Monsters which do not move at normal speed generally move \u201cslowly\u201d (-10 to speed), \u201cfairly quickly\u201d (+5), \u201cquickly\u201d (+10), \u201cvery quickly\u201d (+20) or \u201cincredibly quickly\u201d (+30). (It will surprise nobody that Morgoth is one of the few monsters in the last category.) This is further adjusted by the fact that any non-unique monster may have a random adjustment from (-2) to (+2) to its own speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Generally, (+10) is exactly double normal speed, and (-10) exactly half. (+20) is about three times normal speed, but after that there is less noticeable improvement as speed goes higher – for instance, (+30) is not quite four times normal speed, and higher values than this are largely irrelevant. The player may find items which can be worn or wielded that provide speed bonuses: these may include boots of speed, rings of speed and a few very rare artifacts. Boots will provide a random 1d10 to speed: rings of speed may be bigger than that – generally the best that the player will get is two just over (+10), but individual rings of up to (+23) speed have been known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Separate from the question of permanent speed (as determined by the player\u2019s speed items and the monster\u2019s natural speed) is that of temporary speed. The player may cast a spell of haste-self, or use a potion, staff or rod of speed or use an artifact activation to speed him temporarily: or a monster may cast a haste-self spell, or be affected by another monster \u201cshrieking for help\u201d or the player reading a scroll of aggravate monster. In all cases, (+10) speed is added temporarily to the affected monster or player. Using two or more sources of temporary speed is cumulative only in duration – one cannot get from normal speed to (+20) using a potion and a spell of speed. Spells of temporary slowing (including monsters breathing inertia or gravity) are handled the same way, with exactly (-10) being subtracted from the player or monster\u2019s speed temporarily, for the duration of the spell or breath\u2019s effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monsters which do not move at normal speed generally move \u201cslowly\u201d (-10 to speed), \u201cfairly quickly\u201d (+5), \u201cquickly\u201d (+10), \u201cvery quickly\u201d (+20) or \u201cincredibly quickly\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angbandos.skarstech.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}