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There are two reasons to avoid attacking peaceful monsters: | There are two reasons to avoid attacking peaceful monsters: | ||
# The gods disapprove of killing peacefuls, and will exact an alignment penalty. There are more severe penalties for killing your own race (unless you are chaotic): a human player killing a human, an elf player killing an elf, a dwarf player killing a dwarf, or an orc player killing any <tt>o</tt> including orcs, goblins and hobgoblins. There are also more severe | # The gods disapprove of killing peacefuls, and will exact an alignment penalty. There are more severe penalties for killing your own race (unless you are chaotic): a human player killing a human, an elf player killing an elf, a dwarf player killing a dwarf, or an orc player killing any <tt>o</tt> including orcs, goblins and hobgoblins. There are also more severe penalities for killing a unicorn of your own alignment. More details of the penalties for killing peaceful monsters can be found on [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/index.html this page of myths and facts about NetHack]. | ||
#* However, there is no penalty for allowing pets to attack peaceful monsters, and you can even heal your pets as they do this; monsters may attack the pets but will not retaliate against you for your pets' actions. | #* However, there is no penalty for allowing pets to attack peaceful monsters, and you can even heal your pets as they do this; monsters may attack the pets but will not retaliate against you for your pets' actions. | ||
# Many peaceful monsters are much stronger than you. In particular, tangling with a priest or shopkeeper is likely to lead to your death. (You can still use a stethoscope to check how strong a monster is.) | # Many peaceful monsters are much stronger than you. In particular, tangling with a priest or shopkeeper is likely to lead to your death. (You can use a still use a stethoscope to check how strong a monster is.) | ||
(If you ever play the variant called SLASH'EM, note that your gods will still blame you if you cast a spell of flame sphere or freeze sphere and the resulting sphere attacks a peaceful monster, even if you polymorph the sphere into another monster. See [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/slashem/pets.html Eva Myers' spoiler on tame monsters in NetHack and Slash'EM].) | (If you ever play the variant called SLASH'EM, note that your gods will still blame you if you cast a spell of flame sphere or freeze sphere and the resulting sphere attacks a peaceful monster, even if you polymorph the sphere into another monster. See [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/slashem/pets.html Eva Myers' spoiler on tame monsters in NetHack and Slash'EM].) |