new race: skeleton

[duvessa]

apts are +2 to bows, necromancy, and unarmed combat and -1 to everything else. you can quaff potions but when you do, they spill on the ground and make a big mess. has level 4 of the bone armor mutaiton (increases to level 5 at level 12) and reduces damage from piercing and slashing weapons by 10

[tasonir]

This is on the won't do list: +2 to unarmed. Sorry.

[Rast]

This is on the won't do list: +2 to unarmed. Sorry.

How about rebalance unarmed so that a +2 apt wouldn't be too strong?

[VeryAngryFelid]

I think it is weird provided we still have Mf and gifting gods.

[Majang]

I think it would be fair to have the level 4 and 5 mutations paid for by the need to put an obligatory cloth into an inventory slot, to clear up the potion messes.

[4Hooves2Appendages]

Do they get all the other benefits/disadvantage of being undead, and hunger immunity?

[rigrig]

you can quaff potions but when you do, they spill on the ground and make a big mess.

Like a single tile Evaporate at your current location?

Do they get (...) hunger immunity?

They should be permanently Starving (but without the penalties), eating anything simply drops the item through.

[Gigaslurp]

Maybe balance by having limbs fly off after particularly powerful melee hits? You'd be limited to 1h until you picked it up from across the room...

[Airwolf]

Do you get to pick a base species too, like centaur skeleton?

[4Hooves2Appendages]

Do you get to pick a base species too, like centaur skeleton?

Now we are talking! Ce master race.

[Airwolf]

Do you get to pick a base species too, like centaur skeleton?

Now we are talking! Ce master race.

And sexy elf skeleton.

[tasonir]

This is on the won't do list: +2 to unarmed. Sorry.

How about rebalance unarmed so that a +2 apt wouldn't be too strong?

I mean, it depends on the specific details of what you are proposing, but in the big picture, you're asking "Can we nerf this so that we can buff it again" which basically leaves you right where you started. Assuming that you raised aptitudes for most/all species; if you made unarmed weaker and then gave only this race +2, I suppose that would just be a nerf for anything non-skeleton.