> [...] Someone told me that a DCSS deverloper motto is "when it doubt, don't do it like Nethack", which is a pity, because they could learn from Nethack and ta

> [...] Someone told me that a DCSS deverloper motto is "when it doubt, don't do it like Nethack", which is a pity, because they could learn from Nethack and take some of the things it does best and improve on them, instead of stubbornly refusing to be like Nethack. [...] Many of the DCSS devs are former NetHack players, at least one is a former NetHack fork developer, so they know NetHack well. Don't think that they dismiss features just because NetHack shares them. The quote says "when in doubt" so it's just one aspect that gets taken into consideration when adding or changing the game. Although if you read the design document of DCSS, you'll see that they won't include some of the crazy things you mentioned because it goes against their vision of the game in the first place (I disagree with the god relationship though, for some classes it's much more involved in DCSS than NetHack).