Proposal: YaSD

[Igxfl]

Yaktaur Sluice Digger (YaSD)

The YaSD starts with a +0 shovel (M&F, 2h, 7 dam, 170% delay), a hat, a bread ration, and the Book of Digging (contains Dig).

Sluice Digger Starting Skills:
Mace and Flail: 2
Traps: 3
Spellcasting: 1
Earth Magic: 4

Yaktaur Abilities:
Tough Skin 3 (+3 AC)
Deformed
Fast Metabolism 2
Herbivorous 1
Hooves 3
Large Size
+10% HP/level
-20% MP/level

Yaktaur Aptitudes:
Fighting: +1
Crossbow: +3
Other Weapons: -2
Shields: +3
Armour: -2
Dodging -3
Stealth: -3
Traps: +0
Spellcasting: -3
Spell Schools: -1
Invocations: +0
Evocations: -1
Experience: -1

[Jabberwocky]

Logically, shovels should fall into the axe category. Otherwise, looks good.

[Amnesiac]

Why a shovel?.. Wouldn't a pick make more sense? And you could attack walls with it to break them.

[Jabberwocky]

Why a shovel?.. Wouldn't a pick make more sense? And you could attack walls with it to break them.

It depends on what kind of soil the dungeon has. Unless the soil is mostly clay or the like a shovel is probably easier to work with.

[moocowmoocow]

Why a shovel?.. Wouldn't a pick make more sense? And you could attack walls with it to break them.

It depends on what kind of soil the dungeon has. Unless the soil is mostly clay or the like a shovel is probably easier to work with.

It's slightly acidic silty loam.

[Amnesiac]

I wonder how many turns it would take to dig through a stone wall with a pick.

[Igxfl]

A couple dozen, if Angband is anything to go by.

[Jabberwocky]

Why a shovel?.. Wouldn't a pick make more sense? And you could attack walls with it to break them.

It depends on what kind of soil the dungeon has. Unless the soil is mostly clay or the like a shovel is probably easier to work with.

It's slightly acidic silty loam.

Sounds like a good place for a shovel then.
FR: Blueberries.

[Grimm]

loam is such a great word
do u remember in chronicles of narnia when the tree people would eat dirt for foods and totally connoisseur out on the different types of dirts including a loam that looked just like chocolate
those were great days

[rebthor]

LOAM? How many have been won? Did they go in the forest?

[Grimm]

most LOAM finish by pushing up daisies