Procedurally Generated Adventure

[Can-ned Food]

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[chequers]

1. "Mutotropes" seems like a neologism for "entities" or "object".
2. "A[n entity], properly exploited, is made by the recombination of elements to form a unit" What elements?
3. "terminal Quest" "Endurance Races" what's with the capitalisation of random nouns?

What I understand you're suggesting is that DCSS replace some currently static content with procedurally generated content. For example, you might have a "potion of +5 AC" or generate a monster that flies slowly, has hydra head behaviour and acidic attack. You don't seem fussed where the additional randomness is added, just that it's added somewhere.

I think it's important to justify why increasing randomness in these areas will make the game more fun. One reason they wouldn't is that these fixed points provide structure to the game which ease cognitive load and mean the player can rely on past experience. If every monster is randomised, the player has to x-v inspect each one as soon as it enters LoS. Players already do this with every artifact (of a base type that could potentially be useful), but artifacts are rare enough this isn't a major issue. What if every consumable was randomised though?

Randomness is fun, but a game can't be purely random. At a base level a game's rules are known. Beyond that everything is a negotiation, and I feel you haven't made a case why increased random elements in general would improve dcss.

[Can-ned Food]

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[Sprucery]

Oh, and the capitalization of nouns is a form of emphasis, mostly seen in older English and German texts.

I thought nouns were always capitalized in German.

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[Hirsch I]

well, randart consumables do sound interesting. we already have random monsters, Pan Lords.

[lethediver]

SO OP, correct me if Im wrong, but this seems to be your plan to make Dungeon crawl SS into Fantasy world crawl, with randomly generated towns, dungeons, npcs, quests and world map? With all the races, spells and gods of vanilla DCSS included.

When will you have demo available for play?