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[Deon]

I want to make a whole lovecraftian-style release now. The carps are not deadly anymore... So what?

So you can think that you're the first one who made the step . And you're in credits.

[bongotastic]

Hi, I want to try this mod (which I briefly did already). Although I think that the visuals look great, I guess that I'm getting crusty and would rather play with the Anniki tileset (close to ASCII, but square and with clear stairs/ramp symbols).  Will I be losing a lot (other than eye candy) by pimping down the graphics?

Thanks!

[Deon]

Use the ascii version, it should work perfectly with anniki tileset if you configure it in init.txt.

Yeah you will lose a lot of stuff like trees with falling leaves and lots of colorful plants, but if it's not too important just grab the ascii version and install whatever tileset you like on top of it.

[Z1000000m]

i asked once, but the answer wasnt exactly what i expected

so im going to ask a pretty straight one

blahblah i was wrong

however, gotta ask if you nerfed the armor and weaponsmiths
they make alot of shitty items

[Lancensis]

I want to make a whole lovecraftian-style release now. The carps are not deadly anymore... So what?

So you can think that you're the first one who made the step . And you're in credits.

Oh aye? You mean a Cthulthu mythos mod, or a mod in the style of Lovecraft?

[Deon]

I mean to add lovecraftian monsters do DF water. To make it dangerous again.

[Lancensis]

Huh, I've a list of about 150, 200 Lovecraft/Hodgson style monsters I've come up with, which I've been meaning to add. Heh. And I've gotten around to about...2, thus far. Was it Underground water, or water in general?

[Acanthus117]

Both'd be frickin' awesome.

Hey, what's your take on Cthulhu spawn?

[Lancensis]

Both'd be frickin' awesome.

Hey, what's your take on Cthulhu spawn?

Mine or Deon's? They'd have to be a Civ, I guess. One that didn't reproduce, and died out 200 million years before you started playing. I don't think they were described in any great detail, so I guess anything goes, really.

[Acanthus117]

Hmm.

Man, I'd love to see some Yithians, or some of those guys from Mountains of Madness, whatever they were called.

[Lancensis]

The Elder Things might make a good playable race. Perhaps the Great Race of Yith, although you can't really do much of what makes them special (That's why I prefer making creatures from scratch, as opposed to trying to fit existing ones into DF rules). What I was thinking of that would be pretty good is

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getting rid of the existing demons (there's a WorldGen setting for that, creating the Flying Polyps, and setting them to appear in the underworld.

Thing about Lovecraft monsters and races, is there's something of a power imbalance (hell, that's the idea). You could set Tcho-Tchos or Deep Ones as a marauding race, but The Elder Things could wipe out their entire species with a brace of Shaggoths.

[Acanthus117]

Oh gosh, Shoggoths...

*imagines cultist dwarves riding war shoggoths into battle against goblins*

AWESOME

Too bad we can't make our dwarves go insane from seeing Elder Things and shit.

[Ratbert_CP]

Oh gosh, Shoggoths...

*imagines cultist dwarves riding war shoggoths into battle against goblins*

AWESOME

Too bad we can't make our dwarves go insane from seeing Elder Things and shit.

By definition, your dwarves have already failed numerous sanity checks by the time they've arrived to found a fortress...  A little cosmic dread isn't going to phase a pioneering dwarf.

[Acanthus117]

But still, madness would be cool.

[Lancensis]

Well, in my experience, the quickest way to send a dwarf nuts is with smoke and miasma, which a creature can create indirectly by dropping burning shit, or rotting shit.