Ohh I love the igniting enemies within ESP range. That is awesome.

I had forgotten about the buying/selling charisma bonus. However, that does get less effective over time right?

It sounds like we are moving towards making Charisma a much more powerful trait. It's not just a pretty face any more, it could potentially cause others to join your team, etc.

Most other traits have easy ways to slightly strengthen them early on (e.g. reading a ton of books, carrying heavy stuff) so I don't think there is any harm in keeping the buying/selling bonus. But maybe we should make it slightly less effective, and also raise the bar for resurrecting named bosses.

I like all those changes

I like a) limiting limb generation to troll blood only and b) making Mellis less generous

Yeah I think the problem is not lack of history, it's just nobody wants to go to the effort of searching that history.

Anyways sorry for the off topic, I have some ideas on how to make this better and will work on them

I never really used IRC even when it was active, but wouldn't those discussions still get lost? Or no

Yeah, they shouldn't become pets.

I'm not sure if they should technically be on your team, or should just be removed from the New Attnam team and become hostile towards New Attnam.

This is all just me spewing ideas though, I'm not saying this is a priority or will be easy.

I'm fine with an amulet of magic resistance, but I think it should still be a bonus in addition to the ability to train it yourself (just like there's helms of perception, brilliance, etc.)

Maybe the "leader" effect should be based on the highest charisma of the person on their team.

May need to adjust the existing NPC charisma to make it work but:

Let's say Decos's is 25. If your charisma is 30+ then the slaves try to help (but most likely they will immediately panic and flee, unless you give them equipment). If your charisma is 40+ then some of his guards betray him.

Petrus's would need to be 50+

I'm not exactly sure how the teams work - is Tweraif a subset of the New Attnam team? Because attacking a slave will piss of Decos but attacking Decos will not piss off the slaves.

We may need to add some kind of "Loyalty" trait. That also makes things interesting because then maybe Petrus's wives are less loyal to him and would switch over to your side more quickly than his guard.

I was going to suggest that last bullet as well. If your charisma is really really high, it would be awesome if when you attack Petrus, some of the Attnamese join your side.

I think we've talked about a way to intentionally get rid of spider webs. What about a feather duster item that can be 'a'pplied in a direction. It could take a random number of turns to actually bring the web down. Also could be a somewhat rare item because I think getting stuck in webs is a big part of UT

Oh ok, yeah the unmelting ice sounds cool.

Thanks for the polycontrol explanation.

I feel like there is a flaw with either approach:

If it's RNG, then you could get extremely lucky (find it early and get polymorphed into something powerful), in which case it is overpowered
If it's on an NPC, then you probably have to be pretty far along to get it, in which case it's not very useful (the whole point being, in my opinion, to be able to play and grow as a different type of creature)