Which trap do you hate the most?

[Neil]

Poll duplication fixed. I took the liberty of consolidating some choices and adding others.

[Maylith]

Thanks, Neil. What's "No Return", anyway?

[Lord Dimwit]

From an earlier post of mine about traps:

As for No Return, it does one of several things. If you've got identified WoR scrolls in your pack, you'll see "A small fire works its way through your backpack. Some scrolls are burnt," and they'll be destroyed. If you have WoR scrolls in your pack but they're not ID'd, you'll see "The fire hasn't finished," (what?) and they'll be destroyed. If you've got a Rod of Recall in your pack, it'll be fully drained, and you'll see "You feel the air stabilize around you." If you're actually going to be recalled soon, that status will be removed, and you'll see "You feel like staying around." Note that one or even all of these might happen from one triggering of the trap; it depends on how many of the conditions are met.

[keethrax]

Does the sex/height/weight change have any affect? Other than cosmetic?

[zasvid]

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.

[Neil]

Trap of No Return burns all Word of Recall scrolls, with a message that doesn't specifically mention that all your WoR scrolls are now gone.

The height/weight/sex changes are purely cosmetic.

[Makkoan]

I hate the silient swithing trap! Its so.......silient.

[Nerdanel]

To this date I have been most annoyed by the gender changing traps because they cause permanent effects that are a nightmare to reverse. I like to play a character that is the same sex as myself. It's good for the identification.

My current character (level 43 right now) looks like she might get deep enough to encounter some really nasty traps. I was't fully cognizant of the worst traps so I couldn't really vote for them, but now I dread the idea that something might spoil my spear of Oromë or do other horrible horrible things.

[Maylith]

To this date I have been most annoyed by the gender changing traps because they cause permanent effects that are a nightmare to reverse. I like to play a character that is the same sex as myself. It's good for the identification.

My current character (level 43 right now) looks like she might get deep enough to encounter some really nasty traps. I was't fully cognizant of the worst traps so I couldn't really vote for them, but now I dread the idea that something might spoil my spear of Oromë or do other horrible horrible things.

I had thought about commenting on this when I first posted, but thought I'd just confused the issue. But since you mentioned it (sort of) I will anyway :

There's a difference, at least sometimes I think, between the trap you hate the most, and the one you find the most irritating or annoying. For example, I hate Scatter Items the most so far, but the one that just plain irritates me the most is Multiplication.

[Lord Dimwit]

Have you ever hit a trap of Filling?

Code: Select all

	case TRAP_OF_FILLING:
		{
			s16b nx, ny;

			for (nx = x - 8; nx <= x + 8; nx++)
			for (ny = y - 8; ny <= y + 8; ny++)
			{
				if (!in_bounds (ny, nx)) continue;

				if (rand_int(distance(ny,nx,y,x)) > 3)
				{
					place_trap(ny,nx);
				}
			}

			msg_print("The floor vibrates in a strange way.");
			ident = FALSE;
			break;
		}

I've never actually stepped on this trap and identified it, but I know what it does. When you step on it, it creates a whole lot of traps in a circular radius around you, though not right next to you. So you wander a few squares and then get blasted by a lot of traps at once.

So evil Like a trap of Multiplication only worse...

[Rubinstein]

Have you ever hit a trap of Filling?

Are monsters able to create traps?
If not I'm pretty sure I've already hit one: While entering a trap-detected area I must have missed a single trap.
Suddenly there were several traps around me, as a new trap detection revealed.

[Lord Dimwit]

Are monsters able to create traps?

Only if they can see you and can cast a spell of trap creation ("FooBar casts a spell and cackles evilly."). But even then traps are only created in a 1-square radius from the player.

[Rubinstein]

Seems that my assumption was wrong then.
The traps were *very* close around my character, though I don't recall exactly whether in a 1-square radius or not.

[Ulf]

Drop All Items

Can someone explain how this thing manages to drop a heavily cursed (and wielded) Demonblade of Gothmog?

[Blackdog]

Well Silent Switching can rid you of permacursed items, although it will not undo the effects of the One Ring.