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Post Monday, 14th May 2018, 15:04

Re: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

New monster: Slightly oversized* Amoeba.
Stationary monsters which experience a tick of the Game of Life for every turn the player is in LOS:
  • Any amoeba adjacent to less than two other creatures dies from under population.
  • Any amoeba next to more than three creatures dies from overpopulation, causing an explosion with size depending on number of neighbors.
  • An empty tile next to exactly three creatures, of which at least one is an amoeba, spawns a new amoeba.

* Because "Giant Foo" is overused

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Post Monday, 14th May 2018, 15:16

Re: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

PseudoLoneWolf wrote:Control Dead - Necromancy - All corpses in LOS become allied to the player. Does not work on Undead.

This is awesome. Mix it with Apportation or Force Lance, followed by Corpse Rot. "Here, let me just pull / push / slide this emperor scorpion corpse right under your feet, Nikola, and ..." (MIASMA PARTY TIME)

Or, the corpses just root for you (silently) while they lay there motionless. Feels good and you can pretend it had some influence on the dice rolls. :-)

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Post Tuesday, 15th May 2018, 05:33

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Beastly Man-pendage - You grow a pair.
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Post Thursday, 28th February 2019, 22:47

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Add new uniques: Durpessa and Dorpwan. They work like Duvessa and Dowan, but Dorpwan fires orbs of destruction at Durpessa when she's close to the player. Once the ball is undodgeable for her, Durpessa blinks and the ball goes for the PC.

Add Skulltronax, God of Death. Skulltronax bestows magnificent powers to you upon your death. Only, at that point, your game is already over. It's very good for felids, though.
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Post Friday, 1st March 2019, 00:22

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Add Hinduism as a god....

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Post Friday, 1st March 2019, 02:11

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Allow monsters to bribe the player. If you accept the bribe, you can't kill them without incurring in Gozag wrath.
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Post Sunday, 10th March 2019, 06:32

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Bag of salt

Can be found in the Desolation of Salt and when used they preserve all the chunks in your inventory into Rations.

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Post Tuesday, 2nd April 2019, 09:35

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Potion of Mutilation

Like Ru's sacrifice, but you don't get anything in return.
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Post Sunday, 18th August 2019, 09:42

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When cold-blooded creatures are hit with fire spells, they gain hasted status. It's only right!
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Post Sunday, 18th August 2019, 16:17

Re: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

Iskendrun's Mystic Fast: You gain "Fasting" status that prevents you from eating or drinking, but acts as a manual for spell skills.

Animate Bread: Turns your bread rations into dancing blunt weapons. Weapon type dependent on spellpower.

Deportation: Sends target back to where it spawned on the map.

Bolt of Colds: The foo sniffles. The foo sneezes uncontrollably!

Borgnjor's Devivification: Reduces player health and stats to 1, but increases maxHP.

Conjure Blame: All monsters on screen shout at the target. Target is paralyzed and suffers decreased stats. Very noisy.

Death's Window: Can only be cast after Death's Door ends. Player gains 50% damage reduction, but cannot heal. "When Death closes a door, he opens a window."

Dragon's Ball: Summons a disco ball. All draconic creatures on screen uncontrollably dance. 10% chance of summoning Tiamat.

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Post Thursday, 5th September 2019, 01:12

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Add a new branch: "Desolation of Bath Salts", where everyone is confused and constantly hasted.
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Post Saturday, 7th September 2019, 17:17

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Shtopit wrote:Add a new branch: "Desolation of Bath Salts", where everyone is confused and constantly hasted.


With guest appearance, on a 1 night engagement straight from Zot, by your boy Meth Cob.

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Post Saturday, 7th September 2019, 17:21

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Assure Jelly:
With his final frozen blue slap, he whispers that you were a pretty good adventurer and please don’t feel too bad about splatting to him.

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Post Wednesday, 18th September 2019, 16:17

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Oklob Tree: New branch, entered through the Royal Jelly's vault, maybe Tomb/Crypt difficulty. Walls are oklob bark - deals damage as a slime wall would. All enemies are oklob variants of D:1 enemies.


An oklob rat comes into view.
The oklob rat spits acid!

and don't even get me started on those oklob gnolls...

or the orklob priests
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Post Saturday, 2nd November 2019, 00:07

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Merge Felid and Octopode, welcome the new species: the Octopussy! The octopussy has a rubber-like body, eight arms for its rings, is fast, can pounce, cannot use weapons, can constrict, and has an auxiliary beak attack.
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Post Tuesday, 5th November 2019, 07:07

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New unrandart: Sabre of Light +15 (Slicing, Reflect, SH+5, EV+5)

It is a long blade, so it can parry. You can evoke it to throw it like a javelin of returning (Penetration+return)

It makes cool sounds when you move it around and even cooler if you parry an other Sabre of Light with it. These can be various colors. (Though only a single one of these has ended up in the dungeon)

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Post Tuesday, 5th November 2019, 08:04

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MrRokkomies wrote: (Though only a single one of these has ended up in the dungeon)


The purple one of course !
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Post Friday, 8th November 2019, 05:25

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Banan-imate Skeleton:

Level 1 Hex Spell, castable against skeletons only. Applies the 'disintegration' effect, but you get banana-tile food rations exploding everywhere instead.

Oh c'mon, you weren't gonna get any meat chunks anyway, have some fruit as a parting gift.
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Post Saturday, 9th November 2019, 22:50

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Pear dragon: a great, pear-shaped dragon. It's sacred to Fedhas, and drops rations when killed.
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Post Sunday, 10th November 2019, 00:13

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Shtopit wrote:Pear dragon: a great, pear-shaped dragon. It's sacred to Fedhas, and drops rations when killed.

It spits seeds at you at high velocity for it's breath weapon (Like scattershot :)
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Post Sunday, 10th November 2019, 07:44

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Siegurt wrote:
Shtopit wrote:Pear dragon: a great, pear-shaped dragon. It's sacred to Fedhas, and drops rations when killed.

It spits seeds at you at high velocity for it's breath weapon (Like scattershot :)
Especially harmful for culinarily challenged species, like mummies and vampires!
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Post Sunday, 10th November 2019, 22:02

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Speaking of dragons, some more entries:

Ire Dragon: has the Berserk ability which doesn't expire.
Nice Dragon: breathes healing clouds, which affect everyone equally.
Irony Dragon: has improved +Reflect, like the mirror fixedart.
Earl Dragon: drops a randart when killed.
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Post Saturday, 16th November 2019, 17:53

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Like any other modern game, DCSS must have a Twitch integration. And not just old boring "stream on twitch", but rather a "stream on twitch, worship Xom, and then his mood is dictated by the kind and amount of emotes spammed in your chat" kind of integration.
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Post Wednesday, 20th November 2019, 16:35

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Ring of levitation:
You float into the air, but are unable to control your movement.
Instead, Newtonian mechanics apply: hitting/throwing things(and being hit) starts you moving in the opposite direction at a speed proportional to the damage done, slowly coming to a stop by air resistance, stopping faster from friction when travelling next to a wall, or abruptly by hitting something.
Airstrike sends you off in a random direction, Wind Blast/Vortex send you off at great enough speed to bounce once.

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Post Friday, 13th December 2019, 19:52

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Give Natasha the 6 lives she is missing, for a total of nine lives, as befitting cats. And, have her follow the player, floor to floor, pestering them.

Better yet, have her teleport away to safety if she gets too low on HP. That way she can be a candidate for the most annoying monster in Dungeon Crawl.

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Post Tuesday, 24th December 2019, 22:12

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Have a Wand Shop that is surrounded on 8 sides with orcs wielding wands.

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Post Wednesday, 25th December 2019, 11:46

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Have a felid-specific background: Puss in Boots. Starts with the (questionable) artefact Puss' Boots equipped.

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Post Monday, 6th January 2020, 20:26

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Rename Natasha to Natasha the Ronin. She technically is one - she lost her master!

Allow player to play any mixed race of his choice. Half-orc, half elf; half ogre, half halfling; half centaur, half tengu...

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Post Tuesday, 14th July 2020, 13:17

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The player species with six limbs and a rolling ability should be called "Boring Beetle."

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Post Tuesday, 14th July 2020, 13:23

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jejorda2 wrote:The player species with six limbs and a rolling ability should be called "Boring Beetle."
Rolling into a wall should embed you into it: doesn't actually remove the wall but limits movement/targetting to the direction you came from. Monsters do get to target you from whichever direction (as long as they can see the tile you're embedded in).

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Post Wednesday, 15th July 2020, 13:59

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Playing as DDDe starts you on Orc:1, with Arga as starting weapon, and a balrug is generated wandering the level.
Welcome message:
You delved too greedily and too deep!

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Post Sunday, 22nd August 2021, 01:26

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New Ru sacrifice: Sacrifice sacrifice. You sacrifice your ability to make further sacrifices.
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Post Sunday, 22nd August 2021, 01:46

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I could see that actually being a good idea, provided (a) the piety gained scaled with current piety (2--3 stars at 0 piety, nothing at *****.) and (b) taking it prevented you from ever abandoning Ru.
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Post Wednesday, 21st September 2022, 04:44

Re: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

I've been a long time away, and this topic reminds me of : viewtopic.php?p=34041#p34041
But since THIS thread is about STUPID ideas, let me put my grain of salt.

Slap and stab wrote:Like any other modern game, DCSS must have a Twitch integration. And not just old boring "stream on twitch", but rather a "stream on twitch, worship Xom, and then his mood is dictated by the kind and amount of emotes spammed in your chat" kind of integration.


What DCSS needs to generate hype is to allow multiple players to control the game, à la twitch plays pokemon : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
When a game on twitch wins a 27orbs run, stop developing the game and rebrand current version as 1.0 .

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Also another very very dumb idea, DCSS should have some kind of DWARF specie, some small but tough humanoïd that lives DEEP in the MOUNTAINS of the HILL country.
Or at least give us the option to play a midget human or had something to make Hu interesting, like horns and hooves.
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