Race Proposal: The Hedgehog

[n1000]

six hours ago the turns and tossings of a sleep whose tumults made my soft bed seem more Of Nails than Of Roses were interrupted. And now, for Context, I recount: curses murmured to she, who from welkin, posing as a muse, had promised vision in reverie this night, "I cannot see if I cannot sleep!" but sleep did eventually, if in name and semblance only, with none of the comforts one might expect or, at least, hope for, come. From it I was yanked. I looked down and noticed, glistening, my body which has been described as being ripped as hell, and buff, at times, and not by those inclined to hyperbole, sitting upright, covers thrown askew and night-shirt like a foot-binding for my whole body contorting one arm behind my head. But it was not the exquisite physical specimen I mean to discuss but what emerged de anima. "Fuck that" the words emerged from between parched lips, " 's the best idea anyone has ever had in the history of Crawl." So, here you go:

Key Features

• Speed Everyone knows Sonic is fast, but according to legend even the slowest Hedgehog of Ancient Times would have had a maximum speed and acceleration close to his. Fast Move 3.
• Deformed Body These creatures pull themselves into tight balls and roll around. As such, their bodies are deformed and can't wear any armour besides shoes (two shoes preferably but this can be altered if Devs think 3 shoes is better)
• Ball up! at XL 8.5 Hedgehogs gain the ability to roll into a ball (like Boulder Beetles) aiming an attack--or a speedy escape--wherever they see fit. If the character has rolled for more than 3 tiles, this first attack does damage similar to IOOD. If more than 10, instant kill. Rolling cannot be aimed of course and S--the Hedgehog character will return to normal form after collision. (Feedback request: should ball form take turns to charge?)
• Spines Hedgehogs are spiny (makes thematic sense for Deformed Body, as well, obviously
• Jump attack! Hedgehogs in the wild and in the Sonic Mythos are known for their leaping ability. -1/3 damage from normal attacks but they can jump attack with no cooldown to any target within N range for 5/3 damage of base attack (target must not be adjacent, duh...just think about the balance....)

Attitudes
Bad, snarky

Aptitudes

• Fighting: -2
• Short: 3
• Long: 0
• Axes: -1
• Maces: -1
• Polearms: -5
• Staves: 0
• Slings: 2
• Throw: -2
• Dodge: 4
• Stealth: -2
• Shields: 1
• UC: 2
• Splcast: 0
• Conj: 0
• Hexes: 2
• Charms: 2
• Summ: -2
• Nec: -2
• Tloc: 3
• Tmut: -2
• Fire: 0
• Ice: 0
• Air: 1
• Earth: 0
• Poison: 0
• Inv: 0
• Evo: 0
• Exp: 1
• HP: -2
• MP: 1

This requires a small amount more work to perfect which is why I'm asking for feedback. The hard part is all done though if someone would just code it we'd be racing around the Dungeon like a blue bat out of hell who DOESN'T want that! This is probably the best race in crawl but there are a few improvements I thought of in another Dream Vision but this one while I was awake and typing out the post right now/

Further Development
Gets double effect from "Ring" type jewelery. Double spellpower on "Ring" of Flames. All rings get bonus affect of being an artefact. Glyph should be dark blue and transform when the Hedgehog toon undergoes a Ball Transformation.

Thanks in advance.

[twelwe]

no, your favorite anime/videogame/childhood character is not going to be included in crawl

[twelwe]

goddamn, boulder beetles have inspired the worst species proposals, like that stupid hulk & alien species

[twelwe]

The hard part is all done though if someone would just code it

Thanks in advance.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[n1000]

Thank you for your feedback

[twelwe]

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[Dole]

FR: Instead of a health bar you have a gold bar. Whenever you take damage, half of your gold gets spread out over nearby tiles and disappears a few turns later. If you take damage and have no gold, you lose!
Pros: Imagine all of the interesting decisions this would add to combat movement and whether or not you want to buy things from a shop.
Cons: We may have to nerf gold acquirement.

[sgrunt]

Re rolling attack: charge for up to six turns for increasing initial speed.

[TeshiAlair]

This...this has better ideas than 99% of race proposals. Roll attack is pretty cool, aptitudes are interesting.....I'm going to go cry now.

[Confidence Interval]

I hear you. I often feel like crying when I visit the Tavern these days.

[Patashu]

Has rSpikes--

[Igxfl]

This is good but can we make it a type of dwarf please?

[sgrunt]

This is good but can we make it a type of dwarf please?

Hedge dwarves, to go with lawn gnomes.