Demigod auras

[pubby]

Let's make demigods different.

At xl15, demigods gain an aura of your choice. There are 4 choices:

Boosting: You gain a heroism-like bonus for every enemy inside your aura. More enemies = more stat bonus.
Silencing: Permanent silence, but only a radius of 1.
Sneaking: You become invisible and stealthy to everything outside your aura. Stuff inside the aura can see you.
Aiding: Heals and buffs friendly monsters inside you aura.

The idea is that crawl has two species with random mutations, so why not have one that lets you choose what you get?

Also, make Dg immune to cursing. That is needed so that permanent silence can work.

[Bart]

Let's make demigods different.

Let's leave demigods as they are.

No reasoning, I smell CYC.

[Lasty]

CYC'd.

[Lasty]

Demigods are fine as-is, uniquely filling an interesting design space. If you want to have a species like you describe, that should be a different species.

[archaeo]

I've always felt like the design space that Vp occupies would be better used by some kind of shapeshifter species, so that instead of leaning on the food system, you had some kind of mechanism that would maybe drain you or something in exchange for shifting to a new set of innate mutations/advantages/disadvantages. That idea combined with pubby's could lead somewhere interesting??