Greater Hell-Beast

[xxitheworld]

Am I the only one who thinks greater hell-beast is just annoyance and it should be removed?

I just got an early mage killed running away from it (There was an insect swarm besides and it hit me repeatedly while I was holding the arrow)

[Big Al]

I believe that there's an option for "no silly monsters" or something like that that will get rid of them.

Also, that's why you shouldn't hold down keys repeatedly.

[Anne]

Yup, Big Al's right. At least in Zangband, there is. Not sure if he exists in any other variants. I left my option on, but whenever I saw him on the level, I headed to another one. He really is a pain in the patoot.

[xxitheworld]

Actually, I like monsters like goomba and stuff like that, and I wouldn't want to get rid of em (by de-activating joke monsters), it really is just greater hell-beast that I hate

[will_asher]

you can also go into the lib/edit directory and go into the monster.txt file and find the entry for greater hell beast and either remove it or make it easy to kill.
At least you should be able to do that, not sure if it's still that simple for Zangband.
(note: removing it might break or make some messiness in your old savefiles, so it might be better to turn it into another monster of your invention.)