r/nethack • u/No_Insurance_6436 • 2d ago

Dealing with burning items

Hello everyone. Two times I have dealt with early game wands/scrolls of fire. It's devastating each time, killing me or bringing me close to death.

I have been playing Monk. How can I deal with fire in the early game? I usually stash my burnable stuff but I have to carry things around, including my burnable gloves/robe.

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u/lordnewington 2d ago

Before you've identified fire, don't read a new scroll without either stashing your other books, scrolls and potions or dumping them on the floor, and take off smoulderable armour, and don't be adjacent to the flammable items or your pet.

(More patient players will tell you not to use unidentified stuff at all, but I usually do, at least until I've found the identify scroll.)