Giantslayer
) Giantslayer 
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|---|---|
| Base item | long sword |
| Damage vs. small | 1d8 x2 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d12 x2 |
| To-hit bonus | +1d5 |
| Bonus versus | giants |
| Weapon skill | long sword |
| Size | one-handed |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried |
(none) |
| When wielded |
(none) |
| When invoked |
(none) |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 40 |
| Material | iron |
) Giantslayer (UnNetHack) 
| |
|---|---|
| Base item | sling |
| Damage vs. small | 1d2 x2 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d2 x2 |
| To-hit bonus | +1d5 |
| Bonus versus | giants |
| Weapon skill | sling |
| Size | one-handed |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried |
(none) |
| When wielded |
|
| When invoked |
(none) |
| Base price | 1200 zm |
| Weight | 3 |
| Material | leather |
Giantslayer is a neutral long sword that does +1d5 to hit and double damage against monsters with the M2_GIANT flag: giants, stone giants, hill giants, fire giants, giant mummies, frost giants, storm giants, giant zombies, Cyclops, and Lord Surtur, but not ettins or titans.
Strategy
Like most of The Banes, this weapon has too narrow a damage range to be particularly useful. Likely its main use is that it might unrestrict the long swords skill for a neutral character, without requiring them to be crowned; this could be useful for a character who finds Frost Brand on the floor, for example. Also, unlike some other Banes, it is at least derived from a good base item, so is actually useful against giants. However, giants are rarely dangerous enough to need a particularly effective weapon to take them out.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, this weapon is removed in favor of Giantkiller, a neutral axe with the same double damage range. As an axe is a far weaker base weapon than a long sword, Giantkiller is even less useful than Giantslayer.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, Giantslayer is instead a neutral sling, with bonuses versus the same group of M2_GIANT monsters; it provides warning of, and +1d5 to hit and double damage against them. It also sets the wielder's Strength to 18/**, even if wielded in the off hand (this may be a bug, as it does not always set the wielder's Strength to 18/** immediately in either hand).
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