Remove river rats

[dowan]

Well, slime creatures that aren't merged, and aren't found out of depth pose approximately 0 danger. A titanic slime creature is a "get the fuck away right now or I'll kill you" level danger. So unless when they gained the ability to merge, they also lost tons of damage, that's a very incorrect statement. Slime creatures generally aren't a danger by themselves, because you just don't stand next to them where they might merge. However, when you're happily killing monsters from your killhole, and a pack of slime creatures shows up, you really wish they couldn't merge. Making you leave a good position is a good indicator that a monster is dangerous, and I will leave a good position to get away from a merged slime creature. I would not do so even if there were 100 slime creatures in a row, if they couldn't merge.

Now, if I only played felids maybe I'd feel different, because with 0 AC you'd rather they do merge I guess. Of course, that assumes you're fighting out in the open for some crazy reason..

[Arrhythmia]

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commit;h=bf060b28d32dc39b5feba62e899a604faef33a31

TOOK YOU GUYS LONG ENOUGH

[Cimanyd]

welcome to crawl where meaningless status effects and melee attack flavours are the default ways to make things "interesting", and Drain is used like Red Green uses duct tape

hm, it seems i have found myself in the Salt Dimension, instead

It's been so long that an actual salt dimension has been added to the game.

[gammafunk]

TOOK YOU GUYS LONG ENOUGH

Well, the commit mentions how it's a major nerf to TotalGhoulNutr, which is completely unacceptable IMO. River rats where a keystone Lair species, and how Lair ghouls are on a path to extinction.

[Midn8]

Except ghouls can eat hydras and mambas.