copperwater

An underlying issue this thread is touching on is that most potions are useless enough to the hero that the typical thing you do with an average potion is go...

Cancellation in NetHack generally means any magical effects are stripped. So I can see the argument for a cancelled wraith corpse not granting the player a level up, for instance....

Keeping a to-hit penalty for scalpels might make sense - after all they are not designed for use as a melee or throwing weapon, and multishot is fairly irrelevant since...

xNetHack has various sling and sling-adjacent buffs that derive from the Minor Sling Upgrade patch and Fourk, which I am posting here because they were added to address this sling...

I agree with entrez and don't think the messages should be changed, but it _would_ be funny to have someone say "War! What are you good for?"

> Some special levels use des.trap("statue") - those should be fixed. The initial commit accounted for this - as I said above, "A des.trap('statue') will still always create a statue...

Any efforts to make loadstones "better" or more attractive to use, while still keeping them loadstones, are putting lipstick on the proverbial pig. No one is going to go around...

Withdrawing this. Paranoid A behavior in vanilla seems to work well enough. (It is not in current xNetHack development, but will get added in the next vanilla merge.)

This is regarding object lookup, not wishing. Object lookup uses a different parser. To reproduce, type `/ndeath wand` - the intended behavior is you see ``` Object lookup for "death...

This is still on the table after vanilla commit e821274, which merely makes excalibur a lot less likely for knights, but lets them still get it at level 5 and...