Saving grace - Revision history

Phol ende wodan: saving grace was removed; add notes about that, and add historical note to the main article, add defunct features category

2026-05-02T14:18:10Z

saving grace was removed; add notes about that, and add historical note to the main article, add defunct features category

Phol ende wodan: protection vs multiple damages in 1 turn, does not protect against player's own actions, does not save you from wand of death

2026-01-24T14:34:28Z

protection vs multiple damages in 1 turn, does not protect against player's own actions, does not save you from wand of death

Phol ende wodan: reformat and expand on this a bit

2026-01-23T19:36:56Z

reformat and expand on this a bit

Phol ende wodan: Move upcoming template to very top of page to indicate everything on it is in the upcoming version. Move stub notice to bottom.

2024-12-17T02:18:51Z

Move upcoming template to very top of page to indicate everything on it is in the upcoming version. Move stub notice to bottom.

Paxed: stubbing

2024-05-08T14:58:47Z

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'''Saving grace''' is a hidden mechanic which will save you from dying once per game, leaving you with 1 HP.

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Saving grace triggers if you take damage from a single source when saving grace has not been used up, your current HP is above 90% of maximum, and the damage you would take is more or equal than your HP. There is no indication that saving grace was used up. It will also stop multi-turn actions, sleeping, and fainting.

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-'''Saving grace''' is a hidden mechanic which will save you from dying from HP loss once per game, leaving you with 1 HP.
+As of {{commit|ec7781b996c66a9c600ed7a7f40dad88d1bc0c4d}}, saving grace has been '''removed''' entirely from the game, based on a few reasons: players were already too aware of and reliant on it; several common instadeath sources had been mitigated in the meantime; and it was becoming overly complex with every potential source of damage needing to be classified as saving-grace-eligible or not.
 Saving grace triggers if you take damage from a single source when saving grace has not been used up, your current HP is above 90% of maximum, and the damage you would take is more or equal than your HP. It will also stop multi-turn actions, sleeping, and fainting. Once it triggers, your HP is prevented from being reduced below 1 until the end of the current turn or until you get another action, which avoids the case in which you get zapped with a ray, reduced to 1 HP from the first hit, and then finished off when it bounces and hits you again.
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-'''Saving grace''' is a hidden mechanic which will save you from dying once per game, leaving you with 1 HP.
+'''Saving grace''' is a hidden mechanic which will save you from dying from HP loss once per game, leaving you with 1 HP.
-Saving grace triggers if you take damage from a single source when saving grace has not been used up, your current HP is above 90% of maximum, and the damage you would take is more or equal than your HP. It will also stop multi-turn actions, sleeping, and fainting.
+Saving grace triggers if you take damage from a single source when saving grace has not been used up, your current HP is above 90% of maximum, and the damage you would take is more or equal than your HP. It will also stop multi-turn actions, sleeping, and fainting. Once it triggers, your HP is prevented from being reduced below 1 until the end of the current turn or until you get another action, which avoids the case in which you get zapped with a ray, reduced to 1 HP from the first hit, and then finished off when it bounces and hits you again.
 Whether or not saving grace triggered is shown in the end-of-game disclosure, but it is impossible to know its status before then unless one of the following two things is true: