Unique: Redhawk

[Klown]

The son of Runs-With-Buffaloes, Redhawk is a tomahawk throwing Chief from a nearby tribe. He always has randomly branded tomahawks along with a leather armour, and a war axe. After getting trampled in a buffalo stampede, he's chosen to enter the Dungeon to train his skills and become a worthy hunter and Chief of his tribe. Once he catches you in his sight, he'll scream his war cry non-stop, alerting others of your presence until either you or him are dead.

HP: 30
HD: 4
XP: 100
Speed: 10
AC: 0
EV: 12
MR: 15
Appears on Dungeon 4-9

[n1000]

laying the stereotypes on a bit thick don't you think

[Cheibrodos]

this is so racist.

[tasonir]

15 EV is HUGE for early dungeon, and giving an unrandart leather armor all the time is probably too much. Make it usually an enchanted one, with a chance to be an unrand? Seems like all that ranged damage (branded tomahawks can be nasty) might be more suited for d8-10, and lair 1-4 or so. But that kind of adjustment can depend on actual testing, I don't know what his exact damage output would be. Lower his EV to 5 or so, imho (yaks have 4 if I remember correctly, for comparison)

Constant screaming is interesting, although I'm not sure it gives the players many options on how to engage him.

[Sar]

you mean the son of Runs-With-Death-Yaks

[Klown]

laying the stereotypes on a bit thick don't you think

I'm part Native American, this is all historically accurate.

[Moose]

How is this remotely racist?

[Klown]

15 EV is HUGE for early dungeon, and giving an unrandart leather armor all the time is probably too much. Make it usually an enchanted one, with a chance to be an unrand? Seems like all that ranged damage (branded tomahawks can be nasty) might be more suited for d8-10, and lair 1-4 or so. But that kind of adjustment can depend on actual testing, I don't know what his exact damage output would be. Lower his EV to 5 or so, imho (yaks have 4 if I remember correctly, for comparison)

Constant screaming is interesting, although I'm not sure it gives the players many options on how to engage him.

Thanks for the input.
Blork has 9 EV(at least wiki says so), this guy is supposed to be light and fast. Dropped it to 12. With the leather armour, it changes to 3 AC, 11 EV.
Giving him a standard war axe(11 base damage) & leather armour alongside his branded tomahawks(6 base damage).

[DracheReborn]

I dunno about racist, but this is a stereotype from the wrong genre.

[TeshiAlair]

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Urug

[KittenInMyCerealz]

I like it. There should be more uniques on the lower floors. It should appear a bit deeper though, if you run into him on D4 you just get instakilled i think.
Also is it a human or some other race?

[Klown]

I like it. There should be more uniques on the lower floors. It should appear a bit deeper though, if you run into him on D4 you just get instakilled i think.
Also is it a human or some other race?

Human.

[TeshiAlair]

Or just move Urug lower since he's utterly uninteresting where he is right now and avoid having a completely bizarre new unique occupying the same niche

[scorpionwarrior]

Crawl already has enough fictional racial stereotypes in it, I don't think we need to add examples from real-life. I don't have a problem with a unique being native american, but this guy just seems like a crazed sports mascot.

Like how would people react if someone proposed a unique who was a black guy with a dumb name that does voodoo magic and has a bone through his nose.

[khalil]

Crawl already has enough fictional racial stereotypes in it, I don't think we need to add examples from real-life. I don't have a problem with a unique being native american, but this guy just seems like a crazed sports mascot.

Like how would people react if someone proposed a unique who was a black guy with a dumb name that does voodoo magic and has a bone through his nose.

The fans on /vg/ would probably be all for it.
See, the joke is /pol/.

[Viashino_wizard]

Onehawk
Twohawk
Redhawk
Bluehawk

More seriously, this guy is just a weak Urug but with more racist undertones.

[Ghoul King]

Why are we running into a Native American in some vaguely medieval Europe environment? And what are these 'buffalo' you speak of, strange crazy foreigner? I know of Death Yaks and Elephants and other vicious evil quadrupedal hellbeasts, but this 'buffalo' sounds like a fairy tale to me.

Only thing interesting about this guy is the incessant screaming, drawing everything into the fight if you try to retreat. Which honestly sounds like: if the guy is manageable, it's irrelevant. If he's dangerous enough to justify fleeing, he risks becoming a death sentence to a lot of characters. No thanks.

[Sar]

vaguely medieval Europe environment

wut

[Arrhythmia]

Why are we running into a Native American in some vaguely medieval Europe environment? And what are these 'buffalo' you speak of, strange crazy foreigner? I know of Death Yaks and Elephants and other vicious evil quadrupedal hellbeasts, but this 'buffalo' sounds like a fairy tale to me.

Maybe he's referring to a European Buffalo
or a Water Buffalo
or perhaps an Italian Buffalo
possibly even the African Buffalo.

[Ghoul King]

vaguely medieval Europe environment

wut

I said 'vaguely' for a reason.