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Visiting the labyrinth can be a refreshing change of pace from typical Crawl gameplay. But as expected for designer content, overexposure to something that's the same every time you do it cheapens the experience. So even players who do not find them tedious-yet-optimal would benefit from them becomi...

The Slay+3 alone beats out Claws 1.
Would you wear +4 gloves {+Fly rF+ rCorr} on a clawless character?

I dreamt that I thought it was a good idea to cut off my thumbs with a pair of scissors. It turned out to be a bad idea because after cutting off a thumb on one hand, I could not grasp the scissors with that hand firmly enough to cut off the other thumb. Do you sometimes dream about being shortsight...

Bumping this topic with the amendment that Deal Ordered is better off with the following elegant cost: ⋅ Deal Ordered: draw cards of your choice one a time until there is only one card left in the deck; that card is discarded and the deck disappears. Some further words to address Nemelex ,...

He was obviously doing drugs because a deep elf of kiku cannot be revived and therefore can't be forced to do anything after dying.

Buffs like might are applied before AC reduction and multiplicative brands are applied after AC reduction so yes because a before b and c after b means c after a.

It does not say:

Code:: 62846 Rasputin the Mystic (level 10, 59/76 (77) HPs) Began as a Human Monk on January 21, 1869. Was the Champion of God. Drowned ... in Russia. The game lasted 47 years 342 days.

"Unequip Cursed Item" instead. The differences are subtle, but important primarily for jewelry and ashenzari. primarily for ashenzari and for self-cursing items if you do not worship ashenzari. Note that if you cannot read scrolls, you cannot curse uncursed items with ashenzari. What make...

paralysis is a turn into dead wand so I'm not sure we need a second one confuse is close behind paralysis but slow is a debuff equivalent to hasting yourself and enslave requires you to either anger the charmed monster or get the monster to kill itself on other monsters disintegration may not do eno...

So the goal is to make spoilers simple and attractive - OK that's fair I suppose. it'll make it more likely to get banished later in the game when monsters do more damage, the part of the game where banishment really does't work super well. I don't know about that; it depends on defenses, for exampl...

whenever you take damage, your silence enchantment/aura size increases That part can be problematic if it encourages you to take damage to get your silence aura going. Unlike e.g. dith bleeding which is counter-productive to scum. It would make more sense for you to be silenced with a constant unch...

It's no more spoilery than the fact that disto effects don't care at all what your damage is. I mean, how is it a hidden mechanic if this is exactly what you're told about distortion in-game: It warps and distorts space around it. Unwielding it can cause banishment or high damage. As for short blade...

Proposal is only to change the banishment mechanic of distortion, by far the most notable one. Other effects like teleportation and extra distortion damage do not need to change necessarily, continuing to work better on fast weapons. Why not incentivize improving your normal damage before distortion...

Code:: 3433 + // Rolling boulder beetles are vulnerable 3434 + if (this->rolling()) 3435 + ac /= 2;

Code:: Should encourage players to make bad decisions around the easy-to-mispredict motion of rolling boulder beetles.

Wow, really?

Considering that weight in aums is known for both boulder beetle corpses and any piece of ammo, the speed of missiles prior to impact is the only piece of the puzzle preventing us from easily reprogramming rolling boulder beetles to change speed and trajectory upon getting hit in physically realisti...

What if you make Juggs deaf and make them generate only in the middle of open areas? Then they can only wake up by seeing you or by getting hurt from out of your LOS. You would almost never run into it after rounding a corner. Unlike "flavorful filler action on first action in LOS" you can...

Don't worship Zin, because scrolls are consumables and Zin doesn't like cannibalism.

Distortion's effects trigger on hit regardless of how much damage you've caused. This makes weapon speed and perhaps cleaving/accuracy especially important for disto. Not that that's necessarily bad, but perhaps it would be more interesting if basic damage had more importance. Replace flat 1 in 10 o...

Except that page is copy-pasted off the changelog which is available everywhere else.
And you shouldn't edit it because it's intentionally spelled 'a'bility - pressing the button 'a' brings up the abilities menu.
And this has nothing to do with game design, and there's nothing to be discussed.

good GDD post

I didn't know you meant for insect summons to be very fragile, which would make the god weak as you transition into late-game, let alone extended. I thought that orb spiders, emperor scorpions, and hornets are a thing, and not easily taken down especially by stupid enemies. As for abjuration, you'd ...

Chei likes invo in the teens. Allies upon taking damage and no unit management sound a lot like Jiyva really. I don't see the point of making the allies temporary without activation nor piety cost. Are you interested in what it would look like to have most battles go like: start fighting -> get hurt...

ctrl-D in wizmode lets you set a player enchantment, including silence, for any period of time. But it works like normal silence spell/scroll - large radius of silence that tapers out as the remaining duration comes closer to zero. According to wiki, Ru can inflict silence status on enemies. I neve...

To be fair, OP has random arcane resistance like rRot, rWasteWandCharges, miscast resistance, and spell damage reduction (I don't quite like the last 2). But agreed, defensive bonuses are easier to come up with than other bonuses. More alternatives: ⋅ (Especially if you are actually perma-...

"a good deal of this god is to have the player constantly surrounded by insects" Are you sure you want that? Yred and Beogh let you stay constantly surrounded by allies, and they are often considered similar to a fault, despite how different the allies in question are, and the discrepancy ...

if the creature would quickly die to your allies, without your help, it's probably not worth converting, right? and if we're worried about it getting owned when the brainlessness kicks in, we can have it vanish and become available to you through a recalling invocation. Hurl flesh seems useless and ...

By the way, a species with unlimited enchant scrolls should have relatively good throwing/UC/dodging apts, otherwise you're making it a doubly obvious choice to just go with enchantable weapons and enchantable armor, but those are the exact skills you slapped with -1 apts.

May I suggest a couple more tweaks: remove Spit Miasma. It's really specific and spammable every fight especially without a piety cost. * ability: Hurl Flesh, costs 1hp, does 1d(3+invo) damage. Could ignore half of enemy AC if you want it to remain more useful late-game. Paralyzing spikes -> Volley ...

This capstone strikes me as a bit too similar to Yred and Jiyva. Capstone sounds pretty good to me. With Yred you get non-regenerating zombies, and for enslave soul you want a single enemy with helpful abilities, which Brain Parasite would disable. It's similar to Jiyva only in terms of immediately...

In general, I doubt that HP-activated abilities are worth it without Makhleb's heal-on-kills, especially since here you can't regain health any other way than by 5ing. ... Alternatively, it could be interesting to keep Putrid passive but shift it from a damage/status effect to an interference effec...

Yeah, the reason for a scroll-less race is to make you do without. The whole point is that it will play differently. Now, you can give the species something else to help them deal with the lack of scrolls. Usually it is unlimited or, in the case of DD and Mu, it permanently gimps your character a li...

What do you need the towel for?

oh? there's a specific rule against being a jerk about disagreeing with the devs? and there's no rule against incorrectly pontificating on how obviously ignorant another poster is? my, my, what a canny rule-navigator ontoclasm is! I assumed position refers to an internal perspective or something. 1....

devs can do what they want. If they want to remove mountain dwarves, they can remove mountain dwarves. If they want to keep food, they can keep food. (This is a good thing.) Why should that affect my position? Detect Creatures, since you insist on ramming your head against the wall, currently exists...

You climb upstairs. Welcome back to the Lair of Beasts! You are no longer immune to constriction. You climb downstairs. Welcome back to the Snake Pit! You become immune to constriction again. wtf such effects, if they are to exist in Crawl at all, should be instantaneous and one-time-only. Not "...

Stink is similar to Jiyva. Is there something special that makes base regeneration exempt from inducing poison? I mean, PBD and regeneration mutation make this god unworshipable, so you should allow them. But Regen+ gear becoming horrible is funny, I like that. Demons ought to be susceptible to Brai...

magpie is right. Rename "yak" and "death yak" to "big stupid cow" and "big stupid death cow".

The least agreeable part to me is "new wizlab". Instead, corrupted wizlab, like some temples are corrupted with Lugonu altars and demonic plants. So you enter one of the existing wizlabs, but it has ololoev's monster set inside, instead of the usual. Only occasionally, like 10% of the time...

Yes, each time the player acts, not per enemy action. But it happens after you take that action, at your new location, which is why walking away from a monster that wanders into your LOS does not have it notice you. Huh, I don't know - when you get teleported into a new area, stuff wakes up immediat...

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I made the same mistake with a deep dwarf and nearly got one-shot. Air elementals are tough - in normal circumstances they can guard you until enough thunder dissipates for you to leave.

Littering the area with copies of yourself could quite interesting if you were able to attack from any of them on any given turn - I feel like this is the original intent. To that end give "unlimited" instant controlled blinks to the locations of your copies, but possibly prevent movement...

**not replying to Tressol until next post** "dissing" is relative, it's equal part praise for how good the tiles version is. Compare DoomRL, where you don't see health bars in tiles or console. In fact, that game has an information leak that is much easier to notice in console. On top of t...

1. There's no "scrolling" in console, there's just nothing to scroll, or scroll with, it's not convenience, it's the essence of console play, everything you see is everything you can see. There is as much scrolling in console as there is in tiles. Shift-x, scroll scroll scroll. Ctrl-f, lo...

If you do not remove hell effects, it means you can camp near a portal and indefinitely farm spawns from hell effects for easy experience (this is a bad thing).

[lame]Shoals: tides are set to lowest possible value and never change again.
Spider: all webs are removed.
Swamp: mist stops generating.
Snake: snakes are turned into ladders.[/lame]

FR: remove satiation and curses instead.

That's just permanent allies. That's different. Those aren't effects you create and sustain out of nothing, so they're not a spoilery exception the way PoG is. Archaeo said: god allies.

Hell branches do not easily parallel other branches in this regard. Compare: If you get the rune on Snake:4, surely you can do Snake:1-3 just as easily. vs If you get the rune on Tart:7, surely you can do Tart:1-6 just as easily. It doesn't matter that Tart:1-6 becomes easier - you're done . Why is ...

You implied at some point that clones can go outside of the level boundary. This is 100% impossible, period; units placed outside of the bounds cause crashes (and for good reason). You would not see any clones placed there. They would raise N but the clones would not appear on the map. The only way...

LRD's in the starting book, yeah? I thought you meant passwall, not LRD, because you talked about getting through walls, which is different. Hyperphase, on the other hand, seems like it would be relatively inefficient in the majority of cases And yet the opposite is true. We have explained this upt...

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