Make up some new Challenges

[pumpyscump]

They don't necessarily have to be tough or silly, just come up with anything that sounds interesting to you. Bonus points if it's actually achievable in .18 or .19, e.g., it may have once been possible to Win By Bread Alone, but isn't now.


Everyone's #1 Fan

Win after successfully using every celebrity-named spell or item that has appeared in your game. (For instance, Leda's spell, Gell's, Olgreb's staff, etc.)

[pubby]

Player challenges:
* clap your hands whenever you go down stairs
* hold your breath in slime

Developer challenges:
* go outside
* remove food

[PleasingFungus]

but if we go outside before finding the ORB, we'll lose!

[Tiktacy]

52 Card Pickup:

Complete the game with 52 decks in your inventory.

[jwoodward48ss]

TOO EASY

You just need to stash a deck or two on every upstaircase that you will use on the orb run. Throw away gear after gear as you go up, then on the last one, you'll quickly take off your armour and weapons while the pandemonium lords are bashing you...

Oh.

Hope you invested in Evasion?

[pumpyscump]

The Eclecticist (based on notkat's idea)

[list=]
[*] Choose wizard background.
[*] Train your Spellcasting all the way to 27 without training any other skills.
[*] If you've survived this far, congratulations! Go win or do some zigs or whatever.
[*] Bonus cookie for doing this and duhz at the same time.[/list]

[dynast]

OgHu of Chei, you can only kill things with small stones(or slouch).

[Siegurt]

Win a game of crawl while hopping on one foot.

[Tiktacy]

Every penny counts!

Donate exactly 1 cent to the devs for each gold you have at the end of the game(ending the game with 0 gold disqualifies you from this challenge).

[HardboiledGargoyle]

they don't take money

[Malevolent]

- Amass the greatest possible number of chunks of flesh in your inventory at once.
- Get the greatest possible number of skill level increases once at the same time in a single skill (e.g. "your Fighting skill has increased by 6 levels...").

[ldf]

- Get the greatest possible number of skill level increases once at the same time in a single skill (e.g. "your Fighting skill has increased by 6 levels...").

My best attempt:

  Code:

    30 | D:14     | Killed a deep elf mage
    30 | D:14     | Reached skill level 8 in Stealth
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 20/24 MP: 0/2
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 3. HP: 25/29 MP: 0/3
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 4. HP: 30/35 MP: 0/4
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 5. HP: 35/41 MP: 0/5
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 6. HP: 40/47 MP: 0/6
    30 | D:14     | Reached XP level 7. HP: 45/52 MP: 0/7

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/l ... 232228.txt

[genericpseudonym]

- Amass the greatest possible number of chunks of flesh in your inventory at once.
- Get the greatest possible number of skill level increases once at the same time in a single skill (e.g. "your Fighting skill has increased by 6 levels...").

I think the trick to this one is to be a SpBe with 0 stealth. Find some early OoD or unique, turn on your +5 stealth apt, and zerk it to death.

[duvessa]

the trick is to startscum for a potion of experience

[4Hooves2Appendages]

Does Gozag give potions of experience?

[Sprucery]

Does Gozag give potions of experience?

Nope:

  Code:

static potion_type _gozag_potion_list[][4] =
{
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_CURING, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_MAGIC, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS, },
    { POT_CURING, POT_MAGIC, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_BERSERK_RAGE, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_BRILLIANCE, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_MIGHT, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_FLIGHT, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_RESISTANCE, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_RESISTANCE, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_RESISTANCE, POT_FLIGHT, NUM_POTIONS, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_INVISIBILITY, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS , NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_CURING, POT_MAGIC, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_CURING, POT_BERSERK_RAGE, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HEAL_WOUNDS, POT_HASTE, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_MIGHT, POT_AGILITY, POT_BRILLIANCE, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_HASTE, POT_AGILITY, POT_FLIGHT, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_FLIGHT, POT_AGILITY, POT_INVISIBILITY, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_RESISTANCE, POT_MIGHT, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_RESISTANCE, POT_MIGHT, POT_HASTE, NUM_POTIONS },
    { POT_RESISTANCE, POT_INVISIBILITY, POT_AGILITY, NUM_POTIONS },
};


[ldf]

Actually I had a lot of experience potion effects from Xom, but I thought only kills count.
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/trunk/l ... 212306.txt

  Code:

    22 | D:14     | XOM: potion effect (experience)
    22 | D:14     | Reached skill level 9 in Stealth
    22 | D:14     | Reached XP level 2. HP: 24/24 MP: 2/2

[pumpyscump]

Children of an Angry God

Complete any three rune branches while under Wrath from abandonment or penance. Anger a god again if wrath expires mid-branch.

[tasonir]

I wanna be Bruce Lee

Win a monk of any race with -2 unarmed aptitude. You must be true to the playstyle and actually use unarmed as the vast majority of your damage (you can train backup support in magic or ranged combat, but no weapons and you have to use unarmed for most things). Transmutations are welcome.

This limits your race choices to DE, HE, Mu, Sp, and Ha. HE/Ha are the least crippling in my opinion, although you could try abusing spriggan speed to escape whenever things go bad. Remember though, you have to actually kill most things in melee...Honor code, and all that. Enjoy the -30% hp if you do go spriggan

For the record I've spent a fair amount of time trying to get a spriggan and DE going, and while I had some success (I think I got 1-2 runes with a spriggan), I have yet to complete this challenge myself. DEMo (played as a monk) may be one of the worst starts in the entire game, and I'm even counting mummies here.

[duvessa]

challenge: have a sexy dream about a crawl unique

[Reptisaurus]

Ohhh Jogrum. I dae find ye sexy.

[mopl]

I wanna be Bruce Lee

Win a monk of any race with -2 unarmed aptitude. You must be true to the playstyle and actually use unarmed as the vast majority of your damage (you can train backup support in magic or ranged combat, but no weapons and you have to use unarmed for most things). Transmutations are welcome.

This limits your race choices to DE, HE, Mu, Sp, and Ha. HE/Ha are the least crippling in my opinion, although you could try abusing spriggan speed to escape whenever things go bad. Remember though, you have to actually kill most things in melee...Honor code, and all that. Enjoy the -30% hp if you do go spriggan

For the record I've spent a fair amount of time trying to get a spriggan and DE going, and while I had some success (I think I got 1-2 runes with a spriggan), I have yet to complete this challenge myself. DEMo (played as a monk) may be one of the worst starts in the entire game, and I'm even counting mummies here.

Done for one of the best titles ever !
And done again.

[dynast]

challenge: have a sexy dream about a crawl unique

Thats hard, Tiamat on spawns on 1/10 of my dreams. And Lamia got removed.

[Midn8]

The Champion

Win a game with every available race-class combination.

[HardboiledGargoyle]

it's been done

[genericpseudonym]

Get 3 runes as an Ash worshipper with a cursed rod and no spells.

[ManMan]

I wanna be Bruce Lee

Win a monk of any race with -2 unarmed aptitude. You must be true to the playstyle and actually use unarmed as the vast majority of your damage (you can train backup support in magic or ranged combat, but no weapons and you have to use unarmed for most things). Transmutations are welcome.

This limits your race choices to DE, HE, Mu, Sp, and Ha. HE/Ha are the least crippling in my opinion, although you could try abusing spriggan speed to escape whenever things go bad. Remember though, you have to actually kill most things in melee...Honor code, and all that. Enjoy the -30% hp if you do go spriggan

For the record I've spent a fair amount of time trying to get a spriggan and DE going, and while I had some success (I think I got 1-2 runes with a spriggan), I have yet to complete this challenge myself. DEMo (played as a monk) may be one of the worst starts in the entire game, and I'm even counting mummies here.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/ManMan/morgue-ManMan-20160429-231132.txt

It's not that hard. Thanks to some early game luck I even managed to do it on my first attempt:

  Code:

<Sequell> One game for manman (* DEMo): DEMo

[pumpyscump]

The Superstitious

You must flee the dungeon if you get any bad luck.

• It is bad luck to know "13". (do not fully explore D:13 or Pan:13.)
• It is bad luck to harm a "7". (this means that you may not harm trees.)
• It is bad luck if you do not wander a 7 three times. (On any "7" floor such as D:7 or L:7, clear the level map 3 times and re-explore it fully.)
• It is bad luck to turn left in labyrinth. (always turn "right" at a fork relative to the direction you came from.)
• It is bad luck if Natasha walks behind you.
• It is bad luck to use mirrors. (phantom mirror, injury mirror, etc)
• It is bad luck to rest on tiles that look like ladders. (console players get a free pass on this one.)