The spitemaster
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So I have been fed up with so many tar substances that are floating around not wanted. (you could say the same with snakes I might do that one later) But, I think that if we could focus our collected energies (or synergies) and find the solution that suits all of us. I went to ideas that were over a year ago and all of them you see here. (If anyone feels left out it is because I only took the ones that had separate topics for them. The ones that were submitted as bundle I didn't realize that there was an idea that fitted this context and was left out)I think that this was would be a good way to give the older ideas one last shot and this was a good was to do it. If any one wants to add ideas to some of the really old ideas, I would ask them to post them on this thread instead of reviving the old beasts. Here are the links to all the oldies (and newer ones)

Bog (Mr.Slice)

The formless goo (The spitemaster)

The destructive ooze (Vinheim)

Primordal Ooze (Beef row)

Ooze (hartleyhair)

Dirt (Samuel)

The consuming goo (Mr.slice)

Toxic Slime (vittro)

Misty Halo (Garlonuss)


Edit: Sorry if I wasn't clear, Feel free do show us what ideas you had that were older than my arbitrary cutoff date. (links, reiterating of your idea, or another way of communicating to us)

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See, here's the great thing about DROD: it's not a democracy. If the forum voted overwhelmingly in favor of having Unlimited Undo, we still wouldn't have it. Similarly here: no amount of voting is going to have any appreciable effect on what goes into the game.

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It might, however, stem the flood of people competing for the next big thing. Myself included, I think that we are stuck in some kind of rut and continually go over the same ideas. If we can figure out what the best idea is people can move on, or at least know what they have to beat/improve.

(I'm thinking of making a database of these ideas for reference)

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Here's a new tarstuff idea--The Proverbial Rut.

The Rut can not exist without a Rut Mother. Every spawn cycle, it grows back to the original Rut orientation. If anything is in the Rut growth, it dies...because it's stuck in The Rut.

There is no such thing as a Rut baby. The Rut will grow over anything--including Briar. No sharp witsbits can remove The Rut.

In fact, the only way to remove The Rut is to bump into it orthogonally. Often, with The Rut, it takes physical violence to get one out of it. Interestingly, though, monsters can also bump into The Rut to kill it off (orthogonally only. It's tough to put oomph into a diagonal bump. Some force will always bounce off--it takes one's full efforts to knock off a piece of The Rut.)

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Completely original tarstuff idea:

You can't destroy it with your sword (there are no weak spots left). But it should have a weakness, let's say it can't spread over walls and doors. So closing a door underneath it would destroy the tarstuff on top of it.
The mother should be an unrequired monster.
No weakness means that it won't make babies - so it should be able to make stable formations that are one square wide.
Although, if it doesn't make babies, can it hurt you? Let's make it so that if it grows on to you, you die. It's acidic or something. It could also kill anything else it grows on to.
Having a different spawn cycle would be useful. Make it similar to gel, so that only bits attached to mothers grow, but also make the growth-rate dependant on the number of mothers in a particular section. More mothers = faster growth. Not sure what should happen when two blobs join up. Maybe the growth is also dependant on the size of the blobs or on how much it grew last time.
Also it floats, so it can grow across water. (but not across pits)

What to call it?

Tar = T = 20
Mud = M = 13 = 20 - 7
Gel = G = 7 = 13 - 6

so 7 - 5 = 2 = something starting with B.

?????

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Rabscuttle wrote:
What to call it?

Tar = T = 20
Mud = M = 13 = 20 - 7
Gel = G = 7 = 13 - 6

so 7 - 5 = 2 = something starting with B.

?????

Bob. But only because Bert has too many letters.

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Rabscuttle wrote:
Completely original tarstuff idea:

o i c wat u did thar

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As long as at least one person did, I am content.

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I chose my own tarstuff idea because I think it is the only other idea of tarstuff in the English language that fits the rule of naming tarstuff. It was also a cool idea.

But still, great idea Rabscuttle!



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hey rabscutle yor ID is already in ththe City Beneth
it is called 'the flow"
or something

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...oh. Better late than never, I suppose.

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...Where's the :whoosh smiley when you need it?

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I was thinking we could have a tarstuff that is invincible on inside and outside corners but is vulnerable everywhere else. Maybe these new tarstuff babies could move like wubbas, except they can slide along walls like roaches do?

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Mattcrampy wrote:
I was thinking we could have a tarstuff that is invincible on inside and outside corners but is vulnerable everywhere else. Maybe these new tarstuff babies could move like wubbas, except they can slide along walls like roaches do?

I like your sarcasm there

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