Convict/SpliceHack

In SpliceHack, the Convict is a role available to the hero that is incorporated from the original Convict Role patch against NetHack 3.4.3 by Karl Garrison.

Convicts are always chaotic, which overrides normal alignment restrictions, and can be played as humans, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, or vampires.

Starting inventory

Each Convict starts with the following "equipment":

• a cursed striped shirt
• some rocks

Convicts start with knowledge of the skeleton key, the grappling hook and any applicable racial equipment.

Orcish Convicts are exempt from the extra food given to orcs of most other roles, since there is no equipment replaced (as they barely have any at all).

The Convict's default starting pet is a sewer rat named Nicodemus.

Intrinsics

Convicts gain the following intrinsic properties upon reaching the given experience levels:

• XL 1: Sickness resistance
• XL 7: Poison resistance
• XL 20: Automatic searching

Attributes

The Convict's starting attributes are distributed as follows:

Attributes	Strength	Dexterity	Constitution	Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma	Remaining
Minimum attributes	10	7	13	7	7	6	25
Distribution percentages	20%	20%	20%	20%	10%	10%

Skills

Convicts in SpliceHack have the following skills available to them:

Convict skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: mace, short sword Spells: attack Combat: sunder, tumbling
Skilled	Weapons: dagger, hammer, dart, sling Combat: bare hands, two weapon combat
Expert	Weapons: knife, pick-axe, club, flail Spells: escape Combat: rat tamer

Convicts start with no skills trained to Basic. They use the intelligence stat to cast spells, and their special spell is teleport away.

Special rules

Convicts start the game punished, with an alignment record of -10.

Convicts start each game with 200 nutrition, and they burn nutrition at half the normal rate while they are at least hungry.

Convicts cannot switch into other roles, though heroes of other roles can switch into Convict.

A Convict cannot tame domestic animals with food, which renders them peaceful at most, but has a chance of pacifying or taming rats by chatting to them.

Convicts can train the flail skill while using a heavy iron ball as a weapon.

Watchmen, watch captains and guards that see an unpolymorphed Convict will become hostile.

Monsters of races that would normally be friendly to the hero will be generated hostile for Convicts.

Rank titles

The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:

• XL 1-2: Detainee
• XL 3-5: Inmate
• XL 6-9: Jail-bird
• XL 10-13: Prisoner
• XL 14-17: Outlaw
• XL 18-21: Crook
• XL 22-25: Desperado
• XL 26-29: Felon
• XL 30: Fugitive

Gods

The Convict pantheon is based on deities worshiped by the human inhabitants of Faerûn in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons. Their first gift is Luck Blade, which is unaltered from the original patch.

• Lawful: Ilmater
• Neutral: Grumbar
• Chaotic: Tymora

Quest

The Convict's quest sees them fight Warden Arianna for The Iron Ball of Liberation, an artifact heavy iron ball that grants magic resistance, stealth, automatic searching, and warning while carried. Invoking The Iron Ball of Liberation chains the artifact to the Convict, unchaining any existing mundane iron ball if necessary, and grants phasing for 51-150 turns.

Strategy

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