Talk:Polymorph

What is the requirement for breaking out of your armor when polymorphed? Is it strictly based on monster size and if so what size do you have to be to break the armor? Are all monsters that don't break or fall out of armor able to wear it? --Mogri 21:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

1 size up, (medium to large or huge, or into a monster with limbs that don't fit)

I've noticed that occasionally when I'm not using a ring of polymorph control and I eat a chameleon or zap myself with a wand, I'll sometimes transform into the opposite gender. I tried it with the ring of polymorph control, but it doesn't seem to accept gender as an argument. Can anyone verify/explain this? Skylerorlando 23:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

With polymorph control, poly into your own race ("human", "dwarf", "elf", "orc"). It'll run the code in Source:polyself.c#newman, and you'll have a 10% chance to change gender.

Mniot 03:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Esoteric uses of polyself

Let's start a collection of all those creative little tweaks polyself is good for. For a start:

• nymph/leprechaun: re-donate the gold or get the temple priest's robe & books, but retain temple for sanctuary or future donations
• xorn: phase your way to all those gems embedded in stone, hoping for a luckstone (using "detect treasure")

And of course, there are the well-known ones:

• nymph: take your pet archon's artifact weapon in order to enchant it
• make silver/gray dragon scale mail (hatch eggs and wait for them to grow up)
• xorn: eat jewelry for intrinsics (late game)
• gelatinous cube: eat jewelry
• cockatrice: lay eggs to trow on monsters ("stoning grenade")
• cockatrice: petrify monsters that sting, such as Yenooghu (do people really do this?)
• xorn: phase through walls to sneak up on the Named Demons (or the rouge quest nemesis)
• black dragon: breath weapon
• nymph/elemental/vortex/metallivore: get rid of punishment (do people really do this?)

Tjr 06:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

• xorn: phase to steal from a shop, or gain nutrition from junk armor
• giant: pick up boulders stuck against walls, especially on the astral plane
• cockatrice: lay eggs, hatch'em, kill them for a stoning corpse to make statues. I actually did that in the astral plane temple in order to polymorph for gems, the rest of the level was filled with harmless creatures. Tjr 12:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Found external links:

• [[1]]
• [[2]] pretty much answers this question for the early game
• air elemental: travel form

This really takes off if you have both polycontrol and polymorph rings and/or intrinsic. Does monster magic resistance also apply to players in monster form? Tjr 13:57, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

• black pudding: start a pudding farm. You have to let a monster hit you to divide, throwing stuff upwards will not work. Anger the single pudding before you split it. Alternatively, polymorph the tame ones to get powerful pets.
• own race, combined with amulets of life saving, potions of full healing and local wraiths: polyself bug Tjr 12:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

• a pacifist atheist who lost his pet can turn into a gremlin to get a new one out of a fountain. -Tjr 17:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

NOPOLY

So what's up with this tag? I always thought it designated those monsters you cannot polymorph into. Somebody removed that as misleading. So what is it good for? -Tjr 11:21, September 12, 2009 (UTC)