All ideas with tinklebear as a contributor

#4800

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vanilla

Armor that becomes cursed should have its enchantment effectively reversed; e.g. a piece of armor will still be +3 but it will make armor class worse by 3 points instead of better. If the armor is negatively enchanted, it still makes armor class worse by that amount.

Leprechaun race: gets unlimited gold-stealing attacks that allow you to teleport each time you steal gold from a monster’s inventory or beneath their feet, which allows you to set up teleportations in advance by luring a monster onto a pile of gold pieces. However, it has weak attribute maximums.

#4358

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vanilla

If you enter a room containing open pits of lava, print a message “It is hot in here.” If hallucinating, follow this up with “…but it’s a dry heat!”

A monster (imagined exclusively as a pet) that acts like your shadow in lit places, always being right next to you and possibly dying if it can’t be next to you, but if you’re in a dark area it is free to wander off.

#3364

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vanilla

Elves can read the runes on any elvish weapons (and probably also the runed wand). This doesn’t have to say anything important, it could just describe the item.

#3230

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vanilla

Nazgul can innately see invisible.