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Umbire the Phantom: /* Common traits */ rephrase again...

2025-02-27T14:11:01Z

‎Common traits: rephrase again...

Umbire the Phantom: /* Common traits */ rephrase

2025-02-27T14:04:26Z

‎Common traits: rephrase

Umbire the Phantom: /* Common traits */ word choice

2025-02-27T13:59:34Z

‎Common traits: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* Common traits */ rearrange, link to an example

2025-02-27T13:29:27Z

‎Common traits: rearrange, link to an example

Umbire the Phantom: It doesn't have to be a reference at all, and in this case it can easily be worked into the "original" sentence

2025-02-27T13:25:27Z

It doesn't have to be a reference at all, and in this case it can easily be worked into the "original" sentence

Ion frigate: reword a bit

2025-02-27T06:48:38Z

reword a bit

Ion frigate: the type of thing that's not going to have a single source ref and may not be intended behavior; most notably affects the werespiders in the spider caves, but there are others (werewolves on yeoman quest, eg)

2025-02-27T06:47:13Z

the type of thing that's not going to have a single source ref and may not be intended behavior; most notably affects the werespiders in the spider caves, but there are others (werewolves on yeoman quest, eg)

Umbire the Phantom: ref

2024-10-22T17:58:15Z

ref

Umbire the Phantom: FCU up to before strategy header, encyc, remove todo

2024-10-22T17:58:01Z

FCU up to before strategy header, encyc, remove todo

Umbire the Phantom: snip

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 Werecreature [[corpse]]s are poisonous to eat, and a hero eating a werecreature corpse or [[tin]] will gain lycanthropy - other monsters cannot be given lycanthropy, but will avoid eating the corpse unless they have poison resistance or else can "eat" the corpse by engulfing, as with [[gelatinous cube]]s (which also have poison resistance anyway).
-Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While random generation of werecreatures in SLASH'EM place them in human form, and they will always use the human form for random generation, some special levels will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters during level generation&mdash;in practice, this only occurs with werespiders in [[The Spider Caves]].<!--or so it seems atm, anyway.-->
+Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While random generation of werecreatures in SLASH'EM place them in human form, and they will always use the human form for random generation, werecreatures can generate in their animal forms during level creation for some special levels if that form is either specified or else is part of the monster class selected for initial generation&mdash;in practice, this only occurs with werespiders in [[The Spider Caves]].<!--or so it seems atm, anyway.-->
 ===Summoning help===

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 Werecreature [[corpse]]s are poisonous to eat, and a hero eating a werecreature corpse or [[tin]] will gain lycanthropy - other monsters cannot be given lycanthropy, but will avoid eating the corpse unless they have poison resistance or else can "eat" the corpse by engulfing, as with [[gelatinous cube]]s (which also have poison resistance anyway).
-Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While a majority of werecreatures in SLASH'EM are generated in human form, some special levels such as [[The Spider Caves]] will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters during level generation.
+Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While random generation of werecreatures in SLASH'EM place them in human form, and they will always use the human form for random generation, some special levels will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters during level generation&mdash;in practice, this only occurs with werespiders in [[The Spider Caves]].<!--or so it seems atm, anyway.-->
 ===Summoning help===

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 Werecreature [[corpse]]s are poisonous to eat, and a hero eating a werecreature corpse or [[tin]] will gain lycanthropy - other monsters cannot be given lycanthropy, but will avoid eating the corpse unless they have poison resistance or else can "eat" the corpse by engulfing, as with [[gelatinous cube]]s (which also have poison resistance anyway).
-Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While a majority of werecreatures in SLASH'EM are generated in human form, some special levels such as [[The Spider Caves]] will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters.
+Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While a majority of werecreatures in SLASH'EM are generated in human form, some special levels such as [[The Spider Caves]] will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters during level generation.
 ===Summoning help===

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 Werecreature [[corpse]]s are poisonous to eat, and a hero eating a werecreature corpse or [[tin]] will gain lycanthropy - other monsters cannot be given lycanthropy, but will avoid eating the corpse unless they have poison resistance or else can "eat" the corpse by engulfing, as with [[gelatinous cube]]s (which also have poison resistance anyway).
-Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. While a majority of werecreatures are generated in human form, some special levels will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire.
+Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire. While a majority of werecreatures in SLASH'EM are generated in human form, some special levels such as [[The Spider Caves]] will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters.
 ===Summoning help===

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 Werecreature [[corpse]]s are poisonous to eat, and a hero eating a werecreature corpse or [[tin]] will gain lycanthropy - other monsters cannot be given lycanthropy, but will avoid eating the corpse unless they have poison resistance or else can "eat" the corpse by engulfing, as with [[gelatinous cube]]s (which also have poison resistance anyway).
-Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures killed in animal form will revert to their human forms when killed<ref>Technically, they will revert to their ''original'' form.  Ordinarily that is their human form as their animal forms do not randomly generate, but on some special levels, werecreature animal forms are either explicitly placed or generated as part of class of monsters.</ref>, though with much lower HP. This makes it possible for them to quickly turn back into their animal forms, meaning that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire.
+Due to the changes in SLASH'EM that make monster [[polymorph]] behave similarly to polymorphing for the [[hero]], werecreatures must be killed in their "original" form (i.e. the form they are generated in at level or monster creation) to be brought down permanently: Werecreatures generated in human form will revert to that form with much lower HP when killed in animal form, and vice versa. While a majority of werecreatures are generated in human form, some special levels will explicitly place werecreatures in their animal forms or generate them as such when creating a class of monsters. This means that a hero can end up "killing" the same werecreature several times before they truly expire.
 ===Summoning help===

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-{{todo|currently splitting into proper monster articles, may merge with main [[werecreature]] article}}
+In [[SLASH'EM]], '''[[werecreature]]s''' behave differently compared to their counterparts in ''[[NetHack]]''.
-Enemy werecreatures also function differently in SLASH'EM: all polymorphed monsters, including lycanthropes, revert to their human forms when killed. Unfortunately, lycanthropes will then often quickly turn back into animals, which must (again) be killed to turn them back into human form, after which they can be banished permanently.
+==List of monsters==
-Werewolves in SLASH'EM do not always start hostile, and Chaotic players may see peaceful randomly generated werewolves.
+* {{monsymlink|wererat}}
-The werespider is an interesting type; the spider form is considered [[oviparous]], so it is possible to acquire lycanthropy as a werespider and lay eggs that will hatch into tame werespiders.
+==Common traits==
 ==Strategy==
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 Although their human forms will not respect [[Elbereth]], animal lycanthropes and their summoned friends will, so even an Elbereth written in the dust can give you breathing room and allow you to plan either your escape or the lycanthrope's demise.
 [[Category:SLASH'EM monsters]]