Generic Brainstorming!

[Sporkman]

New speaking weapon: The Mourning Star. Large M&F that utters a brief comment on monsters you've just killed. Examples:

you kill a quokka - "How could you? It wasn't doing anything to you."
you kill an orc - "I suspect we'll be seeing more of those."
you kill a goldfish - "You bastard!"
you kill Donald - "I bet he hated that."
you kill Sigmund - "Let's pause for a moment of silence...Now eat his corpse."
you kill a Hell Sentinel - "Now that's an achievement. Those things are terribly overpowered."

You've been playing Borderlands 2, haven't you?

In that case, new unrand: 'Conference Communication'. Crossbow whose bolts shoot more bolts out to the side every other tile.

[Grimm]

You've been playing Borderlands 2, haven't you?

I haven't actually. I had to look that up. I dislike FPSs and 3D graphics.

[BlackSheep]

Boots of Running should really be more expensive in stores...

[Grimm]

needles of junk sickness

[Grimm]

new unique: The Tree That Owns Itself

[nicolae]

new unique: The Tree That Owns Itself

Elms were cut a while ago but it would be nice to see them as a unique

[Roderic]

new unique: The Tree That Owns Itself

Elms were cut a while ago but it would be nice to see them as a unique

Nightmare at Elm Street

[Grimm]

new monster: irony troll

[Confidence Interval]

new monster: irony troll

It rains on his (or her) wedding day.

[Grimm]

Are you suggesting they be servitors of Fedhas?

[Jabberwocky]

Why not?

[Grimm]

That's not the answer I'm looking for.

[Jabberwocky]

Since you want a definite answer, yes.

[chukamok]

How about making uniques more interesting? For example, giving a certain middle-aged bounty hunter some followers (similar to Pikel's slaves) that go around proclaiming all of his accomplishments (perhaps recent players he has killed).

[Dingbat]

How about making uniques more interesting? For example, giving a certain middle-aged bounty hunter some followers (similar to Pikel's slaves) that go around proclaiming all of his accomplishments (perhaps recent players he has killed).

There's already at least five uniques with pack of mooks following them around: Pikel, Josephine, Margery, Grum, Azrael....

While I agree that particular uniques may benefit from a boost in flavour, I suspect there's so much the devs can do besides adding one-liners and modifying spellsets to make each of them markedly different from the others. Hence why they try to wean out those that seem to be carbon copies of other uniques, i.e. Jozef being to similar to Joseph.

[BlackSheep]

Saint Roka, too. Mara creates his own entourage.

[JeffQyzt]

Yah, but some "headhunter" unique with an entourage of player ghosts would be interesting (albeit deadly.)

[nicolae]

How about making uniques more interesting? For example, giving a certain middle-aged bounty hunter some followers (similar to Pikel's slaves) that go around proclaiming all of his accomplishments (perhaps recent players he has killed).

I wrote Harold's new description as a middle-aged bounty hunter about to retire, and then made a bunch of speech to go with it, but I never got around to submitting the speech. I should get around to that.

[nicolae]

a unique shapeshifter who only imitates other uniques

[bricks]

Shimmering shapeshifters. Appear in packs, all change form to a new theme (orcs, oozes, dragons, etc.) when a pack member dies.

Altar mimic. Large piety boost on kill if you happen to worship that god; if not worshipping, the associated god also offers a chance to join.

Web mimics. Because the spider branch doesn't have enough webs.

Runed door mimic. Basically, take a vault layout enclosed with runed door(s), fill it in with wall, and replace the doors with mimics. You could also clear out the insides and just treat it like a normal room, or add a tiny bit of treasure.

Roving hole. Was going to say "shaft mimic" but that makes no sense. You can't kill it in melee or from ranged, but it will close up if enough monsters or items fall through.

[nicolae]

mimic mimic

[Grimm]

mimic mimic

I swear we've already done that but I can't find it. Maybe we're in an endlessly looping cycle of comedy - a Moebius comic strip, if you will.

"Roving hole" sounds smutty.

[chukamok]

mimic mimic

I swear we've already done that but I can't find it. Maybe we're in an endlessly looping cycle of comedy - a Moebius comic strip, if you will.

"Roving hole" sounds smutty.

And shaft trap doesn't?

[Confidence Interval]

It's only the "hole" and "shaft" bits that appear smutty. "Roving" and "trap" are not, by themselves, particularly suggestive.

But this has to stop. It's time to clean up Crawl.

[nicolae]

I swear we've already done that but I can't find it. Maybe we're in an endlessly looping cycle of comedy - a Moebius comic strip, if you will.

nope. joke mimic.

[Grimm]

And shaft trap doesn't?

Nobody said shaft trap.

"Roving" and "trap" are not, by themselves, particularly suggestive.

roving trap

joke mimic

It looks like it might be funny until you get close to it.

[Confidence Interval]

"Roving" and "trap" are not, by themselves, particularly suggestive.

roving trap

The "roving" bit is just an adjective in a phrase and not smutty in itself, and "trap" seems to have a least four different entirely disparate meetings, only one of them vaguely smutty. QED.

[chukamok]

It's only the "hole" and "shaft" bits that appear smutty. "Roving" and "trap" are not, by themselves, particularly suggestive.

But this has to stop. It's time to clean up Crawl.

Does this mean we will have to get rid of kobold chaos knights and hill orc monks?

[Grimm]

roving trap

The "roving" bit is just an adjective in a phrase and not smutty in itself, and "trap" seems to have a least four different entirely disparate meetings, only one of them vaguely smutty. QED.

Roving becomes smutty when applied to other words (e.g. "roving eye"), which is not a feature that lots of words have. As for trap, I linked such that the relevant definition was topmost. On the internet, trap means that most of the time.



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Also, for you:

[TehDruid]

Propane Servitors.

[nicolae]

Propane Servitors.

I serve profane and profane accessories.

[BlackSheep]

New sprint map: King of the Hill

[Grimm]

How to improve curses: when you get cursed you should immediately be covered in tinfoil.

[Confidence Interval]

Would that provide rF?

[Grimm]

No but it would trap the juices inside.

[BlackSheep]

And block the government's mind control rays.

[Grimm]

http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/

[Confidence Interval]

http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/

That looks like a wizard's hat in that it wouldn't help your AC in the slightest. And if she'd been wearing one, Lucille Ball might never've been instrumental in capturing those Japanese spies.

[Grimm]

TIL

[Grimm]

New spell: Flensing Claim

[Jabberwocky]

New spell, Fleinsing Clam.

[Grimm]

The difference between them is that flensing is a real word.

[Jabberwocky]

The difference between them is that flensing is a real word.

Indeed, I even know what it means.

[Grimm]

Of course you do. Canadians subsist chiefly on whale meat.

[Jabberwocky]

Flensing is a looser sense also refers to removing the fat from anything, which also comes in handy for describing the process of hacking chunks of moose fat off the moose.

[Confidence Interval]

That's some radical weight-loss programme. But it's rude to refer to Canadians as mooses.

[Grimm]

You should have to destroy the Orb of Zot in order to save it.

[Confidence Interval]

You should have to destroy the Orb of Zot in order to understand it.

ftfy

[Grimm]

You should have to understand the Orb of Zot in order to love it.

ftfy

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[Confidence Interval]

You should have to love the Orb of Zot in order to set it free.

ftfy

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ftft... &c.