====== Needles ======

===== Curare =====
Curare effects were changed in trunk with the [[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=alpine.DEB.1.10.1010230350310.28172%40lobster.imp.fu-berlin.de&forum_name=crawl-ref-discuss|reasoning]] that if bugs and so on breathe passively ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system#Insects|which is inaccurate to begin with]]), a muscle relaxant such as curare wouldn't lead to asphyxiation like it does for animals with muscle-operated lungs.  This is a pure realism feature, and as such, I think it should be cleanly reverted.  It's difficult to convey this overly-specific behavior to the player and it's unintuitive that bugs are poison-vulnerable yet take zero damage from the "poison needle+" that is curare.  It seems unnecessary to consider such specific real-world chemical and biological minutia to begin with, especially with the disregard the game rightfully shows for such things in general.  This comes across as gimmicky and nethackish. --- //[[user:og17]] 2010-10-29 23:02//