User:Hhyloc/YANI

This is where I put my various YANIs, mostly for UnNetHack as vanilla is basically dead.

New spells

The spells I’m suggest here are additional spells for “less-developed” magic school, namely Matter, Escape and such.

1.Clerical

Rat form (level 5 ray spell)

Turn the monster hit by this spell into a rat with it’s attack capacity of a rat BUT with its original hitpoint remain intact, higher skill level increase the spell’s duration. Basically, this spell turn a dangerous monster into a less dangerous one but the hitpoint of that monster remains the same so you can’t one-shot it. Monster’s with magic resistance can resist this or make the duration shorter so I hope this spell will not become overpowered.

2.Enchantment

Vulnerability (level 5 beam spell)

Reduce monsters’ MR by a certain amount (not permanent), the exact amount and duration depends on skill of course. This spell a method to by-pass high MR monster without resorting drain level, I know that this spell can become overpowered so that’s why it’s a level 5 spell. This spell also work nicely in tandem with cancellation spell. Enchantment school is missing high-level spells so I think this can be a fitting addition.

3.Escape

Stealth (level 1 non-directional spell)

Give the player the Stealth extrinsic for a short duration Stealth is not a very useful extrinsic compare to invisibility or speed and half the roles will get it as intrinsic at some point when they level up. That why it’s a level 1 spell – not powerful but easy to cast, I can see that this spell will be useful to low-level wizards to avoid tough sleeping monsters. Also, casting this spell at higher skill levels (maybe Skilled and Expert)? will give you muffed movement (nullifies squeaky board trap and fumble boots’ effect)

4.Matter

Grease stream (level 4 beam spell)

Shoot a beam of grease at monster and soak them, make monster with weapon attack have the slippery fingers effect – occasionally drop their weapon (if any) Cast this spell at your self will coat any weapon you’re carrying, the most outward armor you’re wearing (most likely a cloak) and give you slippery fingers as a downside. I think this level 4 spell will be useful and interesting as substitute for can of grease with even more applications.

5.Attack

Stones Rain (level 3 distant spell)

Rain down stones (1d3) upon your target, the exact number of stone depends on the caster’s skill, I haven’t decided the damage yet but it should be somewhere between spellbook of magic missile and fireball. The spell will leave a pile of rock at the target’s feet. A medium-level, distant spell to complement the usually directional Attack spells