Human (monster attribute)

This article is about the monster attribute. For other uses of Human, see Human.

Human is a monster attribute that indicates that a monster should be considered "human". It is defined as the macro M2_HUMAN. This is used to determine the following things:

• Whether eating a monster is cannibalism for a human player.
• Whether a sacrifice is of your own race for a human player.
• Whether killing a monster is murder. Killing humans (and only humans) generated peaceful is murder, no matter what your starting race.
• The outcome of an attempt to tame a monster - human monsters cannot be tamed.
• The monster a randomly generated figurine is for. Figurines of human monsters are (almost?) never generated.
• What to give when wishing for a figurine - wishing for a human monster gives a random figurine.
• What to give when wishing for the corpses of quest guardians
• What responses to use when chatting with other roles' quest guardians (possibly created by reverse genocide or found in bones).
• Whether a new form is appropriate when a monster is polymorphing
• Whether monsters respect Elbereth or a scroll of scare monster when you are not standing on it - humans do not. As @ do not respect Elbereth at all, this applies to monsters of other classes with the human attribute, only - currently, this means K Keystone Kops.
• Whether to adjust your alignment record when a monster is genocided. Genociding human monsters reduces the alignment record of lawful adventurers, and increases that of chaotic ones.
• How shopkeepers address you (cosmetic only).
• Whether a werecreature is in human or animal form.

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