Wooden stake

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Name wooden stake
Appearance wooden stake
Damage vs. small 1d6
Damage vs. large 1d6
To-hit bonus +0
Weapon skill dagger
Size one-handed
Base price 50 zm
(+10/positive
enchant)
Weight 20
Material wood
For the weapon in Hack'EM, see Stake (Hack'EM).

A wooden stake is a type of weapon that appears in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM. It is a one-handed weapon that uses the dagger skill, and is naturally made of wood.

The wooden stake is the base item for the artifact The Stake of Van Helsing.

Generation

Undead Slayers start each game with a +0 non-cursed wooden stake as their primary weapon.[1]

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, the wooden stake is not randomly generated, though it can be wished for or found in bones.

SlashTHEM

In SlashTHEM, the wooden stake is very rare and makes up 1500 (0.2%) of all randomly-generated weapons.

Description

A wooden stake deals +1d6 bonus damage to all vampires, with an extra +2 damage and a 110 chance of instant death occurring if the hero wielding it is an Undead Slayer, has Expert skill in daggers or is specifically wielding The Stake of Van Helsing.[2] This also applies to other monsters attacking a vampire or a hero in the form of one with The Stake of Van Helsing.[3][4]

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