New race idea: Dancing weapon

[TeshiAlair]

Designed to streamline dungeon crawl, this race is geared towards focusing on gameplay mechanics. You cannot read scrolls, drink potions, evoke items, pick weapons, wear armor or jewelry, and you start out in the Hall of Blades. You can only do two things: murder, and fall down shafts.

DISCUSS

[Maynot]

If you were an enchanted mace class weapon: "You swing yourself at an iron golem. You hit it! You get a severe migraine."

[Sandman25]

It could be fun to allow Spectral Weapon if monsters were unaware who of those weapons is player character (like we suffer with 3 Mara's sometimes).

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Designed to streamline dungeon crawl, this race is geared towards focusing on gameplay mechanics. You cannot read scrolls, drink potions, evoke items, pick weapons, wear armor or jewelry, and you start out in the Hall of Blades. You can only do two things: murder, and fall down shafts.

DISCUSS

Well, there's no way this would work as a species to choose for regular Crawl, so not sure there is anything to discuss at that level.

But what I could actually see working is a weird, special dungeon sprint map where you skip character generation and start as a dancing weapon and have to fight/dance your way through (a modified version of) Hall of Blades.

Possible names for map:
"Battle of the Blades"
"Terpsichore's Dance Hall"
"Armory of the Sorcerer's Apprentice"
"Waltz Before You Crawl" [<----- My personal favorite ]


EDIT: Got confused, I thought I was posting in GDD not CYC... Well whatever, I serious-posted—and I'm sticking to it.

[Grimm]

As you levelled up you'd get access to different dances.

[Confidence Interval]

Start with the Club Clog Dance, move on to the Dagger Disco... you never know, one day you might make it to the Giant Spiked Club Gavotte!

[Grimm]

the MC Hammer

[Grimm]

wait were hammers removed

[jejorda2]

New unrand: hammer.

[TeshiAlair]

Chei needs a hammertime ability. Rename slouch. Chei instantly becomes better god

[Tiktacy]

Chei needs a hammertime ability. Rename slouch. Chei instantly becomes better god

This needs to happen...

[VargrVeum]

STOP, were hammers removed

ftfy

[Grimm]

I'd thank you, but...


New unique for the dancing weapon race: Mackie Messer a.k.a. Mack the Knife

[nicolae]

wait were hammers removed

Not technically but they don't randomly generate anywhere anymore, and only appear in Crazy Yiuf's hut. I don't think even stores will carry them.

[Siegurt]

wait were hammers removed

Not technically but they don't randomly generate anywhere anymore, and only appear in Crazy Yiuf's hut. I don't think even stores will carry them.

They're like floppy disks

[Confidence Interval]

Yiuf uses floppy disks?

[Grimm]

Yes and he's also the only one left in the entire dungeon who can bang a bleeding nail. Dwarves might have been able to but.

[Confidence Interval]

Whatever, grandpa.

[Grimm]

What, nails are old hat now?

[Confidence Interval]

Dwarves. They belong to the past. The world has moved on.

[Grimm]

Dwarves may be old hat but what about dwarf hats.

[Confidence Interval]

Do you mean really small hats?

[Grimm]

Do I have to spell everything out for you?

[Confidence Interval]

That would reduce the opacity. Not all of us have, at the forefront of our minds, the names of books referred to in short stories by Borges.

[Grimm]

Hey I took one for the team. Leave it at that will you.

[Confidence Interval]

You are the team, copper.

[Grimm]

I am the copper team.

[Confidence Interval]

I am the badly corroded brass team.

[Grimm]

Where there's badly corroded brass, there's badly corroded muck.

[Confidence Interval]

Corroded muck?

I note your insult, in any case. It is of moderate quality.

[Grimm]

You're stunned I even knew that idiom.

[Confidence Interval]

You not only knew it but also managed to use it in context. I don't know how long you've been saving it for but that's still very impressive.

[Grimm]

Saving hell. I got it with my mother's milk.

[Confidence Interval]

Saved over multiple generations? That's impressive. It puts paid to the idea that you are in any way spontaneously witty, certainly.

[Grimm]

I could do with some pay.

[Confidence Interval]

I'm sure the Tavern remunerates you generously for your work as a moderator, oder?

[Grimm]

I get all the pixels I can carry home in my hands.

[Confidence Interval]

Then I don't see that you have any grounds for complaint. And it's no wonder you so often act as though pixelated.

[Grimm]

pixilated

ftfy

[Confidence Interval]

I stand corrected. That is one of those words (in English there are many) containing a schwa sounds such that determining the correct spelling is not possible from the pronunciation.

[Azrael]

I get half my fun on this forum watching you two interact.

[Grimm]

And the other half?

[Siegurt]

I think dancing weapons need fancy outfits, like tuxedos and ball gowns, perhaps little masquerade masks as well.

[Confidence Interval]

I think dancing weapons need fancy outfits, like tuxedos and ball gowns, perhaps little masquerade masks as well.

This is a good idea. The Hall of Blades would then have an ambience far closer to that of the masked ball in Eyes Wide Shut, which would greatly improve the feel of this part of the game.

[Hirsch I]

99% of CYC is just Grimm and Confidence Interval chatting.
I think we should add a Rune lock to prevent CYC redundance.

[Grimm]

How many times have I heard that before.

[Hirsch I]

damn, and here I was thinking I was the first to notice. crawl players are pretty sharp.
but don't get me wrong: I do not think this is a bad thing, normally. when I entered the forum for the first time, I thought "LOL, everybody knows everybody in here?" it is nice, this small town atmosphere. you two chatting like high school girls helps creating this atmosphere, so it is nice.
most of the time.

[Grimm]

I think dancing weapons need fancy outfits, like tuxedos and ball gowns, perhaps little masquerade masks as well.

Dancing weapons also need to be doing actual dances. Glaives could do the watusi, and maces of distortion could do the hucklebuck.

[Confidence Interval]

you two chatting like high school girls helps

We are high school girls.