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* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Humans are implied to be this for the Dungeons of Doom, according to the encyclopedia entries.

* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: The game has many instances when the player is surrounded by monsters and only needs to pass through; the easier way to do this (or something resembling this) is zapping a wand of teleport through the horde, or else breaking a spare one in two and teleporting anything within range.

** In games where the mail option is enabled, the [[Mailer Daemon]] ([[A Worldwide Punomenon|~~yes,~~ an actual demon]]) will do this in order to get to the player and deliver their message if necessary. {{spoiler|The [[Four Horsemen|Riders]] can also shove monsters out of the way to get at you on the Astral Plane.}}

** In games where the mail option is enabled, the mail demon (no, [[Mailer Daemon|not this kind]], [[A Worldwide Punomenon|an actual demon]]) will do this in order to get to the player and deliver their message if necessary. {{spoiler|The [[Four Horsemen|Riders]] can also shove monsters out of the way to get at you on the Astral Plane.}}

* [[Forgot to Feed the Monster]]: While food {{spoiler|(mostly corpses)}} is very common and you usually don't have to actively feed your pet(s), it is possible for them to starve to death. This can annoyingly be reversed if ''you're'' hungry, but your pet gets to edible food before you can. Your pet(s) can also untame or even go feral if you leave them on a different level for too long; in the case of domestic pets, feeding them will re-tame them.

** Pets that become extremely hungry will be confused and may end up attacking you. Averted for pets that are inediate and do not need food, though tameness mechanics still apply.

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* [[Magikarp Power]]/[[Lethal Joke Character]]: Arguably, all the "weak" character classes have this to some extent - but it's most noticeable with the Tourist, who might (arguably) be the easiest role to win with if you survive past [[the Quest]]. But that's usually [[Nintendo Hard|a ''big'' "if"]].

** Throwing darts are sufficient for most roles as a ranged attack, even if they lack the related skill; there are also plenty of dart traps to un-trap for more darts. {{Spoiler|Poison them with a potion of sickness and they can be a big help.}}

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* ~~[[Mailer~~ ~~Daemon]]:~~ A literal ~~one~~ - it delivers messages from other users when playing on a server. The daemon normally appears and disappears within one turn without giving the player a chance to interact with it. However, a [[Crazy Prepared]] player [[Lord British Postulate|can kill it]], [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|rendering it extinct and preventing further messages from being delivered]]. ~~{{spoiler|~~To do this, the player needs to stone-to-flesh a statue of a mail daemon, which is not something that occurs naturally but needs to be wished for, and have enough speed and powerful enough weapons to kill the daemon in one turn - too slow and it disappears with a cry of "I'm late!"}}

* [[Make a Wish]]: The most certain, and in some cases only, way of getting some desirable rare items. On the other hand, it may be much more useful to wish for an item with an important [[Mundane Utility]].

* [[Mana]]: Replaces the [[Vancian Magic]] system as of 3.3.0.

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* [[Unicorn]]s: One for each of the three alignments, and they're even eligible for riding as steeds. All three will try to [[Chess Motifs|keep a knight's move away from you]], and you'll need to be pretty fast or sneaky to get next to one. Also, killing or sacrificing one of your own alignment is a '''''really''''' Bad Idea.

* [[Unique Enemy]]:

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** The mail demon. It's a literal demon mailman that delivers messages from other users when playing on a server; on local machines, it can also deliver actual emails. The daemon normally appears and disappears within one turn without giving the player a chance to interact with it. However... {{spoiler|a [[Crazy Prepared]] player [[Lord British Postulate|can kill it]], [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|rendering it extinct and preventing further messages from being delivered]]. To do this, the player needs to stone-to-flesh a statue of a mail daemon, which is not something that occurs naturally but needs to be wished for, and have enough speed and powerful enough weapons to kill the daemon in one turn - move too slow and it disappears with a cry of "I'm late!"}}

** The [[Mailer Daemon]]. {{spoiler|Finding a way to kill one successfully will render it extinct for the rest of that game, preventing any more in-game mail from being received.}}

** Only three Erinyes and nine Nazguls can be found in the dungeons. A popular [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] is to try ascending with {{spoiler|all of ~~their~~ invisibility rings, which they are guaranteed to appear with, often naming them for [[The Lord of the Rings|each the Rings from their source material}}.

** Only three Erinyes and nine Nazguls can be found in the dungeons. A popular [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] is to try ascending with {{spoiler|all of the Nazguls' invisibility rings, which they are guaranteed to appear with, often naming them for [[The Lord of the Rings|each of the Rings from their source material}}.

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]:

** The Rogue Level is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a level that resembles]] [[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]], i.e. all-white ASCII in a different font, and uses some of that game's rules. Monsters don't leave corpses upon death, and doorways cannot be entered [[Diagonal Speed Boost|diagonally]].