"Bad ideas" from #sporkhack
- A spork named Houchou. When you throw it at a monster and it hits, you receive a message "The spork named Houchou bounces off the monster's (body_part). What did you expect, anyway?"
- Polymorphing an artifact gives you a different artifact
- Cursed scrolls of mail might have a virus in them, causing you to become "deathly sick"
- (blank) gnomes. this includes but is not limited to armor gnomes, underpants gnomes, and porn gnomes
- Rewrite nethack in PASCAL
- Falling artifact traps
- Mimic race
- Player dismemberment due to HP loss
- Robot Terminator zombies with lightsabers
- Add more puke
- Wielding a forked wand and walking near water will produce YAFM: "The wand twitches!"
- Partial disintegration rules should include hand-loss from exploding/imploding bags
- Excessively detailed death messages
- Oompa-loompas
- Bunnies and great big iron cauldrons
- NPC orcs should have a 50% chance, upon wielding a non-orcish bladed weapon, of being confused about which end is sharp.
- "Cloak of many pockets", AC depends on weight and material of the items in the pockets, which can be accessed only when worn.
- Engraving Owlbreath should anger Elbereth, with a small chance of her missing you and zotting any monsters around you; elves should be smart enough to flee from an engraving of Owlbreath
- Nekomancer class, centered around the use of felines; begins with "spellbook of create harbl"; pantheon is Ceiling Cat (lawful), Lime Cat (neutral), and Longcat (Chaotic)
- rocket launchers and quad damage
- Lloyd's Beacon
- "You see here a scroll labeled HASTUR HASTUR HASTUR."
- black DSM --> passive disintegration
- 1/100 chance, upon hitting a monster with a war hammer, that it is confused, with the message "Stop! Hammer time!"
- A new monster: A black hole. It's a black "v" which sucks monsters and items towards it
- A new monster: A white hole. It's the same thing, but with lower CHA, plus it can't jump or rap
- (W)ear a blank scroll to make it into a three-cornered hat, which adds d5-3 (random from -2 to +2) to your CHA for all effects based on your CHA (like conflict)
- "half of a $monster corpse" object, byproduct of Tsurugi action. "You see here 2 halves of a shopkeeper." Also heads and bodies for Vorpy.
- potion of wow wow sauce
- mistletoe, which allows you to charm foocubi and nymphs
- festivus poles
- New monster/item: Roomba
- Upper-half-of-the-room cleaning robot
- New tin food types: salted and mashed food
- Change the "Satiated" indicator on the status line to "Must Poop!"
- badgers and mushrooms
- protection monkey
- Pokeballs.
- Have "detect foot" make funnier messages when near or polymorphed into a centipede.
- A "Dance Dance Revolution" level.
- New monster: domo-kun