Innards

Innards are a quality possessed by most monsters in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. Monsters without innards aren't susceptible to the Singing Sword's tune of opening, and can't be raised as skeletal minions by the Staff of Necromancy. They also cannot be damaged by Otiax's "Open" active power. Monsters that do not possess innards and also don't possess blood are also unaffected by an Ancients of blessings's exhalation (but not inhalation). Star spawns can bypass DR for the purposes of their intelligence draining attacks, unless the monster has no innards. While polymorphed into a monster without innards, a hero may also benefit from these effects. Students of the reanimation philosophy cannot use a monster's corpse for their reanimation research if it does not possess innards.

The following monsters do not possess innards:

• Vortexes
• Lights
• Elementals
• Mimics
• Some Eladrin's energy forms:
  • Balls of radiance
  • Balls of light
• Daughters of Naunet
• Horrors
• Wraith type monters
• Ghost type monsters
• Golems

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