shurikens

[Nosfentor X]

I read a post in here maybe eight months ago about how shurikens were
not generated by the random number generator. I see them around often
enough. Can anyone expound on this? Are shurikens not guaranteed by
some generation method? If not, how do they appear on the occasions
that they do?

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Julian

[Janis Papanagnou]

Am 21.05.2013 14:18, schrieb Nosfentor X:
> I read a post in here maybe eight months ago about how shurikens were
> not generated by the random number generator.

And since the internet does not lie... - that must be the truth? ;-)

What does the nethack-wiki say?

> I see them around often
> enough. Can anyone expound on this? Are shurikens not guaranteed by
> some generation method? If not, how do they appear on the occasions
> that they do?

Obviously randomly generated, as you've proved. Seriously, I haven't
ever heard that myth. In the source code, IIRTCC, there's a 3.5% chance
for random shurikens in the weapons object class.

Janis