Which trap do you hate the most?

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Rubinstein · #61 Post by **Rubinstein** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:31 am

As soon as a monster is visible there is no running anymore.

rakanishu · #62 Post by **rakanishu** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:15 am

...the prime cause of death for my sorcs. I love ascii mode but am considering changing to some graphic tiles just to avoid those silly things.

Naturally I would welcome an option which prevents me from stepping on "known" traps.

Torrenal · #63 Post by **Torrenal** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:05 am

zasvid wrote:Silent switching once killed my 27-lvl dwarven unbeliever... it switched from dark sword to cursed pike, but I haven't seen that and descended to the death fate, sure that I'll be able to grasp Mormegil and kill everything off.
ToME - The pike you are wielding appears to be cursed
Me -What pike???!!! Oh, damn.

I just ran into a trap of silent switching, and I'll wager theres a minor, crucial bug involved. I had been wielding an artifact weapon, I hit the trap, never saw it before, so I eye my character stats and equipment. His artifact weapon appeared in his inventory (window Choice), and also showed as equipped (window Term-6):shock:. 2 copies of the same artifact? I wondered what would happen with 2 of the same artifact in inventory, so I struck T (roguelike keyset) to unwield the wielded artifact, and lo, my Term-6 updated to show me wielding a non-id'd mace.

I wouldn't be supprised if you hit the trap, reviewed your equipment, saw nothing seriously amiss, and went on with your journeying.

Hmm. That might actualy make for an interesting trap: Pick two stacks of potions or scrolls in the players inventory, and copy the type from one to the other... 'I had 4 scrolls of recall and 2 of teleport... now I have 6 scrolls of teleport....'
//Torrenal

Tako · #64 Post by **Tako** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:40 am

Damn, just hit a bowel-cramps trap, for insta-death!

I was corrupted-slow from demon skin, and running:

You are getting faint from hunger! -more-
I'm melting! -more-
Dump the screen?

No chance to eat anything, just death.

Maylith · #65 Post by **Maylith** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 3:54 am

Ouch! Better luck with the next one....

Guest · #66 Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:53 pm

Vagabond wrote:Trap of No return is annoying.. I vote on it

No kidding. Anyone with Anti-magic has no other way of getting back to town quickly.

Xeno · #67 Post by **Xeno** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:41 am

Sex/Height/Weight Change. When I choose to be a male hobbit, I'd like it if I got to b a male hobbit and not, e.g. a female hobbit-shaped giant.

Teber · #68 Post by **Teber** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:21 pm

i believe these sex-change traps (can a trap of neutrality be counted as a sex-chenge trap?) and size-altering traps don't influence gameplay perse. but than, flavor is important to me as well. i would like a male character to STAY male...

Rubinstein · #69 Post by **Rubinstein** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:43 pm

When I think of Nethack's really nasty polymorph traps, the sex-chance traps are just a stupid but otherwise harmless annoyance.

Runt · #70 Post by **Runt** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:44 pm

I had a Piety Reversal trap which was mostly annoying as the character had been incredibly pious up to that point (was around 900 PI level) which *poof* got flipped to -900 pi.

Bah.

Maylith · #71 Post by **Maylith** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 6:45 pm

Runt wrote:I had a Piety Reversal trap which was mostly annoying as the character had been incredibly pious up to that point (was around 900 PI level) which *poof* got flipped to -900 pi.

Ack! I didn't know such a thing existed. *cold shivers*

I do have to wonder which god you were worshipping, though, as my characters' usual piety is around 40-50k or so, once they are midgame level. Still, any reversal sounds like no fun at all....

Teber · #72 Post by **Teber** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:27 pm

my guess is that mr. runt set off the worst trap of piety loss. IIRC this trap lowers piety by 1800.

Rimbecano · #73 Post by **Rimbecano** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:18 pm

I must say that with my playing style, i am not familiar enough with traps to really be qualified to say what the nastiest one is. i tend to play a sorceror and take great care to always cast sense hidden as my first action upon entering a level, and always cast it upon reaching the end of a trap detected zone before I take a single step. I always know where the traps are, and give them a wide berth.

EDIT: Oops... BIG time necropost...

Shoob · #74 Post by **Shoob** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:01 pm

thats what happens when the forum has been hijacked leaving only polls

Wastrel · #75 Post by **Wastrel** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:11 am

Trivia for you newbies:
When this thread was first posted, it was very easy to step onto a known trap. Say thank you to the developers the next time you get a message preventing you from walking onto a trap.

Now you must purposely use the 'blunder' command (or try to disarm) in order to step onto a known trap. They are much less deadly as a result.

The Blunder command for those who don't know is:
#B<dir>

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