gemini wrote:Which is correct?
Sacrifice Courage - Suffer a slaying and spellpower malus which scales with the number and strength of opponents in your line of sight. Penalties begin when more than one tough monster or a single nasty monster is visible, and becomes more pronounced as more opponents appear.
This is correct.
When taken, Sacrifice Courage
grants the mutation MUT_COWARDICE. MUT_COWARDICE ultimately
sets the HORROR_PENALTY_KEY prop depending on
the relative threat level of the enemies in your LOS, which in turn sets a variable malus to
your slaying and
your spellpower that gets worse when more threatening enemies are present.
In general, if something you read in-game (or written by a knowledgeable player or dev) contradicts the chaosforge wiki, you should assume the chaosforge wiki to be wrong. It is poorly maintained, and was a notorious repository for bad information even when it was better maintained.
Better resources are the in-game help lookup (press ?/ ingame) which is actually pretty good these days, the
learndb (please note: the learndb is sometimes outdated and full of in-joke entries), the various knowledge bots (sequell, beem, etc.), and
UV4's guide for new players.
[If you really, *really* want accurate information about the nuts and bolts behind the game, the best way is to search the code in the
Crawl git repository, but this isn't at all needed to play the game.]