I finished a damageless run during this magical month of Karnovember, and thought I'd see if there's any interest in creating a new category.

My feelings will not be hurt if the answer is no :) It was fun, not drastically different from Any% but need to be a little more careful in some spots. I'll keep working on this a bit more.

That's exactly my feeling as well. It's not drastically different form any%, actually it would need just some small adjustments on level 1,2,6,7, 8 and 9, where most of them aren't even harder, but just a little of a slowdown. I think stage 7 would be the biggest alteration and challenge in it, but besides that, as said, I'm not certain, since it's just too similar run to Any%. Anyway, I'm not 100% opposite to it too, depends what other runners think of it. Definitely interesting category would be low%, if someone was brave enough. That would be completely different speedrun and much more challenging.

yeah I also think Low% would be neat. it seems like only required items are the ladder in level 7 and wings in level 8, correct?

Yup. 1 Ladder in stage 7 and 3 pairs of Wings in stage 8.

Also I agree with Hirexen that damageless probably shouldn't be it's own category, for the same reasons he stated.

Cool, yeah all good with me. I think I will try some Low% this month, I'll let you guys know how it goes XD