Death resistance
Death resistance is a property in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM that protects against most magical sources of instant death. This property does not exist in vanilla NetHack, where protection against death magic is typically granted through magic resistance.
Description
Death resistance nullifies the instant death effect of the touch of death monster spell and rays from a wand of death and the finger of death spell - being hit with the spell or rays will still inflict damage. This resistance is governed by the MR_DEATH flag in monflag.h.
This property can be found on various monsters in the dungeon, usually among the more powerful ones; while you cannot obtain this specific property as an intrinsic or through any external source, you can polymorph into a monster that has the property.
Death-resistant monsters
The following monsters possess death resistance in each variant, and are listed in rough order of their appearance in monst.c:
SLASH'EM
- g Statue gargoyle
- all angelic beings except the A couatl and A Aleax
- F Shrieker
- H Titan
- H Minotaur
- P Gray ooze
- P Brown pudding
- P Moldy pudding
- P Black pudding
- ' Rope golem
- ' Leather golem
- ' Wood golem
- @ Gypsy
- @ Black marketeer
- & Spined devil
- & Bearded devil
- & bar-lgura
- & chasme
- & babau
- & nabassu
- Some quest nemeses:
- Defunct monsters:
- @ Transmuter
- @ Lareth
- @ Sir Lorimar
SlashTHEM
In addition to the monsters listed above, the following monsters introduced in SlashTHEM have death resistance:
- A weeping angel
- A weeping archangel
- P tapioca pudding
- @ watch leader
- Quest nemeses:
- & Jaquio
- @ Student Leader
- @ Sir Lorimar (no longer deferred)
- @ The Champion of Pompeji
- @ Archnemesis
- D Alduin
- Deferred and defunct monsters:
- T Tara Gilesbie
- @ Master Sabrina
- @ Master Brain
- B Ho-Oh
