Oviparous means "egg-laying." If you are polymorphed into a female oviparous monster, the #Sit command will cause you to lay an egg. In addition, some randomly-generated eggs will be from oviparous monsters and might hatch in your inventory.
List of oviparous monsters[]
The following monsters are oviparous:
- All adult dragons
- All adult nagas
- a Giant ant
- a Killer bee
- a Soldier ant
- a Fire ant
- a Queen bee
- c Cockatrice
- c Pyrolisk
- g Gargoyle
- g Winged gargoyle
- s Cave spider
- s Centipede
- s Giant spider
- s Scorpion
- w Long worm
- w Purple worm
- S Garter snake
- S Snake
- S Water moccasin
- S Pit viper
- S Python
- S Cobra
- ; Piranha
- ; Shark
- ; Giant eel
- ; Electric eel
- : Crocodile
- s Scorpius
SLASH'EM[]
The following new SLASH'EM monsters are also oviparous:
- a Giant tick
- a Giant flea
- a Snow ant
- a Giant louse
- s Recluse spider
- s Barking spider
- s Carrion crawler
- s Nickelpede
- s Giant scorpion
- s Girtab
- s Shelob
- s Phase spider
- s Werespider
- z Echidna
- z Platypus
- D Shimmering dragon
- D Deep dragon
- S King cobra
- S Asphynx
- ; Giant crab
- : Rhaumbusun
- : Basilisk
- : Komodo dragon