Acronyms and abbreviations found in rec.games.roguelike.nethack =============================================================== Originally written by Satoshi Asami . Revised, corrected, added to, pruned, and updated by Boudewijn Waijers , Adam Dawes , and Sascha Wostmann . Revised, etc. for 3.3.1 by Dylan O'Donnell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NetHack, being the addictive game that it is, obviously leaves the player vastly less time to write messages for newsgroups than would otherwise be the case. As a result, the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack is liable to be full of cryptic acronyms and abbreviations. This document contains a list of all the more popular (and some of the less popular) acronyms that you might find while reading the newsgroup. Some people may consider knowledge of some of the item names mentioned to be spoilers; such people are hereby warned. Acronyms and abbreviations in common use across Usenet as a whole are not covered; there are plenty of other FAQs out there that explain those. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some general abbreviations and usages: -------------------------------------- rgrn rec.games.roguelike.nethack (also r.g.r.n.). SLASH Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - a variant of NetHack. SLASH'EM Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack: Extended Magic - another variant of NetHack. NHTNG NetHack - The Next Generation - another variant of NetHack. vanilla Not a variant of NetHack. The official DevTeam release version (the "default" flavour of the game for discussion). YKYBPTMNW... You Know You've Been Playing Too Much NetHack When... (also YKYPNTLW... You know you've played NetHack too long (or: late) when...). IDHTSCIFOM I Don't Have The Source Code In Front Of Me. UTSL Use The Source, Luke. TDTTOE The DevTeam Think of Everything. NHIN[A]D&D NetHack Is Not [Advanced] Dungeons & Dragons (so don't expect it to necessarily work the same way). DYWYPI? Do You Want Your Possessions Identified? ESP Extra-Sensory Perception; a synonym for telepathy. RNG Random Number Generator (also Random Number God). foo Metasyntactic variable replacing whatever's appropriate for the context. Eg, 'fooproof' means 'rustproof or fireproof or corrodeproof or rotproof'. b/u/c, buc blessed/uncursed/cursed. Yet another...: --------------- YASD Yet Another Stupid Death. YAAD Yet Another Annoying Death. YAAP Yet Another Ascension Post. YAFAP Yet Another First Ascension Post. YAFM Yet Another Funny Message. YAFMC Yet Another Funny Message Combination. YAFP Yet Another Funny Prompt. YANI Yet Another New/Nifty Idea/Item. Monsters, gods: --------------- WoY, Wiz, Wizard of Yendor (Yendor spelled backwards = Rodney. Rodney, 'Dudley' is an obscure in-joke). Dudley foocubus incubus or succubus (also *cubus). A.O. Amaterasu Omikami (Samurai lawful goddess). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A note on object abbreviations The following convention has become popular amongst many rgrn posters for object abbreviations: the (ASCII) symbol used within the game to represent the object precedes the abbreviation to make things clearer. So, for example, a potion of confusion would be abbreviated to "!PoC". However, the redundancy involved offends some people's sense of elegance, and you will find both PoC and !oC (not to mention PoConf) as alternative representations of the same item. Also, a lowercase 'b', 'u' or 'c' may sometimes be prepended to the abbreviation to denote blessed/uncursed/cursed status; for example, 'b?SoG' might be used to indicate a blessed scroll of genocide. The lists below only include the items most commonly referred to by abbreviations; but any object might be referred to by an abbreviation on the same general schema (usually only once context for it has been established). Amulets: -------- "AoESP Amulet of ESP "AoLS Amulet of Life Saving "AoMB Amulet of Magical Breathing "AoY Amulet of Yendor "EotA Eye of the Aethiopica Weapons: -------- *Brand Fire Brand or Frost Brand Mojo Mjollnir Stormy Stormbringer ToM Tsurugi of Muramasa Vorpy Vorpal Blade Armour: ------- [DSM, [GDSM, Dragon scale mail, with the colour specified as required. [SDSM, etc. Beware, there are two G ones (Gray and Green; the former is usually meant) and two B ones (Black and Blue, ditto; and yes, we've heard all the succubus/bullwhip/iron chain jokes already). [LB, [BoL Levitation Boots (Boots of Levitation) [SB, [BoS Speed Boots (Boots of Speed) [WWB, [BoWW Water Walking Boots (Boots of Water Walking) [CoMR Cloak of Magic Resistance [GoD Gauntlets of Dexterity [GoP Gauntlets of Power [HoB Helm of Brilliance [HoOA Helm of Opposite Alignment [HoT Helm of Telepathy [SoR Shield of Reflection Scrolls: -------- ?SoC Scroll of Charging ?SoCM Scroll of Create Monster or Scroll of Confuse Monster (make clear which one you mean!) ?SoEA Scroll of Enchant Armour ?SoEW Scroll of Enchant Weapon ?SoG Scroll of Genocide ?SoI Scroll of Identify ?SoMM Scroll of Magic Mapping ?SoRC Scroll of Remove Curse Spells and spellbooks: ---------------------- +FoD Finger of Death +StF Stone to Flesh +BotD Book of the Dead Potions: -------- !PoEH Potion of Extra Healing !PoFH Potion of Full Healing !PoGA Potion of Gain Ability !PoGL Potion of Gain Level !PoOD Potion of Object Detection Rings: ------ =RoC Ring of Conflict =RoL Ring of Levitation =RoPC Ring of Polymorph Control =RoTC Ring of Teleport Control Wands: ------ /WoW Wand of Wishing /WoC Wand of Cancellation or Wand of Cold (make clear which one you mean!) /WoCM Wand of Create Monster /WoD Wand of Death or Wand of Digging (make clear which one you mean!) /WoP Wand of Polymorph or Wand of Probing (make clear which one you mean!) /WoT Wand of Teleportation /WoUT Wand of Undead Turning Tools: ------ (BoH Bag of Holding (UH Unicorn Horn (EotO Eyes of the Overworld (OoF Orb of Fate (PYEC Platinum Yendorian Express Card (BoO Bell of Opening ------------------------------------------------------------------------