New class proposal: Beat poet

[Confidence Interval]

Just found this for sale lol...

the cursed +0 ring mail of the Suburbs {Dex-3 Int-3} 35 gold

Yep... sounds about right.

Not interested. Now, if it was the same spec but instead of a ring mail it was the lounge suit of the Suburbs... then we'd be talking.

[joellercoaster]

There was a cartoon in an old Dragon magazine about that, with a mage and fighter and so forth shown playing a game called something like "Papers & Paychecks" and getting very excited about it.

Dear Gods, I remember that.



[edit: clicky.]

[Grimm]

You found it! You're a stone genius! I was going the "dragon cartoon archives" route, when I should simply have googed "papers and paychecks". Though I am surprised that that was the actual name.

You know what this makes me think of: the "Murphy's Rules" cartoons in The Space Gamer. By Jove Crawl could do with a thread like that.

[Confidence Interval]

New class proposal: accountant. (Open to non-human players only.)

[Grimm]

You collect the receipts.
You are missing a receipt!
You are in trouble.

[Confidence Interval]

Casting: Tax Avoidance
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
You feel a surge of power! You cast Tax Evasion by mistake!
You are in trouble.

[Grimm]

Accountants can only wield the new writing instrument weapon type.

hand pen
war pen
broad pen
battlepen
executioner's pen

[Confidence Interval]

An accountant who casts Spider Form will not become a spider but an insect: a boring beetle.

[Grimm]

You recite the tax code to the orcs.
The orcs collapse into unconciousness!

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Now I do regret that this game is not in Russian. I can't join you here! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[Grimm]

They don't have taxes in Russia?

[Confidence Interval]

They don't have taxes in Russia?

In Soviet Russia, state pays you taxes!

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

They don't have good English vocabulary in Russia.

[Grimm]

New race proposal: Russian. Cannot use t command.

[Confidence Interval]

New race proposal: Russian. Cannot use t command.

When you try to take off jewellery using R, it happens backwards.

[Yet Another Stupid Noob]

>you enter the Russian winter...
>You can't move (x30)

[Confidence Interval]

>you enter the Russian winter...
>You can't move (x30)

rC++ is very useful in Russia.

[bobross419]

Although having your starting potion replaced with a bottle of vodka does come in handy.

[Confidence Interval]

Although having your starting potion replaced with a bottle of vodka does come in handy.

Your potion of confusion freezes and shatters!

[Grimm]

New branch proposal: Gulag. 46 levels of human prisoners.

[Confidence Interval]

New branch proposal: Gulag. 46 levels of human prisoners.

If you kill Pikel, Ivan Denisovich goes free.

[plantaspoon]

New Unique: Rasputin, a human monk that is immune to poison and who resurrects later in the dungeon.

[Grimm]

Russian characters get innate rC++, and a single shoe as a starting weapon.

[TwilightPhoenix]

The Ogre swings a giant spiked club at you.
You say "In Soviet Russia, the giant spiked club hits you!"
The Ogre is confused!
The Ogre hits itself with a giant spiked club.
The Ogre dies!

[Grimm]

Use which ability? (? or * to list)
You call forth the Russian Reverse!
You feel slightly more thirsty.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Use which ability? (? or * to list)
Йоу ацтивате тхе Цириллиц Леттерс Пацк!
Йоу аре цонфусед.

[Confidence Interval]

New branch proposal: Chernobyl, a.k.a. The Zone. Highly mutagenic, perimeter patrolled by soldiers, and full of wild animals, but offers the possibility of finding weird alien artefacts.
New class proposal: Stalker (Russian ed.). Enters the Zone to find said artefacts.

Suggested reference points for tone, aesthetics, etc.: The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky), Roadside Picnic (the Strugatskys).

[absolutego]

it already exists, it's called cigotuvi's lab. and it's way scarier than that.

good book though. (don't care much about tarkovsky.)

[Confidence Interval]

(don't care much about tarkovsky.)

Sacrilege! We need a new god just so you can endure his wrath following that statement.

[Yet Another Stupid Noob]

After starting on a couple of Russian novels I came up with the following rule of thumb...

"If the book does not pick up in the first 300 pages, its probably not gonna."

[Grimm]

Officials at Goskino were critical of the film [Stalker]. [O]n being told that the film should be faster and more dynamic, Tarkovsky replied: "the film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film)#Reception

[Confidence Interval]

New monster proposal: Solaris. Takes the form of a whole level that "attacks" you by sending ghosts of your former lovers to unknowingly torment you until you are forced to destroy them. The Solaris itself is indestructible.

[defen]

New monster proposal: Solaris. Takes the form of a whole level that "attacks" you by sending ghosts of your former lovers to unknowingly torment you until you are forced to destroy them. The Solaris itself is indestructible.

Circumvented by playing a necrophiliac - the (un?)dead do not leave ghosts.

[Grimm]

New level proposal: Solaris. Like the Abyss but nothing is in it and it morphs only once every 15,000 turns, and then only slightly (maybe two squares change). Eventually you get bored and switch the game off.

[Grimm]

New class proposal: necrophiliac. It...er...never mind.

[Confidence Interval]

New Special proposal: Andrei.

Special attack: sculpting in time.

[Grimm]

Actually that's not a bad idea - there could be a unique that could manipulate time somehow and be a real challenge for Chei worshippers.

[Stormfox]

Actually that's not a bad idea - there could be a unique that could manipulate time somehow and be a real challenge for Chei worshippers.

Perhaps a champion of Chei (since there's already a flag for monsters for a deity affiliation) who also has Step from Time? Ouch.

At the risk of hijacking this thread with a semi-serious idea, that leads to the possibility of all of the gods having a unique who is at 6* piety and a champion, with the requisite powers. We already have a few, or some that wouldn't take much work to get there: Wiglaf (Okawaru), Roka (Beogh, except he always burns his piety smiting you so he can't walk on water), Yiuf (Xom), TRJ (Jiyva), Mennas (Zin -- as if he's not bad enough news, imagine if he triggers Sanctuary when you've got him down to Almost Dead.). Some off the top of my head for the others:

Kiku -- Boris.
Vehumet -- Louise. She must have some decent wizardry bonus going to cast the spells she has with a large shield equipped.
Fedhas -- Enchantress?
Trog -- Snorg.
Nemelex -- Maurice. He just seems like the type.
Lugonu -- Sonja. Again, she just seems like the type.

For some of the gods, this wouldn't matter much. Sif, for example -- without monster MP gauges, channeling doesn't matter a damn, and miscast protection? (Except maybe reducing the chance of failing to a cantrip instead of a real spell.)

[TwilightPhoenix]

If Wiglaf is Oka's six * piety unique, then he should be given at least 8 in throwing and whenever he moves around he should leave a trail of random junk darts on the ground.

[cerebovssquire]

Kiku -- Boris.

Boris: the mage who casts Bolt of Cold, Iron Shot, and Orb of Destruction, and Kikubaaqudgha? Nah. Leave stuff like that to Ignacio who has a pain weapon and Agony like a real Kikubaaqudgha follower.

[Jabberwocky]

New Unique: Rasputin, a human monk that is immune to poison and who resurrects later in the dungeon.

So you mean Boris don't you?

[Anonymous Bosch]

Russian characters get innate rC++, and a single shoe as a starting weapon.

1 in 4 chance of having been assigned a weapon at commencement of mission.

[Grimm]

New race proposal: American. Americans get innate rR++ (resistance to reason), and an automatic pistol and a large potion of soda pop as starting equipment. And permanent shoutitis.

[Grimm]

Good builds for the American race are AmBe and...er, that's it.

[Anonymous Bosch]

Would also make excellent priests and exclusively worship the might Do'lar.

[Grimm]

I am given to understand that a money god is indeed in the works, but its name will start with G.

[Confidence Interval]

I am given to understand that a money god is indeed in the works, but its name will start with G.

Greenback? (or even Baron Greenback?)

[Jabberwocky]

New race proposal: American. Americans get innate rR++ (resistance to reason), and an automatic pistol and a large potion of soda pop as starting equipment. And permanent shoutitis.

Perhaps a US American, Canadians are Americans to geographically. Just saying this as I object to being classified under that because of my location.
Maybe also a George Bush unique, he sort of anti-mesmerizes you into just randomly charging into different branches or levels.
Has a military detention center in the shoals with guards who cast torment and pain. Of course they're not called pain and torment, they're merely called harsh interrogation techniques.

[Jabberwocky]

Yeah you guys, my proposals are totally serious.

I look forward to playing a Demonspawn Square of Yredelmenlul.

I rather look forward to playing a Troll Square of Trog, with my intelligence of four I suspect the first time I can't find anything I'll fly into a berserk rage and kill and eat my family, maybe sacrificing a few to Trog.

[Stormfox]

Has a military detention center in the shoals with guards who cast torment and pain. Of course they're not called pain and torment, they're merely called harsh interrogation techniques.

That's Ilsuiw and the aquamancers, who already have a waterboarding attack.