Nasty (monster attribute)
- For the "nasties" summoned by high-level monster spellcasters, see summon nasties.
In NetHack, a monster that is nasty has a higher chance of better weapons and rewards a hero with more experience points than other monsters, and is designated by the M2_NASTY monster flag.[1]
Description
A nasty monster has the following traits:
- When generating monster starting inventory, if a lord has a weapon attack and no special rules for their species, they are more likely to receive one of the default weapon sets (1⁄2, versus 5⁄12 for normal monsters).[2] This also stacks with the increased chance for monster lords and overlords.
- Nasty monsters grant extra experience points to a hero that kills them.[3]
- Adult dragons that are nasty can tear through webs.[4]
Though nasty monsters have nothing to do with the summon nasties monster spell, many of the monsters eligible for summoning via the spell are also considered nasty.
List of monsters
The following monsters are nasty:
- h mind flayer
- h master mind flayer
- w long worm
- w purple worm
- J jabberwock
- Y owlbear
- Z skeleton
- @ high priest
- @ Wizard of Yendor
- @ Croesus
- shade
- all angelic beings
- all adult dragons
- all giant humanoids
- all vampires
- all major demons (including lords and princes)
- the Riders
- the Grand Master
- all quest nemeses, including the @ Master of Thieves for Tourists
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the following monsters are nasty:
- a tsetse fly
- n quickling
- q catoblepas
- s carrion crawler
- w rot worm
- z kangaroo
- J vorpal jabberwock
- P shoggoth
- P giant shoggoth
- shadow
- : rhaumbusun
- all new angelic beings
- all new adult dragons, including D wyverns and D hydras
- all new vampires
- all new major demons, except spined devils
- all new quest nemeses
- u Nightmare, e Beholder and L Vecna
- all other new unique monsters (except One-Eyed Sam)
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the Atma Weapon is an unaligned artifact beamsword that has bonuses of +1d6 to-hit and +3d6 damage against nasty monsters when attacking with the artifact while it is on.
References
- Jump up ↑ mondata.h in NetHack 3.4.3, line 103: extra_nasty() macro detects M2_NASTY
- Jump up ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 518
- Jump up ↑ exper.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 84: extra_nasty() grants extra experience
- Jump up ↑ trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2039: extra_nasty() discerns adult dragons from baby dragons to let them tear through webs
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