A fair way to nerf Zephyr Hounds?

[fizzix]

You guys are playing with fire here. It's important to remember that you need to be a bit of a sadist to be a *band maintainer - and you've just exposed your weak spot in a big way. So, for example, takkaria could include Oangband's Hounds of Tindalos, which pass through walls and breathe time, disenchantment and nether.

Not that I would suggest such a thing

you mean, 2 out of 3 times they don't breathe time?

sign me up.

[Magnate]

And to chime in on the topic: I hate hounds. They are ridiculously everpresent in every single dungeon level below a certain point. Just annoying. I'd rather they were more rare.

Certainly sir. Would you like the standard edited version of monster.txt which I use for playing with 3.1.1, or the version for 3.1.2, or a diff file that you can apply against future versions (probably)? In fact I might write a little hound-rarity-tweaker, which lets you choose how rare you want each type of hound ...