Hi, crawlers! Here’s the latest changes in trunk:

• New feature: ecumenical altars, appearing in the early Dungeon & allowing you to convert to a random god… if you dare!
• Controlled Teleportation has been removed. Rings of control teleport, the spell Control Teleport, and the book of Control are no more. Levels no longer have -cTele (meaning that you can now cBlink your way straight to the Orb of Zot on Zot 5, if you like), but the Orb of Zot now renders blinks completely uncontrolled while carried (making it somewhat trickier to get out again).
• Monster descriptions now list spells’ chance of affecting the player on the main description page, rather than requiring that the player view the detailed spell descriptions.
• Potions quaffed by monsters are now always explicitly identified, instead of ‘almost all of the time’.
• Ravens will be seen in Crawl – nevermore! Mainly because they were removed.
• Ghostly flame clouds have been renamed to spectral mist clouds, to avoid confusion with the completely unrelated ‘ghostly fireball’ effect.
• Ghostly fireballs no longer partially ignore AC.
• Unarmed attacks no longer receive an extra, small attack speed penalty while using shields.
• Zin’s Vitalization no longer provides nutrition, and also has a very small MP cost.
• Jiyva’s Slime Prayer now paralyses slimes for longer, and also has a very small MP cost.
• Friendly monsters bribed by Gozag’s ability are now permanently bribed, but will not leave the branch from whence they came.
• Sif no longer requires worshippers to know any spells before entering Sif’s service.
• Wanderers should no longer start out with completely useless items (!cure for mummies, ?tele for formicids…)
• Ice Cave necromancers no longer have a special chance to spawn with wands of fire.
• Hell beasts no longer have randomized speeds. (Quiz for the comments section: how many people knew that their speeds *were* randomized? Also, can you name the other two types of monsters which still have randomized speeds?)

Happy crawling!

Hi, crawlers! Here’s the latest changes in trunk:

• Chimerae have been removed; the box of beasts now produces ‘mutant beasts’, a new type of creature varying in strength & abilities. Each has a ‘tier’ of strength, varying by the evocations skill of the box’s user, and a random pair of ‘facets’ providing abilities, attacks & resistances. Check them out!
• Most spells and abilities have had their descriptions rewritten for consistency & clarity. Many thanks to MarvinPA for the painstaking work!
• AC now applies before elemental resistances when taking damage for clouds, as with other sources of resistible damage; this effectively makes them more dangerous in the late-game.
• Sticks to Snakes now takes arrows from the inventory, rather than requiring them to be wielded.
• Powered by Death now triggers on kills, not corpses.
• All scrolls & potions can now generate in stacks, even potions of XP, scrolls of acquirement, or a few others.
• Monsters will now pick up all scrolls & potions, not only ones they can actually use. (This only applies to items you haven’t seen yet, of course.)
• Most monsters have lost Teleport Self*; now only Maurice, Ribbit and Sonja can cast it. Rare and powerful magic…
• Weapon descriptions now list the skill level required to reach minimum attack delay.
• Slime wall damage no longer varies by depth.
• Deep dwarf player ghosts now lose their un-regeneration-ness on death; their ghostly ectoplasm reknits normally over time. Now they can finally fit in with the other ghosts…
• Moth of wrath zombies are now pluralized correctly.
• Friendly torpor snails now slow enemies. Rejoice, gastropedomaniacs!
• The Rod of Destruction no longer has a chance of producing bolts of crystal.
• Monsters casting Legendary Destruction no longer lose HP.
• You can no longer die by casting Vampiric Draining on a tile with an invisible demon on it.
• Forms which prevent spellcasting no longer also give a penalty to spell success chance.
• Pan has been removed. (Again.)

*perhaps they left it on the nightstand?

Happy crawling!