ADOM Guidebook


Appendix F - Scrolls - complete list


Addendum: Books


Spellbooks:

 Acid Ball			Improved Fireball
 Acid Bolt			Invisibility
 Bless				Knock
 Burning Hands			Know Alignment
 Calm Monster			Light
 Create Item			Lightning Ball
 Cure Critical Wounds		Lightning Bolt
 Cure Disease			Magic Lock
 Cure Light Wounds		Magic Map
 Cure Serious Wounds		Magic Missile
 Darkness			Mystic Shovel
 Death Ray			Neutralize Poison
 Destroy Undead			Petrification
 Disarm Trap			Remove Curse
 Earthquake			Revelation
 Farsight			Scare Monster
 Fire Bolt			Slow Monster
 Fireball			Slow Poison
 Frost Bolt			Strength of Atlas
 Greater Identify		Stun Ray
 Heal				Summon Monsters
 Ice Ball			Teleportation
 Identify			Web
                    Wish

All spellbooks weigh 100s.

Tracts:

 Tract of order				250s
 Tract of balance			200s
 Tract of chaos				150s

Artifacts:

 The Black Tome of Alsophocus		400s

Other:

 The Collected Works of Confucious	400s

 (this book generates random fortune cookie 
  messages when read and disappears after 
  several readings)


Appendix F - Scrolls - complete list

The unidentified appearance is only the most common association. It is by no means guaranteed.

Scroll of... Unidentified appearance Effect when read Misc
Amnesia ECNETOPINMO PC forgets some parts of maps and identified items  
Balance SutsI Reveals PCs balance of alignment  
Blank Unlabeled New scrolls can be written on these  
Chaos resistance Yik Mech'Shegoth Removes corruptions; about 1.6 corruptions when blessed  
Charging KAPOW Recharges wands  
Crumpled Crumpled Unique; held by the Emperor Moloch; Khelavaster summons the Trident of the Red Rooster when non-chaotics give him this scroll Always "crumpled scroll"
Cure blindness YNORI ERUP A joke (scrolls can't be read while blind)  
Danger REGNAD Increases danger factor of current dungeon level; quest object for Gaab'Baay  
Dark predictions Odiv Reveals PCs percentage of corruption  
Darkness ZTORF Darkens area around PC; the area can be lit again  
Defense HITME Improves an items DV (fails more often with better items)  
Familiar summoning mead ni najap Summons a tame companion whose power corresponds to the current dungeon level  
Gold detection MKMNFST Reveals locations of gold on current dungeon level for one turn  
Great identify DOGO FUTSF Reveals some (all if blessed) of an item's properties  
IBM guild manual irk gleknow mizk Confuses until divinely removed  
Identify KLATHA DATHA NY'ARYATHA Identifies one item if cursed, one class if uncursed, all worn/carried if blessed  
Ill fate IAZNAB Reduces PCs luck  
Increase melee accuracy WoPaK Improves an item's to-hit (fails more often with better items)  
Increase melee damage HcUo Improves an item's to-damage (fails more often with better items)  
Information ENO OWT EERHT Unique; found in small cave; reveals number of squares to the waterproof blanket Always labeled "ENO OWT EERHT"
Item creation GNOZAB Creates a random item  
Item detection ABABILA Reveals locations of items on level for one turn  
Item destruction MUNCH MUNCH Destroys a random worn or carried item  
Light FROTZ Lights area around PC (it can be darkened again)  
Luck YIKES Increases PCs luck  
Magic mapping IDNUM AIROLG TISNART CIS Reveals parts (or all if blessed) of the current level  
Monster aggravation RambaZamba Makes all monsters on current level hostile  
Monster detection KTTdLwrgt Reveals locations of monsters on the current level for one turn  
Omnipotence Ancient Unique if it exists; probably a red herring from Thomas  
Papyrus Papyrus Unique; appears on the dungeon level when the PC reaches experience level 13 Always "papyrus scroll"
Peace GNAY-GNIY Reduces danger factor of the current level  
Power Carpe Diem Recharges some PP  
Protection CUTME Improves an item's PV (fails more often with better items)  
Ratling pamphlet Tattered Ratling rebel distributes them on the Arena level Always "tattered scroll"
Repair FOO BAR Removes broken trait from an item (cursed breaks items, even artifacts, a bug)  
Satiation FPMAM Acts as food when read; can be read even when Bloated  
Strange message Fox Nawagu Unique; found in high mountain village Always labeled "Fox Nawagu"
Teleportation YTTOCS PU EM MAEB Teleports PC  
Treasure creation NADSIL SEETRURA Creates a random valuable  
Uncursing ACME Uncurses a single item, or all if blessed  
Vermin control CHUTZPAH Sterilizes all breeders on current level  
Warning Scribbled Unique; found in small cave Always "scribbled scroll"

Scrolls can be written if the PC is literate, has seen an example of the scroll, has a magical writing set and a blank scroll to write on. Blank scrolls can be found in the dungeons (usually an unlabeled scroll, although this is not guaranteed), or they can be created by dipping other scrolls into *normal* water - not holy water or unholy water. Be aware that the cost for writing scrolls of chaos resistance is high - there is a permanent loss of two or three mana points, apparently depending on the blessed vs uncursed status of the magical writing set. In addition, any combination of a blessed MWS with an uncursed blank scroll or an uncursed MWS with a blessed or uncursed blank scroll will result in a loss of hitpoints. This loss ranged from 70 to 145 HP with a WADOMF'd experience level one PC. The HP loss may go down with increasing experience level. The PC in question was a wizard with Literacy at 100.

Writing other scrolls does not have such drastic consequences, though the exact effects have yet to be worked out.


Updated May 11th, 2001
© Copyright Andrew Williams 2000-2001