History VideoGame / DungeonCrawl

** Zombies and skeletons are vulnerable to this, since they can't regenerate; you can hit them a bunch of times, escape, heal up, hit them some more until they die. This doesn't work on most other enemies because they heal over time.
** Also present with deep dwarves. Even with their innate damage-reducing ability, it can still fall under BlessedWithSuck for player characters.

* HorseArcher: A variant: Centaurs (both player characters and the monstrous ones you fight) are quite good with bows. So, you essentially have archers who are part horse.

* HumanSacrifice: Several temples dedicated to evil gods feature these. And, of course, the gods who like corpse sacrifices aren't averse to human corpses.

** Some shops have pun-based names. For example, Mail-Order Catalogue sells mail armor, like chain mail and ring mail, and while Overcharged Wands sells wands that have more charges than usual but are also way more expensive.

* PunnyName: The Airstrike spell literally causes the air around a creature to come alive and physically strike them.

* MedievalUniversalLiteracy: All characters are capable of memorizing spells from spellbooks, studying manuals, and reading scrolls. Certain in-game situations (stat zero; a mutation; insufficient spell levels; silence) can interfere with the ability to read or memorize, but this is generally temporary and everyone is literate by default.

* InfiniteStockForSale: Averted: every shop has a limited number of items, usually 6-8, in lettered slots. Every slot holds just one item (or a set that must be bought all at once), and once an item is bought it's gone forever, so if you should run into a food shop, it's plausible it holds merely eight bread rations and will never, ever restock. Combined with the rarity of nonperishable food outside shops and a pretty harsh hunger system, this was intentionally done to [[AntiGrinding discourage players from boring level grind strategies]].

** In old versions, some the items you found could be cursed (ie. you can't remove them), yet were still actually beneficial or provided a positive effect.

*** [[HairTriggerTemper Berserkitis]], which causes you to randomly go berserk in combat, with all the usual benefits and drawbacks of doing so.

** Ru the Awakened is another god example, on the same lines as Ashenzari. Despite calling for some potentially gruesome sacrifices like [[AnArmAndALeg a hand]], [[EyeScream an eye]], or the capacity for love for cosmic power, Ru is apathetic and doesn't even care at all if you abandon it. Of course, you're not getting that hand back if you do...

* VaguenessIsComing: The game ominously warns you that "Zot will find you" if you stay in one place for too long... but it never actually explains what Zot is or what the consequence of Zot finding you would be. If you wait long enough to find out, [[spoiler:you simply die.]]
* VampiricDraining: The name of a level 3 spell which does exactly this. See the example for LifeDrain.

** Prior to 0.31, Ogre was one of the playable species. Ogres were {{Glass Cannon}}s due to their combination of massive strength and inability to wear many kinds of armor. They were capable of wielding the largest weapons in the game, and make surprisingly [[GeniusBruiser competent mages]] as well, with only slight penalties to learning and using magic.