Beyond Naked
TAG FORMAT
Rogue[BNR] Sorcerer[BNM] Warrior[BNW]
ORIGINATED BY
“Woody(BNM)” and “Hairy(BNM)”
HINTS
Beyond Naked
characters may use storage characters ("mules") to carry excess
cursed items without penalty. This is to ensure that our extra cursed gear is available
to newbie BN's. I don't think that this is cheating in any way, so feel free to
make as many as you need. One thing that should be avoided though is hoarding
cursed items. The whole purpose of allowing storage characters isn't to help
people start collections it's to store overflow items until we find some BN's
that can use them.
The inventory
of a BN can only be filled with the following: Potions: the life blood of a BN,
you may have as many as you can carry, but cannot drop extra cursed items to
make room for more potions.
BN's have little use for gold except for buying potions and
scrolls.
As stated
above, extra cursed items cannot be abandoned and must be kept in inventory
until they can be passed along to other BN's. Also, it is likely that you'll
die horribly in the dungeon and not be able to get your stuff back. It happens.
Having extra cursed stuff in your inventory is just the thing is case of such a
disaster.
CLASS VARIETIES
Beyond Naked
Rogues are just Beyond Naked Mages in drag. All of the rules that apply to
BNM’s apply to BNR's. The only exception is that BNR's are allowed to use
whatever Bow they choose. This reason behind this is that while a BNM is
saddled with cursed gear, he still has his most potent weapon... his magic. With
that in mind, a Rogues main attack is the bow and therefore a magic bow is
acceptable. I'd say that Windforce (or any bow with knockback) is possibly the
most coveted of all bows, considering the low AC...
Beyond Naked
Warriors are just BNM's on steroids. All of the rules that apply to Beyond
Naked Mages apply to BNW's. The only exception is that Beyond Naked Warriors
are allowed to use whatever weapon they choose. I'd say that 'of Blood' weapons
or weapons with knockback are possibly the most desired of all weapons,
considering the low AC...
ITEMS
The only
items that a BNM are allowed to wear or use are cursed ones. That's it, no
exceptions. An item that can be worn include armor
(body, shield and head) and jewellery (rings and necklaces) while used items include
weapons of any sort. As a matter of fact, you are required to wear/use any and
all cursed items that you find. If you are so (un)lucky
to have more than one item of a particular nature (i.e. 2 cursed swords), then
you must use the one that penalizes you the most. Excess cursed item must be
stored and passed along to other BNM's when encountered. With that in mind,
receiving cursed items from other players is acceptable as long as they are
legit.
Some items
combine the Good and the Bad... i.e. a Masters sword of Trouble. BNM's may NOT
use such an item because even though it is cursed (Trouble), it is also blessed
(Masters). Therefore, a BNM may only use items that can be called the Ugly,
meaning it has a cursed prefix, suffix or both.
STAFFS
Staffs that
are cursed yet have the ability to cast a spell are usable by BNM's, but you
have to "bleed" them dry. What that means is casting spells from a
staff is NOT allowed, but you can permanently remove a staffs ability to hold
charges. Here's how...
First, clear
a room. Then, facing a wall, keep casting spells from the staff until it runs
out of charges. Then use the Sorcerer's recharge skill to recharge the staff.
Keep repeating this process (drain and charge) and eventually the staff will
have zero of zero charges. Actually, the number of charges will disappear from
the description altogether. Then, what your left with is something like a
"Hyena's staff of Charged Bolt" that zaps you for -22 mana, but can't
cast spells.
ALLOWED AFFIXES
Bent, Brass, Clumsy, Dull, Frog's, Hyena's, Rusted, Tin, Useless,
Vulnerable, Weak
of Atrophy, Brittleness, Corruption, Disease, Dyslexia, the Fool, Illness,
the Jackal, the Pit, Trouble, Paralysis, the Vulture, Weakness, the Dark, the
Night, Light, Radiance
Items that either
reduce or increase a characters light radius are usable by BN's because
increasing a BN's light radius attracts more monsters and decreasing it hinders
the BN's visibility. That's our interpretation anyway.
Don't forget
that you can also curse yourself with Light Radius by equipping it and then
taking it off. Due to a bug, the game only works with the highest Light Radius
you've had while on the current dungeon level - even if you reduce it! You can
thus be a light beacon and wake up monsters en masse without having to wear
Light Radius items to do so.
Also, be aware of your “life
total”. Due to another bug, players do not go into hit recovery if their
life total is too low and they are using Mana Shield. Your life should not drop
below 80 in Nightmare and 120 in Hell if you have Mana Shield up. In fact,
there's a general consensus among the Naked Mage players that wearing +Life
items (must be +Life/+Vit ONLY - no positive prefix!) for the purpose of
enabling hit recovery with Mana Shield is considered honourable. I believe most
BNM’s would largely agree.
SCROLLS, POTIONS, BOOKS & GOLD
Vital for
survival, scrolls are critical to a successful BN. Anytime
you can cast a spell without using mana, you're in good shape. Like potions, you
cannot drop extra cursed items to make room for more scrolls. A BN may purchase
potions, books and scrolls from Pepin and/or Adria and you can sell items you find in the dungeon to
Griswold. Griswold won't repair cursed
gear however, so try to take care of your stuff!