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''Centuries later, the magical bonds that hold him in place are slowly loosening and his power grows ever stronger.''
''The land needs a new hero.''
''Unfortunately, that hero is you.'' }}
'''''Dungeons of Dredmor''''' is a [[Roguelike]] made by [http://www.gaslampgames.com/ Gaslamp Games]. It's described as something like ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Shiren the Wanderer]]'', with features aimed at novices and veterans alike, topped with [[Reference Overdosed|a truckload of references]].
The game can be bought on ''[http://store.steampowered.com/app/98800/ Steam]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131113013355/http://www.desura.com/games/dungeons-of-dredmor/ Desura]'' for a cheap, cheap price. An expansion pack, ''[http://store.steampowered.com/app/98820/ Realm of the Diggle Gods]'', was finally released on December 14, 2011, but not without facing some technical difficulties on the Windows version. Among other things, it offers five new floors, several new skill progressions, and ''tons'' of new enemies and items. Another free DLC pack, "You Have To Name The Expansion Pack", came out the 5th of June, 2012. It made a few community mods part of the default game, adding a lot of new rooms, new skills, and new items. The game also has Steam Workshop functionality, so making [[Game Mod|Game Mods]] is easy as pie.
Comes with an [[Reference Overdosed|obligatory]] [[Dungeons of Dredmor
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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: The game is usually beaten around the level 25-30 range. If there is a level cap, no-one has found it yet [[media:WTF_LEVEL_CAP_784.jpg|link]].
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: The appropriately named "Archaeology" skill set revolves around being one of these. Not surprisingly, all of the skills are [[Indiana Jones]] shout-outs, and choosing the skill even starts you with a fedora in your helmet slot.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: It certainly comes off as one for the [[Roguelike]] genre.
* [[AFGNCAAP]]: Averted. Both options have a very distinctive appearance, complete with [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].▼
* [[April Fools' Day]]: [http://www.gaslampgames.com/2012/04/01/dungeons-of-dredmor-ii-3d/ Dungeons of Dredmor II 3D]
* [[Attack Animal]]: This is the premise of the Golemancy skill tree, which allows you to summon Mustache Golems, giant robots, animated piles of kitchen cutlery, and immobile stone walls. That's not to say that other skills don't dip their toes into it, of course--Fungal Arts has slime and mushroom familiars for you to summon, Fleshsmithing lets you [[Necromancer|reanimate enemy corpses]] as Zombys to fight for you, Veganism and Psionics let you persuade enemies to fight for you, and Big Game Hunters can [[Summon Magic|summon packs of trained hunting diggles]].
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* [[Combinatorial Explosion]]: A literal case. [[Schmuck Bait|Try and see what happens]] if you put a Horadric Lutefisk Cube inside another Horadric Lutefisk Cube! Or '''inside itself'''! (Made possible thanks to a hilarious programming oversight)
** [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: You even get an achievement for creating this paradox!
* [[Crapsack World]]: Implied to be going on outside the dungeon; the Elves and Dwarves are dying out, after a war that used up most of the world's natural resources, big corporations push weapons onto the streets, the wildlife is dangerous and perverse, and universities offer degrees on going underground to most likely die.
* [[Crate Expectations]]: The dungeons are littered with breakable crates (as well as urns and pots and so forth) that can include items.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Although the image of your face next to the [[Life Meter]] gets progressively bloodier as you take damage, there are no gameplay ramifications to taking damage until your HP hits zero (at which point, of course, you die).
* [[Dagwood Sandwich]]: The Dire Sandwich. It even has a [[Badass Boast]] in its tooltip!
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* [[A Date
* [[Damage Over Time]]: Seen on many effects, including but not limited to Slimeburst Traps, Acid Burns, Curse of the Golden Ratio, Recursive Curse, and the special ability of the Golden Crossbow. There's also an even wider variety of [[Area of Effect]] spells that persist over several turns and deal constant damage to anything in range—these ones tend to be [[Herd-Hitting Attack|very effective for dispatching large groups of enemies]].
* [[Death Ray]]: The capstone skill in the Rogue Scientist tree.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: An update made just before ''Realm of the Diggle Gods'' went live added the possibility of playing as a red-haired heroine (With the obligatory [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]], of course). [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|Neither gender has an advantage over the other]].
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* [[Elemental Powers]]: Many of the usuals like fire ("conflagratory"), ice ("hyperborean"), electricity ("voltaic"), and poison ("toxic") are here. And then there's some lesser known ones, like "necromantic" (seems to be the game's "darkness/shadow" element), "putrefying" (An entire element just for zombies and other undead), and "righteous" (light/holy damage). And then there's some seriously weird damage types, like "asphyxiative" (damage type caused by strangling and/or choking something) and "existential" damage, which, according to the helpful tooltip, may or may not actually exist! (It does.)
* [[Empty Levels]]: Once you've maxed out your skills, you gain no stat gains from leveling up (making skill trees with more skill tiers preferable if you like [[Level Grinding]]). But more experience means more points, so gaining some empty levels is preferable if you aim to get a high score.
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Exponential Potential]]: Take a few different schools of magic, and before long you can have more spells and skills than will fit on your hot-keys.
* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Unarmed attacks are performed [[A Worldwide Punomenon|solely]] with the hero's feet.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Yours for the low, low price of maxing out the Perception skill tree. No, we don't know how that works, either.
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* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: Each skill tree is classified as a Warrior, Rogue, or Wizard skill.
* [[Final Death]]: An option if you so choose.
* [[Full-Moon Silhouette]]: The Werediggle Curse skill tree is represented with an icon of a werediggle silhouette standing on a hill in front of a full moon.
* [[Game Breaker]]: The final spell in the Golemancy path, Digging Ray; "Busts through walls and is basically game-breaking," as described in-universe.
* [[Game Mod]]: With the release of ''Realm of the Diggle Gods'', Gaslamp added mod compatibility. Fans got busy very quickly, and there are now a wide variety of fan-made skill trees, item packs, and more. The official forum for game mods is [http://community.gaslampgames.com/forums/mods.9/ here]. Some of the more notable ones include:
** Clockwork Knights: A skillset mod that gives several nifty abilities, bonuses to all crafting stats, as well as several new items. Notable for being the first mod to be officially endorsed by Gaslamp. It is one of the few mods that became an official part of Dungeons of Dredmor, in the second expansion pack.
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* [[Healing Potion]]: There's the standard Potion of Healing (restores 20 health), the Potion of Replenishment (restores 26 health ''and'' 30 mana), and the Potion of Lively Regeneration (restores 3 HP per turn for 12 turns).
* [[Herd-Hitting Attack]]: There are plenty of options; when you come up against a Monster Zoo, you'll want as many of these as you can get.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The Demonology tree starts out with spells that are about slaying demons. But by the end of it, you will ''be'' a demon. It's worth noting that the first three skills increase your righteous resistance. It's when you start playing [[Ars Goetia|Amateur Solomon]] by summoning demons to fight on your behalf that the righteous resistance disappears of a sudden...then ''plummets''. The descriptor for [[Doom: Repercussions of Evil|"No, You Are the Demons"]] even says "The abyss has not only gazed back, it's taken up residence on your couch".
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: The Killer Vegan skillpath refers to its powers as coming from, in part, "moral superiority". The penultimate skill is actually ''called'' "Aura of Self-Righteousness".
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: An entire [[Underground Monkey|set of enemies]] based on this.
* [[Horny Vikings]]: Lampshaded with the "Historically Inaccurate Viking Helmet", which can be crafted from two plastic ingots and a Rough Iron Hjalmir (much closer in appearance to the helmets vikings actually wore.)
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: [[Downplayed Trope|Lightly]]. Food restores health, and booze mana - but you ''don't'' instantly digest it. Rather, one point of HP/MP is restored per turn.
* [[Hyperactive Sprite]]: All monsters continually walk in place or move their appendages, even when standing still.
* [[I Fought the Law
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Quite a few scattered around the game, and among the achievements too. Because we all know that Two Krongs Don't Make A Right.
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]:
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* [[Money Spider]]: Most monsters drop zorkmids, for whatever reason.
* [[The Monolith]]: One of several shrines involved in sidequests.
* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie]]: The main character can be something like a [[Dual-Wielding]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampiric]], [[Kill It
* [[No Name Given]]: To the second expansion pack. After all, [[Exactly What It Says
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* [[Obvious Beta]]: Joked about.
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* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]: With the making of a wiki came crafting recipe spoilers. Obviously, this didn't mix well with the ability to craft things without having to know the recipe in-game, so now you have to search bookcases for secret recipes before you can craft them.
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: Inconsequentia, Goddess of Pointless Sidequests. Oh, and the Lutefisk God (who is the God of Lutefisk).
* [[Oh Crap]] / [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The player's reaction upon finding his/her first Monster Zoo!
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* [[Orcus
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] / [[Your Vampires Suck]]: There's an entire skill tree based on being a vampire. The image of one of the skills? The player [[Twilight (
* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: Were[[Mascot Mook|diggles]]!
* [[Palette Swap]]: Used to create [[Underground Monkey|Underground Monkeys]].
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* [[Red Headed Heroine]]: The female player character.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with the achievement "[[Nethack|Suddenly the Dungeon Collapses]]", given the first time your game crashes.
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* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Smashing statues of Lord Dredmor gives you bonus XP. A [[Mortal Kombat]] style voice over even shouts '''"HEROIC VANDALISM"'''.
* [[Schizophrenic Difficulty]]: Certain monsters on each floor will be much stronger than others, especially once your individual build (in particular, resistances) is factored in. It's taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the {{spoiler|Mysterious Portal}} levels, where you'll see Deep Fish Paladins right alongside ordinary Diggles.
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* [[Secret Level]]: Occasionally, one can find a mysterious portal square, marked a light blue. If you step on it, {{spoiler|you will be transported to a small, mysterious floor,}} where monsters of all strengths can be found.
* [[Serious Business]]: The tooltip for Aethereal damage.
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: One room contains a lever and a note saying "Mass pitting mechanism above." Go ahead, pull the lever.
* [[Shoplift and Die]]: Brax the demonic shopkeeper not only is a heavy hitter, but will summon piles of demons to help him if you ever dare to steal.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Dungeons of Dredmor
* [[Sidequest]]: Inconsequentia, The [[Odd Job Gods|Goddess of Pointless Sidequests]], will give you one whenever you find her statue.
* [[Spell Blade]]: Various buffs can enchant your weapons to deal all sorts of extra damage.
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* [[Status Buff]]: Oh, all sorts. There are buffs that wear off after a number of turns, buffs that require mana upkeep to keep going, buffs that wear off after a set number of attacks, buffs that wear off after taking a set number of hits, and even permanent buffs, which you can get by praying at a diggle god statue and won't wear off until you pray at a different diggle god statue.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: [[And Then John Was a Zombie|No, You Are The Demons]], from the Demonologist skill.
* [[Taking You
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|Bolts of Mass Destruction]] are probably the most powerful weapon in the game, and are quite rare (if you find three by the time you reach dungeon level 10, you're very lucky; they are also hard to craft due to fiery wands being quite rare themselves). You can very easily "Not worth using it yet" yourself to death when you have one in your inventory. Most players save them for the Monster Zoos or Lord Dredmor.
* [[Underground Monkey]]: Used with a few creatures, but most notably the [[Mascot Mook|diggles]]: there are regular Diggles, Sickly Diggles, Enraged Diggles, Diggle Commandos, Hungry Diggles, Arch Diggles, Thirsty Diggles, and Muscle Diggles, all with different stats and abilities (and all [[Palette Swap|Palette Swaps]] of one another, with the exception of the overly-muscular Muscle Diggle).
* [[Unmoving
* [[Vendor Trash]]: If you do not have the relevant craft (Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Wand Lore, or Tinkering) or skill set (e.g., booze, etc. when you don't have a mana-using ability, or food when you're a Vampire, or meat/eggs/cheese/Dire Sandwiches when you're a Killer Vegan), many items are effectively Vendor Trash and can/should be sold without worry (or used in a Horadric Lutefisk Cube).
* [[Visible Invisibility]]: Invisible characters are seen as an outline.
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* [[You Shouldn't Know This Already]]: See [[Obvious Rule Patch]] above.
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