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 an alpha stage) and trying it out at the moment is discouraged unless you are feeling adventurous.