Generic Brainstorming!

[Grimm]

darts of poisson

Did you mean French fish or the probability distribution?

Er...both! Like, a probabilistical fish. You throw the dart, and it may or may not turn into a fish, and may or may not do any damage.

les darts du poisson

[Serne]

Scroll of Game Over - tosses you to a screen that says Game Over press any key to continue, then pops you back into the game with a message saying "Just kidding!"

[ekolis]

Orb of Zthankyouherobutyourorbofzotisinanotherdungeon

[joellercoaster]

For some reason I have never actually read that book. I'm sure I'd like it.

I recommend it.

I also recommend it.

Especially the bits about indigestion, those are very Crawl-y.

[Grimm]

Wait, the novel has a food minigame?

[Serne]

Darts of En Passant In Perpetuity - when they travel parallel to any monster on their trajectory they instantly kill it while taking it's place and continue moving forward repeating this action if necessary, spawn in stacks of 1 and always 'break' turning into a random other type of dart when reaching end of LOS and hitting the ground. Darts that result from this will have massive negatives however for some strange reason.

[Grimm]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessrogue/

[ximxim]

Helletaur Vault:

The Entrance:
Elephant statues, portal guarded by a few dire elephants.

The Vault:
Large circular space with grass, plants and trees. Large structure in the middle. Internally, structure is divided into largish rooms accesible from
the outside - only one of them contains the entrance to the loot chamber in the middle.

The Monsters:
Outside: elephant, dire elephant and hellephant packs.
Inside: Helletaurs.

Helletaurs:
Like a hellephant, except fast like a centaur and throwing javelins.

[Confidence Interval]

For some reason I have never actually read that book. I'm sure I'd like it.

I recommend it.

I also recommend it.

Especially the bits about indigestion, those are very Crawl-y.

Indigestion? The thing from ACoD that came to my mind in relation to Crawl was the hotdog-shaped cart with a sign saying "12 inches of pure pleasure".

[Grimm]

Just a touch too much sharing there CI.

[Confidence Interval]

Just a touch too much sharing there CI.

You don't like hotdogs?

[Grimm]

No, I don't like pleasure.

[Confidence Interval]

No, I don't like pleasure.

That would, certainly, explain why you play Crawl. You enjoy incessant frustration instead.

[Grimm]

Exactly.

[Confidence Interval]

Exactly.

Well then, 12 inches of pure frustration. You should still read the book.

[Grimm]

Ewwww.

[Roderic]

new race: Mountain High Demiminomummytaur

gimmick madness

[AtT]

Rename humans, "Mountain Dwarves." Problem solved.

[Serne]

Replace all enemies in the entire game with gnolls wielding artifact equipment that poofs when they die. Including impossible multi-branded like Halberds with both holy wrath and pain on them. Spawn between 5(at the start with no equipment) and hundreds to thousands of them each and every level.

The above is the worst idea I could come up with.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

The worst idea would be to add ---more--- to each gnoll's action, regardless of whether you see it or not.

[Jabberwocky]

Sheep flesh should be named mutton.

[Confidence Interval]

Sheep flesh should be named mutton.

Bear flesh should be arousing.

[Grimm]

CI is a fan of the aphrodisiac minigame.

[Confidence Interval]

CI is a fan of the aphrodisiac minigame.

Oh yes. A couple of Potions of Love and off I go.

[File200]

Merge all of the "Redundant" species with each other. High Mountain Dwarflings will surely please everyone.

[Serne]

Miscellaneous item: Pizza Box - when used gives you exactly 8 slices of pizza no more no less, and changes into Pizza Box {Empty} description changes after use to include mention of grease stains and crumbs left in the box.

[nicolae]

Spell idea:

Last Resort: Level 3 Necromancy. Sometimes, the troubles of life get to be too much. When cast, the player dies instantly.

[Grimm]

Miscellaneous item: Pizza Box - when used gives you exactly 8 slices of pizza no more no less, and changes into Pizza Box {Empty} description changes after use to include mention of grease stains and crumbs left in the box.

And eternal doubts as to whether it is recyclable or not.

[greepish]

Hopefully this will be taken in good humour. Anyways...

God idea:

Name: Deytookarrjobs, god of rednecks

"If you've skewered a rat and ate it's remains, you might be a redneck!"

Appreciates:

-Barbecuing corpses
-Defacing books
-Increasing fighting skills
-Wearing noisy equipment

Deprecates:

-Reading books (casting is fine however) (piety loss)
-Quaffing potions of gain intelligence (penance)


Abilities:

Make noisy equipment- permanently brand any piece of equipment with {Noisy}, turning it into an artefact.

* Holler. Holler is like shout, only with increased range. Woken sleeping monsters will vastly increase piety. (Food)

*** Paralysing beer breath. Range 1, but paralyzes any monster for 2 turns (Food, piety)

**** Streak. Going streaking confuses monsters while in effect. This confusion uses HD and not magic resistance, but you will not be wearing any armor! (Food, Piety)

***** *ahem* form (rhymes with lich form). While in this form, all monsters will flee from you, but you lose one permanent point of intelligence. However, monsters that are forced to fight from being cornered will go berserk. (Food, Piety, 1 Int)

Gifts: Dey will periodically gift you "6 packs" that can be evoked and channeled for various effects. NOTE: these packs are durably cursed and cannot have their curse removed with a scroll, thus you will unfortunately have to use them all before wielding anything else.

1) 6 pack of Coke- exactly like channel energy, but more powerful
2) 6 pack of beer- Evoking beer will cause confusion, sickness, slowed metabolism, and reduced movement speed. However, monsters will ignore you. While powerful, there is a chance per turn of passing out.

Abandonment:

Abandoning Dey will always incur wrath unless switching gods to Trog

Wrath:

-Groups of hostile Ogres and Trolls with "speech" (insults tailored to player's species Ex: Deep elf: "NERD!" Draconian: "Fart breath!" )
-Int loss
-Hangover (confusion)
-Drunken Blackout: forget random spells

[Jeremiah]

Remove humans - they are in D&D and Tolkien, and so should not be allowed in Crawl.

[File200]

The species that wear or wield items are all too similar, so let's combine every species except felids and ogres. P.S. ogres can no longer use items, but we'll give them more HP to balance that out.

[Confidence Interval]

Miscellaneous item: Pizza Box - when used gives you exactly 8 slices of pizza no more no less, and changes into Pizza Box {Empty} description changes after use to include mention of grease stains and crumbs left in the box.

And eternal doubts as to whether it is recyclable or not.

But certainly compostable and thus appreciated by Fedhas.

[Serne]

I some day dream of being able to set up a stash filled solely with empty pizza boxes mixed in with empty bottles of beer/wine and soda.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Will your adventurers appreciate this dream?
I suspect they are being sent to the Dungeon exactly because they are controlled by a player obsessed with an idea that bizarre.

[Serne]

2 new miscellaneous items:

Pokeball - a shiny white and red ball that seems to have a crying small animal inside. when thrown releases a random small animal which is both friendly and scared.

Pokebomb - Exact same description and look. When thrown however it explodes where it lands sending blood and guts everywhere as well as a couple chunks of meat, doing middling damage to anything present. Xom finds it's use hillarious. All good gods excommunicate on use regardless of knowledge, all evil gods appreciate, causes Trog to chuckle.

[Confidence Interval]

I some day dream of being able to set up a stash filled solely with empty pizza boxes mixed in with empty bottles of beer/wine and soda.

But then you wouldn't be able to tell if you were playing Crawl or not...

[AtT]

Remove Mountain Dwa...

oh..

[XuaXua]

Remove Mountain Dwa...

oh..

They're just replacing him with Forge Dwarf anyway.

[nicolae]

Remove Mountain Dwa...

oh..

They're just replacing him with Forge Dwarf anyway.

Well... maybe.

[ekolis]

Forge dwarves, eh?

You use Forgery! +500 gold!

*later*

Bought a +1 chainmail of cold resistance for 350 gold.
Izchak the shopkeeper screams violent curses at you!
Izchak the shopkeeper pushes some buttons on a strange device.
You get the feeling that you are being watched...

*later*

The keystone kop throws a pie at you! Yuck! You're blinded.
Something shocks you. (x3)
You yell, "Don't tase me bro!"

[Pteriforever]

A branch with a collapsing ceiling. The SWL from ToME proved that it can work.

[Grimm]

New weapon: taser.

[ilpalazzo]

mountain dwarves

[pratamawirya]

useless post yea ignore it

[Stormfox]

A branch with a collapsing ceiling. The SWL from ToME proved that it can work.

Already in, to an extent. There's a volcano map consisting of a central room where you enter and eight chambers off of it each with some loot, a big kobold, and a portal out. Every few turns, one of the side chambers gets blocked off by the ceiling collapsing. Most characters at that stage won't have enough killing power and speed to kill all of the kobolds and grab all of the loot by walking to it, so you need to figure out what you want to go after.

[Confidence Interval]

New weapon: taser.

Doesn't Nikola carry one already?

[Grimm]

Good point.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Replace Kenku with Yus Bird.



How the creator of this bird describes it:

The Yus bird is strangely a bit of a small-scale social phenomenon in the circles I frequent. First of all whenever anyone sees a Yus comic (there were many before this, not done for the paper. Perhaps once I'm done with this batch of stuff I'll post all the random other comics I have done) they start compulsively saying 'Yus'. I've heard a lot of different pronunciations! So what about the Yus bird, it's a very simple - perhaps to a fault - character. He sleeps on a huge cactus, he has amazing powers of persuasion and he only has one expression (well, almost). I don't see any reason for him to be as widely loved as he is but then again, what do I know. I do draw him compulsively though.

Basically:
it has Antennae 2, Beak and Talons, Deformed Body, and is small and incredibly resistant to Pain brand attacks and Pain, Symbol of Torment and Agony spells (because it sleeps on a huge cactus in its natural habitat).
At level 7-9, Antennae 2 become Antennae 3, and Yus Bird gets evocable Flight.

It cannot give orders to its allies and shout properly (whenever it tries to say or shout something, it just says "Yus!" that its allies cannot understand, or you see that "You YUS for attention!"). But it renders Shoutitis not that dangerous ("A YUS tears itself out from your throat!").
Basically, a YUS cannot be heard by anything beyond LOS-1.

It gets +3 or +4 to either Charms and Hexes (amazing powers of persuasion).

Occassionally, a weak-minded enemy, be it an ally or a foe, might get scared by a highlevel Yus Bird's facial expression.

[ekolis]

Pkunk - A smallish avian creature, resembling a seagull. On death, has a 50% chance of being resurrected.

Jester - Hurls insults at opponents, causing them to grow depressed and commit suicide. Enemies who commit suicide grant only half the normal XP, but the rest of the XP is used to refill the Jester's HP.

[greepish]

Pkunk - A smallish avian creature, resembling a seagull. On death, has a 50% chance of being resurrected.

YES. Also special ability: Magic dart swarm!