Half-dragon (starting race) - Revision history

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Can be any alignment

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 == Properties ==
-*Half-dragons may be Anachrononauts, Archeologists, Barbarians, Binders, Cavepeople, Convicts, Knights, Monks, Madmen, Nobles, Priests, Rogues, Rangers, Samurais, Bards (Troubadours) or Wizards.
+*Half-dragons may be Anachrononauts, Archeologists, Barbarians, Binders, Cavepeople, Convicts, Knights, Monks, Madmen, Nobles, Priests, Rogues, Rangers, Samurais, Troubadours, or Wizards.
 *Half-dragons can be of any alignment.
 *Half-dragons have a draconic breath weapon selected at game start, usable via #ability
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 **Flavor-wise, male half-dragon Madmen are half-red-dragon, half-githyanki, female half-dragon Madwomen are half-chaos-dragon, half-githzerai, and female half-dragon Nobles are the more-human-looking variety of ''Dark Souls'' half-dragon.
 *Being half-dragon is a mystical status, not just a physical condition, and so half-dragons retain their special abilities while polymorphed, and conversely other characters cannot polymorph into half-dragons.
-*Half-dragon Bards start with an extra 30 [[energy]]. Half-dragon Madmen start with exactly 10 energy. All other half-dragons start with exactly 15 energy.
+*Half-dragon Troubadours start with an extra 30 [[energy]]. Half-dragon Madmen start with exactly 10 energy. All other half-dragons start with exactly 15 energy.
-*Half-dragon Bards know [[martial arts]], and from 14th level they can [[Bard#Sing an Elemental into being|sing elementals into being]].
+*Half-dragon Troubadours know [[martial arts]], and from 14th level they can [[Troubadour#Sing an Elemental into being|sing elementals into being]].
 *Female half-dragons can all train the [[farm implement]] weapon skill to Expert level. If they are a Noble or their role does not have a guaranteed first sacrifice gift, their first [[sacrifice gift]] is always [[dNetHack artifacts#The Lifehunt Scythe|The Lifehunt Scythe]].
 *At 15th level, all half-dragons get the secondary intrinsics of the corresponding color of [[Dragon armor (dNetHack)|dragon scales]]. Chaos half-dragons (female half-dragon Madwomen) get see invisible and displacement, blue half-dragons get +3 to base speed (increasing their base speed from 9 to 12 when unpolymorphed), and red half-dragons get slime resistance and grow bigger and stronger, gaining 120% carrycap and +2 to strength-based damage bonus.

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-'''Half-dragons''' are a playable [[race]] that appear in [[dNetHack]] and [[notdNetHack]].
+'''Half-dragons''' are a playable [[race]] that appear in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]].
 == Properties ==
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 [[Category:dNetHack races]]
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 **You are granted full immunity to your own breath weapon, which permanently grants the appropriate resistance. This does grant permanent intrinsic magic resistance with magical breath, and does not grant anything to male Madmen who have a randomly varying breath attack. This also grants full intrinsic immunity, rather than just resistance, for fire, cold and lightning bearing half-dragons, which fully negates primordial elemental attacks compared to the halved damage they normally deal through resistances. Lightning half-dragons are additionally immune to being blinded by light, including the flash caused by being hit with a lightning bolt.
 **From 14th level, your breath weapon counts as true dragonbreath, so it cannot be reflected by ordinary reflection, only dragonbreath reflection. The exception is disintegration breath (which is possible for a half-dragon Madwoman's random breath, or, in notdNetHack, a half-dragon Anachrononaut's disintegration breath), which can be reflected as usual.
-***Sleep breath becomes hallucinogenic (confusing and berserking n
+***Sleep breath becomes hallucinogenic (confusing and berserking non-sleep-resistant monsters) at 14th level.
 *Half-dragons gain 1 bonus AC per 6 levels (starting at level 3), and 1 bonus natural DR per 6 levels (starting at level 6).
 *Half-dragons are slower than normal (base speed 9 instead of speed 12).

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 *Half-dragons can be of any alignment.
 *Half-dragons have a draconic breath weapon selected at game start, usable via #ability
-**The breath is randomly selected from fire, cold, lightning, poison, acid, sleep. Female half-dragon Nobles will instead get either cold or magic with equal odds, and half-dragon Madmen will get a random breath attack ala shimmering dragons if they're female or fire if they're male.
+**The breath is randomly selected from fire, cold, lightning, poison, acid, sleep. Female half-dragon Nobles will instead get either cold or magic with equal odds, and half-dragon Madmen will get a random breath attack ala shimmering dragons if they're female or fire if they're male. In notdNetHack, half-dragon Anachrononauts will always get disintegration breath.
 **It costs 15 energy to use, does not burn nutrition, and does not suffer from spell failure.
 **Base damage is (1+(XL/3))d6 damage. This can be upgraded by wearing dragon scale armor that matches your breath weapon, by 50% per matching armor piece worn. For example, a half-dragon with acid breath will get 50% extra damage with their breath while wearing yellow dragon scale mail, or double damage if wearing both mail and a shield. Red half-dragons get +2 dice at 14th level.
 **You are granted full immunity to your own breath weapon, which permanently grants the appropriate resistance. This does grant permanent intrinsic magic resistance with magical breath, and does not grant anything to male Madmen who have a randomly varying breath attack. This also grants full intrinsic immunity, rather than just resistance, for fire, cold and lightning bearing half-dragons, which fully negates primordial elemental attacks compared to the halved damage they normally deal through resistances. Lightning half-dragons are additionally immune to being blinded by light, including the flash caused by being hit with a lightning bolt.
-**From 14th level, your breath weapon counts as true dragonbreath, so it cannot be reflected by ordinary reflection, only dragonbreath reflection. The exception is if a half-dragon Madwoman's random breath weapon becomes disintegration breath, in which case it can be reflected as usual.
+**From 14th level, your breath weapon counts as true dragonbreath, so it cannot be reflected by ordinary reflection, only dragonbreath reflection. The exception is disintegration breath (which is possible for a half-dragon Madwoman's random breath, or, in notdNetHack, a half-dragon Anachrononaut's disintegration breath), which can be reflected as usual.
 *Half-dragons gain 1 bonus AC per 6 levels (starting at level 3), and 1 bonus natural DR per 6 levels (starting at level 6).
-*Half-dragons are slower than normal (base speed 8 instead of speed 12).
+*Half-dragons are slower than normal (base speed 9 instead of speed 12).
 *Half-dragons gain a bonus to bare-handed and martial arts damage from their claws - they have triple dice size, so they'll deal 1d6 damage instead of 1d2, or 1d12 instead of 1d4 with martial arts
 *Half-dragons are counted as dragons for [[cannibalism]] and [[Sacrifice#Sacrificing_creatures_of_own_race|same-race sacrifice]] purposes.
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 *Half-dragon Bards start with an extra 30 [[energy]]. Half-dragon Madmen start with exactly 10 energy. All other half-dragons start with exactly 15 energy.
 *Half-dragon Bards know [[martial arts]], and from 14th level they can [[Bard#Sing an Elemental into being|sing elementals into being]].
-*Female half-dragons can all train the [[farm implement]] weapon skill to Expert level, and their first [[sacrifice gift]] is always [[dNetHack artifacts#The Lifehunt Scythe|The Lifehunt Scythe]] (overriding any other first sacrifice gift their role may have).
+*Female half-dragons can all train the [[farm implement]] weapon skill to Expert level. If they are a Noble or their role does not have a guaranteed first sacrifice gift, their first [[sacrifice gift]] is always [[dNetHack artifacts#The Lifehunt Scythe|The Lifehunt Scythe]].
+*At 15th level, all half-dragons get the secondary intrinsics of the corresponding color of [[Dragon armor (dNetHack)|dragon scales]]. Chaos half-dragons (female half-dragon Madwomen) get see invisible and displacement, blue half-dragons get +3 to base speed (increasing their base speed from 9 to 12 when unpolymorphed), and red half-dragons get slime resistance and grow bigger and stronger, gaining 120% carrycap and +2 to strength-based damage bonus.
 == Stats ==

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 **The breath is randomly selected from fire, cold, lightning, poison, acid, sleep. Female half-dragon Nobles will instead get either cold or magic with equal odds, and half-dragon Madmen will get a random breath attack ala shimmering dragons if they're female or fire if they're male.
 **It costs 15 energy to use, does not burn nutrition, and does not suffer from spell failure.
-**Base damage is (1+(XL/3))d6 damage. This can be upgraded by wearing dragon scale armor that matches your breath weapon, by 50% per matching armor piece worn. For example, a half-dragon with acid breath will get 50% extra damage with their breath while wearing yellow dragon scale mail, or double damage if wearing both mail and a shield.
+**Base damage is (1+(XL/3))d6 damage. This can be upgraded by wearing dragon scale armor that matches your breath weapon, by 50% per matching armor piece worn. For example, a half-dragon with acid breath will get 50% extra damage with their breath while wearing yellow dragon scale mail, or double damage if wearing both mail and a shield. Red half-dragons get +2 dice at 14th level.
-**You are granted full immunity to your own breath weapon, which permanently grants the appropriate resistance. This does grant permanent intrinsic magic resistance with magical breath, and does not grant anything to male Madmen who have a randomly varying breath attack. This also grants full intrinsic immunity, rather than just resistance, for fire, cold and lightning bearing half-dragons, which fully negates primordial elemental attacks compared to the halved damage they normally deal through resistances. Lightning half-dragons are not immune to being blinded "by the flash" caused by being hit with a lightning bolt.
+**You are granted full immunity to your own breath weapon, which permanently grants the appropriate resistance. This does grant permanent intrinsic magic resistance with magical breath, and does not grant anything to male Madmen who have a randomly varying breath attack. This also grants full intrinsic immunity, rather than just resistance, for fire, cold and lightning bearing half-dragons, which fully negates primordial elemental attacks compared to the halved damage they normally deal through resistances. Lightning half-dragons are additionally immune to being blinded by light, including the flash caused by being hit with a lightning bolt.
 **From 14th level, your breath weapon counts as true dragonbreath, so it cannot be reflected by ordinary reflection, only dragonbreath reflection. The exception is if a half-dragon Madwoman's random breath weapon becomes disintegration breath, in which case it can be reflected as usual.
 *Half-dragons gain 1 bonus AC per 6 levels (starting at level 3), and 1 bonus natural DR per 6 levels (starting at level 6).

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 {{upcoming|dNetHack|In 3.23.0, the half-dragon's base speed is increased to 9, and level 15+ half-dragons get the secondary intrinsics from their corresponding color of [[Dragon armor (dNetHack)|dragon scales]]: Chaos dragons still get nothing at level 1, but get displacement and see invisible at level 15. From level 1, blue (lightning) half-dragons also get blindness resistance. Red dragons get +2 dice to their breath weapon at level 14, and grow bigger and stronger at level 15, gaining 120% carrycap and +2 to strength dbon. Sleep breath becomes hallucinogenic (confusing and berserking non-sleep-resistant monsters) at level 15.
-Female half-dragons only get The Lifehunt Scythe as their first sacrifice gift if their role does not already have a first sacrifice gift, or if they are a Noble, but still unrestrict the farm implement skill regardless.
+Female half-dragons only get The Lifehunt Scythe as their first sacrifice gift if their role does not already have a first sacrifice gift, or if they are a Noble, but still unrestrict the farm implement skill regardless.}}
-Half-dragon Anachrononauts get a disintegration breath weapon, and any half-dragon with multiple possible breath types can choose between them at character creation, instead of receiving one randomly.}}
+{{upcoming|notdNetHack|Half-dragon Anachrononauts get a disintegration breath weapon, and any half-dragon with multiple possible breath types can choose between them at character creation, instead of receiving one randomly.}}
 == Stats ==

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 *Female half-dragons can all train the [[farm implement]] weapon skill to Expert level, and their first [[sacrifice gift]] is always [[dNetHack artifacts#The Lifehunt Scythe|The Lifehunt Scythe]] (overriding any other first sacrifice gift their role may have).
-{{upcoming|dNetHack|In 3.23.0, half-dragons' base speed is increased to 9, and level 15+ half-dragons get the secondary intrinsics from their corresponding color of [[Dragon armor (dNetHack)|dragon scales]]. Chaos dragons get nothing. From level 1, blue (lightning) half-dragons also get blindness resistance.
+{{upcoming|dNetHack|In 3.23.0, half-dragons' base speed is increased to 9, and level 15+ half-dragons get the secondary intrinsics from their corresponding color of [[Dragon armor (dNetHack)|dragon scales]]. Chaos dragons still get nothing at level 1, but get displacement and see invisible at level 15. From level 1, blue (lightning) half-dragons also get blindness resistance. Red dragons get +2 dice to their breath weapon at level 14, and grow bigger and stronger at level 15, gaining 120% carrycap and +2 to strength dbon. Sleep breath becomes hallucinogenic (confusing and berserking non-sleep-resistant monsters) at level 15.
 Female half-dragons only get The Lifehunt Scythe as their first sacrifice gift if their role does not already have a first sacrifice gift, or if they are a Noble. They still get the farm implement skill regardless.}}