Ziggurat Zagger
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Robot - new hard species
The species can have name "Robot" as it has some really unique intrinsics and limitations.
- Every item gets "Fragile" modifier so no easy swapping
- Slow 2 mutation (same as Na) so no easy luring
- Deformed body (loses half AC from body armour), also unable to wear anything except robes and dragon scales so no early heavy armour etc.
- UC has aptitude -4, everything else has aptitude -3 so don't expect to start as Tm and join Chei to have easy time
- Reading a scroll or quaffing a potion causes average draining AND exhaustion so you basically cannot spam items in fights and also scrolls of identify are not as straightforward as usual
- Ashenzari does not accept the species as worshiper for obvious reasons, we still want problems with item identification and items are not supposed to be swapped anyway due to fragile property
- If you abandon a god, wrath never ends so you cannot start as Be or with Oka and later easily switch to TSO or Zin
- Species does not get any mutations from malmutations or potions of mutation so you cannot play mutation lottery trying to get Robust and alike. Instead mutations drain you.
- Large size so you get a penalty to EV
- Inability to use regular shield and large shield, only buckler is wearable
- God abilities cost double piety and cause draining, piety decay rate is doubled too. That leaves gods with passives like Vehumet and Makhleb still very useful but I have no idea how to make them weaker in a general way
- Regeneration 1 at XL 4 and Regeneration 2 at XL 12 (same as VS), it would be too annoying to play otherwise IMHO. As a bonus it makes Makhleb less useful and due to speed penalty we should not worry about pillar-dancing
- Normal magic resistance (5 per level)
- Normal MP (aptitudes are enough to make spellcasting hard)
- Str 10, Dex 10, Int 10, Str/Dex/Int every 4th level. We do not want to encourage any particular play styles as all of them are expected to be possible but pretty hard.
Overestimated: AC, GDS
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