleasingFungus wrote:It's not particularly abuseable, afaik

Is that a challenge?

He should get a shock serpent-type aura, but instead of just a discharge, he gets an orb of electrocution centered on himself every time he gets hit.

Sar wrote:so when does your posting

I think he named his prize already.

G - +1 cloak of the Albatross {*Drain rCorr Int+7}

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

Sar wrote:How llama!

Scut!

Maybe I was not clear or our lines got crossed... It seems like you are agreeing with me? I am saying that species-based restrictions should not have a bunch of exceptions, as that tends to be bad for consistency, clarity, and making the restrictions meaningful. I agree that species restrictions sh...

If everything can berserk, transmute, etc. (not sure what is in this "etc." — teleport? quaff? regenerate HP by resting?), then a number of species would have to be removed or changed, because not being able to do those things is a part of what makes them distinctive. I disagree. These re...

duvessa wrote:Is DCSS trying to set a record for largest number of religions misrepresented?

Given that half of ancient Egyptian religion was about developing new cheat codes for a good afterlife, I'm pretty sure they would have enslaved their gods if they could.

please explain why torment shouldn't be in the game Like two other things necromutation removes (malmutate and random paralysis off of 2% chance, which the extra MR from the spell mitigates), torment is a hackneyed means of punishing endgame characters that "misplay" or "fail to posi...

Necromutation is the best spell in the game because it removes things that shouldn't be in the game from the game.

Dying because you can't drink potions or use the actually broken level 8 necromancy spells is a small cost to pay in comparison.

That Qazlal's apostate title is "Unspoiled" speaks volumes about how you have to play that god.

New monster: Nintendog. When a Nintendog comes onto your LoS, it will start licking your screen, which will show nothing but a huge, rapidly blinking red "h" to represent the act. The player can't see any changes to the map or the HP/MP bar while this happens, and must rely on memory or ta...

I think the full-on removal of a god is an excellent thing because it makes a good precedent for the removal of other awful gods.

The faster Pakellas meets the chopping block, the better.

You can already create a gap between you and the monster using that one weird weapon trick.

I don't see why swiftness is so different that it needs to be special cased to avoid this.

It is not recommended to play mummies as a beginner, as they can't cast Necromutation.

What makes Poison Magic especially infuriating is that it already has a decent secondary gimmick (damage-over-time and poison counters), but no poison spell does anything with it, bar Ignite Poison (which is one of the best-designed and most useful PM spells). A series of PM spells that use poison c...

I had Necromutation, so yeah, nothing could take them off. Xom waited until it wore off during autotravel to take one rank off my Robust 3, though. But it also cured my deterioration so I could have a full-benemut list. Morgue here: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/git/Croases/morgue-Croases-20160805...

DS of Xom is surprisingly fun. You have claws for feet. You are completely covered in large bone plates. (AC +4, SH +4) Your flesh is heat resistant. (rF+) Your demonic aura causes spilled blood to erupt in flames. You resist negative energy. (rN+) You are powered by pain. You are somewhat able to r...

God should be completely fed up with you and kick you out immediately (but with all gifts) once you reach 6*.

Trying to pray on its altars afterwards will get you a "X does not accept worship from these such as you!" message.

The cockblock sage (he has a name I'm sure but I have no idea what it is) was by far the best character in that story and should've been made into a crawl unique instead. This dude was so horrified by the prospect of human on snake action that he literally came back from the grave to prevent it. His...

Slime knights should exist for the same reason that chaos knights do. That a playstyle is suboptimal doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed.

Besides, early Slimify will save your life against a whole lot of things.

The problem with Poison Arrow is that you want your generic "kill stuff" spell to be as broadly applicable as possible, which is why, given the choice between Poison Arrow and, say, Iron Shot or OoD (which has its own problems), I'd go for the latter virtually all the time. Poisonous Cloud...

Poison/Hexes Death's Door works by using tetrodotoxin and curses to turn yourself into an unfeeling, unstoppable voodoo zombie! And thematically PM has no real gimmick other than "poison things". An additional "sacrifice HP to do extra damage/save yourself" angle could work well ...

Dimensional Anchor greater nagas sound like a solid idea.

In fact, forced teleports from distortion et al. can be converted to anchor too. Am I alone in never really liking distortion teleporting enemies as well?

Noxious Rebirth Poison This spell instantly heals any and all wounds suffered by the caster, but the venomous cocktail used to revive the body also permanently lessens its resilience to injury — to a degree dependent on (and inversely related to) magical skill. The spell is powerful enough to liter...

Speaking of blink allies encircling, does it still use monster LoS rather than your LoS? Because that's awful.

I don't want to play like every guardian serpent hangs out with 20 anacondas that are just out of my sight, waiting to be ported directly into my face.

_You see here the +5 scythe "Finisher" {speed, Str+3}.
_You see here the cursed +13 scythe of Curses {drain, *Curse}.

Both scythe unrands found next to each other in a ziggurat.

I like Mountain Dwarves.

Since players liking things is now the metric for retaining or removing these things, please add them back to the game.

orc priests/high priests/Saint Roka are the only beoghite monsters whose religion the player can currently confirm ('calls down the wrath of Beogh upon you!'). zin's recite would historically behave differently for orcs than for other intelligent monsters (since they follow an evil god), but that w...

There was an old idea where identified monsters beyond your range would be shown as "a monster-shaped blur", this sounds like a good idea for that kind of mutation.

there are hundreds of Beogh worshippers in a typical game of crawl. every one of them is an orc Is this something that is shown to your average player? I only know about the monster religion thing because it was mentioned in passing on the learndb. if you worship beogh, every follower he gifts you ...

I don't know if you realise this, but you are not entitled to a reply. Beogh is the orc god because we like it. What else do you want? A proof? A poll showing that Korean players would start WW3 if we open up Beogh? I certainly appreciate that the development team has the right to change the game a...

it'd be fair to argue either way, except that everything else in crawl indicates that Beogh only accepts orcs. Is there anything else in Crawl that indicates that Beogh only accepts orcs, other than Beogh only accepting orcs? I think Mennas' flavor is the only other place where Beogh plays a centra...

As for Beogh, He's Orc Jesus. So it makes sense that only Orcs can worship him. I've honestly never played with this god, because I never play Orcs, but I appreciate the flavor. I'm not gonna get all buttmad because I wanna play a Ds^Beogh and have an army of other Ds following me around destroying...

If you''ve designed Beogh, then all the more reason for you to endeavor to make him better, instead of him remaining as a terrible niche god that forces you to play a single species and isn't even picked by Korean speedrunners anymore. Beogh's orcs-only gimmick is both exceptionally restrictive and ...

Hepliaklqana doesn't seem like an especially awful god, but it does have an especially awful mechanic in forbidding worship from a completely random species for virtually no reason and to the detriment of gameplay experience. I think this should be removed, alongside Beogh, Yred and Dithmenos' equal...

As a principle, Crawl currently auto-identifies almost any item that you can manually deduce the identity of due to circumstances.

This sounds like an edge-case that should be fixed, possibly by auto-identifying all equipment in monster hands (as is currently the case with weapon brands).

An alternative: +4 Torpor Shell [ponderous+++, slowmonsters], base item is large shield.

Slows everything in sight, but lowers your movement speed massively so that you can't run away from most things even if they're slowed, and needs substantial shields investment. Still very powerful, though.

second alternative: rmut amulet has 100% protection, but gives you one guaranteed badmut whenever you remove it.

so you can have your mutless game if you want but the cost for it is no faith etc. ever.

Cheibrodos wrote:you're an Octopode with 2 AC standing between two executioners

If I ever shoot Crawl-themed porn, this is what the plot is going to be.

OTR now is a bizarre passive-aggressive spell that forces you to have Cure Poison and cast it in combat, counteracting its purpose as a multi-turn spell that passively poisons monsters while you do other things (because you don't get to do other things, you cast Cure Poison). I don't really have a g...

On the topic of removing rP from things, some fiends and other late-game enemies (but not all!) should lose it so that Poison Magic becomes "you can kill some enemies easier than other schools, but need a back-up plan for the rest" magic rather than "any skill point put into this scho...

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