Re: Call for mixed blessing-style jewellery and consumables

> Anyway, I would like to remove entirely-bad stuff from the object list
> and instead have some mixed-blessing items that might plausibly be used.
>   This especially applies when it comes to rings and amulets.

A few suggestions:
Remove scrolls of aggravate monster.  Replace them with scrolls of
envy, which aggravate monsters and also generate a "good" or "great"
item (either way, whatever makes it worth using but not too good)
somewhere random on the level.

Potions of slowness could be renamed potions of iron-skin, giving
their usual slowing and a large AC boost.  They'd still be pretty bad,
but not totally useless.

I like the idea of potions of blindness also giving tem****ary ESP.
I'd untie it from the blindness effect so that you stll get temp ESP
if you have rblind, though.

I also like the idea of cursed items like the ring of tele****tation
uncursing over time.  Connecting that to leveling up or to gaining a
certain amount of experience would prevent people from stair s***ming
to get rid of curses.  This would also make trying unidentified
weapons and armors much less of a hassle, since they wouldn't require
a trip back to town to remove.

An alternative way to make tele****tation rings interesting would be to
give them a very small amount of speed.  At lower levels, I'd be very
tempted to wear a +2 speed ring that would tele****t me randomly.  For
extra evil, tie the frequency of the tele****t activation to the pval
of the ring, so the more speed you get, the more often you get kicked
into a pack of acid hounds.

As far as breaking save files, would it be possible to write something
that would let me retain my macros and any other preferences that
don't deal with save-file-breaking-changes?  If not, it's not a huge
deal, but it would be nice.

Mike