Hmm.. wonder what effect this will have..

[sorear]

Try doing this with a monster. The monster ID field comes immediately after their names and lots of monster IDs are ASCII.

[Theym]

(perhaps giving you the skill set of one class but the class powers of another?)

adombot allows you to do this

[Ybirk]

Yeah, but adombot seems to be taboo and nobody wants to talk about it here.

[fazisi]

Try doing this with a monster. The monster ID field comes immediately after their names and lots of monster IDs are ASCII.

Wow, I just made a cyclops out of a farmer in Terinyo.

Yeah, and ADOMbot can do all sorts of things that aren't neccessarily exploiting of bugs, it's more along the lines of straight out cheating.

[fedoseev]

And I seem to be able only to summon cavemen... How do you make him a cyclop?

[Theym]

does this work on winbeta?

[fazisi]

And I seem to be able only to summon cavemen... How do you make him a cyclop?

Try a 33 character long name ending with the character "3".

[warheart]

Zomg, this is easily exploitable for many things. For example, if you are illiterate, just rename every monster you see to get dark sages, until you get a corpse. Just tried with a troll barbarian, who was literate after just 5 kills, a goblin, a jackal and 3 rats, all converted to dark sages. I hope no one uses the cheat :S

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Well, it's even more exploitable than that, you could convert the ACW into a rat... although I wonder if you would get the orb.

But if you don't, you'd probably get it if you convert a rat into the ACW.

[Sami]

It's also possible to cause a buffer overflow by:
dropping a pile of items
giving items to monsters
sacrificing items
zapping a wand of far slaying
wishing
talking with thrundarr
using wizard's class power to recharge wands
using monster memory? (couldn't get the game to crash with this one)
writing a scroll
setting a variable (command := )
trying to up items that you can't carry
taking lessons from Yergius
training with Garth
talking with Hawkslayer? (couldn't get the game to crash with this one)