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''Tip:'' Whenever you find an unknown wand on the floor, take it and add it to your inventory. Do not make the mistake of allowing some [[kobold]] to later grab that wand and zap you with [[lightning]]. | ''Tip:'' Whenever you find an unknown wand on the floor, take it and add it to your inventory. Do not make the mistake of allowing some [[kobold]] to later grab that wand and zap you with [[lightning]]. | ||
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| + | The idea of a gnome with a wand of death has been about for some considerable time; [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/df380142b739519c first use of the meme] in [[rgrn]] appears to have been by [[Torsten Edelmann]] in 1996, and it is [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/519c9b8dc397ab4a described as ''proverbial''] by 2002. | ||
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Revision as of 09:49, 14 June 2008
Intelligent monsters can be generated with attack wands; this includes both very weak monsters, and very powerful wands. In the extreme case, Random Number God will dispatch a gnome with a wand of death – a proverbial unfair way to die. In the webcomic Dudley's dungeon, this gnome is formally named the Gnome With The Wand Of Death, or GWTWOD.
Such well-armed creatures sometimes appear very early in the game when the player has no means of defense, especially in the Gnomish Mines.
Tip: Whenever you find an unknown wand on the floor, take it and add it to your inventory. Do not make the mistake of allowing some kobold to later grab that wand and zap you with lightning.
Origin
The idea of a gnome with a wand of death has been about for some considerable time; first use of the meme in rgrn appears to have been by Torsten Edelmann in 1996, and it is described as proverbial by 2002.
