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Making the game tedious is not being effective, making the game difficult is. You can kiiind of argue that you can trade off any amount of tedium for difficulty in grinding, but there are limitations...

Just because it affects everything doesn't mean that it needs to have some weird arbitrary disadvantage. You just need to balance the difficulty in gaining it accordingly, so that tiny increases of...

aight that's asinine, i could say speed lets you act more quickly but only relative to your energy costs. They literally do the same thing, one is more general than the other so yes it's more...

that kind of contrived explanation falls apart incredibly quickly when you realize every single other stat in the game doesn't work that way

99 strength lets you 1 shot many of the weaker monsters...

No... no it wouldn't... it's not a web game, he's not doing any serialization shit, he would not be using json. "Template like code" do you mean using OO design patterns and classes?

In theory if...

If you use enough potions of longevity you're not scared of getting aged in 1 shot, and the recipe for potions of youth is convenient, it's a nice way to grind your stats up a bit more past natural....

You can slow yourself for maximum xp gains on last hit of a strong monster :P. Other than that, it's just healing.

Paladins are the best example of a melee/magic character, but as you've noticed...

I don't think the level actually matters - for certain classes at least. Trolls are nice for getting past the early game and after the early game all PCs have the opportunity to become very powerful...

You and your elf fetish.

I'm not a fan of speed or basher talents that late into the game. Those talents are the equivalent of a bug corpse or two from bug wilderness, the damage increase from basher also isn't that great...

Hm, at first I just sort of assumed the energy cost would make it not worth it, but some more math shows that it could be viable.

Level 100 TWF makes it only a 400 energy penalty, but you can...

So? You don't actually know if this is relevant - it's quite possible he doesn't have enough other fire proof equipment to viably do it without a ring of ice *regardless*, and even if he does need to...

I wouldn't say iron is "highly prone to being destroyed". If you bless it, the chance of it melting or dissolving in acid is actually really quite low. The most consistent annoyance is jellies but...

I am fairly certain there needs to be some time off the level, maybe even just one turn off. The same effect holds true for monster generation, if you've ever spent a long time live saccing (also see...

Offensive alchemy is extremely overpowered, and most easily used with herbs.

The levels thing is an outdated theory, it's simply that different sources of elemental resistance stack.

I'm aware of how resistance works, I was just confused when pblack said that glowing...

it's certainly fun but i'm not sure how it's really ever a more powerful option.

I don't see how slaying weapons are especially effectiev with dual wielding. On the contrary, isn't it much harder...

Honest question, does anyone really use TWF except for needle and sting? I suppose rangers are okay with it too early since they dont get the -6 to hit penalty and have a wider range of weapons they...

I think that all spider corpses do grant it but it's not 100% guaranteed, just a very high chance.

I don't see much wrong with save scumming if you're very new, if you don't want to that's quite commendable but I don't think it's inherently detrimental to learning.

Just be careful you don't...

If you meet one that early, just run. You need death ray resistance, and they're immune to literally every element and not weak to any slaying ammo. Killing them late game is simply a matter of being...

Any spider corpse, or giant centipede, will do the trick.

Snakes satiate you but won't provide resistance sadly.

Honestly I find it really weird you suddenly have so much difficulty with d50 because you lack these certain strengths, when without them it seems almost impossible that you've fought off things like...

spells are not useless on d50, you just don't have very good spells (no acid ball, no acid bolt, no iceball, low knowledge and effectiveness in magic missile, low knowledge and effectiveness in...

not really sure what you're saying, bc you already said you used herbs a bunch to increase your stats on your current character.

it doesn't actually take much time to level archery at all, pretty...