GnollHack/Score

Score in GnollHack is gained through far-fewer activities than in vanilla NetHack, and is generally retooled to make higher scores more prestigious.

There are four ways to build score in GnollHack:

1. Delving deeper into the dungeon
2. Accomplishing certain things as any class, known as achievements
3. Accomplishing certain things specific to your class, known as role-specific achievements
4. Maintaining conducts all the way to your ascension -- dying with a conduct is worth nothing!

How score is calculated

First the game tallies your base score, and then it applies a bunch of multipliers depending on performance and certain game settings.

Base Score

Base score is calculated by the following:

$BaseScore=$ $(MaxDungeonLevel-1)*1000$ $+(AchievementCount)*50000$ $+(SmallAchievementCount)*5000$ $+(ConductScore)*10000$ $+(RoleScore)$

• $MaxDungeonLevel$ is self-explanatory. (Unfortunately, the Elemental Planes do not add to your score.)
• $AchievementCount$ is the number of notable achievements your current run accomplishes, such as retrieving the Gladstone from Mine's End.
• $SmallAchievementCount$ is the number of small achievements your current run accomplishes, such as reading a novel.
• $ConductScore$ is set to zero on death; otherwise, various conducts add to it, while changing alignment subtracts from it.
• $RoleScore$ is capped at 600000. Every class has an optional quest that can be done once to gain points, along with either an item type that's scored at the end of a run or some repeatable way to get additional points.

GnollHack keeps track of another list of achievements across all runs; only some of them correspond to notable-or-small achievements that actually build score.

Conduct Score

The conduct score only matters if you ascend. Escaping the dungeon (such as through offering the Amulet of Yendor on the wrong high altar) does not count.

Conduct	Score	Summary	Notes
Foodless	50	You never ate a comestible.	Does not preclude vegan or vegetarian. (70 pts total)
Vegan	10	You never ate meat, nor any animal-based comestibles.	Does not preclude vegetarian. (20 pts total)
Vegetarian	10	You never ate meat.
Atheist	15	You never prayed, used an altar, or paid for an aligned priest's services.	Doesn't count offering the Amulet of Yendor.
Pacifist	60	You never killed anything... personally.	Doesn't count letting pets or hirelings kill others.
Weaponless	5	You never hit with a wielded weapon.
Illiterate	30	You never read anything, and you never wrote anything either.	Doesn't count reading random engravings or the Book of the Dead.
Polyless	2	You never polymorphed an object.	Doesn't count monsters, but does count their eggs and corpses.
Polyselfless	2	You never changed form.	Doesn't count polymorphing into your own race, but does count lycanthropy.
Genocideless	15	You never genocided a species with a scroll of genocide.	Doesn't count committing genocide the old-fashioned way.
Wishless	15	You never wished for anything.	Does not preclude artifact wishless. (20 pts total)
Artifact Wishless	5	You never wished for an artifact.	Doesn't count getting artifacts as sacrifice gifts.
Zen	80	You spent the whole run blind.	Requires a settings change. (Putting on a blindfold immediately doesn't count.)
Nudist	60	You spent the whole run naked.	Requires a settings change. (Taking everything off right away doesn't count.)
Elberethless	10	You never engraved "Elbereth".	Doesn't count engraving her last name, Gilthoniel.
Conflictless	15	You never caused conflict.
Boneless	2	You never entered a bones level.	Bones levels can be disabled in the settings, to make this easier.
Petless	2	You spent the whole run without allies.	Requires a settings change. (Killing your starting pet immediately doesn't count.)
Opposite	-20	You put on a helm of opposite alignment.	Possibly here because it lets you trick the alignment system.
Convert	-20	You switched deities and changed alignments.	Can be avoided by never sacrificing on cross-aligned altars.

Role Score

Class	Optional Quest	Quest Score	Extra Score	Extra Scoring
Archeologist	Find and defeat Amonket.	60000	Have artifacts, historic or otherwise: artifacts historic statues sarcophagii mummy wrapping art objects	Varies: artifacts & historic statues: 30000 sarcophagii: 120000 mummy wrapping: 50000 art objects: (value)*6
Barbarian	Possess two artifacts at the same time: If chaotic, collect Stormbringer and Mournblade Otherwise, collect the Vorpal Blade and Cleaver	60000	Collect excellent melee weapons: artifact melee weapons legendary melee weapons	30000 (each)
Cave-Dweller	Get Grand Master skill in Bludgeoning Weapons.	40000	Have amulets. Amulets of the kind you start with don't count.	Varies: amulet of life saving: 70000 others: 15000
Healer	Successfully cast a healing or abjuration spell of at least level 9: full healing globe of invulnerability disjunction	50000	Learn new spells in unrestricted "schools": abjuration divination enchantment healing	4000 + (SpellLevel)*2000
Knight	Find and defeat Asmodeus.	70000	Kill stuff your alignment dislikes: If lawful, kill minor demons, major demons, and chaotic dragons. If chaotic, kill angelic beings and lawful dragons. If neutral, kill the undead.	Varies: For unique monsters: 750 + (difficulty)*750 For non-uniques: 100 + (difficulty)*100
Monk	Get Grand Master skill in Martial Arts.	60000	Ascend with conducts.	(ConductScore)*5000
Priest(ess)	Successfully cast any spell of at least level 10.	50000	Learn new spells in unrestricted "schools": abjuration celestial (while lawful) clerical (doesn't have spells of level-10-or-higher) divination healing (doesn't have spells of level-10-or-higher) nature (while neutral) necromancy (while chaotic)	3000 + (SpellLevel)*1500
Ranger	Get Grand Master skill in Bow or Crossbow.	40000	Collect great ranged weapons and/or ammo: artifact ranged weapons and/or ammo elite ranged weapons and/or ammo mythic or legendary ranged weapons and/or ammo	Varies: ranged weapons: 40000 ammo: 2000
Rogue	Find and defeat Croesus.	50000	Have gold pieces, gems, and art objects.	(value)*5
Samurai	Possess the following artifacts at the same time: Katana of Masamune Kusanagi	100000	Collect high-grade stuff with Japanese names: artifact Japanese items Japanese items of exceptional-or-higher quality mythic or legendary Japanese items	Varies: ammo (i.e. ya): 1500 everything else (i.e. tsurugi): 50000
Tourist	Take a selfie with Demogorgon.	100000	Take selfies with other monsters. Each monster type scores only once.	200 + (difficulty)*200
Valkyrie	Get Grand Master skill in Dual Wielding.	40000	Collect stuff of supernatural quality: If lawful, collect celestial items. If neutral, collect primordial items. If chaotic, collect infernal items.	Varies: ammo: 1500 everything else: 60000
Wizard	Successfully cast any spell of at least level 10.	50000	Learn new spells in unrestricted "schools": abjuration arcane (doesn't have spells of level-10-or-higher) conjuration divination enchantment movement transmutation	2000 + (SpellLevel)*1000

The "have/collect" tasks require that you have those items when your run ends; either in your inventory, or in your sandalwood chest.

Ascension Multiplier

If you don't ascend, your ascension multiplier is 1. If you do ascend, your ascension multiplier is $4\sqrt{\frac{50000}{TurnCount}}$.

For the sake of scoring, your turn count is increased to 3125 if lower than that, and decreased to 200000 if higher than that. As a result, a successful ascension will always give a multiplier between 2 and 16.

Difficulty Multiplier

GnollHack has difficulty settings for each run, and the main price you pay for playing at an easier difficulty is a massive hit to your score. The exact calculation of this multiplier is ${\sqrt{10}}^{DifficultyLevel}$.

Difficulty Level	Value of Level	Difficulty Multiplier
Standard	-4	0.01
Experienced	-3	0.03162
Adept	-2	0.1
Veteran	-1	0.3162
Expert	0	1
Master	1	3.162
Grand Master	2	10

"Modern Mode" Multiplier

If you play GnollHack with Classic Mode disabled, then permadeath is disabled as well. This incurs a "Modern Mode" multiplier of 1/3.

On top of that, every "true death" (a death your character experiences without the life saving property) further decreases the "Modern Mode" multiplier, though the further reduction comes after the game scores you for that death:

• Having 1 true death makes it 1/9.
• Having 2 true deaths makes it 1/27.
• Having more than 2 true deaths makes it $\frac{1}{27*(TrueDeaths-1)}$; 3 true deaths makes it 1/54, for example.

GnollHack also comes with a "Casual Mode" setting, which disables scoring; that way, you won't clutter your high scores by choosing to continue from dying.