Izchak - Revision history

Furey: http -> https for nethack.org. nethack.org emits red-letter warning for http.

2024-06-21T00:15:30Z

http -> https for nethack.org. nethack.org emits red-letter warning for http.

Furey: Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

2024-06-18T10:45:00Z

Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

Furey: "The November NetHack Tournament" -> "TNNT (the game)". Also don't need to mention historical behavior.

2024-06-14T22:51:35Z

"The November NetHack Tournament" -> "TNNT (the game)". Also don't need to mention historical behavior.

Netzhack: /* Encyclopaedia entry */ Soften line breaks

2023-02-10T16:38:54Z

‎Encyclopaedia entry: Soften line breaks

Andrio Celos: /* Variants */ The November NetHack Tournament

2022-11-11T07:22:25Z

‎Variants: The November NetHack Tournament

Umbire the Phantom at 17:02, 26 March 2022

2022-03-26T17:02:56Z

Umbire the Phantom: probably meant lighting shop, which just redirects to shop anyway

2022-03-18T10:50:47Z

probably meant lighting shop, which just redirects to shop anyway

Ardub23 at 02:54, 18 March 2022

2022-03-18T02:54:32Z

Umbire the Phantom: /* Etiquette */

2022-02-02T11:07:52Z

‎Etiquette

Wingedcatgirl: /* Etiquette */

2020-08-02T22:20:42Z

‎Etiquette

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 ==History==
-[[Izchak Miller]] was one of the founding members of the ''NetHack'' [[DevTeam]]. Professor Miller passed away on the 1st of April, 1994, at the age of 58, from complications due to cancer. The DevTeam added Izchak the shopkeeper into the game in [[NetHack 3.2.0]] as a tribute, inspired partly by his work on the shopkeeper code. The character on the [http://www.nethack.org/common/scrn3b.gif navigation imagemap] on the ''NetHack'' site is also named after him.
+[[Izchak Miller]] was one of the founding members of the ''NetHack'' [[DevTeam]]. Professor Miller passed away on the 1st of April, 1994, at the age of 58, from complications due to cancer. The DevTeam added Izchak the shopkeeper into the game in [[NetHack 3.2.0]] as a tribute, inspired partly by his work on the shopkeeper code. The character on the [https://www.nethack.org/common/scrn3b.gif navigation imagemap] on the ''NetHack'' site is also named after him.
 ==Etiquette==

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 ===TNNT (the game)===
-In [[TNNT|TNNT (the game)]], the reward for completing the [[The DevTeam Office|dev team's quest]], the [[Really Cool Shirt]], is not given if you personally killed Izchak previously.
+In [[TNNT (the game)]], the reward for completing the [[The DevTeam Office|dev team's quest]], the [[Really Cool Shirt]], is not given if you personally killed Izchak previously.
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==

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 In [[EvilHack]], Izchak is the only shopkeeper to have a special response if killed.
-===The November NetHack Tournament===
+===TNNT (the game)===
-In [[The November NetHack Tournament]] from 2022 onward, the reward for completing the [[The DevTeam Office|dev team's quest]], the [[Really Cool Shirt]], is not given if you personally killed Izchak previously.
+In [[TNNT|TNNT (the game)]], the reward for completing the [[The DevTeam Office|dev team's quest]], the [[Really Cool Shirt]], is not given if you personally killed Izchak previously.
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==

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 ==Encyclopaedia entry==
 {{encyclopedia|
-The shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the
+The shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large number of us.  Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute) as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release.  Izchak was a professor of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at Xerox PARC.  Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project, and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former mailing list address).  Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between members of the development teams.  Izchak Miller passed away at the age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from complications due to cancer.  We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his memory.
 |[ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]
 }}

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 ===EvilHack===
 In [[EvilHack]], Izchak is the only shopkeeper to have a special response if killed.
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==

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 {{otheruses|the in-game shopkeeper|the DevTeam member|Izchak Miller}}
-'''Izchak''' is a special [[shopkeeper]] who runs the lighting [[shop]] in [[Minetown]]. He has a slightly different conversational repertoire from other shopkeepers, and has a fixed [[gender]] (like tool shop owners, but unlike other shopkeepers), but is otherwise identical for game purposes.
+In ''[[NetHack]]'', '''Izchak''' is a special [[shopkeeper]] who runs the lighting [[shop]] in [[Minetown]]. He has a fixed [[gender]] (like tool shop owners, but unlike other shopkeepers) and a slightly different conversational repertoire from other shopkeepers, but is otherwise identical for game purposes.
-== History ==
+==History==
-[[Izchak Miller]] was one of the founding members of the ''NetHack'' [[DevTeam]]. Professor Miller passed away on the 1st of April, 1994, at the age of 58, from complications due to cancer. The DevTeam put Izchak the shopkeeper into the game as a tribute, inspired partly by his work on the shopkeeper code. The character on the [http://www.nethack.org/common/scrn3b.gif navigation imagemap] on the ''NetHack'' site is also named after him.
+[[Izchak Miller]] was one of the founding members of the ''NetHack'' [[DevTeam]]. Professor Miller passed away on the 1st of April, 1994, at the age of 58, from complications due to cancer. The DevTeam added Izchak the shopkeeper into the game in [[NetHack 3.2.0]] as a tribute, inspired partly by his work on the shopkeeper code. The character on the [http://www.nethack.org/common/scrn3b.gif navigation imagemap] on the ''NetHack'' site is also named after him.
-== Etiquette ==
+==Etiquette==
-Although there are no special in-game penalties for doing so, many players consider it extremely poor form to kill this particular shopkeeper. The ''NetHack'' community itself is somewhat divided on this issue&mdash;in [[Libera|#nethack]], it's rare to see someone reprimand another player for killing him (although most people try to avoid it); in [[RGRN]], at least several vocal regulars will usually reprimand any transgressions; and the wiki itself sees a broad mix of editors' opinions.
+Although there are no special in-game penalties for doing so, many players consider it extremely poor form to kill this particular shopkeeper. The ''NetHack'' community itself is somewhat divided on this issue&mdash;in [[Libera|#nethack]], it's rare to see someone reprimand another player for killing him (although most people still try to avoid it); in [[RGRN]], at least several vocal regulars will usually reprimand any transgressions; and the wiki itself sees a broad mix of editors' opinions.
 For [[extinctionist]] games, it is considered acceptable to leave Izchak alive -- there is no "official" definition of extinctionism, and most automated definitions, e.g. the ones used at the [[:/dev/null/nethack tournament]], care only about the monster kill and born counters and extinction flag and thus do not require Izchak's death in particular anyway. Getting these up to their maximum values for [[shopkeeper]]s can be done via repeatedly killing, resurrecting, and rekilling any shopkeeper; an extinctionist game would likely want to do this anyway to gain 120 or 255 shopkeeper kills.
-== Variants ==
+==Variants==
-In [[Slash'EM Extended]], killing Izchak will result in a [[wide-angle disintegration beam]] killing the player.
+===xNetHack===
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==
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 |[ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]
 }}
+{{nethack-366}}
 [[Category:Monsters]]
 [[Category:Unique monsters]]

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 == Etiquette ==
-Although there are no special in-game penalties for doing so, many players consider it extremely poor form to kill this particular shopkeeper. The NetHack community itself is somewhat divided on this issue&mdash;in [[Freenode|#nethack]], it's rare to see someone reprimand another player for killing him (although most people try to avoid it); in [[RGRN]], at least several vocal regulars will usually reprimand any transgressions; and the wiki itself sees a broad mix of editors' opinions.
+Although there are no special in-game penalties for doing so, many players consider it extremely poor form to kill this particular shopkeeper. The NetHack community itself is somewhat divided on this issue&mdash;in [[Libera|#nethack]], it's rare to see someone reprimand another player for killing him (although most people try to avoid it); in [[RGRN]], at least several vocal regulars will usually reprimand any transgressions; and the wiki itself sees a broad mix of editors' opinions.
 For [[extinctionist]] games, it is considered acceptable to leave Izchak alive -- there is no "official" definition of extinctionism, and most automated definitions, e.g. the ones used at the [[:/dev/null/nethack tournament]], care only about the monster kill and born counters and extinction flag and thus do not require Izchak's death in particular anyway. Getting these up to their maximum values for [[shopkeeper]]s can be done via repeatedly killing, resurrecting, and rekilling any shopkeeper; an extinctionist game would likely want to do this anyway to gain 120 or 255 shopkeeper kills.