Jump to content
Toggle menu
  • 3.1K articles
  • 4.4K files
  • 21 users
  • 91.5K edits
Ashenzari's Archive
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Box of beasts: Difference between revisions

From Ashenzari's Archive
imported>Spudwalt
No edit summary
imported>Fambida
m outdated version notice
Line 1: Line 1:
{{version012}}
{{item
{{item
  |itemtype=Miscellaneous item
  |itemtype=Miscellaneous item

Revision as of 02:28, 16 April 2014

Version 0.12: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.


Type Miscellaneous item
Name box of beasts
Icon
A magical box containing many wild beasts. One may allow them to escape by opening the box's lid.

A box of beasts is a miscellaneous magic item which can summon a (generally) friendly companion.

Operation

The player has a 60+Evocations% chance of successfully evoking the box of beasts. This will create one monster from the following list (equal odds): butterfly, bat, hound, jackal, rat, ice beast, adder, yak, water moccasin, crocodile, hell hound. (Hell hound is not an option if you worship a good god.) The chance of the beast being friendly is (4+Evocations)/(5+Evocations).

Evocations Success Rate Friendly
0 60% 80%
5 65% 90%
10 70% 93%
15 75% 95%
20 80% 96%
27 87% 97%

As elsewhere, killing a hostile summons will grant no experience points. If your attempt to use the box fails, there is a 16.7% chance that the box's magic will be exhausted, turning it into a useless empty ebony casket.

A magical box after its power is spent

Xom is mildly amused (maximum excitement 14) by the successful use of a box of beasts.

History

In 0.13 this item will create Chimeras.

Prior to 0.9, it appeared as a small ebony casket while unidentified.