Barbarian (player monster)
@ barbarian 
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| Difficulty | 12 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d6, weapon 1d6 |
| Base level | 10 |
| Base experience | 221 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 10 |
| Base MR | 1 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No (unless player is a barbarian) |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | poison |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A barbarian:
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| Reference | monst.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 2725 |
A barbarian is a player monster corresponding to the barbarian role. Like a player barbarian, they have intrinsic poison resistance.
Generation
Like other player monsters, barbarians are never randomly generated and are thus rarely seen. They are normally found on the Astral Plane, where they may appears among the hostile player monsters.[1] Most barbarians encountered in the main dungeon will turn out to be doppelgangers, which may temporarily assume their form; in either case, the game refers to them by the rank title appropriate for the monster's level.
Reading a cursed scroll of genocide as a barbarian while confused will summon a number of barbarian monsters, although they won't have their usual equipment. Using undead turning on the corpse of a dead barbarian or using stone to flesh on a barbarian statue will revive them as a player monster. In addition to bones levels, barbarian corpses can be found in graveyards including those in the Valley of the Dead,[2] and their statues may appear on Medusa's Island[3] as well as in cockatrice nests.
Equipment
A barbarian on the Astral Plane will carry either a two-handed sword, a battle-axe, a long sword or a randomly chosen melee weapon with 25% probability each. The weapon's enchantment will be random between +4 and +8, and it will be either erodeproof or greased (but not both) with 33.3% probability each. There is a 50% chance that the weapon will be made into an artifact of the same type, if possible.[4]
Like other player monsters on the Astral Plane, barbarians will also be equipped with 1d3 random offensive items, 1d3 random defensive items and 1d3 random miscellaneous items, a randomly generated ascension kit containing various pieces of armor as well as a cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor, some gold and other items. The ascension kit given to barbarians will not include a shield if they are wielding a two-handed sword or a battle-axe, has only a 50% chance of including dragon scale mail instead of non-magical body armor, and will never include a helm of brilliance.
References
- ↑ create_mplayers in mplayer.c
- ↑ dat/gehennom.des in NetHack 3.6.0, line 81
- ↑ src/sp_lev.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 1896: the code is very cryptic but fortunately has comments
- ↑ mk_mplayer in mplayer.c in NetHack 3.6.1
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