Sanity - Revision history

Chris: /* Losing sanity */ Add a table linking self-exam messages to san ranges

2026-02-06T19:08:41Z

‎Losing sanity: Add a table linking self-exam messages to san ranges

2024-12-27T22:27:26Z

‎Permanent Madnesses: potholes

2024-10-19T16:02:37Z

some potholes

2024-10-16T08:09:25Z

potholes

2024-10-16T08:06:40Z

lede + cats

2024-10-16T05:55:15Z

Explicitly mention min/max/starting sanity

2024-10-15T06:46:26Z

add sanity check rules

2024-06-21T07:35:26Z

span tags for talons - should do the rest some other time

2024-05-13T17:45:06Z

* Permanent Madnesses *

2024-05-13T17:35:47Z

confirmed that detecting w/o sight doesn't grant madness

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:08, 6 February 2026
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	<big>'''Major spoilers for dNetHack are contained below this point. Read further at your own risk.'''</big>		<big>'''Major spoilers for dNetHack are contained below this point. Read further at your own risk.'''</big>
		+
		+	== Self-exam message ranges ==
		+	{\| class="wikitable"
		+	! Message
		+	! Sanity score
		+	\|-
		+	\| You are quite insane.
		+	\| 0
		+	\|-
		+	\| You constantly struggle with insanity.
		+	\| 1–9
		+	\|-
		+	\| You frequently struggle with insanity.
		+	\| 10–24
		+	\|-
		+	\| You periodically struggle with insanity.
		+	\| 25–49
		+	\|-
		+	\| You occasionally struggle with insanity.
		+	\| 50–74
		+	\|-
		+	\| You rarely struggle with insanity.
		+	\| 75–89
		+	\|-
		+	\| You are a little touched in the head.
		+	\| 90–99
		+	\|-
		+	\| ''No message shown.''
		+	\| 100
		+	\|}

	==Losing sanity==		==Losing sanity==

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 |-
 | Suicidal
-| [[Orcus]]
+| [[Orcus (dNetHack)]]
 | Intermittently causes greatly reduced AC. Consistently causes you to take extra damage in combat.
 |-
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 |-
 | Overlord
-| [[Asmodeus]]
+| [[Asmodeus (dNetHack)]]
 | Intermittently causes a player to feel the burning gaze of the Overlord, causing weakness and burning possessions. The madness is only conferred upon Asmodeus' death, rather than seeing him.
 |-

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 |-
 | Rage
-| [[Baphomet]]
+| [[Baphomet (dNetHack)]]
 | Causes reduced AC, reduced spell success, and increased damage.
 |-
 | Argent Sheen
-| [[Graz'zt]]
+| [[Graz'zt (dNetHack)]]
 | Intermittently causes monsters to panic, lose turns, and gain reflection for a turn; causes players to deal reduced spell damage to monsters. Additionally, intermittently causes players to stop and admire oneself in a mirror, losing turns. Causes increased damage from male humanoids and centaurs.
 |-
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 |-
 | Paranoia
-| [[Demogorgon]]
+| [[Demogorgon (dNetHack)]]
 | Intermittently causes a player to attack a monster's hallucinatory twin instead of the monster itself. Causes a player to have a hard time discerning the location of unseen monsters.
 |-
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 |-
 | Helminthophobia ("fear of being infested by worms")
-| The [[Elder priest]]
+| The [[elder priest]]
 | Intermittently causes a player's attacks against worms and tentacled monsters to fail. Causes players to take increased damage from worms and tentacles.
 |-

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:09, 16 October 2024
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−	'''Sanity''' is a feature that appears in [[~~dNethack~~]], [[~~notdNethack~~]] and [[~~notnotdNethack~~]]. It represents the player's mental well-being in response to the various horrors encountered during the game.	+	'''Sanity''' is a feature that appears in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]]. It represents the player's mental well-being in response to the various horrors encountered during the game.

	A player's sanity is rated on a scale from 100 to 0, and the player starts with 100 sanity. As a player's sanity rating drops below 100, a player becomes susceptible to various delusions, compulsions, and conditions that may be inflicted during the game.		A player's sanity is rated on a scale from 100 to 0, and the player starts with 100 sanity. As a player's sanity rating drops below 100, a player becomes susceptible to various delusions, compulsions, and conditions that may be inflicted during the game.

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-'''Sanity''' is a feature specific to [[dNethack]]. It represents the player's mental well-being in response to the various horrors encountered during the game.
+'''Sanity''' is a feature that appears in [[dNethack]], [[notdNethack]] and [[notnotdNethack]]. It represents the player's mental well-being in response to the various horrors encountered during the game.
 A player's sanity is rated on a scale from 100 to 0, and the player starts with 100 sanity. As a player's sanity rating drops below 100, a player becomes susceptible to various delusions, compulsions, and conditions that may be inflicted during the game.
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 * Receiving a course of tranquilizers from a [[nurse]]. This behaves like a blessed sleeping potion, with 15 sanity restored per course.
 {{variant-343}}
-[[Category:DNethack]]
+[[Category:dNetHack strategy]]

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 | Hedrow shared quest "nemesis" level
 | -30
 |}

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 | Intermittently causes a player to attack a monster's hallucinatory twin instead of the monster itself. Causes a player to have a hard time discerning the location of unseen monsters.
 |-
-| Talons
+|<span id="Talons">Talons</span>
 | [[Lamashtu]]
 | Intermittently causes a player to panic after losing or releasing an item.

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 ===Permanent Madnesses===
-These madnesses are mostly conferred by seeing certain monsters, usually demon lords/princes. Detecting the monsters through telepathy, monster detection, and so on (probably?) does not give you the madness, unless they are adjacent.
+These madnesses are mostly conferred by seeing certain monsters, usually demon lords/princes. Detecting the monsters through telepathy, monster detection, and so on will not confer the madness, unless they are adjacent.
 {| class="wikitable" width="80%"