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This article is based on a discussion in rec.games.roguelike.development to which the following individuals contributed:

:Michael Blackney [michaelblackney@hotmail.com]
:Josh Fishman [fishman@ext.rlab.cs.nyu.edu]
:Dani????l L????wenstein [dlowen@xs4all.nl]

* No cheat: will not try to scam people when buying/selling/trading items.
* No kill: will try not to kill other members of the same race.
* No kill any: will try not to kill other creatures of any race.
* Honour elders.
* No lie.
* No steal.
* No take: will not pick up objects from the ground.
* Fight evil: will attack who it conceives to be its enemies on sight.
* No retreat.
* No surrender.
* Caste: only speaks/interacts with others if they are of a similar social standing.
* No gluttony.
* No greed: will give away items if they think others need them more.
* No revenge.
* No fighting.
* Fair fighting: like the knights/samurai in Nethack.
* Silent.
* No trespassing: will understand not to enter others property uninvited, and will also not like others to enter their property uninvited.
* Poverty.
* No blood: will not use weapons which draw blood (swords, &c.)
* Monotheist: may only follow up to one god.
* No magic. 

-- Michael Blackney



* No stimulants (haste, might, speed potions)
* No poisoning others
* No consorting with demons (summoning etc.)
* No "death magic" (necromancy or whatever)
* Vegetarianism (no meat)

* No medicine (potions of healing or whatever) (like Christ.Scientists)
* No going into debt (like Mormons)
* No unnecessary cruelty (napalm on the living, explosives, "pain" spells)
* No killing normal animals
* No ESP / Telepathy / other psionic powers / effects

-- Josh Fishman



(From the classic religions)

* Taking a pilgrimage walk (with restrains like unarmed or with heavy religious objects) to a distant location
* Pray for at least "X" times a day (visit the church/temple each day/week)
* Sacrifice to the gods an amount of food equal to the amount you eat (half ration)
* Self mutilation for breaking any of the religious rules
* Crusade, kill ''everyone'' with a different religion (and destroy their temples)
* Scoring points for the afterlife, do quests for your god/priest, convert people to your religion and build temples

(From the New Age nonsense(with all respect ofcourse))

* Only allow negative/positive energy in your aura (maintain a minimum distant from evil/good creatures)
* Eat only food you've grown yourself (don't pick up any food in the dungeon, you don't know where it's been!)
* Put skill points/experience into stats that don't have any benefits in the game (like soul and spirit)
* Don't use a mobile phone (or any other object that contains evil/good magic energy)
               
-- Dani????l L????wenstein

Ten Commandments (using the Orthodox division, which is the most logical division of the commandments to me):
# Monotheism, do not have any other gods
# Do not make an idol or worship to idols
# Do not make wrongful use of the name of your God
# Keep the Sabbath day holy
# Honor your parents
# Do not murder/kill
# Do not commit adultery
# Do not steal or kidnap
# Do not bear false witness (do not lie)
# Do not covet anything belonging to your neighbor

Some additional ones:
* Do not kill members of a specific race/species/category
* You cannot carry more than a specific amount of items (or of a specific type of item)
* Don't read or write
* Balance positive and negative energy (or balance Yin and Yang)
* No armor
* Do not cast spells on anyone other than yourself
* You must perform certain rituals in order to do certain actions, taking up time
* Do not eat unless you are starving
* Do not touch dead things (corpses)
* Do not fight someone who surrenders or is running away or isn't hostile
-- [[User:zzo38|zzo38]]


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