All about chasms (1.2)

[bio_hazard]

Maybe quarterstaffs could allow leap, but either destroys the quarterstaff or drops it down to the next level.

[HallucinationMushroom]

Maybe quarterstaffs could allow leap, but either destroys the quarterstaff or drops it down to the next level.

You just made my day. I now cannot get images of pole vaulting dwarves out of my head.

[bio_hazard]

You just made my day. I now cannot get images of pole vaulting dwarves out of my head.

well, we know they can't be tossed...

[Psi]

I must admit that the jury was still out for me on chasms. However this morning I attacked a pack of orcs with my Gondolin Battle Axe, only for them to start throwing themselves down the chasm to escape my wrath. That moment alone justified their existence. Thank you for that!

9) Monster escape route!

[taptap]

10) Lair safety.

I killed Ancalagon, but had no way to plunder his hoard.

[debo]

Sil clearly needs a hookshot

[T-Mick]

Sil clearly needs a hookshot

BOING!

I'd leave it at that, but character minimum.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Sil clearly needs a hookshot

How about a hookshot like this one from Zelda 3: A Link to the Past?

[Fendell Orcbane]

How about a hookshot like this one from Zelda 3: A Link to the Past?

Awesome : )

[debo]

That was exactly the one I was talking about . Even better if you can use orc skeletons as anchors.

[mtwdmn]

Sil clearly needs a hookshot

There's precedent for hooks paired with ropes in the books. Specifically, in The Hobbit, after Bombur falls into the Enchanted River in Mirkwood, they use a hook on a rope to get him out. Grappling-hooks are explicitly mentioned in The Two Towers when the Uruk-hai and wild men assault Helm's Deep.

Something like these could be used as a way to grab certain kinds of items on the other side of chasms or to traverse them outright.

[Infinitum]

11) There is no prompt for tumbling down chasms whilst confused (or blinded, supposedly)?

[locus]

11) There is no prompt for tumbling down chasms whilst confused (or blinded, supposedly)?

Yeah I died from falling down a chasm while confused one time. I sometimes forget that this game has a lot fewer safety railings than Crawl.

[WaveMotion]

A strangeness: dropped items are perfectly happy to end up across a chasm if tiles around you have items on them. I guess this is no quirkier than the one-item-per-tile rule itself though.

[Psi]

I went to leap a chasm with an enemy on the other side and I was asked if I wasnted to leap into the Easterling archer. I declined as I wasn't sure if I would just fall down the chasm. Has anyone tried this? Do you fall or push the monsters along or perhaps there is a roll to see what happens...?