New Background: Entrepeneur

[File200]

The Entrepreneur is a future self-made man who's willing to take risks to make it big. Entrepreneur's have no skills (at least none relevant to dungeon diving), but they have some startup cash.

You start the game in a general shop instead of an entrance vault. You have a robe, a ration, and 200 gold. The shop is guaranteed to carry at least one weapon, a piece of armor, and a beneficial potion. When you leave, the shopkeeper offers you a discount on joining Gozag (just 40 gold), which you can accept or reject. Leaving the shop places you in the entry vault as normal.

[Blobbo]

After escaping with the Orb, it only counts as 20% of a win, because your VC backers own the other 80% since they gave you 200 gold when you were just a nobody.

[dynast]

Is this a Zealot background? do you get any wrath if you dont pay the toll? Also, why no books in the shop?

[Berder]

Crawl doesn't need yet another barely distinguished melee background.

[ThreeInvisibleDucks]

Special ability: Give Stock Options. You can pay a HD-dependent amount for a monster to fight on your side, but after a while they'll try to do a hostile takeover instead and start berserking you

[duvessa]

New background: libertarian. You can't buy items from shops (you exchanged all your gold for bitcoins). All female uniques act as if you are invisible.

[File200]

After escaping with the Orb, it only counts as 20% of a win, because your VC backers own the other 80% since they gave you 200 gold when you were just a nobody.

On top of that, your backers never reported their income and cut contact after they got their share. Now you're liable for the taxes on all 100% of the gold. You can use your stealth skill to hide the loot in the Caiman Islands, but you're still officially bankrupt and your credit is shot.

Is this a Zealot background? do you get any wrath if you dont pay the toll? Also, why no books in the shop?

You don't have to take Gozag, but you might as well since you chose to be an entrepreneur. 1 in 100 games you start with 5 times as much gold and have a Book of Wizardry, because your dad paid for your education and gave you a trust fund. You'll probably still lose, but you have a better shot.

New background: libertarian. You can't buy items from shops (you exchanged all your gold for bitcoins). All female uniques act as if you are invisible.

You can still buy potions from alternative vendors, but there's no telling what they do.

[ThreeInvisibleDucks]

New background: libertarian. You can't buy items from shops (you exchanged all your gold for bitcoins). All female uniques act as if you are invisible.

As a zealot-background that worships Rand, you get an ability to fly by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The Trickle-Down ability spreads all the damage you take to the monsters in LoS at a cost of 1 gold / point. "Recite Rand" has a chance of making visible monsters frenzied Paultards.

[File200]

But what if you don't find bootstraps in the early Dungeon? You could give them at the start, but it would be weird to give one background a non-ecumenical god AND a rare piece of equipment. And what happens if you find more bootstraps later? Do they improve your piety gain?

[duvessa]

new background to replace priest:

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[dynast]

Is this wine? if it is, what a shitty year...

[duvessa]

Is this wine? if it is, what a shitty year...

yeah, i literally saw it for the first time this evening, at winco, and immediately thought "that looks like some shitty ass wine" before i even saw the year and price

[Confidence Interval]

cf.

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[File200]

So that's the official cardinal wine? Zin can go eff himself. Real Catholics have SOME taste.

[Pollen_Golem]

New background: libertarian. You can't buy items from shops (you exchanged all your gold for bitcoins). All female uniques act as if you are invisible.

You can't wield or equip unrands, and throwing an unrand into lava cures rot and restores attributes.

[johlstei]

New background: libertarian. You can't buy items from shops (you exchanged all your gold for bitcoins). All female uniques act as if you are invisible.

Sometimes you find a special shop that only sells ambrosia potions and only accepts bitcoins.