cornuthaum?

Ulrich Scholz

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Jan 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/27/97

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I just started playing NetHack version 3.2.0 but I am used to earlier versions.
As a knight, I found an item I didn't know before:

What do you want to wear? [dg or ?*]
You finish your dressing maneuver.
The conical hat glows black for a moment.
You feel like sitting in a corner.
B - an uncursed +2 cornuthaum

What's the deal with this helmet? It seems to curse itself some times and
sometimes not.

Uli

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Lee Jackson Beauregard

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Jan 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/28/97

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sch...@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Scholz) wrote:

>I just started playing NetHack version 3.2.0 but I am used to earlier versions.
>As a knight, I found an item I didn't know before:
>
>What do you want to wear? [dg or ?*]
>You finish your dressing maneuver.
>The conical hat glows black for a moment.
>You feel like sitting in a corner.
> B - an uncursed +2 cornuthaum
>
>What's the deal with this helmet? It seems to curse itself some times and
>sometimes not.

Are you *sure* that's a cornuthaum and not a dunce cap? I don't think
cornuthaums auto-curse, but dunce caps do.

The dunce cap is an all-around Bad Thing, unless your intelligence is already
less than 6. The cornuthaum is useful only to wizards.

Of course since this one is +2, if it is indeed a cornuthaum you have a
dilemma.

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Ulrich Scholz

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Jan 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/28/97

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What is a cornuthaum? And what is a dune cap?

Ben Gertzfield

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sch...@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Scholz) writes:

> What is a cornuthaum? And what is a dune cap?

A cornuthaum is a typical Wizard's cap -- tall, pointed, and with
stars and moons all over it.

And I think your other question is 'what is a dunce cap?' :) A dunce
cap is also a tall pointed hat; supposedly a long time ago in America,
teachers would make students who were bad sit in the corner and wear a
'dunce cap'. :)

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Psikobunny

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sch...@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Scholz) writes:

> What is a cornuthaum? And what is a dune cap?

Other folk posted what they are but here's what they DO
(in NH anyways)
Cornuthaum: +1 CHA and clairvoyance but only if you're
a wizard, else -1 CHA
Dunce Cap: INT (and WIS?) are cut in half

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