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'''''SLASH'EM Extended''''' - primarily written as '''''Slash'EM Extended''''', and also known as "Sadistic Levels of Endless X-Citement" or '''SLEX''' for short<ref>[[Overly Long Gag|''Also'' technically known as]] [[Overly Long Title|Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|Extended]]</ref> - is a [[
Compared to ''SLASH'EM'', the aim of ''Slash'EM Extended''
# ''Nothing is off limits.'' If Amy overhears an idea she likes, she'll [[Throw It In]].
# '''''Nothing''' is off limits.'' No matter how unusual, unorthodox, or downright weird, if she wants to add it, she'll find a way.
# ''[[Difficulty Spike|Harder is better
# ''Unfair =/= unbalanced.'' Not every game will be 100% winnable; Amy is something of a stickler for preserving the more chancey elements of NetHack and considers SLEX players being screwed by the [[Random Number God]] fair play, since a similar element of risk already existed in the base game
# ''Unbalanced =/= unfair.'' On the other hand, she also does her best to make it so that the player has as many viable options as possible without one being overwhelmingly stronger than any of the others. Traps and monsters with the most dangerous and game-ruining qualities are ideally extremely rare until the late game
# ''You can never have enough fleecy bundles.'' [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|No, really.]] [[Author Appeal|Amy isn't shy about showing off her interests]], as players will quickly discover.
The end result is a variant that is... extremely weird and unique, and decidedly isn't for everyone as it can be justifiably off-putting in ''many'' ways—but ''Slash'EM Extended'' still displays a form of creativity that results in an experience not seen in many other variants of ''NetHack'', if not most [[roguelike]]s in general. Unfortunately, this tendency has worked against the game at times - in particular, the presence of minors as monsters (think ''[[Elona]]'') opened the door for [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|some very unfortunate interactions that we will spare you the details of]], and resulted in the removal of the game from public servers. The repository for Slash'EM Extended can still be found on the GitHub website, but access to the repo comes with an "objectionable content'' warning banner, and an account is required to view the content.
Some of the less-objectionable content has still influenced features in other variants of ''NetHack'': particular examples include a robust in-game monster lookup, which has since seen use in many variants, and the idea of various monster "templates" that can be applied to randomly generated monsters (which exists in SLEX as "egotypes"). ''[[SlashTHEM]]'' in particular is a variant that originally drew from ''Slash'EM Extended'' v75, and eventually diverged significantly in favor of becoming a more ''SLASH'EM''-based fork - it also retains and builds on many of the elements originating from early ''SLASH'EM'' and the variants ''Slash'EM Extended'' drew from, including ''[[NetHack: The Next Generation]]''.
The game has a [https://www.reddit.com/r/slashemextended/ subreddit] that can
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* [[Author Appeal]]: The variant author has many loves that she inserts into the game, but among her foremost ones are fleecy things and shoes, especially high heels. The latter's even a weapon you can use!
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The mould and ungenomould playable species are saddled with "polymorphitis", and cannot gain control over it in any way.
* [[Biblical Motifs]]: One of the many available artifacts is [[Suffer the Slings|The Sling of David]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: The Activistor starts with random intrinsics, which are usually good, but one of the possible intrinsics makes them grow hungry more quickly. This results in the early game becoming even harder, as food is usually scarce for starting characters.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Many, e.g. demon lords that can only be gated in by other demons. Arguably the most dangerous foe in the entire game is the Elder Priest of Moloch, who has plenty of attacks that can easily off an endgame-capable player character, but a player who manages to beat him gets [[Bragging Rights Award|a cool robe]].
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* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: In addition to what humans can usually eat, the Activistor can eat lithic and metallic objects.
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: Still present in some forms.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: Vlad the Impaler is an especially annoying example, spawning with scrolls that allow him to teleport to any random dungeon level. Have fun searching for up to 100 dungeon levels to get the MacGuffin he's holding. And if you do find him, chances are he's got [[This Is Gonna Suck|another one of those scrolls
* [[Groin Attack]]: Some monsters are capable of hitting you with this, and it can paralyze you even if you have free action!
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Not to completely-unplayable levels, but you'll develop a grudging respect for how committed the [[Random Number God]] can be to screwing you when it wants to. And if you play difficult roles like the Courier or Bleeder, the game can seem almost impossible.
* [[Helpful Mook]]: Sentient "trove" monsters are usually harmless, drop solid-quality items upon defeat, and their corpses can even provide useful resistances!
* [[Interface Screw]]: There's a set of "nasty" traps that can do this. Effects include, but are not limited to: making your display line invisible, preventing you from opening your inventory list, and causing everything to display in shades of grey.
* [[Invisible Monster]]: A far wider variety than before, and monsters can become "double" invisible, requiring multiple sources of 'see invisible' to uncover them.
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* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: The #kamehameha command lets you use the actual technique at the cost of some magical power.
* '''[[Loads and Loads of Races]] [[Loads and Loads of Characters|and Roles]]''': Holy shit, are there ever!
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: ''Far'' more so than the vanilla game. Various optional areas are
** The mould and ungenomold races are capable of polymorphing into monsters at random [[Baleful Polymorph|with no way to control it]]. You may be lucky and polymorph into a powerful black dragon, or end up as a slow-moving lichen that can't equip anything and deals no damage when attacking an enemy.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: There are so many ways to die that it's highly unlikely to avoid them all and win the game. Later in the game, almost every enemy monster has something bad going on, which will screw up players who don't pay attention constantly.
* [[Pokemon-Speak]]: Especially if the player chooses to play as a Pokemon and makes it to their quest. Hostile angels and demons also sometimes use literal quotes from [[Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal]] as taunts.
* [[Random Number God]]: Already a fact of life in ''NetHack'', in Slash'EM Extended they've taken the wheel almost completely.
** For a non-exhaustive list of factors that RNG can affect: {{spoiler|Item generation (which items always spawn cursed, which items/item types were generated more, which monsters spawned more often or never spawned at all, which monster classes cannot be genocided, which skills were untrainable after a certain time, which skills became untrainable if you tried ''too early'', item drop and identification chances...}}
* [[Respawning Enemies]]:
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: The game includes several classes and races that are purposely made extremely difficult to play.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Slash'EM Extended/Shout-Out|Where to begin...]]
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Even more prominent than the original SLASH'EM. Firearms, frag grenades, crossbows, [[lightsaber]]s... and don't get us started on [[Author Appeal|the shoes
* [[Timed Mission]]: {{spoiler|''The entire game'' is this, with the [[Random Number God]] setting a turn limit for your ascension that you won't know until you've either died or ascended and seem your dumplog, or else you manage to actually hit it.}}
* [[Tom the Dark Lord]]: The [[Fallout New Vegas (Video Game)|Courier]] has a quest nemesis called Some Random Guy {{spoiler|who is supposed to be Benny}}.
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