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Currently Nameless Variant Changelog:

Convenient Features:

• Paranoid_trap and paranoid_waterlava settings. Prompts you before stepping on bad stuff.
• Monster descriptions in-game give some information from the game's tables, including EV, AC, speed, resistances, and damage values.
• Showdmg setting, lifted from Slash'em. Unlike Slash'em, your outgoing damage is visible at all experience levels.

AC Changes:

• AC has been split into EV and AC for both players and monsters. Both count upwards from 0.
• For an attack to connect, its to-hit roll must match or exceed the target's EV.
• Monsters now get +1d20 to-hit vs players (instead of vanilla's +10).
• Melee attacks that connect have their damage reduced by a random number between the target's AC and 0.
• AC won't reduce an attack's damage below 1.
• AC is boosted by most armor.
• EV is boosted by raising your Dex, wearing a high-quality cloak, and by giving gold to priests.
• EV is penalized by being burdened and by wearing heavier body armor.
• EV is set to 0 if you are asleep, paralyzed, or otherwise cannot move.

Other Rule Changes:

• Poison damage onto the player won't be deadly.
• Sleep is much easier to wake from for both players and monsters.
• Exp formulas overhauled. Monsters exp yields vary more and generally give more, but early levels require much more experience than vanilla.
• Levels 18 and up require less experience than vanilla, and can more plausibly be reached by killing monsters.
• Max HP and Pw formulas changed. They are now deterministic, and changes to Con and Wis affect them retroactively.
• Because of this, max HP gains from nurse dancing, potions of healing, etc. now have a universal cap of (5 * XL).
• Resistances gained from eating corpses are temporary.
• Scimitar and Saber skills merged into Saber skill.
• Club, Mace, and Morningstar skills merged into Mace skill.
• New skill: Heavy Armor. Increases AC gain from scale mail and heavier, and offsets the weight of body armor.
• New skill: Dodging. Increases EV gain with higher Dex. Trained when monsters miss you.
• Alignment record no longer increases from killing (most) monsters.
• You gain alignment record every 1000 turns spent with positive alignment, no prayer timeout, and no god wrath.
• You can dip into pools in adjacent tiles.
• Shopkeepers have caught on after 20 years of being robbed, and won't let pets into their shops anymore. (Unless you're quite sneaky.)
• Percentile Strength is gone; it now works like other attributes. Royal jelly and giant meat can raise it still, but with lower success rate.
• Slowness is now a timed status for the player, inflicted by wands of slow monster and some melee attacks.

Trap changes:

• Poison gas vents, which produce stinking clouds on those unfortunate enough to step on them.
• Fire traps just do 6d6 fire damage instead of hurting max HP.
• There is now a way to (sort of) disarm both poison and sleeping gas traps.

Role/Race changes:

• Female samurai trade their katana for a +1 naginata.
• Valkyries trade their long swords for a spear.
• New race: Kobold. Mediocre stats, but they gain searching at XL4 and flight at XL20. They start with a baby lizard.
• "New" role: Convict, mostly same as the convict patch.
• Knights are no longer penalized for attacking "fleeing" enemies.
• Attribute caps have been adjusted and are generally much higher; humans have 20 caps for every attribute.

Branch and special floor changes:

• The dungeon is now much shorter; the Sanctum is always Level 35.
• None of the demon lord lairs are guaranteed to spawn.
• Sokoban floors no longer spawn random monsters until they're solved.
• The Oracle now sells enlightenment and object identification.
• Quest requires XL10 instead of XL14.
• New mini-branch: Tomb of the Ancients, a small complex full of mummies, other undead, and the dreaded Khufu.
• Magic chests can be found at Mine's End, Delphi, the Castle, the Tomb, and by the Wizard of Yendor.

Item Changes:

• Object materials system is implemented, similar to Evilhack. Orcs don't hate mithril, and elves cannot handle iron at all.
• Polearms require less skill to attack at angles.
• Speed boots give Fast speed. The wand of speed monster gives temporary Very Fast, like the potion of speed.
• Uncursed spellbooks always warn if too hard to read (like they do for Wizards).
• Successfully using a unicorn horn frequently breaks it at +0, and lowers the enchantment otherwise.
• Scalpels can be applied to (attempt to) cure sickness and sliming at the cost of significant HP.
• Bags of devouring; destroys anything you put in it.
• Robes work as body armor like in Slash'em, and come in magic varieties.
• Magic chests; extremely heavy linked containers that appear in various places for ease of stash management.
• Masks; magic items that indefinitely polymorph you into the creature depicted on them when worn. Uncursed ones often break when removed.
• Dragon scale mail is now heavy armor for skill purpose and weighs 400 aum.
• Wyvern scale mail functions the same as dragon scale mail, but gives only 5 AC and weighs a mere 80 aum.
• Because not every dragon and wyvern exist in every game, it may be difficult to get the size and color you want.
• Bugles will only scare animals. Drums and horns won't scare mindless monsters.
• Spellbook of Fireball split into Fireball and Meteor Shower, the latter always using the Skilled effect.
• Spellbook of Cone of Cold split into Ice Beam and Cone of Cold, the latter using a new cone area of effect.
• Spellbook of Create Monster is now Create Water.
• Spellbooks of Detect Food and Detect Unseen have been returned to the library.
• Wand of displacement, a useful but uncommon wand that swaps the position of the user and the target.

Artifacts:

• Swiftsoles, guaranteed first sacrifice gift for rogues. They're old-style speed boots.
• Book of Exalted Deeds and Book of Vile Darkness, first sacrifice gifts for co-aligned priests. They create altars when read.
• The Longbow of Diana has a +1 multi-shot bonus if the user is a Ranger.
• The Arbalest of Artemis; basically identical to the Longbow of Diana, and replaces it for gnomish rangers.
• Luckblade, the Convict's first sacrifice gift.

Old Monsters:

• Nurses are now peaceful by default, and can be chatted to for various services. They trade their healing punches for various dangerous syringes.
• Fire, ice, and storm giants are spellcasters attacking with their respective elements. (This includes Surtr).
• Water elementals and gray oozes now have passive rusting attacks.
• Zombies recover when killed. Unlike other variants, they won't infect you with anything (besides food poisoning).
• Elemental spheres explode with actual explosions, and do so when killed.
• The old three nymphs are merged into just "nymph".
• Mind flayers and master mind flayers are now on 'U' instead of 'h'.
• Master liches and arch-liches are no longer valid polymorph forms, so you won't get erased from halfway across the level by a chameleon.
• Mummies now do bad things to you when you kill them. This can include magical damage, attribute loss, and cursing your items.
• Piercers are significantly more accurate with their drop attacks, and hit for double their bite damage with them.
• Quivering blobs are now speed 3 (up from 1), can paralyze with their touch attack, and passively paralyze attackers.
• Centipedes are now speed 8 (up from 4).
• Violet fungi are now sessile, but have a strength-damaging passive attack.
• Krakens are now speed 12 (up from 3).
• All nagas can now attempt to constrict you.
• Glass golems have intrinsic reflection.
• Mindless monsters pathfind less cautiously.
• Ghost melee attacks inflict slowness.
• Major demons that offer bribes want constant (and rather steep) amounts of money.

New Monsters:

• Wyverns, faster dragons with thinner skins. At the start of every game, for each color, either its corresponding dragon or wyvern is randomly genocided.
• Hellkittens, hellcats, nightcalves, and nightmares; all cousins of the hellhound
• Slime serpents, which spit green slime
• Woolly mammoths, tyrannosaurus rexes, velociraptors, pterodactyls, saber-toothed cats
• Red lights, which make you come to a stop
• A bunch of less fancy critters not worth listing here yet