Deep Dwarf Wand

[ajon]

Currently deep dwarves spend their own MP to recharge their wands. The mechanism seems to limit how people play them as most players tend to just got for a few gods that provide healing. Also, one can go through a few charges as damage piles up. I am proposing for discussion that recharging wands could cause drain or stat drain instead. It could even be a very large drain to limit it being overused but at least it would save from permanently losing MP or from endlessly vampiric draining easy monsters to heal.

[Sar]

My first reaction was "nooo, it must be permanent, it would be too OP otherwise!", but you know what, it's already too OP, and nobody cares about a couple of points of MP. Getting really heavy drain would probably be more significant, especially in the early game. Reminds me of how Ru powers work.

[Rast]

Since I haven't said it in a while:

Take away their starting wand and the stupid recharging ability. Change Slow Healing 3 to Slow Healing 2 (You do not heal naturally when monsters are visible).

I don't care about speedrunners.

[duvessa]

taking away slow healing 3 takes away the entire point of the race, you might as well remove them (but i think the entire point of the race is irrevocably stupid in crawl, so i would be happy with that)
it would be like making nagas normal speed, giving octopodes 2 ring slots, or letting demigods worship gods
taking away the wand and the recharging ability should absolutely happen though

[Jeremiah]

Remove non-healing and damage shaving, reduce their HP and change their name to Mountain Dwarves.