Post by GetsomeWhat happens when you get crowned?
Among other things, your prayer timeout will be _much_ higher from now on.
That usually outweighs the positive effects of it (some intrinsics, maybe
an artifact and a cool name).
Post by GetsomeI'm confused I thought you could only sacrifice to get stuff? Do you pray
or sacrifice?
Sacrifice only to get artifacts. Pray at an altar to get favours from your
deity. Speed up the latter by sacrificing to reduce prayer timeout. Favours
can include usefull stuff like HP, AC and spellbooks. There's a list of
possible favours, with increasing usefulness, ending with crowning. The higher
your luck is, the more items from this list can be granted (with roughly
equal probability). So you want to keep your luck below the point where you
can get crowned, and above the point of the favour you are aiming for.
From http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/pray.txt:
|If your god is very happy with you, your god may grant you a favor.
|Roll 1d(luck+6), divide the result by 2 (rounded up), and look in the
|following table.
|
|Roll: Reward:
|1 nothing
|2 Your weapon is dipped in holy water and any damage is repaired.
|3 You gain 5 maximum hitpoints, your strength is restored, and you
| are no longer hungry. ("You are surrounded by a golden glow.")
|4 First time: "Hark, mortal! To enter the castle, thou must play the
| right tune!" ("Hark, creature! ..." if not human). No effect.
| Second time: Tune to enter the castle is revealed.
| Subsequent times: Same as effect 3 above.
|5 Uncurses all possessions (as blessed scroll of remove curse).
| ("You are surrounded by a light blue aura.")
|6 You gain one intrinsic, selected in order from (Telepathy, Speed,
| Stealth). If you already possess all of them, you gain protection
| as if from a priest, except without the natural AC limits.
|7 You get a spellbook. ("An object appears at your <feet>!") The game
| will try (level+1) times to randomly select a spell you do not
| already know (using the usual object generation algorithm), then
| give you a random book. If holding a magic marker, you may get
| a spellbook of blank paper. The book is always blessed.
|8+ You are crowned. You gain intrinsic fire, cold, and poison resist-
| ance, see invisible, and an alignment-based artifact (Excalibur
| for lawfuls, Vorpal Blade for neutrals, Stormbringer for chaotics).
| Lawfuls must be wielding a non-artifact long sword in order for
| it to be changed into Excalibur.
| If the artifact already exists, or a lawful isn't wielding a
| long sword, your weapon becomes blessed, rustproof, and +1.
| Neutral Wizards will instead get a spellbook of finger of death.
| If already crowned, no effect.
| Prayer timeouts are much greater for crowned characters.
regards,
Ohle
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