Superhero (WIP; Need help with graphics, balance and text)

"Your parents were murdered by a radioactive diggle while they arranged your escape from their doomed planet. Now you fight crime."

Ok, so I put together a Superhero class but it still needs a few things. There's a lot of art (more or less all of it) and sprites and animations (I need the Gadgets Galore ability to display the words "Gadgets Galore" when it goes off, for example) that I can't and/or don't know how to make. I need advice on balance, and could somebody tell me how to stat up a player -friendly version of one of the low level Lutefisk Paladins for the "Dumb Fish powers" ability?

Also, just in general, what do you think?

Class

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<skillDB>

<skill name="Superhero" id="" type="warrior" description="Your parents were murdered by a radioactive diggle while they arranged your escape from their doomed planet. Now you fight crime.">
<art icon=""/>
<loadout type="armour" subtype="Spectacles" always="1" />
<loadout type="armour" subtype="Cape" always="1" />
</skill>

<ability startSkill="1" name="" icon="" skill="" >
<description text="Your parents were murdered by a radioactive diggle while they arranged your escape from their doomed planet. Now you fight crime."/>
</ability>

<ability name="Faster Than A Speeding Bolt" icon="" skill="" level="0">
<description text=""/>
<primarybuff id="2" amount="3"/> <!-- nimbleness -->
</ability>

<ability name="Dumb Fish Powers" icon="" skill="" level="1">
<description text=""/>
<resistbuff asphyxiative="2"/>
<spell name="Creatures of the Deep"/>
</ability>

<ability name="Metal Skeleton" icon="" skill="" level="2">
<description text=""/>
<primarybuff id="3" amount="1" /> <!-- caddishness -->
<primarybuff id="4" amount="1" /> <!-- stubbornness -->
<secondarybuff id="7" amount="2" /> <!-- block -->
<secondarybuff id="10" amount="2" /> <!-- armor -->
<resistbuff voltaic="-1" crushing="1"/>
<spell name="Metal Claws"/>
</ability>

<ability name="More Powerful Than A Locomotive" icon="" skill="" level="3">
<description text=""/>
<primarybuff id="0" amount="4"/> <!-- burliness -->
<primarybuff id="4" amount="1" /> <!-- stubbornness -->
</ability>

<ability name="Pseudoscorpion Sense" icon="" skill="" level="4">
<description text=""/>
<primarybuff id="2" amount="1"/> <!-- nimbleness -->
<secondarybuff id="6" amount="2" /> <!-- dodge -->
<secondarybuff id="8" amount="3" /> <!-- counter -->
<secondarybuff id="17" amount="2" /> <!-- trap sight -->
</ability>

<ability name="Gadgets Galore" icon="" skill="" level="5">
<description text=""/>
<secondarybuff id="20" amount="1" /> <!-- Tinkering -->
<secondarybuff id="21" amount="1" /> <!-- Alchemy -->
<triggerOnDodge percentage="3" name="Gadgets Galore" />
<counterBuff percentage="2" name="Gadgets Galore" />
</ability>

<ability name="Truth, Justice, Et cetera." icon="" skill="" level="6">
<description text=""/>
<primarybuff id="4" amount="2" /> <!-- stubbornness -->
<secondarybuff id="11" amount="2" /> <!-- magic resist -->
<damagebuff righteous="4"/>
<resistbuff existential="1" righteous="1"/>
<blockBuff percentage="1" name="Gadgets Galore" />
</ability>

<ability name="Elemental Command" icon="" skill="" level="7">
<description text=""/>
<resistbuff conflagratory ="1" hyperborean="1" voltaic ="1" />
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="15" name="Elemental Command" />
<blockBuff percentage="10" name="Elemental Command" />
<triggerOnDodge percentage="1" name="Gadgets Galore" />
<counterBuff percentage="1" name="Gadgets Galore" />
<blockBuff percentage="1" name="Gadgets Galore" />
</ability>

</skillDB>

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"Spells" Part 1

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<!-- Wolverine Claws -->

<spell name="Metal Claws" type="self" icon="?" downtime="36">
<anim ?/>
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="12" stackable="0" icon="?" smallicon="?" >
<secondaryBuff id="2" amount="2" /> <!-- melee power -->
<secondaryBuff id="7" amount="1" /> <!-- block -->
<secondaryBuff id="8" amount="2" /> <!-- counter -->
<damagebuff slashing="1" piercing="2"/>
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="30" name="Stabamantium" />
</buff>
<description text="?"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Stabamantium" type="adjacent" icon="?" >
<effect type="damage" slashing="1" piercing="1" piercingF="0.33" primaryScale="4" bleed="1" /> <!-- Scales to stubbornness? -->
<description text="?"/>
<anim ?/>
</spell>

<!-- Elemental Control -->

<spell name="Conflagratory Control" type="self" >
<anim sprite="sprites/sfx/combust_hit/combust_hit" frames="9" framerate="90" sfx="flame_weak" />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="skills/infernal64.png" smallicon="skills/infernal32.png" >
<resistbuff conflagratory="6" />
<damagebuff conflagratory="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="30" name="Fire 1" />
</buff>
<description text="You have been infused with infernal power and can really feel the burn!"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Freezing Force" type="self" >
<anim sprite="sprites/sfx/impact_ice/impact_ice" frames="6" framerate="90" sfx="magic" />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="skills/hyperborean64.png" smallicon="skills/hyperborean32.png" >
<resistbuff hyperborean="6" />
<damagebuff hyperborean="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="30" name="Small Weak Snowstorm" />
</buff>
<description text="You have been infused with hyperborean power. Cool!"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Lightning Leverage" type="self" >
<anim sprite="sprites/sfx/voltaic_hit/voltaic_hit" frames="8" framerate="90" sfx="elec" />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="skills/voltaic64.png" smallicon="skills/voltaic32.png" >
<resistbuff voltaic="6" />
<damagebuff voltaic="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="30" name="Arc 1" />
</buff>
<description text="Shockingly, you have been infused with voltaic power!"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Cloud Clout" type="self" >
<anim ? />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="?" smallicon="?" >
<resistbuff voltaic="2" asphyxiative="2" hyperborean="1" blasting="1" />
<damagebuff blasting="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="17" name="Invive Lethian Mist" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="17" name="Boot to the Head" />
</buff>
<description text="Well blow me down, you have power over the air!"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Sea Supremacy" type="self" >
<anim ? />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="?" smallicon="?" >
<resistbuff asphyxiative="2" hyperborean="2" acidic="1" putrefying="1"/>
<damagebuff asphyxiative="1" hyperborean="1" acidic="1" putrefying="1" />
</buff>
<description text="?"/>
</spell>

<spell name="Earthen Empowerment" type="self" >
<anim ? />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="skills/hyperborean64.png" smallicon="skills/hyperborean32.png" >
<resistbuff crushing="4" slashing="1" piercing="1" />
<damagebuff crushing="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="17" name="Rockburst" />
</buff>
<description text="You can command the power of the earth. That rocks!"/>
</spell>


<spell name="Antihero Ascendancy" type="self" >
<anim ? />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="30" attacks="6" stackable="0" icon="?" smallicon="?" >
<resistbuff righteous="3" necromantic="3"/>
<damagebuff existential="2" necromantic="1"/>
</buff>
<description text="You're all dark and edgy."/>
</spell>

<spell name="Hulking Form" type="self" >
<anim ? />
<buff useTimer="1" self="1" time="6" stackable="0" icon="?" smallicon="?" >
<primaryBuff id="0" amount="5" /> <!-- burliness -->
<primaryBuff id="1" amount="-2" /> <!-- sagacity -->
<primaryBuff id="2" amount="-1" /> <!-- nimbleness -->
<primaryBuff id="4" amount="3" /> <!-- stubbornness -->
<secondaryBuff id="2" amount="5" /> <!-- melee power -->
<secondaryBuff id="7" amount="-2" /> <!-- dodge -->
<secondaryBuff id="7" amount="5" /> <!-- block -->
<secondaryBuff id="10" amount="4" /> <!-- armor absorption -->
<secondaryBuff id="11" amount="2" /> <!-- magic resistance -->
<secondaryBuff id="12" amount="-12" /> <!-- sneakiness -->
<secondaryBuff id="16" amount="-2" /> <!-- trap affinity -->
<resistbuff piercing="5" crushing="1" conflagratory="1" hyperborean="1" voltaic="1" acidic="1" toxic="1"/>
<damagebuff crushing="2" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="30" name="Dazed" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="17" name="Boot to the Head" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="8" name="Stunned" />
</buff>
<description text="You warned them not to make you angry..."/>
</spell>


<spell name="Elemental Command" type="self" >
<effect type="triggerfromlist">
<option name="Conflagratory Control" />
<option name="Conflagratory Control" />
<option name="Conflagratory Control" />
<option name="Conflagratory Control" />
<option name="Freezing Force" />
<option name="Freezing Force" />
<option name="Freezing Force" />
<option name="Freezing Force" />
<option name="Lightning Leverage" />
<option name="Lightning Leverage" />
<option name="Lightning Leverage" />
<option name="Cloud Clout" />
<option name="Cloud Clout" />
<option name="Cloud Clout" />
<option name="Sea Supremacy" />
<option name="Sea Supremacy" />
<option name="Sea Supremacy" />
<option name="Earthen Empowerment" />
<option name="Earthen Empowerment" />
<option name="Earthen Empowerment" />
<option name="Antihero Ascendancy" />
<option name="Antihero Ascendancy" />
<option name="Hulking Form" />
</effect>
</spell>

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"Spells" Part 2

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<spell name="Gadgets Galore" type="self">
<anim ?/>
<effect type="spawnitemfromlist">

<option name="Mini Gouda Cheese"/>
<option name="Mini Gouda Cheese"/>

<option name="Clockwork Drill Bolt"/>
<option name="Clockwork Drill Bolt"/>

<option name="Tesla's Bolt"/>
<option name="Tesla's Bolt"/>

<option name="Acid Ampoule Bolt"/>
<option name="Acid Ampoule Bolt"/>

<option name="Softball"/>
<option name="Softball"/>
<option name="Softball"/>
<option name="Softball"/>
<option name="Softball"/>
<option name="Softball"/>

<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>
<option name="Dwarven Boomerang"/>

<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>
<option name="Bolas"/>

<option name="Makeshift Bomb"/>
<option name="Makeshift Bomb"/>
<option name="Makeshift Bomb"/>
<option name="Makeshift Bomb"/>
<option name="Makeshift Bomb"/>

<option name="Puffball"/>
<option name="Puffball"/>
<option name="Puffball"/>

<option name="Potion of Steeling"/>
<option name="Potion of Steeling"/>
<option name="Potion of Steeling"/>

<option name="Infernal Potion"/>

<option name="Hyperborean Potion"/>

<option name="Voltaic Potion"/>

<option name="Wand of Tesla"/>

<option name="Camera"/>

<option name="Sonic Wand"/>

<option name="Wand of Laser"/>

<option name="Thermite Bomb"/>

<option name="Potion of Healing"/>
<option name="Potion of Healing"/>
<option name="Potion of Healing"/>

<option name="Blink Dust"/>

<option name="Potion of Invisibility"/>
<option name="Potion of Invisibility"/>
<option name="Potion of Invisibility"/>

<option name="Potion of Radiance"/>
<option name="Potion of Radiance"/>

<option name="Spatial Instability Infusion"/>
<option name="Spatial Instability Infusion"/>

<option name="Clockwork Grappling Bolt"/>
<option name="Clockwork Grappling Bolt"/>

<option name="Alchemical Ooze"/>

<option name="Cassiterite"/>

<option name="Copper Wire"/>
<option name="Copper Wire"/>

<option name="Bauxite"/>
<option name="Bauxite"/>

<option name="Shiv"/>
<option name="Shiv"/>

<option name="Crude Knife"/>

<option name="Powdered Aluminum"/>

<option name="Black Powder"/>

<option name="Potion of Mana"/>

<option name="Aqua Fortis"/>

<option name="Steam Rocket Bolt"/>

<option name="Clockwork Drill Bomb"/>

<option name="Aqua Vitae"/>

<option name="Horadric Lutefisk Cube"/>

<option name="Malachite"/>

<option name="Throwing Star"/>
<option name="Throwing Star"/>
<option name="Throwing Star"/>

<option name="Fire Bolt"/>
<option name="Fire Bolt"/>

<option name="Aluminum Tube"/>
<option name="Aluminum Tube"/>

<option name="Poison Ampoule Bolt"/>

<option name="Concussion Bomb"/>

<option name="Small Crossbow"/>

<option name="Apple"/>
<option name="Apple"/>

<option name="Modular Alchemy Box"/>

<option name="Tinkerer Parts"/>

<option name="Elven Ingot Grinder"/>

<option name="Sword of Glass"/>

<option name="Enormous Wrench"/>

<option name="Plastic Bolt"/>
<option name="Plastic Bolt"/>

<option name="Copper Bolt"/>

<option name="Iron Bolt"/>

<option name="Wooden Bolt"/>
<option name="Wooden Bolt"/>

<option name="Kunai"/>
<option name="Kunai"/>

<option name="Spring-loaded Power Core"/>
<option name="Spring-loaded Power Core"/>

<option name="Pressure Plate"/>

<option name="Pear"/>

<option name="Rusty Caltrops"/>

<option name="Bituminous Coal"/>

<option name="Chalk"/>
<option name="Chalk"/>

<option name="Potion of Alchemical Inspiration"/>

<option name="Burnt Out Wand"/>
<option name="Burnt Out Wand"/>
<option name="Burnt Out Wand"/>
<option name="Burnt Out Wand"/>

<option name="Steel Bolt"/>

<option name="Bronze Bolt"/>

<option name="Cheese"/>

<option name="Iron Dirk"/>

<option name="Verdant Poison"/>
<option name="Verdant Poison"/>
<option name="Verdant Poison"/>

<option name="Brimstone"/>

<option name="Odious Puffball"/>

<option name="Cracked Orb"/>

<option name="Hachimaki"/>

<option name="Tinkerer's Goggles"/>

<option name="Spectacles"/>

<option name="Throwing Knife"/>
<option name="Throwing Knife"/>
<option name="Throwing Knife"/>

<option name="Simple Hatchet"/>

<option name="Grated Cheese"/>

<option name="Barbed Copper Bolt"/>

<option name="Barbed Iron Bolt"/>

<option name="Barbed Steel Bolt"/>

<option name="Ingeniously Scythed Plastic Bolt"/>

<option name="Broadhead Bolt"/>

<option name="Acid Bottle Bolt"/>

<option name="Hematite"/>

<option name="Plastic Ore"/>
<option name="Plastic Ore"/>

<option name="Simple Iron Crossbow"/>

<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>
<option name="Chiropterang"/>


</effect>
</spell>

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"When Edward Austere said that he wasn't going to manufacture weapons anymore, who would have guessed that he meant he was going to build deadly armor?"

Items

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<item name="Chiropterang" iconFile="?" level="2" type="5">
<price amount="?"/>
<weapon crushing="1" slashing="1" existential="1" thrown="?"/>
<description text="?"/>
</item>


<item name="Cape" iconFile="?">
<price amount="250"/>
<armour level="1" type="chest"/>
<secondarybuff id="6" amount="3"/> <!-- dodge -->
<description text="?"/>
</item>

<!-- "Argonian" and "Radonian" already taken -->
<item name="Ununoctonian Blanket" iconFile="?">
<price amount="?"/>
<armour level="3" type="chest"/>
<secondarybuff id="6" amount="3"/> <!-- dodge -->
<secondarybuff id="7" amount="2"/> <!-- block -->
<resistburr conflagratory="1" blasting="1" acidic="1" hyperborean="2"/>
<description text="?"/>
</item>

<item name="Cape of Ununoctonian Fabric" iconFile="?">
<price amount="?"/>
<armour level="10" type="chest"/>
<primarybuff id="2" amount="1"/> <!-- nimbleness -->
<primarybuff id="3" amount="1"/> <!-- caddishness -->
<primarybuff id="4" amount="1"/> <!-- stubbornness -->
<secondarybuff id="6" amount="5"/> <!-- dodge -->
<secondarybuff id="7" amount="5"/> <!-- block -->
<secondarybuff id="10" amount="1"/> <!-- armor -->
<secondarybuff id="11" amount="1"/> <!-- magic resist -->
<resistburr conflagratory="2" blasting="2" acidic="1" aethereal="1" hyperborean="1"/>
<description text="?"/>
</item>

<!-- Ferrous Man -->

<item name="Austere Industries Voltaic Plate" iconFile="?" >
<price amount="60000"/>
<armour level="14" type="chest"/>
<primarybuff id="0" amount="1" /> <!-- burliness -->
<primarybuff id="3" amount="1" /> <!-- caddishness -->
<secondarybuff id="10" amount="11"/> <!-- armour absorption -->
<secondarybuff id="7" amount="9"/> <!-- block -->
<secondarybuff id="11" amount="3"/> <!-- magic resistence -->
<secondarybuff id="3" amount="-7"/> <!-- magic power -->
<secondarybuff id="14" amount="-2"/> <!-- mana regen -->
<secondarybuff id="12" amount="-12"/> <!-- sneak -->
<secondarybuff id="2" amount="4"/> <!-- melee power -->
<damagebuff voltaic="1" blasting="1"/>
<resistbuff piercing="8" conflagratory="3" blasting="4" voltaic="2" hyperborean="1"/>
<crossbowShotBuff percentage="3" name="Ignition Bolt"/>
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="3" name="Clockwork Tesla Rod effect" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="5" name="Arc 1" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="3" name="Fire 1" />
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="3" name="Clockwork Reflexes" />
<artifact quality="3" />
<description text="When Edward Austere said that he wasn't going to manufacture weapons anymore, who would have guessed that he meant he was going to build deadly armor?" />
</item>

<item name="Austere Industries Voltaic Targeting Helm" iconFile="?">
<price amount="18000"/>
<armour level="12" type="head"/>
<primarybuff id="3" amount="2" /> <!-- caddishness -->
<primarybuff id="5" amount="2" /> <!-- savvy -->
<secondarybuff id="9" amount="4"/> <!-- edr -->
<secondarybuff id="10" amount="4"/> <!-- armour absorption -->
<secondarybuff id="7" amount="5"/> <!-- block -->
<secondarybuff id="11" amount="1"/> <!-- magic resistence -->
<secondarybuff id="5" amount="2"/> <!-- haywire -->
<secondarybuff id="3" amount="-2"/> <!-- magic power -->
<secondarybuff id="14" amount="-1"/> <!-- mana regen -->
<resistbuff piercing="4" asphyxiative="4" toxic="1" conflagratory="1" aethereal="1" />
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="8" name="Clear Vision" />
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="3" name="Supreme Sight" />
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="2" name="Third Sight" />
<targetHitEffectBuff percentage="2" name="Third Sight" />
<artifact quality="1" />
<description text="" />
</item>



<item name="Utility Belt" iconFile="?">
<price amount="?"/>
<armour level="8" type="waist"/>
<primarybuff id="3" amount="1" /> <!-- caddishness -->
<primarybuff id="5" amount="1" /> <!-- savvy -->
<secondarybuff id="16" amount="2" /> <!-- trap affinity -->
<secondarybuff id="12" amount="2" /> <!-- sneakiness -->
<playerHitEffectBuff percentage="8" name="Gadgets Galore" />
<description text="" />
</item>

That's all for now.

 

How about stabmantium skeleton?
Also pseudoscorpion should be a pseudodiggle or something (no scorpions)
And what does dumb fish power do?

 

"Stabamantium" is already part of skill level 2, "Metal Skeleton"

I suppose I could change it to "Diggle Sense" or something (I had chosen "pseudoscorpion" because it is one of the most awkwardly named kinds of arachnids), I suppose Diggle Sense would make more sense anyway since, after all, it was a radioactive diggle in the origin story ("Your parents were murdered by a radioactive diggle while they arranged your escape from their doomed planet. Now you fight crime.")

Oh, I haven't finished coding that one yet. Its supposed to summon one or two extra-low level versions of the lutefisk warrior.

As I just recently finished statting up the monster, I guess I can get started on the spell now
Here's the Monster Stats for the low level lutefisk:

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<monster name="Summoned Fish" level="0" tiny="1" taxa="Animal" splat="blood" special="1">
<idleSprite
left="sprites/monster/fish/fish_walk_l.xml"
right="sprites/monster/fish/fish_walk_r.xml"
up="sprites/monster/fish/fish_walk_u.xml"
down="sprites/monster/fish/fish_walk_d.xml"
/>

<attackSprite
left="sprites/monster/fish/fish_atk_l.xml"
right="sprites/monster/fish/fish_atk_r.xml"
up="sprites/monster/fish/fish_atk_u.xml"
down="sprites/monster/fish/fish_atk_d.xml"
/>

<hitSprite
left="sprites/monster/fish/fish_hit_l.xml"
right="sprites/monster/fish/fish_hit_r.xml"
up="sprites/monster/fish/fish_hit_u.xml"
down="sprites/monster/fish/fish_hit_d.xml"
/>

<dieSprite
name="sprites/monster/fish/fish_die_l.xml"
/>

<castSpellSprite name="sprites/monster/fish/fish_spl_d.xml" />

<sfx attack="small_attack"
hit="small_hit"
die="small_die"
spell="small_spell" />

<info latin="(Orinus Flunkius)" text="The creatures of the deep seem to have lost some of their luster.." />
<!-- regarding the latin name, "Orin" is Aquaman's secret identity. The descriptive text, on the other hand, is derived from a line in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" -->

<stats numFig="2" xpValue="0" />
<resistances crushing="1" slashing="2" righteous="1" asphyxiative="1"/>
<damage crushing="1" righteous="1" />
<secondarybuff id="6" amount="-7"/> <!-- dodge -->
<ai aggressiveness="2" span="5" spellPercentage="3" />
<spell name="Mini Lutefisk Smite" />
<sight cone="90" modifier="0.9" /> <!-- they're kinda dumb -->

</monster>

 

3 levels that are nothing but stat boosts?

 

Yeah, I just thought the "a" in it sounds kinda unnesecary.

Also you could just make it a semisubspecies of lutefisk warrior, and just change the hue (no sprites needed, just need a color).
(i can post the code, if you want)

 

I made it anyway
You just have to insert the latin, description, spells and change stat bonuses (probably negative)
PS: Stats of each monster are added/deducted from the base (first part before the actuall monsters)

 

Hmm... that's a good point. I think maybe I'll add an invisibility purge effect (similar to Third Sight) that occasionally procs to the Pseudoscorpion Sense/Diggle Sense ability (But what do you think should trigger it???)