Inspired by Paper Mario TTYD's "Glitchless" category, I had the idea of creating a category that excludes the fire trick and checkpoint skips, purely in the name of variety and the possibility of a Truly Deathless speedrun of King Kong. I put the category up on the misc board along with the rules for which techniques are allowed and disallowed so that anyone who would like to attempt that version of the run before I do may do so. If it garners enough interest I'll consider moving it to the main board.
i think fire skip should be banned but death skips should still be allowed due to the fact that dying in the particular place isn't an overly hard skill to learn and something new runners can figure out/pick up pretty quick with that said you could make a glitchless category and maybe even a deathless (no player or NPC deaths) one as well
I do like your thinking, however the specific reason why I went with no skips over glitchless or deathless is that fire skips and checkpoint skips are the two "big glitches" that affect the way the run is performed, and I think disallowing both as a pair makes the most sense.
Glitchless would beg the question, "well, what is a glitch?" and then it'd be a run that disallows almost everything that would be allowed in No Skips, such as grabbing levers without baiting spiders and even making the Rapids V-Rex fall through the floor. They affect the run negligibly but truly, as they are things that are unintended by the developers, but I felt them arbitrary to disallow since they aren't really "skips" that make any kind of dent. And deathless would just be any% without intentional deaths in Necropolis, Scorpions, The Wall, On Kong's Tracks, Swamps, and To Save Ann, but with fire skips being allowed, so the run ultimately wouldn't be all that different from any%. Plus, disallowing death skips brings back some consistency that's lost in any%, particularly in Scorpions and Swamps.
All of that being said, I am not against the idea of glitchless or deathless being added to the categories if you or someone else expressed interest in and started running them, but in my opinion No Skips the way I've laid it out would be more interesting to lower my time in. I mainly made it as something to do after I get a time in any% that I'm happy with. 🙃
BTW props to you on your swift improvement! I look forward to what you'll accomplish in this game 😁
