FIQHack

A nethack variant based on NetHack4. Changes include, but is not limited to:

• Wands has been rebalanced
• Monsters now cast player spells instead of monster spells
• A greatly improved monster AI with regards to item use and spellcasting, slight improvements elsewhere as well
• Players can now be slowed and/or cancelled
• Monsters can now be displaced
• Sliming and petrification is now delayed instadeaths for monsters isntead of instant
• Monsters now wear rings
• Monsters benefit from extrinsics the same way as players do (for example, PYEC gives monsters slotless telepathy, and monsters can now be temporary very fast or from speed boots)
• Monsters can now eat corpses for intrinsics, jewelry (xorns/etc)
• Bones can be scarier -- the ghost now gets the same intrinsics as the late player, and each bones has a 25% of replacing the ghost with an alive player monster with the same inventory as the late player, the same spells and the same intrinsics/etc
• Bug fixes

Hosted on github

The variant is currently not in any stable form (it is pretty much in a prealpha stage) and trying it out at the moment is discouraged unless you are feeling adventurous.