Ring

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A talisman charged with arcane forces of unknown provenance, to be worn as jewellery on a finger. "A ring of gold and a milk-white dove Are goodly gifts for thee, And a hempen rope for your own love To hang upon a tree." -Oscar Wilde, "Chanson". 1881.

A ring is a type of jewellery. Characters may wear one ring on each hand, paw, or tentacle; this usually limits you to two rings at a time, but octopodes may wear eight, and followers of Ru who have sacrificed their hand can only wear one ring. The artefact macabre finger necklace grants one additional ring slot. Despite their additional limbs, formicids are still limited to two ring slots.

Rings have the advantage of only requiring 0.5 auts to remove or put on, letting characters change their resistances on the fly.

Certain detrimental rings always generate cursed; all rings that are purely harmful (attention, teleportation) are always cursed, while the stat-boosting rings (strength, intelligence, dexterity, slaying, protection, evasion) are always cursed if their bonus is negative. Other rings may or may not be cursed, as per usual.

There are 21 different base types of rings; random artefact rings each use one type of base ring when generated, but will have one or more additional properties. For a list of preset artefect rings, see List of unrands:

List of rings

• Ring of attention: Decreases the player's stealth score by 50.
• ±X Ring of dexterity: Increases or decreases the player's dexterity by X.
• ±X Ring of evasion: Increases or decreases the player's EV score by X.
• Ring of fire: Grants rF+, rC-, and one spellpower boost to Fire Magic.
• Ring of flight: Grants the Evoke Flight ability, allowing the player to fly for a time.
• Ring of ice: Grants rC+, rF-, and one spellpower boost to Ice Magic.
• ±X Ring of intelligence: Increases or decreases the player's intelligence by X.
• Ring of magical power: Increases the player's maximum MP by 9.
• Ring of poison resistance: Grants rPois.
• Ring of positive energy: Grants rN+.
• ±X Ring of protection: Increases or decreases the player's AC score by X.
• Ring of protection from cold: Grants rC+.
• Ring of protection from fire: Grants rF+.
• Ring of resist corrosion: Grants rCorr.
• Ring of see invisible: Grants the see invisible intrinsic.
• ±X Ring of slaying: Increases or decreases the player's slaying by X (equivalent to weapon enchantment).
• Ring of stealth: Increases the player's stealth score by 50.
• ±X Ring of strength: Increases or decreases the player's strength by X.
• Ring of teleportation: Periodically forces the player to randomly teleport next to monsters; equivalent to teleportitis 3.
• Ring of willpower: Increases the player's willpower by 40.
• Ring of wizardry: Increases spell success rate for all spells.

Obsolete Rings

• Ring of sustain attributes (Removed in 0.19)
• Ring of invisibility (Removed in 0.18)
• Ring of teleport control (Removed in 0.17)
• Ring of regeneration (Replaced with amulet of regeneration in 0.16)
• Ring of hunger (Removed in 0.15)
• Ring of sustenance (Removed in 0.15)
• Ring of levitation (Replaced with rings of flight in 0.12)

History

• In 0.27, rings of attention, rings of stealth, rings of teleportation will be removed.

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