Really, insofar orcs are concerned, I'm mostly surprised even mountain orcs get ECL. It's not in the SRD, and it's put me off playing one for the foreseeable future pretty firmly.

Update:

This only seems to apply when polymorphed and wearing clothes. Ape form is useful because it saves on stripping down, but an ape not wearing anything avoids blows like normal, somehow.

I've encountered a very strange bug with polymorph on my wizard character. Observe: A bandit's crush violently hits your right leg. <96%hp 87m 98%mv> A bandit's crush deftly hits your abdomen. <96%hp 87m 98%mv> A bandit's crush crushes your left leg. <96%hp 87m 98%mv> You make a bandit feel he has k...

Though the helpfiles state they should, two-handed katanas are not counted as great blades. To demonstrate: help great blades Great blades ============ Great blades are long blades that are used two handed. They are used mostly by warriors. Great blades include: bastard sword* fullblade greatsword k...

It's lonely in Menzoberranzan

Yes, it is.

Figured this should be a good first post, aside from some applications. Some other MUDs with the DIKU codebase have a stop command, one that lets you delete all queued commands. This is very useful for anyone who types north one time too many and doesn't want to step off a cliff. Now, I tried using ...