Droven chain mail
[ droven chain mail 
| |
|---|---|
| Appearance | crested black mail |
| Slot | body armor |
| Base size | large |
| Body armor type | medium |
| AC | 4 |
| DR | 5 |
| MC | 2 |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties |
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| Base price | 1000 zm |
| Default weight | 50 |
| Base material | shadowsteel |
- For the armor in EvilHack, see dark elven chain mail.
Droven chain mail is a type of body armor that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It is large-sized armor that has a default material of shadowsteel, and appears as crested black mail when unidentified or crested mail if the hero is also blind.
Droven chain mail is the base item for the artifact Spidersilk.
Generation
Drow heroes in roles that start with leather armor or a cloak of magic resistance will have it replaced with droven chain mail, and drow Troubadours will have the standard leather cloak replaced with droven chain mail.
Droven chain mail is not randomly generated, though it can be wished for or found in bones.
Most hedrow monsters are generated with droven chain mail, including hedrow wizards, hedrow master-wizards and drow alienists. Yochlols can generate with droven chain mail in any form, and the various steeds generated alongside droven hunting parties have a 1⁄10 chance of generating with barded droven chain mail fitted to their body shape.
Description
While worn, droven chain mail grants 2 base AC, 4 DR and MC2. Wearing or removing droven chain mail takes 5 actions to perform. As medium armor, wearing droven chain mail grants an AC bonus equal to (dexterity - 11)4 (rounded down). A hero wearing droven chain mail also gains a bonus to spellcasting equivalent to wearing a robe, which stacks with the bonus from an actual worn robe.
As shadowsteel armor, droven chain mail may gradually erode during each turn that the wearer spends in lit squares until it is destroyed, with the chance of erosion being significantly reduced if they have a cloak that grants MC3, and erosion from light will not occur if they have invisibility—erosion-proofed droven chain mail will gradually self-repair any evaporation from light while the wearer is not invisible and remains in an unlit square.
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