Tuesday, 8th March 2016, 23:24 by Tiktacy
dpeg wrote:No need for spoilery gimmicks. The joke is already implemented with the corpse transformation.
Croases wrote:He's fine as is, but I guess it'd also be okay if his no-poly-to-human gimmick was removed and he/Kirke hogs became neutral if they happened to polymorph into one.
"Spoilery" things actually aren't when knowing them would never influence your decisions, or else things like the Trog book burning and Yred miasma flood altars should be removed for being spoilery. Even renamed vault monsters have a case going against them, because non-spoiled players may mistake them for new things and act differently, but I don't think polymorphing Ribbit with the explicit intention of turning him into a neutral human will ever be optimal play (and honestly if he becomes human he's speed 10 melee and therefore effectively dead anyway).
This still probably won't happen because it needs someone to code harmless flavor into equally harmless flavor.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Also, the joke is not that he is a human, the joke would come from giving him something silly to say when he is transformed into a human. "Thanks for lifting the curse and everything, but your really not my type. Sorry!"
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