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While not a suggested solution -- it's basically a workaround -- what you do in-game, now, for items that would take a ridiculous amount of water/tradegoods to buy is to simply make a huge pile of them right beside the trader.

When it's time to make the deal, you pick them all up and initiate conversation -- you can talk and trade even if you're carrying multiple times your carry weight.

As for the getting, lower-depth dungeons carry plenty of junk that sells (or sold, but quantity has a quality all its own~) for plenty. It's easy even for a high strength character to run out of capacity multiple times in a single dungeon, at which point you recoil out, dump off the vendor junk, and go back in for round two. It's a matter of patience (presuming that you're not at risk of death at the depths you're "farming") more than anything else.

Physical mutations don't seem to be effected. Checked with a number of different ones. It seems stuff like poison spitting is counted as non-physical, though. Apparently, it just prevents you from using activated mutations. The mutations that no longer work will be greyed out.

I've run into a problem - I have a demonspawn with Slow Metabolism 3 (not naturally, of course), but the guy still chews through food like an ogre. His most expensive spell is honeycomb level hunger, which I understood to be a step above strawberry.

Which, now that I think about it. . .

Okay, reading the wiki that makes a lot more sense now - honeycombs are way more valuable than they have any right to be, but I still can't get a fix on the order listed in the spell menu
From lowest to highest:
Strawberry

Honeycomb

Ration

Casting a spell lowers your nutrition by an amount varying with the spell's level: (1) 50, (2) 95, (3) 160, (4) 250, (5) 350, (6) 550, (7) 700, ( 860, (9) 1000. This amount is lowered by the product of your Intelligence and Spellcasting. (For rods, your Evocation skill * 10, with a minimum of 5.)
Display messages in 0.6: Sultana is >= 1. Strawberry is >= 15, Choko is >= 41, Honeycomb is >= 121, Ration is >= 401.

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

E: Oh. Right. Knew this had been done before.

Yup.

Easiest way to notice it is probably from a troll's metabolism increasing, though. Had that happen a number of times, generally a game-ender.

Easiest way to solve all questions raised in this thread would be to go allll the way back to the first page of Other Games, and just start working your way back th'freak forward. If you're bored with new stuff, try old stuff. You've got emulation (Read: Every freaking console from roughly PS2 back, depending on your computer) and old games (Over two decades of material now.). You are not going to run out of games to play in your lifetime. Games have become like books, to a large extent. There's so many you will never catch up, and they're being created so quickly you're going to fall behind. It's glorious.

Warhammer, there's a 4x thread at-most 6 pages back. There are, in fact, multiple 4x and/or strategy game threads in the forum. Search feature.

Script: Check out the Let's Play archive. Generally, if someone can be arsed to spend a ridiculous amount of man-hours putting together a Let's Play, there's something worthy about it.

Personally, I'm currently playing Nox, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup (rarely), Super Robot Wars J, and Goblin War Machine. All are good, in different ways.

And apologies if the tone comes off as kinda' curt -- the thread's title is kinda' annoying when it's dropped in the middle of over 100 pages of forum dedicated, to a large extent, solely to what someone or another has considered a good game.

Kinda' missed point Or at least spoke around it.

There are famous and hero-used spears in western fiction and mythology, yes. There's just considerably fewer ones than big name swords.

Even that, though, isn't the big thing -- the big thing is that if you go and browse through the fantasy section of any of the major bookstores (caveat: in the US.), better than half the major critters in them will be toting swords, specifically. Certainly a majority of protagonists in western fantasy fiction overall are sword users specifically. Then you've got axes and various blunt things, followed by funky crap and then the poor, maligned polearm.

I guess it's not terribly surprising. The 'awesome' fight scenes would be considerably less so (according to th'average fantasy book consumer, I suppose) if the fight went something along the lines of "Evil McFooigan charged at the hero, who wisely put a hole in them from several feet away with a sharpened stick."