The Tavern

I didn't know H.R. Giger was designing insects now.

I'm not sure it's a Giger work, it doesn't really evoke genitals.

New monster types

Hydra Lich
Ancient Hydra Lich

Note: Technically each head would be a spellcaster

Rogue Lich

zombie lich

lich lich

unundead

dead living
we have living dead, (zombies), so why not dead living?

We do. They're called corpses.

Ah ha! You've just had a revelation, and not just any revelation, a generic revelation!

It's uniquely common!

It's commonly unique!

The moment a sun demon spawns in the dungeon should be game over.

If the player gets oneshotted by a troll of any description, record cause of death as "trolled to the moon"

I was just thinking about making dungeon vaults based around Nethack's Minetown and other special levels. I feel this may be a bad idea.

It's a bad idea.

Good thing I stopped after only making one, then.

What is it inspired by?

The Bustling Town Minetown variant, except with orcs instead of gnomes, and a lot more of them.



(though it's not fully tested)

needles of speed

There should be a snake or naga unique that can cast Sticks to Snakes on everything in LOS.

or Sticks to Different Kind of Sticks

A snake that can turn itself into a stick and back again.

a snaketaur - half snake, half stick

And half pig.

Slithers up with the back end and bonks against your knees with the front end.

New spell; Speaks to Snakes.

new spell: Snicks to Steaks

new spell: Sticks to States. Turn a four inch pine twig into Delaware with a wave of your hand.

new spell: Sticks to Steaks. Your food clock problems are over!

At higher spell levels, summons states that aren't Delaware.

States to Steaks. Small little states like R.I. give you a tiny little fish steak. Alaska kills you by burying you in steak rations.

You suffocate under an Alaskan meatalanche!
You die...

This will be a entertaining YASD post. But what about grey draconians, mummies and vampires. Do they forget to exist under an Alaskan meatalanche?

The Alaskan meatalanche crushes you!

Blech! You need the greens!

Vermont would turn into greens.

With some maple syrup salad dressing and cheese crumbled over the top.

Michigan would transmogrify into a pile of records and rusty bolts.

The +10, -4 Eye of the Jabberwocky {flame}

A terrible weapon that looks like a crossbow with a burning eye on its tip. Its victims get torn into pieces.

new spell: Snakes to Hyperreal Snakes. Has no discernible effect but costs an enormous amount of MP.

Scythe traps would be fun. A scythe awkwardly shoots out and hits you, but does no damage.
Some class should have the abbreviation of Me. I want to play a mime.

naga

Nagas have a human in front and a snake in back. A snaketaur would have a snake in front and a horse in back. I think.

if we're being technical about it, it'd be a snakebullthing, but given Crawl's use of Yaktaur I think it's fairly safe to call nagas snaketaurs.

To make it perfectly clear we shall henceforth call them sticktaurs.

scroll of... fuuuuuuuuuuuu

props to nvjack

This NEEDS to be in the game, but as an actual, serious opponent. We're talking... perhaps a 3 or 4 or maybe even 5 star demon with a nasty slew of debilitating debuffs, particularly Mesmirize (ala Mermaids), Misleading (making them the only thing in the game besides Mara that can do that), and Paralysis/Confusion smite targeting that ignores half a player's MR (making it a great threat status-wise the way Hellfire is a great threat offensively). They'll also Blink, drain stats aggressively (maybe also smite targeting, the way a Nexoqec attacks your Intelligence, only she can do it with all three stats), possibly a Pain-brand melee attack ala Grinder or Vampiric brand as if it's feeding off your soul in true Succubus fashion. If such a creature is super dangerous then maybe it's better to call her a Lilim, for that matter, but seriously this needs to be in the game in some form.


Hey, what if there were a Shop where you could purchase permanent summoned ally creatures (well, permanent until they die at least)? We have the Scroll of Summoning but that's about it as far as permanent allies go (unless you count certain deities), but to get things like Spiny Frogs or Deep Elf Conjurers or Death Yaks following you through all the floors helping you fight in exchange for a modest sum of gold would be pretty fantastic. There comes a point where the Scroll's Small Abomination is nothing more than a one-turn meat shield anyway, so in the later floors if you could hire the really strong ones like Hell Knights or Tentacled Monstrosities or Dire Elephants for high amounts of gold, perhaps we could see some new stylish games being played ala teamwork-- and it'd be REALLY cool if they were cheering you on while you're holding the Orb and trying to escape! (Heck, you could add that to Beogh's Orc dialogue right NOW if it's not too much trouble!) Make the player feel a bond and attachment to his groupies, that kind of thing. ^^

Edit: Oh sh*t, I didn't know this was 23 pages long o_o

Ignoring trolls should make them die.
Trolls should make good fire elementalists.

Oklobs aren't hard enough. They should sense invisible.