Hepl & Conjure Flame

[MainiacJoe]

I am playing an FE^Hepl and I'm dismayed to discover that my buddy is quite happy to stand in conjured flame and immolate himself. This is quite frustrating!

[Majang]

That's what you get from playing with allies.

[Shtopit]

New Bon Jovi song.

Anyway, it probably should be signalled as a bug.

This actually reminds me of a thing in Fallout 2, where you had an ally panel in which you could choose ally behaviour and risk-taking. Something as simple as "avoid clouds?", "max distance from player", "when retreat" could be added to Crawl, and would be more interesting than name&sex.

[MainiacJoe]

I submitted a bug report, but wouldn't be surprised if this is intended behavior. In any case, I have used tranference to leverage this, but that seems to be something to do after the ally has been stupid instead of an intentional tactic.