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I once got a Dungeon floor that looked like E.T.:

Look, it's even got the weird glowy finger!

When you die, the weapon in your hand absorbs your soul. Then, when you wield an ego-branded weapon of that type, you must struggle Pokemon-Trainer-style to keep control of your weapon. Failure means stumbling around or intentionally attacking yourself. Alternately: when you die, wielded weapon goes...

I'm imagining a pale, sickly, trenchcoat-wearing vampire entangling his scythe in the first halberd he sees and then getting punched to death by gnolls, all to the soundtrack from "Queen of the Damned".

Let's do it!

I always found boots and kits pretty inconsequential. They didn't help enough to be that game-changing and I wasn't hindered enough without them to think 'man, I gotta get those'. I'm also speaking without having tried everything in New Game+ - but in that gamemode I still try for (and succeed with)...

A different time-resolution mechanic. Lots of pen'n'paper RPGs have turn based declaration of actions, but with a few games, the actual resolution of events happens as if they were all declared simultaneously. Playing into the above suggestion, realistic melee fighting. Parrying, riposting, half-swo...

Post 'em if ya got 'em. Vampire (bat form): ▄ ▄ ▄▀█ ▀▄▄▄█▄▄▄█▄▄▄▀ █▀▄ █ █ ▄▀██▄█▄██▀▄ █ █ █ █ ▀█ ▼ ▼ █▀ █ █ █ ▼ ▼ █ ▼ ▼ Kiku (dual-wielding because why not): ▐█► ◄█▌ ▲ /\ █►☺☺☻◄█ ◄░► > ░> █►☻☺☺◄█ ◄░► \/░ ▐█►☻◄█▌ ◄░► ░ ▀███▀ ◄░► ▀▄ ▀▄░█░▄▀ ▄▀ ▀█░░░░░█▀ ▄▄▀█░░░░░█▀▄▄ ▀ ▀▀█▀▀ ▀ ██ ██ ▄██ ██▄ Slime crea...

RE: vampires and mutagenic chunks As a Vampire, I expected not to be able to eat mutagenic chunks. But if you butcher a mutagenic mob as a vampire, it only yields regular chunks of flesh. So, extrapolating... vampire DNA is 100% resistant to mutations. Otherwise, why isn't the flesh mutagenic? P...

"THE FLAYED GHOST"

I'm evil, dark and scary mean, I'll eat your bones for lunch
You'd be scared out of your wits if you couldn't kill me with one punch
So let me show you how I feel... suffer as I SUFFER
We can draw with crayons and then take a nap, mother FUCKERRRRRRRRRR

- Give each character unseen, hidden tastes for food that they have to discover by trying it. If they really like (say) pizza, it fills them up as much as royal jelly. Some other food, occurring at the same frequency in the Dungeon, becomes inedible. If you are (e.g.) a Spriggan who is found to hate...

This god's pretty awesome conceptually. It'd be cool to some kind of toggleable ability to prevent Piety gain so that each tier of handicaps can be taken on as a not-quite-atheist-but-close-enough player challenge. If you join Cheibriados after abandoning Goft, it should give you free Piety. I like ...

How 'bout an abomination/Frankenstein's-Monster-esque thing? Give 'em the slowest metabolism, and say that instead of rotting for eating chunks, they rot without them. They can't heal from chunks like Ghouls, aren't really in danger from hunger-drainers, don't resist torment or poison (no necromancy...

Vehumet rules if you abuse his range extension. It's a whole extra turn to do stuff. He's my #3 god for wins after Trog and Gozag. Sif should get a +Wiz-like ability, if only so she has a power that buffs wizards' abilities in the same direct way as Vehumet. +Wiz is just right. Then, with V, you can...

A buff like +Wiz, but for unarmed combat only. +Focus or something. And then, branded gloves that have it. That way it can buff unarmed and not have to make a new weapon type in the process, monks can get their 'runed gauntlets', and everyone else just has gloves.

Xom should polymorph you into Prince Ribbit if he gets bored 3 times in a row.

Trog for President - because 'Murica Gozag for Internal Revenue - instead of mass graves, we'd have mass goldmines Kiku for General of the Army - supplies his own recruitment effort: shows up in TV propaganda about the joys of being reanimated Jiyva for Bibbly Bop Zoobity Bop - diddly-doo shlappah c...

Don't burn spellbooks with Trog, because you need them to feed the jellies after you convert to Jiyva.

Evoc is one of the great levellers. Almost any build benefits from having some points in it. I don't usually train it until I hit Lair unless I play Deep Dwarf, serve Pakellas, or get lucky with evokable finds - but even, say, 4-5 in Evoc will drastically increase what you get. There's such a broad ...

Make Sticks to Snakes auto-trigger when you fire an arrow, so the enemy gets hit by a flying snake fangs-first.

Shoals is fine to me. One of my favorite branches since 0.16. If I asked for anything to be changed about it, I'd want a few more walls/structures, so all the ranged mobs had less of a chance to get 15 free shots on me every time I poke my head out. I do like the idea of a 'progression' between Spid...

If you're playing potion roulette, you should drink the green ones first. Green means 'safe'. And if a potion of heal wounds is red, it's a trap.

the +18 shield of the gong {rElec rN+ MR+ EV-5} It's noisy, but if you know how to stairdance and are thorough in clearing out areas, it rocks. Not suited for the endgame unless you're with Beogh or Gozag IMO, although my Demonspawn Venom Mage of Jiyva won with one. (I swear I like this one because...

I propose calling it Dicso Fever, and imparting a strong correlation between disco balls and disco fever. And then potions of alcohol, so we can re-enact Ten Cent Beer night.

It's easy to go down the idea rabbithole with this dude. :) Mirrors lawful, yes - but what about distorted or cracked mirrors? They reflect what they should given their shape (lawful) but are usually taken as some kind of distortion or twisting of reality. What about lenses and windows? Just food fo...

Any of y'all have a really cool character that wants a song? My recording setup sucks right now (have good gear, but little space), but I'm game to write 'em!
Maybe I'll do a reinterpretation of Bathory's "For All Those Who Died" which is about mountain dwarves and sludge elves.

A portable single-use escape hatch (leaves 1-3 of your unequipped items on the floor, higher chance to drop potions and books) what the hell is this a reference to? Whole cloth, unless somebody else thought up such a thing first. Probable given the number of times people have made spinoffs of the P...

Last of my old tunes here. Mr. Sniffles, Hill Orc Necromancer of Trog [***...], was the sole surviving member of Blork's borked orc corpse corps. "MR. SNIFFLES" Pass the time to get me started The fortune finds it some charm Takes no disciple to discover RNG is going on I've enjoyed thee, ...

This's a neat concept. Seems like it would be a pretty advanced god. I mentioned "A mirror which enables your sight to extend through wooden doors while you're adjacent to them (works with runed doors once Evoc > 13.5)" in the stupid ideas for 0.19 thread. That'd make a decent god gift. Al...

On the way to greaterplayer, it occurred to me that there weren't many well-known ways to further glorify one's DCSS exploits apart from turns, rune count, and the other methods that are already part of DCSS' workings. So this thread's about alternative ways to score characters. Some people on here ...

A mirror which enables your sight to extend through wooden doors while you're adjacent to them (works with runed doors once Evoc > 13.5) A slime weapon brand with +acid damage and a chance to slimify living things A food item which restores very little satiation, but reduces Draining by one level A ...

Keep 'em comin', and soon enough we'll be skalds! Here's a jingle about a felid who only wanted to be able to wear cloaks, or at least a smaller version like a kitty blanket, y'know, whatever looks derpiest, but then he tripped over a cobble and accidentally murdered everyone in every Dungeon branch...

GNAWED BY DEATH COBS
BLASTED BY ORC PRIESTS
SCYTHED BY SIGMUNDS
FROZEN BY ICE BEASTS
BLACK MAMBA POISON AIN'T STOPPIN'
TE-LE-POR-TED
INTO YOUR COF-FIN
A being of your status worships no god. Sorry, you're not good enough to have a special ability.

Anyone else write any? It's chunks-o-fun! So far I've writ DCSS songs about a few 15-rune winners and some really convoluted stupid deaths. Haven't recorded anything because I can't decide which dumb voice(s) to sing in. But here's one about Jim Jiminion Jimenji, an Octopode Fire Elementalist of Goz...

Awesome, thank you. Not sure what factors influence the band spawning, other than arena size and type for Swamp/deepwater mobs. Is it subject to any random behavior, or will they always spawn when the right prerequisites are met? (EDIT: Just saw your edit. I assumed it'd be some manner of diaspora. ...

I've plumbed the game's .txt files and wiki trying to assemble a complete list of mobs which can spawn with bands. But I've only got about 14 of them. So, before I go down the rabbithole of the source code: Is there an easier way to find 'em or a place where they are listed? I'm making my IRC robot ...

Who wants to be handed a victory? We have Trog and Okawaru for that. Lots of people (including me) like Xom, but find him too unpredictable to be relied on. So I tried to think up a god that has big pros and cons, supports more playstyles, and doesn't just do what some other god does. I thought abou...

Yeah, it still seems that way. It's supposed to support your stats like Chei without slowing you down, while also making you tankier. Kind of a 'generalist' god that doesn't really support any one build over the others, or just one to take for a challenge. Some of the gods I've played with seemed po...

Just some ideas I'm kicking around which were spawned by some other ideas a friend was kicking around. The idea is to have a god who incentivizes you to eat everything, laze around, and so on. A god to make early-/mid-game more forgiving for Felids and Kobolds, whose natural ability to get Engorged ...

Ah, it meant Ar as in Artificier. Looks righteous, though! My personal rule for bot generated characters has been "follow the bot-picked god anytime before ascension, worship at no other altars before that one". But you're the one playing, so do as you will :D The 'bot makes up optional ch...

@carbonbasedlifeform: My bot just generated me an OgAr of Kiku named Ciwol. Feel free to play it

Also, hi.

Cheers. I'm going to write a more advanced one with exceptions and the like (so it won't ask for invalid combinations). My bot runs on mIRC 7.38 but the logic should be easy to duplicate. Actually, I think this whole thing could be easily replicated with HTML, but probably not on the page here withi...

Hi, folks. Some time ago, I designed a random character generator for DCSS. You'd query my IRC robot and it'd give you a name, race, background, deity, and some optional challenges. The ideas were to play all manner of characters, learn what made a character good, and most importantly, learn to be r...

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