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Although the central place for design discussion is ##crawl-dev on freenode, some may find it helpful to discuss requests and suggestions here first.
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duvessa wrote:It would also be nice if attacking with a chaos weapon didn't instantly kill you from full HP.
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Chaos weapons seem to be full of awfully spoilery things
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case CHAOS_CLONE: chaos_effect += "clone"; break;
case CHAOS_POLY: chaos_effect += "polymorph"; break;
case CHAOS_POLY_UP: chaos_effect += "polymorph PPT_MORE"; break;
case CHAOS_MAKE_SHIFTER: chaos_effect += "shifter"; break;
case CHAOS_MISCAST: chaos_effect += "miscast"; break;
case CHAOS_RAGE: chaos_effect += "berserk"; break;
case CHAOS_HEAL: chaos_effect += "healing"; break;
case CHAOS_HASTE: chaos_effect += "hasting"; break;
case CHAOS_INVIS: chaos_effect += "invisible"; break;
case CHAOS_SLOW: chaos_effect += "slowing"; break;
case CHAOS_PARALYSIS: chaos_effect += "paralysis"; break;
case CHAOS_PETRIFY: chaos_effect += "petrify"; break;
default: chaos_effect += "(other)"; break;
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This is what chaos weapons give the player the idea of doing, until the player duplicates a hellephant, polymorphs something into a sphinx
njvack wrote:Oddly, it looks like it *can't* heal or berserk or haste the attacker unless I'm misreading melee_attack.cc which is very likely.
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headcrab0803 wrote:what about berserking and hasting the wielder too
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TeshiAlair wrote:Chaos brand might not equal xom levels of crazy, but I don't think people pick up a chaos weapon and think "I can reliably use this weapon without any nasty surprises."
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TeshiAlair wrote:You picked the god of randomly killing you anyway. This is as silly as saying "it isn't fair that monks can't use scrolls of enchant weapon."
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RBrandon wrote:For example, I thought that stair-sliding was Xom's doing for the longest time until I read somewhere that it was a chaos brand thing.
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galehar wrote:poly other (can be fun be too spoilery about what monster can be affected and which ones are likely to poly into a very dangerous monster)
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