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==Monsters==
* Master liches and arch-liches are [[Demonic Spider]] (if not [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]) levels of frightening to encounter in normal gameplay, and it's even worse when a monster's polymorphed into one (which
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* Chameleons - in real life they're bizarre and unusual animals, but generally no threat to the average person. In ''NetHack''? They're [[Hollywood Chameleons]] that can randomly turn into one of several eligible forms every few turns or so - including ''[[Demonic Spiders|several more powerful forms that would be completely out-of-depth for a player otherwise!]]'' If you're especially unlucky, you might just encounter one [[Oh Crap|in the form of the aforementioned master/arch-lich above...]]
* [[All Trolls Are Different|The trolls]] found within the dungeon are incredibly strong and persistent for midgame foes - not only do they frequently generate with polearms that can swat you if you try to put another monster between you and them, but they have a nasty melee-range bite! To make matters worse, they have [[Regenerating Health]] abilities that put werecreatures to shame. Even if you manage to put them down, their corpse [[Resurrective Immortality|will revive as soon as possible]], [[Came Back Strong|restoring it to full health]] and likely leaving any adventurer that struggled to defeat it just once at its mercy. If you're not prepared for them, your best option is to pull out the wands and spells, or else just run.
** Even disposing of the corpse isn't always guaranteed to get rid of it - it's incredibly heavy, meaning you'll have to lug a lockable container over if you want to stuff them in, and spending turns carrying one heavy object to the other just increases the risk of it coming back to life. Eating the corpse seems most intuitive, but also carries the risk of it resurrecting with each turn spent, right down to [[From a Single Cell|the very last bite
==Other characters==
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