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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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dck wrote:By the time Grinder shows up it's unlikely the kind of player who can have problems with this spoilery stuff even knows what a shadow imp is, not to mention xv shows his spells. By the time poly shows up he's likely killed a lot of cyclopes.
I can understand keeping him in the game and I can understand keeping him a cyclops for theme and whatnot, but I think new players should have a warning of some kind that this guy can hit them much more accurately and hard than a normal cyclops.
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ontoclasm wrote:Why is "he's a unique cyclops" not enough warning of this?
claws wrote:Side note about another case of this issue: Sonja is speed 14 and Psyche is speed 13, but I've seen few complaints about Sonja being innately faster than earlier kobolds or Psyche being innately faster than the many other early human uniques
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WalkerBoh wrote:Uniques being spoilery can be an issue, but taking 80dam in one turn for no reason other than the fact that you didn't read spoilers is fine
you should under no circumstances fight her
Uniques like Jorgrun or Erolcha are much worse in this respect, since they can literally kill you upon entering LoS if you don't realize that one of your specific resists isn't high enough to fight them.
he is trivially harmless if he can't Petrify you
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TheDefiniteArticle wrote:WalkerBoh wrote:Uniques being spoilery can be an issue, but taking 80dam in one turn for no reason other than the fact that you didn't read spoilers is fine
uh
What does it take for something to be a problem? Does it have to kill players in real life, like some kind of bad horror movie?
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Zammy wrote:It surely is not a problem if you die to a unique. If you have brains, it will only happen once.
Zammy wrote:If you really want to take all elements of surprise from crawl I just ask what will you have left?
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duvessa wrote:A test of actual player skill.Zammy wrote:If you really want to take all elements of surprise from crawl I just ask what will you have left?
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Zammy wrote:duvessa wrote:A test of actual player skill.Zammy wrote:If you really want to take all elements of surprise from crawl I just ask what will you have left?
In a game much less fun. Don't know about you, but I play for fun.
Dude, this is not chess.
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