The Ground Gives Way

A coffeebreak roguelike with a lot of stuff

Reference

Reference Document (v2.6)

This is a reference document for all effects available in v2.6.*. The best way of using it is to search (ctrl+f in most browsers) for the effect you are looking for. In future releases this list will hopefully exist in-game.

Attacks

There are three types of attacks: melee, missile and magic. Here are the rules for these types of attacks. Both for the player and monsters.

Melee

Melee (bump) attacks uses the “melee” attribute to determine its chance to hit. If it hits, the victim has “block” chance to block it. You can melee monsters even if you can’t see them, the same applies for monsters.

Missile

Missile attacks uses the “missile” attribute to determine its chance to hit. If it hits, the victim has “block” chance to block it. All missile attacks has a maximum range which can be seen by examining the monster (or the player). All missile attacks also have limited ammo which can also be seen by examining. You have to see a monster in order to make a missile attack against it, and vice versa for a monster.

Magic

Magic attacks always hit, but the victim gets “avoid spells” chance to completely neglect it. All magic attacks have a maximum range which can be seen when exploring the spell or attack. Most magic attacks consume Mp from the caster. For single target magic attacks you have to see the target to cast it and vice versa for monsters. Area attacks works in an area no matter if the target is seen or not. Magic attacks don’t work if the caster is “confused”.

Surprise

Any of the above can be a “surprise” attack. A surprise attack negates the possibility to block or avoid the attack. A player is surprised if an attack is made against him while in “exploring” mode.

A monster is surprised by an attack if it is made when the monster is “unaware of you” (that is, it neither hears nor sees you).

Perception

In this section we describe what it means for monsters to see and hear you. Analoguous rules apply for you to see a monster.

Seeing

A monster can see you if:

You are within “vision” squares of it and there’s nothing in the way, or
if you are “in light” and nothing is in the way, or
the monster have “infravision” and nothing is in the way

Being “invisible” negates all the above, unless the monster has the effect “see invisible”.

If a monster can see you it can:

chase you.
make any kind of attack on you (melee, missile, magic), targeted or area.
make Attacks of Opportunity against you.

Hearing

A monster can hear you if:

You are within your own “noise” squares of it and the monster is not in an isloated place (noise travels around corners and through doors etc). If the monster has “deep sleep” and is sleeping other rules apply.

If a monster can hear you it:

can chase you.
can make a melee attack against you.
wakes up if it was sleeping.

Effect Durations

Whenever an effect is displayed in the game it is shown with a duration indicating how long it will last:

Prm. Permanent. This effect will stay the entire game unless something explicitly changes it.
Eqp. Equipment. This effect comes from your equipment and will stay until you unequip the item that causes it.
Tmp. Temporary. This effect lasts until you rest or otherwise restore temporary effects.
Ctx. Context. This effect comes from the specific context you are in, this is usually the floor, but can also be from surroundings (a light source nearby or from walls if you have open/closed combat). It will disappear when you move to a square that doesn’t cause the effect.
Ins. Instant. This is an instant effect that won’t linger.

Effects

These effects are described in terms of “you”, the player. However, most of the effects can apply to monsters as well. The (x) next to an effect indicates its level.

Instant. This effect will have an effect immediately and then disappear. Everything which is not instant counts as a status effect.

Binary. This effect is either on or off, it cannot have different levels.

Percentage. This effect is expressed as a percentage rather than a level.

Player only. Only the player may have this effect, or this effect may only be applied to the player.

Monster only. Only monsters may have this effect.

Acid (x)

Instant. Decreases hp by x (possibly modified by resist acid or weak: acid). In addition, if you armour attribute is non-zero it will decrease by 5*x% temporarily (where x has been modified by resistance or weakness).

Aggravation (x)

Player only. Spawns a random number (between 0 and x) of new monsters when you rest or descend to a previously unvisited level.

Alleviate Poison (x)

Instant. Decreases poison level by x.

Bleeding

Binary. You are unable to heal by any means.

Bloodlust (x%)

Percentage. Player only. Whenever you see a monster die, there is a x% chance to heal 1hp per max-hp of the monster that died.

Can’t Move

Binary. Monsters only. The monster cannot move (but can still attack).

Can’t Push Others

Binary. Monsters only. The monster cannot go past other monsters. Unconscious or not.

Can’t Use Doors

Binary. Monsters only. The monster cannot open or close doors.

Closed Combat

Binary. You get a +10% bonus to melee if you are standing beside a wall, or a +30% bonus if you are standing next to two walls or more.

Cold (x)

Instant. Decreases hp by x (possibly modified by resist cold or weak: cold). There is also a x*10% chance that you get a temporary decrease in your speed (where x is modified by resistance or weakness).

Confused

Binary. When confused you occasionally take a misstep or swap places with a monster. You are also unable to use any form of magic (wands, rods or scrolls for the player, attacks labelled “magic” for monsters). In addition you take a -20% penalty to avoid traps. Player only: You cannot use tools or identify items and it is harder to place traps.

Cure [Status]

Instant. Removes all temporary sources of [status].

Cure Mutation

Instant. Player only. Restores all mutated body parts to normal.

Damage (x)

Instant. Decreases Hp by x. Each point of damage has a y% chance of getting absorbed, where y is your armour attribute.

Decrease [Attribute] (x)

Decreases [attribute] by x points.

Deep Sleeper

Binary. Monsters only. If this monster is sleeping, you can move two squares closer than normally in terms of your noise level before it wakes up. Example: if you have 5 noise, it doesn’t wake up until you are within 3 squares.

Destroy Weapon

instant. Player only. Instantly destroys your wielded weapon. If you are dual wielding, both weapons will be destroyed.

Detect [thing]

Binary. Player Only. Makes you see [thing] on the map even if it is not in your field of vision. This does not mean you can interact with it however.

Detect Traps

Binary. Player Only. Makes you see traps as a blinking ‘6’. You also get a +20% bonus to avoiding traps.

Disease

Binary. Prevents Hp-regeneration on rest. Monster only: monsters flee earlier when diseased.

Disenchant

Instant. Disenchants (i.e., removes the enchantment from) all your equipped items.

Drain Magic (x)

Instant. Decreases Mp by x points. Is the opposite of magic points.

Dual Wield

Binary. You make two melee attacks per turn instead of one.

Electricity (Elec) (x)

Instant. Decreases hp and mp by x points (modified by resist elec or weak: elec)

Enchant Weapon

Instant. Player only. Adds a random enchantment to your wielded melee weapon. If you have no melee weapon equipped, nothing happens.

Energy (x)

Instant. Player only. Replenish your Ep by x points up to maximum 10. Is the opposite of Fatigue. Also cures exhaustion.

Exhausted

Binary. Player only. You take damage instead of losing Ep when fatigued.

Fast

Binary. Can act more often than very slow, slow and non-fast monsters. Acts less often than very fast monsters.

Fatigue (x)

Instant. Player only. Lose x points of Ep to a minimum of 0. If Ep is taken to 0, you will get the status Exhausted. If exhausted you will instead lose Hp instead of Ep when fatigued.

Fearless

Binary. Monsters only. This monster cannot be afraid and will never flee.

Fire (x)

Instant. Decreases Hp by x points (modified by resist fire or weak: fire). Player only: There is also a x*5% chance that a random food item in your inventory gets grilled (where x has been modified by resistance or weakness).

Flanked (-x% to block)

Player only. This status is always contextual and you get it whenever there are more than one monster adjacent to you. For each adjacent monster except the first you get a -20% penalty to block. This simulates that it is hard to block from several sides at once.

Flying

Binary. You cannot activate traps on the floor and some other features on the floor. You are also unaffected by most floor types, especially dangerous ones such as water and lava. You are doubly effected by knockback however.

Frail

Binary. Monster only. A frail monster can be killed even by non-lethal damage.

Food (x)

Instant. Increases your food attribute by x up to a maximum of 5. Monsters instead get their Hp increased by x points and gets temporarily neutral.

Heal (x)

Instant. Increases Hp by x up to a maximum of max-hp.

Hunger (x)

Instant. Decreases your food attribute by x to a minimum of 0. Monsters are instead damaged by x hp.

Identify Inventory

Instant. Player only. Identifies all your possessions and learn all enchantments in your inventory.

Immunity to [effect]

Binary. Neglects all aspects of [effect].

Incapacitated

See Unconscious. Applies to inanimate monsters.

Increase [attribute] (x)

Increases [attribute] by x points.

Infravision

Binary. Makes you able to see (and target) living monsters (unless they are cold-based) and fire-based monsters outside of your vision if there are no obstacles. Effectively making your vision attribute infinite when it comes to seeing living monsters.

In Light

Binary. You are visible to all monsters (as if all monsters had infravision). Player only: If the effect is contextual (i.e., comes from the floor), you cannot rest while having this status.

Invisible

Binary. You cannot be seen or targeted by a monster unless it can see invisible. You can still be heard though. If you happen to detect an invisible monster you can see and target it as normal.

Knockback (x)

Instant. Moves away you x squares in one direction, decreasing x by one per square. If there is a wall in your path, you will take damage equal to the remaining x. If there is a monster on your path, the remaining x will be transfered to that monster.

If you are flying, this effect will have its level effectively doubled (x*2). The knockback effect is completely neglected by the status resist knockback.

Make Pit

Instant. Makes a pit to the next floor if open. Otherwise it makes a water filled pit.

Magic Points (x)

Instant. Increases Mp by x points up to max-mp. Is the opposite of drain magic.

Mapping

Instant. Player only. Maps the current level so that you can see all non-floor features.

Martial Combo (x)

Player only. If you are equipped with a martial weapon, you automatically attack repeatedly up to x times or until an attack misses or is blocked. If x is zero or less you cannot do attacks with martial attacks.

Mutation

Instant. Player only. Adds one or more random body parts to your equipment, unequipping or destroying whatever was there in the process. The body part can not be unequipped and nothing can be equipped in place of the body part.

Nausea

Binary. Player only. You cannot consume anything (food or potions) unless you are starving (food = 0) and the thing you consume give food.

Never Sleeps

Binary. Monsters only. This monster cannot sleep and consequently don’t recover or having it’s temporary effects removed when you rest.

Neutral

Binary. Monsters only. This monster won’t attack you and bumping it switches places with it. Any hostile act towards it causes Aggravation(2) to you.

Non-lethal Damage (x)

instant. Monsters only. Decreases hp by x. Each point of damage has a y% chance of getting absorbed, where y is the monster’s armour attribute.This damage type can not kill a monster unless it is frail. If a non-frail monster’s Hp drops to 0 from this damage type, it will instead become unconscious/incapacitated.

Open Combat

Binary. You get a +10% bonus to your melee attribute if you have at least three non-wall squares adjacent, or a +20% bonus if you don’t stand beside any wall.

Overburdened

Binary. Player only. Happens only when you have more than 20 items in your main inventory (not counting content of containers and bags). It makes you very slow and your melee and block attributes are 0.You cannot rest or use features (such as portals or stairs) while under this effect.

This status will automatically be removed once your inventory is no longer overfull.

Phase Out

instant. Monsters only. The monster moves to another dimension and out of the game forever.

Poison (x)

Slightly delayed damage. Poison acts randomly up to 5 times per turn (if you are very slow) or once per turn (if you are very fast). When poison acts your hp decreases by one (resist poison% to avoid) and your poison level (x) decreases by one (unless weak: poison%).

Rage

Gives a +50% bonus to your melee attribute as long as your hp is 4 or less.

Random Effect

instant. Causes a random effect to happen.

Reach (x) –removed in v2.2–

Makes it possible to make a melee attack x squares away. To make a reaching attack, target a monster at most x squares away and press 0.

Recharge Rods

instant. Player only. Makes all rods in your inventory usable again even if they have been used.

Reputation

Player only. Modifies your reputation with the Healer’s guild. Reputation points are used to use censers.

Resist [element] (x%)

Percentage. When taking y damage from [element] , x% of y (rounded down) are absorbed (removed). The remainder of the rounding is added as a chance to absorb yet another point of damage.

Resist magic (x%)

Percentage. When being targeted by a spell (a wand/rod if it is the player, or a an attack categorized as “magic” if it is a monster) there is x% chance of avoiding the effects entirely.

Resist Poison (x%)

Percentage. Every time poison acts on you, there is a x% to not take damage.

Restore

instant. Removes all temporary effects. Player only: It makes “once per day” wands usable even if they have been used.

Riposte

Binary. Whenever you block an attack, you automatically make a melee attack against the attacker.

Rust Iron

instant. Player only: Makes a random iron item from your equipment rusty. Monster only: Makes monsters made of iron unable to move (can’t move effect).

Shield Pummel

Binary. Every time someone makes a melee attack against you that misses, you automatically push them back (knockback 2) with your shield.

Submerged

Binary. You cannot take any other actions than to move. Monsters only: instantly kill the monster unless it has the effect Swims.

Surprise Damage (x)

instant.Does damage (x) to a living character if it is unaware of the attacker (does not work on inanimate or undead monsters). If aware, this does nothing. Player only: you can not be killed by surprise damage alone.

Scare [Monster]

Binary. Player Only. Makes all monsters of type [monster] afraid (and fleeing) whenever they see you.

See Invisible

Binary. You can see (and therefore target) monsters even if they are invisible.

Silver Damage (x)

instant. Monsters only. Decreases Hp by x if the monster is undead. Does nothing to living monsters.

Sleep

instant. Monsters only. Makes the monster fall asleep unless it has the never sleeps status. The monster will wake up again according to the normal rules of waking up.

Slimy

Binary. You leave a trace of slime on the floor. You cannot equip or unequip items. It can be cured by walking into deep water.

Slow

Binary. Can act more often than very slow actors, but less often than non-slow, fast or very fast actors.

Spiked (x)

Every time an adjacent monster hits you in melee, it will take x points of damage.

Steal Gold (x)

instant. If you are the victim you will lose x gold. If a humanoid monster is the victim, you will acquire x gold. It has no effect on non-humanoid monsters.

Summon Monster (x)

instant. Summons a hostile monster that normally appears on dungeon floor x. x is a hidden value that is not displayed.

Swims

Binary. Monsters only. This monster may move through water without taking damage.

Teleport (x)

instant. Randomly teleports you at most x squares away.

Unconscious

Binary. Monsters only. The monster cannot act in any way, it also cannot see or hear so it is always unaware of you. Moving into an unconscious monster will swap places with it. This is the same effect as incapacitated. Any hostile action against a living unconscious monster will cause Aggravation(2) to you.

Very Fast

Binary. Can act more often than all but other very fast actors.

Very Slow

Binary. Can act less often than all but other very slow actors.

Wake All

instant. Wakes all sleeping monsters on the level.

Weak: [Element] (x%)

Percentage. When you take y damage from [element], x% of y (rounded down) are added to the damage. The remainder of the rounding is added as a chance to take yet another point of damage over that.

Weak: Poison (x%)

Percentage.Every time poison acts in your system, there is an x% risk of the poison level not reducing.