crwn-343.txt Last edited 2004-03-10 for NetHack 3.4.3 Crowning and its consequences in NetHack 3.4 Compiled for 3.1.3 by Boudewijn Waijers. Updated for 3.4.3 by Dylan O'Donnell When you pray a lot of nice things can happen. If you are in good standing with your god ("piously aligned"; at least +20) and sufficiently lucky ("extremely lucky"; at least +10), one of these things is that you may be "crowned" by your god. If this happens, you are not only granted a title (visible with enlightenment or at the end of the game), but some other effects (most of them beneficial) happen as well. The title you will gain is the following: Lawful: Hand of Elbereth Neutral: Envoy of Balance Chaotic: Glory of Arioch Then, you gain some useful intrinsics (if you didn't have them already, of course): * cold resistance * fire resistance * poison resistance * sleep resistance * shock resistance * see invisible Next, you may gain an item, depending on your class and alignment: * Wizards will receive a (blessed) spellbook of finger of death unless they are already carrying one, or are wielding Vorpal Blade or Stormbringer. * Monks will receive a (blessed) spellbook of restore ability unless they are already carrying one, or are wielding an artifact. If these classes do not receive a spellbook, or for any other class: * Lawful: If you are wielding (as primary, if two-weaponing) a non-artifact long sword, it is changed into Excalibur if that does not yet exist in your game. * Neutral: If Vorpal Blade does not yet exist in your game, it is created at your feet. * Chaotic: If Stormbringer does not yet exist in your game, it is created at your feet. If you received a weapon gift, it is blessed, unrusted and made rustproof, and set to at least +1. If you received no gift (or you received a spellbook gift of a spell that you already knew), your currently-wielded (primary) weapon (or weapon-tool) receives the same enhancements, and your skill in it is unrestricted. In all cases, your skill in the appropriate alignment gift weapon is unrestricted whether you got it or not: long sword for lawfuls and neutrals, broad sword for chaotics. There is, of course, a disadvantage to balance all this generosity: after crowning, your average prayer time-out (the time you have to wait between prayers) is greatly increased. So, if you already have a decent weapon and the above intrinsics, being named is a BAD thing. If you pray often enough, it WILL happen eventually, though. Acknowledgements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Corrections and clarifications provided by Annie Kang.