Talk:SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM items & monsters

One thing I haven't seen anywhere is a list of items and monsters that are new in SLASH'EM. Now, as we don't even have articles for all NetHack items and monsters yet, it would feel a bit stupid to start adding all SLASH'EM ones in, IMHO. So, maybe one of you SLASH'EM players could create articles called List of new monsters in SLASH'EM and List of new items in SLASH'EM? The format for each would be a table, perhaps in the following manner:

Monster	Symbol	Level	Notes
Cockatrice	c	5	Stones you
Foo	f	123

and

Item	Symbol	Base type	Notes
Stormbringer	)	Broadsword	Artifact. Drains levels.
Bar	(	Fortune cookie

excluding Stormbringer and cockatrice, of course, as they are present in the vanilla NetHack. If needed later, the item names here could be made links and separate articles for each could be created. --ZeroOne 12:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

(I am wondering, though, why do some wiki editors seem to like "list of" articles? Why not new monsters in SLASH'EM and new items in SLASH'EM? --Kernigh 16:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC))

I like this idea. I think the preference for "List of" article names comes from a vague idea that such a list is not a proper article, merely a kind of redirect or index, and hence should be marked as such. We could call the article SLASH'EM bestiary, but bestiary pretty much means "list of monsters".... I would go with "List of" if I had to choose, but I don't have that strong an opinion of it one way or the other. --Jayt 01:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

There are paged for vanilla NetHack named [[monster]] and [[item]]. The former is just a list; the latter points the reader to sublists. The SLASH'EM articles are just as proper and in fact mirror these nicely; they should be at [[monster (SLASH'EM)]] and [[item (SLASH'EM)]]. Generally a SLASH'EM article about a concept already in vanilla should have the same pagename, appended by " (SLASH'EM)" (note the space). Incidentally, this makes linking easier, as [[pagename (SLASH'EM)|]] automatically makes a link named "pagename" to the SLASH'EM article. --Rogerb-on-NAO 00:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

please add strategy links

Would someone knowledgeable please add links to something like "how to survive in slashem"? Tjr 18:16, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

@TJR: Are you soliciting links as in offsite strategy guides, or do you want to see a Wikihack entry? I was thinking it would be fun to have one up but wasn't sure if it was appropriate to multiply the SLASH'EM pages. If there's interest I'd love to put something together so people can share general ideas and a few choice spoilers, but what do you think? Should it be on the SLASH'EM page below the version history or linked separately?Ih fek 19:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)