Roshi
@ roshi 
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| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d8 physical, weapon 1d8 |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 66 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 10 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | 3 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A roshi:
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| Reference | monst.c#line3192 |
A roshi, @, is a Samurai quest guardian. The roshi is a strong and omnivorous lawful human that can be seen via infravision.
Roshi have two weapon attacks unlike most quest guardians, and both attacks are also stronger than those of most quest guardians.
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Generation
Roshi are not randomly generated, and are always created peaceful. They are not a valid genocide target, and are not a valid polymorph form except for doppelgangers encountered by roles other than Archeologists.[1][2] A student can grow up into a player monster archeologist.[3]
Eight roshi are generated within the throne room of Lord Sato in the castle of the Samurai quest home level.
Chieftains may be generated with the following:[4] a melee weapon that will either be a long sword (2⁄3 chance) or a short sword (1⁄3 chance), a suit of armor that will either be chain mail (2⁄3 chance) or leather armor (1⁄3 chance), a 1⁄2 chance of either low boots (1⁄2 chance) or high boots (1⁄2 chance), a 1⁄3 chance of a leather cloak, and a 1⁄3 chance of a bow and 3–14 arrows.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Per commit 9b74ea0b, roshi corpses may be generated in "massacre" themed rooms.Strategy
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Per commit 20cbadcf, the game is no longer unwinnable if the hero is banished from the quest branch, but killing quest leaders and guardians incur steeper penalties: killing a peaceful quest guardian will cause a -4 luck penalty and anger the hero's god, on top of the standard MAX8 alignment record penalty and murder penalties for a non-chaotic hero.
Per commit ee08c05e, quest guardians will become angry if they see you attack a peaceful monster, but will not turn to flee like other monsters do. Quest leaders will not become angry if they see you attack a peaceful monster other than one of the quest guardians.
Per commit 3d5b7f1f, killing a quest leader will anger the quest guardians.History
The roshi first appears alongside the Samurai's quest branch and its other related monsters in NetHack 3.1.0.
Origin
Rōshi (老師, Japanese "old teacher" or "old master") is a title in Zen Buddhism with different usages depending on sect and country. In Rinzai Zen, the term is reserved only for individuals who have received inka shōmei from completing the entire kōan curriculum; this amounts to a total of fewer than 100 people at any given time. In Sōtō Zen and Sanbo Kyodan, it is used more loosely, especially the case in the United States and Europe where almost any teacher who has received dharma transmission might be called rōshi, or even use it to refer to themselves (a practice unheard of in Japan). Etymology
The Japanese rōshi is a translation of the more antiquated Chinese "Laozi" (Wade-Giles Lao Tzu, "Old Master") and connoting the archetype of a wise old man. The modern Chinese 老師/老师 (Chinese pinyin: Lǎoshī) is a common word for teacher or professor without the religious or spiritual connotation of rōshi. Chinese Chán Buddhism (Zen is the Japanese transliteration of Chán) uses the semantically related title 師父/师父 (Mandarin shīfu, Cantonese sifu, literally "master father" or "father of masters"), or 師傅/师傅 (Mandarin shīfu, lit. "master teacher" or "teacher of masters", pronounced the same as the former) as an honorific title for the highest masters, but it also may be used in respectful address of monks and nuns generally.
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Variants
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, if a Binder starts the game with any Samurai gods in their pantheon, hostile roshi may generate among the quest guardians that make up 72⁄175 of the randomly generated monsters on the Binder quest.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, roshi may appear among the adventurers generated within the Bar.
Encyclopedia entry
Roshi is a Japanese word, common in Zen Buddhism, meaning "old" (ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of respect, as in the Rinzai school; as a simple reference to actual age, as in the Soto school; or it can mean a teacher who has transmitted knowledge to, and thus "given birth" to, a new teacher.
