Bad Ideas

[catchall]

In the spirit of the Crawl LearnDB's Bad Ideas archive, I offer the following ideas that should be implemented immediately.

* Doing 'give <item> elf' results in 'Are you sure (y/N)?'

* Sleepwalk skill that allows you to spamwalk and regen simultaneously.

* Bandage considered an aggressive action.

* Along with the above, "nosave bandage", which lets bandaging attempts on your character always succeed (I could go on with the bandage jokes, but I won't.)

* Mudsexxing lowers max stun.

* "nosave language". Your character makes no attempt to understand any verbal communication. Useful for inane tavern chatter and lectures from superiors.

* Steal has city and wilderness variants. So does skinning.

* High level spell that temporarily activates staff commands. (Bet that requires a component!)

* New game Arm 3, to be designed and coded concurrently with Arm 2.

[AmandaGreathouse]

Loving the nosave language because that would be funny as hell.

[evilcabbage]

Hint: Turn all text black, turn background text black. Highlight names white.

When you stop seeing his messages pop up, hit enter a lot.

Turn text to grey. Say "Yep, Sarge, heard every word! Got it!"

[Spoon]

Make items left and right handed.

Also, running with tools held has a small chance of causing a critical accident.

[evilcabbage]

Make items left and right handed.

Also, running with tools held has a small chance of causing a critical accident.

... But if items are left and right handed, how would we know which hand to put them in? All we have are "Primary" and "secondary" hands!

[FantasyWriter]

Make items left and right handed.

Also, running with tools held has a small chance of causing a critical accident.

... But if items are left and right handed, how would we know which hand to put them in? All we have are "Primary" and "secondary" hands!

THe player/character would know.
I think it' sucky that EVERYONE knows you are using a weapon in your good hand rather than just your left/right hand.
So I actually think that would be a very GOOD change.
Just have to have an option in chargen to mention if your PC is left or right hand dominant.

[Synthesis]

Make items left and right handed.

Also, running with tools held has a small chance of causing a critical accident.

... But if items are left and right handed, how would we know which hand to put them in? All we have are "Primary" and "secondary" hands!

THe player/character would know.
I think it' sucky that EVERYONE knows you are using a weapon in your good hand rather than just your left/right hand.
So I actually think that would be a very GOOD change.
Just have to have an option in chargen to mention if your PC is left or right hand dominant.

Nah, you can still pull the "I'm not left-handed" trick if you want to.

[lordcooper]

Create a pause command to help players cope with screen scroll.

[Wolfsong]

Create a pause command to help players cope with screen scroll.

Already exists in most clients.

[lordcooper]

Create a pause command to help players cope with screen scroll.

Already exists in most clients.

Nah.  It has to actually pause the game until you've finished catching up.

[Cind]

Force everyone who apps during the last week of each month to app c-elves to fill in the pc population gap, and prevent people who app dwarves during the first week of each month from being approved for the same reason.

App a character who's sexually attracted to templars. A breed character, with mutations. Who's a little screwed in the head and doesn't know when to shut up.

[Bushranger]

Make items left and right handed.

Also, running with tools held has a small chance of causing a critical accident.

> Hold scissors
You hold a pair of bone scissors.

>Run
Running with scissors is a bad idea, did you mean walk? Y/n

>N
Ok, but it is a bad idea.
You speed up to a run.

>North
You trip and stab yourself in the eye, doing horrendous damage.

[Bacon]

>hit mekillot

[Nyr]

A mudsex flag for PCs.

A watch room to watch PCs mudsex, where the descriptions are all replaced with generic beast descriptions.

[bcw81]

A mudsex flag for PCs.

A watch room to watch PCs mudsex, where the descriptions are all replaced with generic beast descriptions.

Yes please.

[Bushranger]

A mudsex flag for PCs.

A watch room to watch PCs mudsex, where the descriptions are all replaced with generic beast descriptions.

It'd be like some late-late night Animal Planet documentary!

[Dalmeth]

Black powder rifles.

[catchall]

Items/chars with long mdescs weigh more.

[lordcooper]

Somewhere in the middle of the desert, a lone wanderer sneaks out of a vault.

[Wolfsong]

An automated kudos system that receives, and stores, kudos without sending them to you immediately. After 4-5 RL days of not logging in, it forwards one kudo to you, repeating every 4-5 RL days until you log in again, after which it goes back into idle mode.

[SpyGuy]

Somewhere in the middle of the desert, a lone wanderer sneaks out of a vault.

No way, a Fallout/Arm crossover would be all kinds of awesome.  I want a half-giant with a Gatling laser.

[Akaramu]

A like / don't like button for other PCs that would add up and present a result at the bottom of the mdesc. You could go "Oh, that templar is at -5, must have been busy today" or "Oh, that f-me is at +10, she must be worth her price".

[Cind]

Tonberries.

[Synthesis]

Tonberries.

dwarf assassin

[jstorrie]

Tonberries.

yellow belly