Scroll of create monster - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ copyedit

2025-10-13T03:38:16Z

‎Strategy: copyedit

Kufat: /* Generation */ Fix scroll name (4.5% probability is correct, only the name was wrong)

2025-10-13T02:55:57Z

‎Generation: Fix scroll name (4.5% probability is correct, only the name was wrong)

Umbire the Phantom: /* History */ move from wand article

2025-01-03T00:55:48Z

‎History: move from wand article

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit pass

2024-12-15T12:46:28Z

copyedit pass

JASON10668: Add languages template.

2024-12-13T09:45:30Z

Add languages template.

Umbire the Phantom: /* FIQHack */

2021-04-18T07:43:49Z

‎FIQHack

Phollenback: fiqhack: scroll of summoning replaces scroll of create monster

2021-04-11T02:22:55Z

fiqhack: scroll of summoning replaces scroll of create monster

Actual-nh: /* Strategy */ Comma

2021-01-12T14:23:05Z

‎Strategy: Comma

Ardub23: /* Reading effects */ Revised to use {{frac}}

2019-08-19T06:52:05Z

‎Reading effects: Revised to use {{frac}}

Phol ende wodan: Update to 3.6.0, no changes

2016-12-19T19:50:18Z

Update to 3.6.0, no changes

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 ==Strategy==
-The scroll of create monster can be used for various purposes, such as generating monsters to kill for [[experience]] or [[corpse]]s to [[sacrifice]], but it is also especially dangerous in the hands of a hostile monster: there is often no means to tell when a monster is carrying a cursed scroll, and a hostile monster that reads one will very often surround you with a group of monsters that are primarily hostile&mdash;most heroes that are put in this situation will want to use an [[escape item]] such as a [[wand of digging]] or a [[wand of teleportation]] immediately or risk [[YASD|being killed in short order]].
+The scroll of create monster can be used for various purposes, such as generating monsters to kill for [[experience]] or [[corpse]]s to [[sacrifice]]. It is also especially dangerous in the hands of a hostile monster: there is often no means to tell when a monster is carrying a cursed scroll, and a monster that reads one will very often surround you with a group of primarily-hostile creatures&mdash;a heroes put in this situation will want to use an [[escape item]] such as a [[wand of digging]] or a [[wand of teleportation]] immediately, or else risk [[YASD|being killed in short order]].
 More advanced uses for the scroll of create monster exist, including deliberately reading it while confused to use the created acid blobs as a buffer against strong monsters&mdash;a hero looking to permanently eliminate the [[Riders]] for bragging rights will read as many of these as possible while confused to fill up the [[Astral Plane]] after killing the Riders, ensuring they have no space to [[revive]] from their corpses.

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 [[Monk]]s may be given a scroll of create monster as the random scroll in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|89|nethack=3.6.7}} [[Wizard]]s may be given a scroll of create monster as any of the three random scrolls in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|167|nethack=3.6.7}}
-Scrolls of taming make up {{frac|9|200}} (4.5%) of all randomly-generated scrolls. General [[store]]s, second-hand bookstores and rare books shops can sell scrolls of create monster.
+Scrolls of create monster make up {{frac|9|200}} (4.5%) of all randomly-generated scrolls. General [[store]]s, second-hand bookstores and rare books shops can sell scrolls of create monster.
 [[Intelligent monster]]s may be [[Monster starting inventory|generated with]] a scroll of teleportation as a [[defensive item]].

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 ==History==
 The scroll of create monster first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial item list for [[Hack 1.0]].
 ==Variants==

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-==Reading effects==
+A '''scroll of create monster''' is a type of [[Magical item|magical]] [[scroll]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''.
-{|class="wikitable"
+==Generation==
-!Case!!Number of monsters created
+[[Monk]]s may be given a scroll of create monster as the random scroll in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|89|nethack=3.6.7}} [[Wizard]]s may be given a scroll of create monster as any of the three random scrolls in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|167|nethack=3.6.7}}
-Monsters can also read this scroll, with the same effects.
+Scrolls of taming make up {{frac|9|200}} (4.5%) of all randomly-generated scrolls. General [[store]]s, second-hand bookstores and rare books shops can sell scrolls of create monster.
-==Identification==
+[[Intelligent monster]]s may be [[Monster starting inventory|generated with]] a scroll of teleportation as a [[defensive item]].
-This scroll self-identifies if you see the new monsters being created.
+Writing a scroll of create monster with a [[magic marker]] takes up 5 to 9 charges.
 ==Strategy==
-This scroll might be used to create monsters for [[sacrifice|sacrificing]], or for killing to gain [[experience level|XP]], but it is also commonly [[wet|blanked]].
+More advanced uses for the scroll of create monster exist, including deliberately reading it while confused to use the created acid blobs as a buffer against strong monsters&mdash;a hero looking to permanently eliminate the [[Riders]] for bragging rights will read as many of these as possible while confused to fill up the [[Astral Plane]] after killing the Riders, ensuring they have no space to [[revive]] from their corpses.
-Advanced players are sometimes interested in reading these scrolls while confused to create massive numbers of acid blobs, e.g., for dispatching the [[Riders]] or as a protective fort against strong monsters.
+==History==
-==FIQHack==
+==Variants==
 In [[FIQHack]], the scroll of create monster is replaced by the [[scroll of summoning]].
-==See also==
+===SpliceHack===
-* [[wand of create monster]]
+While playing as a Cartomancer, each time a monster leaves a corpse, they have a {{frac|2}} chance of dropping a scroll of create monster instead: this scroll is keyed to the type of the monster that was killed, and reading a keyed scroll of create monster that is not cursed will create a tame version of that monster&mdash;a cursed scroll will create a hostile version of the monster. A [[pet]] created this way remains for a minimum of 15 and a maximum of turns equal to the Cartomancer's experience level times four, after which the monster vanishes in a puff of smoke. For other roles reading these special scrolls (e.g. via [[bones]]), the monster created will only last for 5-10 turns.
-{{stub}}
+==References==
 [[Category:Scrolls|Create monster]]

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	==FIQHack==		==FIQHack==
		+	In [[FIQHack]], the scroll of create monster is replaced by the [[scroll of summoning]].

−	~~In [[FIQHack]] the scroll of create monster is replaced by the [[scroll of summoning]].~~
	==See also==		==See also==

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	Advanced players are sometimes interested in reading these scrolls while confused to create massive numbers of acid blobs, e.g., for dispatching the [[Riders]] or as a protective fort against strong monsters.		Advanced players are sometimes interested in reading these scrolls while confused to create massive numbers of acid blobs, e.g., for dispatching the [[Riders]] or as a protective fort against strong monsters.

		+	==FIQHack==
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		+	In [[FIQHack]] the scroll of create monster is replaced by the [[scroll of summoning]].
	==See also==		==See also==

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 |blessed||1
 |-
-|uncursed||72/73 chance of 1; 1/73 chance of 2 to 5
+|uncursed||{{frac|72|73}} chance of 1; {{frac|73}} chance of 2 to 5
 |-
-|cursed||72/73 chance of 13; 1/73 chance of 14 to 17
+|cursed||{{frac|72|73}} chance of 13; {{frac|73}} chance of 14 to 17
 |-
-|confused||72/73 chance of 13 [[acid blob]]s; 1/73 chance of 14 to 17 acid blobs
+|confused||{{frac|72|73}} chance of 13 [[acid blob]]s; {{frac|73}} chance of 14 to 17 acid blobs
 |}

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 [[Category:Scrolls|Create monster]]
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+{{nethack-360}}