User:Red kangaroo/YANIs/Items

This is a list of ideas I had for new items, or a way to rework and hopefully improve items existing either in vanilla or one of the variants. I'd also like for a new effects to be added to cursed items, to make preventing your equipment from getting cursed more than an annoyance and swap prevention.

Amulets

amulet of data storage

• found on the Computer Level
• non-cursed grants amnesia resistance
• blessed greatly slows the loss of spell knowledge
• cursed increases the loss of spell knowledge ten times

Rings

I propose several new rings, some of which have special effects when #rubbed. This is both because I feel the #rub command is greatly underused and because it creates an interesting opportunity for new ring effects.

ring of doom

• always generated uncursed, but curses itself upon donning
• sets luck to -13 until removed

ring of djinni summoning

• can be #rubbed for a variety of effects, destroying the ring
  • blessed results in a prompt to select either non-magical wish or a pet djinni
  • uncursed creates a peaceful djinni
  • cursed always results in a hostile djinni

ring of elements

• replaces rings or cold, fire and shock resistance
• grants cold, fire and shock resistance
• cursed could suppress any form of cold, fire and shock resistance

I think these three rings are vastly underused, and it's mostly because how easy are these resistances acquired intrinsically. Combining them into a single ring should make it a more viable and desirable item, plus I really like the idea or corpse-gained intrinsics timing out as in dNetHack to make your rings even more important.

ring of light

• worn grants light radius of 2 uncursed or 3 blessed
• cursed has no effect

ring of teleportation

• can be #rubbed from inventory to teleport
• always teleports uncontrollably (worn or rubbed) if cursed

ring of timely backup

• found on the Computer Level
• chargeable
• can be #rubbed to summon a monster to back the player up, decreasing its enchantment by 1
• blessed summons mostly tame or peaceful monsters, uncursed generally peaceful and cursed always hostile
• higher enchantment (either positive or negative) results in more powerful monsters, plus positive enchantment increases the chances of tame monster while negative increases the chances of hostile one
  • enchantment around +0 mostly results in weak monsters
  • blessed but negatively enchanted ring may create both tame and hostile creatures

Scrolls

scroll of root password detection

• found on the Computer Level
• creates 1d5/1d3/1 scroll labeled XYZZY according to BUC
• confused non-cursed only prints YAFM "The root password is ’xyzzy‘." with no further effect
• confused cursed prints "Data corruption warning, activating safety protocols." and levelports

Wands

wand of debugging

• found on the Computer Level
• non-directional, cannot be recharged or wished for
• engraving prints "Several bugs appear on the floor." but has no other effect, the same message could be added to the wand of create monster
• when zapped prints "The world around you suddenly seem to freeze and shudder." and the whole current floor is generated anew
  • the player and all uniques are placed randomly on the new floor, all other monsters or loose items are deleted
  • on special floors only paralyses the player through free action