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)
- 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. Tjr 12:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
