Generic Brainstorming!

[Jabberwocky]

Vehumet should appreciate waiting for 199,999,999 turns and then casting firestorm. The reason for this is that doing this means it will end in hellfire.

[Grimm]

For that you should get an otherwise unobtainable seventh piety star.

[Grimm]

octotaur

[Grimm]

dev mimic

[nicolae]

dev mimic

WELL THEY'RE ALREADY INEPT *dragged off by giant hook*

[Eronarn]

dev mimic

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[Jabberwocky]

Executioner's axes should only work on paralyzed/sleeping monsters.

[TehDruid]

Poop-flinging Monkeys; They give you a buff/debuff that makes enemies avoid your general vicinity. Enemies unlucky enough to stay in melee range suffer -10 to Accuracy and Calm Facial Expression checks for the duration. Mnoleg loves (this) shit though and will be able to detect your position at all times if you are in his level with this debuff. The question is, how to find a monkey in Pandemonium.

[IronJelly]

There are plenty of status effects that we're missing. I like yours, I would call it "pooped" and color it brown on the status screen.

Another one I've always thought the game needed was, "has to urinate" After so many potions quaffed, you gain a bonus to speed, and a severe accuracy penalty until you urinate, which forces you to not move for a number of turns, turns the tile you used yellow, and leaves a scent on the tile attracting animals. If you keep drinking and don't urinate, you can die of it.

Another status I wouldn't mind seeing is, "drugged." When drugged, your character is high, and doesn't feel pain or anger. You can't berserk, and your remaining health isn't displayed, however during this statuses duration you also gain a few points of Deep Dwarf style damage shaving. When the status wears off, you are slowed and hungered as though you had been berserk.

And elves should have a status effect of "pretty" which is on at all times, and gives them a bonus to frolicking.

[Grimm]

Another status I wouldn't mind seeing is, "drugged." When drugged, your character is high, and doesn't feel pain or anger. You can't berserk, and your remaining health isn't displayed, however during this statuses duration you also gain a few points of Deep Dwarf style damage shaving. When the status wears off, you are slowed and hungered as though you had been berserk.

"Drugged" status should also create colourful visual effects.

And elves should have a status effect of "pretty" which is on at all times, and gives them a bonus to frolicking.

New fixedart: the Frock of Frolicking.

[Jabberwocky]

Another status I wouldn't mind seeing is, "drugged." When drugged, your character is high, and doesn't feel pain or anger. You can't berserk, and your remaining health isn't displayed, however during this statuses duration you also gain a few points of Deep Dwarf style damage shaving. When the status wears off, you are slowed and hungered as though you had been berserk.

"Drugged" status should also create colourful visual effects.

Go play Brogue.

[Grimm]

I tried. ASCII.

[Jabberwocky]

I tried. ASCII.

But ASCII with truly beautiful hallucinations.

[TehDruid]

I tried. ASCII.

But ASCII with truly beautiful hallucinations.

I don't play ASCII usually but Brogue's is so damn beautiful. And hallucination is fun. Also I like that there's a single enchant scroll you can use on anything.

[Grimm]

I might try Brogue again sometime. I keep hearing how wonderful it is.

[BlackSheep]

Another one I've always thought the game needed was, "has to urinate" After so many potions quaffed, you gain a bonus to speed, and a severe accuracy penalty until you urinate, which forces you to not move for a number of turns, turns the tile you used yellow, and leaves a scent on the tile attracting animals. If you keep drinking and don't urinate, you can die of it.

This should also remove sticky flames.

[pratamawirya]

Another one I've always thought the game needed was, "has to urinate" After so many potions quaffed, you gain a bonus to speed, and a severe accuracy penalty until you urinate, which forces you to not move for a number of turns, turns the tile you used yellow, and leaves a scent on the tile attracting animals. If you keep drinking and don't urinate, you can die of it.

This should also remove sticky flames.

Gross.

[Jabberwocky]

This should also remove sticky flames.

Jarate?

[Blade]

I tried. ASCII.

But ASCII with truly beautiful hallucinations.

Actually, Brogue's ascii is one of the reasons I stopped playing it. Something about it just...bugged me. I much prefer Crawl's simpler style.

[mageykun]

This should also remove sticky flames.

Jarate?

...yes this is exactly what dungeon crawling needed. We already routinely canalize the raw corpses of everything we meet, why not start showing in urine? I hear it has great health benefits for burns, too.

More seriously, I've always wondered why I can't quaff !water over my head to extinguish sticky flame.

[Jabberwocky]

Two reasons.
Reason number one is that potion come in tiny little bottles and the amount within them is to small to extinguish flames
Reason number two is that sticky flame is napalm and water reacts with the white phosphorous to continue burning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Effects_on_people

[mageykun]

...then why does shallow water work? :p

[Jabberwocky]

...then why does shallow water work? :p

Magic.

[IronJelly]

Two reasons.
Reason number one is that potion come in tiny little bottles and the amount within them is to small to extinguish flames
Reason number two is that sticky flame is napalm and water reacts with the white phosphorous to continue burning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Effects_on_people

This begs the really important questions:

how big is a potion? really? I mean, is it just a small vial? is it like a scientific beaker? Harry Dresden drank his potions from a sports bottle. Is it sealed, like a bottle of wine? Is it open, waiting on the ground for the elements to infest it? If the vials are glass, how do they not make any noise while you move? if they're not glass, how does the cold shatter them?

[pratamawirya]

EDIT: stupid post, nevermind (didn't read about the white phosporous thing)

[TehDruid]

Another one I've always thought the game needed was, "has to urinate" After so many potions quaffed, you gain a bonus to speed, and a severe accuracy penalty until you urinate, which forces you to not move for a number of turns, turns the tile you used yellow, and leaves a scent on the tile attracting animals. If you keep drinking and don't urinate, you can die of it.

This should also remove sticky flames.

Gross.

It should also remove athlete's foot.

[Jabberwocky]

This begs the really important questions:

how big is a potion? really? I mean, is it just a small vial? is it like a scientific beaker? Harry Dresden drank his potions from a sports bottle. Is it sealed, like a bottle of wine? Is it open, waiting on the ground for the elements to infest it? If the vials are glass, how do they not make any noise while you move? if they're not glass, how does the cold shatter them?

Here are the answers. Potions are small little plastic vials. Yes Harry Dresden did drink potions from a sports bottle but you are not Harry Dresden. Yes of course the potions are corked, you wouldn't want them to empty when they get knocked over. The reason potions shatter when they get cold is because the liquid in them expands.

[IronJelly]

This begs the really important questions:

how big is a potion? really? I mean, is it just a small vial? is it like a scientific beaker? Harry Dresden drank his potions from a sports bottle. Is it sealed, like a bottle of wine? Is it open, waiting on the ground for the elements to infest it? If the vials are glass, how do they not make any noise while you move? if they're not glass, how does the cold shatter them?

Here are the answers. Potions are small little plastic vials. Yes Harry Dresden did drink potions from a sports bottle but you are not Harry Dresden. Yes of course the potions are corked, you wouldn't want them to empty when they get knocked over. The reason potions shatter when they get cold is because the liquid in them expands.

When i said "important" I didn't mean that I wanted answers.

[mageykun]

Important questions: too good for answers.

[Jabberwocky]

There should be an option to just tap a sleeping yaktaur on the shoulder to wake it up. It's not polite to try and wake something up by shouting at it.

[mageykun]

tc

You cough politely to announce your presence.


Special cased flavor text for standing in clouds:

smoke
You cough roughly, choking on the smoke.

flame
You belch flames. How uncouth.
if rF+++
You feel your nose tickled by the warmth air and sneeze gently.

freezing vapor
You cough deeply, trying to shake free the sharp coldness in your lungs.
if rC+++
You sniff in the cold air.

meph
You let out a frenzied giggle, hyperventilating.
if rPois / clarity
You make a confusing noise.

poison
You choke on the toxic fumes.
if rPois
You make a venomous remark.

steam
You hack wetly on the steam.
if rSteam
You take a deep, comforting breath of the steamy air, and release it slowly with a contented sigh.

pestilence
You hack and wheeze, trying to clear the foul vapors from your lungs.
if immune
You let loose a black sigh.

mutation
You let out a strange twisted sound as your airway changes shape.
if rMut / immune
You let out a colorful cough.

if unbreathing
You make an unnatural noise, attempting to imitate the sound of a cough.

[Grimm]

You fart discreetly.
The yaktaur turns to you and raises an eyebrow.

[Grimm]

One thing is for sure: cute mutation is rarer than most other potions.

[...]

Cute mutation is also great for playing mutation roulette.

I'm carrying a couple potions of cute mutation next time I go to the bar. Quicker than beer goggles.

[mageykun]

Grimm triple post!

It's the grimmfecta! A triple layer grimmfectionery, if you will.

[Grimm]

Reverse-ninjaed, ha ha ha.

[Jabberwocky]

Reverse-ninjaed, ha ha ha.

So you assassinated the target after it had been killed?

[Grimm]

No, I sneaked up behind myself.

[Jabberwocky]

No, I sneaked up behind myself.

Did you steal your own pants while you were at it?

[mageykun]

No, I sneaked up behind myself.

Did you steal your own pants while you were at it?

Stealing from your future self is a great way to get free stuff seemingly from nowhere.

It sucks when past you catches up and steals it back from you in the first place though. It's notoriously difficult to recover your possessions from a stable time loop. Not to mention how difficult it is to replace something without an origin and of infinite age.

[Jabberwocky]

It sucks when past you catches up and steals it back from you in the first place though. It's notoriously difficult to recover your possessions from a stable time loop. Not to mention how difficult it is to replace something without an origin and of infinite age.

Actually I was just thinking of a mission in Kingdom of Loathing where you have to lure yourself into a back alley, sneak up behind yourself, and steal your own pants. What you came up with is much more interesting.

[Stormfox]

Just don't kill your past self so that you can have two copies of your favorite weapon.

[Jabberwocky]

New unrandart.
The dagger of chile death.
It looks either like a bowl of redish murky brown stuff, or a long mountainous country with penguins.

[mageykun]

Even better. A whole collection of geography shaped unrands.

The boot of Italy.
The Japanese Sword.
The Panama Hat.

[Grimm]

The ... of Florida.

[Deimos]

The Mittens of Michigan (rC+, +slay ford).

[Grimm]

Why "slay ford"? Michigan wasn't particularly hostile to Gerald Ford.

[Deimos]

That other Ford.

[Grimm]

We'd need a mechanical monster race.

[MacChris]

Golems?

[Jabberwocky]

Golems?

There are golems in the game.