Monster with shafting spell?

[xentronium]

What if there was a monster with a 'banish-lite' ability, that shafted you when it beat your MR. Would this be a good enemy?

[mps]

Not quite as good as an enemy that hits you with 5 corrosion attacks when in line of sight, for an expectation value of approximately -13 AC, -7 slay with rCorr, higher without, but I think you have the right idea.

[jejorda2]

Can it also follow you down the shaft and cast deconstruction (or some other loud spell) at you when it gets there?

[Hirsch I]

it should use a big ass hammer.

[Berder]

it should use a big ass hammer.

A good idea. If it's using a hammer then it should not check MR, it should just be a flat chance after a non-zero-damage hit.

[xentronium]

it should use a big ass hammer.

Dark maul should do this...

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You smash a giant hole in the floor! The yak falls through.

[Sprucery]

We already have curse toes, so this monster could be a huge stomping foot.

[reaver]

I have considered this as a replacement for shaft traps. (I think this was originally minmay/duvessa's idea).

(Except possibly without the MR check, just the idea of "monster with a ranged, line of fire shafting spell").

[Hirsch I]

We already have curse toes, so this monster could be a huge stomping foot.

or we could put the curse toes on a basket with the death cobs and send them to the mountain dwarves.

[xentronium]

Not quite as good as an enemy that hits you with 5 corrosion attacks when in line of sight, for an expectation value of approximately -13 AC, -7 slay with rCorr, higher without, but I think you have the right idea.

I thought you were joking, but I just ran into an entropy weaver and almost died.

[duvessa]

I have considered this as a replacement for shaft traps. (I think this was originally minmay/duvessa's idea).

Replacing shaft traps with it wasn't really my idea. Replacing banishment with it was though.

[xentronium]

I like that shaft traps act as one-use escape hatches. They're good for skipping floors in hell and lair.