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absolutego wrote:it's literally burned somewhere in my brain.

Ouch

I think adding "this could take a few tries" to whatever message is sufficient.

Tangentially related: I've been trying to get an OgAK off the ground recently. Is the eventual GSC of distortion as great as it sounds?

I found the text change hilarious at first, but quickly had to change it back to maintain readability. It was the Germanic filter that I finally couldn't handle. I think the idea even as it is has a couple of issues: Even interface-related text was being changed, making things extremely confusing. E...

TehDruid wrote:To be honest I first started an Ogre and I thought the text was like that because of my low INT score.

Funny, that's exactly what happened to me too!

Maybe I'll add a stealth optional notice, but I've found it to just be bothersome - you can't sneak up on mobs because you're terribly slow Fortunately, this isn't true: your stealth check only happens each time the player makes a move, so your ability to sneak up on an npc is independent of your m...

Spider Form + tab. No weapon corrosion, no armor corrosion.

So what stops players from mashing 5 until beastform whenever they find a tough monster?

Re: point-blank shooting: My proposal is that for ranged weapons, the attack delay happens before the shot instead of after, and that any interruption-like event (primarily getting hit or taking damage, but there are probably other kinds) cancels the ranged attack. So it'd look like this: [you press...

For the record, I also Crawl and watch TV at the same time. I guess the reason I have no screen problems is because I play Console

Ask Google/Mozilla/Apple/whomever makes your browser.

KoboldLord wrote:Flight -- air/tmut form, meld cloak slot for permaflight

I really like this idea.

palin wrote:
XuaXua wrote:
Markizxd wrote: (except for hydras)

For that you need Summoning, Ice and Summon Ice Beast.

Or a Potion of Berseker Rage. A Berserking Felid eats hydras for breakfast.

Is that despite the fact that Felid claws will cut hydra heads off?

Seeing an un-IDed scroll in a wand shop would amount to identifying the recharge scroll. Um, there are no antique wand shops to my knowledge, so it would be listed as "a scroll of recharging (unknown)". It wouldn't tell you which of your scrolls are recharging until you bought it. oh oops

Seeing an un-IDed scroll in a wand shop would amount to identifying the recharge scroll.

How about this - non Hill Orcs can worship Beogh. As you gain piety, he alters your aptitudes, hp/mp, and base stats to be more like a Hill Orc, until you end up as one at ******, but retaining equipment restrictions, species mutations, etc as your base character. This lets you transition into a mo...

jejorda2 wrote:Halflings are from Tolkien

Our understanding of goblins is from D&D, no?

omndra wrote:On the other hand, Bladehands don't glow...

You can make blade hands glow. It would be okay!

I've always had all of these Crawl scenes in my head I'd want to draw if I could draw. A sludge elf contemplating his hand as it morphs into a blade. A NaSt emerging out of a rock wall behind an unsuspecting orc, dagger in hand. A KeAE flying towards the screen, readying a lightning bolt to throw. A...

ekolis wrote:How about "enchant weapon (accuracy)" and "enchant weapon (damage)"?

This is best.

sir_laser wrote:
mageykun wrote:Every floor should have exactly 3 downstairs and 3 upstairs (plus escape hatches).

I thought every floor should have at least 3 downstairs and 3 upstairs? There can't be more?

Exactly three stone up and down staircases each. There can be any number of hatches.

cerebovssquire wrote:Dig also works well, if I remember correctly, and can probably used to check for monsters (better check noise levels first).

I believe Dig is silent or near silent.

"You return to the world of the dead."

Danei wrote:Xom - Male

Xom sounds like he would get a sex change once every couple of weeks just for the hell of it.

mageykun wrote:What do I have to put in init.txt so that new games start with skill focusing toggled on? I'm getting sick of having to press "|" every time I start setting up the skills on a new char.

That would be "skill_focus = true".

I'm sure the calculation is simple enough if it's assumed that both the monster and the character swing at the other each turn. That might be a pretty big if, though I haven't played the game enough to know.

I agree with your overall point, and would like to add that this— 95% of the people spend 95% of their time pre-rune is particularly a problem that should be tackled. The early game is the most boring part of the game (imo), so it's not good that a large majority of players have to spend most or all...

The thing I hated most about FD/Evap is that they were in the Transmuter starting book. Now that that's been fixed, I don't have quite as much of a problem with them. They'd fit in nicely to an Alchemy school if that ever gets done.

Ice bridges were already proved silly and annoying in ADOM. And potion throwing already exists - it's called Evaporate, L2 fire/tmut. Yeah, but why can't you, you know, just throw the potion? (Not actually in favour of the idea) Probably for the same reason a lot of people think Evaporate is overpo...

ebarrett wrote:Ice bridges were already proved silly and annoying in ADOM. And potion throwing already exists - it's called Evaporate, L2 fire/tmut.

Yeah, but why can't you, you know, just throw the potion? (Not actually in favour of the idea)

Stormfox wrote:Tenku.

(You're welcome.)

"Tenku" just happens to be one of the Japanese words for the sky, by the way.

Yes to Ice Form (and Statue Form), no to Blade Hands. Claws do not stack with Ice Form. Your claws are replaced with "ice fists". This makes Ice Form essential to TrTm for killing hydras, because claws can slice off hydra heads and make them regenerate two more, like all non-flaming blade...

AtT wrote:Perhaps voting for moderators should be implemented?

Doesn't sound good. There are better ways to choose moderators than popularity contests.

Huh? Scroll of curing? Scroll of heal wounds?

Base damage with claws is 8, To be exact, it's actually 9. The formula is 3 (unmutated base UC damage) + 2*3 (2 for each level of Claws). Point still stands: Blade Hands is worth it, although it does only marginally more damage than when used by a Sludge Elf. Still, though, TrTm is way more than ju...

I get where the OP is coming from, but just… meh. Now we just have a ripoff of Japanese culture, instead of a ripoff of a ripoff of Japanese culture. Don't really care either way in this case, to be totally honest. I'm from Japan, which probably biases things a bit. Tengus having a separate leaderbo...

On the whole, this sounds like a cool, well thought-out proposal (although I found it unfortunate and counterintuitive that Okawaru's "look after your allies" conduct instantly translated to a very roundabout "don't have allies ever"; he should either have become a commander-type...

It's not like they're packing their gear up under their hide, or emanating some sort of force field or something. Why not a force field, though? Demonspawn have mutations that give missile-deflecting repulsion fields and protects their things from burning - the laws of Crawl genetics clearly borrow...

plusses only on launchers (to prevent twenty different stacks of ammo) What about thrown missiles? Do you plan to make them a special case? frost/flame only on missiles (to make launchers more useful) What about casting branding spells while wielding launchers? There's already a precedent with thin...

On the contrary, I think we should ramp up to 27 colours.

cjo wrote:Cool, is there a more appropriate place I can suggest this spell?

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... ic:alchemy seems to be the place.

I agree that "square room with bees in" has got to be one of the most boring vaults I've ever seen. Even just a hexagon would be more exciting. Being contained by a closed door is also problematic; most likely you will just end up autoexploring straight into it. The checker-pattern beehive...

* Transmuters used to have a "mad scientist" flavor about them. With the loss of FD/E, they primarily transmute their own bodies. The exception is "sticks to snakes," but that's only one spell. I now feel much more like a shapeshifter than like a transmuter. I would really like ...

Just like weapon choice was removed for Fi, Gl, AK, CK, DK, Sk, and Wr, and not added for Hu and AM several versions ago? While that was increased, Conjurers lost their secondary choice screen, ditto Wizards and Priests, Chaos Knights lost their tertiary choice screen. I know that. Almost all melee...

In general, the devteam is trying to reduce the number of secondary choice screens, so yes, if Berserkers had "always" had a choice of weapon, that would have been removed several versions ago (maybe it was, I don't remember), especially as they certainly don't need a "buff" to ...

why not just start them with a weapon of the players choice and let them choose a short sword at start, and let me choose my spear :D Picking a weapon also gives you some levels in that weapon skill to start with, though. Getting to choose your weapon is a buff (though not a huge one), and the Bers...

Right, especially since our dwarves are all the same , the overwhelming expectation will be that a race called Dwarf, given without qualification, will be something like the standard Tolkien dwarf—that is, our former Mountain Dwarf. An adjective is needed to deflect that expectation. Also, no need t...

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=why

It seems weird to have a background that exists as an excuse to start with a certain item. In any case, that weapon of returning is going to be left in the dust once the player finds a stack of javelins or large rocks—i.e. real throwing weapons—at which point he will be functionally equivalent to a ...

I've actually seen a lot of people thinking that (for example) a -1, +5 whip is the same as a +0, +0 demon whip. I thought this for months until embarrassingly recently. Every Crawl newbie I personally know thinks this. What else are we supposed to expect? When you associate additive numbers with t...

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