Phantasm
W phantasm 
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| Difficulty | 16 |
| Attacks |
Touch 1d1 sleep, Touch 1d1 Intrinsic theft, Touch 1d1 seduction |
| Base level | 10 |
| Base experience | 237 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 30 |
| Alignment | -10 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 3 (Rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 0 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | medium |
| Resistances | cold, sleep, poison, petrification |
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A phantasm:
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The phantasm is a member of the wraith class that players of dNetHack will begin to encounter in large groups in Gehennom.
Instead of a life-draining attack, phantasms possess a sleep-inducing attack, an item-stealing seduction attack, and an intrinsic-stealing attack like a gremlin's. The last is perhaps the most dangerous, given how much more difficult it is to acquire permanent intrinsics in dNetHack.
A user has suggested improving this page or section as follows:
"Is the intrinsic-stealing attack restricted to nighttime, as with gremlins?"
Strategy
Sleep resistance can lessen how much a group of phantasms can steal from you between moves. The intrinsic form may be more desirable here than an extrinsic source (e.g. orange dragon scale mail), as sleep resistance is one of the few intrinsics that cannot be stolen.
