[S] This Is Not Sparta

[Bostock]

Anybody out there have any positive experiences with scrolls of madness? So far I have not been able to get any tactical benefit of them, but then I'm frankly not actually sure what they do - the description is not entirely helpful. Above all it seems the victims must have a corporeal mind and must lack some sort of resistance, since I tried reading one in a room full of undead and it didn't do anything.

[camlost]

Madness drives monsters to trust their enemy and hate their friends. Woe indeed are the deeds of the mad.

[NotMorgoth]

Could you give a similarly cryptic hint on what the necromancer spell "The Overmind" is supposed to do.

I've tried casting it in the presence of many different monsters, both strong and weak, and aside from "Mind-warping forces emanate from you brain" or something similar, nothing seems to happen, not even "the monster resists" etc.

[Therem Harth]

I believe it would be mindblasting nearby monsters then. Should produce some response though. "Foo grunts with pain" or somesuch.

[camlost]

Could you give a similarly cryptic hint on what the necromancer spell "The Overmind" is supposed to do.

I've tried casting it in the presence of many different monsters, both strong and weak, and aside from "Mind-warping forces emanate from you brain" or something similar, nothing seems to happen, not even "the monster resists" etc.

The overmind smashes the brains of all monsters in sight, causing them to stumble around slowly without focus, driving some to madness, others to fear.

P.S. the reason it was doing nothing was a bug. See this bug, just reported and just fixed.