* 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));

He can be buffed to make up for it, but I really like that you don't need to kill him if you can manage to sever his sword-arm.


He's already resistant/immune to all the things Petrus and Oree are.

I don't mind the mage, he is very fragile, so you only have to find him quickly, but the golems are really hardcore if a diamond or an ommel bone one generates. Maybe you could keep the golems as is, only without the strongest being generated?

EDIT:

The other thread is here.

No, that's your disease immunity timing out. Maybe you ate some mushrooms and they gave you disease immunity?

Neither did I. I wouldn't have let my angel anywhere near that siren otherwise!

Wow, I was completely annihilated by my own angel.

I got an angel from sacrificing to Cruentus and we were steamrolling through GC. But when I needed to return to Attnam to sell my loot, my angel ran after a siren. The siren survived the first round with only some lost limbs and brainwashed my angel, turning her hostile!

Well, before I got a turn, my angel disabled both my arms. No wands for me. I tried to pray to Nefas for a mistress to use as a meat shield while I tactically run the hell away, but she gave me a new arm instead. Unfortunately, the arm didn't make it through the next angel's attack, so still no wands. I tried praying to Cruentus even though his prayer timeout was not enough, but he liked me enough to try to help anyway. He managed to scare the siren, but not his own angel...

Next turn, I was only a torso and a head, 3 HP left. Then my wonderful angel beheaded me.

It slowly drains their stats.

I must say I like the new sores message, because I do notice it and it definitely helps.

Hm, I've never actually been confused by sirens... They only ever steal my stuff.