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Currently Nameless Variant Changelog:

Rules Changes:

• Poison damage onto the player won't be deadly.
• Fire traps just do 6d6 fire damage instead of hurting max HP.
• Exp formulas adjusted. Requirements are similar to FIQHack, but yields have also been adjusted somewhat.
• Max HP and Pw formulas changed. They are now deterministic, and changes to Con and Wis affect them retroactively.
• Because of this, max HP gains from nurse dancing, potions of healing, etc. now have a universal cap of (5 * XL).
• Resistances gained from eating corpses are temporary.
• Scimitar and Saber skills merged into Saber skill.
• Club, Mace, and Morningstar skills merged into Mace skill.
• New skill: Heavy Armor. Increases AC gain from scale mail and heavier, and offsets the weight of body armor.
• Alignment record no longer increases from killing (most) monsters.
• You gain alignment record every 1000 turns spent with positive alignment, no prayer timeout, and no god wrath.
• You can dip into pools in adjacent tiles.

Role/Race changes:

• Female samurai trade their katana for a +1 naginata.
• Valkyries trade their long swords for a spear.
• New race: Kobold. Mediocre stats, but they gain searching at XL4 and flight at XL20. They start with a baby lizard.
• "New" role: Convict, mostly same as the convict patch.

Branch and special floor changes:

• The dungeon is now much shorter; the Sanctum is always Level 35.
• None of the demon lord lairs are guaranteed to spawn.
• Sokoban floors no longer spawn random monsters until they're solved.
• The Oracle now sells enlightenment and object identification.
• Quest requires XL10 instead of XL14.
• New mini-branch: Tomb of the Ancients, a small complex full of mummies, other undead, and the dreaded Khufu.
• Magic chests can be found at Mine's End, Delphi, the Castle, the Tomb, and by the Wizard of Yendor.

Item Changes:

• Object materials system is implemented, similar to Evilhack. Orcs don't hate mithril, and elves cannot handle iron at all.
• Polearms require less skill to attack at angles.
• Speed boots give Fast speed. The wand of speed monster gives temporary Very Fast, like the potion of speed.
• Uncursed spellbooks always warn if too hard to read (like they do for Wizards).
• Successfully using a unicorn horn frequently breaks it at +0, and lowers the enchantment otherwise.
• Scalpels can be applied to (attempt to) cure sickness and sliming at the cost of significant HP.
• Bags of devouring; destroys anything you put in it.
• Robes work as body armor like in Slash'em, and come in magic varieties.
• Magic chests; extremely heavy linked containers that appear in various places for ease of stash management.
• Masks; magic items that indefinitely polymorph you into the creature depicted on them when worn. Uncursed ones often break when removed.

Artifacts:

• Swiftsoles, guaranteed first sacrifice gift for rogues. They're old-style speed boots.
• Book of Exalted Deeds and Book of Vile Darkness, first sacrifice gifts for co-aligned priests. They create altars when read.
• The Longbow of Diana has a +1 multi-shot bonus if the user is a Ranger.
• The Arbalest of Artemis; basically identical to the Longbow of Diana, and replaces it for gnomish rangers.
• Luckblade, the Convict's first sacrifice gift.

Old Monsters:

• Fire, ice, and storm giants are spellcasters attacking with their respective elements.
• Water elementals and gray oozes now have passive rusting attacks.
• Zombies recover when killed. Unlike other variants, they won't infect you with anything (besides food poisoning).
• Elemental spheres explode with actual explosions, and do so when killed.
• The old three nymphs are merged into just "nymph".
• Mind flayers and master mind flayers are now on 'U' instead of 'h'.
• Master liches and arch-liches are no longer valid polymorph forms, so you won't get erased from halfway across the level by a chameleon.
• Mummies now do bad things to you when you kill them. This can include magical damage, attribute loss, and cursing your items.
• Piercers are significantly more accurate with their drop attacks, and hit for double their bite damage with them.
• Quivering blobs are now speed 3 (up from 1), can paralyze with their touch attack, and passively paralyze attackers.
• Centipedes are now speed 8 (up from 4).
• Violet fungi are now sessile, but have a strength-damaging passive attack.
• Krakens are now speed 12 (up from 3).

New Monsters:

• Hellkittens, hellcats, nightcalves, and nightmares; all cousins of the hellhound
• Slime serpents, which spit green slime
• Woolly mammoths, tyrannosaurus rexes, velociraptors, pterodactyls, saber-toothed cats
• Red lights, which make you come to a stop
• A bunch of less fancy critters not worth listing here yet