Generic Brainstorming!

[Grimm]

Lola makes you a man. x3

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Guys, I think you need some emotional help.
Let me reset your brains with a picture.

[Grimm]

I didn't know spriggans played chess.

[Confidence Interval]

You ask Lola about the strange Spriggan chess game.
Lola tells you not to worry.
Lola tells you to roll over.

[varsovie]

Lola comes into view.
Why would you want to do that?
Are you older than 18?
[Y]es or [N]o only, please.
You feel extremely strange. You feel guilty. You have lost your religion!
There is a nasty taste in your mouth for a moment.
Zin draw some chaos from your body!
You feel ache in your throat.

[Confidence Interval]

Lola comes into view.
Why would you want to do that?
Are you older than 18?
[Y]es or [N]o only, please.
You feel extremely strange. You feel guilty. You have lost your religion!
There is a nasty taste in your mouth for a moment.
Zin draw some chaos from your body!
You feel ache in your throat.

Lola lights a cigarette.
You feel strangely relaxed.
You have gained self-knowledge!

[AtT]

Give Demigods a +5 Invocations aptitude.

[Grimm]

What does that have to do with transvestites?

[bobross419]

What does that have to do with transvestites?

Even demigods suddenly start praying when Lola sets her sights on them.

[Grimm]

Sigmund secretly dates Lola.

[Confidence Interval]

Who can blame him? And who can blame her?

[Grimm]

I can. J'accuse!

[Grimm]

a superhero roguelike

I keep thinking how much fun this would be, and how suitable the Crawl engine is for it.

Race - You'd pick your basic body type: robot, mutant, alien, unpowered human, etc. This would determine the power sets you could choose from.

Class - This would be more elaborate than in Crawl, since your powers would be mostly fixed from the start. There could be a choice between rolling a random set of powers, or custom designing your hero Champions style.

Powers would work pretty much like spells do.

Sidekicks and super teams are covered by the summoned creature mechanic.

Items would be much as they are in Crawl, though rarer. If you're a tech hero, you could design new items. A Superman type would do without.

Dungeon floors and branches would be different areas you patrolled. You'd start out beating on petty criminals in an urban neighbourhood, and by the end would be fighting a global crime army at their Antarctic base, or thrashing Galactus in orbit around Alpha Centauri. Space, undersea, desert, alien worlds.

Instead of Temple you'd discover a cool cave/mansion and build your secret hideout. Stashing would thus be more elaborate than in Crawl.

The gods system might be done away with, or restricted to certain hero types - Thor, Green Lantern etc.

Co-operative online play.

Et cetera.

[bobross419]

Could be pretty damn fun

[Megabass]

How about... Octopodes being able to wear ring mail?

[Pteriforever]

That oft-suggested forest branch is a good idea, but where would you put it? Across D:5-20 there are about five branches -- You'd either need to stick it right at the beginning or right at the end of D, or maybe as a side branch -- Orc perhaps?

[Curio]

add it to lair rotation.

[Jabberwocky]

Airstrike's icon should be of a F-16 attacking a bailey. The length of a god's wrath should be linked to how long you had worshiped him/her/it. Sigmund should sometimes show up in the vault with all the Sigmund want to be's, like he's teaching them.

[Grimm]

bread ration of draining

[Eaki Godsbane]

Zombies always leave corpses and revive after some time.

If your character is damaged by a zombie(even if the attack deals zero damage and is blocked by AC) you get the *INFECTED* status. Once infected, your character dies after a random amount of turns and revives as a zombie. Undead players are immune to infection and will gain a permanent ROT status instead.

You can play with a new character and meet your old zombified character instead of a ghost.

Additionally, zombies attack other monsters. Living monsters are also infected and turn into zombies themselves.

Good luck in surviving the Zot Zombie Apocalypse!

Oh, it's already Walking Dead season 2, gotta watch! See you folks!

[ekolis]

bread ration of draining

After 1000 turns, bread rations go stale, and can be used as makeshift clubs or shots.

[Grimm]

bagel of penetration

[ilpalazzo]

bread ration of intestinal tapeworms

[Grimm]

choko of choking

[ilpalazzo]

potion of superglue (=permanent silence)

[TehDruid]

potion of superglue (=permanent silence)

This cracked me up, I have to say.

[ekolis]

Choko statues!

Just like all the other statues, except instead of being shaped like a minotaur or floating eye or whatever, it's shaped like a choko!

And if you play as a Kenku Hunter, you can find powerups in them, like the Mice Beam (a wand which fires an endless stream of mice to assault the enemy), or the Scrooge Attack (a sling which uses your gold as ammunition)!

[varsovie]

Potion of the pervert wizard.

Yuk!

+69 nutrition

[TehDruid]

i - Hardened Choko Gagball +2 {worn}

Head Gear

AC: 0

It prevents spellcasting (in a very elegant way).
It prevents eating and drinking (look above).
It protects you from unholy pain and torment (it's not that you don't feel it, more like not being able to scream in agony).
It is red. (No shit!?)

Lola approves the use of this item.

[AtT]

Scroll of Pornography.

Intelligent monsters will always move towards this scroll when in view, giving you ample time to escape or ambush.

[Grimm]

But if female uniques see you carrying one they do double damage.

[File200]

Potion of delayed paralysis. ID's as water, then activates 10d50 turns later.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Potion of the pervert wizard.

Yuk!

+69 nutrition

Stop reading Oglaf!

[Confidence Interval]

Scroll of Pornography.

I have to say, standards of discussion in CYC are continuing to go downhill.

[Grimm]

Cometh the whippersnappers, cometh the decline.

[Confidence Interval]

Après nous le déluge.

[Grimm]

O tempora! O morons!

[Confidence Interval]

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

I think, if I ever play Crawl again, I will call my character Ignatius J. Reilly.

[Grimm]

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

[Jabberwocky]

More of a stupid idea then a generic one but here it is. My young brother thinks that if you are a DE then all the DE monsters should be neutral towards you, kobolds and kobolds, Etc. He doesn't get the idea of game balance and how that would make the halls/early game/shoals much too easy for certain races.

[Confidence Interval]

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

I recommend it.

[varsovie]

More of a stupid idea then a generic one but here it is. My young brother thinks that if you are a DE then all the DE monsters should be neutral towards you, kobolds and kobolds, Etc. He doesn't get the idea of game balance and how that would make the halls/early game/shoals much too easy for certain races.

The U.N. doesn't exist in crawl.

(But your brother can worship Beog.)

[Grimm]

If the UN extends recognition to orcs, I'm withdrawing my support.

[Eaki Godsbane]

Hooray Xenocide! Kill them all tree-hugging Elves and stupid Orcs!

[AtT]

More of a stupid idea then a generic one but here it is. My young brother thinks that if you are a DE then all the DE monsters should be neutral towards you, kobolds and kobolds, Etc. He doesn't get the idea of game balance and how that would make the halls/early game/shoals much too easy for certain races.

THIS. IS. NOT. NETHACK.

and good riddance.

[Grimm]

darts of poisson

[pratamawirya]

Scroll of Newspaper.

[Confidence Interval]

darts of poisson

Did you mean French fish or the probability distribution?

[Pteriforever]

Toasters! Evocable items.

How about... Scrolls with invisible words? you need Sinv to read them.

I think we need some more *bad* scrolls.

Scroll of Destroy Item -- Sucks when you mistake it for Enchant Armour. Great when you need to get rid of wielded distortion.
Scroll of Petrification -- Has the same effect of calcifying dust.
Scroll of Ineptitude -- Lose 1d4 levels off your highest skill.
Scroll of Nonsense -- Suffer a random miscast.
Scroll of Wrath -- Suffer a random divine retribution.
Scroll of Banishment -- Extremely rare. Either the ultimate escape item or the ultimate game ruiner.
Scroll of Earthquake -- Creates 5-10 rock walls in your LoS.

[Stormfox]

darts of poisson

Already in. That's when you throw the twenty-seventh Trog/Okawaru gift of darts into deep water to be rid of them.