From: michels@informatik.uni-kl.de Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.games.roguelike.nethack] Re: wierd names Date: 13 Jul 1998 10:05:35 GMT Subject: Re: wierd names From: Russell Bornschlegel Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack [Submitter's note: Someone asked how to find out anything about all those different kind of weapons included in nethack.] Dylan O'Donnell wrote: > As to the others, it's a pretty safe bet that if you come across a weird > weapon that you've never heard of, it's some kind of polearm. There's an > absurdly large number of obscure polearms implemented in NetHack, compared > to their usefulness. "We've got glaives, guisarme glaives, guisarmes, bill guisarmes, glaive guisarmes, glaive glaive glaive guisarmes, glaive glaive glaive glaive guisarme glaives, glaive glaive glaive glaive..." "I don't like glaives!" "You could have a glaive guisarme voulge, that's not got much glaive in it..."