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:

• Quaffing potions of gain level
• Eating wraith corpses
• Lying with foocubi
• 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 your 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.

Chaotic characters gain one point of alignment each time they sleep with a foocubus, which is also a good way to gain experience.

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. Giving a priest of your alignment (hope for a co-aligned minetown altar) 600 times your level in gold will raise your alignment two points, but only if you don't have more than 2 times that amount of gold in your inventory at the time. So stash away all the gold you're not giving to the priest in a bag, then give to charity!

You can get a slightly better deal once you've bought the first 9 points of protection from that co-aligned priest. After that, if you spend 400 times your level in gold you have a decreasing chance of getting an extra point of protection. If you don't get that protection, the check is done again to see if this amount is more than half your current gold. If it is, then you get two points of alignment instead.

Sacrificing unicorns of other alignments is probably the next easiest way to raise your alignment as a neutral character.

Neutral atheist pacifists have an especially hard time raising their alignment. The only method available to them is to anger a cross-aligned priest. Ben Hiles has ascended an atheist pacifist Gnomish Wizard this way.

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.