PSA: Hydra Form no longer loses its heads

[tedric]

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/3 ... a4127adbd0

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Give hydra form a fixed number of heads when cast

Letting it grow more heads in combat was a bad gameplay mechanic, but removing
that resulted in it being unecessarily ineffective against eg humanoids with
chopping weapons. Just giving it a fixed number of heads when cast makes it
simpler (at the cost of making it more unlike monster hydras, but again, it was
already really nothing like them).

As discussed in viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18309

[dynast]

I just got my hydra form book on my gold draconian of gozag.

TIME TO EAT SOME GOLD BABEEEEE!!!

[futacatgirl]

Does number of heads scale with spellpower?
Becoming 27 headed mofo sounds nice

[tedric]

The form's number of heads is fixed upon casting the spell, and increases with power.

Don't know what the max is.

[tasonir]

Practically speaking, without max spellpower, I think it's around 10-12, although I'm not sure what the exact upper limit is. I played around with a few months ago but I haven't played a hydra former recently with these changes, so...