Talk:Dying

Character Death or Monster Death?

This page has been both in the past; currently both meanings point here in many cases. Clearly one or the other is more important for different people.

I propose that this page is moved to "Death (character)" and "Death (disambiguation)" is cleaned up and moved here. Then at worst links to "Death/death" link to a disambiguation page, rather than the wrong page. This is per NetHackWiki:Style guide, as it seems neither use dominates.

--Rogerb-on-NAO 22:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

List of death messages?

I've been looking around, and it seems that there's no single list of the various death messages in NetHack and how they happen. ADOM has such a list, and I think this wiki needs one, too. --Luigifan18 (talk) 19:28, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I approve of this idea wholeheartedly. --Kahran042 (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Move to Death (player) or Death (player character)

I know NetHack is not story driven, but in the excuse plot the game does have, unique monsters like Death would definitely qualify as "characters". What do people think of moving this page to something like Death (player) or Death (player character)? -Ion frigate (talk) 08:05, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Former of the two appeals to me more. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 08:23, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

The problem with those is that they can both be interpreted as proper nouns (a player or player character named Death). This page is more about character death, or the act of dying. I would suggest Dying, which is currently a redirect to the disambiguation page, but it seems like anyone searching for it would most likely mean character death instead of the other disambiguation entries. Cathartes (talk) 17:38, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that Dying is best - I've moved it there. Thanks! -Ion frigate (talk) 23:34, 10 November 2023 (UTC)