These creatures would be as large or larger than a coconut crab. The choice
of protection used would be helmets but there's a 10% chance the covering
is just a great big shell and there's a 5% chance the helmet is magical in
nature. Hermit crabs would be represented by a red ...

i finally got round to make the screenshot and put it on the web (see my
post from the 01/21/05):
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/gregs/index.html (it pictures a dragon
sitting on a gold pile; although my girlfriend thinks that it looks more

(long post, stats at end)
--> Shamelessly soliciting advice! :p
I've been playing nethack off and on for about 15 years, so far
I haven't ascended a character.  I don't really mind, I'm not

While preparing for entering Gehenom - experience level 18, all good
spells known, Grayswandir as main weapon. A full ascension kit - tons
of magic marker, jabberwock and Olog-hai pets. It was my second
ascention in the making.

Suppose you hit a monster with Mojo that is carrying a wand of
cancellation.  The wand can explode due to the lightning damage, I
suppose.  Will it cancel you, standing next to the monster?
Similar questions impose themselves concerning wands of polymorph and

So, here I am, not feeling overly alert, and not wanting to kill the
best character I've ever had, so I play a neutral human monk. I like
to play monks when just messing about... all those intrinsics are nice.
La-di-da, take the mines, go to minetown, oh, looky, a coaligned altar!

ARGH!  For months I've been running an ascendable
lawfull Valk.  Fully kitted out and then some.  Had
a chest filled with all the items that would be
needed in the planes.  Had an assault kit that would

I just wrote a new patch to add treasure chests to nethack, which are hidden
and contain some loot.  (It's based on an idea from a recent thread.)  I'm
including the readme below; it has a full description of what the patch
adds.

How about a way to create an altar?
Say, drop a lodestone (to provide an anchor), a flint (to make it
hard), a gem (to make it valuable), a potion of holy water (to
sanctify it), and a fresh corpse (of a unicorn?), then #offer.

Is there a possibility to prevent, in 3.4.3 Windows version,
these annoying "Things that are here" side-bar pop-ups, or
at least make them disappear at the next keystroke (at current
they require special keys like Esc, space)?  I don't understand

Goodbye Kain the Demigoddess...
You made the top ten list!
No  Points     Name                                                   Hp
[max]

Finally been getting the hang of net hack, and cleared through the
gnome dungeons (I feel so pathetic...) but had an amusing incident
involving a leprachaun, forgetting to drop gold, and the fun of
stores...

Has anyone ever, during an ascension run, used a cursed scroll of
genocide to bring one of the horsemen in to level 1 and then ditch them?
I have a suspicion that this wouldn't work and generally speaking I have
better things to do with cursed g scrolls, but I'd be interested if

YAAP -- Fleshpile IV -- Cha Elf Pri
Ascension number 4, and my THIRD since Christmas Eve (5 weeks).
I am on a winning streak! I've dabbled with priests here and
there, always liked them but never had much luck. This time, I

NetHackers will probably get a special kick out of
this comic strip's subplot from Jan 24th, 2005 and
forward:
 http://www.comics.com/comics/workingdaze/