Pig Form

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You have been transformed into a pig. You move quickly but are less effective in melee. Any equipped weapons, armour and rings are melded, and you are unable to cast spells. The effectiveness of your melee attacks while in this form is based on experience level instead of on Unarmed Combat skill.

Pig Form is a bad form that can be inflicted by various means: the unique monster Kirke's Porkalator spell, by being polymorphed (whether through the spell, a Killer Klown, or with the wand), or by drawing the Swine card via Nemelex Xobeh's wrath. Becoming a hog melds almost all equipment, suppresses mutations, and prevents spellcasting. Even characters with significant training in unarmed combat will find themselves incapable of fighting competently. The one advantage given by Pig Form is an increase to your character's base speed and evasion, improving your odds of fleeing to safety.

Pros

• Fast 2 (movement delay 0.7, aka centaur speed)
• Small size (good evasion)

Cons

• Sets base AC to 0
• All equipment is melded except for amulets
• Can't cast spells
• Unarmed Combat base damage is reduced to 1 + UC/5

Pig Form

History

• Prior to 0.22, you could not evoke wands while in Pig Form.
• While Pig Form has been around as long as Kirke has, version 0.12 made it somewhat more common with the changes to the Polymorph spell.