Droven short sword

For the weapon in SLASH'EM, SpliceHack and SlashTHEM, see Dark elven short sword (SLASH'EM).

For the weapon in EvilHack, see Dark elven short sword (EvilHack).

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Name	droven short sword
Appearance	short sword
Damage vs. small	1d8
Damage vs. large	1d8
To-hit bonus	+0
Weapon skill	short sword
Size	one-handed
Base price	10 zm (+10/positive enchant)
Weight	15
Material	obsidian

A droven short sword is a type of weapon that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It is a one-handed weapon that uses the short sword skill. It has a default material of obsidian, and appears as a "short sword" with its material displayed when unidentified.

Lolth's Fang is an artifact droven short sword.

Generation

Droven short swords are not randomly generated. Drow heroes start with knowledge of the droven short sword, and drow in roles that start with short swords or spears will instead receive droven short swords.

Several drow can be generated with droven short swords:

• Hedrow wizards and hedrow master-wizards always generate with a droven short sword.
• Houseless drow have a ¹⁄₆ chance of generating with a droven short sword.
• Y-cultist fighters always generate with a droven short sword, and may receive another droven short sword in one of their weapon kits: there is a ²⁄₃ chance for the first kit and a ¹⁄₄ chance for the third kit, while the second kit always includes another droven short sword.
• Y-cultist wizards always generate with two separate droven short swords, and the first has a ¹⁄₂₀ chance of being sickness-poisoned.
• Y-cultist matrons, drow matrons, drow matron-mothers, and yochlol generated in unearthly drow have a ¹⁹⁄₂₀ chance of generating with a droven short sword.
• Driders have a ³⁄₅ chance of generating with a droven short sword.
• Other drow that are capable of two-weapon combat and lack defined starting inventories will always generate with a droven short sword.

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