Bag of Tricks Enhancement Patch v1.3

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This patch changes the behavior of the Bag of Tricks to something a little more interesting than a wand of create monster in bag form. Save/bones file compatibility is not affected.
As always, thanks to all the folks of rec.games.roguelike.nethack who gave ideas and suggestions.

Details

When you apply a bag of tricks a charge is used and one of the following effects occurs:
d20 Effect
1-2 An item falls out of the bag1
3 The bag wriggles away from you
4 You are paralyzed for 1d4 turns ("Something tries to pull you into the bag!")
5 Stinking cloud, centered at the bag
6 Hallucination for 1d35+10 turns ("The bag exhales a puff of spores.")
7 Scare monster effect ("The bag yells "Boo!")2
8 The bag bites you for 1d10 points of damage
9 The bag sprouts a tongue and flicks your weapon to the floor
10-20 Monsters are created

1 The item will be randomly generated if the bag has not been recharged and is not cursed, otherwise it will be an iron chain.
2 If the bag is cursed or you fail a save vs wisdom, you are paralyzed for 1d3 turns. If the bag is blessed or you make your save, there is no effect on you.

When the bag is depleted of charges, it can be used to store items.

Looting the bag will get you bitten (as in Vanilla) unless it has no charges, in which case the behavior is the same as looting a normal container.

If you recharge the bag while items are in it, they get devoured. ("You hear loud crunching sounds from the bag.")

Side effects of existing code:

  • The same things that destroy a bag of holding will also destroy a bag of tricks.
  • A cursed bag of tricks will devour items, just like a cursed bag of holding.

    • In order to partially compensate for lower monster generation, a bag of tricks will be generated with d30 charges instead of d20.

    Version Information

    Changes in v1.1
    Updated to 3.4.2 code base.

    Changes in v1.2
    Updated to 3.4.3 code base.

    Changes in v1.3
    Changed effect #6 from fiery explosion to hallucination. I decided that an equipment damaging effect was too great a deterrent on use. Thanks to Jonathan Shor for the idea.