Pacifist

The pacifist conduct involves not gaining experience from a monster. This means that the usual practice of killing monsters is out of the question; players must instead attack without killing, use a pet to do the dirty work, or simply run away.

Pacifist methods

A pacifist player nearly always uses a passive way of killing monsters, such as with a pet, or with a ring of conflict for larger groups. Scrolls and wands of teleportation are used much more often, to move a high-level monster somewhere else instead of killing it.

Many players use a wish for a "blessed figurine of an Archon", giving them a strong enough pet to attack the Wizard of Yendor, as well as being a great help throughout the rest of the game.

Gaining experience

Experience points can still be gained in a manner that doesn't involve killing things:

• Talking with the Oracle
• Eating tripe
• Quaffing from sinks
• Untrapping squeaky boards

For the full list, see Experience points.

Gaining Alignment

In order to fully take advantage of what you're god can do for you (fix problems) you'll need to have an alignment greater than zero. When you start the game your alignment is set to zero, so it should be increased before you run into your first major trouble. Also, your alignment must be 20 before you'll be allowed on the quest.

With healers or lawful characters, your alignment can be easily raised by healing your pets - you get one alignment point each time you heal them.

With neutral characters, it is a bit more difficult. The easiest technique to get the first couple of points of alignment is to pray after the 300th turn, since your initial prayer timeout is set to 300. This will only work for the first two points of alignment. After that, you can get more alignment by giving priests gold, but this can be done only every 5000 turns. Sacrificing unicorns of other alignments is probably the next easiest way to raise your alignment as a neutral character.

Pacifist ascensions

Pacifist Healers and Wizards are common, but a few other classes have been ascended as pacifists:

• A pacifist Archeologist by Marvin
• A pacifist Rogue by Marvin
• A pacifist Monk (and 8 other conducts too) by Brad Sagarin

No YAPAPs have been posted to RGRN for a Barbarian, Cave(wo)man, Knight, Ranger, Priest, Samurai, Tourist, or Valkyrie.