crate wrote:15 stealth species factor is equal to the mean if you count vp as 21 at all times. Human dex is pretty average. HuEn is just fine power-wise, so is HuAs. I'm really not sure what you're saying about stealth. Unless you think that for a large majority of the races in crawl stealth is not "good" (I will not argue about that here).
You can play a HuEn without too much problem, yes, since you will rely on hexes more than on stealth. Still, less stealth will mean that more monsters will wake up, and you'll have to spend more time/mp/hp while fighting them. But what about HuAs? You'll have much more monsters wake up, than if you would play one of 7 races with stealth factor 18(and stealth aptitude averaging at about +4) or at least DE or DD with +3 aptitude, so you'll have to rely on weapons much more than on stealth, which is not bad, but not really a good stabber choice.
So yes, I find all the races with a stealth factor below 18 and stealth aptitude below +3 bad at stealth, meaning that the average(not good and not bad) would be between 18 and 15 stealth factor and about +2-3 aptitude. Actually, I think that reducing the gap by improving the stealth factor of most races for at least 1 and adding 1 into their stealth aptitude might be not such a bad idea, to encourage more hybridising with stabbing skills and to give more opportunities not to give up on stealth entirely for some races(and to just reduce the unreasonable IMO differentiation between stealthy races and not so stealthy races). I don't think that this will strongly influence the decision of taking different courses, but I don't think it's a bad idea either. This is my opinion on stealth and what I see as average(somewhat related to humans?). Still, this is very minor even for me, so don't mind this too much.