Quazifuji wrote:While the flavor's amusing, in general there seems to be a preference for unrands that add something interesting gameplay-wise. This both has no qualities that couldn't appear on a regular randart, and no interesting synergies or other combinations of effects that interact in cool ways and are unlikely to appear together on an unrand. I'd rather see something more flavorful be added.
One thought offhand: go with the "you're safe while covered with a childhood blanket idea" and make it give invisibility while waiting. I have no idea where this would fall balance-wise (I could see it being anywhere from useless to overpowered, honestly), but I feel like it would be a more unique way to match the childhood blanket theme than just +inv.
Ring of the mage, Vamp tooth, spriggins knife, morg, bloodbane, sword of jihad,arga, trogs wrath, Octopus trident, octopus rings, glaive of prune, finisher, eos, Punk, Robe of augmentation, robe of night, salamander hide, armor of the dragon king, shield of resistence, ratskin cloak, shield of ignorance, and Dyrovepreva.
All of those unrands exist purely for flavor reasons, most of them can be spawned with nearly identical stats on a randart. None of them add anything unique to the game, and while I do think some of them should be removed, I do think some of the fixarts with particularly interesting flavor and reasonable usefulness deserve to stay(Eos, sword of jihad, trogs wrath, just to name a few).
I had considered complicating this slightly, I originally had the idea of giving your weapon reach like a scythe, but I decided that making it simple but funny with good flavor and a little something unique would make it fit much better into crawls armory. The unique part was the slayer bonus and the fragile status, since no unrands currently have the fragile ego.
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