Shadow dragon scales
| [ shadow dragon scales | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | shadow dragon scales |
| Slot | cloak |
| AC | 3 |
| Special | |
| Base price | 700 zm |
| Weight | 40 |
| Material | dragon hide |
Shadow dragon scales are a type of cloak that appear in EvilHack and Hack'EM. They are made of dragon hide like all dragon scales.
Reading a scroll of enchant armor and selecting shadow dragon scales while they are worn over body armor creates dragon-scaled armor that is shadow-scaled.
Generation
Shadow dragon scales are not randomly generated, though they can be wished for or found in bones.
A shadow dragon that leaves a corpse behind on death (i.e. always, unless killed by disintegration) has a 1⁄3 chance of leaving behind shadow dragon scales, while a dragon revived by the wand of undead turning or spell of turn undead only has a 1⁄20 chance to leave behind scales. Shadow dragon scales dropped this way are always generated +0 and uncursed.
Description
While worn, shadow dragon scales grant 3 base AC and ultravision, and emit an aura of darkness. Reading a scroll of enchant armor while wearing the scales over a suit or armor will turn the suit into shadow dragon-scaled armor and discard any enchantment on the scales, with further effects dependent on the scroll's beatitude: a blessed scroll will bless the body armor and repair any erosion, and a cursed scroll will curse the armor and lower its enchantment by 1. Reading a scroll of enchant armor while wearing the scales with no body armor will polymorph the hero into a shadow dragon, with the duration of the transformation dependent on the scroll's beatitude (being longer for a blessed scroll and shorter for a cursed one).
Worn shadow-scaled armor grants 5 more base AC, ultravision, sleep resistance, and drain resistance, and emits an aura of darkness. A hero or monster that polymorphs while wearing shadow dragon scales or shadow-scaled armor will become a shadow dragon, and a hero with polymorph control can choose if they want to become a shadow dragon or another monster. A hero's shadow-scaled armor is preserved when they revert to their normal form.
