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* [[Ascended Fanon]]/[[Official Fan-Submitted Content]]:
** Another notable example includes the Wizard Patch for the 3.2.0 series, which completely revamped the [[Vancian Magic]] system into one using [[Magic Points]], and changed the Wizard from a subpar fighter-style role to the supreme caster among playable roles; the patch proved popular enough to be merged into the original version of ''SLASH'' (being the '''E'''xtended '''M'''agic that made it ''SLASH'EM'') and eventually the vanilla game itself as of version 3.3.0.
** Other examples include the blessed scroll of fire giving the player a one-time targetable attack, and the oilskin sack auto-identifying if water slides off it. There's more than a few lists of YANIs maintained [https://nethack-yanis.github.io/index.html on GitHub] and [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Category:YANI on the] [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/User:Tomsod/YANIs_and_patches wiki itself]. The [http://bilious.alt.org/ Bilious Patch Database] on alt.org also hosts many patches based on YANIs.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Founding DevTeam member Izchak Miller passed away in 1994; the 3.2 series was dedicated to his memory, and he was memorialized by a special game-end tombstone, which
* [[Development Hell]]: Version 3.4.3 was released in December 2003. The next version, 3.6.0? [[Saved From Development Hell|Finally released...]] in '''''December 2015'''''. Before that, the largest such gap was the three years the release of 3.2.2 and 3.2.3/3.3.0;<ref>Both of the latter were released concurrently in December 1999.</ref> for a time, the community at large believed any future releases after 3.4.3 to be [[Vaporware]], which has spawned [[NetHack 4]] and a few other [[Game Mod|variants]]. Thankfully, newer versions have come far quicker in comparison since then.▼
** [[Video Game Caring Potential|Players consider it very poor form to mistreat this particular shopkeeper, despite the extent to which his co-workers are maligned by everyone]]; often, he is even spared by [[Kill'Em All|extinctionists!]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: And they're about as creative as you can get.▼
▲* [[Development Hell]]: Version 3.4.3 was released in December 2003. The next version, 3.6.0? [[Saved From Development Hell|Finally released...]] in '''''December 2015'''''. Before that, the largest such gap was
** [[Metasyntactic Variable|"Foo"]] is a loanword from [[The Jargon File|hacker jargon]], used in referring to a group of similar monsters (e.g. "foocubus" refers to [[Horny Devils|succubi and incubui]], while "footrice" means cockatrices and chickatrices).▼
▲* [[Fan Nickname]]: And they're about as creative as you can get. Also overlaps with [[Fun with Acronyms]] in at least a few cases.
▲** [[Metasyntactic Variable|"Foo"]] is a loanword from [[The Jargon File|hacker jargon]], used
** On the note of footrices, their corpses are often referred to as "rubber chickens".
** [[Big Bad|The Wizard of]] [[Sdrawkcab Name|Yendor]] is affectionately called "Rodney". Rodney is also used as the name of the chat bot in the #Nethack channel on freenode.irc.
** Prior to 3.6.1, "Vladsbane" was a [[Weapon of X-Slaying]] parody name given to whatever [[Improvised Weapon]](s) the player used to [[Cherry Tap]] then-[[Anticlimax Boss]] Vlad the Impaler with. Likewise with "Puddingbane", which is a negatively-enchanted weapon deliberately used in pudding farming.
** The insect class of monsters (represented by <code>a</code>) is often given the name "Team Ant", specifically the [[Demonic Spider|giant ants and soldier ants]]; ants often appear in swarms and can decimate player characters, placing them among the most common killers. Any report of a player dying to an ant is often met with "Go team ant!"
** The term "grand tour" refers to {{Spoiler|players being forced to scout out the entirety of the Astral Plane for their god's altar}}.
* [[Port Overdosed]]: [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack#Download See for yourself.] The Dev Team also makes the code publicly available, which encourages porting.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page NetHackWiki] and [https://nethack.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Wikihack].
* [[Word of God]]:
** There is [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Rec.games.roguelike.nethack_FAQ an old FAQ from rec.games.roguelike.nethack] which has several sections dedicated to explaining various aspects of the game (appropriately called spoilers) as gleaned from the code, along with guidelines for posting etiquette on the newsgroup (which still tends to apply on newer discussion sites such as [[Reddit]]).
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