In addition, the section of the goal level containing the Master Assassin has a tin of chameleon meat in the leftmost room.Ĭhameleons are an invalid form for polymorph, and can leave their corpse upon death as normal regardless of their current form.Ĭhameleons are quite capable of imitating various monsters that can either cast the summon nasties monster spell, most infamously arch-liches, or else can be generated by the spell themselves - this and many of the other possible out-of-depth forms can also spell death for the unfortunate, particularly in the late portions of the early game (e.g. Several chameleons are guaranteed to appear within the Rogue quest: eight to ten chameleons are generated at level creation on the home level, five are generated at level creation on the locate level, and five are generated at level creation on the goal level. Įating a chameleon corpse or tin causes you to polymorph, unless you have unchanging. A chameleon is immune to system shock and will continue to shapeshift as normal if you polymorph them while they are already shapeshifted, but can be permanently polymorphed and subjected to system shock if forcibly polymorphed while in their base form.

A chameleon, :, is the most common and well-known shapeshifter monster in NetHack.Ĭhameleons have a 1⁄ 6 chance per turn of changing forms: chameleons will change into an animal 2⁄ 3 of the time, and a random monster the rest of the time.

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