Resistance

Resistances protect you against several harmfull effects that you may encounter in the dungeon. A resistance can be either intrinsic, meaning a natural resistance, or extrinsic, meaning a resistance gained by wearing or wielding a certain item. Many insintric resistances can only be gained by polymorphing into a certain creature, which is not very convenient.

There are nine or ten different resistances, depending on whether you count reflection as one of them. Each resistance maps into a dragon of certain color — a dragon of that color has that resistance as intrinsic. The resistances are:

• Acid resistance (yellow)
• Cold resistance (white)
• Disintegration resistance (black)
• Fire resistance (red)
• Magic resistance (gray)
• Petrification resistance (chromatic)
• Poison resistance (green)
• Reflection (silver)
• Shock resistance (blue)
• Sleep resistance (orange)

Chromatic dragon is the caveman quest villain and resistant to almost everything.