Be careful that this has a good chance to destroy some items on the level, so you might be depriving yourself of some loot.

No, dragon hide. Because it's a flaming sword.

Skeletal Xinroch has a ruby flaming sword. So lost ruby flaming sword is as close as you can get to the other sword while making it an artifact.

I'd say have both swords of same material, so either retain both as pure ruby, or make both ruby with arcanite handle.

Just don't stay in the gas and they should be much more manageable than mines, and those also start in GC 1. I always fear going into GC when I can't find a source of fire resistance, because then you'll very quickly end blown up.

Wow, I just reinvented the wheel! Good idea, chaostrom, I like it.

Was it in the Cellar, or deeper? You shouldn't be able to take anything from the Cellar, but deeper, you can take whatever you like.

I have a new solution to the useless shields problem mentioned many, many times. Here is the relevant branch.

I don't think adding offensive capabilities (bashing etc.) to shields is the best way to go, mostly because this makes shields similar to dual-wielding, while IMHO shield builds should feel differently and more defense oriented than offense oriented dual-wield builds. Therefore, I think a nice way to buff shields is to give them an AV bonus applied to all body parts, just as cloaks. That way, you can either go dual-wield route and have more attacks/higher damage, or go shield route and have less damage, but more blocking (already present) and more AV (my change).

Even better, this change makes both light and heavy shields viable and different. Light shields are more accurate, thus better at blocking blows and negating the damage completely. Heavy shields are inaccurate and bad at blocking, but have much higher AV bonuses and will reduce damage taken. You can decide yourself which is better for you, but both types of shields have pros and cons.

While you will still sacrifice offense by wielding a shield, now they will offer a tradeoff that is hopefully worth it.

Coincidentally, this also fixes a bug with Aegis which was already present in CLIVAN and I didn't notice it until now - it only gave its elemental resistances to the arm you wielded it with, not your whole body. Now it will be fixed.

What do you think?

* Cannot panicked or confused
* Cannot be knocked unconscious
* Immune to cloning and polymorph
* Immune to item teleport and thievery
* Immune to gases (Petrus is not)
* Highly resistant to fire, electricity and striking
* Hasted

Plus Xinroch will summon his own skeleton and elite dark knights.


Cannot be broken, made of ruby and +13. Pretty strong to use.

Announced on r/roguelikes, Temple of the Roguelike and RogueBasin.

It's already after midnight here and now I have the itch to go and play a bit. And I blame you, fejoa, because new releases always do that to me.

Zappable/applied effects could be a nice distinguishing feature between magic weapons and artifacts.

I'm not too keen on adding more effects to magic weapons, as they are already quite strong and useful, and adding more effects to them would make them overshadow normal weapons way too much, IMHO. Flaming swords give you light and fire damage which is not blocked by armor, thunder hammers have very strong lightning bolts that will kill everything quickly if you can survive them yourself, whips of thievery are just badass, etc. They are all quite useful without being overpowered, and even those that can be a bit tricky to use (staves of wondrous smells) are actually quite effective if you're careful.

Giving zappable effects to artifacts, though, would be a nice way to make them feel even more special. I like that.


That would be rather easy. Chilling axes already slow your enemies, you could just add:

Hitter->BeginTemporaryState(HASTE, 100 + RAND_N(200));