[queuebert]

I disagree. There are a lot of idiosyncrasies about monsters in NetHack such that getting good at NetHack is 99.9% about learning the NetHack world, not the real world. The werecreature game mechanic is no different than the POI or HALLU effect, so I don't think the AI needs any special knowledge. I

bet it comes down to how much memory the algorithm has, since the transformation might occur way later than being bitten, while most poison kills are fairly quick. The problem is NetHack requires you to have at minimum 1000 turns of memory to know when to pray. Even more if you want to keep track of where stuff was.