Eating a charged ray wand gives you the ability to breathe or shoot that kind of ray for a few turns. The UI for this would be either zapping “-“ or using #monster since no form that can eat wands currently has a defined #monster command.

Implement “special abilities” for each role that behave like (or simply are) techniques, but which would probably use the #monster command. These include:

• Monks’ ability continuously doubles their martial arts damage (i.e. x2, x4, etc) for as long as they keep landing hits within one action. Missing or declining to attack breaks this effect.
• Wizards can extract magic from the air, which drains Pw from enemies and gives it to the hero.
• Tourists can throw a party, which pacifies everyone within some range until someone takes damage.
• Barbarians can buff their attack, perhaps by giving any weapon a Cleaver-like arc (though they often get Cleaver anyway).
• Archeologists can detect enchanted treasure (not just all objects) on the level.
• Priests don’t get a new ability because they already have one: turn undead.
• Valkyries can freeze an area near them, freezing water into ice and dealing cold damage to monsters that is higher the closer they are to the hero.
• Samurai can swap places with a hostile monster, dealing some damage and stunning them in the process.
• Cavemen can get a big boost to stone throwing/slinging range and damage, or can get some sort of “primal rage” that boosts speed and doubles all damage.
• Knights can give their steed a free attack after each hit they land on something (which can extend to dragon breathing if they are riding a dragon).

The other half of this idea is to give other unique abilities to each demon boss, but these aren’t specified.

Interestingly, using the #monster command implies that you can only use these abilities when in your normal non-polymorphed form.

You can use #monster while riding a steed with a breath weapon to make it use its breath weapon. You get prompted for the direction.

Using #monster when polymorphed into a demon allows you to call for hell-p from other demons directly, without needing to hit an enemy in melee. This uses up some Pw. It may not work 100% of the time, but will cost Pw regardless of whether or not it works. Another possible restriction is that you need to be next to a known enemy for it to work.

If polymorphed into a voluntarily exploding monster (e.g. a sphere or light), the player can #monster to explode without actually attacking anything. (You can already do this by forcefighting thin air, so this would just add an additional way to do it and a prompt when you polyself.)

Using #monster while polymorphed into a queen bee makes you secrete a lump of royal jelly. For balance, this should cost a lot more nutrition than the royal jelly contains, or have some other limiting method so you can’t use an indefinite food source to produce indefinite royal jelly.

The scroll and spellbook of web allow you to fire a web projectile (which would work similarly to a venom projectile, probably also being in VENOM_CLASS) or beam in a direction. If it hits a wall, it creates a web on the last non-wall space; if it hits a monster it creates a web on the monster’s space and immediately entangles it. If it goes far enough without hitting anything, it creates a web at the end of its range.

Giant spiders should possibly also be able to shoot a web like this, and if so the player should be able to do it via #monster when polymorphed into one.

When polyselfed to foocubi of the appropriate gender, #monstering will seduce (i.e. de-robe) @ monsters.