PosChengband

[wobbly]

Is the race on your character sheet shown as [kobold] or kobold. The 1st is temporary, the 2nd permanent. A hostile polymorph spell should be the 1st. The only ways I know of permanently polymorph is self-casting polymorph, chaos patrons, !polymorph & stone of chaos. There could be others though.

[Seravajan]

I did not quaffed a !polymorph (or a !New Life) and I was not in Chameleon Cave. I dunno if I got hit by a chaos breath because there was no chaos dragon around. I guess that I was the target of a polymorph spell or a blast from a polymorph staff/rod/wand. There seems no way to undo this.

[Regalia]

Dragon dragonriders

I've noticed that dragons (monster race) have a beastmaster template. As a consequence, they can train the riding skill.

Is there a way to use that on a dragon though? Afaik, you can't polymorph a monster race into something with hands so you can never gain a proper control of your mount. Or am I wrong?

[HugoVirtuoso]

Had something very strange in Poschengband 4. While playing in a quest dungeon my character lost one level which is not returnable with Potions of Restore Life Levels. On the same thing my stats was shuffled around and after careful examining my character turned into a kobold. It was a snotling before. How can this happens? Is there some polymorphing traps around and is this effect permanent?

Quite funny is that the charisma even surpassed the max base stat for a kobold!

That Polymorphing effect can happen either because of the !Polymorph (that wobby mentioned) or because you get blasted by a Logrus spell or an unresisted Chaos breath.

[wobbly]

Was it chameleon cave? The dungeon boss drops a potion of polymorph.

[Seravajan]

Polymorphing?

Had something very strange in Poschengband 4. While playing in a quest dungeon my character lost one level which is not returnable with Potions of Restore Life Levels. On the same thing my stats was shuffled around and after careful examining my character turned into a kobold. It was a snotling before. How can this happens? Is there some polymorphing traps around and is this effect permanent?

Quite funny is that the charisma even surpassed the max base stat for a kobold!

[HugoVirtuoso]

Did anyone else raise an eyebrow at the Sméagol drop? I'd never heard of that happening, but even with that chance, as many mortems as get posted, someone must have had it happen to them.

Smeagol does, in fact, have a 1 in 666 chance of dropping The One Ring. I was able to witness this personally a year ago!

[Avenger]

Regarding Rune Swords...

Can Rune Swords be reforged onto?

Can they have Artifact Creation read over them?

[Avenger]

Certain of them can drop elsewhere, I've found Calris without killing Lungorthin =P Krait found it just before his death, actually. But perhaps that questitem tag changes things.

Did anyone else raise an eyebrow at the Sméagol drop? I'd never heard of that happening, but even with that chance, as many mortems as get posted, someone must have had it happen to them.

[Regalia]

Makes more sense to hardcode something like that then to make a flag that only applies to one entry, anyway.

On the subject of hardcoded monster properties, there are also monster specific drops, in the same file

https://github.com/poschengband/poschengband/blob/8ad050ca753906b96fe820dde9c5c47b2113f964/src/xtra2.c#L1642

Now I was never sure on the issue if they can all drop from other monsters. I think if they got the 'questitem' tag then they can't. Which I never liked. I'd rather they had a chance to drop from other mobs after you kill the owner (and nothing drops).

[Avenger]

I did make the Phoenix/rebirth mythology connection. I just wasn't clear on the mechanics, and I'm nowhere near familiar enough with the source to locate the appropriate lines of code on github. I did check r.info, but I found nothing. Makes more sense to hardcode something like that then to make a flag that only applies to one entry, anyway.

Edit: posting from a phone creates autocorrect issues.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I found another bug in 4.0.0 (and this should be appended to the 4.0.0 announement)
The message history search function ('P' then '/') does not work. It only works on the first page and that's it.

[HugoVirtuoso]

It actually looks like there's just a 1 in 3 chance of it rising again, independent of how many times you've already killed it.

https://github.com/poschengband/posc.../xtra2.c#L2786

You know what. In Greek mythology, the Phoenix is known for its "cyclical rebirth". In the Final Fantasy series, the Phoenix Down (an item) resurrects a character during battle. Either chris or the Hengband makers had this concept of the Phoenix in mind.

Wikipedia page on the Phoenix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29

[debo]

It actually looks like there's just a 1 in 3 chance of it rising again, independent of how many times you've already killed it.

https://github.com/poschengband/poschengband/blob/8ad050ca753906b96fe820dde9c5c47b2113f964/src/xtra2.c#L2786

[Avenger]

Thanks debo - that makes the most sense.

Hugo and wobbly, there was never a corpse, and I can assure you nothing else was in the area. There was a special text, along with a unique damage effect, immediately after the Phoenix's HP reached 0.