Centaur (monster attribute)
- This article is about the monster attribute. For other uses of the term, see centaur.
The centaur is a monster attribute in some variants of NetHack that indicates when a monster should be considered as a centaur or sufficiently related to centaurs as a whole, which naturally includes the monsters within the centaur monster class.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, some racial monsters can be generated as centaurs, specifically player monsters of appropriate roles as well as shopkeepers, aligned priests and high priests that are not chaotic or neutral, and mercenaries that are not captains or watch captains. The other following monsters are also considered to be centaurs:
Centaur heroes are represented by the centaur monster, and other centaurs are considered to be of the same race—this does not prevent a centaur hero from polymorphing into the other three centaurs, though cannibalism and same-race sacrifice of other centaurs will function as normal. Centaur monsters that are not explicitly generated as hostile or peaceful will always be generated as peaceful towards centaur heroes, and will always be hostile towards heroes that are humans, illithids, drow, draugr, vampires, or demons (including crowned Infidels).
Centaurs that can wear armor are capable of wearing all types of armor except for boots, and a hero or monster that is wearing boots when they polymorph into a centaur will have them pushed off their feet.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, some racial monsters can be generated as centaurs, specifically player monsters of appropriate roles as well as shopkeepers, aligned priests, high priests, and mercenaries that are not captains or watch captains. The other following monsters are also considered centaurs:
Most of the same qualities in EvilHack apply to centaurs in Hack'EM, with the following exceptions:
- Centaur monsters that are not explicitly generated as hostile or peaceful will always be generated as peaceful towards centaur heroes, and will always be hostile towards heroes that are humans, illithids, doppelgangers, draugr, or demons (including crowned Infidels)—chaotic centaurs will sometimes generate as peaceful for vampire heroes.
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