Interrogating the monster description (with '/') says (for example):
"Martial Skill: can reach level 30, recieves +1 to-hit per level,
skillful martial prowess."

Typo: "recieves" -> "receives"

In the notnotdNethack source it's in file pager.c (with multiple
occurrences):

pager.c:2168: Sprintf(buff, "recieves +%.2f to-hit per level", MON_BAB(mtmp));
pager.c:2170: Sprintf(buff, "recieves +1 to-hit per level"); pager.c:2177: many = append(description, has_phys_scaling(ptr) ,
"recieves bonus physical damage" , many);


Don't know whether that was borrowed from other variants (dNethack
or notdNethack).

Janis

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