Abbreviations
Writing about NetHack can be cumbersome where item names are concerned. A system of abbreviations has arisen to make this quicker:
- Instead of writing "blessed" or "cursed", write "b" or "c"
- Instead of writing the type of an item, use its symbol: "?!+=/
- Instead of writing "of", write "o"
- Instead of writing the name of an item, use its first letters
Some common examples:
- c!oGL
- cursed potion of gain level
- b!oFH
- blessed potion of full healing
- "oLS
- amulet of life saving
- +oCM
- spellbook of create monster
- +oMM
- spellbook of magic missile
- (or spellbook of magic mapping)
- =oSD
- ring of slow digestion
- /oD
- wand of death
- /oW
- wand of wishing
This scheme is ambiguous for several items, so it's common to extend the fourth rule in cases such as:
- ?oTele, ?oTel
- scroll of teleportation
- !oHallu
- potion of hallucination
Other popular items have developed abbreviations and acronyms of their own:
- GDSM
- gray dragon scale mail
- SDSM
- silver dragon scale mail
- *DSM
- any dragon scale mail
- GoP
- gauntlets of power
- GoD
- gauntlets of dexterity
- HoOA
- helm of opposite alignment
- CoMR
- cloak of magic resistance
- BoH
- bag of holding
- unihorn
- unicorn horn
- FoD
- finger of death spell
- SoA
- The Staff of Aesculapius
- AoY
- Amulet of Yendor
- MB
- Magicbane
- MKoT
- The [[The Master Key of Thievery]
Nicknames
A few items are popular or notorious enough to have acquired a nickname:
- Mojo
- Mjollnir
- Vorpy
- Vorpal Blade
- Frosty
- Frost Brand
- Stormy
- Stormbringer
- The Staff of Misspelling, The Staff of Asparagus
- The Staff of Aesculapius
- The Eye, The Eye of Tapioca, EotA
- The Eye of the Aethiopica
- The Orb of Weight
- The Orb of Fate
- The finger
- the finger of death spell
- The Eyes
- The Eyes of the Overworld (not to be confused with "the Eye")
