Big Room
The Big Room is just that. A big room. It is filled with monsters and random items scattered throughout. Because of its size, it is easy for a player to inadvertently find himself surrounded by monsters; therefore, caution should be exercised, especially for weaker players.
It is possible for the Big Room to be the same dungeon level as the entrance portal to your quest. It is also possible that a monster has wandered into a teleportation trap or a level teleporter, so make sure the portal you are about to enter is the correct one.
This is true every time you enter your quest portal, but especially so in the Big Room where monsters can be anywhere.
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Strategy
Upon your arrival, hostile monsters will spot you from much or all of the room, and will immediately move toward you. It is easy to find yourself surrounded.
It is a good idea to use a scroll of earth to create a boulder fort around the upward stairs. The first level of Sokoban has two guaranteed scrolls of earth, which may be useful if you find yourself in a Big Room -- provided, of course, that the stairs to Sokoban aren't in the Big Room.
If you have no ranged attacks, you can break or push away one boulder, so that one and only one square is free for the monsters to approach.
Beyond these pointers, the usual tactics for dealing with multiple foes apply.
Maps
These are the Big Rooms for NetHack 3.4.3. All Big Rooms have nondiggable walls, though digging through the floor is possible -- and may often be a good idea.
Each Big Room has 15 random objects, six random traps, and 28 random monsters.
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Big Room #1
This is the simplest Big Room, a large, fully-lit rectangular room.
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Big Room #2
This is identical to Big Room #1, except that portions of it are dark.
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Big Room #3
This Big Room has niches in the outermost walls and two large columns within it. The initial monsters appear in positions marked M.
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Big Room #4
This one has a "butterfly" shape and four fountains.
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Big Room #5
This one has an oval shape.
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History
Big Room #1 first appears in NetHack 3.1.0. The others first appear in NetHack 3.2.0.
