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A tree race, that moves super slowly but can spread roots to scout ahead. Gains different fruits it can drop from its branches as it goes up in level. Randomly replace the Slime Pits with the Oklob Farms branch! Nymphs! Nymphs who will have sex with the player! Plumber class, starts with +1 plunger, +0 pipe wrench and no pants. Rename orb guardians to guardian robots again, and let them repair each other when damaged. Randomly determine (but don't tell) the number of runes needed to be able to go to Zot (between 3 and 6). Rune shop! At Geryon's, sells three runes, for 3000, 9000 and 27000 gold. Full colour animation cut scenes. A graphical tile interface, so players don't need to read to play Crawl! [IMPLEMENTED] More elaborate instadeaths. Keystroke combos for super moves and fatalities. The royal jelly is dead, long live the royal jelly (promote any existing jelly on the level to a new royal jelly). Spife fork. More fruits: pineapples, tangerines, passionfruit! Because dpeg loves fruit. Character is affected by scurvy if they've not eaten fruits for a long time. The pineapples should combo with scrolls of charging. Crawl really needs mind flayers Ask lorimer about stuff that's really not working in NH and add it. You should get a combo multiplier for subsequent kills. And it should say "M-M-M-MULTI KILL" On the player's fiftieth ascent with the Orb, a special golden-yellow pandemonium demon named Jubilex should be generated. wandering mushrooms should summon oklob plants. ... and 13-headed hydras. There should be a spell/god/an effect that makes everything explodable. [IMPLEMENTED in 0.13, scrolls of immolation] The penance for this new god should be that he makes your inventory explode. Fire magic title should be Pyromaniac, not Pyromancer. Cocktail spell: takes a minor food item from your inventory and turns it into a grenade. If nothing else, the ability to create explosions on demand should be a Wizard-mode ability. Burning Man festival in Hell! Vampire players should have a chance of meeting a unique named Buffy. No free pass for naming the character "Angel". Or Spike. Hutts as a playable species. Deck of Xom Vampire bats should get echolocation! forgetting how to eat instead of how to breathe, so that the char will gradually starve Killer Klowns get a tickle attack that leaves the player helpless for d3 turns. Killer Klowns get flower and butterfly splatters instead of blood splatters sticky poison spores! Modification of the HP bar to display unicode heart symbols instead. When at full "hearts" your melee attack will shoot out across the screen. enchanted food has a chance of not being destroyed when digested and is reusable after coming out Turtles in the sewers! A lobster god that gives the player crustacean powers with increasing piety, with a claw hands mutation ability. Add in Magnopterans, dpeg! axes of distortion can play loud music Real Life(tm) Church of Xom. Church today, mosque tomorrow. Add randart traps. Beware of Joseph, the electrocuting blade trap!! A mystical word that you can write on the floor that makes monsters stop attacking you. Something Elvish! A game-tracked 'illiterate' conduct, to reduce the side-effects of #56 on game balance. If several oklobs can see each other, they should organise themselves and be more intelligent. I demand firing patterns (Feuerwalze) and so on. let the "polymorph other" spell bounce! player-controlled ghosts! show your opponent *how* your MDFi kills! if you apply more than three different temporary brands to a weapon it has a chance to get a permanent distortion brand torment statue: torments you every single turn that you are in its LOS. Ogre Ballerina. They lose quite a few weapon skills, but in return they've got much higher evasion and stealth scores that really helps them survive. Sexy Gnolls! Sharks should be able to use lasers to highlight important points in their Powerpoint presentations. Nose Piercings: Permanently wear an extra ring. Removal/wearing costs max hitpoints. See idea for fashion god. Minotaurs automatically get to wear noserings free of penalty. Gloves and boots are found as separate left and right parts. Bonuses from the items can only be obtained with two matching items. Handedness can only be identified via scroll of identify. Randart socks. One missing from each pair, can only wear the when you find other one in abyss. Voice acting for crawl. Ijyb voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, Sigmund by Sean Connery. Inscribing your weapon with !x should make the game prompt when Xom tries to animate it. DWIM (Do What I Mean) key that takes the most appropriate action for your character automatically. Xom should occasionally gift -2 stones of distortion. When thrown, you're randomly abyssed. Oh, and they're cursed. You can't change your quiver. Wands of digging should be lethal to rock trolls Level with all walls replaced with oklobs PvP! An extra limb mutation: one more ring slot, allows one to wear a [[shield] and wield a 2-handed weapon, among other bonuses. But cuts evasion and doesn't allow heavy armour! when you abandon a god all his gifts explode after a set amount of your summoned demons die a pan lord comes up looking for them new earth ultimate spell: lcs storm! Evoke a katana to commit seppuku A farmer class which starts with an inventory full of food and a hoe (new polearm) and a straw hat and an axe, a shovel, and a bag of seeds (Crawlvest_Moon) Yaktaur Commando with Gatling crossbow. a Sauna portal vault with lots of steam and ogres miniature hydrae, which CAN be decapitated with quick blades add a unique Blademaster named Tz'zird to the Elven Halls why chop off only hydra heads? let there be a chance for every monster with a head, depending on the weapon and the monster! for example, orc slaying randarts should be likely to decapitate orcs... Very low intelligence should degrade the amount of information you get about monsters and items: "hobgoblin" -> "two-legs", "orc warrior" -> "hard two-legs", "spear" -> "pointy thing". Dwarves should get extra nutrition from rats. dogs that shoot bees out of their mouth when they bark invisible horrors should come in large packs Brands for unarmed fighters! Cockbras. Monsters killed with sufficient force should disperse chunks instead of leaving corpses. Implemented as of v0.6 When Okawaru walks away for a smoke, Xom should send gifts instead. Eel golems. a new race that can see through rock (all walls turn translucent; basically, permanent vitrification card) New command for followers: Strip Tease. "scroll of acquirement" mimics should be able to acquire monsters Jelly Bees! Hive is boring, why not combine it with the Slime Pits? Pet cats of holding. Ignores t commands. Okawaru will smite you if your kitten dies, even if you're not worshiping him. Has claws that do 1 damage. To you, most of the time. Picks up things that you want, and hides them under plants, dressers, and the refrigerator. [ Danei] feature request: Reverse life protection on cursed rings, that makes normal attacks drain your EXP Peanut Butter Monster. May appear in the Slime Pits. Self-aware hydrae, intelligent enough to cut it's own heads off. Also listens to Fall Out Boy. 40+ AC will cause instant death When the player is confused, the map rotates or flips after every move. Blink yaks. Vampires instantly die in the presence of a Sun Demon - even a friendly one. This includes players. Especially players! Dance fighting Rap battling, too! You have to feed your followers! Halflings get racial mutation addiction(3). You can drown if you stumble onto a fountain while confused. hydra petting zoo branch add living fire giants to the tombs. upon picking up a rune, sometimes boris appears and tries to take it from you sigmund keeps coming back ala boris. but this time, he's a figment of your imagination Add "Are you sure you want to target yourself?" prompt to casting Ozocubu's Refrigeration. Food allergy mutations. "You eat the banana. You feel sick!" tentacle monster player race with unarmed reaching, more and more attacks with XL Is dancing wands in 'bad ideas' yet? Because it should be. As a real-life avatar of Xom, I think a dancing polymorph wand would be hilarious. Buff sigmund- replace regular Sigmund with centaur-sigmund (complete with double-attack). Xom can revive staves into Oklob Plants spitting the according damage type Ettin race. can dual wield, and worship two gods. AI controls your character every other turn. Exploding jackals. swimming must be a skill! train by walking around in shallow water, a chance to drown in deep water. The orb of zot functions as a portable pocket dungeon. Evoke it at any time to go inside a small circular room. Everything within your line of sight enters as well. runes function as a rod with a top spell of the corresponding school. though, there is a chance of getting retribution from all gods simultaneously. if you manage to get rid of the Orb (lava, deep water, nemelex, anything else) - it appears in a huge castle in the abyss (defended much better than zot:5!), all portals become accessible once again. Dead wanderers turn into wandering mushrooms instead of ghosts! Remove the KoCK of Lugonu combo - i mean, isn't Lugonu female, after all?! Rename lcs to "Shit bricks" Rename HOPr to Muad'dib Fire ants. That's right, ants with flamethrowers. A severe tmig miscast - you turn into a pulsating lump of flesh. Add an altar of scientology to the Ecumenical Temple. certain books in the dungeon are written by L.Ron Hubbard. Memorise-Identification will convert you to Scientology. Certain rods in the dungeon are sex toys. Evoke-identification will change your orientation. New Unique: Smokey the Bear. Upon death, combusts like a scroll of immolation. Plants in LOS turn into Conjured Flames. When a troglodyte goes berserk and powers up, they shall shout "By the power of Greyskull"! Make only a few class/species combinations available for a new player, with unlocking of more for earned points. The "of double penetration" and "of triple penetration" brands for double and triple swords respectively. Vampiric weapons in your pack should drain corpses and quaff potions of blood Throwing heavy things like plate mail at small creatures such as rats and spriggans must have a chance to kill them instantly. A +MUT mutation!!! Since you can't see into clouds of smoke, you can't see if lava is there. You know where this is going. Implement annoying notifier that your character is mortal; and more important - he is suddenly mortal a bunch of kobolds wandering the dungeon calling themselves the lollipop guild Single boots should be more common than pairs of boots. They provide half the armour benefit of a full pair of boots, and wearing one boot (or two boots from different pairs) halves your Dexterity. Centaurs and Nagas carry mimic bardings and piles of gold. Uncontrolled teleports on the same level as the Royal Jelly always brings you next to it. randart gods Wand of Random Hilarity - summons hostile dragons. Give tiles access to learndb. The catch? They have to access it through Microsoft's "Clippy" office assistant paperclip. Mountain Dwarves are unable to drink water. If you try, they complain and demand booze. if you're good enough at earth magic you should get groovy earth mamas following you around, man. they can sell brownies, incapacitating the monsters while raising a few gold. totally righteous scenario, man. turpentine rune located on the last level of Toontown. P-p-p-p-please, Eddie! A mutation that makes your genitals shoot bees. Okawaru hating magic, Trog-style! New item: can of paint. Useful in labyrinths. Guns. that shoot smaller guns. Multiplayer crawl. Adventuring parties! Sneak up to an orange statue and squeeze it for a healthy and refreshing beverage. A charisma stat. A patch for irc that makes David Gahan the voice of henzell-bot Sigmund sometimes has a pet death yak Make daggers poison the meat of target, making it inedible! Daggers of venom, that is. shapeshifters as a playable race Two races at a time! Vampire spriggans! Merfolk centaurs! Ogre ogre-mages! Polyphemus should be blind New Spell: Bread Bolt. One of the most damaging translocation spells, it first requires the learning of portal projectile, haste, and a spare bread ration. Armoured Llama: wears llama barding, travels with Y packs, goes berserk when it sees a Y die mutant camels Player-run fruit stand: Surely someone needs all these apples and pears. Extra income for players! Catchy tunes that play over! And over! And over! Crawl with sound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jkorg2xnYI decaying rune should eventually dematerialize so you have to go get another one decaying rune actually decays, slimy rune slips out of your pack, serpentine rune summons snakes, fiery rune burns your scrolls, iron rune weighs a ton, etc. the abyssal rune abysses you, the pan runes summon demon lords, the golden rune acquires gold, and the silver rune quicksilver dragons. The serpentine rune has snake-level move speed and poison bite, and doesn't want to be picked up Where does the light in the dungeon come from? CatEater says, "all the miscasts by previous adventurers left the walls permanently contaminated with unharnessed energy." I say, make it mutagenic! Drag Queen found in alternate hive end. implementing bad ideas 666 zombies with bite attacks should be infectious Fighting a death cob increases your hunger level [Implemented in 0.17, then de-implemented in 0.18] eating a death cob transforms you into a lich. orange crystal statue vault chokobos Spriggan Assassins start with a shotgun. If you enter 100 bad puns into your notes, you gain a repulsion field mutation. If you butcher while confused, you butcher a chunk of flesh off yourself the "decaying rune" should decay and vanish after 20k turns even in your inventory Horned lizards, twice the size of you and complete with blood-squirting eyes and recoil-damage on unarmed, like jellies but subject to AC and gloves don't help! Pac-Man! A yellow B that makes a WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA noise when digging through rock. Drops a single Power Pellet when defeated, equivalent to a Royal Jelly with a Might effect. Miscasting Tukima's Dance makes your character dance. When you pick up the Orb of Zot, you are immediately cast into the Abyss. Special title: Ketchupist. Special feature for vampires who don't drink any blood. PIRAHNAMOOSE! http://wondermark.com/495/ Candlejack as a new uni- Swiss Army Turtle Shell Sigmund trap. Or trapdoor Sigmund Trapdoor hydra! Monsters should pick up books. Leave annihilations laying around orc, and come back to find an orc wizard casting poison arrow on you. Wax elementals in the hive. Merge the RNG with GLADOS, add Summon Companion Cube Statue species: blink to get around. Start with Apportation memorized, the book of Spatial Translocations lying one tile away and scrolls of noise to attract monsters until you get to XL2. Stab damage with conjurations! Kenku cannot see transparent walls until they collide into them. Change "The RNG chooses: Xom." to "Xom chooses: RNG." Spell range depending on strength and dexterity---you need to launch them bolts, magic won't help you there, haha. Wand of the Gourmand: "The hydra looks slightly more full!" corpse mushrooms duplicate the acidrobin settings a klown brand! komodo dragons have poison spit, but with sickness added on A scroll only gifted by Xom or dropped by chaotic creatures which does nothing when read, but causes a random god to smite you the next time you are under 20% HP Death Sheep. Only appear as corpses. Witch class. Very vulnerable to steam. Curarrows Imps occasionally tell Yo Mama jokes. When a jelly eats a royal jelly, its new friends will be what it ate! Equally unbalanced high level spell. Summon demonic mammals: hell hounds, hell hogs, etc. Beaks interfere with spellcasting, causing a penalty equivalent to -4 ev Make Boris a god, able to be worshiped. Serve him faithfully and return to life on a different level after you die; abandon him and he'll show up on every single level. SK_RUNNING determines movement speed. Sif Mune: Gifts curses instead of spellbooks Sif Moot: Gives artifact spellbooks containing text-only RSS feeds of 4chan threads, and the occasional Mexican restaurant menu. Deep dwarves can eat scrolls of recharging to regain lost max MP. Orc non-priests can bow down to Saint Roka as their messiah. Their goal is then to ensure that he gets the Orb and gets out safely. Wishing! Pleeeease Player race: giant spore. Dying aptitude Troll skeletons and zombies randomly turn alive and regenerate their flesh. Double swords, quarterstaves, and other two-sided weapons get the chance for two brands. Triple swords get three! Delayed Mephitic Cloud Captain America's shield as a new unrandart! Boomerangs that hit multiple targets in range, pick up nice stuff in LOS, and do your laundry before returning! Letting zid make design decisions. Now playing! Crawl automatically adds a : note each time you listen to a new song. View how your musical choices changed with your character's fortunes! Swiss Army Boomerangs Pet mice that will run into crowds of hostile monsters and explode. Remote controlled spammals. Pigeons of returning Recursion traps. Rolls a random character, if you fail to win it you take 1d666 damage Cyclops should wear shades. Vials with potion effects that can be thrown to enemies ... who then remove the stoppers and throw them back Tiamat as Playmate of the Month!!! 1/666 chance of replacing the Orb Guardians with test spawners The Orb of Zot is your FATHER! Lich form players get death lines, a la Boris player mummies curse their enemies when they die. 1/27 chance of reaching the orb chamber and finding a talking fungus. "Thank you, *playername*. But our Orb is in another dungeon. You ascend, only to learn that it was all a dream. Background mutagenic radiation below D:9 Ice beasts should have scotch whisky for blood. and casting Alistair's only makes them *stronger*! Maprot. New race: Grue. No line of sight, can sense surroundings, including critters and items, is only harmed by light. new condition: l33t. A11 m4ss4g3s sh0w up l1|c5 th15. Levels below 10 have a 1% chance of being made of oklobs The dungeon is comprised of all of what are now branches. The branches become segments of what is now the main Dungeon. Giant panda as a monster. May know kung-fu. Choking! No, wait, never mind. Don't do it. Please. A spaceship branch, a la POWDER Trog has reformed and has supplanted Sif Muna. Chokos of chocking! New unique Lorimer. Speech "It's a bad idea!" Somewhere under D:10, one random deity retires, bequeathing all of its followers to Xom. A reality-based post-endgame zone where the monsters are human soldiers with electronic-speed hive minding and tanks and 2009 military stuff being hit with a ballistic missile instakills a MDFi-27 Transmuters should be able to flow past monsters with a liquid-shape spell. Monsters caught in the transmuter's liquid form take acid damage. (Because Slash'EM is awesome!) Plate mail and ~15 skill should make a MD mostly immune to damage New branch: Cyberspace. an "8-bit rune" at the end. Ratling traders on D:3-5, which sell bread and meat rations for $1 each, with infinite stock. (Because ADOM is awesome.) Alignment based conduct that involves complicated surrender mechanics which bug the game constantly. (Because INCURSION is awesome.) Zot Effects (there were actually implemented in trunk for a while, and should be reinstated) Enforced 45 minute cooldown between save and restore, since ADVENT is awesome A wizened archmage class. You start with powerful spells... and a "crippled" mutation that makes you move more slowly. Dead canaries on the bottom of the Mines Spriggan Glade branch. Hey, it's bound to be more interesting than the Dwarf Fortress people always want... Dire Penguins Xom likes to make up names for you. These become the name shown on the HUD. In-game FR interface. Add canaries to the orcish mines, and invisible clouds of curare-gas. Lava should usually be accompanied by dwarf colonists using the lava for power generation, machinery, traps, and cool useful lava flows! Fixed chance of instant death on every turn, this allows for precise calibration of game difficulty! If the player is carrying more than 40aum of fruits, there should be a chance per turn of them being attacked by hungry swarms of fruit flies. A new area-of-effect spell "Caffeinated Cloud" that stimulates creatures caught in it, giving them movement boosts, higher attack damage and the ability to solve Sudoku problems really fast. Works best on Spammals (TM). Add a portal vault available only online. It is packed from wall to wall with monsters pulled from the last IRC alias - by would be a bat and wasp, for instance. dpeg would be dragon something something boggart Introduce randart ammunition. Make Okawaru and Trog gift randart ammunition add hidden fighting game, with 10 special moves for each unique reverse gravity. flip the switch to bring water from Swamp to Dungeon, then flip it again to flood Zot and wait until The Orb surfaces at D:27 play Benny Hill theme when the player is pillar-dancing allow player to dodge missiles real-time. make a danmaku-themed branch for hardcore shmup fans Blade hands should be treated as a short-blade for stabbing purposes. new light armour: bandage. if you're killed when wearing this, you'll resurrect as a mummy accelerometer controls for iPhone Crawl port. shaking the phone will reset Abyss make bottled efreet look like other potions. "tastes like chilli" new spell: Summon Developer. summons a temporary invulnerable ally that deals super damage to bugs, however developers have a chance of summoning additional bugs on each turn. 45+AC makes you a statue to make food more interesting, split 'e' into three commands: bite, chew and swallow {315} done out-of-order is fatal add spa centers that cure pissedoffitis for 2000 gold implement a psychoanalyst chatbot that will treat player for an hour after each death new misc item: Geiger counter. ticks near mutagenic monsters, ruins your stealth if you're glowing new unique: Timothy Leary. ResCorr won't save you from his acid attacks make Crawl a rhythm game. you execute critical attacks if you catch the beat scroll of Lua. lets you change settings ingame CAPTCHAs for felids when the player is hasted, ssstrreetchh aaalll mmmeessssaageesss. when the player is slowed, skp ll vwls new mutation: acrophobia. uncontrolled levitation makes you sick and confused new monster: mime. acts like it's surrounded with walls Facebook integration. the player will only meet ghosts of his friends Twitter feed for Henzell's milestone and death announcements Make rods a useful weapon, like staves. when the player quits, he may choose to retire instead (leave a shop that sells his equipment) Possible "Xom" effect for Scrolls of Random Uselessness Xom apologises for bad effects. {334} for good effects as well Xom sometimes forces you to activate a random ability, including Renounce Religion. Make stat drain permanent new weapon: paintball rifle. deals pathetic damage, but makes invisible monsters visible if hit new class 2 demon: The Executioner's Caddy sell Crawl t-shirts with all Xom speech printed on them new item: vomit bag. can be filled during sickness and evaporated for massive poisoning, confusion and Xom amusement make enslavement work better on monsters in leather Leave Ijyb on floor two like usual, turn him into a boggart though... Boring beetles should 'taste bland' when their chunks are eaten, without regard to gourmand or saprivoiousness Wearing heavy armour while in steam should give you a chance to be cooked for extra damage. explosive snozzcumbers - quiver for extra fun! thrown bananas cause monsters to slip back two tiles. daggers should be slicing weapons for Spriggans. Generate randarts based on most recent BR artifact sumbitted. Corpses of monsters that were about to teleport when you killed still teleport. Banana of returning. You can get a banana of returning by wielding it and reading scroll of vorpalize weapon. Allow Nemelex worshippers to sacrifice dungeon features. Polymoth. Like Moth of Wrath, but polymorphs instead of berserks all adjacent critters, friend and foe alike. Organic food shop: organic bread rations, organic apples, etc. (just the name and higher price); slow service. On death, players may choose an arbitrary spell for their ghost to learn. player ghosts know all spells contained in spellbooks that are lying on their floor. well, they had to do something before you came. being dead is boring. add Tmut spell which melds your golden dragon armour into your body, so you can wear another one define sexes for PCs and mosters. add potion of appeal which berserks all monsters of the same sex in sight and enslaves the opposite sex. evaporate this into an orge band to see how ogres are made spring traps. like shafts, but up and much more painful (can meld your helmet permanently) alarm clock traps, timed like bazaar entries. wake all monsters on the level if you fail to find and deactivate them Zin spams you with advertisements until you donate money Pandemonium should have a game show subwing. Three doors: behind one is an oklob, behind one is Boris, behind the third is a randart. small paralyzed monsters can be eaten alive if you're carnivorous Also, demon spectators behind a glass wall. (The imp shouts: DOOR NUMBER THREE! NUMBER THREE!) ghosts of Ely worshippers should cheer you new spell: Turtle Form. changes your controls to (turn left, turn right, step forward). each of these takes a turn Nemelex worshippers' lowest title should be Hoover High Elves which wandered into deep water and survived become Deep Elves in soviet russia, abyss escapes from you! option for text adventure-like controls. "THROW SPEAR AT OGRE" "What spear?" "THROW JEWELLED SPEAR AT OGRE" "What ogre?" "QUIT" some demons should have detailed pronunciation guides in their descriptions separate bad_ideas into bad_bad_ideas and good_bad_ideas Shmorki Shmines market Crawl as a touch typing tutor so it would be preinstalled in universities' computer classes make Tiles work in pure DOS ;-) nagas' tail extends each time they eat permafood. bumping into their own tail is fatal ("why would you want to do that?") let damage that is absorbed by your AC heal you dissecting corpses should bring up a surgery minigame. because The Thrill of Combat is awesome lava fountains hitting a royal jelly food with a bolt spell should spawn acid blobs/azure jellies Artificer class can create artifacts. Implement the Konami Code (↑↑↓↓←→←→BA) Xom should greet players when they ascend and tell them it was all a dream. new PC species of powerful spellcasters that die when their MP runs out A new spell that temporarily turns your hp into your mp and your mp into your hp! sultanas, strawberries, grapes... small food needs more variety. add rice. sometimes use entry vaults for otherwise perfectly normal dungeon levels synchronize Crawl and Nethack releases if you line up three draconians of the same color in a row, they disappear Multiple oklobs should follow the Game of Life rules. 200d4 turns after Xom's 'you feel gritty' effect, you collapse into a pile of sand. "Sick" status gives you an additional breath attack support for vi-like-keys on Dvorak keyboards Zin speaks Yiddish. blocking a distortion weapon attack with your shield causes your shield to get sent to the abyss Sticks to Snakes turns books into tentacled monstrosities evil gods piety declines over real-world time When brown oozes and azure jellies meet, they combine to form a PBJ creature. Staff of Oklob This fixedart looks exactly like the Staff of Olgreb, but wielding and unwielding it creates a nearby oklob. If evocations is high enough, can be evoked to create even more oklobs. Wield a bad potion and cast Sandblast for a spray of poisonous shards of glass! Change name (like Pizza Hut -> The Hut, SciFi -> SyFy, Xenon -> XBox 360) Flaming corpses should be named after players from the high score list who burned to death. Xom occasionally offers you a wish. You should be able to lick the dungeon walls for 4 nutrition. Introduce IVAN style vomit command. Entities standing in sufficient amounts of vomit take slight acid damage each turn. A ballista crossbow that shoots spears. Only ogres and trolls can wield it. A portable catapault that lets you pick up small monsters and shoot them. Ogres and trolls can wield monsters as weapons. Snakes count as a reaching brand. (extension of 407) Scrap current food system in favor of a nutrition for exploration system. Licking dungeon tiles is the only source of nutrition, and can only be done once per tile. make DC:SS an OS to compete in the Cloud with Gazelle and Chrome ... allow one player to play as Xom (control his effects, speech and gifts) while some other player worships Xom. or admit that developers have been doing that all the time Pain makes goldfishes talk When you hit a snake with a staff, you "whack" it! If you whack enough snakes before the end of Whacking Day, Xom gives you a prize. Elephant slugs are really just pregnant. They give birth to more slugs when you hit them! append "Sigmund will miss you." to "Are you sure you want to quit?" prompt if the player is quitting early, Facebook style new lvl1 Air spell: Magic Sneeze Add demogorgon. Special Class: Dungeon Plumber. All the fountains are dry, and the dungeon guards are going crazy with thirst. You need to fix the plumbing before union monsters go on strike! You pacify a floor by finding and repairing the fountain. Reach the orb of zot to recieve your paycheck! Add magic markers to the game so you can scribble elbereth over the entire dungeon. see previous item, now make a good idea. Every place you scribble elbereth gets its own panlord on the ascent Get five curse toes in one place, and they merge together to form Voltron! Whoops, I meant a curse foot! 5 Unarmed Uniques, called Rangers. Come in Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Pink. Minotaurs should have three ring slots. Give centaur captains the haste spell. Replace scroll of acquirement with Crystal Orb Home Shopping Network. Replace crystal ball of fixation with crystal ball of infomercials.After a hundred turns are passed of doing nothing, you are finally given the chance to place your order. Meanwhile, you're entranced and vulnerable. Will cause penance if used within sight of an altar.Your item is delivered 700 turns later by a pack of hostile butterflies. A jelly player race. They don't really have problems finding food, but they can't pick anything up. I'm not sure how they'd read spellbooks either. shop prices end with 99s Monsters should die of old age after 150*HD turns. Bicycles!! rename javelins to Bolts of Wood Monsters should save their wands of confusion for when you're on a staircase. Then you fall down and die! Add pet cats to crawl (can steal from shops). You can only find them in mysterious boxes (Schrodinger). 10% chance of getting a cat. 80% chance of getting a dead cat. 10% chance of getting an executioner, pre-hasted. Xom turns you into a random food item for a dozen turns. Not fatal except over lava, deep water, and in the Slime Pits. Xom Extract: these potions have a random effect. The hound of the Baskervilles: unique h with a glowing outline, deadly bite, and a bloodcurdling howl. Frogs should have a flat 10% chance of dying when they croak. Replace electric golems with magnetic golems. Watch out, characters in plate mail! The Singing Sword should randomly make monsters sing along when it starts singing, like a musical. Below "Near Starving", characters get a chance of one-turn confusion each turn, increasing with decreasing satiation level. A new Xom effect that has a small chance of changing the player's species once in a game. Mirrors in the dungeon! Monsters that see themselves in mirrors respond according to their intelligence. Dumb creatures will attack their mirror images. A dungeon branch with a Canadian theme! Quaff maple syrup potions and eat moose chunks! Moose bites are very painful, you know. Safari portal vault. An official tiles version. Skunks that can 'cast' mephitic cloud. Shaft traps, should just be a copy of nethacks trap doors. An orb of fire unique. Orb of lighting, It summons electric golems. Orb of hellfire Shapeshifters will imitate creatures from other Roguelikes. Hey, what's the Wizard of Yendor doing in the Vaults..? Orb of meph cloud! Level 3 Enchantment/Poison spell Meth Cloud. Anything caught in the blast is inflicted with Berserk and Rot. Hellsmite! Hell-healing HELLTORMENT torment hell! Helldying Helleportation Hellfitic cloud Hellyvilon Hell Dwarves Gnolls that smite. Prefix all terms in crawl with HELL Hellcrawl! Hellgnolls Heaven branch. No enemies, but all of your former dead allies are there to welcome you, and casting dig on the floors earns you gold. Hell butterflies Every turn a butterfly flaps around, it has a chance of creating a storm (air elemental). Trog has a high piety ability called 'burn bookstore', causing book shops to burst into flames, sending random fireballs and firestorms in the surroundings. you can play as an oklob plant! Worship a plant god! imps should have a 1/100 chance of spawning with blowguns Electric mushrooms. giant bats leave guano. So do unseen horrors. Another frog unique! Comes with a spiny frog pack. On Lair:1. wearing or removing rings when confused makes you drop them, ideally into nearby water. Chance when walking while confused with a bladed weapon to trip and fall on it, doing damage based on your stab skill reduce inventory space to 27 slots. 26 latin letters and æ red wasps and bees, lava, traps, curse skulls, statues, orange crystal statues, GODDAMN EXECUTIONERS, teleport traps, fiends orb of quicksave teach basics of the probability theory in the manual enslave 100 butterflies to get permanent levitation Make white butterflies shoot charged shots. characters in dragon form should be able to sell items vampires with an amulet of gourmand give preference to particular blood groups new misc item: magnifying glass. conjure flame on an adjacent square in 30 turns! hidden minigames: Nemelex Solitaire and Xom Minesweeper, Naga Nibbles and Abyss Pinball, Whack-a-Sigmund trapdoor spider solitaire glass vaults where monsters line up to spell a rude word (example: 1x4 room with a hill giant, a bear, a naga and a troll) rock worms are dead! add metal worms and death metal worms (draining attacks) stare contests with floating eyes. they blink if you stare long enough. also known as starve contests. A brown J called the peanut butter that appears on the same level as jellies and spits out worthless items.. Enemy spellcasters sometimes miscast, with hilarious results. kamikaze casters who miscast lvl9 spells near you wizard mode commands consume mana and can be miscast when you abandon Zin, he throws donated money back at you and it scatters all over the dungeon, one coin per square Elyvilon worshippers have a random chance of pacifying themselves everytime they heal themselves. Self-pacification results in an automatic win. If zombies are in groups of 4 or more, they will randomly waste turns dancing. CAO drops connection on banishment The bad ideas section of the learndb should actually be meaningful. new resistance: resist nerf. casters with rNerf get full range for all spells scroll of vorpalise weapon turns Geryon's horn into a saxophone Xom swaps your inventory/spell letterings around and remaps stuff to letters that aren't on your keyboard Level 6 transmig spell Iron to Gold, 1 piece per aum A spell called "Projected Noise" You should be able to tenderize meat with crushing weapons. when you win while worshipping Xom, the resulting morgue file will contain only one line. "Oh, you're no fun anymore!" all mummies start with a scythe character with high divinations will get glimpses of future (short FooTV clips) make Orb of Zot invisible. place a visible orb of fixation on the same square. Add seasons to the Crawl dungeon! Extra plants in spring, more fruits in summer and autumn, frozen lakes in winter! Lots of uniques are vacationing on the beach in summer, so extra uniques in the Shoals! random uniques ala POWDER and other RLs make money with sponsored vaults "You die. Your possessions no longer seem so burdensome." deformed armour for mutated chars female uniques get new state: changing. similar to sleeping, but they scream, drop their armor and go berserk when they notice you. enemy casters give you the finger when they're silenced delayed long-range apportation Electric eels should become whips of electrocution when you kill them. The city R'lyeh is near the coastline of the Shoals and players casting Shatter in the Shoals have a chance of waking up big C. Crawl's seasons should be Southern Hemisphere seasons, for obvious reasons. Shapeshifters which die while a dragon should be allowed to be cut up for a shapeshifter hide, which can be enchanted for mutagenic armour. shouting +5 buckler of poison resistance Playable Grid Bugs! unique giant spore which explodes in a screenful of lava, miasma and berserk red wasps LCS of returning Wandering Oklob plants! Yak unique that plays the saxamaphone Sand castles in the Shoals! Psyche should be an escaped lunatic in a straitjacket, and should have conversation along the lines of "Look, no hands!" after casting spells. An android unique that will keep functioning even after being torn in half. TORN IN HALF! A duplicate self spell that clones the player for a short period. The clone is a summoned @ under AI control, but has all the player's spells (not just 6!), skills and equipment. Monsters will be unable to distinguish the player from his clone and will attack both impartially. Cerebov should also get the Duplicate Self spell. Your duplicated self should be able to duplicate itself, and your duplicate's duplicated self should be able to duplicate itself, and your duplicate's duplicate's duplicated self should be able to duplicate itself, and so on. Quicksand in the Swamp! You should have a chance of losing your boots wading through shallow water. Sigmund competes in the tournament, one point per XL killed. blink centaurs, blink dragons, blink hydras unrandart: The +1 animal skin of Okawaru Give demigods demigodly apts telefragging toenail golems combine with fungi to get rotting attacks Characters should have allergies, which are hidden upon creation. new monster: Redneck Tree You should be able to throw poisonus corpses at enemies to poison them food acquirements summons a herd of sheep Sigmund should have intrinsic blink and regeneration, like imps do. He should also leave behind smoke where-ever he walks, and be able to see through smoke Sigmund golems Shining trapezohedrons. A vampire unique named Edward Players with the "executioner" Axe 27 title should come back not as ghosts, but as executioners. trapdoor oklob The orb of zot runs around and you have to catch it Caltrops. God gets angry if you ignore his gift. Telefrags! If you teleport onto a monster, it goes splat! On the way up with the Orb, if you miss a pan lord on one level, it should automatically go upstairs as you do and join you on the next level up. as long as trog gifts orcs weapons of orc slaying, that 'you feel suicidal' message should mean something. 1/4 of all attacks you make should hit YOU! Sometimes if you are about to escape and win with the orb, Xom will decide he's not sufficiently amused and banish you casting blade hands in lichform gives you bone claws like wolverine Void Wasps: instead of curare, inject you with a distortion venom that lasts five turns, increasing severity of effect as it stacks. Distortion Spore: Like a regular spore, except causes distortion effects on all caught in its blast, including banishment. Book of atheism. This plain, non-descript book, when read, excommunicates you. Sonja packs in Zot:5. Remember streaks of deaths: N consecutive deaths by kobolds, ... A yak god seriously it could gift ranged weapons, summon a yak/yaktaur party... The yak god should gift you animal skins! You get the max piety skill Yakform. Allow monsters to draw from decks. The orc priest draws the Crusade Card! You are now a faithful defender of the dungeon. A wealthy adventurer who sics dogs and bees on you. Blink hydrae that close in on you in Abyss, only to disappear in a puff of smoke two steps away. Put moths of wrath in the lair. The death yak does berserk! Mimic Master: Turns all items within its sight into mimics. Mummies can pillar dance so long normal monsters eventually starve and die Monsters drop pre-butchered stacks of chunks if you've already opened them like a pillowcase!!! Killer Klowns should get pedo bonuses against small player races. Sun Demon comes with Planetary Demons and a ring of Kuiper Demons. Rock Worm monsters show up around new unique. Mau'dib. Naming your character Kenny automatically enables (just) immortality. You will see your corpse dragged of by rats first, though. Portal vault "Plane". Filled with snakes. Red-black trees, the self-balancing horror. All characters get the ability to switch to Xom at any time. advertise as "fastest yet" while having huge startup speed regression Xom says, "Gimme!" Xom slaps the Orb of Zot out of your hands when you pick it up. Give all pure melee ghosts the ability to blink directly next to you. Change snake:5 so that for every greater naga you kill, two more spawn somewhere in the vault. The goal is to just grab the rune without dying. An auction house for CAO that lets you put randarts/items you dont want up for 2-3x normal shop prices that other people can buy! Sphinxes should ask the player riddles and become neutral if the player answers correctly. Saving and quitting when confused switches your savegame with a random other savegame. Mountain dwarfs should have a 30% chance per move of tripping over their own beards when confused. Tripping over their own beards causes d10 damage and random curses in a Scots accent. Gods maintain anger at you from one game to the next. Banishing uniques sends them to the Abyss in someone else's game! When dying, you're prompted for a message for your ghost to say to those who find it. Unique kobold with weapon of draining that shows up early on D:1 if you're on a streak. This kobold is a unique unique in that it looks just like any other kobold until it kills you. When the staff of earth hits, sometimes the monster "feels VERY gritty" and flees to the nearest fountain. Golf Club Bag: When carried, staves and rods no longer use an inventory slot. Lawnmowers as mounts. Mowers are very noisy but cut down plants and fungi in one turn and ignore shallow water. Powered by potions. Allows a fairly rare auxiliary slashing attack for potentially catastrophic damage. New "irony" game option that makes sure you receive great but inappropriate weapons and armour. (Maybe the option should be to turn this off.) The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog! Ogres are so heavy that they sometimes fall through the dungeon floor (like a shaft trap). Staying satiated gives you the Fat debuff, lowering dexterity and increasing your size modifier by 1 until you work it off. Being fat makes you fall through the floor (like a shaft trap). Shops hire friendly demons to carrier-deliver items for you across the dungeon. Sit back in your stash and relax! rename vaults 8 olympus and guarantee titans Need to wait for levitation to wear out before leaving a shop. Add option to end perma-levitation to the shop interface. Quicksand! Gods should have their own agendas they expect you fulfil, which sometimes conflict with your orb-hunting. "You get off the cross. Beogh seems jaded..." Cursed stones: you just have to kinda hit people with the one pebble stuck in your hand. Loadstones, from nethack, except disguising themselves as packs of rocks. You have to feed all your followers. Make "Professional Pillowcase Opener" an axe title. Emsee Ham'r, the elven God of Funk. 'Nuff said. Using the !send command in IRC causes Henzell to message the appropriate player in-game Xom may occasionally gift you with a long luxurious beard. 1 chance in 10, it gets caught in your mouth while eating, losing a turn. Imps have a wider variety of insults, sometimes even deriding your race or profession! Rhyming titles like "Biter" or "Partial Fartist" would be a great addition to the imps' repertoire. New Artefact: Single white glove. In addition to reversing the color of your @ it... Give transmuters a new nose-picking command, unlocked only after bladehands. Mimics hiding as trap ammunition If you fail at casting statue form, you can't more again. Centaurs can trip you with their tails. Who needs nymphs? Add zombie prostitutes. Beware, the disease may catching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOvuO39MOQ&NR=1 Allow starving characters to eat boot leather Need more culinary realism. Your dwarf occasionally needs to find a corner, take of his plate, and go take a dump (and not the game log kind) or else he starts suffering. Every time an imp picks up a sabre, it puts on an eyepatch, and starts reading pirate dialogue. Your hair can permanently turn into snakes. Keebler elves. Elves drop wooden toys when killed. Rename sublimation of blood to hillbilly channeling. Sticky Frost Life yaks. Every twentyseventh gate to Pandemonium should lead to Pandamonium instead. Dwarf bread. Merely thinking of eating it instantly cures your hunger, and it doubles as a handy weapon (stats comparable to a mace). Greater naga dual-wielding large shields butchering with a venom weapon should poison the meat Mass Haste spell! Wandering mushrooms should drop hallucinogenic corpses. Tax collectors that chase down the player every 3650 turns and seize 33% of carried gold. Additional rune in Zot:6 for bonus score. The way to Zot:6 opens after grabbing the orb, naturally. Lava merfolk! Some glaives are found buried beneath glaivestones. 1/10 chance of a stack of stone being sandstone, which increases the effective range and power of sandblast when wielded. Crystal plate mail is broken by disintegration, cold, etc. TSO should gift his worshippers spicy chicken if they pray while starving. Runes and the Orb are edible. Toke-waru. Like okawaru, but gain piety through standing in magical smoke, not killing. Increases appetite. Instead of just poison, needle traps can also be curare. Or heroin. Heroin needles. Useable with blowgun. Causes enslavement. A hydra race, wherein each time you die you come back to life with an extra unarmed auxiliary attack. Ogres. Let phantoms regen like imps. warp zones. also, D:-1 digging through empty space creates spatial vortices. that'll teach players how to use-ID wands Silence suppresses all ingame messages nondescript sling bullets. use on metal walls to summon iron golems. port Crawl to Flash, launch Evony-style ad campaign legendary Shuffle card shuffles skills instead of attributes - ortoslon mountain dwarves get inborn Elec vulnerability. please rock worms in labyrinths Kenku should get the message "You are feeling peckish" instead of "You are feeling hungry" Sokoban portal vaults. Sudoku portal vaults. Chess portal vaults. Crawl portal vaults. Portal vault portal vaults. To enter Zot, you must first fight a clone of yourself. Upon abandoning Okawaru, he, like some jilted lover, demands all his gifts back. Scrolls of Genocide. a unique that you have to beat at RftG to get a rune Balls that can be thrown to 'catch' monsters, which can then be forced to fight for you. you should be able to tenderize chunks with a quarterstaff to increase their nutrition value Add new milestone reporting for when ghosts are first spotted (not just killed or be killed). Call it... GSpot. Fish and other water creatures should leave coprses that float in deep water, but you have to apport them, as walking to them for collection will result in drowning. Berserk is addictive. If you are not frequently berserking, you begin to lose stats and everything on the screen turns gray. a pillowcase monster that is immune to weapons <nrook>kobold vaults should have kobold honey inside Similar to Xom cackling at you, uniques will taunt you and loot your corpse after you die. Ijyb doesn't loot; he just chops your head off and dances on your bones. Casting Fire Brand on a wooden weapon permanently lowers its plusses. Browse this list for ideas to actually add to crawl. Robe of the Archmagi increases the range of your spells. Ninjas, who cannot catch you when you're on fire. two-headed ogre player race Grant ogres the Attract Missiles mutation Xom can animate all chokos in your inventory, which will smite, torment, and paralyze you. Autoexplore - lvl1 Translocation spell. causes maprot on miscast Haste spell cranks up key repeat rate and does nothing else During berserk, you have one second to act per turn; too slow, and your character takes a swing at the nearest thing without your intervention. track blood pressure as an internal variable like stealth or MR. low pressure causes slowness, fatigue and lowers attributes, high pressure causes berserkitis, miscasts, heart attacks (same effect as torment) and makes spriggans 'splode statueformed characters may carry friendly rock worms in their bodies (auxiliary unarmed attack) minipax, miniluv and minitru vaults You spit the six-headed hydra like a pig!!! Six-headed hydra squeals in 5.1 Surround Sound! Two-headed orge is jealous! Silver statues summon 1s on death. Crawl porn! a video compilation of Sigmund being killed by characters of every possible combo Nice Form - lvl5 Tmut spell. monsters of your species have a chance of turning friendly each turn they see you Spoon Hands - lvl 3 Tmut spell. Like blade hands, but more bludgeony. Replace crystal ball of fixation with strange shifting cube (id's as Rubik's cube) new slime unique: Gish: made of tar, able to stick to you regardless of what you do (blink, tele) Items that allow you to turn invisible are invisible. miscasting Selective Amnesia erases one paragraph from crawl_manual steal good ideas from Spelunky. deep dwarves could save damsels to regain health Limited Offer! Enter your real mailing address into .crawlrc and Okawaru will send something special to you! IKEA shops. you pay for a lajatang and get a quarterstaff, two scimitars and sticky tape invocation miscasts light armour: swimsuit. AC:1 EV:0, lighter than a stone. reduces water movement penalty. confuses monsters if worn by ogres, trolls, kobolds. causes fear if worn by undead +0 pair of boots of Duke Nukem {Dam+8} Third level berserk mutation causes you to go berserk randomly when monsters hit you. Orb of Zig - Floor 27 of the ziggurat has a replacement, double value game-winning orb, in case you misplace the orb of zot. Dungeon starts spawning daevas. Enslaving yaktaurs allows you to milk them. All notes ogres make with the : command should be in capital letters. 3-headed ogres that shout in surround sound A "pillowcase" monster. If you score a powerful hit on it with an axe, you "open up the pillowcase like a yaktaur!" allow characters to repeatedly strike their own butt to identify weapons' plusses monsters that flee should know how to pillar-dance the player Intelligent monsters on levels with shops sometimes carry receipts. amount of exclamation marks in the level description determines how much prompts you get. if there are more than three, you're asked to solve a captcha Player ogres get a terrifying GRRRRAAAAWWWRRRRRR that causes enemies to flee! RAWR! TEAM OGRE! Some highly magical item which can meld three randarts into the new one. Heavily mutates its operator with mystic magical radiance in the process. fixedart that can be destroyed after killing boris to prevent him from coming back Killer/Death Hippos to Swamp and Shoals! They kill more humans in Africa than any other mammal, so they are DANGEROUS! unique for sewers: Boogerman. spells: mephitic cloud, mephitic cloud, mephitic cloud Spells should take up inventory slots. Hives generated on April 1 should contain only butterflies. Angry butterflies. killer bee larvae of wrath. all of them. telepathy. i wanna hear those giant orange thoughts... A monster type (or a unique!!) that chases you up and down staircases. Passage through some portals is interrupted by an emergency wormhole experience like in the first Star Trek movie. Twelve-course dinner food item; gives 8000 nutrition, but takes 200 turns to consume. A guardian naga race. Like a reverse demonspawn; fantastic aptitudes, gets 6 random terrible mutations. Add Venom Margery, Stone Margery, and Smite Margery. Flavor chosen upon generation. Add, to the inventory inspection screen for randarts, random descriptions of Dwarf-Fortress-like detail. Menacing spikes optional. Recursion optional. Brand spells should work on Blade Hands, and should be made permenant by a scroll of vorpalize weapon When you hit an ogre with a long blade, instead of opening it like a pillowcase, you dice the ogre like an onion!!! [IMPLEMENTED] magic dart traps, stone arrow traps, draining bolt traps, LCS traps, BLADE HAND TRAPS ziggurat shafts Tomb cards have a chance of summoning hostile mummies Playable shapeshifter race. Your form constantlym involuntarily shifts to level appropriate forms. Engorged demon. See {bread bolt}. Acidic corpses (spiny worms) should corrode butchering weapons. totally silent branch where you're also slowed down. "The air is thick as butter" every ziggurat floor has a 1/27 chance of being Abyss if you haven't been playing Crawl for a year, Sigmund spreads his arms, runs to you and hugs you with tears in his eyes when you return. THEN he kills you with a +5,+5 scythe of pain. teleport traps teleport after they have been discovered use whips of reaching as fishing rods. attach bait (worm corpses etc) to actually catch something very strong characters should be able to separate double and triple swords and break a lajatang into two broad axes D:1 bats turn back into vampires if you don't kill them in 100 turns Blade traps don't kill jellies, just split them in half. In Slime, fake stairs that's actually a jelly! carry stairways in your inventory. when you've explored the whole level, drop a > and descend. you may want to stash some <s for Zot You open the door like a pillowcase!!! Bolt of Gold When you kill a jelly with sticky flame, it becomes a delicious creme brulee. Yellow jackets that bite onto your face and sting and sting and sting. They would take up the same space as the player while this happens, so corridors wouldn't help. Kobold Proctologists: a new monster with a special boost to unarmed damage A noisy fixedart weapon which echoes Henzell (or ##crawl generally) A herder god which gives you abilities to summon crazy amounts of sheep fodder! A name? Neu Zeulandor Change Slime God's name to Lemuel. Add a "Lichtown" that could appear on maps under D:25 have a 20 headed unique Hydra (maybe something along the lines of the actual goddess?) accompanied by a band of normal, just 15 head hydras? Add a RAINBOW RAT!!! Bite would have 25-50% chance of putting AcidRobin mode on for 10 turns!! :D Lonar, the God of Loneliness. The longer you stay, the worst the effect he does. When you quit, you get 'Lonar appreciates deserters!' and get a gift depending on how long you stayed. crossbow bolts of draining for yaktaur captains Blink Zombies. Blink Eyes. You know you want to... Shorten Swamp to three floors, guarantee Boris makes an appearance. A new branch of hell - populated by the ghost of every Sigmund you've ever killed. The success rate of renounce religion is based on invocations skill. fulsome distillation on a giant mite corpse should have a small chance to give a potion of might Distortion Oklobs Yellow Draconian summoning Xtahua Kissing Prince Ribbit polymorphs him into a human. And makes him your ally. monsters can pick up your books and learn spells. You can stab them several times in a row while this happens. Killing uniques should let you throw them out of a ball so they can fight for you. if you blink at the same time you're about to teleport, you suffer a severe Translocations miscast jellies that consume amulet of gourmand start eating stones Pineapples. Delicious fruit that can also be used as throwing weapons. Xom finds throwing pineapples hilarious. Low-dex characters may injure themselves eating pineapples. Pineapples pineapples pineapples. Jellies eat shops. Shops eat jellies. Imps can wear heavy armour, including plate mail Yellow jackets. They're like killer bees but they latch on with their jaws and sting and sting and sting and sting. No paralyze or slow, just lots and lots of stinging! The Orcish Club, spinning brit-pop every thursday, punk on fridays, and electronica saturday Bogres, cross between ogres and boggarts. Acid splashes should have a chance of destroying carried runes. Unique oklob, with the ability to blink towards you and Boris-like reincarnation. A rF+++ unrandart that appears as a "non-smoking staff." when you abandon Xom, he shoots a wide-angle disintegration beam at you, which does nothing Add an acquirement god, who does nothing but gift you free acquirement scrolls and drastically increase the oklob spawn rate. Human Jesus! Can convert humans to your side, including all those uniques. giant-centipedes are multi-tile monsters that always start at the top of the floor. Destroying a section of the centipede leaves a mushroom. Attacking the center splits the centipede in two. The centipede will grow longer over time. Banks! Now you can buy on credit! Xom will get bored if you don't use explore mode and will shove you downwards. Xom is interested when people watch your game, and disinterested when they stop doing so. rename abyssal rune to abysmal rune add LOL Cat monsters Zot's difficulty increases with the number of runes you have collected. zot's difficulty depends on how many runes you've picked up in previous games In addition to regular monsters, crib the latest oklob layout from Zot Defense for the orb chambers In one out of five games, put Roxanne on top of the Orb of Zot Instead of a slow metabolism, halflings gain a constant metabolism that can not be affected by anyting, including sustenance, regen, vampirc weapons Chopping up Sigmund's corpse leaves a Sigmund Hide. Enchanting that hide gives you a Sigmund Suit. Tiamat can cast all the spells draconians have in addition to using all their breath weapons. An oklob plant unique, and a fungus unique named Gus. Agressive trolls that, upon being struck by a confused monster, will go beserk and kill whoever punched them in the face. Oklobs are native to the abyss Eating a banana produces a banana peel which can be used to create a banana peel trap when the thief god is implemented. In one of hundred times, replace vault guards on V:8 by elven master archers. attacking while wearing amulet of inaccuracy gives a sage card-like effect to weapon skill training Huge glowing neon-highlighted sign "Abyssal rune here" so players who spent eternity scumming Abyss have some chance not to skip it. A new map for the ossuary, the "Tomb of Doroklohe." Consists of a single square containing an exit, surrounded by rock walls. Add "ObamaCare" death panels to crawl. When you hit "farming" a panel of the gods will convene to determine your fate. Cannibalism occasionally causes 1 point of Int loss. Low Int characters gain Int by eating brains of really intelligent beings, like Elf Mages etc Player ghosts drop random piece of their equipment on kill (except orbs and runes) with XL/100 chance Player ghosts say things the player (or one !nicked to the player) has recently said in ##crawl. Winning player's ghosts participate in a special "King of the hill" tournament for ghosts. Winners are announced on ##crawl. 6s and 7s! And 6s always run in fear from 7s. Because...well...you know. If you get mutated enough, you turn into a pulsating lump and instantly lose. swamp: now with lots of electrical eels New player race rhinotaur - awesome melee capablities are balanced by a combination of fast metabolism and herbivorousness. Late game re-appearance of Sigmund ala Boris - WITH CYBERNETIC IMPROVEMENTS The fog in Swamp should occasionally consist of meph clouds. you can pick up electric eel fingerlings and administer medicine electrophoresis to cure sicknesses and frailness mutations meat rations of returning. you get these from giant spore explosions cheap 9-floor minizigs in bazaars Antaeus should have silence. butterfry beasts. One out of ten times, a butterfly corpse will spawn a parasitic wasp. As revenge for slaying an innocent, neutral butterfly, the shining one will spawn a hostile dragon. Allow players to leave one last note after they die. Crawl, the musical When there are too many ghosts for a floor in CAO, some will be flushed down into the sewers Crawl needs its own Leeroy Jenkins video temporary summons leave edible corpses which disappear in your stomach and leave you starving. "Purple smoke pours from your ass." Ceiling fan trap for people who are levitating or flying. No game is complete without that scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. nested bazaars. cheaper and cheaper! Monsters with polearms or staves know how to pole vault over water and lava tiles. Tinning kits. Make edible trophies of your enemies! Weapons of flaming should make fun of you on wield. New unique band. The whole Stargate SG-1 team. With staff weapons. And P90s. And Zats. Since grey elves are gone, add puce elves. trapdoor oklobs spawn under rations, only pop up once the @ gets within 4 tiles. Replace giant lizards with giant chameleons. Their glyph changes color to match the floor. Rename "Death's Door" to "Seki". Collect three minirunes to assemble one normal rune! curse eye: paralyze and torment implement 1000th bad idea Bows and Crossbows allow training and crosstraining bolt of silence crosstrain Darts and Conjurations Trog sends angry pillows as a form of penance, for you to open, like a pillowcase. Branch end entry vaults (actually, could be nice if just cosmetic) Start a branch of Crawl. Implement all of the bad_ideas. Being seduced and killed by a nymph should reward the player with ASCII porn after his chardump! Convert ascii porn into ziggurat monster sets A unique with the power to make infinite mirror versions of himself. Oh, and he can also smite. rename book of ice to book of unfire, to fit in with the book of unlife. God powers (invocations) are not subject to silence. This also allows enemy priests to cast(err, pray) while silenced! Limb removal. Left arm, no weapon. Right arm, no shield. Leg, double your move delay. Centaurs should be able to slice off a slab of their body and cook it to make a meat ration. Xom's Sausage Grinder. Converts corpses into mystery sausages. Think Upton Sinclair. 1/6 rations malfuncition in a horrible way, from strong poison to mutations, to ... Three words. Army. Of. Squirrels. Zerglings! And hydralisks! two new curse skull uniques, Bim and Zob. One preaches the glory of Oklobs, the other curses their name. Unique Zombie Poet: "I died yesterday / my body rises again / give me brains to eat" Tukima's Storm: All weapons in LOS animated. They attack everyone, including you. butchering a corpse with a weapon of distortion produces sausages instead of chunks now that toadstools grow out of corpses, wandering mushrooms should grow out of mutagenic corpses Orbs of fire should be able to firestorm. Allow Merfolk to swim in fountains. Hellspawn Kittens Level 11 Transmigrations Spell: Executioner's Axe Hands Since Blade hands gives you /scythe-like/ blades, it should be dependent on polearms skill instead of unarmed. In the abyss, the rune hunts you. And you *don't* want it to find you. Fake abyssal runes that crumble into dust when you reenter the dungeon. Since the Hive will eventually become just a single floor... turn it into a portal vault Rename repel missiles to attract missiles. Lehudib's Machine Gun: Shoots all the stones in your inventory and LOS towards the target. Power 3 for card decks: epic desc of cards Crawl Choose Your Own Adventure style book. Spoiler alert: Every route leads to death! Curse Skulls can perma-summon curse skulls You can use a scroll of remove curse to uncurse curse skulls and curse toes. Detect curse also detects all curse skulls and curse toes on the level. Fixedart distortion weapon that summons hostile blink frogs. Blink frog god. Followers of the blink frog god become blink frog jesus BLOODY SWAMP! An undead mirror image of Swamp, just harder! Filled with blood! Vampire heaven! Monsters should be able to pick up and use jewellery-- e.g., amulet of rage. Orc Mines:4 is replaced with orcish woodstock. It's all peace and love, man... bat packs bat caves ... with guano bat mobiles batplanes robin shopping brand! Wands of Bottling. Vampire Hydras. Each head has a seperate vampiric bite attack :) now that spammals are capped at two (three?) rats, call them Pinky and Brain (and Elmyra?) make potions susceptible to fire. they are evaporated if it gets too hot. "Your potions boil! You're standing in a vile venomous cloud of miasma." make scrolls susceptible to cold. ink crumlbes and falls off if it gets too cold. "G - 10 scrolls of paper" the moment you take the Orb, closing credits start rolling from the bottom of the screen, with obligatory blooper scenes (Geryon laughs because he used the wrong end of the horn) Two-headed ogres and ettins should be twice as vulnerable to mephitic/poisonous clouds. Once killed, Michael can reappear, Boris-style, on a new level - except this time around, he's a Daeva (Archangel?) with an entourage of angels. If you don't win in less than 200000 turns, the decaying rune finishes decaying down into nothingness. you can shoot poisoned needles at trapdoor spiders through cracks in the floor armour acquirements have a chance of summoning a hostile gold dragon artifact that allows to jump over one square (useful for crossing sewer streams and avoiding traps). should be named 'boots of reaching' be honest with players. rename: decks of dungeons to decks of bazaars, decks of destruction to decks of torment, decks of escape to decks of banishment cursed shops. you can't leave them unless you buy something Chopping corpses with a chaos brand weapon should make the chunks mutagenic. hydras should be capped at 27 heads, not 20 Sword of Power annihilates corpses when used for butchering. Tukimancer: starts with book of Tukima A nightmare mode in which oods are generated early and everything randomly comes back from the dead (for no exp). Boris is somewhere on every level! When you chop up corpses with a weapon of distortion, the chunks should get teleported away from you. Oklob parmesan Hydra Sushi Death Ooze souffle Dungeon Chef: Your food is rated by a panel of your peers: Ijyb, Sigmund, and Boris. Necrophage steak Crawl plays Yakety Sax while pillar-dancing. Crawl plays Final Countdown upon entering Zot:5. Unique Lichform Goblin Janitor named Igor. Immortal like boris, goes around restocking traps, cleaning up loose junk. Special sales on specific types of items should be announced every now and then across the dungeon. slow god power: cause game to drasictally increase memory and CPU usage slow god power: induce brain damage in the player (needs implementation) Nerf dig spell! To much digging can cause cave-ins. Be sure to leave support columns! If you throw anything that qualifies for "sticks to snakes" you can play fetch with hounds! Crystal platemail changed to Orange Crystal platemail, grants sustain abilities and clarity when worn. Scroll of detect curse identifies any scrolls of curse weapon or curse armour in your inventory and detects mummies, curse skulls and curse toes on the level. a unique trapdoor spider that casts confusing touch, sticky flame, poison arrow and blink. call it Mr Tickles Tukima's dance for ghosts, and give them weapons to animate. Two heads mutation for ogres. flying curse skulls; curse skulls with teleportitis ghosts of characters who knew Portal spell may appear on D:1 regardless of where they died After you take the Orb, magic goes awry and everyone miscasts a lot. The leved edge shouldn't be undiggable; instead, the dungeon should collapse if you dig it. (Same goes for e.g. boulder beetles) level edge should be diggable, and levels should wrap around Pacman style rod of striking should misfire once in a while Add a hive vault on Hive:1 to encourage additional drownings. if you drown on Hive:1, you wake up on Hive:2, surrounded by curious friendly red wasps Frog skin armor, which grants you the ability to swim in deep water. Fixedart if you enchant armor prince ribbit's human skin. new unique: Atlas. doesn't move, doesn't try to attack you. if you kill him, the dungeon ceiling collapses Sigmund evaporates and reforms as Norris! Sigmund with an amulet of lifesaving Unarmed trolls can tear a monster into pieces when they hit it hard enough, producing chunks instead of a corpse. TSOites in perfect standing should not leave ghosts. A Soviet Russia dungeon branch in which, after you've tormented enough fiends, the communist rune carries you out. Elemental god: Gives you elemental resists and adds most-useful elemental damage to attacks (cold vs. fire cirtters, fire vs. cold critters, etc). Invokeable abilities to increase AC, EV, movement speed, or attack rate. negative AC while wearing heavy armour guarantees suffering increased damage Xom gives atomic wedgies. Xom says "Take this gift as a token of my esteem." and then firestorms the player. Rename Xom "dpeg". Rename dpeg "Xom". Mutation that makes you glow. Add "of Win" suffix to randart item name generation. Will be hilarious when used with artifact similar to Robe of Misfortune. steal leashes from nethack and give them to hill orc priests of Beogh players should be able to carry allies in their inventory period pokemon Passwall allows you to telefrag. force_a_lenghty_uninterruptible_cutscene_message branch ends prevent autoexplore uniques leave ghosts too. Sigmund ghost: now with more poison resistance! Ogre bardings. shaft traps on Zot:5 Necrophages and ghouls should rush over and steal the corpse you were going to eat. A unique shapeshifter that shapeshifts between different uniques. deep dwarves can get damage foam mutation that makes damage shaving more pleasant Stabbing a vampire with a steak (meat ration) should instantly destroy it. give every kobold darts of flame Bands stick together. (please, don't) altarrobin:worship the god at every altar you find after the ecumenical temple. Crawl shops allow buying on credit with 100% premium. Put all deaths on ktyp=stupidity. A unique jelly that demands item sacrifice in exchange for passage. Sapprovores should be able to eat animal skins (and boots and gloves). Name new races and classes so they spell things when abbreviated as a combo Executioners should wield three executioner's axes. chaingun wands rods of striking and wands of magic darts can be overloaded so they would fire all their charges in one turn monsters get different letters every time you play, so you have to identify them. "ώ hits you! Ouch! It really hurts! You die... (Must have been an ogre...)" a wand of probing to tell you who each monster is, and its hp and all that other good stuff evoke a scroll of immolation to make a flaming paper airplane and burn that sleeping ogre to death from afar Casting fire bolt on corpses should make meat rations. dip a box of beasts in lava, then evoke it to get all the meat rations - ortoslon Sniping bad_ideas[1000]. - CatEater woo 1000 bad ideas gathered! Now go and make a crawl variation with all these implemented. make inventory slots and spell slots interchangeable deep elf master archers wield two longbows Make glasses a new armour slot, eg. Frederick's monocle. Amulet of Resist Banishment. crystal meth golem Blink Slugs. Scroll of dental health care, prevents miasma breath The Deep Elf Master Archer comes into view. It is wielding a glowing AK-47. pillowcase golem Stone giants have a breath attack instead of carrying large rocks. Acid reflux mutation: you can re-use the effect of the last drank potion with the cost of some acid damage. Enable a gender prompt if the player chooses to be a HoMo. Orc priests run out of piety. And drown, if water walking. Enemy orc priests who run out of piety will have all the orcs near them turn against them. Monsters say "Hadouken" when they cast fireball. Octagon levels collapse and kill you if you dig all the pillars away. Sheep should drown in shallow water. Xom occasionally laughs when you do something stupid, even if you don't worship him. Healing spells. Artifact chokos. If you hit a jelly too hard with an axe, it should turn into two jellies. <Zaba_> Xom should be able to die from laughter A "giftwrapped rune" which can only be obtained as a miscellaneous acquirement (1 percent chance) Wanderers start with a cursed primary weapon. make melee damage be (1dX + 1dX) / 2 Necromancer pghosts should be liches. Chocolate swords that heal monsters instead of hurt them, and make a tasty treat. Credit to GoblinHack for this one. A forge where you can melt down multiple rings into one randart ring. Monsters should be able to use evokable items like stone of earth elementals and disc of storms. Brand of dodging Sticky acid. New transmigration/earth spell, Black Merge; Liquidifies the floor of a given tile just enough for anyone on it to dip a little and stuck when it solidifies back, forever. Zin should ressurrect you, once, back to the temple. Give Roxanne Imp-like regeneration, and summon Oklobs Magical beards. Implement Toady One's dynamic beard system for dwarves! "Yakslayer" randart weapon name. a branch consisting of a centaur city that has a wooden rune in the end guarded by a six-armed centaur emperor with spriggan speed. two blades of a lajatang may have different brands Crystal Yaktaurs: Fire crystal spears instead of bolts. Trapdoor death drakes. Trapdoor ogres. Trapdoor Sigmund! Sigmund has 1 HP More sphinxes to the Tomb, please. And not only to first level! Distortion brand for ammo. A swimming skill, for those who prefer to fight in lakes. Ghosts earn XP similarly to how they would have if alive, and can even level up! Rename Boris to Boris of returning And brand Sigmund similarly. Ozo's armour should let you walk on lava, like levitate on water. A monster-only spell 'nerf' that temporarily reduces all of your spell ranges. Vampires should get the spell "blink". Strong mutation - changes your race shorten the branches some more, then say it is to make the game more challenging by cutting content. Crawl banner ads which, like all the Evony banner ads, feature dungeon babes in tight, boob-revealing, improbable suits of armor Let players save their lives with quarters. This idea will eventually make the developers into millionares. new unique: Pac-Man. tries to eat all player ghosts on CAO playable race with detachable arms: left arm of returning and dancing right arm polypiling!!!11!1 Draconian death knights with torment in Zot. when a dancing weapon of returning falls from the air, it apports the player to its square new light armour: socks. you can wear them on feet for cold resistance or put them on hands for confusing touch Even better, if you wear socks for long enough to get the farming title, they emit mephitic clouds. Removing item with Curse flag causes Zot trap effect to happen. uniques should be able to talk in their sleep color blindness mutation: you see everything as when wielding lantern of shadows, i.e. grey if you enter a unique's name at the start of a game, you start with their equipment, items and spells uniques' monster bands commit suicide when their leader is killed wand of Polymorph God. "Xom evaporates and reforms as Zin! Zin thinks this is not funny." when you fire an arrow in abyss, there's a chance it'll hit your back Jellies sometimes burn through the floor and appear on the next level. Sometimes they land right on your head. Get used to your new cursed helmet. At least you make Jiyva happy. new misc item: a nondescript boombox. when you evoke it, hip hop starts playing and all dancing weapons go berserk Player draconians can be slowed by freezing attacks. Geryon can only be killed with a weapon that killed the Lernaean hydra. dip a scroll a paper into a potion of poison and make the ultimate thrown weapon: poisoned paper plane of piercing aka PPPP to eat something, you need to wield it and evoke it Every cursed item in your inventory adds a chance per turn that you will lose a random food item. When a draconian casts dragon form, it turns into the dragon corresponding to its color. For example, black draconians turn into storm dragons, pale draconians turn into steam dragons, and yellow draconians can't cast the spell at all. Zombies gain a drain intelligence attack. Sushi rations, which you get by wielding a severed kraken tentacle and reading a scroll of enchant weapon. Ice cave exit portal has a chance of taking you to Coc:7. When polymorphed, Donald should turn into a duck whose only possible actions aside from movement are to quack and peck. Some items, spells or monsters to be non-existant; decided at game start. Draconians wearing dragon armour get a "cannibalism"-esque piety penalty from the good gods. Slime creatures with a sickness attack. A command for Henzell that makes him print all segments of a topic at once. Make "Unemployed Unperson" a playable combo. Pleasure brand for whips. Diagonal steps should take 14 ticks. New monster: yak-47 Cursed amulet of Insanity {rMut MUT+ Curse} Rename Menakure to King Tutankhamun. Cyberdemons. A practice mode, where you get unlimited scrolls of acquirement. A game-type-of-the-month: first one should be where you start in the Abyss at level 1 with 100 scrolls of holy word. Ratling Master Fencers. Wu Tang Killer Bees. Levels cut from the rest of the dungeon are moved to Hell. Poison kills should count, even if post-ghost-death. allow draconian callers to summon 1s. Antaeus wears Golden Dragon armour. Makhleb should get annoyed when you pray but don't sacrifice anything Blink Hydra Every head that a hydra has will have a random 'class'. Warrior heads will deal more damage, priest heads will smite you, and wizard heads will fire magic darts, throw flame/frost, and make the hydra go invisible. Left-handed items that only 1/9 of characters can use properly. Hive should be extended to 3 floors, to keep it in line with Crawl's design philosophy and theme: The number 3. Crawl should keep track of DEMAs between games, name them if they get more than n kills, and create custom artefact bows for them. The bows description should include a number of notches engraved on the bow, one per each kill. goldfish can steal your gold and/or steal gold. A lemuel themed zig level with nothing but oklobs, death drakes, and ocs. Lemuel designing levels. Pillowcase golems that always give the "like a pillowcase!!!" message no matter how hard you hit them. Banana peel golems that deal little damage, but severely drain dexterity. on zot:5, xom acts, even if you don't worship xom. If you sacrifice the orb of Zot on an altar of Nemelex, you can gamble for the chance of multiple orbs, or a game over. mimic you can wear that later animates itself and attacks Miscasts can force you to forget very own name If Blork the orc is polymorphed, his racial title changes. i.e. Blork polymorphed into a slug becomes Blork the slug. Rename sublimation of blood to "sublimation of flesh" or "vaporisation of blood." Condense! Level 2 transmutation/ice spell that lets you bottle potions from clouds. sometimes teleport is called trelespoet. <hayenne> Casting blade hands should turn you into Wolverine Rename doors to pillowcases. Quicksand. Undead that escape with the amu^H^H^H orb die the moment they encounter the sunlight of the outside world. Bears become neutral when passing over a tile with a honeycomb. Potions shattering in your inventory should create a cloud on you, like Evaporate. Torture chambers filled with trapdoor fiends, scroll of blink mimics, and amputation traps. Vaults that run away from you. When you pick up the orb, everything on the level should immediately berserk. For Green Demons, Curarare Arrow A new unique iron golem named Bender who belches flame and occasionally passes out sober. Apporting the Orb should cast it into Abyss. Royal jelly, upon encountering fire, rapidly spawns lesser J's in a frenzy to stop, drop, and "roll with his peeps." Give orbs of fire large shields. Sigmund should have a paralyzing stare. broad lochaber triple axe. A summoning spell that summons random uniques you've killed. if "distressingly furry" items take fire damage, they should become "smokey" instead. Acid blobs eat through the floor and make shafts when you kill them. Book of Sigmund. A new branch, the Republic of Sigmund, populated entirely by Sigmund clones. If you don't kill any Sigmunds by the time you get to the branch end, you may choose to ally with the Republic of Sigmund, and all Sigmunds in the dungeon will be neutral to you. Upon dying, the game should play the whole game over theme from Total Distortion before allowing you to play again or close the game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU GAME OVER YEAAAAAAAAAAH Playing halflings. Halflings, in general. Halflings, in specific. Halflings, in the past, present, and future tenses. bad ideas are better than good you've got quite a treasure there in your ecumenical cube The time has come for you to destroy Boris's soulstone. Hail, outlander. I sense a soul in search of answers. playable Hydra race. gain a head for each xl Feeding jellies. The jelly dungeon. scroll of summon jelly size altering mutations While confused and on an altar, you should accidentally take on the associated religion. While confused and on an altar, you should accidentally take the nearby orc as your wife. While confused and praying, you should abandon your religion. Potions should have a chance of explosion on being shaken (ie, heavy combat, teleportation, traveling up/down stairs) Adding items to good ideas. Worshipping Zin. When intelligent monsters walk over a spellbook, they should be able to cast those spells. If you get blurry 3, you receive the option to leave the dungeon, visit an optometrist, get a perscription, and then come back. rename lichform into mummyform Mummy curse that makes you Very Hungry Mummy curse that makes mummies Very Hungry. <mong>We need a Boaris. Exactly like Boris, except a hell hog. Guns! Firearms! Shotguns and rocket-launchers! The eight spells, only found in Octavo book. Lvl 100 spells. Cast them and you win! \o/ {xom ideas[161]}, but for Trog. ranged weapons of distortion new spell: create (easily destroyed) wall <TGW> lab needs giant spores sort pack items of identical type together - wand of fire next to WoF etc Ghosts using missiles should get ammo of draining Summon too many air elementals on a level and you suffocate to death summon too many earth elementals on a level and the walls literally come tumbling down. Targeting yourself with Dig should make a shaft. Player Mu should curse the enemy that kills them If a reaper gets summoned you can watch them duke it out :> rename bolt of iron to I-Beam Submerging ice fiends T&D should give a slaying bonus against trapdoor spiders. Ghosts of yred worshippers should have pain mirror. The shining one wrath should include summoning shining eyes. merge tso and jiyva Wonton soup of hellfire! A unique orange crystal statue that can't be disintegrated. A unique silver statue that summons pan lords. Replace "you are cast into the abyss" with "a trapdoor opens and you fall into the basement" Death goblins that hit like ogres. When you hit tiamat, draconians should jiggle out of her. Give moths of wrath shadow creatures. Orange crystal statues in labs. No orange crystal statues in labs. Imp race. Innate rF and regeneration, but has blinkitis. A Crawl Feature Request race. Starts with tinning kit, ring of invisibility, and a permacursed knife of venom that poisons chunks. A monotheistic god that gives you piety for desecrating other gods' altars Wasp storm: a 65% irresistable poison storm that summons friendly red wasps. another luck god that affects combat rolls, item generation, spell success etc create a player note w/ vault name when you run into a vault so people know what the heck you're talking about New god: Honey nut cheirbriados Shouting mutation gives breath attacks longer range A scroll of anagram, which allows you to rearrange the letters in any item in your inventory to make a new item. Thus you can turn pears into a spear. May have other uses too, but probably not. Unique Oklob named Bolko that can blink, has 20 speed, and can cast Portal Projectile on its acid! Add Oprah to the divine pantheon. Sure the devs may be against divine gifting, but with Oprah, everyone gets a car! Horns 2 mutation immediately gives you minotaur apts. Weapons of flame mulch 100% when thrown just like missiles of flame do. take damage when unweilding (storing) a flaming weapon as it is still hot! Cyclops and stone giant skeletons throw large skeleton rocks. I'm pretty sure that should be "large rock skeletons". Ugly stick. A -2/-2 club, turns things you hit with it into ugly things - or very ugly things if they're already ugly things. Spiny swamp worms. Giant spiked swamp worms. A spell 'bolt of bees' that does physical damage and surrounds the target with allied bees. Balrugs dual-wield demon whips and demon blades. If a wizard is in the way, a balrug cannot pass. Balrug fly is canceled over shafts. Monsters should haste each other if they have the spell. werewolf race: as you level up you can turn into different kinds of canine The Royal Hydra: Splits when attacked, has corrosive attacks amulet of contradiction {rMut MUT+} xomform, all stats set to 72 but permanently confused Zot Defense form. The better you do in a minigame, the higher your stats! Scythe of Sigmund: this scythe gains +1 for each death caused by sigmund (carries over betwen games). It decreases by 1 each time sigmund is killed. Sigmund starts with this scythe 1 out of every 5 games. Vehumet makes your spammals explode during prayer. A speed god that rewards you for using haste. A god that gifts nothing but randart flails... eventually you'll probably get one you'd want to use. Get rid of DS's first mutation and have them start with horns instead, you know you'll get it anyway. With T&D, spider form should let you become a trapdoor. A spell 'exile' that's like banish but sends you to the swamp. Ghosts with apportation should be able to cast it on the player, drawing him into melee range. A brand that makes Angels out of humanoids killed with it. a spell that gives temporary brand (returning) in translocations Allow a strong enough character to break off a piece of a wall to use as a large rock of some sort. dwarven god of dungeon building. dig as an ability, create stone walls, create traps (choose the spot, trap type based on piety level), sense surroundings Summon rhesus macaques Sporeblob. A group of 9 Spores that all stay close to the middle one, and move as a pack. Scroll of pan lord summoning. Amulet of the Gourmandian Spirit. Similar to guardian spirit, but subtracts damage from hunger instead of mana. If you're undead or mutated, you can't pick up the silver rune. Glowing hydras with mutation attacks on each head. Green eye: like a hungry ghost but with smite targeting. Monsters with potions of mutation should drink them. Nets of returning NOT nets of returning anything valrus says (12:22:36 AM) valrus: how about a script that adds anything I say to bad_ideas Rename golden eyes to Golden Snitches. (10:48:26 PM) Eronarn: mikee: randomly turn stairs into abyss gates (10:48:35 PM) mikee: while you're going down them Fleeing animals that get cornered or blocked by something go berserk. If you're low on hp, animals can 'smell your blood' and go berserk. Remaining orb guardians each get stronger every time you kill one. Unique imp who spawns with darts of dispersal. crashitis mutation cursed sustain abilities should totally degenerate you instead Teleporting while confused can put you in deep water or lava. A unique slime creature that summons other slime creatures. Orc Prius Hellwings teleport you right to the Vestibule, and lock the doors. Give monster ogres giant whips of reaching Berserk traps. Oh, the vaults you'll see... Praying to trog enrages every visible monster. Trog's Brothers in Arms sends in berserking butterflies as reinforcements. Dungeon needs easily destroyed DryWall Habitat for Monstrosity. If Sigmund kills you with a scythe of reaping, the game continues with you as a zombie. Multiplayer Crawl: One player controls the @, another controls the dungeon creatures. Especially sadistic kills give extra points. Lichen liches. Broken glass in shallow water. Cigarettes buried in the sand. (4:34:40 PM) petato: @??titanic sigmund creature Sticks to snakes on a randart makes a unique. Allow people with visored helmets to raise the visor so they can bite people. Giant oklob spores, with accompanying oklobomycetes. Give the monster's confusion spell smite targeting. To make orc wizards even worse shopkeeper class Rename orc sorcerers to "orcerers" ignoring bad_ideas Trog gifts spriggans with large rocks of returning Boris drops his phylactery 1 in 10000 times you kill him. It's an amulet that keeps him from respawning, allows your ghost to recur multiple times in other people's games, and drops you in a random place in the dungeon, fully healed, if you die while wearing it in lichform. New skill: Eating. Eating foods that are too tough for you cause you to choke; especially elegant meals moreso. Blade Leg. Kind of like Blade Hands, but only one of them. Replaces aux kick attacks, but gives you ponderousness and prevents wearing boots (one boot is still ok). Pros cast Fly, and then cast it twice! deaths to disintegration should launch IVAN Ultimate cross-breed monster, breathes fire with many heads and lives in a nest (complete with a queen): fire hydrant. The more sheep that are within the line of sight, the greater the odds of one casting a sleep spell on you. Electric Sheep. All that wool can lead up to a static discharge. Curse wisps. All the fun of trying to hit insubstantial wisps, now with Torment! (9:30:50 PM) mong: xom On mummy PCs: You miscast the spell. Sparks fly from your hands! You catch fire! butterflies should turn into a moth of wrath when they level "deaf cob", a rare death cob that casts silence Using fire on a death cob results in popped cob? One floor should have a yellow brick road going straight through it. Nothing else, no tinmen, no scarecrows, just a yellow brick road with an emerald castle at the end. staff of translocation: distortion branded, which, yes, triggers when you wield it petato: having really good traps&doors skill should give you the message "You open the door like a pillowcase!!!" American player race. All roles restricted except for Gladiator. Purgy drops a distressingly bulemic troll hide. Crazy Yiuf will stop to pick up and eat any scrolls or books he finds. Naga barding of walking. Centaur barding of slithering. a level 9 summon boggart spell Mutation: Breath weapon that creates butterflies not implementing [1305] Maurice steals the orb of Zot Cheibriados invocation: Heal, then sleep three turns. To resolve the vault/Vaults conflict, rename it to Volts and fill it with elec monsters. 1 out of every 1000 monsters spawns in an albino variant Pokeballs. Collossal Kobolds. Koitalic. Diminuitive Kobolds Kobolds merge like trunk slime creatures do. Titanic Kobolds! skeleton as a playable race summon small mammals summons kobolds and halflings at high levels new unique edible (beige) ooze monster: the Flan a vlad_the_impaler vault for D:2, now featuring nethack vlad in his rightful place! Allow adventurers to quaff from a sealed flask, to internal combustion results A deep elf monk (DEMo) starts with explosives when a titanic slime creature is on the screen, disco mode engages ala discorobin Killing plants within the view of an altar of fedhas leads to divine wrath, whether you worship or not. If your AC, EV and SH are exactly 27 each, you enter god mode, with a quad damage multiplier Bad idea, or greatest idea? Switchblade staff of power, it slices, it dices, it even juliennes fries! To make things a little less mephitic in Hive:2, add some guardian bee-goyles (name is not under discussion) made out of rock that look like statues until you get within three tiles. And keep the generic, boring statues (now of bees) to keep the player guessing. Allow watchers to play as xom when watching a chaos knight Schrodinger's Demons - may or not be poisoned. 50% chance of dying upon entering your line of sight Give agnes a wand of haste Python, a unique anaconda that appears early. Despite being injured, it refuses to wear braces. Appears as a white space. New edible holiday monster: choklob - an oklob dipped in premium milk chocolate Flying Pizza Monster - Like a giant spore, but when you hit it, it explodes into a cloud of pizza Pinata Yak Has high dodge, when you hit it with a blunt weapon, it explodes (ala disintegrate) into candy. You can whip walls in the dungeon, and find random beating hearts. black bears go through your garbage and make a mess at low hp trapdoor wandering mushroom - follows you around out of LOS, hides underground, then pops up and confuses you trapdoor wandering orange crystal statue Tukima's dancing typos 1/1000 draconians turn out rainbow, like tiamat Confuse Sigmund, he starts quoting Sigmund Freud "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. " If you die to an elf wielding the sword of zonguldruk, you rise as a zombie a few turns later. Complete with no healing whatsoever. wraith of wrath Allow wands of digging to make shaft traps. s/Apportation/Yoinkinate (2:13:59 PM) valrus: money in crawl should be measured in auc Horseshoes for centaurs. You can even get ones with cleats, for extra damage! branded arrows produce new sticks to snakes. Disperal, returning, penetrating, most importantly, exploding Mountain dwarves operate at 80% capacity sober. 100% capacity buzzed, and 120% trashedbeing trashed may cause you to forget parts of the map... rename throw icicle to "mozilla firebird" rename forescry to mozilla thunderbird If you carry Cekugob on you, it rarely decides to equip itself, whether you want it or not. Of course, it does not inform you of this. Give killer bees opposable thumbs, ability to open doors. The pond on Hive 2 is shaped kind of like a toilet bowl. Players should get a chance of being flushed into Swamp instead of drowning. Deep elf blademaster with tukimas dancing quickblades of distortion Differentiate between red and green apples in inventory and stashes. Better yet, elven, dwarvish, and orcish apples. Eat five of any in succession and you become that race. Good gods like it when you summon demons in order to lure them into a hideous ambush, then slaughter them. Gods might decide to smite you for stepping on their altars. Especially Trog. orc knight yell berserks nearby orcs give executioners an irresistible slow spell Shed portal vault, that prompts the player for wall and floor colors on every entrance When death cobs are hit by a flame attack, they explode into hostile death popcorn. Popcorn that is trying to kill you. You don't want to eat that. xv tells you about a monster's taxonomy, including Latin nomenclature, and about its natural habitat, means of reproduction, etc. if you zap a glass wall with a wand of polymorph, it turns into a glass golem Oklob trees. And Oklob walls! Casting a brand spell while wielding a weapon of chaos should make the next 27 attacks have a 50% chance of being that brand and 50% chance torment everything in LOS. a unique boggart named Humphrey a unique named trogdor that starts as a man, becomes a dragon-man, then just a dragon (but he was still trogdor). Has a breath attack, "Trogdor burninates you!" switch Lair:$ and Vaults:$, and see how long it takes for people to notice 10 aum of silver darts should really weigh 10.97 aum. Replace amulet of controlled flight with amulet of life preservation. Unlike other roguelikes, only prevents death by drowning. It's a rather big and bouyant amulet. If you want it to be useful, also grantsswimming. Xtahua "crashes" through doors destroying them rather than opening them. [Implemented] tie the shoals tides to lunar cycle, system timezone, and global warming Casting ice storm and fire storm next to each other should generate a tornado New transmutation spell - Choko Form. You transform into a choko. For the rest of the game. Choko form, part two. If you're eaten by a monster, you have three turns to end the transformation before you're digested. choko form, part three. Doing so causes the monster to explode in a shower of chunks, while you stand in a pool of blood. 50% current health, -2 max health. Pikel should sell his slaves to things that pick up gold. Using a crystal ball of fixation during combat grants great chei piety Watered-down potions of mutation cause watered-down mutations. 'You have a cute tiny pair of horn nublets on your head!' 'You are partially covered in acne.' 'You tend to lose your temper in slow-moving queues.' Give Agnes Haste. A copycat sort of monster that uses all spells, abilities, and forms of attack the player uses in its sight against them, effectively "learning" them until its death. Make Chei disapprove of eating the corpses of [once-]speedy creatures. Make Chei approve of eating the corpses of [once-]speedy creatures. Give blink frogs regenerative healing. make the potion which makes you go beserk always yellow. "This tastes like piss, you are pissed off" Make EH and other enchantments blockable. Sacrificing a choko to Okawaru changes your religion to worshiping his brother, Chokowaru. If Pikel becomes mutated, he turns into Pikelchu and shoots lightning. Jellies eat stairs. Jellies become hasted when they eat potions of speed. Opening a bronze flask while confused creates butterflies. Or make a multicolored canteen for that purpose alone. If Saint Roka does not join a Beoghite immediately, he becomes enraged about this false messiah and goes berserk. Cyclopses and stone giants pick up large rocks. A race that has to constantly die in order to stay alive; it gets 100% lifesaving, but game over if you don't use it often enough Push spell - to have fun seeing lava swimmers Randomly spawning test spawners. Randomly spawning /friendly/ test spawners. Display all weights in units of giant spiked clubs. separate animal skin for every large leathery animal separate leather armour for every large leathery animal Hydras should grapple. Anything should grapple, ever. Potion of suicide, made from 100% death drake extract! Titans bounce their lightnings at you, instead of firing them straight An effect that introduces typos into common commands; autoexplore becomes autoexplode, etc An artifact that occasionally recurses itself should occasionally create an artifa