Generic Brainstorming!

[Confidence Interval]

Second Young Ones reference on the Tavern. A good day. I favor Ace of Spades for Nemelex's entrance in the movie. On the death theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQEJscmQg0

This for Xom's entrance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkLE4X-bbU

[bobross419]

Damn you CI, you beat me to Yakkety Sax for Xom.

[bobross419]

Yakkety Sax would also be great for a Spriggan going ninja'ing the Orb

[Grimm]

Yes we can lock that one in for Xom, no question. Overkill for Trog. Nemelex either Ace of Spades or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2mFiN7GIc .

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Ring of See Beautiful Women. Automatically unlocks a few well hidden doors in the Vaults.

[absolutego]

and summons kirke, margery and erica.
10% chance to get agnes, sonja and roxanne. 'cause what are we, speciest?

[Jeremiah]

10-foot poles so we can poke floor tiles from a distance to see if there's a trap.

[bobross419]

10-foot poles so we can poke floor tiles from a distance to see if there's a trap.

This needs its own thread in the Back Room.

[Confidence Interval]

10-foot poles so we can poke floor tiles from a distance to see if there's a trap.

This needs its own thread in the Back Room.

Do 10-foot poles of floor poking now automatically come with the Reaching brand?

[bobross419]

I don't know about the others, but my 10 foot pole has the penetrating brand.

[Confidence Interval]

I don't know about the others, but my 10 foot pole has the penetrating brand.

Dude, that's nasty.

[bobross419]

I already missed out on one obvious post this morning, I couldn't pass up a second.

[Grimm]

You sigh heavily.

[Confidence Interval]

You sigh heavily.

You wonder about the youth of today.
You remember how things used to be.
You wonder why you came into the Dungeon in the first place - wasn't it to get away from all this?

[Grimm]

You see a whippersnapper.
You see a whippersnapper.
You see a whippersnapper. x12
You sigh heavily.

[Confidence Interval]

You see a whippersnapper.
You see a whippersnapper.
You see a whippersnapper. x12
You sigh heavily.

The whippersnappers speak out of turn and with a lack of respect.
You die (inside)...

[bobross419]

Shouldn't you two be playing shuffleboard instead of calling me a whippersnapper?

[Grimm]

You see a whippersnapper.
The whippersnapper says "Check out my cock!"
The whippersnapper sneers "Get out of my way old man!"
You hit the whippersnapper.
You open the whippersnapper like a tin of beans!

[Confidence Interval]

You tell the whippersnapper a long story about the good old days.
The whippersnapper says "Whatever Grandad."
The whippersnapper looks drowsy...
The helpless whippersnapper fails to defend itself.
You slice the helpless whippersnapper!!
You kill the whippersnapper (but your days in which to enjoy the victory are numbered)!

[Grimm]

You age.
You age.
You age.
You age. x346
You die...
No, wait, you don't die! Not yet!
You clutch on to life!
You're reviving!
No, you die...

[Confidence Interval]

You age.
You age.
You age.
You age. x346
You die...
No, wait, you don't die! Not yet!
You clutch on to life!
You're reviving!
No, you die...

Your body disappears without a glow...

[Grimm]

I still think there should be a Heaven branch, or at least a nice branch that's pleasant to be in, with easy monsters and little treasure.

[Confidence Interval]

I still think there should be a Heaven branch, or at least a nice branch that's pleasant to be in, with easy monsters and little treasure.

I'd be pleased to see a branch that's just butterflies and non-biting goldfish. Maybe a bit likes Shoals, with gently lapping waves (and no sirens), and a wooded glade inland from the beach. And regenerating permafood, and no OOD timer, so you could say for as long as you liked: for eternity, perhaps.

And no whippersnappers.

[Grimm]

There totally needs to be a fork in which the whole game is just that. Except maybe once in a great while a whippersnapper wanders through and you push him into the pond.

[bobross419]

You guys crack me up.

[Confidence Interval]

You guys crack me up.

You just wait. One day you'll be a crotchety old geezer. Then you'll know what it's like.

[bobross419]

Ugh, I'm getting there way too quick as it is... although I'm hoping I'll be more dirty old man and less crochety old geezer... with that said...

New Background Proposal: Dirty Old Man

[Confidence Interval]

New Background Proposal: Dirty Old Man

Dirty Old Person, please.

Dirty Old Persons start with two levels in Sleazing and Leering.

[bobross419]

Named Unique Dirty Old Person: Betty White

[TehDruid]

I just jumped into this to make something for fun, but ended up with this wall of text.

New Race - Amorphous
"For all your mutation abusing needs" or
"Never before has a rapidly evolving organism shown such inflexibility in terms of background choices" or
"It makes Chernobyl look like kindergarten"

Description:

A race of chaotic, low-intelligence amoeba-like creatures, eternal followers of the Slime God, Jiyva. Their bodies are constantly changing, as they're undergoing rapid evolution, trying to adopt to survive through life-threatening situations, yet they also have to fight against Jiyva's random nature.

Benefits and restrictions:

Your deity is always Jiyva and cannot change, since other gods don't take low-intelligence life-forms as followers. Of course this ensures you can get the slimey rune of Zot without fighting in the Slime Pits. If you kill the Royal jelly, you're an idiot.
Your attacks cause bonus acidic damage to enemies, corroding their armor and when somebody hits your organism's mass their weapon has a chance to be corroded (or they take a little damage (possibly scaling by XL) if unarmed).
You cannot wear ANY equipment at all.
Being an ever evolving, volatile organism, much like Jiyva's ability to grant and take away random mutations at certain intervals, you gain mutations to adopt to any life-threatening situations you may encounter (meaning that there's a threshold to overcome in order to get a new mutation. For example, if you only have your starting mutations and take a certain amount of damage by one element type -say, fire- you gain one level of resistance to that type. In order to get to the next tier - ** - you would have to get hit by much more fire damage to obtain it and even more to ***) Finally, that's where the ability of Jiyva to remove bad mutations comes into play.
You cannot manipulate items (rods, wands, decks, other evocables).
You cannot read scrolls and books, since you lack the ability to read.
You can quaff potions by devouring the entire bottle (and maybe have a small turn delay (2-5) since the glass must be dissolved to get to the liquid? Revolutionary mechanic in potion usage! ).
You cannot acquire mutations that require body parts other than the body and you cannot have more than 1 type of scales mutation active at a time (scales, Jiyva eyes, repulsion field, etc. are fine but I'm having some thoughts about Thin Skeletal Structure, though)). Also, being constantly altering, you cannot acquire the mutation resistance mutation (although there is the regular cap to how many mutations you can have at any give time), or the +int mutation. Also, your Intellect cannot be lowered, since you don't have a brain to affect, making you immune to INT stat death altogether.
Due to all these restrictions, the only background available is the Fighter one (with Jiyva as your god of course), with starting skills being 3 fighting 2 unarmed 3 dodging 4 stealth. Your Starting stats are 13 Str 0 Int 13 Dex
No spellcasting. You can only get Blink, Tele, cTele, Berserkitis, Teleportitis, etc from mutations.

Innate Mutations:

| Fast Metabolism 3 | The reason I "grouped" these two is that if one goes down or up, so does the other. This goes to show how your metabolism has a huge effect on your ability to regenerate your cells.
| Regeneration 3 |

Slow 3 (Low base speed)
Gourmand (You can eat any kind of chunk without prompting, save for poison/rot/mut inducing ones)
Rubbery Body 3 (fixed) +AC
Pseudopods 3 (fixed) unfitting armor (who cares?)
Covered In Eyeballs 1 (can go up/down but not less than lvl 1) +Acc
Acidic Saliva (fixed) extra damage + corrode enemy armor

Skills & Aptitudes:

Since you are a completely new organism, you don't have any natural inclinations. Thus, most aptitudes are +0.
Exception:

+5 to stealth (makes sense due to way of movement being silent, helps with avoiding trouble due to very low speed)

All skills except for FGT, UC, DG, STH and INV are disabled.

The only question that remains is: Why the hell would a mindless ooze-thing care enough to gather the runes!?

[bobross419]

Actually kind of like the blob idea...

In answer to your final question - You are an extension of Jivya and he really wants to eat the orb. Might as well allow regen through eating items and stuff like a Jelly too.

[TehDruid]

Actually kind of like the blob idea...

In answer to your final question - You are an extension of Jivya and he really wants to eat the orb. Might as well allow regen through eating items and stuff like a Jelly too.

I was thinking about it but then it would be even worse than Nemelexites and their floor trash. After all I don't really know If the slimes can gain nutrition from items such as weapons and armour, seeing as they're not organic substances. I lack the knowledge to make this decision, actually. Is it appropriate in DC:SS that slimes should get nutrition from metal items for example? Also, since you're bound with Jiyva, you'll get nutrition, HP, MP from fellow slimes eating stuff off the ground at higher piety, so there really is no need for you to be able to do that.

On another note, how can a slime thing carry 52 items with it without dissolving them? Not that a cat really makes sense carrying a bunch of executioner's axes, but oh well.

[bobross419]

Artifact Amulet of Conservation

[TehDruid]

Not infallibly so.

[ekolis]

Not infallibly so.

Ring of Papacy - Makes any effects described as "not infallibly so", infallibly so.

[Pteriforever]

Fill in the spaces between branches with little extra random ones -- Like ToME's farportal, random generation algorithm, random wall type, random names, random number of levels, randomly selected monsters.

[Confidence Interval]

Not infallibly so.

Ring of Papacy - Makes any effects described as "not infallibly so", infallibly so.

Gives the Summon Cattle ability.

(You can issue a Papal Bull, geddit?)

[Grimm]

Gives the Summon Cattle ability.

You summon a cow.
You milk the cow.
You enjoy the sweet milk.

[Grimm]

On second thought that might raise issues for centaurs.

[joellercoaster]

I still think there should be a Heaven branch, or at least a nice branch that's pleasant to be in, with easy monsters and little treasure.

I've only ever seen it once, but there was a centaur garden portal vault in 0.9 - by the time I found it, centaurs were entirely harmless, and it was otherwise full of nice lawn, hedges and butterflies.

There was a reasonable treasure vault at the end of the garden, but again, the guardians (some kind of gargoyle or golem IIRC) weren't threatening by the time the vault turned up.

I swear I am not making this up.

[Curio]

i have seen it too. Only with centaurs and captains

[Confidence Interval]

Does whether you get to centaur heaven or not depend on what god you worship?

[bobross419]

New Race: Superhero

Starts with a random evokable power at 150% normal duration - Invisibility, Blink, Passwall, Flight, Swiftness, Haste, Super Strength, etc.
Starts with a random weakness - rC-, rF-, rN-, 50% damage from Blunt/Pierce/Slash, Poison Weakness, etc.
Starts with 1 level of random mutation - Any normal mutation good/bad with equal chance
Starts with 1 archnemesis - Any Unique (150% exp and piety from killing Archnemesis, but Archnemesis respawns indefinitely)

Only able to wear Boots, Cape, Mask, and (New Body Armor:) Spandex

Weak to Mutations - Eating chunks gives 1.5 mutations (50% chance for second), Quaffing potions gives 5 mutations, Quaffing cure mut and Amulet of rMut are only 75% effective, MUT on items/polymorph other/monster MUT powers are 150% worse, can't gain resistant to mutation mutation.

Can only learn 1 weapon skill (your trademark weapon skill ).

[Grimm]

Hey that's a good idea - a superhero roguelike.

[Confidence Interval]

Hey that's a good idea - a superhero roguelike.

I'm amazed nobody has thought of that before!

[AtT]

Hey that's a good idea - a superhero roguelike.

I'm amazed nobody has thought of that before!

I saw a query about this before and to my knowledge it hasn't been done.

[Confidence Interval]

I saw a query about this before and to my knowledge it hasn't been done.

I believe this would fit the general description (though Spiderman it ain't):

http://www.amazon.com/Z-H-P-Unlosing-Da ... 003YVP5D4/

[Grimm]

Wand of Hastings

[Confidence Interval]

Wand of Hastings

Starts with 1066 charges.

[Grimm]

Turns English monsters into French ones.