Alatreon wrote:Where with most rng, you can manipulate it or avoid it entirely, it is impossible to avoid shafts, or manipulate them.
Strictly speaking, this isn't true, as Tabstorm points out, you can avoid them by remembering ground you've walked on, and exclusively walking on it whenever possible. Assuming this was true though, you can't avoid/manipulate shafts, but you can avoid/manipulate the consequences of shafts, because the player has so many resources at their disposal past like, D:4.
Laraso wrote:Teleport traps are tolerable because usually half the level is already explored and it will never put you up against something that you wouldn't have ended up fighting on that floor anyway. Getting randomly unlucky by walking over shaft traps that you can't possibly tell are there and getting double shafted from D:3 to D:9 and landing in front of an orc warrior holding a glaive of distortion who then banishes you (this has actually happened to me) is a completely different experience and not fun in the slightest
I disagree. That sounds quite fun. It's a test of skill that very rarely comes up, and even if it is a test that can't be solved (i.e., the shafting begins on like, D:3), the sheer improbability of getting double-shafted and then corner-banished is funny in its own right. As to why I don't worship Xom every game: Xom has many more effects than "shafting the player", both literally and figuratively, his effects occur far too often for my tastes (as compared to the within epsilon of once a game that shaft traps happen), and Crawl has many more Gods than Xom, who are quite fun to worship in their own right.
Friday, 22nd July 2016, 04:16 
Terrible design choice and service
