Ideas

Would the wand of fetching work on monsters?

You zap the wand of fetching.
Ur-Khan the orc marshall flies towards you!
You panic!

Haha, that's the best idea I've heard in a while. Nice on Erno

Have a kiwi

I started thinking about the use for such an item... Should the items fly straight towards you, or do they turn in corners? That'd make them actually useful in other ways as another means of setting off traps. Here's something that might happen:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X..@...k....m..
X.XXXXXXXXXXXXX

X: Wall
.: empty space
@: player
k: kobolt
m: BIG mine, armed and dangerous

You summon the activated big mine!
The kobolt is hit by the big mine! The mine explodes! The kobolt is hit by the explosion! The kobolt panics! The kobolts left arm is severed! The kobolts right arm is severed! The kobolts left leg is severed! The kobolts groin is severed! The kobolt is severed! The kobolt dies with the sound 'BLLAAARGHFNARF'!
You are hit by the explosion! Nothing happens!

Ahaha, very nice. Should be kinda rare though, if it's that useful and powerful.

If you get to choose what you fetch then it should be a scroll. if you zap it at what you want to fetch then it should be a wand. As a scroll it could be a way to steal things from shops or cathedral : you fetch the amulet of esp (there are always some in the treasury)

Alright I have a very lame idea but I think it would be a rather funny joke

There could be an item called "Chicken Soup" that heals you and cures poison. (but has no chance to regrow bodyparts)

Maybe, maybe not. For the soup you could add a possibility that the chicken is raw, contracting salmonella.

Here is something...

I found that when you equip humanoid allies with Shields they tend to replace it with ANYTHING such as daggers.

Can you set it so that they only replace Shields you give them with only better shields?

No, but you can tell them not to change their equipment.

I got another one... for future Ivan games

Can the amulet of life saving also be wished for by typing amulet of lifesaving?

Note this isn't asking if it is possible... it is asking if it should be

Why not? I suppose you can add the line
Alias = { 2, "AoLS", "amulet of lifesaving"; }
and you wil get it if you wish for "AoLS" or "amulet of lifesaving".

Well it just makes it easier on players who could be pulling their hair out trying to make the amulet appear (With many barriers such as case-sensativity)

A magic-null unique. This entity is completely resistant to all types of magical enchantment and/or harm, which is to say that neither god powers (like Scabies' leprosy or Dulcis' charm effects), taming (or harden/change material scrolls for the corpse), musical instruments, artifact weapon powers, rings, resistance/stat boosting equipment, nor even simple power enchantments apply when figuring out how badly he is hurt by a weapon or how well his equipment protects him from harm. In other words, your Vermis will not teleport him, your Ne'erc will not drain him, and your +7 whip of thievery will only be as effective as an unenchanted whip of the same material is. You *can* befriend him, but only on first meeting him and you must not have any enchanted equipment, wands, magical instruments (lamps included), or scrolls of any kind on your person (picking up and using anything in the list after that will be seen as a hostile action and he will attack you for it). This goes both ways, as a leather armor of great health +1 will not, for example, grant him a boost to his endurance nor even protect him any better than a normal suit of leather armor (not that he'd ever willingly pick such an object up), and he will also not benefit from a friendly mystic light frog as much as you will.

EDIT: Far as the dwarven grenades are concerned... the one with concentrated magic (and any clouds that magic mushies make) won't do anything to him, but he will take the full hit from skunk smell and mustard gas. Also, if it's not clear, SoCM/HM'ed items will act as if they always were the material they were changed to (for the purposes of figuring out how much damage he takes).

Also, gonna repost an older idea that got eaten by the server scramble a month or two ago: the doom siren. Her song induces all who hear it to suicidal acts, which translates to drinking acid, poison, breaking/zapping wands at yourself, and other such things which eventually degrades to beating yourself up with your current weapon (only once, but it will still likely hurt).

It would be interesting if he had the ability to destroy indestructable objects as well

This was an idea that I had a long time ago, back before attnam.com got the awesomely spiffy facelift (not before attnam.com, though), and one which was unfortunately lost in a semi-crash that resulted in a need to rollback to a time before the one where I'd posted it. However I now have been reminded of it due to thinking of monsters I'd like to see in IVAN, so I present... the doom siren!

Doom sirens sing songs of such intense despair that anyone or anything hearing them is immediately compelled to commit suicide. Otherwise (more) intelligent monsters will quaff sulphuric acid, kamikaze dwarves will set their packs alight, and those without a faster means of killing themselves (asploding wands, traps, etc.) will make do with the most lethal object they have on hand (usually their weapons), until of course the song's effects wear off (which is fortunately only one turn, though for many that will still have been too long). The player, not being immune to this, will have to either acquire some means of stopping up their ears, or will have to find a way to kill the sirens without committing suicide in the process.

Reading the Wand Of Fetching post, you should be able to throw armed mines, detonating them with a chance roll if they hit something on the correct angle. Also, monsters could be able to throw stuff around, should cause some funny encounters.

Haha, yeah, monsters should definitely be able to throw stuff at you.

I've always thought kobolds should throw spears.
And there could be dwarven grenadiers.
Oh, and POLTERGEISTS!

A poltergeist room disturbing the poltergeist when you are in the middle of the room would be awesome. You guys are giving me my spirits back for restarting my project.

Yes... a room full of dwarven grenades, heavy chests and whips

Would it be possible to fetch creatures? And combinations? And items in someone's inventory?

What do you want to fetch?
- Backpack full of gunpowder
You see a backpack full of gunpowder with a veteran kamikaze dwarf of valpurus fly towards you.
You see a backpack full of gunpowder with a veteran kamikaze dwarf of valpurus fly towards you.
You see a backpack full of gunpowder with a veteran kamikaze dwarf of valpurus fly towards you.

Or

What do you want to fetch?
- Bear trap
You see a bear trap with a goblin in it fly towards you.
The bear trap hits you in the groin.
The goblin critically hits you in the groin.
You die.

Or


What do you want to fetch?
- Mithril longsword
You see a mithril longsword with an angel of Valpurus holding on to it fly towards you.
The angel of Valpurus seems hostile.

Items in inventory should be fetchable without them noticing it (as they're in their backpack), with a chance roll they notice it and become pissed at you for stealing.

*resurrects the thread*

Here's an item idea: the Minus sword - not nearly as damaging as the other artifact weapons, but it has a rather good chance of weakening one of the physical stats (AStr, LStr, Dex, Agi) of the monster fought by 1d3 points.

Perhaps with a more flashy name?
Like... uh... Blade of Woe? Sapping blade?

Also I think we need more items referencing other things. And LIVAN's "tip sword of penetration" should be called Estoc IMO.
More artifact armor? If not more types of armor. Like footwear being boots, sandals, shin guards etc. And body armor being robes, plate, chain, fabric.

Minus sword references Star Ocean: The Second Story.