Spined devil

& spined devil
Difficulty	11
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, Claw 1d4

& spined devil
Difficulty	11
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, Claw 1d4
Base level	5
Base experience	105
Speed	18
Base AC	1
Base MR	45
Alignment	7 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	death magic, fire, poison, level drain
Resistances conveyed	None
A spined devil: can fly. has a thick hide. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is a demon. is normally generated hostile. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. appears only in Gehennom. normally appears in large groups. never leaves a corpse. requires a +1 weapon to hit. may turn against you when tame.
Reference	SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line4031

The spined devil is a major demon added in SLASH'EM. It is fast, but relatively weak.

Strategy

Few players will find these a threat: they are relatively fast, but do incredibly poor damage for a monster that only appears in Gehennom, with their two attacks only doing 10 points of physical base damage at most.

Early doppelgangers may find this a useful polymorph form, however; they can start turning into spined devils with 60% success rate at experience level 3. While lacking any special sort of attacks, the form is fast and inediate, more than sufficient for use in the early game.