Archeologist/dNetHack
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In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the Archeologist is one of the roles from NetHack that is available to the hero.
Archeologists can be of lawful or neutral alignment, and can be played as humans, dwarves, gnomes, clockwork automata, vampires, or half-dragons.
Starting equipment
Each Archeologist starts with the following equipment before racial adjustments:
- +2 bullwhip (wielded)
- +0 jacket
- +0 fedora
- +0 pair of high boots
- 3 to 6 uncursed food rations
- +1 uncursed pick-axe (alternate weapon)
- uncursed tinning kit (30 to 99 charges)
- uncursed touchstone
- uncursed sack
- 3 to 6 uncursed +0 torches
- uncursed tin opener
- uncursed oil lamp
The Archeologist's default starting pet is a little dog or kitten with equal probability.
Intrinsics
Archeologists gain the following abilities upon reaching the following experience levels:
Attributes
Archeologists have 75 points to distribute among their starting attributes like most other roles unless they are descendants, who have 65 points to distribute.
The Archeologist's starting attributes are distributed as follows:
| Attributes | Strength | Dexterity | Constitution | Intelligence | Wisdom | Charisma | Remaining |
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| Minimum attributes | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 27 (17 for inheritance) |
| Distribution percentages | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 10% | |
| Mean w/ standard deviation (human) | 12.79±2.15 | 9.78±1.63 | 12.50±2.10 | 15.34±1.86 | 15.34±1.86 | 9.51±1.57 |
The means and standard deviations were calculated for NetHack via simulation, whose source code can be found on the role article's talk page, and assumes that all given roles are played as humans—non-human races will have different attribute means as a result of different attribute maximums. Due to the variance in distribution of attributes among roles and races, these calculations may not be wholly accurate to this set of variants.
Skills
Archeologists have the following skills available to them before racial adjustments:
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Archeologists start with Basic skill level in whips, pick-axes and slings: touchstones are classed as sling ammunition, and bug C343-355 is incorporated as a feature. They use the intelligence attribute when casting spells, and their special spell is magic mapping.
Special rules
Archeologists wielding a bullwhip, viperwhip, force whip, or whip saw will prevent themselves from falling through any hole or trap door that they walk into:
- But thanks to your trusty whip ... You don't fall in.
Archeologists can apply uncursed touchstones as if they were blessed to formally identify any gem.
Archeologists suffer a −1 penalty to alignment record for breaking any historic statue.
Non-chaotic archeologists suffer a −3 penalty to alignment record for digging up a headstone, while chaotic archeologists get a +3 bonus for doing the same.
Rank titles
The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:
- XL 1–2: Digger
- XL 3–5: Field Worker
- XL 6–9: Investigator
- XL 10–13: Exhumer
- XL 14–17: Excavator
- XL 18–21: Spelunker
- XL 22–25: Speleologist
- XL 26–29: Collector
- XL 30: Curator
Gods
The Archeologist pantheon is based on Central American mythology, specifically the Aztecs. Their first gift is Xiuhcoatl.
- Lawful: Quetzalcoatl
- Neutral: Camaxtli
- Chaotic: Huhetotl
Huhetotl serves as the chaotic unholy deity for vampire heroes that worship within the pantheon, although vampire Archeologists cannot start as chaotic and must convert from neutral aligment.
Quest
The Archeologist's redesigned quest sees them fight The Minion of Tezcatlipoca for Itlachiayaque, an artifact roundshield. While carried, Itlachiayaque grants magic resistance, telepathy and half spell damage, and while worn it also grants fire resistance and dragonbreath reflection. Invoking Itlachiayaque allows the hero to create a mass of poison clouds, similar to a read scroll of stinking cloud.
Strategy
With the changes to twoweaponing in dNetHack, Archeologists are a lot less capable of leaning on the skill to compensate for their lack of offense, and remain one of the harder roles to get off the ground—thankfully, they become proficient spear users due to the skill set changes and their new first gift in Xiuhcoatl, and can also make decent use of shields; their good mental stats can also lend themselves more to spellcasting builds.
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