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CulixCupric

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Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« on: October 01, 2015, 07:17:08 pm »
What are the most horrible and dangerous monsters and threats you have created?
In what ways have you increased the dangers of the worlds you create?
How have you made the game more terrifying and deadly?

I am trying to add more dark fantasy elements, more akin to the demiplanes of dread, Ravenloft, or old Hammer Horror monster movies, than other dark fantasy.
I am looking for ideas to add more horrors lurking about, and more reasons to fear everything, and ways to cause evil biomes to expand over time...
Anything that can make a world more frightening...

EDIT: Was supposed to be posted in Modding Forums. Please move it there if possible.
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2015, 10:09:27 am »
Mod in more webber creatures. Those are always horrifying to face.

Give things various types of spit syndromes so that the player never knows what the effects of being hit will be.

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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2015, 03:55:40 pm »
Give all limbs  [GRASP]
Select everything in raws folder.

Ctrl C
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Enjoy the madness.
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2015, 03:59:55 pm »
Enemies can grapple with every part of their body, and every part can resurrect in an evil biome/by a necromancer?
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2015, 04:00:39 pm »
No, you will actually be able to use your crocodile fb race.
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Quote from: MonkeyHead on May 25, 2014, 05:36:03 am
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2015, 04:45:09 pm »
I wonder if anybody keeps track of FBs as inspiration for new Civ races. That could get dicey.
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2015, 04:57:05 pm »
If it's not obvious, I'm talking about raw duplication, which is hilariously unpredictable
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2015, 05:16:52 pm »
There's that mod where basically every creature has 360° double range vision through obstacles, nofear, and hates you. World of Fear, or something.
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2015, 05:37:29 pm »
I think that Random Creatures Script would be very useful now.....

Also,there was a thread were people made mini dragons with acid blood,a russia sized dragon,were-ducks,replicator tentacle things that assimilate dwarves,Chuck Norris(yes,that was a thing that happened) and I guess they made evil barrel people too....it was awesome.

I suggest you add,like,[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS] to some animals and make them shit out something very terrifying.Like poisonous and deadly diarrhea that later turns into little shit monsters that infect people. 
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2015, 06:02:03 pm »
Let's not and say we did. There's a reason Toady isn't implementing waste into the dwarven digestive tract.
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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2015, 06:37:48 pm »
Quote from: Urist McVoyager on October 06, 2015, 06:02:03 pm
Let's not and say we did. There's a reason Toady isn't implementing waste into the dwarven digestive tract.

I know.But face it:that is a very !!FUN!! tag to play with....
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A medium-sized creature prone to madness and insanity.

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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2015, 12:48:50 am »
The most horrible and dangerous monster I made would be the creature that could kill bronze colossi without using weapons, making smallish creatures that can slaughter huge creatures is very enjoyable.
Haven't done the other things...yet.
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« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2015, 01:46:28 am »
Quote from: nomoetoe on October 07, 2015, 12:48:50 am
The most horrible and dangerous monster I made would be the creature that could kill bronze colossi without using weapons, making smallish creatures that can slaughter huge creatures is very enjoyable.
Haven't done the other things...yet.
Magmins. aka LAVA COLLOSI. thoughts?
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Re: Making worlds of darkness, fear, terror, horror, and so on....
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2015, 01:53:46 am »
I have a race of "Iron men" who would gladly kill a few bronze colossi, I use them for a "Creative mode" normaly they: kill all trees on there land, all animals must die, Invaders are diner, The leader must be able to survive LOTS of treason, and they don't care about anything.
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