New species: Xomhand (a permanently severed hand)

[Pollen_Golem]

start out worshiping Xom. Xom cannot be abandoned.
can worship up to one other god. worshiping that other god works normally
you can worship TSO but not Zin. Elyvilon will reject you 30% of the time
Chaos Knight background is not available
Ru will not offer the hand sacrifice

little, like a spriggan
cannot wear amulets, but can wear up to 5 rings
no body armor can be worn
unlike spriggans, gloves and gauntlets can be worn, and get a defensive bonus

can constrict all but giant-sized enemies. constriction doubly hurts little enemies
ghost Xomhands are neutral to followers of Xom

terrible at polearms, m&f, bows, and invocations
good at transmutations and unarmed
str/int/dex are 2/9/13
alternatively, stats start out equal and constantly get shifted randomly
this game's got cursed toe monsters ffs

[treerex5]

There's no way in Gehenna this race is getting implemented.

[treerex5]

Elyvilon will reject you 30% of the time

So altar, walk away, altar pray again, walk away, altar pray again...


And anyway, when you pray, you'd get something like

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Xom says: "I'm watching you, my cutthroat child." Ely approves of the destruction of this evil weapon!

[treerex5]

or, even better,

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Xom slaps you with a rainbow trout! Ely approves of the destruction of this evil weapon!

[Pollen_Golem]

[list]
blah
Elyvilon will reject you 30% of the time
/list]

So altar, walk away, altar pray again, walk away, altar pray again...

What I had in mind was that in 30% of the Xomhand games you play, you are not allowed to worship Elyvilon. In the same sense that in 86% of Draconian games you are not allowed to become mottled. I imagine that the healer god would be... ambivalent about accepting a permanently severed hand as an acolyte.

And yeah, hitting p should disable any decorative Xom comment, and if you're not worshipping anybody else, it should give the same message that Demigods get when they hit 'p'. After all, what's Xom gonna say, "Oh, hi hand!"?? ...actually he probably might.

PS You sure got a way with bumping your post count.

[Berder]

a permanently severed hand

You should put that in the OP. It wasn't clear what the race was physically like.

[Rast]

good at ... unarmed

Well obviously.

[bcadren]

{Xom + Other god} is more reasonable than any other god combination. So I'll give you that! It's probably the only combination that's POSSIBLE without major recode too (since Xom doesn't use Piety at all) [Actually, I suppose Gozag + Other is also more reasonable to code, but IDK that.]

[Pollen_Golem]

Xom actually does use piety, which is based on his amusement, so there would have to be a second piety counter, but Xom's piety is unlike other god piety and doesn't accumulate. More importantly, he is the only god that doesn't have any active abilities. He might as well be a... species intrinsic. While Gozag is the only god to not use piety, you still collect on his divine resource. Not that Xom isn't challenging - I can see how his shenanigans might anger Chei and Oka.

[tasonir]

More importantly, he is the only god that doesn't have any active abilities. He might as well be a... species intrinsic.

Vehumet.

[Hirsch I]

More importantly, he is the only god that doesn't have any active abilities. He might as well be a... species intrinsic.

Vehumet.

yeah, but using Vehumet as an example of good design is... less than ideal.

[tasonir]

More importantly, he is the only god that doesn't have any active abilities. He might as well be a... species intrinsic.

Vehumet.

yeah, but using Vehumet as an example of good design is... less than ideal.

That's why I left the "he might as well be a species intrinsic" part quoted

I agree Vehumet isn't the most interesting god. Feels a bit more like "here's some stuff that casters should just get in order to be decent, but we'll make you use up your god slot to get them".

[Pollen_Golem]

Vehumet

Oh, yeah... He makes you use active abilities to learn spells though IIRC.

[The Ferret]

That's more of an interface kludge than an actual active ability.