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S'pretty extreme in the case of Starship Troopers, though. Heinlein had an entirely different thing going on with the book that the movie more or less missed out on. Movie's tech was pretty puny in comparison in a lotta' ways, too (Micro-nukes!). I'm quite glad I read the book a while after watching the movie, heh.

As for Aliens, the critters themselves were based off some art piece or another, iirc. Not that it really matters, I guess. Thread could probably stand a locking

Only one I can really answer is the indirect death thing; in general, any enemy you've had contact with that dies to means beyond yourself will still give you XP. In the case of confusion death via drowning or suicide, etc, you definitely get the XP if you inflicted the confusion. If they just off themselves in your sight, I'm not so sure.

Re: Poison and Draining, Poison Arrow can be used throughout the game, but draining ultimately ends up pretty 'meh' and the rest of the poison spells situational, i.e. only against non-resistant critters. Mystic blast is pretty solid throughout if you can keep space between you and the target and is pretty easy to cast regardless as to if your conjuration is high or not, so it's an option. I'd imagine your best bet as a necromancer would be hunt down necromutation and haunt, then spin the two together to wreck everything in sight. Otherwise check the wiki guides, which do alright for such information.

Also check out the knowledge bot, which is tremendously helpful.

EDIT: And listen to Feelgood, he's definitely more experienced with crawl than most of us here

Only problem I could see with it is that turning it into a scroll may get in the way of the generation of, yanno', actually useful scrolls. Blatantly useless scrolls are already a nuisance without tacking on another one, and mid-high skilled players probably aren't going to cash in many amnesia uses anyway, if they use any at all. I've personally had the spell a number of times and actually used it maybe one character (that learns it) in 10 or so, if that.

What's an amnesia scroll going do to someone without spells, anyway? It's actually kinda' off that there'd be an asymmetric scroll, now that I think about it. All the other ones do their thing regardless of who's using it, last I paid attention; mummies/demonspawn and holy word being maybe the exception.

EDIT:

Playing Trunk recently, my favorite update has been that your spells, in the second spell information window (hit "I" twice), the game tells you how loud your spells are.

remove spell noise from the advanced spell view (II screen)

Heh. That didn't last long.

I'll edit the topic, and try to remember to PM you(especially during planned events).

If there's any events planned a day or two ahead, heads up here would be wonderful, I think. I keep an eye on this topic (The title edit's terribly helpful, by the by), but steam's not something I have (or will have), so scheduled stuff is a sad unknown.

*vague stare*

... why not just remove AC entirely? Making it vastly inferior to EV in pretty much every freaking way -- less overall damage reduction, greater weight, spellcasting penalties, attack penalties, racial restrictions... and now even less AC, when it's already harder to get than EV -- is doing functionally the same thing. Might as well go full monty!

Actually, on the otherworld thing, what happens if you go... down? Or up, I guess.

Curious minds want to know, especially if attempting to materialize inside rock leads to something akin to a matter-antimatter reaction

"Oh noes!" says Physics, "there's two things in the same place! EXPLOSION TIME!!" Then, light. And a multi-hundredthousand block diameter crater.

It would be glorious. _{and probably crash inducing, ahahahaha.}

S'only about three weeks. I've waited longer on a DL before

Ah, the jolly days of 56k and less. The real trick is keeping the connection open for the whole period. Disconnects make the whole thing so much more time consuming.