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There was a bug fix in Nethack a few years ago to make eating parchment spellbooks break vegetarian conduct. Which at one level makes perfect sense: of course p

There was a bug fix in Nethack a few years ago to make eating parchment spellbooks break vegetarian conduct. Which at one level makes perfect sense: of course parchment is an animal product. But the fact that it comes from the intersection of several kind of weird systems in the game made it such a great Nethack bug. First, that the game tracks vegetarianism at all. Then, the randomized unidentified item descriptions that are mostly flavor text but occasionally have gameplay properties. And finally, why are you eating spellbooks in the first place?

schoen 4y ago
As opposed to eating rings, which can permanently give you the associated magical intrinsics (without having to wear the ring). This, in turn, means that which specific intrinsics you can get that way various from game to game (because you can temporarily polymorph into a metal-eating monster, but some rings are metal and others aren't). https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Eating_jewelry https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Eating_jewelry