Rodney (bot)

This article is about the IRC bot. For other uses, see Rodney.

Rodney is the bot which announces deaths on the #nethack@freenode channel. He also has a simple database in which users can record useful information for each other; many good tips and advice are contained therein.

Functionality

Notable parts of Rodney's functionality:

• Game announcements. Whenever somebody ends a game on nethack.alt.org (whether by death, ascension, escape, or #quit), Rodney will announce that fact in the channel. It is considered good form to remark "Go Team Ant!" when somebody dies to an ant.
  • Rodney now also announces when a player wishes, performs the Invocation, or enters the planes.
  • Rodney also posts to twitter.
• learndb. Any member of the channel can view/add/remove/edit items in Rodney's database. This is a useful repository of information as well as humor. In many ways it's a wiki without history.
• Search past games with the !lg command.
• URL shorthand: "!wl article" returns a link to the wiki article
• Many more, see Rodney bot help.

Maintainers

• dtype was the original programmer.
• paxed has maintained Rodney for some time.

Links

• Rodney homepage with source code and command reference
• Source code of Eidolos' development version
• #nethack IRC channel