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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 20:13

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>Furries
Felids ARE furries. They fall into the first-level category of furries or something.
DON'T ASK ME WHY I KNOW IT GOD NO.

Oh, oh, golems could be a playable race! You get to choose your element before start (just like weapons for fighters/wands for artificers, etc.) and such. No armor, weapons, just unarmed w/elemental attacks on level 15 or something, Draconian-like development, well, you got my point.
Being a Golem Assassin would be a bad idea regardless of the element. Come to think of it, Air Golem sounds kind of unimaginable, too.

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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 20:56

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PerverseSuffering wrote:>Furries
Felids ARE furries. They fall into the first-level category of furries or something.
DON'T ASK ME WHY I KNOW IT GOD NO.

Oh, oh, golems could be a playable race! You get to choose your element before start (just like weapons for fighters/wands for artificers, etc.) and such. No armor, weapons, just unarmed w/elemental attacks on level 15 or something, Draconian-like development, well, you got my point.
Being a Golem Assassin would be a bad idea regardless of the element. Come to think of it, Air Golem sounds kind of unimaginable, too.


There's been quite a few golem species proposed -- I think someone even wrote up a patch for two of them and submitted, though I don't know how that's going.

Here's some generic brainstorming: a utility that makes it easier to make vaults, holy god these fog machines are killing me.
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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 21:41

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Here's some generic brainstorming: a utility that makes it easier to make vaults, holy god these fog machines are killing me.


Just a tutorial or a how to ? guide should be fine. Minmay's wisdom is requested here.
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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 21:45

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As a suggestion: move "ugly things" from u to x in ASCII code. They are quite similar, odd creatures.

Tile users don't understand a sh*t but doing this the game gains another letter slot to assign into another type of beings.
u... ?

I don't know if this is attempting to pervert Linley's original design, though.
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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 21:48

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In the same line as above: use Q to allow some kind of large birds

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Post Saturday, 3rd December 2011, 21:52

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Roderic wrote:
Here's some generic brainstorming: a utility that makes it easier to make vaults, holy god these fog machines are killing me.


Just a tutorial or a how to ? guide should be fine. Minmay's wisdom is requested here.


It's not so much the implementation (although I'm still learning that), it's having to reload crawl to test out vaults all the time, and more effort too to see how a vault looks in both console and tiles. It's a lot of little hassles that accumulate when you're testing out things over and over. Is there a way to reload a vault directly from an updated file instead of having to close Crawl first and reloading maps at startup?
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Post Sunday, 4th December 2011, 00:47

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Pressing the movement keys more slowly should make you move more sneakily.
Pressing the movement keys more forcefully (bashing them.) should make your attack do more damage.
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Post Sunday, 4th December 2011, 01:16

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Jabberwocky wrote:Pressing the movement keys more slowly should make you move more sneakily.
Pressing the movement keys more forcefully (bashing them.) should make your attack do more damage.


The Crawl version of jerking the Nintendo controller to make Mario jump further. (Although with the Wii and other motion-control consoles, this kind of actually works...)
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Post Sunday, 4th December 2011, 03:18

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Jabberwocky wrote:High elves are very gourmet eaters and actually prefer their meat slightly rotten. (well aged.)


High elves will die within 300 turns if they do not regularly consume certain "medicinal" herbs. (They don't call them HIGH elves for no reason!)
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Post Sunday, 4th December 2011, 03:22

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Jabberwocky wrote:Pressing the movement keys more forcefully (bashing them.) should make your attack do more damage.

It already does...IN YOUR MIND.
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Post Sunday, 4th December 2011, 05:30

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I can attest to that. pressing them slower also makes you more accurate.
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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 02:35

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New Option Proposal: Sweet Victory Mode.

while this option is on, every time you win, the game compresses your win into a two-minute video set to an extremely awesome song, all the while causing your computer to print smiley faces and repeatedly open and close all your DVD drives.

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Pteriforever wrote:New Option Proposal: Sweet Victory Mode.

while this option is on, every time you win, the game compresses your win into a two-minute video set to an extremely awesome song, all the while causing your computer to print smiley faces and repeatedly open and close all your DVD drives.


Alternatively, also does this whenever sigmund is killed ;)

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 02:51

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New Area Proposal: Hall of Seasons

7 levels deep, appears very early in the dungeon, from D:2 to D:5(Or, alternately, if you want to avoid putting really hard areas in reach of newbies, at the bottom of the dungeon, from D:21 to D:26 instead.). Has a slightly different theme, tileset, and monster spawning list for each month of the year. Contains the multicoloured rune.

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:20

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Given that we already have "autumn" trees, there might be something to that idea.

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:22

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Grimm wrote:Given that we already have "autumn" trees, there might be something to that idea.


I worry that if one month's layout proved to be noticeably easier than the others you'd just get spoilered players resetting their system clocks to a different month just to generate the easy month set, which is basically like... meta-grinding.

It is a pretty cool idea though.

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:31

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Well if it's single player, who cares? And if it's played on a server... I don't know much about computers, but I'm guessing you could just use the server's clock?

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:36

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nicolae wrote:
Grimm wrote:Given that we already have "autumn" trees, there might be something to that idea.


I worry that if one month's layout proved to be noticeably easier than the others you'd just get spoilered players resetting their system clocks to a different month just to generate the easy month set, which is basically like... meta-grinding.

It is a pretty cool idea though.


Players can also save scum and post YAVPs of it as well. Really you just have to take them at their word. But hey, if someone wants to go to those lengths to make their own game easier it is their own game. They could also change aptitudes/weapon damage for their own game, the source code is open, after all.

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:38

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Cut the clock thing and just have a four levelled branch, one floor per season. Alternatively have the "forest" level/branch randomly spawn as different seasons.

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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 03:39

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AtT wrote:Players can also save scum and post YAVPs of it as well. Really you just have to take them at their word. But hey, if someone wants to go to those lengths to make their own game easier it is their own game. They could also change aptitudes/weapon damage for their own game, the source code is open, after all.


Sorry, I... I've just been making vaults and now I can't stop thinking about balance issues... *grabs head as if tormented*
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Post Monday, 5th December 2011, 04:59

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 00:24

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Crawl's generic fantasy is behind the times! For an edge over the competitors, add lightsaber-wielding ninja penguins.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 00:35

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Final boss of April: Easter bunny
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 18:14

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Throwable schoolbooks. They enrage orgres, trolls etc. and scare away goblins, spriggans, humans and necromancers. Eustachio and Frederick get mesmerized by them.
Trog does not allow to burn them for some reason. Instead, he forces you to collect and sit over them to build up rage.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 18:19

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Physics textbooks do damage similar to large rocks.

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 18:58

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Following the introduction of nausea, new statuses for 0.10 will include: angst, schadenfreude, embarrassed, cocky, and verklemmt. Existential doubt was briefly tested in trunk before being rejected as too micromanagey.

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 19:38

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Grimm wrote:Following the introduction of nausea, new statuses for 0.10 will include: angst, schadenfreude, embarrassed, cocky, and verklemmt. Existential doubt was briefly tested in trunk before being rejected as too micromanagey.

Schadenfreude is a permabuff for anyone spectating a game online.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 20:04

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Grimm wrote:Following the introduction of nausea, new statuses for 0.10 will include: angst, schadenfreude, embarrassed, cocky, and verklemmt. Existential doubt was briefly tested in trunk before being rejected as too micromanagey.

What about ofigeniye, rzhunimagu and pofigism?
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 20:13

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Now you're just being silly.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 20:18

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There presumably remains a place for tristesse, Grimm's Germanophilia notwithstanding.

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 20:29

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You suddenly feel saudade. x3
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 20:38

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Grimm wrote:You suddenly feel saudade. x3

Or, if you are a kobold, կարոտ.

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 21:01

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A centaur comes into view.
The centaur looks უმართავი.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 21:15

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The player can lose some body parts to add a gore flavour:
- A hand / arm : you cannot wear a shield and a weapon at the same time, one ring slot is lost.
- A leg: Slowness x2
- An eye: Inaccuracy x2
- A tail (draconian) : cannot tailslap anymore
- A tentacle (octopode): lose a ring slot, when reaching 4 cannot you cannot wear a shield and a weapon at the same time.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 21:24

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Roderic wrote:The player can lose some body parts to add a gore flavour:
- A hand / arm : you cannot wear a shield and a weapon at the same time, one ring slot is lost.
- A leg: Slowness x2
- An eye: Inaccuracy x2
- A tail (draconian) : cannot tailslap anymore
- A tentacle (octopode): lose a ring slot, when reaching 4 cannot you cannot wear a shield and a weapon at the same time.


IVAN had this. The mechanics were a little busted, though. A hedgehog (one of the lowest-level enemies) could, if it got a lucky hit, bite off your leg. You could also lose a leg by walking over broken glass.
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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 21:59

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Grimm wrote:A centaur comes into view.
The centaur looks უმართავი.

Google renders that as "unmanaged", which I find confusing even in English.

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Post Tuesday, 6th December 2011, 22:28

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That's what I got when I put in "bewildered". What it actually means we have no idea.
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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 10:18

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Let's just stop on цонфусед, okay? =)
But still:
ofigeniye (офигение) -- "WHATTHEHECKness". Happens whenever you kill a healty hellion with a single stone from a -5 sling of velocity. Paralysis, existential damage and improved mana regeneration.
rzhunimagu (ржунимагу) -- "LOLing". Makes you laugh uncontrollably and not notice anything around you (equal to sleep in effect) and "sleepwalk" (roll on the floor laughing).
pofigism (пофигизм) -- "Notgivingadamness". Lets you ignore fear, mesmerization, hostile charms and walls.
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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 15:19

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An idea for a unrandart scroll:

Scroll of Demonic Conduit
Open a conduit to a demonic plane, drawing power to the user. Such a conduit tends to attract attention from the plane's denizens after a while...

Gives improved mana regeneration to the rate of several mp/turn, lasts a random amount of turns, 5-50 or so. At the end of the effect, summons several hostile demons near the player, type depends on character level but should always be "OOD". For a lvl 27 character, think 5-10 1's or Pan lords. The trick to using it would be to leave the level shortly after the effect ends.
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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 16:35

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You read the scroll.
The kobold looks frichtit!

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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 17:39

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We all feel a little frichtit now and then.

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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 17:43

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MyOtheHedgeFox wrote:цонфусед

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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 17:50

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You hit the kobold with your chaos blade!
The kobold mutates! It now has the "solipsism" mutation.
You hit the kobold with your chaos blade!
You have slain the kobold.
The world starts to slip away...
The Ed draws near! What dost thou deaux?

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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 18:11

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You experience Geworfenheit. x25
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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 18:46

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You feel a brief urge to make someone read Marcus Aurelius.
The kobold looks frightened! The orc wizard looks frightened! Wiglaf writhes in agony!
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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 18:48

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"I understood that I had found the key [...] to my Nausea."
~Jean-Paul Sartre, well-versed in brown meat of all kinds

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Post Wednesday, 7th December 2011, 18:56

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Sartre just couldn't stay off the chunks, could he.
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Post Thursday, 8th December 2011, 09:25

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cerebovssquire wrote:"I understood that I had found the key [...] to my Nausea."
~Jean-Paul Sartre, well-versed in brown meat of all kinds

If you were to look up brown meat on Urban Dictionary you might get a very particular idea of what nauseated Sartre.
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Post Thursday, 8th December 2011, 14:58

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Grimm wrote:Sartre just couldn't stay off the chunks, could he.

"Nausea [...] is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I." (Sartre, La Nausée)

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What was Sartre's favourite build.
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