Great work Cap! Thanks for taking the time out to fix the site, it means a lot

Welcome Kuzma!
I used 4zb4's link with great success, I'm glad to see the old forums still survives to leak its holy knowledge to us. I ended up modifying the makefile which seemed to be the most straightforward way. mingw is good and compiled the LIVAN source for me and I recommend it (I felt quite manly when it compiled for the first time). I used Programmer's Notepad 2 to make a short-cut that automates the build command (but that's a pretty standard thing to do when you're not a command-line junkie).

While I don't use Visual Studio for code compilation (for some strange reason), I definitely use it for source-diving since it has a totally indispensable search-tool. If you can get LIVAN to compile via VS, then stick with that because then you'll be able to do everything from one package.

Fortune Cookies, which are 'read', and tell your fortune using a similar method to the sci-talk algorithm.

f.ex. a particular fortune cookie might read:

"The fortune cookie reads:\\ "Soon, the (adjective) (creature noun) will (adverb) (verb) you!\\""

adjective =
{5, big, little, small, brittle, enormous;}

creature_noun =
{4, hedgehog, orc, zombie, dolphin;}

adverb =
{5, quickly, slowly, mildly, briskly, painfully;}

verb =
{5, devour, jump over, smash, stomp on, dissolve}

How about: Named Continents

Sounds like an appealing idea, particularly implemented as a state.

It gives me an idea for a scroll of fire balls, where if you read it, then you can cast a spell on a selected square (spell range proportional to your intelligence). This would be a bit like the spells of an elder dark mage, in that you could cast the spell from a distance. It would also finally make the behaviour of dark mages somewhat more explicable; it bothered me a little that I couldn't cast spells like they do.
The scroll could be volatile and explode like a wand of fireballs. If you are confused state, then confuse-read means the incantation goes wrong and you blow yourself up.

Wand/Scroll of healing sounds great too.

I like to think the bugs are semi-intentional. There's another one in confdef.h:

#define ANTITODE_LIQUID (LIQUID_ID + 9)

Should read

#define ANTIDOTE_LIQUID (LIQUID_ID + 9)

Antitoad... maybe it's a pun?

That's funny. Wands of slow behave differently in 0.50 to the wands of slow in CVS.

In char.cpp at the bottom:

void character::Slow()
{
  doforbodyparts()(this, &bodypart::Slow);
  doforequipments()(this, &item::Slow);
  BeginTemporaryState(HASTE, 500 + RAND() % 1000);
}

When Slow() is called, it will slow equipments and bodyparts, but activate Haste as a temporary state. Should it instead be:

void character::Slow()
{
  doforbodyparts()(this, &bodypart::Slow);
  doforequipments()(this, &item::Slow);
  BeginTemporaryState(SLOW, 500 + RAND() % 1000);
}

?

Either an elder dark mage, or should be able to verify that this is a bug, when they cast "slow" on the player.

Welcome to the forums greqrg!

I like this part. Why not have the ninja kamikaze dwarf disappear with a large explosion i.s.o. smoke, so that he teleports right before the explosion is triggered? He would then survive, and aligned god restocks his backpack right after. Evil eh?

I also like the idea of renaming the axedwarf as a Rookie Kamakaze dwarf who comes equipped with a backpack but refuses to use it, throwing objects instead. It develops that character's element of tragic desperation and it seems to fit better in light of the existing kamakaze dwarf heirarchy.

Aligned backpacks could also have different effects depending on your relation with the gods. If you were in really good standing (champion or 800+ say?) with Atavus, and applied his backpack, he could protect you from the ensuing explosion. On the other hand, if you were in normal or poor standing with Cruentus, and applied his backpack, then you would take damage as well as other bystanders. The size of the explosion could be proportional to the modulus of your relation with that god.