Telepathy

Telepathy is a status effect you can acquire by drawing the Dowsing card from a deck of dungeons, displayed as Template:LightBlue. This allows you to read the surface thoughts of nearby monsters that are not currently in your line of sight, revealing their locations and a general idea of their strength. When playing in console mode, these monsters are displayed by the Template:Red glyph, while tiles mode uses the following icons:

Friendly	Trivial	Easy	Tough	Nasty
File:Friendly monster.png	File:Trivial monster.png	File:Easy monster.png	File:Tough monster.png	File:Nasty monster.png

These categories are determined by comparing your experience level to the enemy's HD. Although it does not reveal the specific nature of the monsters detected, knowing that several high-HD monsters are right around the corner can be extremely useful, and experienced players can sometimes intuit what a particular monster will be by the number of monsters in its band and the area it is found in.

You can acquire a similar, permanent effect through the Antennae mutation.

History

• In 0.19, this status effect and the Dowsing card were removed.