Flintlock

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Name flintlock
Appearance broken hand-crossbow
Range 8
Rate of fire -2
To-hit bonus +0
Weapon skill firearm
Size one-handed
Base price 50 zm
(+10/positive enchant)
Weight 10
Material iron

A flintlock is a firearm the appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack.

Generation

Pirates start with a +0 flintlock.

The flint lock is the only non-future tech firearm, and thus the only one that is wishable.

Strategy

Because of its negative rate of fire, it will not normally fire more than one bullet even at expert skill. Furthermore, bullets fired from a flintlock have a 17 chance of misfiring as if they were cursed.

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