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High School Crawl. Just for the sheer absurdity of it.

The destiny of this world depends on the Orb of Zot. And the prom is in three days! Go get it.

The orcish jocks advance on you. Saint Roka gives you a swirlie.

Hah . Okay someone definately reads something positive

IDEA #1

Divide stone golems into a whole bunch of variants:

Code:: The basalt golem hits you! You closely miss the schist golem.

IDEA #2

Code:: You see here an apple. The apple falls up and hits you. You die...

Pteriforever wrote:IDEA #2

Code:
You see here an apple. The apple falls up and hits you. You die...

They're really more like giant cherries.

Blade wrote:
Pteriforever wrote:IDEA #2

Code:
You see here an apple. The apple falls up and hits you. You die...

They're really more like giant cherries.

The proper term is Delicious Fruit.

And if we're going there, you could never pick up any long blades, ever. Don't jump into a sword, you retard!

New unrandart: +10,+10 Executioner Axe of YASD {speed, rF++, rC++, rElec, rN+, rPois, Regen, Clar)

You forgot the +9 exploding darts! No crawling session is complete without dying in one hit from the first kobold you see.

Smash Ball - Monster which floats around and rapidly regenerates health. If you are lucky enough to kill it, you will go berserk! However unlike other monsters, this one can be attacked by monsters as well... make sure that Sigmund doesn't kill it, because if he does, he'll lay a smackdown on you!

Sectoid Leader-

Spells: Confuse, Enslavement, Firestorm. All spells may be cast so long as any monster is within LOS, although firestorm can only be cast if there are less than 8 right angle waypoints between the player and the Sectoid.

New Unique: Emperor's New Clothes

Paralyses every creature in LOS, and does not check MR (like giant eyeball).

New element of gameplay, the Melange.
Can be found raw, but also in some potions and perma food : spice beer, spice cake, spice coffee...
Has no effect if taken very few.
If you take more, you become mildly addicted, it boost your HP regeneration by 10% but if the level of spice in your body reach zero, you will get 1+D6 penalty for each stats and must wait 2500 turns to loose addiction.
If you take even more, you become higly addicted. The regen boost goes to 20%, and you can sense monsters in your surrounding. Your eyes turn blue and if your level of spice reach 0, you get 1+(2)D5 penallty for each stat, and your speed goes down by 1. In 2500 turns you become middly addicted.
Wants more? You will become dependent. The game will always tells you if there it is a unique on the level. You gain controlled teleport and can map small area. Regen is up by 25% and max MP up by 10%. But if your spice level ever reach zero, you get 1+(3d4) less stats, -.1 speed, double miscast effect, randomly loose consciousness and die after 500 turns.
If you make an overdose, by eating to much spice, or getting caught in a spice blow, 50% chances of a bad mutation and get confused.
Sometime a portal appear in a level, announced by "it smells cinnamon". It brings you to a huge source of melange in a desert, but watch out the pack of Orcs armed with crisknive (a +9 +9 dagger of protection that disintegrate when his wielder die) will defend their rocks, and the mighty Sandworm watch his sand.

P.S. Yes I'm reading Dune again... :ugeek:

Kraken unique which shoots lightning bolts from its tentacles.

Bothan spy network. They will bring you any item in the game, for a price.
Being able to hire the mercenaries and bounty hunters for some gold.

Jabberwocky wrote:Bothan spy network. They will bring you any item in the game, for a price.

Big no-no for Okawaru worshipers, because many Bothans die to get you that information.

New minigame. Level Defender.
You start out on level one with basic monsters and traps, (Kobolds, hobgoblins, dart traps, Etc), you try to stop the adventurer from getting the orb. As you get further on you get more powerful monsters and traps. The level is random, but you can place one vault a level. You aren't actually a character in game, more of a godlike figure watching and commanding. Kind of a variation of Zot Defense.

varsovie wrote:P.S. Yes I'm reading Dune again...

Dune.. like that really old RTS?

pratamawirya wrote:New Unique: Emperor's New Clothes

Paralyses every creature in LOS, and does not check MR (like giant eyeball).

New Unique: Emperor Kuzco

Can polymorph at will. Do not throw off his groove.

Jabberwocky wrote:New minigame. Level Defender.
You start out on level one with basic monsters and traps, (Kobolds, hobgoblins, dart traps, Etc), you try to stop the adventurer from getting the orb. As you get further on you get more powerful monsters and traps. The level is random, but you can place one vault a level. You aren't actually a character in game, more of a godlike figure watching and commanding. Kind of a variation of Zot Defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper

Cursed Deck of Punishment - Immune to remove curse scrolls. Dare you draw a new card? There's no other way to free your hands.

AtT wrote:New Unique: Emperor Kuzco

Can polymorph at will. Do not throw off his groove.

That would require potions of polymorph, which I believe are on the "won't do" list.

Stormfox wrote:
AtT wrote:New Unique: Emperor Kuzco

Can polymorph at will. Do not throw off his groove.

That would require potions of polymorph, which I believe are on the "won't do" list.

Uses same mechanic as shapeshifters with an overwhelming majority of his forms being llama.

The censor llama shoots a bolt of censorship at you. The bolt of censorship hits you!
One of the 9 layers of your astral projection is turned into ash!
You feel a sudden urge to wave a slice of bacon near your right ear.

Sim Zot City Defense!!!

Sorry, you cannot place a dart trap in a residential zone!
You hear a distant rumbling... AAAAA! It's a giant spider robot!
The giant spider robot tramples the yaktaur.
The giant spider robot tramples the battle llama.
Suddenly, the voice of Will Wright speaks from the heavens!
"THOU SHALT NOT DESECRATE MY SACRED LLAMAS!"
The giant spider robot is zapped with a microwave beam!

A really bad mutation that grants permanent Nausea.

Pteriforever wrote:A really bad mutation that grants permanent Nausea.

I don't get why people hate pregnancy so much...

New mutation, pregnancy.

Ability to Berserk at will, but halve your EV and makes you much hunger.

After 400 000 turns, you loose pregnancy, but gain an ally of the same class and race than yourself, but at level one.

Code:: W - Sweet Apple Massacre >r Read which item? >W Why would you want to do that?

varsovie wrote:New mutation, pregnancy.

Ability to Berserk at will, but halve your EV and makes you much hunger.

After 400 000 turns, you loose pregnancy, but gain an ally of the same class and race than yourself, but at level one.

"Why should I care how many people I have to kill? I can just make MORE in my TUMMY!" Cookie for the person who gets that quote.

greepish wrote:
varsovie wrote:New mutation, pregnancy.

Ability to Berserk at will, but halve your EV and makes you much hunger.

After 400 000 turns, you loose pregnancy, but gain an ally of the same class and race than yourself, but at level one.

"Why should I care how many people I have to kill? I can just make MORE in my TUMMY!" Cookie for the person who gets that quote.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0587.html

Cookie to google for that one.

I had a vault design question, it's not really big enough for a Contributions forum thread, but I didn't know where else to put it, so you all get it. I had an idea for a Fedhas vault, with an inner sanctum with the altar, and an outer room with plants and oklobs, which is the only way into the inner altar room. Nobody would try to get to the Fedhas altar from the outside; rather, the idea of the vault is that if someone ends up in the altar room as the result of a shaft, escape hatch, or teleport, the only options to get out are:
1) Hack through all the plants in the outer room while oklobs shoot at you.
2) Convert to Fedhas and walk through the plants.
(Or 3) teleport out, I'm not that cruel. I was also thinking of a layout where you can 4) dig out, but you still have to deal with a single oklob.)
Question: Given the possibility of a player who can't convert to Fedhas and has no other means of getting out -- an undead with no teleport scrolls, no digging, and no invisibility, for instance -- is this kind of "haha, eat shit, player!" vault Okay To Do? I'm reminded of the Vehumet vaults that are surrounded by trees, would this be a case like that?

Edit: Okay, looking at some other vaults, and seeing stuff in the "Odd stuff in the dungeon" thread, I've concluded that this would probably be okay if I made it late enough where the average player would probably have a means of escape. And if not, well, haha, eat shit, player!

Consult with other vault designers but in my view it would have to be REALLY late, like D:20 at the earliest. It sounds like a real screw, and forced conversions seem against the spirit of the game. Cool idea though.

Jabberwocky wrote:
New minigame. Level Defender.
You start out on level one with basic monsters and traps, (Kobolds, hobgoblins, dart traps, Etc), you try to stop the adventurer from getting the orb. As you get further on you get more powerful monsters and traps. The level is random, but you can place one vault a level. You aren't actually a character in game, more of a godlike figure watching and commanding. Kind of a variation of Zot Defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper

It was a damn good game

Mercenary hut.

Like a shop, but you can hire mercenaries, from whippersnapper to awesome (and expensive) monsters

Grimm wrote:Consult with other vault designers but in my view it would have to be REALLY late, like D:20 at the earliest. It sounds like a real screw, and forced conversions seem against the spirit of the game. Cool idea though.

Yeah, I might make a thread in Contributions after all and run the Screw Vault question past the devs. I do have a similar idea, though, which is less of a screw: stick some nice loot on the other side of a mess of plants and oklobs and put a Fedhas altar near the entrance. At least then you get an option even if you get a bad teleport.

Roderic wrote:Mercenary hut.

Like a shop, but you can hire mercenaries, from whippersnapper to awesome (and expensive) monsters

I like this idea. Gives a "summons" option for chars who don't have actual summons.

nicolae wrote:Yeah, I might make a thread in Contributions after all and run the Screw Vault question past the devs. I do have a similar idea, though, which is less of a screw: stick some nice loot on the other side of a mess of plants and oklobs and put a Fedhas altar near the entrance. At least then you get an option even if you get a bad teleport.

There might be some like this already. I know I've run into a number of different oklob vaults; can't remember if there was an altar or not. This one would have to come early I think: late game, you're not going to abandon your god just to get some loot - you'll just kill the oklobs. Early on it would present an interesting option - choose a god I wasn't planning on and get some sweet loot, or pass it all up?

choose a god I wasn't planning on and get some sweet loot, or pass it all up?

It is the new Fedhas' marketing given that this is a not popular god. I would love to see some Fedhas ambush vaults forcing or luring the player to became a fedhasite.

Grimm wrote:There might be some like this already. I know I've run into a number of different oklob vaults; can't remember if there was an altar or not.

I was inspired by a couple of run-the-gauntlet oklob vaults, like one in Lair where you have to run past oklobs to get to any of the downstairs. I think having to hack through plants to get past the oklobs is new, though, and I haven't found any vaults with Fedhas altars that present that kind of option.

While thinking of "you faint" as an alternative to "you die" in the undead death thread... behold!

God idea- God of Pokemon

Name: Gottacatchemall

"I'm supereffective!"

New class, Poke Trainer:
Starting e.q.: You immediately start with 3 normal pokeballs and 50 piety under Gotta

Appreciates:

-Your pokemon killing foes
-Capturing monster types you haven't captured already
-Collecting badges (runes of zot)

Deprecates:

-Letting your pokemon faint

Abilities:

Innate:
-Immediately upon choosing Gotta, you can choose between one of three captured monsters: a giant frog, a fire drake baby, and a toadstool
-evoke Pokeball-summons a respective pokemon from it's ball or throws an empty one. Switches pokemon if one is already on the field.

*Quickthrow(food, 2 Mana)- Like Nemelex' draw card, throws an unequipped pokeball.

**Item-Throwing a potion of healing at a pokemon will heal it halfway, cure wounds will fully heal it.

***Run- Run away at a 100% fail rate "you fail to run..."

*****Evolve(high piety, food). Monsters with corresponding levels will evolve. Drakes-> Dragons, elf fighters- elf knights, etc.

******Master Ball- You may pray at an altar to Gotta to recieve the master ball, instantly capturing any monster.

Gifts- Gotta will periodically give gifts of pokeballs. Only 6 pokemon may be carried at a time, the rest are transported out of the dungeon. In addition to normal pokeballs, special pokeballs may appear which have an increased chance of catching certain types of monsters. These are:

Black pokeballs (undead)
Red Pokeballs (demons)
White Pokeballs (Angels/Daeva)
Blue Pokeballs (aquatic)
Brown Pokeballs (animal)

Warnings- Do not carry pokeballs around maurice.

New unique monster: Alvin the Dramatic Chipmunk

Initially unaware of your presence, whenever it turns to see you, you get mesmerized. Then, it begins to sing with castrati voice to pierce your ears and weaken your will.

AtT wrote:New Unique: Emperor Kuzco

Can polymorph at will. Do not throw off his groove.

I just remembered that one of Yzma's lackeys got polymorphed into an octopode for the end chase. Disney beat us to the OcFi!

Stormfox wrote:
AtT wrote:New Unique: Emperor Kuzco

Can polymorph at will. Do not throw off his groove.

I just remembered that one of Yzma's lackeys got polymorphed into an octopode for the end chase. Disney beat us to the OcFi!

They actually beat us to several species, actually:

You may notice here a Kobold, Giant Gecko, Minotaur, Tengu, Octopode, and a very hairy Deep Dwarf.

I also hear they had Felids:

which, contrary to popular belief, are actually unable to quaff potions.

After smiting people 3 times, orc priests run out of piety and run away.

New race proposal: Furry.

New monster: La Muerte Peluda.

Desc: "It's furry, it's very furry!!!"

Enchanting it's hide produces a distressingly furry leather armor.

Does anyone else ever, while glancing at the thread list, misread this thread as "Genetic Brainstorming"?

Remove orc priests. NOW.

On a crawl danger scale, they're really only about a 7. You can pretty much always run from them without panic buttons by the time you see them. Just don't try killing them

Pteriforever wrote:New race proposal: Furry.

When they mature, they can transform into blue hedgehogs, multi-tailed foxes, battle echidnas, (erm) female bats and robots.

Pteriforever wrote:New race proposal: Furry.

Are furries people who are into bestiality or into other people dressed like animals?

AtT wrote:
Pteriforever wrote:New race proposal: Furry.

Are furries people who are into bestiality or into other people dressed like animals?

The latter, mostly. Human-looking animals that talk, at least.

Neither, usually. It's generally just an interest in anthropomorphic animals, and often doesn't have anything to do with anything sexual.

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