Forum:Does NetHack need a terminology cleanup?
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- Magic cancellation and cancellation have nothing to do with each other.
- There are two different things called "magic resistance," of which monsters can have either but players can only have one.
- Potions of sickness can poison weapons and are subject to immunity provided by poison resistance, not sickness resistance.
- Food poisoning causes sickness, not poisoning
And more... Kufat (talk) 00:23, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- The sickness/poison thing really ought to be changed IMO. "Potion of poison" would make more sense (that's even what the presumably inspirational D&D item is called). "Food poisoning" is more understandable, since that term is used in RL for pathogen-caused disease, but it's still weird since there are actually *poisonous* corpses (eg kobolds) too.
