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Revision as of 10:07, 28 November 2013

Hallucinatory monsters do not exist in NetHack, but their names can appear when you are hallucinating and interacting with monsters. A few appear as real monsters in SLASH'EM. Many of the monster names come from other roguelikes, mythologies, fantasy worlds, and popular culture[1].

List of hallucinatory monsters

Games

Quendor (Zork, etc.)

Moria

  • Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon
  • Evil Iggy

Rogue

Dungeons & Dragons

Other games

Literature

Greek mythology

J. R. R. Tolkien

Lewis Carroll

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • microscopic space fleet
  • Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

Xanth

  • tangle tree
  • nickelpede[2]
  • wiggle

Comics

Other Literature

Monster movies

Television

Anime

Star Trek

Other television

50's rock 'n' roll

Real creatures

Miscellaneous

Found only in the NAO version

  • bluebird of happiness
  • stuffed raccoon
  • newsgroup troll

References

  1. do_name.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 888
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Appears as a real monster in SLASH'EM.

This page may need to be updated for the current version of NetHack.

It may contain text specific to NetHack 3.4.3. Information on this page may be out of date.

Editors: After reviewing this page and making necessary edits, please change the {{nethack-343}} tag to the current version's tag or {{noversion}} as appropriate.