History VideoGame / NetHack

* FairWeatherMentor: The player, almost inevitably. You'll love your pet and give them easy kills and fresh corpses to help level them up, and they'll fight on your behalf... but when food starts getting scarce or you find yourself cornered by a level draining foe, it's every man for himself. There's no penalty for starving your pets to death or abandoning them when the going gets tough except the loss of the pet. Just don't EatTheDog unless you ''really'' have to.

* CandlelitRitual: You need the Bell of Opening, The [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book of the Dead]], the Candelabrum of Invocation and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers seven beeswax or tallow candles]] to perform the rite that will grant access to the deepest dungeon levels where the Amulet of Yendor is. It's a sign of something that in older versions of NH scrounging up the needed number of candles sometimes proved to be almost as difficult as acquiring the rest of the items, to the point they were a fairly common use of a Wish. (3.6.0 has added a guaranteed source.)

* SuperWeight: You start at [[ActionSurvivor zero]] or occasionally [[BadassNormal one]] on Website/TVTropes' scale. You spend the game [[TookALevelInBadass climbing the scale]].

* SillinessSwitch: Hallucinations, caused by magic or dodgy food. Non-hallucinating silliness includes kitchen sinks, tourists, cameras, Hawaiian shirts, and even the Keystone Kops.

%%* TurnUndead: Available through a spell, a wand, and a class attribute.You can also use it to [[spoiler:revive corpses.]] Very useful when [[spoiler:your highly leveled-up pet gets killed. Although beware, it won't necessarily revive tame.]]

* TurnUndead: Available through a spell, a wand, and a class attribute. Due to liberal application of JustForPun, you can also use it to [[spoiler:revive corpses.]] Very useful when [[spoiler:your highly leveled-up pet gets killed. Although beware, it won't necessarily revive tame.]]

** There are quite a few things that aren't directly capped, allowing them to go as high as [[UsefulNotes/PowersOfTwoMinusOne (2⁸-1), (2¹⁶-1), (2³
-1), or possibly even (2⁶⁴-1)]] depending on the size of the variable they're stored in.

* BonusBoss: Demogorgon is the strongest monster in the game, but you might not encounter him, since he can only be summoned by another demon prince. Even if you do, you might be able to run away, in which case you probably should.

** There are quite a few things that aren't directly capped, allowing them to go as high as [[UsefulNotes/PowersOfTwoMinusOne 2^8-1, 2^16-1, 2^31-1, or possibly even 2^63-1]] depending on the size of the variable they're stored in.