PosChengband

[Avenger]

Regarding Rune Swords...

Can Rune Swords be reforged onto?

Can they have Artifact Creation read over them?

[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!

[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!

[wobbly]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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]

Ok. I checked the char sheet and the race is not in brackets. Therefore it seems permanent. Are there chaos traps around which can cause this?

[krazyhades]

Maybe you took damage from the "nuke" element? Radiation can cause poly self occasionally.

edit: the full list of possible causes: https://github.com/poschengband/posc...q=do_poly_self

[HugoVirtuoso]

Any monster that "emits radiation" can trigger the polymorphing effect too. e.g., Elder thing

[debo]

Any monster that "emits radiation" can trigger the polymorphing effect too. e.g., Elder thing

Weird fume, giant headless, chaos mushroom, chaos butterfly are the ones that usually get me with toxic waste / chaos / radiation without me noticing for a while.

[wobbly]

On the plus side snotling -> kobold is 1 step up the social ladder.

[Seravajan]

Quite funny that the change caused my base CHA to be turned to 18/70 . It seems that the self poly is not fixed to the standard start values for the class/race.

Can a trap release weird fumes?

[krazyhades]

Summoning traps can release pretty much anything.

edit: for clarification, weird fumes are a type of monster, not a terrain feature